Gintama 366

I hate info dump chapters. Sorachi loves them. Two fighters go in, one comes out in tears.



(Side text- The effects of a rebellion?!)

???: Hey did you hear?

The vice captain got into it with the Mimawarigumi.

GINTAMA
SORACHI HIDEAKI
Lesson 366: If all a pair of siblings has is hardships, then even the good things they do will eventually become hardships.

???: The Mimawarigumi? They've become a hot topic lately, huh?

Yeah, those guys are top brass. An elite unit made from some of he most prestigious of men....

Especially compared to the Shinsengumi.

They're a pretty new unit, but their accomplishments speak for themselves.

Captain Sasaki Isaburou sure managed to get some pretty nasty guys on his side too.

Being the eldest son of the Sasaki family, his sword is known as 'heavenly', while the guy himself is known as a 'celestial'.

Historically the Baku has believed in their monstrous power, and even rely on them from time to time.

Yet the vice captain still wants to pick a fight with them.

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???: Speaking of Sasaki, I heard the vice captain took one of those idiots in as his page...

Yeah, those monsters have a useless little brother running around, so they tossed 'em over here to keep him out of trouble.

So this time around, the vice captain has no choice but to protect him.

Seriously? That demonic vice captain?!

Geez, so even he's gotta deal with this crap...I thought he woulda cut that kid down by now.

(Sfx- Zatsh ssft)

Dude: Seriously, someone needs to teach those wet behind the ears rich boys that we don't dance whent they want to.

Moreover, he should hurry up and get fired before something really bad starts in the Shinsengumi...

Hu—uh?!

(Sfx- Zuiitsu shfft)

(Sfx- Kucha kucha chew chew)

(Sfx- Kucha kucha chew chew)

(Sfx- kucha kucha chew chew)

003

Tetu: I'm sorry senpaaaaaaaaaaai!!!!

(Sfx- Zuaaah fwaaaf)

Tetu: Please! I don't mean to bother you but may I perchance use that vending machine?!

Dude: Huh?

Tetu: Please forgive my rudeness! I have been tasked to replenish the vice captain's dwindling cigarette supply!!

Cigarettes are the vice captain’s moral support! Without those he can't go on!! So please you've got to allow me to buy them...

Where's the Mayosen light?! What the....only menthol?!

I'm not trying to add to the vice captain’s impotence...Wait! Cigarettes lead to pulmonary emphysema! The risk is too much for him!

Besides that, second hand smoke is a serious problem for the surrounding people especially infants and the elderly! Forget the vice captain's impotence, he'll become an incidental assassin before long!! What will I do~?

Oh! What if I buy one of these instead of cigarettes?

It'll take care of his impotence for sure!! He'll become a whole new man! Though..wait, isn't this still bad for kids...?

Hijikata: SHUT UP AND BUY SOMETHING!!!

(Sfx- Dogoooooh thooood)

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Dude: V—Vice captain!!

(Sfx- Bara bara clatter)

Hijikata: Besides, I don't smoke Mayosen, but Mayoboro. Remember that, asshole.

Tetu: Yessir! Vice Captain!

(TN- I know Mayoboro is probably Malboro, And Mayosen is a play on Lucky Sevens, a Japanese brand of cigarettes)

Dude: Er..hold on Vice captain...

Hijikata: What are you goofing off for? Looking for a reason to commit seppuku?

Dude2: How about you worry about seppuku later and that now...?

Dude: Who is that?

(Handwritten- Umm...Mayoboro Mayoboro....)

(Sfx- Gata goto clatter clatter)

Hijikata: What, are you stupid or asleep? Introduce yourself to others.

In any case he's my vassal....

Tetu: Sasaki Tetsunosuke.

(Sfx- Zubohhh fwoof)

Dude: Who the hell is he?!

Hijikata: The freak?! You changed into a totally different person in one week!!

And your face!! YOUR FACE!!!

Sasaki: Yeah, sorry...I'm sorta embarrassed by my baby face so I wore glasses to hide it.

Hijikata: I get the glasses, but what happened to the facial hair just now?!

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Sasaki: I've been doing some thinking, and I've decided to throw away that fake part of myself and be reborn anew.

I've graduated from being a B boy, and have taken one step towards C-dom. I've grown up a little bit at least.

I'll be a cherry boy.

Hijikata: HOW IS THAT MORE ADULT?! YOU'VE REGRESSED FURTHER INTO CHILDHOOD DAMMIT!!

Sasaki: I've been a real nuisance to you haven't I, senpai? For now on, I'm going to be just like you vice captain, I'm going to join the Shinsengumi and protect Edo.

You guys should bow too.

Hijikata: Heeey!! The guys you were hanging out with have gone from B to C, and finally A boys!! No matter how you look at it they're regressing!

(TN- A for Akiba. It's an Otaku hotspot.)

Otaku thug A: Hey Tetsu, why have you been bending your body like that?

Dude, do you have a hard on?

Sasaki: I'm trying to apologize, obviously.

And I do NOT have a hard on! Do you?!

Soldier: They're totally into this cherry boy act! It's kind of nostalgic!

Otaku thug A: Then straighten out your back.

Sasaki: You do it first dammit!

Otaku thug B: Well we've gotta get to work...

(Sfx- Dogoooh thook)

Hijikata: You're in the way.

Sasaki: Aah! Wait up vice captain?!

(Sfx- Dota dota tmp tpmp)

Hijikata: …...

(Handwritten- A--Are you getting a hard on?)

Soldier: Just what the hell is going on between those two....?

006

(Sfx- Gahahahaha)

Kondo: That's Toshi for ya!

I can't say I understand the way he thinks sometimes...he's always been the type to start fights at work.

Hey! What the hell are you guys doing! Keep moving! You can't stop running until the game's over?

Sasaki: This ain't a laughing matter...

I don't understand you or TOSHI....

Why would he make an enemy out of my bro---I mean Sasaki Isaburo like that?

He's the kind of guy who would even cut his little brother down to save face.

Cause he thinks we're inferior, the Shinsengumi and me...he'll probably destroy us both when the opportunity presents itself.

Yet TOSHI....

He still...

He still wants to look out for a useless idiot like me who was tossed aside...

I know what you think of me..

That I'm just getting in the way, right?

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Sasaki: I can tell, even if no one says anything.

I'm the son of a prostitute mom, and because of that I can't possibly inherit the Sasaki name.

So everyone only see's how pathetic I am.

I've gotten used to it.

Kondo: Do you know what a...

Baragaki is, Tetsu?

See, that's what he is. The sort of person that if you tried to associate with him, he'd prick you with his thorns.

A buck wild misfit....out in the country we'd call them baragaki, or rose brats.

That's exactly who he is...

Toshi the baragaki.

You know Tetsu, he was such a badass baragaki, he'd make you wannabe thugs wet yourselves.

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Kondo: He would go and challenge the neighboring dojos. He was nothing less than a battle savant.

A thorn that would scar those who dared to tread upon him....
He was that kind of dangerous man.

Even if he were surrounded by enemies, he'd still keep right on walking. No one could stop him.

They even got to saying that a demon lives in that baragaki's soul.

Though, that's all just conjecture....

….he's the same as you.

Although they said he has thorny insides, the fact of the matter is he just couldn't find a place for himself.

See Toshi is the same as you....

The child of a prostitute.

His dad was not only a wealthy farmer, but a notorious playboy.

He just kept doing whatever the hell he wanted right up till he died. Then all of a sudden, a hidden kid appears outta nowhere....who was that kid? You guessed it, he's Toshi.

However his eldest son, Tamegorou-san was a capable man.

Since his mom died, Tamegorou took it upon himself to give Toshi a place to stay and care for him.

If one didn't know any better, they'd swear that Tamegorou had a son.

And Toshi thought of Tamegorou as a father figure.

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Kondo: However that backfired.

When he was about 11, the village he was in caught fire.

Slipping into the village he shoved the farmer to protect Toshi from a brigand...

And that caused Tamegorou-san to lose his eyes.

Even Toshi doesn't remember what happened after that very well...

When he came back to himself,

The brigands were at his feet....

And there was blood everywhere.

His siblings all could only gawk at him in fear...
The blood stained ground before them dried their eyes...

They could only stare at him....

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Kondo: And from then on...

They started calling him the Baragaki...

All for the sake of his beloved older brother who would never be able to see him again.

Will you pursue the back of that demonic brat...?

Or the back of your brother who has already lost the ability your face, much less the light?

It's up to you to choose.

If anyone understands your feelings...

He does. He's already been through what you're going through.

The sadness of being abandoned by his family, feeling endebited to his brother...

Having no real place for himself....he knows all about that.

But you know Tetsu...

Even if the road he treads upon has thorns that scratch him and cut him to pieces...

He'll keep treading down it until the very end.

{Strength....}

{I have to become stronger....!}

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{Until I'm stronger than anyone else...!!}

Kondo: It's a regrettable thing...

Being unable to protect the one most important to you....

Everyone's the same Tetsu.

(Handwritten- Hey hey hey hey! Pass it! Pass it!)

Kondo: Everyone here feels that they're useless just like you. They're a bunch of castayways....
But even with that, they all struggle with all of their might.

(Handwritten- Hey hey! Pass! Pass! Hey!!)

Kondo: They continue pressing down the path leading here until we met each other.

Isn't that a man's place in the end?

(Handwritten- Go be the stage hand in Kuroko's basket, dammit)

(TN- Kuroko's basket is a basketball manga that runs in WSJ.)

(Sfx- Doh thok)

Kondo: Sometimes when you walk above the rails you get knocked over and fall...but you don't have to silently take it.

Just stand up and keep on walking forward. Even if your legs get scared by thorns, you keep right on walking.

(Handwritten- Am I just a stage hand?)

Kondo: And it's with that your path will diverge into something great.

As long as you go on that path, you'll meet others; friends who are traveling down the same road....

Guys like me....like us who are looking for our best place.

I don't really know what you can do when you've been tossed out of your home...

But you gotta choose your own path.

If it's just your best place that you want, or for someone to acknowledge you....

Then you don't stop moving, for anything.

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{Someday I'll become...}

{A tough thorn...}

{A Baragaki....}

(Sfx- Gashaaan cclaaaang)

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Okita: Good work hanging in there, boss.
(Sfx- Gohh thooom)

(Sfx- Hyuuu hyuuun whff wifff)

(Sfx- Dohhh thooom)

Okita: Aww, don't be such a stickler boss. I even went through all the trouble of getting you acquitted...

(Sfx-Doggohhh thooom)

Gintama: Ohhh~ Is that so? But If I recall it was you guys that got me locked up in the first place.

Okita: Not me~ Hijikata-san was the one at fault. I'm innocent.

Gintoki: Whatta coincidence! So am I!

(Sfx- Gopaaaan thoooom)

(Sfx- Hyurururu spnnnn)

Sasaki: It seems you want to blame the Shinsengumi for this...

But you shouldn't, this situation is entirely my fault.

I'm truly sorry for what happened....I had no idea you're a Shinsengumi accquaintence.

I wonder how I can best profess my deepest apologies to you....? Oh! How about I get your text address? That way I can send you a text of apology.

(Sfx- Chaa chack)

Gintoki: Oh? Is that all? Well it's [email protected].

(TN- Kutabare means 'die'. So Gintoki's 'address' is 'Die elite'.)

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Sasaki: I should point out that my nose is on par with a doberman's....

And your smell has a profound...effect on my nostrils.

(Handwritten- What kind of site is this?)

Gintoki: What? Wait, are you saying I stink? Well I have been in the clink for two days....I'm wearing the same thing from then....I didn't even get to make it to the convenience store....

I'm okay right? Okita-kun?

Okita: Well...we DID arrest you wrongfully and stuff, but if I had a say in regards to your criminal behavior, I'd round you up to guilty.

Gintoki: Quit smearing my reputation you asshole. If you round down any human we're all brimming with criminal behavior.

Look at the kids out of school for the summer. Outside of the radio physical fitness classes, they're all out committing crimes.

Sasaki: We'll take care of reparations, and the repair for your scooter.

Just write the amount you require on the back of this flier.

We'll take care of the details later.

Gintoki: On the back of this flier?!

(Sfx- Biriiiii riiiiiiiiiiP)

Gintoki: Don't you elite bastards try to write off us regular guys! Do you think for a moment that something like this is going to heal the injuries in my heart?!

Is writing it on Toilet paper cool?

I'll write it on the long end.

(Handwritten- Huh? I wrote too many zeros....I'm not sure how to do it.)

Okita: There's really no point of going through the trouble boss. This is already water under the bridge as far a we're concerned.

Sasaki-dono will take care of things from here.

(Sfx- Buhiiiii snrrrrr)

Gintoki: Hey!! What the hell are you doing?!

Okita: We'll talk to our vice captain about all the trouble he put you through with his actions.

Gintoki: The freak?! You put me through this hell for nothing?!

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Sasaki: No, thank YOU for putting up with my foolish idiot of a little brother.

If you need anything extra, just give me a call.

Meanwhile, I'll clean up this trash for you.

Gintoki: No asswipe, you can be sure I'll take care of YOU. Who's trash?!

Okita: No, there's still plenty we can do with him.

(Sfx- Kusha kusha dssh sddh)

Okita: You'll be in trouble when the time comes to take out the trash and it's not properly sorted.

Especially the trash that should be burned...

You might find when you set it aflame, it burns brighter and longer than expected.

Okita: Since it's summer, it's super hot.

Well even then, such trash can be useful up until it turns into ash.

So don't go throwing it away.

Gintoki: aaaah!!

(Sfx- Koro dfft)

Okita: See ya.

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Sasaki: A warning...

Okita-san.

Rotten trash cannot be returned to where it once was.

If it is returned, then it has a habit of polluting everything that comes in contact of it.

You'd better purge yourself of it soon...

Or all of you Shinsengumi members may find yourselves in dire straights.

Okita: Boss, I'm outta here.

Gintoki: Heeeey! You can't leave!! Give me back my 1000000!! Wait, how much was it again?

Sasaki: Do you really need money that badly?

Gintoki: OF COURSE! UNLIKE YOU HOITY TOITY RICH BOYS, I HAVE TO WORK FOR A LIVING!!

Sasaki: Well then...

How about I give you some work?

Hijikata: You are one sad little man..

(Sfx- Zeh hah zeh hah)

Hijikata: You're this beat after one day of training? If you don't shape up, the patriots will slaughter you.

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Hijikata: If you don't want to die, get stronger.

You'll get dinner after you do three thousand swings.

Sasaki: Vi...

Vice captain...

I....I...

Want to become stronger...

I know it....

I can become stronger than you or my brother...

Never again do I want to stop moving....

I want to walk down the same path as everyone else...

So please vice captain, make me stronger.

I know your older brother....

Doesn't hate or resent you.

I'm sure he wants to see you again.

Because even when you were just a little kid,

You fought so hard to protect him, right?

And your older brother protected you with all of his might too...

you guys were the premier example of brothers...

I'm so jealous of you Vice captain....

That's why....

You have to stop running away from your older brother...

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Sasaki: You're...

Toshi the baragaki after all, right?

Hijikata: For godssakes....You talk too much idiotic nonsense.

Listen up, never ever say that name in my presence again.

(Sfx- Gararara claaater)

Hijikata: If you do, I'll fill every orifice on your body with mayonnaise and then kill you.

(Sfx- Pishaa dsh)

Sasaki: Sorry Vice captain! I brought your tea!

Hijikata: Not interested.

Sasaki: Vice captain! Let me rub your shoulders!

Hijikata: Not interested.

Sasaki: Shall I buy your smokes?

Hijikata: Not interested.

Sasaki: Shall I clean your room?

Hijikata: What part of 'not interested' do you not understand?

Sasaki: I brought your mayonnaise!

Hijikata: Thanks. Now go away.

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Sasaki: Vice captian, are you having an...ere....

Hijikata: I SAID GO AWAY!!

You have GOT to know when to shut your mouth!

Sasaki: Sorry! I just want to be useful to you sir!!

Hijikata: If this keeps up, I'm not going to get anything done....
(Sfx- Hiraaah flutter.)

Hijikata: Go mail this for me then. Don't hurry back.

You're gonna get stronger than me?

Go ahead and try it. I'd like to see how you do.

(Sfx- Paaan slam)

(On envelope- Hijikata Tamegorou-sama.)

Sasaki: Y—yessir!

I---I'll do it for sure!

(Side text- A shadow of unrest...?!)

Dude: Found him.

GINTAMA LESSON 366............END