Gintama 340

Needed a vacation peeps. I should be back on the ball this week on.

One thing that hasn't changed is..



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Gintoki: A prison play?

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(TN- A health is a type of brothel.)

GINTAMA
Lesson 340: Sure, Prison break Season Two Still had Some Prison Breaking, but then it was the Prison that is this Rotten Society, So You Can Still Call it Prison Break

SORACHI HIDEAKI.

(Side text- A sorrowful prisoner....)

Nurse: Yes, we play the prisoner, and he plays the jailer.

He would put cuffs on me and tease me and have fun, that perverted bully.

Gintoki: Cool, cool. Could you tell me in a bit more detail about what kinds of sexual plays you did?

(Handwritten: Er...I don't mean that in a gross way or anything, so don't get it twisted.)

Nurse: The type of play really doesn't matter. He just comes by here, takes a girl, blindfolds her and puts her in cuffs.

And while they're like that, the man runs out of there and totally skimps on the bill.

Gintoki: He uses the plays as an pretext for running out on the checks, does he...?

All right, I'm going to need more info. Do you think you could replicate the scenario for us with me acting as the jailer?

Shinpachi: Gin-san, why are you here again?

Nurse: The rumors about this guy is that he's a dangerous man with a lot of sway in the underworld. Do you thin he'd be too much even for you?

Gintoki: Don't worry your pretty little head. So we me acting as a guy out of the crime underworld, could you go wait in the back in handcuffs for me for a bit?

Shinpachi: Would you please cut that out, Gin-san?

Kagura: Anyway it will be fine as long as we can get him to repay his debt, yes?

(Handwritten- Welcome!)

Nurse: Oh! He's here!!

Guy: I want the prisoner play as usual.

Gintoki: Um, sir?

002

Gintoki: You really seem to enjoy being a jailer, right down to looking the part. While I'm glad to see your creativity flow,

But it is my deep regret to inform you that tonight, there's going to be a change of plans....

I'm gonna be the jailer,

And you're going to be the prisoner.

Guy: Two choices. Get your dirty hand off me, or would you rather I chuck you in a jail cell?

Gintoki: Did you not hear me? If you wanna keep playing jailer, you gotta pay up.

If ya don't, you're going to be spending the night in the clink with a REAL gaoler.

Dude: You still don't get it. You guys are prisoners at my mercy. Whether you roam about free, or remain locked up is up to me.

So get that hand off while I'm still smiling

Heh, you know, stripes and a cell look like they'd really bring out your best features there buddy, but...

This is your last chance. Move your hand.

Because once I throw you in, it'll be too late for you to regret messing with me.

Gintoki: Oh? Throw me in? I'd like to see that.

(Sfx- mekki grinnd)

003

Gintoki: Hey! If you're gonna try something, go ahead, you pervert prison warden!!

(Sfx- Gashaaan craaaaash)

Warden: Black mail, and bringing minors into a lewd establishment....you've got quite a rap sheet, sicko rounin.

Watch over him here and see that he doesn't cause any more trouble.

Guard: Yes sir, Warden Beri!

{H---}

{He's really a jaileeeeeeer!!}

Gintoki: H---Hold on a minute! You're not listening to me!!

Do you think it's really not a problem to have a rotten guy like that be a jailer?!

Let me outta heeeeere!! I'm innocent! The bad guy here is that pervert jailer...

???: Hey newbie.

Could you do me a favor and only scream during roll-call time?

004

Old dude: Geez, it was real quiet here before you showed up...

I can't believe I have to deal with another noisy one.

Gintoki: Sorry old man, but I don't intend to be here for roll call.

Old dude: That bastard's got you locked up in here right?

In that case, all the more reason to clam up.

If you wanna live while you're here, you'd better learn at least that.

Beri Kuzunosuke is this gaol's warden.

He oppresses and exploits all the prisoners and pulls every unfair trick in the book.

The law won't help you here.

In essence, he's the king, this is his kingdom, and we're the slaves.

The moment he set his eyes on you, you were out of luck.

Just pipe down until your sentence ends. Your body will thank you later.

Gintoki: You're kidding right...? Just when I thought I finally get that scandal cleared up, and now I've got the problem of having criminal record?!

In any case, you just watch. Any minute now, those guy'll be exposing that guy's improper arrest and prove my innocence. I'm sure of it...

Shinpachi: Gin-san! We did it!!

Somehow, after going through a lot and running all over the place, we got your prison sentence reduced!

Kagura: It will be only two years now! It will fly by before you know it! Are you not glad, Gin-chan?

005

Gintoki: Oh, that's awesome! Two years here...

HELL NO!!

Are you guys pleased with your achievements?! You came here all bright eyed and crap just to deliver bad news!! What, are you little red riding hood's grandmother or something?!

Shinpachi: Sorry... but this was already after a lot of information was falsified and hushed up...

Kagura: The problem came up with how you assaulted that guard that accused you, Gin-chan.

Gintoki: That bastaaard! Are the crimes not enough? Is he trying to make me out to be a sexual pervert, too?!

Shinpachi: It seems that warden was a bad guy from the very beginning....

He's the son of a higher up in the National Police Agency, and he used that connection to get this post in the first place, apparently.

Covering his ass is probably his specialty by now.

For now, all we can do is try and draw attention to the bad things this guy's done...

But with the place that judges those bad things as it is, any hopes of progress isn't very...

Anyhow, we'll do all we can, so please try to bear this for now, Gin-san...

Please try to stay quiet so your sentence doesn't get extended.

Kagura: Do not dig yourself into a deeper hole.

Gintoki: This is just a boatload of crap.

If I were them,

I'd rob a bank and then get transferred into this prison with me, or just sneak in.

And using the body-tattoo depicting a map with an escape plan, I'd save my comrades without fail.

006

Old guy: Ah youth. You do know one of humanities' endearing traits is our ability to give up, right?

There are things you'll get a better perception on only if you give up.

Gintoki: 'C'mon gramps, are you saying you you're in here because you got setup by that shitty jailer, too, and you gave up?

Old guy: I'm just a regular criminal.

Gintoki: What are you in for?

Old guy: That's ancient history. I don't even remember any more.

Gintoki: How long are you in for?

Old guy: Forgot that too. Though I do remember how long I've got left...

I think it's 200....and 10 years?

Gintoki: Jailer-saaaaaaann!! I want to change rooms stat!!

Old guy: I was just like you at one time...I wanted nothing more than to get the hell out of here, but I've wisened up....this place is where I'll die.

Gintoki: OF COURSE!! WHAT THE HELL CAN YOU DO TO GET A SENTENCE OF 200 YEARS ANYWAY!! IT'S LIKE YOU'RE DEMON KING PICCOLO!!

Old guy: But you know, thanks to that I've seen that this is what I should be doing.

Gintoki: Come to think of it, you've been working on that for a while.....what is it?

Warden: Are you still writing those? So you still haven't learned?

Gramps, you should really learn your place.

As if he wants letters his dad wrote from jail. Take a minute to consider your son's feelings.

"These sicken me, so please don't write anymore."

(Sfx- Piraa fwaaap)

Warden: I wi~~sh he'd write something like that.

Old guy: Warden, I'm very sorry for making deliver those to me every single time.

Warden: Hold on, there...

Have you forgotten Gramps?

Whether inside a cell or out, if somebody does something for you

(Sfx- hira hira fwp fwp)

Warden: you can't remember to thank them. Didn't I tell you?

007

Old guy: ...If it's money you're talking about, I already paid you some at the beginning of the month.

Warden: Old man, according to the rules, prisoners are only allowed to get things from the outside once a month.

So try~~ to understand my anxiety having to go bring these things for you week after week. Kukuku...

Gintoki: Hey assface...

Is it really fun for you to keep an old guy's money like that? Is this some sort of crane game to you?

Old guy: H-hey, keep out of this, newbie...

Warden: Crane game... Yeah, that's it.

My hobby is playing with the toys that get locked in here.

Gintoki: You've got some pretty interesting hobbies there, can I play?

Warden: This kind of thing is a special privilege of jailers like me. Anyhow, I don't mind playing with you, either.

Gintoki: Sorry buddy, but I've already had my fun.

Is this what you want, gramps?

I'll take your pocket change.

Warden: Bastard! When did you take that?!

Gintoki: My bad, Mr. Warden...

But looking from my end, that side's a box, too. Full of ugly stuffed animals.

Warden: B---bastard...

Looking down on me like that....it seems that you don't know the laws of this land yet do you?

008

Warden: Remember this...

Despite what you think, challenging me on my turf is really not a good idea.

I hope you'll...

Keep that in mind.

(Sfx- toko tp)

Old guy: Geez..

I told you to keep a low profile, and instead you go and completely do the opposite...

Gintoki: I accept desert as thanks.

Old guy: I aint' givin up my pudding. Now if it's my sliced daikon you want, I'll give you em tomorrow and the day after, too.

Gintoki: So you're only passing around the shitty stuff?

So geezer, why are you writing those letters anyway?

Old guy: ...Oh, just some really silly things you wouldn't wanna hear about.

Gintoki: Can't be that silly. I mean, you're even willing to bribe that bastard into sending them out for you.

(Handwritten- You must really like doing that.)

Old guy: It's not like I can spend the money that I save up here when I get discharged in two hundred years anyway....

009

Old guy: For a father at my age to be in a place like this, I've caused a lot of trouble for my family.

And the way things are now, I'm never going to get the chance to get out of here and apologize.

I've already made peace with that.

And even if I could get out of here, I’ve heard that my family has....already departed.

But, I do still have a son out there.

I don't expect a letter back from him expressing how much he forgives me or anything like that...

I just kept sending letters of apology.

But eventually a trickle of replies started coming.

Even though they were more than I was hoping for...

Right now, these silly exchanges have become

the one thing I live for.

Gintoki: If that's how you feel, why not have him come down here and visit you?

Old guy: Cause serious criminals aren't even allowed to have face-to-face meetings with family.

In any case, after writing letters for years...

at some point I started getting treated as a model prisoner.

They say I may even be up for a special amnesty in a week.

Gintoki: And you'll go meet your son....

Old guy: Yeah...

In just a week.

If no problems occur, that is.

010

Old guy: See in this prison, two roommates function as one unit as they live their lives and do prison work.

If one causes trouble, they take joint responsibility. In other words, they're each other's watch dogs.

Newbie, I'm glad that you got my letter back,

But please don't do anything else.

I know that you were thrown in here for something you didn't do...

But just give me a week.

at least until I can meet my son, please... please......

Gintoki: How about we make a deal, then?

I'll help you our with your reason for living.

And you help me out with mine.


Old guy: Wh—what?

(Sfx- Chin chin tap tap)

Old guy: Y—you....

011
Old guy: YOU CAN'T HAVE THAT DAMMMIT!!!

(Sfx- Datsunnn THOOOOK)

Gintoki: WHAT DID YOU JUST GET THROUGH SAYING OLD GEEZER?! HOW ARE YOU A MODEL PRISONER?! YOU'RE GOING TO RISK MORE TIME HERE OVER PUDDING?!?!

Old guy: GIVE ME MY PUNCHI PUDDING BAAAAAAAAAACK!!

Gintoki: WHICH IS MORE IMPORTANT?! YOUR SON OR PUDDING?!

Old guy: M-m-y soudding!!

Gintoki: Your soudding?! Is that a jump manga or something?!

Gaoler: Hey!! Those prisoners are up to something!!

(Sfx- Zuhh tpp)

Old guy: I just like my pudding in the pucchin variety, okay?! That's it!!

Gintoki: Liar! This is Puttsun Pudding for you, isn't it?!

(TL Note: Puttsun means "going crazy" or "losing common sense". "Pucchin" is just a brand of pudding.)

Old guy: No, it's Pucchin Puding!

Gintoki: Just be honest dammit, it's your Puttsun Pudding!

Old guy: No, it's definitely Pucchin Pudding!

Old guy: Listen, it's just one week. After you need to pay me that pudding back.

Gintoki: Dammit, you don't make any sense. You're going to blow off a chance to see your son over a cup of pudding?!

Old guy: Listen, it's just one week. After that you can have this pudding back.

012

Gintoki: Geez...

First I get thrown in here on trumped up charges and now I'm involved in this crap...

Old guy: Hey, do you really understand?

Not making things worth with the warden is better for your sake, too.

Gintoki: I get it, I get it.

Huh, those guys standing over there are giving me serious "making things worse" vibes.

Old guy: Ah..

That's...

(Sfx- Zah zah sfft sfft)

Old guy: Sachi!!

He's the villain that was transferred from that Gokumontou!! I even heard that Warden Beri secretly bought him using connections under the table!!

He's the crime king,

Man Slayer Shachi!!

013

Old guy: D—damn it all! He may be the leader of the prisoners, but the warden has him in the palm of his hand!!

It's obvious he sent those guys here to start something with us!!

Sachi: 'Sup?

Heard that you're the newbie that's got some spunk in 'im.

The warden's been talking about you.

Once that perverted bastard has his eye on you, you can rest assured that this is your new home.

Sachi: And now I know you can't hit me...

No matter how much I hit you.

You'll make awesome sandbags.

Looks like I've got some a great new toy. The rigid prison lifestyle gets really damn stressful when you've got a self-important warden like that.

Prisoner: Hey Sachi, which one do you want? The old guy or the other dude?

Sachi: The younger guy would be awesome, but somethin about messin with an old guy until he dies is sorta fun too.

(Sfx- Buru buru wibble wibble)

Sachi: Wha....

Why the hell are you looking at me like that bastard?

Fine then!! I guess he doesn't want to see your son again that badly!!

{Oh craaaaaaap!!}

(Sfx- Kuaaahhh Roaaar)

Sachi: Doesn't matter who I choose anyway, since yer both gonna die!!

{They're going to kill him!!}

014

(Sfx- Shagaaaaa fwsssssh)

(Sfx- Gah tap)

Gintoki: those things on your shoulders...?

Yeah, they totally look like jellyfish.

{FASHION TIIIIIPS?!}

Gintoki: Oh and those working gloves? Your wore them too much, you fingers are sticking out of them.

You'd better take those off man. I don't think anyone else noticed yet.

(Sfx- Hiso hiso whisper whisper.)

{YOU'RE GIVING HIM FASION TIPPPPS?! YOU'RE ADVISING THE KING OF THE PRISONS ON HIS FASHION SENSE?!}

015

Prisoners: B---BASTARD?! YOU GOTTA DEATH WISH?!

Those ain't jelly fish, but shoulder pads!! You'd better get it straight, ass face!!

Gintoki: Eh? Has everyone noticed already?!

You knew he had jellyfish on his shoulders and you were able to hold back your laughter?!!

(Sfx- Buru buru *wibble wibble)

Prisoners: Ain't no one laughing! It's all part of Sachi's new costume, dammit!

Gintoki: Costume huh...Then what are these? Why do his work gloves have the fingers cut out?

I mean, as cold as it is around here, you'd really cut those out? Won't it be hard to pull them off since they're so tight?

The scar on your forhead...

Did you do that yourself? No one has a scar that is THAT perfect, you know what I mean? But why would you do that? Wouldn't it hurt? I don't get it...

{Stop thaaaaaaat!! Don't say any more!! You're just adding fuel to the fire!!}

Sachi: It's not a big deal man... I got stung by a mosquito and it was itchy... and I scratched it... and it just turned out like this......

{Sachiiiii!! You're blushing! Why are you blushing Sachi?! Don't you know you're killing your reputation?!}

Sachi: I mean, I didn't consciously make it an X or anything like that...

If you think it would look better, I could add dots and make it a Kome.

(TL Note: A kome is this mark: ※. It's a kind of Japanese asterisk.)

(Sfx- Gusa gusah scrtch scrtch)

Prisoner: Stoppiiiit!! Shachiii! It's cool, that X is really cool!! Don't worry about it, it's totally cool!!

Shachi: Dammit, I don't care if it's cool or not!!

I don't even like these clothes anyway! I'll just get something else toe wear!

And I don't care about that with my clothes, either! I'm just gonna choose them by what's easiest to wear!

(Sfx- Basaa fwaap)

Shachi: I'm never wearing shoulder pads again!!!

{Shachi's a pain in the ass!!}


016

Shachi: Hey, I'm pretty sure you said that there were people laughing at me, before...

Prisoner: No one! No one laughed at you, Shachi!

Shachi: Tell me who it was.

Prisoner: No, Shachi! He's just manipulating you! Don't be his puppet!

Gintoki: Sorry but I can't tell you that.

There's nothing worse than prisoners who squeal on each other.

Shachi: We're enemies ass face! You don't have any duties to us!

Do you not understand the situation here?! You're just gonna make things worse!

Gintoki: I said I ain't talking, and I'm sticking to that.

If you have a problem, just kill me then.

Prisoner: H—hey, just what is this guy...

Why is he sticking to his guns in a situation like this?

Wait, could there really have been a guy that laughed?

N-No way... He's covering for us?

Gintoki: It's a secret gents. If I tell you who it was, you'll kill 'em.

And right now we can't start any trouble. Even if it's trivial, we can't stand on the side of the assailants.

Sachi: I don't give one shit about you! If I don't do something, my reputation's gonna be destroyed!!

(Sfx- Gabaaah fwaap)

Sachi: And I'm thinking that killing you would solve my problesm!

Gintoki: Smart move.

I don't plan on selling out my friends.

I'm pretty sure you're the same way... you'll protect your guys lives with your own, right?


017

Gintoki: Letting the other man pass.

That's what you call honor.

Sachi: Heh...

(Sfx- Suh fsh)

Sachi: I've seen eyes like yours in another crap hole like this...

You guys, line up and close your eyes!!

It's just like you said buddy, I've got friends that I don't want to be killed.

I'm gonna close my eyes too.

You can settle this whatever way you want.

Don't worry, we're not openin' our eyes for any reason.

{Whaaaat?!}

{I didn't see this development coming from a mile away!! What'll we do now?}

Gintoki: Hey gramps, get out of here.

(Sfx- Koso whisper)

{I get it...we can use this chance to run away!! Newbie, you really thought about all of this?!}

Gintoki: Allrighty...

(Sfx- Gashihhh sshh)

Old guy: Huh?

018

(Sfx- Dogaaaaaaaan THOOOOK)

{Wh...wha...}

{WHAT THE HELL DID YOU DOOO!?}

(Sfx- Pachi blink)

Sachi: W—hey!!

What the hell is this?!

Did you fool us....


Sachi: Wh... Hey!!

What the hell is this?!

Bastard, did you trick us...?

Gintoki: If I hit somebody, you'd be able to find out who the offender is by the wound it leaves.

But if everyone takes a blow, we can consider this case water under the bridge.

(Sfx- Zatsuuuh sffft)

Gintoki: Take care of your buddies.

019

Sachi: B---

Anikiiiii!!!

(TL Note: Aniki means "big bro" and it's an endearing term toughs often use to address their boss.)

Warden: Heheh...

You guys got beat up pretty good huh?

Well then, this is proof enough that those guys have been causing trouble.

So what about those guys...? You got the proof that they've caused an uproar like you were supposed to, right?

Prisoner: Uh.. no, we just had an internal dispute, is all.

Warden: ......Huh?

Prisoner: Just hand over our damn pudding, pops.

Warden: What...?!

Hey, wait, you miscreants! You think you can talk to me like that and get away with
it...?

Wh...

What...

WHAT THE HELL IS THIIIIIIIIIIIIS?!

(Side text- The counter attack begins!!)

(Handwritten- Aniki!)

GINTAMA LESSON 340...........END.