[Like it or not, the location is Okita's choice.]

I won't deny it. There is far too much beauty in both the struggle, and the strength of the person enduring it.

Besides--[And again, Homura focuses his eyes on the smaller man.]--to not kill is not a luxury allowed the Toushin Taishi. Once a battle begins, it does not end until either I lay dead, or my opponent does. That is the rule of the Heavens, for the five hundred years I fulfilled the role, and long before they issued me that title.

So in that regard, you could say that I haven't been trained to merely spar either.