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Rhapsodize
Verb, used without object
talk with extravagant enthusiasm
Kenshin regrets leaving his master, of course he does, but a great deal less than he would have regretted doing nothing while the common people suffer. Shishou is samurai born, and does not understand the grinding poverty of a villager's life, the blood and sweat expended for a bite to eat and a cold corner to sleep; he does not understand how hard they work just to survive, and how easily the injustice of the world will take it all away, death and disease and slavery.
But Kenshin does understand. He will no longer allow his grand ideals to be just words. He will use his sword, and he will remake the world. Then Shishou will understand.