My body... so heavy...
Just like this, I die.
Now, finally...
I can rest.
Kaoru!
Tsubame...
Are you going to the harbor again?
Don't worry. I know he'll be back.
As you know,
he comes back every time no matter what happens.
Tsubame?
I just met Kaoru just outside there.
I see...
I can't stop myself from worrying about her.
Kenji left and Kaoru is alone...
I will go by her house later.
Yahiko...
Do you think Kenshin was...
Hey!
But the war is over
and everybody is coming back from the continent.
Even so, I know Kaoru is going to the harbor every day.
She is always waiting for
Kenshin to come home.
The sun is sinking.
I'm going to start preparing dinner.
Haven't you changed your mind about going back to Tokyo?
How about him?
What?
He hasn't come back yet?
Even if he comes back home,
I know that he'd go somewhere else soon.
I've been thinking since I was a kid,
that's why my mother married my father.
Then why did you come here?
It's useless for you to learn your father's swordsmanship, isn't it?
I want to know what the strength of humans is
and what true strength is!
Himura...
Its been fifteen years since I saw you last time,
and I've come to see you to ask for a favor.
Please go to the continent.
I guess you already know that there are some disputes on the continent.
I'm pretty sure that a war will be starting soon.
We have military force.
However, there are few soldiers who understand battle.
If a person like you, who has gone through many battles,
could be the soldiers' leader...
Mr. Yamagata, I'd rather save people who were hurt in the war
than put myself into the war.
If war can't be avoided, the more I feel so.
Himura...
I will go to the continent to do so.
That's the only thing I can do now and probably,
the last thing I can do as my atonement.
It's getting colder.
I will wait for you, as I usually do
at this place.
So...
Good luck.
Hey, Kaoru!
What's the matter?
Answer me! Kaoru! Kaoru!
Recalling our past,
both you and I have lived with scars which won't fade.
Scars which were carved as a cross...
I've cornered him. I won't let him escape tonight. Hitokiri Battosai!
Is he the assassin who says he belongs to my sword school?
Help me clean the drill hall.
Since you're staying at our house, you can do things like that, can't you?
Miss Kaoru...
What?
Kamiya Kasshin swordsmanship,
created by your late father, which makes people live...
The more I think about it, the more I am impressed by his great will.
You too, Kenshin.
Since you have great skill,
you could start a new sword school in your own way.
What kind of swordsmanship do you expect from my murdering sword?
I guess your father must have been a gentle person, wasn't he?
No, he was very strict and frightening.
After my mother died,
I cried all the time, but he forced me to practice swordmanship.
I thought that my father never felt pain, even when my mother died.
However, I saw him crying silently while holding her kimono once.
"Ah, an adult man can cry," I thought.
After that, I practiced with the sword more seriously.
I wanted to make my father happy.
I'm sure that your father is still happy.
What are you gaping at?
He's a man like that.
I wonder why he was able to kill people?
Don't ask questions like that of him, Kaoru.
I still wonder why I was a pickpocket before I came here.
But I can't erase something like that. I can't forget about it either.
Sorry. I am so sorry.
You've got nerve walking down the street
in the middle of the day with a sword.
You're under arrest for violating the law banning swords.
Wait! Ujiki!
Let me handle this. Sheathe your sword.
The Secretary of the Army?!
Yes, Sir!
Aritomo Yamagata?
I've been looking for you for ten years, Himura.
He came to pick Kenshin up?
Many colleagues are looking forward to you coming back.
Let's go back together.
Mr. Yamagata, I appreciate your concern about me, however,
I don't intend to take an honorable position for murdering people.
Himura!
Times have changed.
It's different from the last days of the Tokugawa when your sword had power.
In this Meiji era, a sword can't do anything at all.
With a sword, I can protect people whom I can see.
Kenshin, do you need a sword no matter what? Can't you let it go?
At that time, the sunset dyed the sky like this...
"Don't run away after you've killed so many people.
Live with the sword and die with the sword.
There is no other way for you to live." Someone told me that.
It's been ten years since then, but I still don't understand what I can do.
Until I find the answer, I can't put down this reverse-bladed sword.
Father, do you think I can do it?
Share his pain and the weight of his sword?
Kenshin won't be back.
So I was told to take care of this house while he was gone.
Why, Sanosuke?
Jin'e has been targeting only patriots of the Meiji Restoration.
His next target is Kenshin.
In order to avoid causing any trouble,
he won't be back here for a while.
Look at me. Jin'e is not an ordinary enemy.
Even if you go to help him, you would only be a drag on him.
Stay here quietly.
Kenshi...
Battosai has gotten dull at last, since he's fallen in love with a girl like this.
Don't look at me like that. I didn't kidnap you to eat.
I know that. You wanted to decrease his power. You coward!
You don't understand. Now that I have you as a hostage, he will go mad.
The madness will make him revert to what he used to be as an assassin.
I have no business with him, who has lost his spirit, as he is now.
Kenshin is still strong.
You don't know how strong he was in the last days of the Tokugawa.
Just hearing stories about him, people got goose pimples
because of his cold and cruel sword.
He is indeed the strongest murderer.
He is a man who has mastered how to kill people with the sword.
To fight him knowing it might mean my death,
it's the best murder to enjoy.
Well, here comes the master of murder.
You, girl!
Remember, Battosai!
Remember the smell of blood,
the feel of cutting flesh and bone,
the fun and ecstasy of killing people.
Come.
The man who masters how to draw the sword from the sheath...
That's the reason for his other name, "Battosai", I've heard.
Since he is a master of the Hiten Mitsurugi style with its godlike speed,
he must be the fastest at drawing his sword from the sheath.
However, I wonder how fast he can draw now since his arm is injured?
Now, time to fight!
No!
Kaoru!
Don't go back to being a murderer.
You are no longer the Battosai, so please, don't...
Well, let's finish up.
What a nice feeling!
The end of a murderer should be like this.
Well, my arm is now useless so it's no fun for me to live without it.
Don't look at me like that, Battosai.
Your real character is a murderer, as I thought.
A murderer is a murderer until he dies. You can't be anything else...
Kenshin...
We need to stop the bleeding as soon as possible.
Kenshin, thank you for coming here to rescue me.
No, I have to say thanks, not you. I was almost...
Don't say it.
This is the record of this man's life; one more scar on his small body.
A new scar... I am sorry.
Cherry blossoms are beautiful while they are out,
but it's also beautiful when they are falling.
Blossoms when they are falling... Somehow I can't like them.
Sorry.
Oh, no.
You don't need to force yourself to smile in front of me.
I had a dream this morning.
At that time...
During the last days of the Tokugawa?
Blood was falling just like cherry petals.
Kenshin...
But a cherry tree is a cherry tree, not blood.
Right, matters of the past are the same as a dream,
and they will fade out in time and disappear someday.
I agree with you.
Someday he will show me his smile from the bottom of his heart.
I believe so.
Kenshin?!
Extra! Extra! The Secretary of the Interior has been assassinated!
Secretary Ookubo was assassinated!
I knew that the times needed him, and I couldn't change his way of life.
I know that. I knew that, but...
Thank you so very much for everything until now.
Goodbye, Kaoru.
I couldn't chase him at that time... again.
On that night, the night when Kenshin left for Kyoto,
I wanted to hold Kenshin tight.
Kenshin told me,
"A crazy murderer is still living deep inside of my heart."
But I... I accept him as he is.
Don't tell me things like that.
You need to tell that to him face to face.
Idiot! I can't do that, so I'm telling you.
What the hell is that? Think about how I feel about it.
Was that too stimulating for a kid like you?
I can't believe women nowadays.
Sorry.
It's okay.
Miss Kaoru?
Guest for you?
I will take care of her for now, so hurry up and get some water.
Kenshin!
I chased you to Kyoto. Are you mad at me?
Half.
Half?
My stupid student must be feeling that he was burnt alive by the flame,
the flame of the lives which he erased.
And it will continue into the future.
Even though I want to be with him.
If we can go home safely together with him, forever...
When the pottery is done, I will give it to you. It's a tea cup.
When you go back to Tokyo, use it to serve good tea to my stupid student.
Sure.
Kenshin?
I won't take my eyes off of you and your battle, ever.
I won't leave you ever again.
Someday, when you can really rest... Until then...
Father...
Father, I was not able to take you home.
However...
Kenshin...
Welcome home.
I'm home.
His body is torn.
His athletic skills are extremely outstanding.
However, other than that, he's the same as any ordinary person.
If something happens next time, it will be no surprise if he dies.
Therefore,
in order to make him feel strongly about coming back to you alive,
you have to be stronger.
I wish I could, but I can't. Only you can do so.
The only person he said goodbye to in Tokyo was you.
Thank you, Ms. Megumi.
From now on,
probably the world will become
calmer and more peaceful.
And I hope that everybody can live together forever.
That's impossible.
Time goes by and swordsmanship is changing.
There is no way that humans won't change.
Someday everybody will part ways and live their own life.
It sounds lonely, but it's a fact.
But I...
I want to be with you forever, Kenshin.
So please come back.
Promise me.
No matter what happens to you, you'll come back to me alive.
When I came back here from Kyoto,
when I heard you saying "welcome home,"
I was really happy from the bottom of my heart.
There is a person who welcomes a man like me,
and I have a place to come back to.
This is the only place for me to come back to.
Jinchu...
I have to go.
Kenshin!
Don't worry.
Welcome home...
Kenshin...
You haven't eaten dinner yet, have you?
I don't need it. I'm going to go to bed today.
No! I can't ask him what happened.
I've never seen him as pitiful as that.
Kenshin...
Please eat something, even one bite, please.
What is this?
Mr. Hiko made it for me.
I have something to talk to you about, Miss Kaoru.
The story about the grudge buried in this cross-shaped scar
and the meaning of "Jinchu" which connects to the story.
I murdered my wife, Tomoe Himura, with my own hands.
I thought he had finally come back to me,
but Kenshin's mind is still wandering around somewhere.
Kenshin...
Yasashii te dane
NAnata ga itta
Namida ga deta yo
Totemo shizukani
Haru no sunahama
NHiza de nemutta
Anata no kami o sotto
Yubi de suita toki
Fui ni subete ga wakatta ki ga shita
Kurushimi tachi ga sora e to kaette yuku no deshita
Anata no hoho ni
Ochita shizuku wa
Nami shibuki da to itta
Mekakushi o shita yo
Koko ni ite, koko ni iru yo
Your hand feels gentle
You said so
Tears come out
Very quietly
Seashore in spring
Your head on my knees and fell asleep
Your hair, gently
When I combed with my fingers
Suddenly, I felt like I understood everything
All the pain in the heart goes home to the sky
On your cheek
The drops of the tears
I told you it's spray from the sea
I put my hands over your eyes to blind
Please be here with me, I am here with you