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I do not own Rurouni Kenshin.
Absquatulate
-verb
to flee; abscond
Kenshin can still hear her cries behind him, and each filets another slice from his heart. But he cannot stop, cannot turn back; once again the people of Japan have called upon him, and he can no more turn his back on them than he can stop his own heartbeat.
Yet turning away from Kaoru-dono, shutting his ears to her cries, begging him to stay….
It still feels like cowardice.