"In a swamp ain't a very nice way to go." Although Shima would say there is no nice way to go unless it's surrounded by a hundred hot naked ladies, then maybe, just maybe. "And c'mon, you think I'd have gotten very far? Like I can just take something like Yamantaka and stroll out of Kyoto without anyone coming after?"

It would be like letting a nuke wander off to find out the true meaning of life, though what he isn't admitting is he wouldn't even know where to start, nor had he really wanted to abandon his friends. Besides, if his family didn't come after him, they would have...

"So how come only two of you survived? Out of... how many? If it's somethin' like one in ten, you can't possibly mean, like, eighteen other guys died."

Right? Right?