Sano still refuses to give up, saying that Saitō's attacks don't hurt nearly as much as him being treated by Kenshin as his weakness and so Saitō let's him that he can do whatever he wants and heads off. On his way to Kyōto, Sano keeps getting himself lost in the middle of nowhere, until he meets Yukyuzan Anji, a fallen Buddhist monk. Upon seeing Anji using turning figures of solid stone into dust, by slamming his short sword into the ground, Sano asks that he train him, to which Anji eventually agrees.

During the training he is visited by the spirit of his former mentor, the deceased Sagara Sōzō, and by the end of one week, he masters the technique of Futae no Kiwami, with his right hand, which deeply impresses Anji. On the way to Kyōto, Kenshin meets a young tomboyish girl named Makimachi Misao and is surprised by her combative skills. He later learns that she is a member of the Oniwabanshū Ninja clan, who is searching for Shinomori Aoshi, the clan's leader and Kenshin's former adversary, whom he defeated in a hard-fought battle in Tokyo a while ago and his 4 students ( Beshimi, Hyottoko, Shikijō and Han'nya). Kenshin hides the truth from Misao, knowing that news of the deaths of Aoshi's students (her former comrades, whom she looked up to as a child), would wound her deeply.

They later head to Shingetsu village, controlled by Shishio, where Kenshin meets Saitō once again. Learning that Shishio is in the village at this time, Kenshin and Saitō pay Shishio a visit and are followed by Misao and a young orphan boy whom Kenshin rescued, named Mishima Eiji, who's family are the victims of a powerful henchman of Shishio, named Senkaku.

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