The Rurouni Kenshin -

That night, Kaoru bandages his wound. "You could have killed them," she says. "Why didn't you?"

Kenshin: "No. The difference is that you still believe the era needs wolves." The Rurouni Kenshin

In the final moment, Saito arrives—not as an enemy, but as a witness. He does not help. He simply watches Kenshin pull Kanryu from a burning room and drop him at the police commissioner's feet. That night, Kaoru bandages his wound

"He would have died a martyr to his own greed," Kenshin answers. "I wanted him to live long enough to be forgotten." The difference is that you still believe the

Kaoru runs after him in the mist.

"Where will you go?"

Kanryu kidnaps Kaoru and Yahiko to force Kenshin into a final confrontation. The battlefield is Kanryu's mansion, filled with explosive charges and hired killers. But the true trap is emotional: Kanryu has also unearthed the grave of , Kenshin's first wife—whom Kenshin himself killed by accident during the revolution.