Gintama 625

[Gintama 625 Translation by Kewl0210]
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SFX: BAKII
Insert: His proud horn has been----!!
SFX: DODOOOO
Daki: W-Wait...
Title: Lesson 625
Instead of Thinking About Gambling as Betting Money, Let's Systematically Gamble Like We're Playing a Game.
Author: Sorachi Hideaki
Daki: Wh-Where are you going to go?
You've broken our laws and abandoned your troupe,
where do you intend on living now?
Look at what you've done. This bloodstained land tells the tale of your place in the world.
Do you, the one said to be the 'ultimate masterpiece' of the Dakini god Igor, the one they call the 'Horn of God', intend to abandon the battlefield?

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Hedoro: If you want these horns,
I'll give them to you.
We've turned more planets than I can count into wastelands.
Just how many lives that bloomed on those planets did we pluck?
Just like how we Dakini were born to fight and fight to live,
the lives we plucked must also have been trying to bloom for some reason.
It's so obvious, yet I took so very long to realize that.
Now I want to see what kind of flowers
the lives we plucked would turn into.
...So it is as the others said.
You were possessed by a parasite on Planet Kohaku and underwent treatment.
I think I heard that it's a parasitic plant that takes root in the brain... And that ever since then, you've been completely different...
Hedoro: I haven't changed.
---I've bloomed.
And so has my flower.

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Daki: ---Yes, my first horn was lost to that man.
That is the legend of how my pride was crushed along with my horn.
SFX: ZUZU...
Daki: Before or since, I have not felt fear any time but then.
As punishment for that broken horn, I... Me and my troupe got stronger. Strong enough so we would never lose this pride again.
So how
did another horn break?
How
did we once again...

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Daki: feel fear?

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Daki: We, who created the legend
of Dakini on the battlefield,
are now,
by these monkeys...!!

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Daki: No,
it is not just us Dakini
that are afraid.
SFX: PIIII
Someone: !!
......Their boss?!
SFX: ZAZA
Guys: RETREAAAAT!!

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Daki: What the hell are they?!
Tsuku: Don't let 'em get awaaaay!!
Daki: These frail creatures not found in any legends
are making these
famed warrior tribes utterly...
Hedoro: The lives we plucked must also have been trying to bloom for some reason.

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Daki: We Dakini were born to fight and fight to live.
Then why were they born, and what do they live for?
Why is it that these earthlings that weren't born to fight
make us afraid?
Earthlings,
what is the name of that flower?

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Jiro: They've finally started to collapse.
We've gotten deep within the enemy's formations and their chain of command has been lost.
Perhaps being surrounded by enemies, they've remembered fear and lost their footing.
They have looks on their faces like they want to get out of here as fast as they can.
Still, we're the ones that are surrounded and made foes of the whole universe.
Unless we do something about the Liberation Army Main Unit that's surrounding this city, our situation remains dire.
We've broken their front line and forced them to retreat, but if they meet back up with the main unit,
it will be no different than stabbing an elephant with a needle.
Boxes: Mercenary Unit
Liberation Army Main Unit
Gin: Well, sure, one needle won't take down an elephant.
But if we've also got some poison, then before long it'll be spreading all around its giant body and the elephant will stop moving.

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Gin: Fear is contagious.
If they want outta this town, I say we let 'em.
But...

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SFX: DOPAA
Gin: So let's make sure
to slather that poison on!
Guys: Paakoooo?!
Gin: The customers going home. Mama Saigou.
They had lots of fun with us in t his city.

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Gin: Until their asses are completely bald...
let's tear every last hair ooooooout!!
SFX: DOOON
Guys: The vanguard that raided the city...
is flooding out!!
SFX: WAAAAA
SFX: WAAAAAA
Guys: Th-This is crazy!!
The final mercenary unit is running away...?!!

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Guys: It's not just here!
It's happening at the west gate...
and the south gate, too!
Jiro: Sheesh.
We've sure taken quite the gamble.
We've released protection of the whole town and let all the gates open,
Boxes: Liberation Army
Kabuki-Chou
Jirou: and now we're making a bid to force out the enemy that's inside in hopes that the Liberation Army Main Unit gets caught up in that momentum, leading to their retreat as well.
Once they see the mercenary units' fleeing, brutally beaten, the Liberation Army will probably lose morale.
But I'm not sure that massive army will all start feeling that they'll lose...

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Jiro: If the elephant unflinchingly holds its ground,
the ants will simply be crushed under its feet.
Even a wicked yakuza like me wouldn't make a crazy bet like this one.
Bin: We've made a major gamble that would even make old dottards with long battle histories' balls shrivel up.
But... when the job's something as crazy as saving the entire world,
the only one fit for the job is the kinda big enough idiot that'll destroy the world with one wrong move.
Somebody that would still want to make that bet.
There might be somethin' only a man like that can grasp.

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Guys: Ruuuuun!!
Don't stop your feet even if you die!!
SFX: WAAAAAA
Someone: Keep moving forward until there're no enemies left in front of you!!
Even if you die pulling back, drop dead facing forward!!
If we win, the enemy retreats! If we lose, the world ends!
Either way, this is the end!!
So with a clear conscience, you'd better squeeze out everything you've gooot!!
Don't let a single piece of flaming trash left!!
SFX: WAAAA
Guys: HIH...
!!
Somoene: Hey, what're you doing?!
Guy: !!
Hey, wait!!
SFX: DAH

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Guys: STOOOP, you bastaaards!!
Shut up! If those mercenaries couldn't beat these guys, how the hell are we supposed to fight them?!
SFX: DAH
Shin: They've started to collapse.
Now we just might...
!!
SFX: DAGAAAA
Daki: Hold it right there.
Your enemy is that way.
If you still want to retreat,
when I'm more than happy to be your opponent.
Fight, you rank and file small friiiiiies!!

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Shin: They stopped...!!
With one yell....
he stopped their morale from collapsing...
He painted over their fear
with an even greater fear.
Saki: We are the Dakini.
We were born to fight and we fight to live.
There is nothing in this world that we fear.
And if there were,
we would simply
pluck it with our own hands.
The life that has bloomed in year another planet will dissa-
!
SFX: ZUN ZUN

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SFX: ZUN ZUN
Daki: Hey, you. Weren't you listening?
SFX: DOGOOO
Daki: Anyone that retreats, I will...
Hedoro: I'm terribly sorry.
When I heard there was a war happening, I started getting everyone to shelter,
so I got here late.
I'm terribly sorry.
SFX: GUSUH
Daki: Y-You're...
!!

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Daki: ----You
were possessed by a parasite on Planet Kohaku and underwent treatment.
I think I heard that it's a parasitic plant that takes root in the brain...
and that ever since then, you've been completely different.
Hedoro: I haven't changed.
I've bloomed.
And so has my flower.
Daki: Y...Y-
You..... It... It can't be...
Insert: Somebody real scary has arrived!!
Bottom: Gintama
...Lesson 625
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