Saito/Ryouma/Kiryu we need to remind you again that we Hate Traitors. We’ll just fucking kill a traitor. In fact we found one of our guys was a traitor, so we’re gonna make you kill him. Oh no another guy from our elite police crime mob killed him suddenly then stared at you for a long time. And remind you again we will kill traitors. We’re doing this for the country.
I finally broke down and did an english Wikipedia search which only kind of helped finding out Sakamoto Ryouma (Kiryu)'s fake name is also a different person from actual history and these events Saito Hajime.
I mean it helped to read that it wasn’t exactly Modern Japan but a bunch of barely held together fiefdoms that were constantly fighting and taking over each and plotting to overthrow the Emporer or The Shogun depending on their mood. So I can sort of take all the place names as “oh that’s another little faction.”
Gonna grind for better weapons tonight.