"You knew then that they were being used as pawns and yet you still slew them without any
hesitation. Isn't that... rather heartless too?"
"Well, you can’t win them all. But, at the same time, it makes
my job harder. Now I must become all ten swords of the Juppongatana.”
"After all, trying to use a sword to protect
people isn't right. Protecting the weak isn't right at all."
"It wasn't always like this... When I first got here,
I did get angry and upset and I did cry when they beat me. But, the more I got angry or the more I cried, they'd just say
I was selfish or noisy and it upset them even more... and it got even worse. When I just put up with it all and kept
smiling they'd get sick of it and stop. Even if it hurt, even if I hated it... if I just kept smiling..."
"In the
end, only the fittest survive in this world. If you're strong you live, if you're weak you die."
"Not killing, protecting
the weak, everything you're saying is wrong! If it was true, back then wouldn't you have done something to protect
me from everything that happened? If what you've been saying truly is correct then why didn’t you protect me!?
Nobody helped me! Back then, you didn't protect me!!"
"If you're strong you live, if you're weak you
die. That's the truth Mr. Shishio taught me. But... is being weak really that bad? I've killed people, but killing people
really wasn't... really wasn't what I wanted to do. That's right, I was smiling in the rain, but in reality... I was really
crying."
"You're frustrating. Mr. Himura, the very fact that you're standing there frustrates the hell out
of me! Everytime I fight you, I start acting really strange."
"I get it. You can read emotions and see through everything.
How egotistical."
"Really, Mr. Himura, you're not giving me an easy answer. You're much more demanding than Mr. Shishio
ever was."
"Back then, what saved my from the brink of death was the Wateshaki and Mr. Shishio. That will always remain
true. But, despite that, I really do believe that I need to look for the real truth on my own, just as Mr. Himura said."
“It’s a little unfair, Miss Yumi. When you’re trying to repair a brick
building that was made the wrong way the first time, you have to tear the whole thing down before you can begin; it can’t
be done any other way because brick is just too strong. So, I was wrong all these years.”
"I know of two men who were walking down the same path at the same point in the past and
it took that long for them to reach opposite truths. So, I was thinking I might be able to find my own truth if I spend ten
years wandering."
“I’m sure that if a sword were used to kill me it’d
probably be painful… And after all, I know pretty well how much it hurts to get hit… So… I think I’d
probably better return this sword… I’m just not a strong person like Mister Shishio… I know I’m weak,
but I prefer the way things are…”
