Peasant couple: You really can't go back to the castle.There are enemies everywhere.
Mineji: Can you dress me and Matahachi up as farmers?
Peasant couple: Are you giving up your pride as a Samurai?
Mineji: I won't give it up. I'm only giving up the appearance.
If I don't cast off my Samurai clothes, I won't make it back to the castle alive, right?
Every living person should have pride.
In order to keep the pride of a Samurai, I can't die.

Byakkotai

No matter how painful it is, if we live on,
the rain will definitely stop, and we'll see a beautiful sky.

Sakai Mineji ~ Byakkotai

I didn't fall into the river. I fell off the cliff.
(Saying it earnestly as if it makes a huge difference, considering they are discussing his near escape from death)

Sakai Mineji ~ Byakkotai

One day, when people can live according to their wishes...

Mineji, at that time, I'll always support you no matter what.

Mineji, please be born as mother's child again in another life in the future... okay?

Mineji's Mother(Inside her heart) ~ Byakkotai

(Mineji and Matahachi are visiting Gisaburou's house and talking with his mother)

Gisaburou's mother: *to Gisaburou* Gisaburou? You're acting a bit strange.
If there is anything you should tell me about it.
Mother is always on your side.
Gisaburou: Yes... but there is nothing.
Gisaburou's Mother: Eh... So boring.
Mineji: Ano... If... If Gisaburou 'likes' someone, would you still stand by his side?
Matahachi: Mineji, what are you talking about?
Gisaburou: Mother, it's only his HYPOTHETICAL example!
Mineji, You learnt it in Nisshinkan didn't you?
During youth, boys and girls are taught to be separated.
We cannot think otherwise.
Gisaburous mother: *laughs* Mineji's hypothetical example back then,
wasn't any wrong thinking.
Gisaburou should think for himself.
Whichever road you choose, mother will support you.

(After Mineji returns to his house, he finds his mother gardening so he sits next to her and asks)

Mineji: Mother...
Will mother always support Mineji, whichever road I choose?
Mineji's Mother: Do you think... that human's can choose what road they want to walk?
Is this the only thing you have learnt in Nisshinkan?
Mineji: No...
Mineji's Mother: Now there is only one way to live a person's life.
To live strongly and die bravely.
In order to die bravely, you must live strongly now.
Mineji: Yes.
Mineji's Mother: How can you say something so selfish, Mineji?
To choose your own road?
You have no right to either live or die.
Mineji: Yes. I am sorry. I shouldn't have something so immature.
Mineji's Mother: What the world is like now, think properly.
Mineji: Yes. I am truly sorry.
Mineji's Mother: If you don't have the spirit of an Aizu man
*thrusting the scissors she was using for pruning the flowers at Mineji*
Use this. And end your life now.
(She throws the scissors at the ground and goes into the house, and Mineji looks SOOOOO sad and forelorn T_T)

Byakkotai

The Class: So before the teacher comes, do you have anything to say?
Did you do something that is embarrassing to your heart?
Gisaburou: Yesterday, I talked to a strange woman
The Class: Please come to the front.
Whom did you talk to?
Gisaburou: When I went to Yamamoto Kakuma Sensei's house to learn artillery skills, I talked to the woman teaching there.
The Class: You learned artillery skills from a woman? Don't you think that's shameful?
Mineji: Ito Matahachi and I also went.
Their skills are much higher then the students at Nisshinkan
The Class: Don't you think that is very rude?
Matahachi: No, they are Kakuma-sensei's sister and friends.
They really have good skills
Gisaburou: These two did not talk to women.
I alone disobeyed the rules.
Matahachi: But under the circumstances, to not talk is impossible.
Mineji: Yes, Gisaburou only responded to the teacher's action.
The Class: Even though, he broke the rule, and he must be punished.
Mineji: But I don't think we should punish the wish to study artillery before Nisshinkan starts.
The Class: But what Gisaburou did...
Enough!
Even though Gisaburou admitted it honestly,
"What you cant do is what you cant do"
The punishment will be... a slap on the hand!
Mineji: Wait! Even though I didn't talk to a woman, I was envious of Gisaburou
*putting out his hand to be slapped too*
Matahachi: I think that the honest Gisaburou is too honest, too stupid!
*putting out his hand to be slapped as well*

Byakkotai

First. Never disobey your elders
Second. One has to bow to his elders
Third. Do not act in a cowardly manner
Fourth. Do not take your meals outdoors
Fifth. Do not converse with strange females outdoors
...

Code of the Bushido for youngsters ~ Byakkotai

In the Aizu clan, children were taught from a young age,
"Not to do the things that shouldn't be done"!
Nowadays there are no adults who teach children these things...
and this is why Japan is becoming so ridiculous!

Shintarou's Grandmother ~ Byakkotai