Rurouni Kenshin (1996) s01e11 Episode Script
Farewell, the Strongest Men: The Clash of Light and Shadow
1
A brush against the freckles
that I hated oh so much
A small flicker, that's all,
and then I heave a little sigh.
The heavyweight love
that I once shared with you
Miraculously dissolved
with the sugar cube.
The little prick that I feel
on my bosom that has shrunken
from the little thorn
really hurts me now.
I guess I cannot trust those
silly horoscopes after all
I wonder what it would be like
if we could go further away right?
I'd be so happy
just because of that!
Memories I have are
always beautiful in my mind.
But they can't feed me:
they can't fill up my stomach.
In reality tonight was
supposed to be somber.
I really do wonder why
I just can't see how all of the tears were
streaming down his face that night.
I just can't see it anymore
Wandering Samurai
D-YFI
Rurouni Kenshin
Fare Well, the Strongest Men
The Clash of Light and Darkness
Battousai
I have nothing against you,
but as the strongest Imperialist
you will die here.
Looks like you are not
fighting for Kanryu, that it does.
What are you fighting for?
Back then
if the Imperial Army had
engaged the regime in Edo
victory would surely have been ours.
We would have set fires all over Edo
and my Oniwaban group
would have ridden that chaos
and slaughtered the
core of the Imperial Army.
Then the Imperialists would have
lost control, and the regime army
would have been able
to outnumber and crush them
That's how it was to end.
You idiot!
Of course something
like that can't happen!
You think so?
If you want, I can recreate that scene
here in Tokyo.
Wha
What did you say?
However
Doing that now would be meaningless.
There is something of meaning to us
that is the title of "strongest"
we fought for during the Revolution.
That is the only proof that
we truly are the Oniwaban group
Back then
Many men threw
themselves into battle
Despite the different
sides, they all risked their lives
for the future of this
country, and people's happiness.
But you are different
All you have is an ice-cold will to fight!
And even now, you are
helping others put people in pain.
Even as a wanderer, I
cannot let you continue!
Come on
Shit!
Damn Aoshi!
Calling me scum when he's
only my pet dog, I won't allow it!
That's right
I have that
It's no use.
What power!
I can't believe
Kenshin can't land one blow!
Kenshin!
It is impossible to
penetrate my defenses
Stand, Battousai!
He has the advantage,
but he won't even smile.
Dammit
My legs are giving way
Kenshin!
I am all right.
I finally found a way to
avoid that kodachi, that I did.
I would like to say you're bluffing
but you are not one to bluff.
This way of yours
why don't you show me?
Too slow!
What?
He did it!
I can't match your speed
with a blade longer than a kodachi.
So I switched to the same
length as your kodachi, that I did.
So that's why
you're holding the
base, where the blade is dull
You have shown me what
it means to be a manslayer.
In thanks, I will defeat you with the
true technique of an Oniwaban member.
Slow?
Why this lack of speed?
This is the ultimate
fighting style of Aoshi Shinomori.
Jissen-kenbu.
Even the Battousai cannot grasp
the variations of this liquid-like flow.
Die.
Ke
Kenshin!
Kaiten-kenbu.
No enemy has ever
survived that attack
Kenshin
Himura Battousai is
dead.
Kenshin!
I won't forgive you!
I will never forgive you!
Even if I die in the process
I will make sure you die!
You have a strong presence.
There is no need to hurry to your death.
Stop there.
What?
Yahiko
Yahiko, you are a valuable successor
to the Kamiya Kasshin Style
I cannot let
you die in a place like this!
Kenshin!
Also, I cannot afford
to die in a place like this
I know I felt something
What you slew was
I get it
He raised his sheath, and halved
the attack power of that kodachi
Something to be expected of
the man they called the strongest
I will admit your strength
from the bottom of my heart.
And once again
I want the title of
"strongest" for my group!
Be careful, Kenshin!
He's using another Kaiten-kenbu attack!
I will not miss this time
And you are currently aching all
over, and your movements are slow.
This is the end
Himura Battousai!
There is one moment where you are
off guard when you use Kaiten-kenbu
when you switch
over to offensive, that is.
He caught the blade!
Aoshi
If you want the title of
"strongest", I'll give it to you.
The people who are
waiting for my help
and the friends who I
share happy and sad times with
are thousands of times more
important to me now, that they are!
I'm going to lose?
ME?
Don't overextend yourself!
Pull back, Aoshi!
Not
Not yet!
What?
Kenshin!
Kenshin!
I am fine, that I am.
Or maybe not
But I am all right
Which is it?
You have to hold on.
Oh, Kenshin
But first Aoshi!
Is he dead?
No, he is just unconscious.
However, he is in much pain
and is having trouble breathing
His fighting spirit never relents,
but that led to his own defeat
When I fell from the Kaiten
Kenbu, your passionate words
meant a lot to me, that they did.
All right!
All we have left to do is to
catch Kanryu and save Megumi!
Give me what ya got!
They're here!
Why didn't you finish me off?
I am currently a wanderer.
I'm not a manslayer, that I am not.
Aoshi, why are you so
fixated on being the strongest?
In this age, don't you
think that title means nothing?
With your skills, there should be
other places to make use of them
It was the same for us
Among our comrades, there were
those who found new ways of life
But look at us
There is no place in this society
for the four of us
old-fashioned warriors
without any other skills.
Looking at us in this state,
our commander never deserted us.
He turned down an
offer to be an army official
so he could find
us new places to live.
I was the one who made you
into members of the Oniwaban group.
The least I could do was to let
you be proud knowing that your name
would be graced with the
flower of the word "strongest."
Battousai
Finish me off.
Commander!
It's all right!
It's all right now
Finish me off, Battousai
If you don't, I will target
you as many times as it takes
That's fine.
Challenge me until you are satisfied.
Kenshin!
However!
I won't allow you to involve
anyone else in our battles, that I won't.
That is
I will finish you off
along with the rest of the obsolete
Oniwaban and this swordsmen.
What's that?
A Gatling gun.
The newest one, even.
It's no longer time to fling
swords about, you know
Kanryu
and I will prove it to you right now!
That sound
It can't be
Isn't it amazing?
It can fire 200 bullets a minute!
That bastard!
He's missing on purpose so
that he can enjoy killing them!
Y-You
Kanryu!
Where did you get such a thing?
Call me Lord Kanryu, you rude idiot!
Commander!
Commander!
I have no intention of ending up as
just some underground opium dealer
I will raise funds with the new opium
and rake in the riches selling
weapons like this new Gatling gun!
In other words, a merchant of death
Do you
really want to get
your hands on money?
Even if it means
feasting upon human lives?
Listen, Battousai
If you have money, you can wield
power beyond any swordsmanship
by a long shot.
Just like this Gatling gun!
Money!
It truly is the proof of power!
Truly the strongest one is ME!
How dare you mock me earlier!
I'll take care of you first!
Aoshi!
Shikijou
C-Commander
A face like that really doesn't suit you
I'm happy that these muscles I
hardened as one of the Oniwaban
served as a shield
for you, Commander
Shikijou
So who's next?
You're the one that's gonna die!
Hyottoko!
Take this!
Beshimi!
L-I'm sorry, Commander
We
were of little use
even at the very end
That was close, really close.
You dirty
Megumi Takani is in the
observatory on the third floor
Hannya?
Battousai
Pick up your reverse-blade sword!
I'll take the Hiten Mitsurugi Style as a
souvenir when I go to the underworld
Hannya!
What are
Sano, take care of
Miss Kaoru and Yahiko!
Kenshin!
Hannya!
Commander
Farewell!
That's enough!
Battousai!
This is the end for you now.
Each and every one of
them couldn't even scratch me
and wasted their lives away
Die, Battousai!
Kenshin!
H-Help
If you're begging for your life
Why don't you ask your
money, that you love so much?
He did it!
H-Help
Help Help Hel
Kenshin!
Let's go, Miss Megumi is waiting!
Yeah!
All right!
They did not waste their lives
Those four Oniwaban lives won over
Kanryu's Gatling gun, that they did
Now
Dear Ken
Everyone
I'm really glad that I was
able to meet people like you
Thank you
What the hell do you think you're doing?
The sin of making opium,
and making people suffer and die
I can only repent with my death
Are you still saying that?
Kenshin, Yahiko, and this girl
here risked everything to save you.
Are you going to put
to waste all this effort?
You little idiot!
But
Just because you die
doesn't mean that the people
you killed will come back to life
Instead, using this sword
to save just one more soul
is repentance in the true sense.
That is how Battousai the Manslayer
lives to this very day, that it is.
Miss Megumi, you live in the area.
Come visit us any time!
Thank you, Miss Kaoru.
Good luck, Megumi!
Yes!
I'll study with Dr. Gensai,
and become a fine doctor!
That way, I'm sure you'll be
reunited with your family someday.
Then, everyone
Oh, we'll see you off for a bit!
But I'm surprised you were able
to clear her with the police, Kenshin.
Of course, that's because the
police chief really trusts Kenshin!
No matter what villains like
Kanryu say, they're not gonna listen!
But the real problem
is that Aoshi Shinomori
I heard that neither he nor the four
bodies of the Oniwaban were there
by the time the cops arrived.
I wonder if he's still after Kenshin
Well
I don't know about that, that I don't
For now
For now, I can't place flowers here
But someday
I will be sure to
When seeing those
eyes of yours with that gleam
my heart skipped a
beat that lazy afternoon.
My whole body felt nervous and very stiff
as if you were
testing my love for you.
Feeling the point from
the air and from you
I shivered all over
from my love for you.
A crunch on the sand,
I bite down the grit.
I aim at your will
as the day turns to night.
I am hoping soon you
will use your delicious lips
and let me have some of
that good wine that's over there.
When they are united
under the bright full moon
a man and a woman
will find true eternity.
Passionate lady, ah gimme your love.
Mysterious lady, I need your love.
The lonely eyes you show
once in a great little while
I can't tell if it's the truth or just a lie.
Honestly lady, ah gimme your love.
Now feel it coming lady,
I need your love.
I'm always thrown right around by
all the things you always do.
The fervor of passionate love
crazily dances within my heart.
A brush against the freckles
that I hated oh so much
A small flicker, that's all,
and then I heave a little sigh.
The heavyweight love
that I once shared with you
Miraculously dissolved
with the sugar cube.
The little prick that I feel
on my bosom that has shrunken
from the little thorn
really hurts me now.
I guess I cannot trust those
silly horoscopes after all
I wonder what it would be like
if we could go further away right?
I'd be so happy
just because of that!
Memories I have are
always beautiful in my mind.
But they can't feed me:
they can't fill up my stomach.
In reality tonight was
supposed to be somber.
I really do wonder why
I just can't see how all of the tears were
streaming down his face that night.
I just can't see it anymore
Wandering Samurai
D-YFI
Rurouni Kenshin
Fare Well, the Strongest Men
The Clash of Light and Darkness
Battousai
I have nothing against you,
but as the strongest Imperialist
you will die here.
Looks like you are not
fighting for Kanryu, that it does.
What are you fighting for?
Back then
if the Imperial Army had
engaged the regime in Edo
victory would surely have been ours.
We would have set fires all over Edo
and my Oniwaban group
would have ridden that chaos
and slaughtered the
core of the Imperial Army.
Then the Imperialists would have
lost control, and the regime army
would have been able
to outnumber and crush them
That's how it was to end.
You idiot!
Of course something
like that can't happen!
You think so?
If you want, I can recreate that scene
here in Tokyo.
Wha
What did you say?
However
Doing that now would be meaningless.
There is something of meaning to us
that is the title of "strongest"
we fought for during the Revolution.
That is the only proof that
we truly are the Oniwaban group
Back then
Many men threw
themselves into battle
Despite the different
sides, they all risked their lives
for the future of this
country, and people's happiness.
But you are different
All you have is an ice-cold will to fight!
And even now, you are
helping others put people in pain.
Even as a wanderer, I
cannot let you continue!
Come on
Shit!
Damn Aoshi!
Calling me scum when he's
only my pet dog, I won't allow it!
That's right
I have that
It's no use.
What power!
I can't believe
Kenshin can't land one blow!
Kenshin!
It is impossible to
penetrate my defenses
Stand, Battousai!
He has the advantage,
but he won't even smile.
Dammit
My legs are giving way
Kenshin!
I am all right.
I finally found a way to
avoid that kodachi, that I did.
I would like to say you're bluffing
but you are not one to bluff.
This way of yours
why don't you show me?
Too slow!
What?
He did it!
I can't match your speed
with a blade longer than a kodachi.
So I switched to the same
length as your kodachi, that I did.
So that's why
you're holding the
base, where the blade is dull
You have shown me what
it means to be a manslayer.
In thanks, I will defeat you with the
true technique of an Oniwaban member.
Slow?
Why this lack of speed?
This is the ultimate
fighting style of Aoshi Shinomori.
Jissen-kenbu.
Even the Battousai cannot grasp
the variations of this liquid-like flow.
Die.
Ke
Kenshin!
Kaiten-kenbu.
No enemy has ever
survived that attack
Kenshin
Himura Battousai is
dead.
Kenshin!
I won't forgive you!
I will never forgive you!
Even if I die in the process
I will make sure you die!
You have a strong presence.
There is no need to hurry to your death.
Stop there.
What?
Yahiko
Yahiko, you are a valuable successor
to the Kamiya Kasshin Style
I cannot let
you die in a place like this!
Kenshin!
Also, I cannot afford
to die in a place like this
I know I felt something
What you slew was
I get it
He raised his sheath, and halved
the attack power of that kodachi
Something to be expected of
the man they called the strongest
I will admit your strength
from the bottom of my heart.
And once again
I want the title of
"strongest" for my group!
Be careful, Kenshin!
He's using another Kaiten-kenbu attack!
I will not miss this time
And you are currently aching all
over, and your movements are slow.
This is the end
Himura Battousai!
There is one moment where you are
off guard when you use Kaiten-kenbu
when you switch
over to offensive, that is.
He caught the blade!
Aoshi
If you want the title of
"strongest", I'll give it to you.
The people who are
waiting for my help
and the friends who I
share happy and sad times with
are thousands of times more
important to me now, that they are!
I'm going to lose?
ME?
Don't overextend yourself!
Pull back, Aoshi!
Not
Not yet!
What?
Kenshin!
Kenshin!
I am fine, that I am.
Or maybe not
But I am all right
Which is it?
You have to hold on.
Oh, Kenshin
But first Aoshi!
Is he dead?
No, he is just unconscious.
However, he is in much pain
and is having trouble breathing
His fighting spirit never relents,
but that led to his own defeat
When I fell from the Kaiten
Kenbu, your passionate words
meant a lot to me, that they did.
All right!
All we have left to do is to
catch Kanryu and save Megumi!
Give me what ya got!
They're here!
Why didn't you finish me off?
I am currently a wanderer.
I'm not a manslayer, that I am not.
Aoshi, why are you so
fixated on being the strongest?
In this age, don't you
think that title means nothing?
With your skills, there should be
other places to make use of them
It was the same for us
Among our comrades, there were
those who found new ways of life
But look at us
There is no place in this society
for the four of us
old-fashioned warriors
without any other skills.
Looking at us in this state,
our commander never deserted us.
He turned down an
offer to be an army official
so he could find
us new places to live.
I was the one who made you
into members of the Oniwaban group.
The least I could do was to let
you be proud knowing that your name
would be graced with the
flower of the word "strongest."
Battousai
Finish me off.
Commander!
It's all right!
It's all right now
Finish me off, Battousai
If you don't, I will target
you as many times as it takes
That's fine.
Challenge me until you are satisfied.
Kenshin!
However!
I won't allow you to involve
anyone else in our battles, that I won't.
That is
I will finish you off
along with the rest of the obsolete
Oniwaban and this swordsmen.
What's that?
A Gatling gun.
The newest one, even.
It's no longer time to fling
swords about, you know
Kanryu
and I will prove it to you right now!
That sound
It can't be
Isn't it amazing?
It can fire 200 bullets a minute!
That bastard!
He's missing on purpose so
that he can enjoy killing them!
Y-You
Kanryu!
Where did you get such a thing?
Call me Lord Kanryu, you rude idiot!
Commander!
Commander!
I have no intention of ending up as
just some underground opium dealer
I will raise funds with the new opium
and rake in the riches selling
weapons like this new Gatling gun!
In other words, a merchant of death
Do you
really want to get
your hands on money?
Even if it means
feasting upon human lives?
Listen, Battousai
If you have money, you can wield
power beyond any swordsmanship
by a long shot.
Just like this Gatling gun!
Money!
It truly is the proof of power!
Truly the strongest one is ME!
How dare you mock me earlier!
I'll take care of you first!
Aoshi!
Shikijou
C-Commander
A face like that really doesn't suit you
I'm happy that these muscles I
hardened as one of the Oniwaban
served as a shield
for you, Commander
Shikijou
So who's next?
You're the one that's gonna die!
Hyottoko!
Take this!
Beshimi!
L-I'm sorry, Commander
We
were of little use
even at the very end
That was close, really close.
You dirty
Megumi Takani is in the
observatory on the third floor
Hannya?
Battousai
Pick up your reverse-blade sword!
I'll take the Hiten Mitsurugi Style as a
souvenir when I go to the underworld
Hannya!
What are
Sano, take care of
Miss Kaoru and Yahiko!
Kenshin!
Hannya!
Commander
Farewell!
That's enough!
Battousai!
This is the end for you now.
Each and every one of
them couldn't even scratch me
and wasted their lives away
Die, Battousai!
Kenshin!
H-Help
If you're begging for your life
Why don't you ask your
money, that you love so much?
He did it!
H-Help
Help Help Hel
Kenshin!
Let's go, Miss Megumi is waiting!
Yeah!
All right!
They did not waste their lives
Those four Oniwaban lives won over
Kanryu's Gatling gun, that they did
Now
Dear Ken
Everyone
I'm really glad that I was
able to meet people like you
Thank you
What the hell do you think you're doing?
The sin of making opium,
and making people suffer and die
I can only repent with my death
Are you still saying that?
Kenshin, Yahiko, and this girl
here risked everything to save you.
Are you going to put
to waste all this effort?
You little idiot!
But
Just because you die
doesn't mean that the people
you killed will come back to life
Instead, using this sword
to save just one more soul
is repentance in the true sense.
That is how Battousai the Manslayer
lives to this very day, that it is.
Miss Megumi, you live in the area.
Come visit us any time!
Thank you, Miss Kaoru.
Good luck, Megumi!
Yes!
I'll study with Dr. Gensai,
and become a fine doctor!
That way, I'm sure you'll be
reunited with your family someday.
Then, everyone
Oh, we'll see you off for a bit!
But I'm surprised you were able
to clear her with the police, Kenshin.
Of course, that's because the
police chief really trusts Kenshin!
No matter what villains like
Kanryu say, they're not gonna listen!
But the real problem
is that Aoshi Shinomori
I heard that neither he nor the four
bodies of the Oniwaban were there
by the time the cops arrived.
I wonder if he's still after Kenshin
Well
I don't know about that, that I don't
For now
For now, I can't place flowers here
But someday
I will be sure to
When seeing those
eyes of yours with that gleam
my heart skipped a
beat that lazy afternoon.
My whole body felt nervous and very stiff
as if you were
testing my love for you.
Feeling the point from
the air and from you
I shivered all over
from my love for you.
A crunch on the sand,
I bite down the grit.
I aim at your will
as the day turns to night.
I am hoping soon you
will use your delicious lips
and let me have some of
that good wine that's over there.
When they are united
under the bright full moon
a man and a woman
will find true eternity.
Passionate lady, ah gimme your love.
Mysterious lady, I need your love.
The lonely eyes you show
once in a great little while
I can't tell if it's the truth or just a lie.
Honestly lady, ah gimme your love.
Now feel it coming lady,
I need your love.
I'm always thrown right around by
all the things you always do.
The fervor of passionate love
crazily dances within my heart.