This part of the Kyoto arc ended very well and I thought again that Kenshin was going to kill but here the author applied a trick so that my dear and beloved Kenshin would not become a hitokiri: make the sword of the temple a sakabatou. It may seem incoherent and those things that anime critics say and that but to begin with it was never explained what type of sword it was. A true genius watsuki, it hurts that he turned out to like children