Sanosuke is visiting the sukiyaki restaurant Akabeko, where he always leaves his bill on a tab. One of Akabeko's workers, Tae, asks him to go buy a Nishiki painting from the painting shop on her behalf. Though Sanosuke had no interest in paintings, he finds one at the store that catches his eye. It was a painting of the man he looked up to as his master back when he was a member of the Sekiho Army, Captain Sagara. With a gleam in his eyes, Sanosuke makes his way to meet with the artist of the painting.
but he then faced defeat
from the rurouni Kenshin Himura.
ثمّ تعرّض للهزيمة على يد الرّوروني 
.هيمورا كنشين لاحقًا
Jedoch wurde er in einem erbitterten Kampf
mit dem Vagabunden Himura Kenshin besiegt.
Défait au terme d’un âpre duel
par Kenshin Himura le vagabond,
Dopo essere stato sconfitto 
da Kenshin Himura, il samurai vagabondo,
mas depois foi derrotado pelo
andarilho Himura Kenshin.
он проиграл в честном и жарком бою
мечнику Кэнсину Химуре.