He sits. That's all he does every day, if it is day. No ray of light enters this cursed dark pit of despair. No soothing sound of anything, not a single bloody thing, to remind the living dead here that somewhere out there, there's action! Swords crossing, people dying, children crying! What a bunch of bums this place is filled with. No one wants to be reminded that sometime ago they too were part of the action.
He rots. I've been rattling these chains he's trapped me in, but does he pay attention? Nooo…he just stares unseeing with those fish-eyes of his, blurred over with whitish gray cobwebby dull…yeuch. Where'd the violet go? And the hair! It was bad enough before—I mean, hasn't the guy heard of braids, or a haircut, maybe? No wonder he wasn't meeting the right women. Like that Yumi chick, uhm-ooh-uhm-uhm, she was fiiine. Yeah, that Shishio guy knew what he was about when he *ahem*. This I gotta say though, some just have all the luck—and I had a couple of inches on that one too. Anyhow, where was I again? Oh yeah. The hair…red now painted black. I don't know how, apart from the muck and grime and stink, but all that fire just…fell flat. Vamoose! Perky hair has left the building. Pretty boy here won't lift a finger.
He's dull. I'm getting dull! This is bad.
Look, Kenshin. I know I told 'ya I won't speak to you no more, but you gotta let me go. I mean was it my fault that the broad died? Seriously, I could've sliced up that dickhead real easy, even through the fog and all, but we got there too late to save your girl, hey it happens to the best of us, but you copped out on me, man. He was there, and you were there, so perfect for a revenge battle! What luck! Imagine the blood! But you wouldn't swing me anywhere near him. You just stood there, man. You missed your cue and so we missed our chance! And now, you're taking it out on me? No fair! So my cousin was stuck to her flat chest. I had nothing to do with it!
You hearing me Kenshin? Yo, Kenshin! Damn it, if you wanna stay in this hellhole, that's fine with me, but I want out! I'm bored. Bored! Bored! Bored! There's no one worth killing in this place! And these chains are really cramping my style…you know all that rust's no good—
~Leave him alone, you~
What was that? Are you talking to me, old man? Crazy old coot, what gives you the right to poke your dysfunctional head and defective nose into our business? So you think you know what my partner and I've been through? You weren't there, so bugger off! Look at him! Just look at him! He's wasted! All that talent…wasted! First he goes all "peace-loving" and I had to endure this stupid shape…I thought that was bad, but I stuck with him, 'ya know? We have history, old man, the Battousai and I, and I thought, well hey, give or take a few years without action he'd return to his old self. But it got worse. That woman corrupted him! The girl even had some technique that wouldn't kill! What the bloody point is there in that! Between you and me, I was glad when my cousin did her in. I thought, finally, Kenshin would run amok like the good old days. He didn't quit when the other one died. Oh those were happy days… gone…
But he just gave up on me. On us!
Boy, did I not want to be stuck here.
~He's had enough on his plate without your complaining~
Ha! Easy for you to say, you're not the one who's trussed up in irons! Geez Louise…let me outta here! Wake up, Kenshin! I've had it, you hear? Kenshin! Kenshin!
Rattle. Rattle. Rattle.