Rurouni Kenshin Vol. 26
- ISBN
- 9781421506739
- Publisher
- VIZ
- English release
- Pages
- 192
Rurouni Kenshin 26 collects Acts 228–237 and opens away from Kenshin, with Sanosuke looking for a fight. A local confrontation offers him the action he wants, but the people he helps have their own account of what safety requires. This follows his departure from the group and shifts attention to his behavior without Kenshin beside him. The opening has comic opponents and an easy victory; its more difficult encounter is with the people who must live with the advice he gives afterward.
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Sanosuke defeats the hired fighters quickly enough that their defeat becomes a joke. The girl who thanks him is less easily won over. When he scolds her small brother for hiding instead of raising his fists, she explains that she told the child to hide. She had made a protective decision that his rule about courage cannot accommodate. His victory does not give him authority over everything that follows it. Asked whose side he is on, Sanosuke says there are no sides and that he wanted to relieve his irritation. That admission unsettles the shape of a rescue: he can be useful in stopping violence without having thought carefully about the people he has helped. The girl is entitled to notice the difference.
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