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"You could have let him burn," Saito says.

"…Oro?"

The Rurouni Kenshin: Ashes of the Revolution The Rurouni Kenshin

Saito: "You call yourself a protector. But a wolf who wears a sheep's mask still has fangs. The only difference between us, Battosai, is that I admit what I am." "You could have let him burn," Saito says

"He would have died a martyr to his own greed," Kenshin answers. "I wanted him to live long enough to be forgotten." The only difference between us, Battosai, is that

In the town of Ueno, he meets , the last instructor of the Kamiya Kasshin-ryū—a "sword that protects life." Her dojo has one student, a terrified child named Yahiko Myojin , whose parents sold him to a yakuza boss to pay a debt. The dojo’s sign is cracked. The roof leaks. Kaoru sells calligraphy to afford tofu.