Gintama 571

Gintama: The only manga where the phrase "A complete breakfast" is serious business.



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(Side text- What his eyes have captured is the projection of bloodlust!!)
GINTAMA
Batou: I won't let you escape this time...
(Sfx- Gishihhh grnnnd)
Batou: What you're after is...
My life as a swordsman –my arm.

002
Batou: You're...
the real deal.
GINTAMA
(Sfx- DOOOOON fwoooom)
(Side text- The conclusion draws near?!)
Lesson 571: Meat pies and Breakfast.
SORACHI HIDEAKI
(Side text- Jump Comics Volume 62 is out in stores! The anime airs on TV Tokyo weekly on Wedsnesday nights at 6pm! The anime is currently airing the “Shogun Assassination arc” to great fanfare!!)

003
(Sfx- Giririri gnnnnd)
{I wonder what your thoughts are, warrior...}
{Upon the realization that your death is near?}

004
{Does a warrior think of anything...}
{At their final moments –when they are about to die?}
{I have seen it countless times...}
{With this “eye” of mine...}
{It is a flash, like that of their blades, when these warriors are about to die...}
{There is barely any time for them to register sadness or even regret in their hearts.}
{There isn't a single thing...}
{at all.}

005
{For the sake of accepting the irrationally that is “death”...}
{These warriors become empty shells.}
{An abyss...}
{That ceases thoughts of true despair, and denies the word despair completely...}
{It's when I look into that “abyss” within my enemy...}
{That I experience it...}
{Victory...}
{And one's own life.}

006
{I think I'll have...}
{Fried eggs for breakfast tomorrow.}

007
{No..!!}
{He too...}
{His death is still...}
{Far off!!}

008
{HE'S HEEEEEEEEEERE!!!}

009
Gintoki(?): Sorry but that's wrong too.
Dude, I told you didn't I? That eye of yours is too good.
If you get greedy and try to see everything, you loose sight of what's right in front of you.
Maybe you can't handle an eye that great,
but I can see your innards just fine from here.
(Sfx- Gagaatshhh sfffffttt)
Gintoki: Want me to tell ya about 'em?

010
Gintoki: They're empty.

011

012
(Sfx- Dogogagagaa thoooom)
(Sfx- Goshaaaaah booooom)
(Sfx- Gara gara clatter clatter)
(Sfx- Zatshhh sfft)
Batou: That's two of you now...
That you've been able to read past this eye...
And into my very soul.
One of you is...
A man who even when standing at death's door is thinking about what he'll eat for breakfast tomorrow...

013
Batou: The other is...
A man who is a living “abyss”
He's...well, in any case what are you going to do?
Do you plan on taking him on?
Gintoki: That's what I'd like to know.
I'd like to know if that eye of yours sees anything.
Batou: This eye wouldn't be able to see the conclusion to a fight between two unreadable elements like you,
Even if I could get it to open.
You're a man who's lived with death constantly by his side.
The death of others, and your own death...
If you stretch your arms, you'll reach a place you can live soon enough.
As for right now, what's living in you....
At the very least is something that has no distinction between “death” and “breakfast.”
They both exist in such harmony that they seem like visiting neighbors.

014
Batou: However in that man is neither “death” or “life”
I have no idea how you can challenge that “abyss” to a battle....
At the very worst that “abyss” will engulf each and every one of you....and the world.
Gintoki: Sorry, but I don't have eyes as good as yours to see something like that.
It takes all I've got to pursue what's in front of me.
That's why I...
Don't see the abyss of death or any sorta abyss there.
This isn't a thing I do for meat pies to be offered at my grave..
But a fight for breakfast tomorrow.

015
Gintoki: That's all it is.
Batou: How ironic...
It's only when my “eye” has been shut that I really see...
Not a bottomless swamp within you...
But a well of bottomless stupidity.
(Sfx- Dododdooooon baboooooom)
(Sfx- Gogogoggogo rmmmmmble)

016
Some dude: Shirei-sama!!
Fusou and Houtei have been shot down!!
(TN- I'm not sure what “Fusou” means, but “Houtei” is like, “Phoenix emperor”. I think these are ship names, maybe?)
Shirei: What the hell is going on?
Some dude: The enemy isn't a fleet...
But a single...
Old dude!!
Abuto: Geez-louise, what the hell is this...
Whether it's the son or the dad it's the same thing isn't it?
He's seriously going to crush the entirety or the Harusame alone....though gotta say, he's got just the right amount of energy for the job.
If this is going to be the battle that'll be left behind in legend, it seems like we're not going to get a role in it.
(Sfx- Dododooooon booooom)

017
(Sfx- Kuwaaaahhhh)
???: Guess we're gonna be the dudes who protects the legend's back.
Some samurai: Hurrrrrrry!!!
While Abuto-dono is holding the enemy back...
We have to protect...
The general's life no matter what the cost.....!
(Sfx- Dooooooon boooooommm)
Some samurai: GENERAAAAAAAALLLL!!!
(Side text- Sudden developments....!! Next issue, lead color!!)
GINTAMA LESSON 571.............END.