Episode Title:
Deceit.
Episode Description:
Tetsu has shown improvement when sparring against Heisuke. Okita has noticed how much Tatsu worries for his little brother. Ryōma comes to see Yoshida to convince him not to start a revolt against the Shogunate, but to no avail. Hotaru finds someone resembling Okita in the streets. Tatsu later bumps into Ryōma, only to be surrounded by patrons. The two escape via a wheelbarrow and end up at the riverbank. Hotaru, unaware of who she is talking to, begins to wonder what Okita is really like. Later at night, the Okita duplicate, revealed to be Kichisaburo, murders the group of patrons, which pleases his master Seiga no Chujo.
