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Little Kenshin’s parents had died from an illness, and the slave-traders who had, uhm, taken him in, were soon murdered by bandits, including the girls that the little boy had befriended. You could say that Kenshin knew how much people suffered under the many hardships caused by the situation in Japan.
And he himself had only survived because Hiko had saved him with his amazing sword-fighting skills.
Kenshin became Hiko’s apprentice, and eventually feels that he wants to go to where the fighting is, partiicpate in the Bakumatsu, to help people with his sword skills.
That’s the old argument between Hiko and his stupid apprentice: Hiko doesn’t want Kenshin to take sides in this conflict, but Kenshin eventually leaves him and joins the rebels. Yeah, his wish is to help end this conflict, and create peace.
When Katsura makes this offer to him, he decides that in order to fight for peace, he’s going to be a killer under Katsura’s command.
Of course means and goal are contrtadicting, and once Kenshin has understood that (after making countless people suffer, after killing more than a hundred people and last but not least, after losing the person he loves), he decides never to kill anymore, and never to for anyone but for the poor people in danger, who cannot defend themselves.
So, Battousai’s motivation for killing was actually helping people. He was misguided. I blame Katsura, who took that boy and turned him into a killer, DESTROYING HIS LIFE, BOO! >:
Note that Kenshin/Battousai didn’t really enjoy killing, he just did it because he thought it had to be done, and he became kind of good at killing so coldly. :/
In regards to the other question, no. Kenshin stated himself that he would never hurt an unarm person. I doubt he would hurt a child or woman…unless he had too..but he couldn’t. So, I would face him and sees for who he truely is…the Battosai turned good.
