Trust & Betrayal Act#2

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The Lost Cat

… the girl stepped forward and then suddenly falls to the ground. Kenshin spontaneously catches her and by his gentleness, he carried her to the inn. But since there was no vacancy, Kenshin let her sleep in his own room. The next morning he was awakened by a bad dream, but he couldn’t find her anywhere. When he went downstairs, Kenshin saw her carrying food trays, then he asked her name and the girl replied “Tomoe” (Yukishiro Tomoe). Kenshin knew that it’s too dangerous for her to stay there and told her to go back to her home, but she said that she has no family. Kenshin somehow put a pity on her and get her a job as a housekeeper in the inn where the Ishin Shishi lives. In the meantime, Katsura got a nerve war with Miyabe and finally cut ties. Miyabe and his men was planning something really horrible in Kyoto, they wanna it set AFLAME. Katsura saw the harshness in Kenshin and fell guilty for it, so he told Tomoe, personally, to be Kenshin’s saya (sheath) “a good sword should had a good sheath”. One night in June, as the Miburo heard the issues of the burning plan, they broke in the Ikedaya where all Shishi were having an assembly to burn Kyoto. The brave Kondou Isami and young Okita involved in a severe battle as they were outnumbered (3:1) but at last they won. Kenshin came too late to help his comrades, fortunately Katsura wasn’t there at the moment. Soon they went back to the inn and ran through the back door, Katsura was waiting for them. He told Kenshin that he has a mountain house in Otsu and ordered him to live with Tomoe there as a newly married couple. Kenshin had no choice, so he left Kyoto and head to Otsu with Tomoe to start a new life as husband and wife.