It was to create a world of peace, not to win positions or power, that we raised our swords and killed. If we forget that, then we are no revolutionaries after all.
All S1
A swordsman must be honest about his foes' skills and his own.
No matter how sincerely you try, there are times when your thoughts just don't reach the students.
Ah ... It's a doodle? [describing fine art]
Just being a hitokiri doesn't mean that one enjoys killing people.
Nikaido Heiho... Shin no Ippo... If a man kills too many, too long, he loses his original purpose and has his heart stolen by the color and smell of blood.
Doesn't Hiten Mitsurugi-Ryu teach us to PROTECT people from suffering? When DO we use our swords, if not now?
If you want death, come forward.
No matter what the reason, this one refuses to take another life.
What about Hiten Mitsurugi-Ryu...? What about "Himura Kenshin"...? Once again, I failed to protect the most important person.
That sweat, those wounds, and this warmth. These are not illusions. They are real. Now I want to protect what's real, not illusions.
It isn't enough for the law to say we're all equal. If the peoples' hearts don't change, none of it means anything.
A true fight isn't like a sword duel. The better swordsman doesn't always win. The winner is the one who remains standing!
Dad, I'm buying your fight! The Ishin Shishi...they aren't your enemy. They are mine, from ten years ago...the enemy of the one who wears the mark of evil on his back.
I can't stand the sound of a fat toad croaking in his little pond, any longer.
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