Episode 11

"Confidential File 701: Past and Future" is the eleventh episode and the second-to-last/penultimate episode of the overall miniseries.

Plot
Jin admits to his involvement in the slaughter of the Karasumori clan, leaving Sawa in disbelief. The army's special forces arrive at Jin's house. He provides an underground escape route for Sawa and offers to meet her at midnight. As Sawa runs through the tunnels, she is assisted to avoid the special forces by the heavily pregnant Elena.

As they emerge, they are found by Rinko, who attacks Sawa with her razor-sharp metal bands. Sawa discovers after severing some of the bands that they also harm Rinko, weakening her enough to allow Sawa to defeat her. Sawa and Elena return to Sawa's bookshop, where Elena reveals that the Ryumyaku has been weakening and the rebels are drawing closer to defeating Tokugawa. Suddenly, Asahi appears, saved by Jin using Nue's supply of Karasumori blood. Elena goes into labor and gives birth to a baby girl with Sawa and Asahi's help.

Later, Sawa promises to stay with Asahi and offers her mother's bloodstained diary as a way for them to record their future together. While Asahi sleeps, Sawa is overcome by emotion as she recalls her life to date, then takes her sword and heads off to complete her revenge against the shogun, Yoshinobu Tokugawa.

Characters

 * Sawa Yukimaura
 * Asahi Nakumura
 * Elena Hanakaze
 * Satsuki Hanakaze (debut; cameo)
 * Elena Hanakaze's Husband
 * Jin Kazuhara