After learning of a plan to attack the Shinsengumi Command Post, Hijikata and the others decide to raid a meeting of Imperial Loyalists, which include men from Choushuu. The meeting will be held at either Shikokuya or Ikedaya. It's impossible to know which based solely on the information provided by Yamazaki Susumu and the other intelligence agents. With no other choice, the Shinsengumi splits into two squads. Kondou takes ten men to Ikedaya, while Hijikata takes twenty four to Shikokuya, but then...
Under the command of the Lieutenant 
General of Aizu, we are the Shinsengumi!
!تحت قيادة قائد فيلق آيزو، نحن الشينسينغومي
Wir Shinsengumi unterstehen
dem Generalleutnant von Aizu!
Somos el Shinsengumi,
a las órdenes de Aizu.
Somos el Shinsengumi,
a las órdenes de Aizu.
Nous sommes le Shinsengumi,
au service du lieutenant général du clan Aizu.
Siamo la Shinsengumi, 
al comando del Tenente Generale di Aizu!
Somos o Shinsengumi, e a mando
do tenente-general de Aizu,
Мы Синсэнгуми, служим
генерал-лейтенанту Айдзу!