Gintama 523

We're all just resisting our fates, struggling to reach happiness in our own individual ways...



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GINTAMA
(Blue text- To our destination----)
SORACHI HIDEAKI

002
(Side text- The two 'shogun' face each other....)
Lesson 523: Resistance.
Shigeshige: Lord Nobunobu...
I am the great barbarian subduing Shogun...
Tokugawa Shigeshige.
I don't know who you think you are...
But I have no obligation to follow your orders.
(Sfx- Gogogogoggo Rmmmmble)
Shigeshige: I will return to my country...
on my own two feet.

003
Shigeshige: With..
My friends.
???: No way...
That's...

004
(Sfx- Gogogo Rmmmble)
Matsudaira: My bad.
Seems like we made you wait a while...
Shou-chan.
It's too early for you to swoop in for carrion...
Damn crows.
We aint' dead yet.

005
Okita: The shogun...and this country...
still have us here.
As long as we Shinsengumi are here...
You won't take this country so easily..
Right?
Kondo-san? Hijikata-san?

006
(Sfx- Gogogogo rmmmmble)
(Sfx- Waaaaah)
Oboro: You fools are horrible at giving up.
Even after this you...
want to continue to cling to foolish hopes?
(Sfx- Zusahaaaah doooom)
(Sfx- Dododooooh boboooom)

007
Kagura: MOVE IIIIIIIIIIIT!!!
Oboro: No...
Is this too fate handed down from heaven?
Draw back.
(Sfx- Gogogogogo Rmmmmble)
Matsudaira(?): The Takasugi faction and the Shogun faction..
There's no value in opposing each other in this war any further.
It's a complete loss politically for them obviously.

008
Nobonobu: B—but...!!
Tendoushuu: Lord Nobunobu the emperor has already granted your favor.
You are the Shogun.
(Sfx- Zazaaaah sssshhft)
Tendoushuu: Lord Shigeshige...
Your intentions are rather clear...
You do not intend to relinquish the seat of Shogun...
However the seat for you to be Shogun no longer has a place in this country.
Or do you plan to raise a new country?
If two lords were to rule over the affairs of one country...
The civilians would be thrown into panic as the country is cleaved into two.
Are you still determined to have that seat knowing this?
Shigeshige: This country no longer has a ruler....

009
Shigeshige: What we have now is a doll tossed about by the times...
sometime serving as a statesman, but mostly living to be used.
However we....those dolls will eventually fall to ruin.
Our isolated country has already been absolved by the ages and the overflowing thoughts and sense of values.
The hears of the people are no longer tied down to the thing known as a leader.
The people who have lost their indices will like us be swept up by the times, lose sight of themselves and eventually fall upon the path of ruin.
(Paper- Divine punishment)
Shigeshige: And that is something that we cannot take back.
It is during these times of strife that have been left behind by the times that one must remain firm..
Not waiver and live true to themselves.
That is each and every one's samurai.

010
Shigeshige: They taught me...
Even if there should no longer be a lord..
For the sake of unwavering belief in something precious like a friend...
That everyone can govern themselves...be their own lords.
Each and every one of them can be their own samurai.
Even when one is within the depths of turmoil...
They can definitely find a means of living that is beautiful to themselves.
What is necessary to the world starting now are samurai who embrace lords like that.
There is no longer any need for us to be involved.
Tendoushuu: Intriguing Lord Shigeshige....so you propose rather than two Shogun...
that everyone should act as the lord of themselves?
So then are you abolishing the very idea of yourself? The Shogun?
Shigeshige: If it is a hindrance to the very way that these people live...
Then I would happily...
Be the last Shogun along with that pathetic doll.

011
Oboro: What are you doing.
Mukuro.

012
Oboro: Was this your doing again?
Shouyou...
Is this what you want to do?
You struggled against heaven and fell to earth...
And now even as you await death in this filthy cell you still wish to teach someone?
Shouyou: What I struggled against...
Wasn't heaven...
But myself.
I've done nothing but take and rob with these hands...
And wondered if there was anything I could give back.

013
Shouyou: But in the end I was unable to fulfill that desire...
and I was the one who was given something.
Humans are...
Weak beings from the moment they're born.
Perhaps it's a personality defect, or something physically...or perhaps the environment we're born in.
Everyone has to embrace compromise in some way and struggle to live.
And unfortunately there's no method to outrun this pain.
However while resisting against something one is subjected to pain.
It's not just a pain that comes with resisting and being tossed around by one's weakness.
But a pain that comes from facing that weakness head on and trying to change.
Those little Samurai taught me that.

014
Shouyou: People have...
more freedom than they think.
Oboro: Resist as you wish...
If that...
Is the so called fate of that man's students then...

015
Oboro: Keep on putting up a resistance...
with those broken swords.

016

017

018
Gintoki: Oh yeah, forgot to mention this..
But if you wanna continue that jump from back then...
I'll lend ya half.
Hattori: Who'd wanna read that?
(Side text- Welcome back.)
GINTAMA LESSON 523..............END.