Rurouni Kenshin Vol. 24
- ISBN
- 9781421503387
- Publisher
- VIZ
- English release
- Pages
- 208
Rurouni Kenshin 24 contains Acts 207–217 and opens with Kaoru directly threatened by Enishi. Kenshin is still struggling to reach her, while Enishi explains the place he has assigned her in his revenge. The preceding confrontation has already made the dispute personal; here its danger extends to someone Enishi admits he has no grievance against. Continue from that confrontation rather than treating this as a new attack with a fresh motive. The opening situation is enough to establish the threat without revealing what Kenshin finds afterward.
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Enishi tells Kaoru that he has nothing personal against her, then makes that innocence irrelevant to his intention. She is needed for his judgment on Kenshin. Revenge has become a procedure in which another person’s lack of guilt offers no protection. Kaoru answers by holding to Kenshin’s promise to protect people in the present, refusing to give up while he continues fighting. Their disagreement is therefore about which lives may be made to serve the past. The scene does not need Kaoru to imagine she can defeat Enishi by force for her refusal to matter. He wants her cooperation in treating her own life as a means of punishing someone else. She declines that role.
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