Gintama 341

A Gintama on a weekday?! Say it ain't so!



(Red text- Until we reach that faraway tomorrow, we will continue to clash!!)

(Side text- A celebratory color page for seven years of serialization!!)

GINTAMA

(Bottom text- The manga continues on page 25!!)

SORACHI HIDEAKI

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{Dear son,}

{I know that by its reputation, the first day of Spring is not uncommonly still a cold and intense day, but are you doing well?}

(Side text- From prison...)

Lesson 341: Everyone wears pajamas.

{I'm doing great here, but I've been going through some life changes recently.}

{Here in my abode, I've gotten a new roommate.}

{I'm not too sure why he ended up here, but I know one thing...he's a strange guy.}

{Even though in this place, if the jailers have your eyes on you then your life's pretty much over, this guy defied the warden the minute he got in here and was surrounded on all sides in the blink of an eye.}

{But by the next day, they had all become his allies!}

Sachi: Good morning bro!!

Gintoki: Shut the hell up with that noise this morning, or I'll kill you.

{He's managed to become the leader of all the prisoners.}

Prisoner: You idiot! Do you want Aniki's prison sentence to get extended?!

{It seems the warden is beginning to hate this guy more and more.}

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Warden: LISTEN UP YOU BASTARDS!!

Private property of guard Katou has been stolen.

So I'm gonna search each and every cell until we find it!!

Guard: Warden, sir!!

I found a weird DVD in cell 316!!

Katou: That's my it! My adult video!!

Warden: Cell 316...

Sakata!! You sleezebag, you're headed straight to solitary!!

{And because he doesn't like the guy, he's trying to trip him up as often as he can.}

Gintoki: Um, Mr. Warden? I sort of don't have a TV in my cell. So why the hell would I swipe a porno?

Warden: Obviously, for you bastards so starved for women you were getting off just by looking at the package!!

Gintoki: Mr. Warden, I'm not one to let the packaging fool me. I'm the type of guy who isn't satisfied until I see the contents.

(Sfx- Gashih grab)

Warden: Shut the hell up! You're the culprit because we found it under your damn futon!!

Gintoki: Mr. Warden, I don't recall anyone saying who's futon it was under.

So it kind of makes me curious as to how you were able to come by this knowledge. Unless of course, you hid it there yourself.

Warden: Don't try to pass the buck onto me!! I saw you guys taking a DVD out from your futon a while ago!!

Gintoki: You saw it, huh?

(Sfx- Bah fwap)

Gintoki: So then how come you didn't realize the jacket of the DVD was taken off the package?

Warden: Th-That's because... you'd previously borrowed it! Yeah. And back then it still had the jacket on. That's it. Right, Katou?!!

Katou: Yeah, that's it! I know the jacket was on until yesterday... You were trying to conceal your crime, weren't you?!!

Gintoki: Ah...so it was there yesterday, and not today?

Well, then the guy who took it off is the only culprit, then.

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Gintoki: Thank you, Mr. Warden....

For your perfect confession.

Warden: Wha...

{When did he...}

{Wait, back then?}

Sachi: Hey warden! Knock off the bullcrap!

What're you doing, trying to blame Aniki for the crime you pulled!!

(Handwritten- Quit screwin' around!!)

Warden: No...

Sachi: A warden stealin' another guy's stuff? Ain't you ashamed?! Go make up for it and commit hara kiri!!

{Th—that bastard..}

{He used my trap against me....}

(Handwritten- Hara kiri! Hara kiri! Hara kiri!)

Gintoki: That's enough you guys.

I'm pretty sure the warden just borrowed the DVD and forgot to return it, so he panicked and tried to pin it on me.

So cut him some slack...

Since the only action he can get is from a package.

{And so this guy flips the script on the warden's traps...}

(Sfx- Gyahahahaha!!)

(Handwritten- That guy really must be starved for women, eh?)

{And all with a nonchalant face.}

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{I can't figure this guy out. Is he a scoundrel? Or just an idiot that acts first and thinks later?}

{{The fact that I'm able to write you a letter right now....}

{is thanks to that man.}

{It's just a little longer until the day I'll meet you face-to-face...}

{The day where I'll be able to meet you is closing in...}

{So I hope that on the morning I meet you safely with nothing going wrong, you'll listen to all the stories I have to tell about hi- my friend.}

{Sincerel~~}

{nrr~}

(Sfx- Basaaah fwap)

Gintoki: For pete's sake old man...

I ain't the mother of some kid preparing for exams.

Warden: Is he done writing?

If so, hand that to me.

Gintoki: You delivering letters this late at night, Mr. Warden?

You sure are passionate about your work.

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Warden: Remember this. When a corrupt jailer secretly comes to meet you, it's either to make a deal, or to threaten you.

Gintoki: ….Dunno, both options kind of suck.

Warden: Even if I offered a 'get out of jail free' card?

The deal on the table is a simple one. Just be a spark.

See, every time you've crossed me, your flame's been lit.

But you've always completely smothered that flame.

So next time, you let the flame rage into an inferno. Just keep your mouth shut and play the bad-boy.

If you do that for me, forget solitary, I'll give you a ticket to freedom.

Gintoki: So first you presume I'm guilty until proven innocent, then you give me a chance to be freed...?

I really don't get how you corrupt jailers think.

Why not be honest,

you're saying you want me to mess up things for the old man?

I know you're more attached to him than guys like me.

Knowing you, the things that get sent to prisoners probably would either go into the trash or into your pockets.

But yet you're pretty bent on delivering this old guy's messages, like some sort of messenger pigeon.

And don't feed me some 'I do it for his pocket change' excuse.

Cheating the old man out of money was just to provoke him.

You were trying to corner the old man and force him into causing trouble, right?

It's the same reason you keep trying to pick fights with me, so you can take the old man's special amnesty away because of the joint responsibility.

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Gintoki: It's all 'cause you don't want him to meet his son.

But why'd you'd go that far to stop him, and at the same time bring these letters...

I haven't figured that out.....what are you doing....?

Warden: I already told you....I just like playing with the toys that end up in my cells.

You just make sure the old fart gets that letter.

When the time comes to break the toys...

It's always much more interesting to watch them fall from a high place.

Hehehe...

Sachi: Open wideeeeee....

BROOOOO!

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(Sfx- Goshaaaa craaash)

Sfx- Goshaaaa craaash)

Gintoki: When'd my time in delicious snack heaven turn into time in a Biohazard game?

TL Note: Biohazard is the Japanese name for the Resident Evil series.

Sachi: What's wrong Aniki, you don't seem to have any appetite today?

Gintoki: Because you guys are spreading the T virus. Now get back to Raccoon City where you belong.

Old guy: Then, how about I have them instea...

(Sfx- Goshii thud)

Gintoki: Living corpses should stick with their gruel. Say "Gruel... good..." and stuff.

Old guy: Oh yeah, before I forget...I wanted to thank you for sending my letter for me yesterday.

No responses came though, huh?

Gintoki: ......Nope.

Old guy: Ah, I see..

Shachi: Hey, did that face-to-face meeting you wanted so bad get the axe?

Old guy: WHAT?! OF COURSE NOT!! SPEAKING OF WHICH, HOW'D YOU KNOW THAT?!

I heard you secretly sent in a manga you drew, trying to with the Treasure Award! Did you get a response back, ya big lummox?!

(Handwritten- How'd you know that, geezer?!)

Old guy: I'll bet it's about a prisoner who's about to commit suicide, but then a Shinigami appears in front of him... Something like that that a middle school kid would come up with, isn't it?!!

Sachi: Stooopit! Quit sain' tha~~t!

(Sfx- Gyah gyah)

Gintoki: That's enough, gramps.

Prisoner: Don't sweat it, Aniki...

Ever since you've been hasslin' the warden,

He's lost his cred with us... And hasn't even been showin' himself around much lately.

Without him, all the other guards are small fries. When we look at them they turn and pretend they didn't see anything.

Shachi: Those bastards have always been treating people like slaves.

But now that we've got you bro, we've got a once in a lifetime chance... and we gotta take it.

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Sachi: We use this opportunity to get our revenge on the ones who oppressed us!!

LET'S REBEL BOYS!!

We'll show that asswipe warden a real Biohazard prison!!

Gintoki: The inside of your head is a bio hazard.

If we do something like that, the whole friggin' jail's gonna be put out to pasture.

Maybe you bastards are headed for decapitation, but I'm innocent. I don't intend to have a lengthy prison term with the likes of YOU.

Shachi: Aniki, we're not sentenced to lose our heads!

Gintoki: You're gonna lose 'em all right. You've been destined from birth to have crows have a field day picking at your passport sized brains.

Old guy: He's right! If you do something like that, my meeting with my son will be history!!

Shachi, your chances at the Treasure Award will be over, too!!

Gintoki: No, they was over from the beginning.

Sachi: Nuh-uh! They're just starting!!

But you're right about that bro...I don't want to give up on the treasure prize...

But Aniki, you're new here so you still don't know,

but we've been oppressed by that warden for a looong ass time.

The enmity the prisoners here have toward him runs deep.

Especially the guys who ain't gonna be getting out...ever.

They've got nothing else to look forward to, so who knows what they'll do.

If somethin' gets their fire burning....

We aren't going to be able to stop them.

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Gintoki: Man, oh man.

There seem to be some sparks heating up way more than me, warden-san.

Old guy, if you want to meet your kid, you'd better keep an goood eye on these bastards.

Before they can pull anything on the warden, I'm gonna deal with him.

Old guy: How?

Gintoki: There's all this about sparks starting and whatever. If they wanna see something burn...

I'll show them my flames.

Guard: Hey gramps.

Where's your partner?

Old guy: In the bathroom I think.

Guard: What? He's supposed to ask for permission before he does that. You guys are supposed to be using the bathroom as a group.

Old guy: Uh, he said he needs to take a monster dump. So I thought going in a group wouldn't be a great idea.

Prisoner: Um, it's okay. Shachi had to take a dump too, so they were in a group.

Guard: That's really not the issue here...

Old guy: Oh, yeah for some reason I just remembered that I need to take a monster dump. Do you think you could come with me, Guard-san?

(Sfx- Koso koso sfft sfft)

Guard: Why?!

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Shachi: A-Aniki! If we're caught here, they won't stop with just solitary!!

Gintoki: Yeah, you're right. Where I wanna go isn't a solitary cell, it's the warden's room, Shake-kun.

Shachi: It's Shachi!!

Gintoki: We're going to find evidence of the illegal things the warden's been doing. You used to be his pawn, right? Guide me there, Hamachi-kun.

Shachi: It's SHACHI!!

And that's impossible!! I'm sure that there are tons of locked doors we'd have to pass to get there...

Gintoki: Shhh.

Guard: This is Kamiya...

What?! What the hell are you doing, moron?!

Sachi: O—oh crap...He's out on patrol....he's totally gonna find out we ditched work....

Kamiya: Where'd you lose the keys?! No way, did a prisoner take them?!

A-anyway, stop the prison work!

Shachi: Whew... I guess he wasn't talking about us. Now let's get back to work before they catch us...

(Sfx- Dah dash)

Gintoki: Quit being a 'frady cat. You think I stole these keys to not use them? Their attention's caught looking for some key thief.

This way they won't even notice we skipped out on work, let's go.

(Sfx- Gacha gacha clack clack)

Sachi: OF COURSE THEY'LL NOTICE!! THE KEY THIEF IS RIGHT HEEEEEERE!!

Gintoki: Really?! WHERE?!

Sachi: YOOOOOU!!! QUIT ACTING SHOCKED!!

Gintoki: I ain't no thief. He dropped them, and I picked them up. I'm going to return them now, see?

Sachi: YOU JUST DROPPED THAT GUY!!!

(Sfx- Kakun crack)

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Sachi: Aniki, you really intend to go through with this this time, don't you?

Gintoki: The time for vengeance has come, Itachi-kun.

Sachi: At least use the fish radical!!

(TN- All the other names Gin has called Shachi so far have had the 魚 radical on the left side. His original name is 鯱, and Gin called him 鮭 and 鰤.)

Gintoki: The warden told me to cause trouble anyhow. So that makes me an official trouble maker, so he should let me do whatever I want.

Shachi: Anikiii!!

(Handwritten- You're so cool!)

Gintoki: We'll stand out too much like this....better change.

Sachi: Awesome bro, that's good thinking! We should wear the guards outfits to blend in!

Gintoki: Yeah.

All right, for now on, I'll be a pajama jailer, and you'll be the prisoner I'm escorting in.

Sachi: BUT NOTHING'S CHANGED FROM BEFORE!!

What's a pajama gaoler?! This is just an eastern and western prisoner collaboration!!

Gintoki: There's no choice. It looks like he was just finishing the night shift, hence he was wearing jailer pajamas.

(Sfx- Bokunn crack)

Sachi: Why's he got to wear such complicated pajamas?! More like, you'd stand out less naked!!

Gintoki: How's this? With a bandana and staff,

I look like a real pajama gaoler don't I?

(Sfx- Zah sfft)


Sachi: No, stop saying pajama jailer like that's a thing everybody knows about!! It's an unidentified organism!!

Gintoki: Then about about this? I'll drop the whole jailer shtick....

And become a pillow and 'there aren't any ghosts at all here' pajama guy!

Sachi: IN WHAT WORLD WOULD A PAJAMA GUY BE ESCORTING A PRISONER?! MORE LIKE WHAT DO YOU MEAN 'THERE AREN'T ANY GHOSTS AT ALL HERE'?! WHAT'S THAT IN YOUR RIGHT HAND?!

If we're caught, how are you going to explain this situation?!

Guard: Hey you two!! What are you doing there?!

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Guard: Why is there a prisoner and.....a p—pajama guy?

What the hell is doing on here?! D—don't move!!

Sachi: SHUT THE HELL UP!!

IF YOU MOVE THE PAJAMA GUY GETS IT!!

(Sfx- Gabaaah fwoosh)

Gintoki: S---save me pajamaaa!

Guard: Ah, I see! The pajama guy is that criminal's hostage!!

But....why is there a pajama guy here in the first place?


Gintoki: Shutuuup! Everyone wears pajamas at some point, don't they?!

Less blabbering, and more saving!! Or these pajama's are gonna get really torn up, you know!!

(Handwritten- Why are you acting like the hostage taker now?)

Guards: Noooo!! Not the pajamas!!

Shachi: Raise your hands high in the air!! And get out of the way!! Clear the path!!

Listen up, you know full well what'll happen to the pajamas if you try to follow me! These white stripes'll be dyed bright red!

Guards: J-Just take it easy...!!

Gintoki: Turn the other way and walk! When you get to the spare room, change into your pajamas!

You get what'll happen if you mess up on your buttons don't cha?!

Guards: Y---yes?

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Gintoki: GET MOVING!!

(Sfx- Dah dash)

(Sfx- Dah dash)

(Sfx- Uuuuuuuu weoooooo)

Guards: We're in a state of high alert!!

Return all prisoners to their cells!!

(Sfx- Gashan gashan clang clang)

Guards: So that report about the keys being stolen was true?

Guard: S-Sorry...

An apology will not fix this!! Where's the warden?!

I think he stepped out!

(Handwritten- Ah, they've been found out...)

Guards: Dammitall, at a time like this...!!

Anyway, what did the offenders look like?! What kind of guys were they?

W... Well, I was hit hard on the neck from behind and knocked out. Sorry.

Huh? Wasn't that you on the radio earlier saying you got a glimpse at the offenders...?

No, I didn't see them, sorry...

I mean to say... that wasn't me, I never used my radio...

(Sfx- Zazaaah zzzt)

???: Please respond!

That radio report was sent by me, the warden!

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Guards: Warden?!

???: Sorry~~~~ I told a little while lie 'cause I really needed to make you all gather in one place~~

Guard: Hey bastard! You're not the warden at all!! Who is this?!!

(Sfx- Gachaaan Gashaan gashaan dsssh dsssh dsssh)

???: This is so the warden~~~

It's just that right now...

He's sorta feelin' under the weather...

So someone's speakin' on his behalf~~~

Guards: W---

WARDEN!!

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???: We'd like to welcome all you jailers...

This is prisoner country, now.

(Sfx- Uuuuu weeeeeooo)

Sign: Warden's Room

Sachi: This is baaad, Aniki! I've been hearing sirens going off for a while now!! If we don't hurry, somebody's gonna come in here!!

Crap, I don't see any proof of anything illegal here, Aniki!! Hey, Aniki?!

Gintoki: I got those brats on the outside to look for something for me.

I gave them one of the son's letters that was addressed to the old man.

And told them to look up the return address.

Shachi: Huh...?

Aniki, what're you talking about at a time like this?!

Gintoki: They tried to go to that address and meet with the old man's son.

But they weren't able to meet him, it seems.

Shachi: H...He wasn't there?

Gintoki: Yeah.

He wasn't.

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Gintoki: Not just that address.

They told me a guy like that no longer exists

anywhere in this world.

Sachi: S...So you mean...

Gintoki: The old guy's son..

Already died 10 long years ago..... from sickness.

That old man...

He's been writing letters to someone who'll can't be getting them.

Old guy: But I just want to keep writing letters of apology and send them out.

In that case, he should've realized a long time ago he wouldn't be getting any responses.

But he kept sending them. And apparently, responses started to trickle back.

Letters that couldn't possibly be delivered

were being delivered to him.

Shachi: So then, who...

Who's been doing it?!

You're not saying a ghost's been writing them, are ya?!

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Prisoners: Hyahahahaha!!

Look at 'em runnin voluntarily into the cells!

It's like our positions have done a one eighty haven't they, eh, jailers?!

Well ain't this just awful? Looks like they left you out here allllll alone, warden.

Hey, warden, looks like it's not just the prisoners that hate you, your fellow jailers don't like ya much, either!

Well, we ain't plannin' on forcing you guys to come out. And if you won't come out yerselves, then as for the hatred we have for you guys

(Sfx- Guiii griiind)

Prisoners: we're just gonna have to make the warden bear aaaall of it!!

Now watch closely, everyone....

at the warden you all hate so much bein' tortured to death.

(Sfx- Mishiii grnnnd)

Old guy: Stop it!!

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Old guy: What's gonna come of doing something like this?

Stop it already, for your own sakes.

Prisoner: Hey, open that cell, will ya?

Prisoner: Old man....

What'd you just.....

Say?

(Sfx- Doh THOK)

Gintoki: That old guy's never gonna see the outside world again.

For him, it was the light that is his son that kept him going in this dark hellhole known as prison.

However, that was an illusion.

That light never really existed.

But illusion or not....

It couldn't be taken away from him.

Looking from the inside of a cell, the outside world just seems like an illusion.

That's why he decided to give him all he could.

(Sfx- garara claaater)

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Gintoki: No wonder all he could write about with silly trivialities.

He might've been better off writing the kind of abusive language he's so good at.

(Sfx- Potaaa driip)

Guy: Y-

You...?

Warden: B-Bastards...

You'd better not think you can put your grubby paws on my toy

and just... get away with it.

You're all headed to solitary.

(Side text- His motive is....?)

GINTAMA LESSON 341..........END.