I just hope that everyone else will remember them.
[He closes his eyes, now.]
When we're gone, the last of the samurai, or at least those who were- I hope people still remember. I don't want those sacrifices to become faint, distant memories of the past, or be ridiculed- What else could we do? Surrender?
...Samurai didn't believe in that. Before the Amanto came, really, a time I can't remember very well, ahaha... The way of the samurai was the way of the land. And samurai fight to the death- You die before you give up. That's just how it goes.