This volume focuses only on a flashback of Kenshin! After assassinating Tokyo warriors, Kenshin met Tomoe, a young woman who witnessed his assassination. Meanwhile, members of the Chôshû clan were killed, whose high-ranking clan members, Hijikata Toshizo and Hajime Saito, were at the head of the operation. Kenshin had to go to the country with Tomoe, he would then be a doctor and Tomoe his wife!