Gintama 673

[Gintama 673 Translation by Kewl0210]
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Title: Chapter 673 Ghost
Author: Sorachi Hideaki

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Someone: How odd.
I have no memory
of any grave like this here as Shouka Sonjuku.
Speaking of which,
I don't recall it being the kind of dangerous place where a ghost might show up in the broad daylight.
Taka: Hmph.
Do I...
look like a ghost to you...?
Honestly, I've been uncertain whether you've been alive or dead for a long time now.

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Taka: Honestly I probably should've made a grave for you,
but unfortunately, I made that promise.
That I would
make sure to bring him back here.
Gin: ...So then stop haunting this place and rest in peace already.
Your business has ended, hasn't it?
Taka: Ended?
I only thought other people could saw nonsense like that.
Because no matter how many times I try to save the world or how many times I try to destroy the world,
there's something I realized will not end... That's why
both you and I
came here, isn't it?

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SFX: GAKII

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SFX: III IN
SFX: DOH

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SFX: GAKII KIIIN GIIIN
Gin: Sorry to have ta tell ya,
but I don't have the time to go offer incense to the ghost of somebody that died a long time ago.
Taka: Then,
what the hell have you been doing these 2 years?
Until you throw away the toys for your game of pretend,
what the hell have you been searching for?!!
SFX: DOO N
SFX: ZAZAA
SFX: GAKIIIN

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SFX: GYAII
Someone: Maybe what
SFX: OOO OO
Someone: the ghost is looking for
is another ghost?

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Taka: ...Gintoki,
he's not in your domain anymore.
SFX: SHUU:
Taka: Only a ghost can grab onto the hand of a ghost.
Or maybe
you're coming to this side, too?
SFX: TSUU

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Gin: Takasugi,
you...
SFX: PIIIIII
SFX: ZA ZA ZA ZA ZA
Guys: We've found you, the wanted man, Takasugi Shinsuke!
Now let us arrest you without a struggle!!
Gin: !
Taka: Sheesh. They may call themselves a new government, but they haven't made an ounce of progress.
You're still chasing around small-time criminals?
Guys: !!
SFX: FUH
Gin: BHUH.
SFX: FOH
Taka: There's somebody scarier than me right there.
Ain't that right, Shiroyasha-dono?

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Gin: Takasugi!!
SFX: ZAU
Taka: I'm
going to end it.
You're more suited to keep playing house.
You'd better turn back while you still have the chance.
Gin: TAKASUGIII!!
SFX: GAH
Guys: Y-You bastard,
are you Takasugi's comrade?!!
Gin: ...Is that how it looked?
Sure, let's go with that, then. Sounds way better than joining in with you guys.
SFX: BAKII
Guy: Hold it up there.
SFX: ZAH

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Hiji: Back country poolice like these
never have the chance to come across scoundrels like you guys, so they dunno how to handle it.
Just when I had a ton of spare time on my hands,
I caught some pretty tough-looking prey for the first time in a while.
I can't wait to put my skills to use.
So, the hero that saved the world two years ago,
meets up in secret with his former partner in crime and fell for a devious scheme of his or something?

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Gin: How the hell many times do I gotta say it?!! All we were doing was conspiring to destroy the world, dammit!!
Hiji: Give an excuse, asshole!!
You're supposed to be proving yourself innocent right now, ya know?! Why the hell are you voluntarily confessing such a big conspiracy?! There's no way you can pull off something that extreme anyhow!!
Gin: If you already know then why the hell'd you ask in the first place?!!
Yeah, you got it all figured out! Takasugi called me out here and I hit him with a remote control!!
Hiji: Just come up with an excuse, dammit!! Why are you voluntarily confessing to another crime now?!!
T/N: THis is a reference to a scandal from 2017 where a sumo wrestler yokozuna admitted to assaulting somebody with a karaoke remote control.
Gin: It's too much of a pain in the ass to come up with excuses. I'm sure as revenge for being demoted, you're gonna torment and execute me, right?
Handwritten: Let's get it over with.
Hiji: Who was demoted now?
Gin: Then what're you doing out here in the boondocks?
Hiji: ..........
Gin: I get it if you don't wanna say. We've got plenty of time.
Hey, two pork cutlet bowls. One with a heaping helping of mayo on top.
Guy: Yes, sir.
Hiji: Why's it feel like I'm being the one being investigated here?!
Gin: If you want people to be frank with you, then you gotta be frank with them. That's an ironclad rule of examinations.
Hit me with all the power you cultivated over these two years. Gimme everything you got, Toshi.
Hiji: What's with that look?!! Why're you watching me with those strict but warm eyes?!!

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Hiji: A lot happened with us in the Shinsengumi. We're just temporarily scattered.
I may have been transferred to the country, but this definitely ain't a demotion.
Well, it's been two years since I left.
I've heard Edo's changed a lot, too.
But
it looks like you're the same as ever.
Whenever I think about how you must look
living having abandoned the Yorozuya and Edo to disappear somewhere for two years...
Heh. Ridiculous.
It's that same stupid look on your face I've gotten so tired of looking at.
So, I gotta ask,
why'd you leave Edo, Yorozuya?
What the hell have you been doing these two years?
Did you find anything at that place?

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Gin: Nah, nothing.
Not anymore.
But there may have been something there a long time ago.
Seeing as you guys were staking the place out waiting for that ghost to show up, I'm sure you're well aware.
Hiji: .........
I'm aware of how much he work he did to help our side in the war that just ended.
But I can't just pretend that didn't happen. ["that" in italics.]
Two years ago, on the day the war ended,
Takasugi hid himself while on the verge of death.
Did you know that one other thing
disappeared from the Amenotori Ship?

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Taka: The Tendoushuu.
While the Liberation Army was declaring how they were going to free the universe from the Tendoushuu's control,
the truth was they'd already been captured, and that fact was covered up.
Though to the casual onlooker they looked like nothing but lumps of flesh,
they certainly were still alive.
You know
why that is, right?

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Hiji: Because immortal blood, Utsuro's blood,
was left inside them.
And the fact
that they disappeared along with Takasugi means...
Recently in the countries that've been freed from the Tendoushuu's control and have nationalized their Altana, terrorism has become frequent.
And there are rumors going around

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Hiji: that the Tendoushuu have been revived
and they've come to take back the stolen Altana.
I've got no idea whether that's true or not, but either way,
something's started happening.
And most likely, at the center of it all,
is that man.
Insert: What do you think of this world...?
Bottom: Gintama
...Lesson 673
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