Gintama 196

Man that raw was awful late wasn't it? And not only that, theres no Gintama in the upcoming issue 8! So I've got to wait even longer for my weekly crack dose. Please...someone reccomend some good manga to me (Doesn't matter if it's raw) to take the place of Gintama, and pray that Sorachi is only off for a week and doesn't take a Togashi sized vacay.

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Side text: Where are the Yorozuya headed this time?

Opposite side: Gintama.

SFX: Vrooooom!

Shinpachi: We’ve finally made it to the Mountain recess huh?

Gintoki: We’re here because of some acquaintance of granny, though If you ask me it looks like some kind of hidden resort.

Shinpachi: Well at this time of year regular onsen are usually filled up with all kinds of people.

Most people would dream to find somewhere like this to be able to enjoy their winter vacation.

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Gintoki: I don’t really care where we end up vacationing, but I hate the fact that granny had to drag us out there.

It’s when people lower their guard and take a favor, that they end up meeting their end.

Top text: The cover is…It can’t be him!!! The newest volume of Gintama Volume 22 will be released on February 4th!

Side text: A nice SWEET HOME!

GINTAMA
Lesson 196
Before going on a trip, there are various arguments.

By: Sorachi Hideaki.

Otae: Maybe we’re just lost? This house looks abandoned…

Kagura: Hey Shinpachi, Did you read the map correctly?

Shinpachi: Huh? Well I’m sure that this was the place, weird…as it is the place on the map.

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Shinpachi: Hmm…”Senboukyou” isn’t it?
(TN note- The kanji is really blurry here…help would be appreciated.)

Huh? Wait! that sign doesn’t read “Senboukyou” at all…

The letter looks like it’s in bad shape or misspelled or something…

However the old man in the picture looks like he is soaking in a hotspring.

Gintoki: This doesn’t look like a picture of an old guy in some hotsprings, instead it looks like he’s covered from head to toe in blood or something. It’s really creepy.

But are you serious? We’re supposed to stay over in a place like this?

Moreover is this really a place for people? I get the idea that we don’t belong here..

Otae: I’ll try to see if there’s anyone here. Let’s go Kagura-chan.

Gintoki: Hey hey! You guys give it a rest! This is the perfect situation for some type of ghost to come out or something!

Especially when you add in the creepy-ass effect of all those damn Crows flying around and stuff.

Shinpachi: You’re right about one thing, this place is different than what I thought it’d be.

And it does feel like some kind of spirit will defiantly come out here or something..

Gintoki: What do you mean?

Shinpachi: No, It’s nothing.

Gintoki: Knock off all the creepy stuff ok?

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Gintoki: Hey look there! It’s a person! Is she a resident?

Excuuuse me! We’re from Edo with Terada-san! We came to meet her friend!

Excuse me!

? Odd she can’t seem to hear me.

Hey what are you doing? It hurts!

Shinpachi: Gi…Gin-san…

That…that lady…

She’s walking along on the snow….

But not leaving a single footprint!

SFX: Twitch

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Gintoki: Whwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwh WHAT WAS THAT?! A GGGGGGGGGGHOST?! A GHOST?!

What the hell happened?!

Are you some kind of white maiden?! If you’re a monster I’ll never forgive you! Never in my life! Get it?! Never!!!

Shinpachi: Wa…calm down please Gin-san!!

Probably its because we’re on a mountain and the snow keeps falling that the snow that fell yesterday is covered with a new flurry, and any footsteps that she made would have been wiped out!

Gintoki: AH THAT IT! That’s defiantly it! No wait! No no no! I’ll never forgive you! Get it! Never!!

Shinpachi: Though it is strange. That person should have defiantly been able to hear us, and she seemed almost transparent as she walked didn’t she?

Gintoki: HEY YOOOOOU! KNOCK IT OFF! WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO DO?!

TRANSPARENT?! NOW IS THE TIME FOR SACKS FILLED WITH TRASH!! THERES NO WAY THAT SOMEONE WHO’S TRANSPARENT COULD EXSIST IN A TIMPE LIKE THIS! I REFUSE TO BELIEVE IT!!

WHAT ARE YOU SCARED OR SOMETHING?! IS THAT IT? ARE YOU AFRAID AND ARE TRYING TO GET ME TO JOIN YOU!? WELL GUESS WHAT?! THIS DOESN”T BOTHER ME! IN FACT WHY DON’T WE JUST GO BACK AND FORGET ABOUT IT! THAT’S WHAT YOU WANT ISN’T IT?! LETS JUST GO BACK!

Shinpachi: The one who wants to go back the most is you isn’t it?

But you know even if we did want to return it takes a whole day to get back there on bus, and on top of that the bus won’t be coming for a day. So unfortunately we have to stay here until then.

Gintoki: Um, come on…knock it off would ya? I mean I only wanted to come here to enjoy the Onsen, what’s with this feeling?

Shinpachi: Sorry about that Gin-san, but for now we’re stuck. Please try not to get too upset by this whole thing it’s just your imagination.

Gintoki: Of course! It’s just my imagination! At least I should try to enjoy myself for now!

No no no! This can’t be just my imagination! It’s not all in my head! Who’s upset? It isn’t me! Go on tell me who’s upset! Who’s got those kinds of feelings!

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Kagura: Gin-chan! The landlady is here!

Shinpachi: Hey isn’t this great Gin-san? We can actually stay here now can’t we!

I guess this place will work out after all!

Landlady: I’m so sorry, I wasn’t aware of your arrival.

Thank you ever so much for coming out to this far out place today.

I’m this inn’s landlady.

Oiwa.

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Shin&Gin: Huh?!

Where’s the landlady? Where?

Oiwa: I’m sorry to trouble you after you’ve come this far.

I am just a lone woman at this inn.

Sidetext: But you’re not alone! There’s something evil and transparent right behind your back! Is it one of the residents who used to stay at this inn?!

Gintoki: Heeeeeeeeeeey!! What is that thing? A baby? Is it some kind of baby?! Please tell me it’s a baby!!

Shinpachi: I want to believe that but it’s transparent! Its clearly transparent!!

Sidetext: It’s sitting right on her back transparent! Apparently this is the time not only for transparent government but transparent sprits too! Everyone is going to be corrupted if we end up staying here with this evil spirit!

Oiwa: Well then please follow me for guidance.

Shinpachi: But it’s weird! Sister and Kagura-chan haven’t shown any reaction to it at all!!

All though there’s an evil cursed baby spirit on that lady, they’re showing normal reactions!

I guess Kagura-chan and sister can’t see it!

Which would mean that only Gin-san and I can see that thing!

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Shinpachi: There’s no mistaking it though, that thing there is a spirit!

But that would mean that the landlady is also a spirit and that spirit is connected to her!

No…not just the landlady….

But the other lady we saw earlier!

Could it be that this whole Onsen Inn..

Is nothing more than a den for trouble?!

Gintoki(?): Don’t say such stupid things! A Haunted inn? That freaking can’t happen! I don’t approve! Not even a little bit!

Shinpachi: Well then, how you explain the landlady?!

Gintoki: Well um, I’ve been thinking about it, and after a while I managed to come to a conclusion!

That landlady is a Stand user.
(TN note: I don’t know either XD)

Shinpachi: WRONG!
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Shinpachi: How could she be a Stand user fool?!

Gintoki: Well it’s the only thing that explains all of this. It’s a stand, and that lady can use that spirit if she’s a stand user. And that’s why we can see it, because of her stand powers.

Shinpachi: Wait a second! What does being a Stand user have to do with us?!

Gintoki: Well of course it would take a stand user like you to be able to see the something like that. Your hearing is probably really good too right?

Shinpachi: Isn’t that just what it is to have glasses then? Are you just trying to say that it’s the glasses?! Well I know about my glasses already!

Gintoki: Oh? So your glasses are stand based too?

Shinpachi: You’re pissing me off now!

Are you just saying that because I approved of the spirit’s presence that it appeared? I’ll never accept that!

See you can see it too right?....huh?

What the…

The spirit…its gone!

Gintoki: It’s not a spirit it’s a stand.

Shinpachi: That’s odd…where did it go?

Maybe we were just imagining it because we were so scared? Our fear must of made us think we were seeing things.

Gintoki: So in the end it was just some kind of illusion or something?

Shinpachi: Probably, after all we were freaking out quite a bit.

Probably so much so that we approved of its existence and then it appeared in front of us.
It just takes a bit of courage to make them disappear.

Gintoki: Yeah, that sounds about right. If our hearts get weak, then all kinds of evil things will be born.

I guess we can’t help it…Samurais don’t back down.
Shinpachi: You’ve got that right. Its not like we get a chance to head out to Onsen all of the time either. We can’t back down because of some ghosts, it would weaken our soul as Samurai.

Oiwa: Um, I suppose that putting all four of you in one room would be kind of indecent. So we’ll have to split you guys into different rooms.

Which would you like? The Western or Eastern style room?

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Kagura: Western style!

Otae: It’s fine with me as long as there’s a bed to lay on.

Gintoki: Eastern!

Shinpachi: For WE are Samurai!

Oiwa: Ok ok! You samurai can have this room then.

Sidetext: It’s sealed!!

You can see the traces of some huge devil that was sealed here!!

What the hell is this?!? What the heck awaits us in that room?!

This is bad! Really bad! This inn is defiantly suspect now!!

Oiwa: And the ladies will be this way.

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Shinpachi: Um…actually we’d like to switch to the western style rooms afterall.

Oiwa: But I thought you were samurai?

Uh we might have SOUNDED like we said Samurai…but we actually said Samura---i!

Oiwa: But the girls have already gone over to their rooms…

Huh is it because you’re hungry for something?

Shinpachi: Its just that we’re a little bothered by this room is all.

Oiwa: So it’s the door design that’s bothering you?
Shinpachi: IT’S A DESIGN?! THAT’S A DESIGN?!

Oiwa: Um, this can’t be the first time you’ve seen it, it’s a lock that keeps people from entering.

Shinpachi: That’s a lock? Are you kidding?!

Oiwa: A long time ago my name ‘Oiwa’ was also the name of a super impressive lock system. I thought it would be nice to have it here so at least I could have some of the presence that I had when I was younger.

Gintoki: That’s not the same type of Lock we’re talking about here! It’s a completely different lock that we’re talking about?

Oiwa: Ah, so you’re worried about those charms there?

Shinpachi: Huh? What? Um…

Oiwa: Oh my there’s nothing to fear form those locks! They won’t be able to bother you at all.

That’s simply something that I had put in for the last person that was in that room and stayed over, and had brought one of their children.

The child would often walk out and about on its own, and so we had to put a seal on the door to keep it from getting lost.

Gintoki: Are you kidding?! You went that far to keep a kid form escaping?!

You’re keeping some kind of secret from us aren’t you? A secret!!

Oiwa: What’s with you? I’m being honest with you aren’t I? You’re just reading too much into what this old landlady says.

I was just saying things to get you to laugh. There’s no way that those kind of hole could be used to keep a child in. It’s just a story told to children anyway.

SFX: raaaaaattttle.

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Oiwa: Really.

Just a room used to scold bad children.

Sidetext: Sudden starboard full of kabu?!
(TN Note- Again…I don’t know XD)

SFX: Dash!!

SFX: CRASH!!

Girls: kyaah!

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Kagura: What the hell are you thinking suddenly coming into a lady’s room like that?

Otae: What is it? Did something happen to you two?

SFX: Wobble wobble.

Shinpachi: Gin-san! Everything is perfectly safe on this side! I don’t see anything!

Gintoki: Ok!

We’re begging you!

Let us take up refuge in your room!

Otae: Huh?

Gintoki: Its just that we suddenly decided that we wanted to use the Western stile room that’s all! We don’t want to become samurai anymore! We’re just a bunch of cowards is all!

Huh…where’s your eastern room?

It looks like this room isn’t any different from a normal Japanese style room to me right?

Shinpachi: Yeah this room doesn’t seem to have anything different at all. I wonder where the western style room is then?

Kagura: If that’s all you wanted then you guys need to get lost now! There’s no difference between our rooms and you all are noisy. There’s no western room.

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Sidetext: SO THE WESTERN ROOM IS HERE?!

Gintoki: THIS TIME IT WAS A FREAKIN FOREGINER STAND WASN’T IT?! WHAT’S THE MEANING OF THIS?!
Shinpachi: Moreover, why did he come out here? Isn’t this a Japanese inn? Is he lost or something?! Why is he here?

Otae: You’ve been acting strangely since before…what’s wrong? What’s a stand?

Shinpachi: No…we’re sorry, it’s a story that only the two of us would get.

Gintoki: It’s not a conversation that’s of things that are of this world.

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Kagura: This doesn’t sound normal anyway.

Otae: Well at any rate perhaps it would be best if you could at least tell us what is coming on.

It would at least save all of us from being surpised later wouldn’t it?

Shinpachi: Well…about that.

Oiwa: Snack time!

Well everyone it’s 3’o clock, and I’m sure that you all really could use some snacks right?

Shinpachi: Oh, well thank you very much Landlady-san. We’ll enjoy.

Oiwa: No no its my pleasure! I’m very glad that you came all the way out here as not many people do.

Please eat, and then go and have a quick dip in the baths.

Shinpachi: Thank you.

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Oiwa: Talk…

And I’ll kill you both.

SFX- Rumble rumble…

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Sidetext: L….LAND LADY?!

What the hell is that?! What is she anyway?! That old baaaaaaaat?!
Could it be that this old woman is the reason for all of our suffering! She’s the one that did this!!

You saw it right?! She was feeding that stand peanuts!

That’s not normal! How can we possibly stay here if we’ve gotta watch our step along the way?!

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Sidetext: This Onsen is actually a place where dead spirits can gather and feed! Its nothing but a ghost’s nest!

A DEATH ONSEN!!

Kagura: GIN-CHAN!! SHINPACHI!!

Shinpachi: We have to get the HELL off of this mountain as fast oas we can!

Gintoki: We can’t possibly expect to live a long life if we end up staying at this demon’s nest!

If we can’t take the bus we’ll run down the damn mountain on foot!!

Shinpachi: OKAY!!!

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Gintoki: Hey…um people can’t possibly go through here can they?

I mean this hug boulder wasn’t here when we got here earlier…because its blocking the only way down the mountain. So for now do we really have to stay here?

Shinpachi: And it seems now that this place has also been covered by a rock as well…do we really have to stay at this mountain for now?

Gintoki: You know its really not funny…this whole situation, so you can totally stop with the laughing now.

Shinpachi: What? I’m not laughing…this isn’t funny to me either.

SFX: AHAHAHAHAAHAHAH (Ghosts laughing.)

Side text: And next time we are at the bottom of our fear?!

GINTAMA LESSON 196 END.
Bottom text: And next issue Gintama’s author will be taking a break.