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     Long ago, in the whirlpool of Kyôto violence that marked the end of the Tokugawa shogunate…
     …there was an Ishin Patriot called Hitokiri Battôsai.
     This man, who paved the way for the new Meiji era with these bloody battles, vanished at the conclusion of the conflict.  With the passage of time he became a legend, known simply as “the strongest”.
     Ten years later, the legend resurfaced: no longer the Hitokiri of old, but a vagabond who had sworn never again to take a life.  Wielding the Sakaba-tô, Himura Kenshin wandered Japan aiding the oppressed—until the day he found a home worth defending, friends to rely on, and a love to heal his wounded heart.
     The rurôni fought many mighty enemies in that time, the eleventh year of Meiji; but at last the battles ended, and it seemed that Kenshin could finally rest.
     He’d found a home, friendship, love—ultimately, a family.  Even a well-earned peace.
     But there was still a price to be paid…for the one thing that would be denied the vagabond was his continued health.
     There would be no avoiding that price.  Not, at least, on this Earth.
     And so our story begins anew, in Tôkyô, in the year 1889—