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It's no use! We can't lose them!

Tango! Get HQ!

Hm!

The Commando Unit is reporting in. They're attempting to retreat, but the enemy pursuit

team is closing in on them.

A relief team from the Fifth Company was already dispatched.

Send them the coordinates of the closest rendezvous point and quickly!

It's just one faction, but they're voicing opposition vehemently.

They're saying that samurai must remain neutral, so they're wondering why they

should team up with shinobi.

So samurai should remain neutral, should they?

They only say such things because they don't know the past.

But even more than that, they don't understand the current situation.

Some also say that a shinobi war should be resolved by the shinobi themselves.

Yet these former foes all keep squabbling... and they still cannot find a common ground to unite them.

How do they realistically expect to end this war without our help?

All of you, head out! And show them how we samurai fight!

Sir!

"Mifune vs. Hanzo"

I said I wanted out of here! Hmph!

I can feel Orochimaru's chakra pass through my skull, seeping into my flesh and bones.

I must succeed.

It's over there.

I don't care if it was the Akatsuki or Orochimaru!

Whoever reanimated me is going to regret it.

Everyone is going to think I've been playing possum again! It's just so undignified!

I'm trying to concentrate! Be quiet, puppet granny!

No, I won't! You shut up, old man snorkel face!

Just a little further.

This distance should work. Summoning Jutsu!

Huh?!

Do it, Ibuse!

The Poison Fog!

[grunting and coughing]

[coughing]

He resorted to poison because he was tired of chasing us?! Damn it!

I should be resistant to poison... but my body's going numb.

Are those reinforcements! Hey, I'm over here! Hmph!

Gotcha.

No!

Lord Hanzo, I presume?

My name is Mifune, leader of the samurai. I desire to battle you!

We're saved.

Sorry we're late.

Are you all right?

Careful. The enemy uses poison.

Our masks are specially designed for fighting shinobi and are impervious to poison gas.

Here, put this on.

Thanks.

They need antidotes! Get these Commando Unit members to the Medical Corps, stat!

Lord Mifune!

Assistance is unnecessary! Stay out of the way if you do not want to get injured.

So you're Mifune. Why do you side with the shinobi?

No,... an even better question is why stay with the shinobi? You are staunchly samurai.

To serve shinobi is against your nature.

How can you still call yourselves samurai?

You're wrong. We do not serve the shinobi.

The one master that we follow has never changed since the olden days, and that master...

... is called peace!

Peace?!

We pledge ourselves to peace, and then we act based upon that conviction!

[chuckling]

The battlefield is getting lively.

Now, then...

Lady Chiyo!

I haven't been playing possum. You know that, right, Kankuro?

Uh, yes?

But never mind that for now. Hanzo controls a venomous salamander!

I have fought against him many times in my day.

That is why I know how to concoct an antidote to its poison.

I am also aware that the salamander takes five minutes to work up more venom once it releases it.

That interfering hag is blabbing my secrets!

Ibuse! Withdraw for now!

Heh.

Even though I'm being manipulated I won't be forced to fight them right now.

Then you, Hanzo...

You must know who my original foe in battle was... do you not?

Uh--

I won't hold back from fighting the Five Great Nations!

All right...

I'll go.

Here he comes!

So solid!

[groaning]

[gasping]

You countered that quite nicely.

You fight well... for a weak man of peace and neutrality, that is.

Don't look at me that way. I once sought peace, too.

I was going to unite all the Five Great Nations into one shinobi world.

But I quickly realized that true peace does not exist.

And when was that?

Battle after battle after battle... The only thing left and the end of it all is death!

You pledge yourselves to peace?!

You more than any other know best what has happened to the samurai.

Many samurai have become shinobi instead, and your techniques have passed over to the shinobi.

Capture them!

Sorry, my body is acting on its own and fleeing.

There is no longer a role for samurai in this world at all.

Shinobi have no devotion to peace. They are ruled by money and ninjutsu and power.

Ahhhh!

They fight, they die, and they leave nothing behind.

And I am the same!

No, you are wrong. It's not about life or death.

It doesn't bother me in the slightest if I should lose my life in the pursuit of peace!

What drives me, pushes me forward, is my conviction. Yours has become warped.

According to the Samurai Way, people themselves are swords.

And thus one can live on in others' memories, like my famed sword Kurosawa.

Do not compare people to blades! What can you possibly glean from some cold lump of iron?

Take your ritual of seppuku... Why do you samurai try to diminish your own lives so much?

It doesn't make any sense!

I've already explained it. Our conviction lives on forever!

Hah! Enough of this nonsense! I shall erase you samurai, once and for all!

Huh?!

And I will keep you from casting ninjutsu from here on out.

You live up to your reputation as an expert swordsman.

So this is why they say ninjutsu is useless against you.

You left me no time to weave signs.

And my two-step sickle and chain attack...

Even those familiar with it have never managed to avoid it.

In the distant past, when my name was still unknown, we actually exchanged blows once.

Though I doubt you would remember it...

Oh? Then why aren't you dead?

You shattered my sword with that sickle and chain and you slashed my head!

But even then, somehow, I lived.

I see. So you were that samurai...

I can't believe you survived. I'll make sure to finish you this time.

Sorry, but that's not possible for you. I could tell right from our first exchange today why you,

who were once so strong...

...could be defeated and killed.

What?! What do you mean?

Quite frankly, I can't believe a shinobi of your caliber doesn't know.

Don't you remember how you met your end?

[grunting]

Who are you?! To think you could drive me to this point!

Have you forgotten my face, Hanzo?

You!

You're Yahiko of the Akatsuki! But you're dead! What's going on?!

You allied yourself with Danzo and then betrayed us.

You now only think of self-preservation, you piece of garbage.

Ah!

I once respected you.

But... you have changed much.

Who are you?! How do you have so much power?!

After everything that you've done, you still don't understand...

...why exactly it is that you have lost.

[gasping]

Begone, Hanzo!

Stop!

What could they possibly mean?

What is it that they see but I do not?!

[gasping]

Be bathed in venom and die! I've had enough of your nonsense.

What?!

A sword that is continuously honed will gain renown and will be passed on.

And what's more...

One who always stays true to his convictions and who defends them with all of his might...

...shall become a hero whose name remains sung throughout the ages.

How?! How were you able to cut me?!

There's not even a single stain on his blade. Is he that fast?!

Your conviction has become warped. You do not hone yourself as a weapon anymore, you no longer

improve. You have lost your sharpness.

Thus your blade became sullied with blood, rusted, its edge dulled.

And a dull blade is worthless! Remember, people are like swords!

You didn't remember me at first, but have you also forgotten your final words to me after you cut

me down and left me there to die?

[panting]

It's salamander venom. My blade is coated with it.

Fear not. The numbness will take away your pain. And within forty-eight hours, you'll be dead.

Do you know why I am feared as Hanzo the Salamander? I shall tell you my secret.

You can consider it to be a parting gift for you.

In my village, there once lived a deadly, venomous black salamander.

I was just a child, but when the salamander died, its venom sac was implanted in me.

It was placed right here,... in order to turn me into a man capable of producing my own poison.

And I'm now able to poison people... simply by breathing on them.

Of course, I was feared as a child.

I had to use this mask or I'd kill everyone around me whenever I took a breath.

Then... why didn't you... take off your mask during our fight?

I've done that in other fights in the past. But there are risks.

You see, this mask plays one other role. It protects me as well.

If the venom sac is cut open during battle somehow...

... then the concentrated venom inside will vaporize and escape.

And likely, I will inhale it.

Even with my resistance, I would not be left unharmed. The gas would paralyze me, too.

I wouldn't die. But I'd be left vulnerable to attack.

Against a skilled opponent like you, I must keep the mask on to prevent that.

I can't afford to give you an advantage.

Though it seems that you wielded a dull blade.

People themselves are swords.

Which means despite my best efforts, I wasn't sharp enough.

Let me tell you something.

Death... is not the end...

Uh!

Loss of conviction is the end.

It's quite a nuisance. It's hard to discern someone's conviction just by looking at them.

Even if you were to die here, you wouldn't be considered blunted or dull.

It's your companions,... who abandoned the fight at the start, fleeing in fear upon hearing my

name... who are worthless lumps of iron.

[panicking] Hanzo the Salamander!

Run!

You valiantly used your body as a shield to defend them.

[struggling]

I shall sing your praises as a hero. So state your name as compensation for your death.

Compensation for... my death...

One thing... Just promise me...

Name it.

Leave my fellow samurai alone!

That is all I ask.

Uh!

Here's the antidote.

[gasping]

I told you that one cannot tell if someone has conviction or not... just by looking at them.

But sometimes one can tell by fighting that person. And you're a rare one indeed.

I shall spare your life today. Although... it's true that you've taken in so much poison, there's

still a chance you may die from it.

It is difficult to see one's convictions through.

I, too, have my own conviction...

...to find a way to somehow bring peace to this world.

I'll use you as a test case, to see if you will die still embracing your convictions.

Or if you end up just surviving and abandoning those convictions over time.

You insisted on testing me back then. Have you really abandoned all of your convictions now?

That is not something that you can tell simply by looking at someone, I'm afraid.

Uh!

There is still a way to stop me even though I'm immortal now.

I told you before, Mifune. Do you remember it?

Stay back until the opportunity presents itself, and then seal me away. You have done well.

Lord Mifune!

His poison!

No, it's fine, I'll be all right. I have some resistance to this poison.

Although perhaps not at this close a distance.

Therefore, all of you will retreat with me. And then prepare to seal him.

Now I can say for sure, it was worth him surviving that venom.

It's far enough. We'll watch from here.

Lord Hanzo.

Mifune, one final thing...

I entrust you with my conviction!

Seppuku?! By a shinobi?!

He's disobeying the orders embedded in my tag?!

He killed himself?! Time to switch him to mindless mode then.

[struggling]

Ugh!

Why's he not moving?

Lord Hanzo would never stand for taking orders not from someone who hides in the shadows,

manipulating others like they're puppets.

He fought off the person controlling him and has won his freedom.

If you remain true to yourself and your convictions, you'll show that you're not just a blunted blade.

Now seal him!

Yes, sir!

So they sealed him, huh...?

[grunting]

I shall sing of your praises and you'll live on as a hero.

I hereby witness your unwavering conviction. Truly splendid, Lord Hanzo!

Lord Mifune?

I've heard Lord Hanzo doesn't have a proper gravesite.

And that means... We must find a suitable place for him to rest.

What are you doing, Choji! I'm an enemy now, accept it!

Your movements are slow, Choji! Pull yourself together! The three of us prepared for this!

I'm sorry. This is way too much for me! I can't do it! I can't take our Sensei down!

I just can't!

Next time on Naruto Shippuden: True Kindness.

Choji! Take me down, you coward!