Samanosuke/Kaede: You Give Me Strength

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Lines and dialog from Onimusha Blade Warriors
These are only Samanosuke and Kaede's events from the game in the Story-Mode. I recorded what they said during the cut scenes and played it back several times so I would be accurate, the dialog is word for word.

At the end of Oni 1, Samanosuke disappeared for 10 years (1561 to 1571). During Kaede's play through, it starts out that she has a dream about the day she found him.

Kaede: "Wait!"

Samanosuke: "Now there's a voice I haven’t heard in a long time..."

Kaede: "Sam...an...osuke?"

Samanosuke: "...Kaede, have you been searching for me all this time?"

Kaede: "Yes, of course... I am...your shadow."

Samanosuke: "Kaede, forgive me."

Kaede: "Samanosuke!!"

They run to each other but they're stopped by a demon teleporting right between them and Kaede wakes up. She has a sad look on her face as she looks down and she puts her right hand on her heart. This already happen and Kaede was dreaming of that day.

Kaede has news for Samanosuke about the Demons and Nobunaga.

Kaede: "Samanosuke, it's as we expected, Nobunaga is using the power of the demons to grow more powerful."

Samanosuke: "I see."

Kaede: "What are we going to do Samanosuke?"

Samanosuke: "We must fight back of course! Whatever it takes to stop him."

Kaede: "Oh..."

She has a worried look on her face. Kaede is worried that he might get killed and that she'll lose him for good this time.

Samanosuke: "Don't worry, Kaede. I don't die easily."

Kaede: "... Be careful..."

Later Samanosuke and Kaede meet at the same place where she found him on a wooded bridge in the mist-filled valley in the Omi Mountains.

Samanosuke: "I remember this place..."

Kaede: "This is where I found you."

Samanosuke: "I am sorry I hid from you, Kaede."

Kaede: "It doesn't matter now... it's all in the past."

Samanosuke meets another character called Keijiro, the little kid from Warlords who's all grownup who changed his name. Samanosuke tells Keijiro why he went away.

Keijiro: "Is that really the gauntlet that changed you into an Oni?"

Samanosuke: "Yes... when I came to, Fortinbars' body was laying there. It bored scars that could not possibly have been made by humans."

Keijiro: "What!?"

Samanosuke: "It was then that I realizes the terrible nature of my power. If I didn’t find a way to control it... I would be unable to protect the people I love. That is why I left..."

Keijiro: "I see..."

Samanosuke was really talking about Kaede. Kaede is really the only person who is very close in Samanosuke's life. He left because he would not be able to forgive himself if he had hurt or had killed her. He went away because he wanted to protect her. A sort of sacrifice you could say and that’s really what real love is... sacrifice.

At another point in the game Keijiro wants to know how Samanosuke feels about Kaede.

Keijiro: "Samanosuke, about Kaede..."

Samanosuke: "Hmm?"

Keijiro: "It's nothing. Just wondering what you thought of Kaede, is all."

Samanosuke: "...She is a trusted friend... no, she is much more than just a friend... I would trust her with my life."

Keijiro: "So, she is very special to you..."

Near the end of the story mode for Samanosuke and Kaede, Kaede sets a meeting for Samanosuke to meet Jubei.

Kaede: "I've arranged a meeting between you and Jubei Yagyu."

Samanosuke: "If he could help us it could greatly benefit our cause."

As Samanosuke stars to walk away, it seems that Kaede wants to tell him something.

Kaede: "Samanosuke..."

Samanosuke: "Yes?"

Keijiro comes in and says

Keijiro: "Yer don't understand women, do ya? Even if you beat that Nobunaga there is no guaranty ya going to make it back."

Kaede: "Samanosuke..."

Keijiro: "Well, I won't let the both of yers get killed. And there isn't just one man with Oni powers."

Samanosuke and Kaede are right next to each other

Samanosuke: "Kaede, it is you that givens me the strength to fight. It has always been so and always will."


All of this is to show where I got the idea for the title but for anybody who's a Samanosuke/Kaede fan... if there are any, besides myself.