Gintama 648

[Gintama 648 Translation by Kewl0210]
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Title: Lesson 648
The True Battlefield
Author: Sorachi Hideaki
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Matako: Shinsuke-samaaaa!!
Guys: !!
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Guys: !!
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Nobu: That's enough.
That's
far more than enough.
We did not come here
to fling hatred at one another.
We came here to stop that from happening.
So we must
also
stop you.

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Nobu: Answering revenge with revenge
causes nothing but an endless spiral of hate.
So,
I am sorry,
everyone.
Could you
hold your feelings back?

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En: There is no need.
Go ahead, lay the finishing blow.
Whether you stop me or not,
that hatred will not disappear.
Yes, that sadness,
and that pain
will continue as long as you live.

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Wife: ---But that is how it should be, no?
I want to live on with that pain.
That's the proof that that person lived in this world, after all.
It is proof that that person still lives on.
The reason I came to feel that way
is from being with you and this child.
So Enshou,
you mustn't go leaving me alone by dying on the battlefield.
I need you to live longer than me
so when I'm gone, you feel plenty of pain.
En: Those were the last words I exchanged with my wife.
She told me to live with pain.

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En: And without knowing
where that pain came from.
Guy: Welcome back, Gunsmoke Prince!
Or should I say my esteemed little brother?!
You're the one who's the guardian spirit of Burei!
En: I never knew
what I thought of her.
Guy: No need to worry.
This is a journey to form an alliance to avoid war.
There won't be anything dangerous going on.
And not only that, I'll have
the hero, Gunsmoke Prince with me.

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Guy: A... A surprise attack?!
It can't be! All the talk of an alliance was a trap?!
Come in, Enshou!!
I'm surrounded by the enemy! I need emergency backup...
En: ..........
Ehshou...?!
ENSHOOOU!!
En: I never had the right
to hate someone for her sake to begin with.

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En: Her enemy
was me.
The Gunsmoke Prince
did not
go to where the battle was.
Ever since then
all I ever did was run.
It was only when I was on the battlefield
that I could forget her strength
of battling with pain.
It was only when I was at the border of life and death
that I could forget my own weakness
of always running from her.
It was only then that I could forget the pain I felt
when I lost her, and was completely unable to do anything to save her.

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En: And so I kept running
here, to yet another battlefield...
I don't even deserve to feel pain over her death.
So
I suppose it must be fate that I die here on the battlefield after having done nothing but run away all my life.
Taka: ...Are you scared of war ending?
When they end, you go back to being just some regular person.
But
that's where the real battle lies.
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Taka: I doubt that body will stand on a battlefield again.
So now, with a body that cannot even run away
continue to suffer and struggle,
as just an ordinary human.

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Taka: We aren't even
all that good at dying.
En: You...
Taka: I was... not unlike you.
I've been stained by more sins than I can count.
But
it's because of that that I've been able to live showing myself in such a wretched state.
And
the one born of those sins...
If that man says to stop,
then stop what I have to do.
Nobu: Takasugi.
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Saka: Geez.
Ya can't even disobey a shogun's orders? Even if he were gonna behead me, I don't think I could.
Zura: Hmph.
I have no intention of respecting such a man's authority as shogun,
but if a real shogun were here,
then perhaps I would have.

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En: You... you bastards!!
En: If you can still continue, then by all means, continue.
Our battlefield
is no longer here.
My people, carry your hatred and your sadness
and continue to live.
Someone: We have to stop this ship from crashing!!
Anyone still able to lend a hand, could you help us out?!

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En: It's the same eyes.
Someone like me that does nothing but run away...
could never win against such eyes, it seems.
The country of samurai.
It has good people,
and a good king.
A good country.
Won't you lend me a hand?
Perhaps there is still time.
I cannot let my comrades die anymore.

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Guys: P-
Prince!!
Shijaku: You damn fool.
Why didn't you tell me sooner?
Why did we not a long time ago...
Guys: Hurryyyy!! We've gotta help them out, too!!
Shijaku: With those men
we may have walked a path to a different future...
Why...
you fool....?
En: Shijaku...
I'm sorry.

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SFX: PAPAAN
Guys: ENSHOOOOU
Guy: Y-You've gotta be kidding me!
We did everything you said, we sacrificed so many of our comrades,
and now you want peaaaace?!! Then what the hell
did all our comrades die for?!!
Shi: You bastaaaard!!
What did you do!!
Seize him!!

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Guys: ENSHOU!!
ENSHOOOOU!!
SFX: GOPU

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Zura: No...
Saka: Nobunobuuuuu!!
SFX: GACHA GACHA
Guys: You bastaaaards!!
Nobu: That's enoooough!!
Bottom: Gintama
...Lesson 648
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Nobu: I believe I told you
to hold back those feelings.
Guys: ...Nobu...nobu...
Forgive that person.
He didn't say anything wrong.
We took it upon ourselves to start a war, then made them stand in the line of fire.
We can't think they'll just let us up and end it now.
As long as you have bullets left, fire them at me until you are satisfied...
We have the duty to undertake them.
Then this war can end with the lives of us two generals.
Bottom Insert: To stop the chain of revenge---