Gintama 178

Having a bad Summer vacation? Wait till you see what the Yorozuya have to deal with!


Lesson 178
Adults get excited about the kid’s summer vacation as well.

Kamenashi: Otohime doesn’t notice that she herself is still a very beautiful woman.

It’s because of this that she doesn’t want the existence of anything beautiful on this planet.

A planet of old people….

She wants to change your planet into a planet of old people.

Shinpachi: You can’t be serious….for that reason she’d go that far….

What does she think this world is for that reason she’d ruin it?

Do you think I’ll forgive her for taking away a person’s summer vacation?

Kamenashi: She’s historically always been just the one statesperson here.

For a long three thousand years she’s gone on living and living.

In that long amount of time, she’s lost many things that are important to her.

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Kamenashi: If we don’t find a way to stop what she’s doing now…

Soon there won’t be a person left to oppose her.

Shinpachi: We have to find a way to return everyone to normal…

But sister….

Kamenashi: More likely than not it’s all in that place.

Otohime’s palace.

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Kamenashi: The path splits here three ways.

We should try to stay aware of our surroundings or else they’ll catch us in one fell swoop.

We’re the closest thing to stopping Otohime, and if we get caught there’ll be nothing left.

It’s good even if only one us remain.

Shinpachi: But we don’t have much power now since three of us are out of commission, not to mention the Ryuuguu officers are chasing us down.

Kamenashi: However, we can use our small amount of people, and this huge disturbance to our advantage.

(Sfx- Kachi *Click*)

Kamenashi: Or at least even the odds against us.

Shinpachi: What is that?

It looks like it fell out of a different manga…

Kamenashi: It’s the Supauza-. It was created so that we can ascertain our enemy’s fighting power.

Shinpachi: Now I’m SURE of it. It’s a scouter isn’t it, A complete copy of the scouter.

Kamenashi: No it’s different from a scouter, I managed to pick this up at a night fair.

Shinpachi: That doesn’t change a damn thing!!

Kamenashi: We can use this to judge our fighting strength and if its equal to the enemies that we come up against.

(Sfx- *Pipisu* Ping…)

Kamenashi: First we’ll do you.

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Kamenashi: 362 K.

Wow, that’s pretty impressive at your age.

Shinpachi: You just minimized my life experience into a unit called ‘K’. I don’t quite get it…

But it sounds cool sorta..

Kamenashi: Apparently your kelp level is about a 362 rank, and its amazing that your fighting ability matches just that.

Shinpachi: What does it have to do with kelp?! Does having one kelp make me some kind of super hero?! It doesn’t affect my fighting ability at all!!

Kamenashi: A normal person has about a 360 k level. You’ve trained really hard I think..

And it paid off! You’re two levels above a normal human!

Shinpachi: What does 2 levels above normal mean about anything? Are you saying I still have to practice for ten more years or something?

Hasegawa: Hey Kamenashi, can I borrow these glasses? I’ve got an image to keep, and I guess you can’t use them anyway right?

(Sfx- Pipi *Ping*)

Kamenashi: Your battle strength is about 654 K.

Shinpachi: What the hell?! You’re saying that Hasegawa’s fighting strength is more than mine?!

Hasegawa: Heh, proves that people aren’t always the way they seem.

(Sfx- Poro *Drop.*)

(Sfx- Pipitsu *Ping*)

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Kamenashi: Oh wow, without those glasses, he’s just 1 k.

Hasegawa: WHY?!

Kagura: Well, it makes sense for a Madao, His glasses are pretty much his existence.

Hasegawa: Wait no! That’s weird! How could my glasses make up my exsistence?! I want a recount! I can’t just be one kelp after all!!

Kamenashi: You’re…

Wow amazing…7930 O.

(Sfx- Pipitsu *Ping*)

Shinpachi: What the hell is the difference between O and K?!

Kamenashi: Well of course for girls the units change around a little bit.

Kyuubee: Yes, I suppose a flower’s duty would be about a 7930.

Kamenashi: Boobs are 7930.

Kyuubee: That’s not right at all!! It’s just creepy!!

Are you looking down upon me as a Samurai? I don’t want to have boobs, so change it so that my p*n*s is 7930.

Shinpachi: Stop it!!! That’s even more creepy than what he said!!

(Sfx- pipitsu *Ping*)

Kamenashi: Ok…wait…hold on a minute…

8000…..8500…I can’t believe this! It’s still going up!!

This is…

(Sfx- Pipipi *Pingpingping*)

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Kamenashi: It’s going down?!

8500 O no, even lower! Minus 8500 O! I can’t believe this! What’s going on here?!

This is….

Those two behind you?!

(Sfx- Pipitsu *Ping*)

Kamenashi: The two behind you…their battle strength is…

Minus 15000….Minus 3000…No…even lower!!

(Sfx- Dooou *Booom*)

Kamenashi: Ugh!

(Sfx- Paa Para *Clatter*)

Kamenashi: It’s immeasurable…

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Shinpachi: Minus 3000? That’s like really useless isn’t it?!

Aren’t these guys the biggest danger to our mission then?

Kamenashi: Minus 3000 does seem like the type of level you’d see in a retirement home..

I can’t imagine one person, much less two who would fall in the pit of below minus 15000.

It can’t be helped. Anyone who’s below 100 level kelp should just take a break for now so they don’t get in the way.

Shinpachi: No way! We have to find another method other than kelp to measure this! What does it have to do with raising the battle strength anyway?

Kagura: I’m level 300! I bet I could fill up Gin-chan’s hole just fine.

(Sfx- Don *Bang*)

Kyuubee: That’s…

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???: Crap! We’ve been spotted!

Everyone quickly! We have to find a place to hide before he can target us!

(Sfx- Bata bata *Skitter skitter*)

Kyuubee: We’ll go this way!

Kagura: Shinpachi, you guys should find another route!

Shinpachi: Wait a minute!!!

This has nothing to do with being on the battle field does it?! So then what was the point of the Supauza?

And beside that you’ve left me here with the old geezers! What am I supposed to do with them?

(Sfx- Shaka shaka *Clack clack.*)

Shinpachi: Quit playing stupid you idiots! I know you can hear me!!

Hasegawa: They’re chasing us!

Shinpachi-kun…just leave this area here to us!

(Sfx- Waaaaaaaah)

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Shinpachi: And when is someone going to answer my question of what do we do with them?!

Why do I have to handle it?

Kamenashi: Ryuuguu…no Earth’s future…

Lies in the hands of its children.

Shinpachi: I’m not a kid!!

Kamenashi: Sorry for bringing you into a rather deadly situation like this.

Shinpachi: How about MY deadly situation?!

Hasegawa: Hmph. Don’t start talking like that now. I have no intent on abandoning my life here.

Old soldiers don’t die, they fade away.

Shinpachi: THE OLD SOLDIERS ARE OVER HERE!!

Hasegawa&Kamenashi: Let’s do this!!

(Sfx- Zobobobobo *Pokepokepokepoke*)

Hasegawa&Kamenashi: We’ll pave you guys a pathway straight to hell!!

(Sfx- Gorogorogoro *Slllishhhhhhh*)

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(Sfx- Gorogorogoro *Slissshhhh*)

(Sfx- AHHHHHHHHHHH)

Shinpachi: YOU JERKS ARE USELESS!!!!

(Sfx- gagagagagagagagaaga *Tmptmptmptmptmp*)

Otohime: To think that this star places it’s last hope on those pathetic looking people…

If anything I’m shocked.

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Otohime: Don’t worry yourself though, because they will be following you to the same place.

So be a good girl and wait for them in the other world.

As your punishment for angering me.

(Sfx- Zaaaa *Grrrrrrr*)

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Tae: If you think you can kill me…go right ahead.

You’d be doing me a favor the way I see it,

Allowing me to die as a young woman, instead of being old like you.

I’d much rather have my beauty right now, rather than have eternity to wither away.

If I could have eternal youth as you want it now…

Or if I could have your many beautiful kimonos, or many servants at my beck and call..

Or anything that I could desire in my heart.

I still wouldn’t want to have your putrid heart.

You’re so pathetic now it makes me want to laugh out loud at..

That dirty soul of yours.

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(Sfx- gashiitsu *Grab*)

Otohime: You little wench!!

You think you can talk to me like that again?!

You’re young and beautiful, so what can you understand about me?

Having to watch years go by as my beloved come and go, living as a lonely woman…

Staring at my own beauty run dry, not even being able to die…can you understand those feel---

Tae: You’re not the only one who gets old you know.

Even the most beautiful people have to some day face the fact that they too will get old and ultimately die.

Even knowing this, they face change. You shouldn’t think as if you’re the only one who goes through it.

As months and years go by, the body changes and slowly becomes destroyed, whether you want to believe it or not.

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Tae: All we can do is not allow ourselves to be overwhelmed by these changes, I won’t and it’s for that reason I won’t bow to you.

This is what true beauty is all about.

(Sfx- sutsu *release*)

Otohime: True beauty comes from being destroyed?

How interesting.

Well then…

I’ll observe you.

(Sfx- Gakun *Chink*)

(Sfx- Byururururu *whirrllllllll*)

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Otohime: Show me what beauty really means to all of you!

And then we’ll see which method of beauty is the best! Mine or yours!

(Sfx- Dooon *Splaaash*)

Otohime: Ohohohohoho!!!

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Guards: Where did they go?

Don’t worry about that! Just find them!

Shinpachi: Somehow we got away…

Gin-san, Katsura-san you two have to get away from here and save yourselves.

I just don’t know what to do anymore.

Katsura: My word, you youngsters nowadays is a pitiful sight.

When we were younger we would have made turtle soup out of them, and then delivered it all around the neighborhood with some beef.

Shinpachi: Who’s supposed to be the deliveryman?! Quit making up old stories from your youth to tell me! It’s too late to make this a mega hit manga!!

Gintoki: Hey Zura…

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Gintoki: Whatever.

Shinpachi: Don’t lead us into thinking you have comic relief if you can’t remember it!!

Gintoki: I guess I should have stuck with the megadrive jokes after all..

Shinpachi: THAT WAS THE JOKE FROM LAST CHAPTER WASN’T IT?! Catch up to the rest of us THIS chapter gramps! No one remembers last week at all!!

Katsura: As expected of you Gintoki…You always know how to keep up with these latest fads. Your comic relief is always the most stylish.

Gintoki: Zura, you….wait don’t just bring up Master Roshi all of a sudden, its too late to make this a megahit manga.

Shinpachi: Old man!!! Stop stealing my material and go jump off a cliff!!!

Shinpachi: Geez…what kind of situation have I gotten myself into? How can I fight against Otohime with these two around?

What should I…

This is…

(Sfx- Pushuuu *Vheeen*)

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Otohime: It should be about time.

Raise her up.

That foolish woman, I have no idea what she was thinking.

Talking about ‘her’ true beauty…

Although there is a certain charm in blood dripping from a pure white bone..

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(Sfx- Zazaaan)

Otohime: I---Impossible! What is this?

(Sfx- Buhaaaaaaa)

Girls: OOOOOOOOHHHH!!!!