
why were they going to kill him even though he didn't kill the cop?

In Meiji era, the aristocracy (samurai class) had just been devoided of power, and their privileges were taken away. They had no means of living anymore, so many of them became robbers and beggars or criminals of other types. That way, in Meiji era samurai were not very popular. Because of that, nobody would have worried a second over an unjustly executed samurai... That's why
LOL I love this x'D that's always something that has lowkey bothered me for years about BL manga and just teen romances in general. Like not saying all teen guys are mean but they aren't a romantic bunch but you wouldn't know that from the thousands of yaoi manga set in highschools