Gintama 603

[Gintama 603 Translation by Kewl0210]
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SFX: TON
Hattori: ...........
What a nice view...
is something I don't think you'll hear anyone saying.
Standing on top of the head of the Barbarian Subduing Shogun and looking down on this world may be something that would even make the luck of the shinobi run out,
but standing on top of an empty castle and staring at a collapsing country
isn't even entertaining.
Insert: With his friend dead, now----
Title: Lesson 603
Ninjas and Idiots like High Places
Author: Sorachi Hideaki

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Someone: What in the world is happening?!!
Just when we thought we'd gotten the Liberation Army calmed down...
this time it's the citizens?!
They're saying that ordinary citizens are appearing in great numbers at Liberation Army garrisons and attacking them
causing riots are breaking out all over Edo!!
These aren't just a bunch of riots!
This is a full-blown war!!
Now our agreement with the Liberation Army will be nullified, will it not?!!
This time they're coming to invade Edo!!

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Guy: This is why I said to keep watch on the populace and be on the lookout for any suspicious behavior!
And who is there to do something like that?!
This country no longer has a fully functioning army to protect it
nor a police force to protect the public order!!
And as it's plain to see, the Bakufu are ignoring the nationwide crisis and have fled somewhere!
Not one of them will even show their faces at a council!
Even if we did get them here, who among them could serve any purpose?!
This country is already collapsing!!
What did you say?! Take that back!
Why don't you take responsibility and cut your belly?!!
Someone: -----That is Utsuro's goal?

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Someone: He's using Naraku to attack the Liberation Army
so the relationship between the two sides deteriorates and Edo gets enveloped in the flames of war?
By the way,
SFX: HABU
SOmeone: you guys can help out with removing people that get in the way, too.
SFX: DOH DOH
Shin: Then the negotiations Katsura-san and the others' did was all wasted?!!
Nobume: Either way, we know where things stand now.
The Liberation Army didn't come here to defeat the Tendoushuu,
the Tendoushuu...
lost their value as tools for Utsuro.
He's done away with them long ago by now.

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Nobume: And the Liberation Army
is probably aware of that fact.
And despite that, they haven't withdrawn their troops from the Earth.
It's not just Utsuro
that wants there to be a war.
And they're not the only ones
that can't end this without fighting.
Gin: I hope you're not that type, too.
Nobume: I dunno.
At the very least, I'm thankful for this situation.
I don't know all that about war,
But the elusive phantom Utsuro has finally shown his hand.
Those garrisons the Naraku are attacking are all over Edo,
but if Utsuro is going to appear,

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Nobume: It would be the most dangerous
most difficult to destroy place, here.
Shin: .........!!
The Liberation Army's unit is...
wiped out...?!
Kagura: No,
there are Naraku here, too, yes?
They were prepared to die in battle
and took their enemy with them...
Gin: ......
Nobume: There are no enemies or allies.
To Utsuro,
there are just tools.
Gin: ..........
It looks like
you and I are the same type.

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Gin: Unless we fight,
unless we defeat him,

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Gin: This can't end.
You alone...

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SFX: DOF
Someone: This country is done for.
Sign: Dumpling Spot

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Hattori: The remaining Bakufu are all fools.
There is no one left to prop up this crumbling country.
There is only one thing left for you to do.
Run,
Soyo-Hime.
Edo will be covered in the flames of war soon.
And that flame will likely not stop at Edo. You must find a ship to escape earth right away.
Soyo: If I could do that, I would have left long ago,
Zenzou-san.
There are still those here fighting to protect this country.
I do not know if there is anything I can do, but I want to fight with them.
After all, I am that person,
Shogun Tokugawa Shigeshige's little sister.

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Zen: The little sister of the shogun is gone.
Soyo: !
Zenzou-dono, how rude!!
Zen: The duty of an ordinary little sister is to live on for the older brother.
As I could not fulfill my duty to your brother, I am going to protect you through this all.
Soyo: Zenzou-san, the incident with Big Brother was no your-
Zen: That's enough. If you're going to throw a tantrum, I'll still bring you along even if I have to spank you.
Girl: Hoh.
What are you going to do after that, exactly?
Just stay in a land where you don't know anyone
and spend your life counting up the friends you lost?
Zenzou,
living is enough to atone for your friends.
But do not forget
you still have friends here on Earth fighting with everything they have.
Zen: ...My only friend is Jump.
And even if we did join forces, do you really thin we have any hope of overturning a situation as desperate as this one?
Woman: My only friend is Bessatsu Margret.
T/N: Bessatsu Margret is a shoujo manga magazine (aiming at the young girl demographic) and it's the magazine Kimi ni Todoke runs in.
Woman: But I think

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Woman: both living on for one's friends
and dying fighting alongside one's friends that are still alive
are both paths of friendship.
So I have no right to stop this princess.
All I can do
is live on and resist alongside my friends
and for those that lost as well.
Soyo: Zenzou-san,
that person... is fighting as well, isn't he?
So... I... We
have to fight.
We have to crawl up.
From the depths of sadness.
From the depths of hatred.
And we can't let him show us up, right?
We can't lose to Tokugawa Nobunobu...

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Someone: What is the meaning of this?
En: If the ruler is this much of a know-nothing fool,
I can't be surprised your planet is being destroyed.
The agreement is off. You Earthlings pointed your guns first.
Your country will be destroyed
along with the Tendoushuu.
Nobu: ......!!
Saka: I see.
I dunno if that's tha Tendoushuu's doin' or not, but given how foolish its leader is,
I think your army's gonna end up destroyed, too.
That established, if yer still gonna start a war with us
then you've still got a hope for livin'.
Before the samurai draw their swords from their scabbards,
ya'd better surrender.

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En: I see. You're just as gutsy and smart-mouthed as Shijaku said you were.
But rest easy.
There will be no war.
While they're all still down there with their fingers in their mouths
blinking at what they see up in the sky
everything will end.
This will be no war.
It will be simply a sacrificial ceremony.
SFX: GO GO GO

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En: Your swords
will not reach anywhere.
SFX: MISHI MISHI

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SFXL DOH DON GA GA
Guys: Th... These guys.
No way.
They're immortal?!
Utsuro, you bastard.
Did you honestly give these guys your blood...?
Bottom: Gintama
...Lesson 603
/ End

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Utsuro: With how many of them there are, they're all just shams made from a single drop.
Though in exchange, they work quite hard.
Is it painful?
That's because with such a small amount of blood, the healing faculty is incomplete.
But that pain will soon end.
Along with this planet.
SFX: GO GO GO GO
Utsuro: It is already too late for anything.
At this hour, all you can change is which way you die.
Will you sheathe that sword and meet you end along with the planet?
Or will you end fighting me with that sword?
Do feel free to choose whichever you prefer.
Gin: Then
I'm gonna use this sword to crush you and the Liberation army!
Insert: Unyielding resolve----!!