=============================================================== Episode Summaries by Lynne (tougei@hotmail.com) Note from Key 2 Anime: I got these summaries from the RK Archive (http://rka.crosspaths.net/index.html). All these summaries are done by Lynne. If you have any questions of would just like to thank her for her wonderful efforts please email her at tougei@hotmail.com Episodes #60-63 =============================================================== Episode #61 Remaining Juppongatana... Choice of Life! Kenshin is unconscious, Saitou has broken down the door. There is a deep rumble, then an explosion. The section of the bridge between Saitou and where Sano, Aoshi and Kenshin are standing has been blown away. Sano is frantic. Saitou lights a cigarette. Another huge explosion! The rest of the bridge, Saitou, the entire place blows to hell! Aoshi and Sano (dragging Kenshin) start running. They are being chased by fire and falling debris. Meanwhile, Anji has saved Hoji. Soujiro is with the two of them on the side of a hill, watching Shishio's headquarters burn. Aoshi and Sano, carrying the unconscious Kenshin, rest on the other side of the hill, also watching the fire. Sano despairs over Saitou's death. Aoshi, Sano, and the unconscious Kenshin return to the destroyed Aoiya victorious, but Kenshin is seriously injured. Megumi comes from Tokyo to care for him. A month passes, and Kenshin starts to recover. Kenshin and company have been staying at the Shirobeko restaurant while the Aoiya is being rebuilt. One morning Katanagari Cho arrives. He has been recruited by the police and he comes to give the Kenshin-gumi a status report on what happened to the rest of the Juppongatana. It seems most of them took government deals. Anji did not and will be in jail for the next 25 years. Hoji, the Hyaku Shiki, killed himself. Iwanbo is too stupid to worry about, and Soujiro is out there somewhere and will probably never be caught................. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Episode #62 Kyoto... Engraved Memory... Starting With Fulfilled Feelings. End of Kyoto Chapter. Kaoru tells Okina and Misao that they are going to leave Kyoto and return home the next day. Megumi tells Kaoru that she wants to talk with her. Yahiko goes to find the place where Kenshin fought Shishio, Kenshin goes to a graveyard, and Aoshi goes to the temple. Yahiko discovers Sano at the cave where Shishio died. Yahiko tells Sano that this time he, Yahiko, felt left out; he never even got to see Shishio's face. Megumi and Kaoru are sitting under a bridge. Megumi tells Kaoru that Kenshin was hurt very badly in his fight with Shishio, and because of all the other times Kenshin has been physically injured, chances are good that he might not survive another fight. She also tells Kaoru that Kaoru better never lose her faith in Kenshin again. Megumi will not stand for it, and as long as Kaoru believes and waits and is there for Kenshin, chances are good that Kenshin will always return. Kenshin has brought flowers to a grave. It starts to rain. Misao rushes out to take an umbrella to Aoshi at the temple. Hiko shows up with an umbrella at the gravesite where Kenshin is praying. Sano is showing Yahiko what is left of the arena where Shishio and Kenshin fought (and also where Saitou supposedly died). The rain ends and a rainbow appears. Sano vows to surpass Saitou in ability. The Kenshin-gumi all meet by happy accident in town. The next morning they say goodbye to Aoshi, who promises to one day drink tea with them. They get on a train and return to Tokyo. Meanwhile, Cho is at the police station asking Saitou if he is sure he does not want to tell Kenshin that he, Saitou, is alive.......... -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Episode #63 Legend of The Wishing Fireflies. The Girl Who Waits For Her Sword Master. Kaoru puts everyone to work cleaning and fixing the dojo after the Kenshin-gumi's extended absence. Kenshin goes fishing with Ayame-chan and Suzume-chan. He meets a man down by the river who tells a sort of ghost story. The story is about a young man who goes in search of the perfect killing technique. A young woman loves this man and waits for him. For 21 years the man searches for the perfect killing technique. When he realizes what he has become, he goes crazy and ends up back where the woman had been waiting for him, but learns she died the year before he returned. Kenshin does not catch any fish, but he takes a flower back to Kaoru with a firefly sparkling on its leaf.