:32:03
So the rumor
he's joined the Shinsengumi...
:32:09
...is true.
:32:13
My father and Yoshimura-sensei
were born in the same barracks.
:32:19
His father was
a minor Samurai of Foot.
:32:23
My father lived there with his mother.
:32:30
But suddenly a gap opened up
in their relative status.
:32:46
The Ono family's son took sick
and died.
:32:50
My father, the son of old Ono's
concubine, was adopted as heir...
:32:55
...to a 400-koku stipend.
:33:00
It is with deepest gratitude
I enter the House of Ono.
:33:05
Though I am of humble birth...
:33:08
As a concubine's son...
:33:11
...he was in no position to go against
the head of the family.
:33:16
He probably struggled to learn
to suppress all his own feelings.
:33:23
Despite, or perhaps because of,
their change in status...
:33:27
...the only one he could talk to
was Yoshimura-sensei.
:33:35
However...
:33:37
Leave the clan?!
:33:39
Yes.
:33:42
I hear of great changes taking place.
I cannot resist my nation's call...
:33:48
...to revere the emperor, expel
the barbarians, and defend the Shogun.
:33:55
Do you really expect me
to believe that?