Shinsengumi: Assassins of Honor Page #7

against soldiers borrowing money!

So our accountant can take advantage of his

position, as long as we don't find out?

So rich kids can get away

with anything?

He's a bad example to our soldiers.

He must commit seppuku.

People have only

one life to give!

To give that life for ideals and principles is

fine. But you're killing him over 50-ryo!

Commander, a courier is speeding to Kawai's

province. Please wait for the answer.

Commander, please!

Hijikata... Let's wait

for ten days.

Has... has the courier returned

from my province yet?

Has the courier returned?

Why can't they wait?

Why can't they wait until the Commander

returns from spying on the Choshu?

Has the courier returned?

Has he...?

Not yet.

Today is the eleventh

day...

My dad...

...what happened to my

dad? To my dad?

Kawai... your

time is up.

Will I be beheaded?

Or will it be seppuku?

Do you know how to

perform seppuku?

Kawai Kisaburo is a soldier

of the Shinsengumi.

So it's seppuku...

It's seppuku, then?

Comrade Yamanami, please

be his second.

Comrade Kawai!

Help me!

Yamanami!

Help me!

DAD!

Hello! I am a courier from Kawai

Mercantile of Okayama!

Why couldn't you have waited

two or three more days...

...before making Kawai

perform seppuku?

Commander, you decided that

we should wait ten days.

I was acting in exact obedience

to your decision.

But...

Are you saying that we should

break our code?

Are you, the Commander, going to break

the code of the Shinsengumi?

Hijikata... Must everything

be bound by the code?

Your compassion

upsets the men!

Everything I do is for

the Shinsengumi!

Welcome...

Well... welcome back!

I heard you went all the way to

Choshu. You must be tired.

Please come in.

Please...

I've been counting the

days until your return.

I look forward to serving

you... starting today.

I appreciate that.

While you were gone, Mr. Hijikata bought my

contract on your behalf. I was so happy.

He sure is a nice

man, isn't he?

He said that you're very important

to the troops.

And that I should see to it that you

get plenty of rest and relaxation.

He thinks of you as

a brother, after all.

Oh... One moment please.

Come now...

Are you just going to

stand there all day?

Please, have some.

Ah, sugar candy!

Mr. Hijikata said you

were fond of them.

What's the matter?

Nothing. It's just that I haven't had time

to even think about sugar candy.

Do you remember?

Hmm?

Three years ago... the

night we first met.

I remember.

Ever since that

night, I...

...have been in

love with you.

As the leader of the

Shinsengumi...

...I was expecting you

to be fearsome.

Instead, you were gentle

and manly.

You have been so good

to me since then...

...that now I can't bear

to be apart from you.

I'm the one who can't

bear to be away.

When I'm with you, I can forget everything.

I feel like I can become myself again.

I'm so happy you

said that!

You take care of

me so well...

...it's like

a dream.

Do you have

any family?

Yes.

A younger sister... She works as

a maid for people we know.

She's in Shimabara, too far away

for me to look after her.

We can take

her in.

Really?! Do you mean it?!

Commander! Mr. Yamanami

has deserted!

Okita said he'd go get him, and

went after him on horseback.

Okita!

Okita!

Yamanami!

Yamanami, please escape!

Use this horse and flee!

Now that you've seen

me, I cannot escape.

You're the one who said that life

mustn't be taken so lightly.

You'll be held responsible

for letting me go.

Yamanami...

I have only two more

years to live.

Two years?

I have consumption, which

no doctor can cure.

If I die with Mr. Kondo and Mr. Hijikata,

as a Shinsengumi, I'll have no regrets.

So please... please...

you must flee!

Okita... Let's go

back together.

Yamanami!

Comrade Yamanami... tell

me why you deserted.

I hate being in the Shinsengumi.

I just couldn't take it any more.

Why?

During these turbulent

and historic times...

...to kill without reflection

is the act of a mad dog.

I didn't want to

be a mad dog.

We don't live in an

age of reason.

I used to like you, Commander

Kondo.

Once upon a time, warm blood

flowed in your veins.

But now, it's

frozen.

You're just like

Hijikata.

Criticism... hatred... curses...

whatever...

You don't lead our men with warm blood

and tears... you must be cold-blooded.

I see, you say this

even though...

...you were responsible

for Kawai's death?

What do you mean

by that?

The missing 50-ryo was used to buy out

your Shimabara woman's contract.

Quite so. But our Commander

had no knowledge of this.

He is therefore completely

without fault.

Hijikata!

Commander... Even you will commit

seppuku if you violate the code.

The code, the code, always

you bring up the code!

Our soldiers are human, not

merely your puppets.

Comrade Yamanami!

And you too...

...are a puppet.

Okita, if you would

be so kind...

Kondo... Don't get swallowed

up by the times.

Farewell.

What happened? Is something

troubling you again?

Just forget it...

Forget everything, and

get some rest.

Who are you?

I'll kill you...

I'll kill you!

Oko! What are you doing?!

Stop it, stop it!

Stand... Stand aside!

He's... he's a

murderer!

Have you lost your mind?!

Drop that knife right now!

My sister, he murdered

my true love.

He's murdered so

many people!

Sister, move aside!

Move!

I'm not moving!

Oko... you'll have

to kill me first!

I'll kill you!

Oko!

Oko!

B*tch! B*tch! Sister, you're

such a stupid b*tch!

I hate them, the lmperialists, the Shogunate,

the murderers... I hate them all!

I hate this world!

Oko!

Isami...

This is no time to grieve over the

deaths of Kawai and Yamanami.

With both Emperor and Shogun now dead,

their dream of reconciliation is dead too.

Satsuma and Choshu are plotting to

use the new Emperor's ascension...

...to destroy the Shogunate.

The Shogun's army is impotent.

They don't stand a chance.

Commander, such words

are unbecoming of you!

I'm stating

a fact.

Had the Shogunate been strong, they would

have had no need for the Shinsengumi.

But you already knew that. So why

did you leave Tama to come here?

The Shogunate is in chaos, a chaos

that will infect the Shinsengumi!

Are you talking

about lto?

Exactly!

I didn't have the ability to properly

ascertain his character.

Commander...

Toshi. I want to believe

in people.

Ito, are you a spy for

the lmperialists?

What?

You took advantage of Kondo's candor to

sow dissension within the Shinsengumi.

Do not make wild accusations, Hijikata.

I am merely teaching the soldiers

the truth as I see it.

You're the same as Kiyokawa Hachiro,

infecting us with lmperialist ideas!

Why you...! You are being insolent towards

the Shinsengumi's Military Advisor.

We've investigated your jaunts

to the Satsuma fief.

We know all about

your activities!

As Military Advisor, you must be held

responsible for your actions.

I will let Kondo adjudicate

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