Gintama 518

So many emotions...

[Gintama 518 Translation by Kewl0210]
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Insert: Twilight, in front of Shouka Sonjuku's gate...
Title: 'Gintama'
Gin: Hey.
You,
yer name's Takasugi, right?
Don't get a swelled head just cause you won once.
In the time it took you to pull off that miracle win against me, I beat you a ton of times.
If you really wanna beat me,
if you wanna make up for all the times you lost,

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Gin: come back again tomorrow.
Though I'm just gonna win again next time anyhow.

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Taka: Too bad, Gintoki.
That's 247 wins and 246 losses.

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Taka: I
win.
Insert: The conclusion...?!
Title: Lesson 518
Fist
SFX: DOH
Author: Sorachi Hideaki

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Zura: Must have a nice view up there.
The idiot's flying in the sky.
Taka: Yeah, it's a great view. The idiot can see everything from here.
Zura: What are you planning to do from here?
Taka: ...There's nothing to think about.
If I go there again, I'll be disowned.
Zura: I see. So your father caught wind of the rumors, too?
Shouka Sonjuku.
The rumors say they're gathering local kids there and preaching shady things like criticizing the Bakufu and stuff about subverting the government.

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Shou: if they each carry their own bushido in their hearts,
they can each become their own samurai
Taka: Hmph.
That's just it, ain't it?
If everybody became the kinda samurai that guy talks about, this whole country would fall apart.
Zura: Yeah, maybe.
But
they sure seemed like a pleasant bunch.
I always used to think
that being a samurai was something really constrictive where you were tied down in all sorts of ways...
If I can, I'd also really like...
to be that sort of free samurai.

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Guy: Looks like the rumors were true.
Taka: ?
Guy: I thought I hadn't seen you at the cram school in a while.
But man, you've gotten infatuated with a sketchy temple school like this?
Takasugi, you've finally been banned from the Military Training Academy, too, huh?
Or was that a relief for you?
Anyhow, unfortunately even with us fired, you have nowhere to go.
Cause tonight, this temple school's gonna be destroyed.
I may have let my father know some false rumors about this school and government officials are on the move now.
Good news for that guy. Either he'll be chased out of here or they'll haul him off.
Some weird ronin pretending to have a temple school like that...
That's what happens when you don't know your place and you ridicule warriors like us.
You and him won't have any place here anymore.

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Guys: Takasugi, you sure as hell can't become a samurai anymore.
Zura: Takasugi.
Is it really a good idea to be wandering around so late at night?
You really will get disowned next time.

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Taka: Don't worry.
I'm just gonna get disowned tomorrow anyhow.
Zura: ......
Taka: What about you, Katsura? If you're seen playing around at a place like this at night, that scholarship you went through so much to earn will be revoked.
Zura: Don't worry.
I was just about sick of that ridiculous pressure-free education.
I told them to run before nightfall.
You've gotta pay back your debts.
Taka: ......
Zura: The biggest prodigy and worst bad-boy of the famed military training school have teamed up.
So stopping those government officials should be easy as pie.

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Gin: Two kids from noble families? Don't make me laugh.
Guys: !!
Gin: Don't you mean the cesspool of iniquity
that's rearing rebels to overthrow the government,
Shouka Sonjuku's,
three no-good brats? ["three" italics]
Guys: !!
Zura: You...!!
Why are you here?!! I told you to run!
Gin: That was about Shouyou, right?
Why do I gotta run, too?
Also, looks like you guys have learned how to cut class and how to play around at night.
You guys are already fine students of mine at this point.
I had to at least come to say goodbye.

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Gin: But this much is plenty.
I'll take care of the rest, so you guys get outta here.
Shouyou and I are drifters, anyhow. We've got plenty of places to call home.
But you guys are different. If you get any more involved, you won't be able to go back.
Do you wanna lose your warrior class status?
Taka: ......
If we had someplace to go back to, we wouldn't be at a place like this in the first place.
SFX: ZAH
Zura: Since my grandma died, I haven't had any living relatives.
I don't have anyone to take care of me to begin with.
SFX: ZAH
Zura: And anyhow, we don't have any will to become anything
that needs a warrior class title to get.
Taka: And if there is something we want to be,
it wouldn't be something that would be given to us by someone else.
We'll find it with these eyes
and grab hold of with these hands.

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Gin: ......
I see...
Well, then I won't say anything else.
Guys: Hey, you kids over there,
what're you doing around here so late at night? What house are you from......?
Gin: I'm Shouka Sonjuku
Yoshida Shouyou's disciple, Sakata Gintoki.
Zura: Same,
Katsura Kotarou.
Taka: Same,
Takasugi Shinsuke.
Here we come!!
SFX: DOH

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Guys: Wh-
Who the hell are these brats?!
SFX: BACHA
Shouyou: Please do not unsheathe those.
Guys: !!
Shou: I would very much like it for those swords to stay in their scabbards.
That goes for both of us.
Please do not
make me draw mine.
Kids: !!
Guy: Yoshida Shouyou, you ba......
!!
SFX: SUH
Shouyou: I don't mind you spreading any rumors about me that you like.
If I'm being an eyesore, then I'll be on my way somewhere else... However

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SFX: PAKIIIN
Guys: !!
Shou: If you point your swords at my students,
then I wouldn't mind overthrowing something like a government.
Guys: HIH...
HIIIIIH!
SFX: DAH
Guys: ...Shouyou.
Shou: My, my. It had been my intention to send everyone home as to not involve any students in all this.
But it seems that there were still some
no-good brats still here.
But you must excuse me, dojo-yaburi-san.
I no longer seem to have a dojo or a school for you to destroy.

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Taka: Don't worry.
It's not the dojo I wanna destroy.
It's you, Shouyou-sensei.
SFX: TON
Zura: Sensei, for us,
as long as you're there, even a field or some farmland is a school.
Also, both your bushido
and our bushido
aren't weak enough to be broken by something like this.
Shou: ......My, my, Gintoki.
It seems you've brought along some students that are even more cheeky than you.
Gin: Looks like it.
SFX: PIN
Shou: Is that so? Well, then without further delay, I'll give you a lesson right here on the roadside.
Half-assed kids like you are 100 years too early to be out playing at night.
SFX: GOH GOH GOH

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Shou: Welcome to Shouka Sonjuku.

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Taka: ......Sensei,
Did you come... to hit my on the head with your fist again or something?
You said not to half-ass things.
Did you come to stop me?

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Gin: He's not here.
Sensei isn't
around anymore.
The only ones that can stop us anymore
are us.

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SFX: GAKIIIN
Gin: If you don't like it,
if it won't yield,
then your only choice is to stop it with your own fiiiist!
SFX: GOH
Insert: With it filled with passion---- he swings!!
Bottom: Gintama
...Lesson 518
/ End