I've never been able to get there without you, Toshi. You know that as well as I do. Like a traveller would be lost without a map.

[There is no way that he would have gotten to where he was today-- or where he was while he was alive, at least, without Hijikata by his side. He had always been the one to push for things when Kondou couldn't bring himself to. He'd make a better leader of the Shinsengumi, that was something that Kondou had faith in.

And yet fate had brought him to Hijikata's side once again, somehow. It wasn't an opportunity that he was prepared to pass up.]