Gintama 602

That was a lot of words, and I'm really tired. My enemy is insomnia, and I don't need Utsuro to tell me that.



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GINTAMA
(Side text- A war fought long ago...)
???: Prince of Gun Smoke Enshou...
I'm sure even a man like you who enjoys the smoke and ash of the battlefield more than a gaudy throne..
Must be homesick by now.
News has it that your wife back on your home world is due to give birth.
If you can loiter around here habitually firing particle cannons at neighboring countries, then why not go to your wife and assist with Lamaze breathing?
A father's place of battle should not be before the enemy's general but at the side of the mother.
Or is it that even a man like you who is battle ready is not ready for fatherhood?
Enshou: Shijaku,
That is fatherhood on your soft boiled planet.

002
Enshou: The grand military nation of Burei does not look kindly on those who return from the battlefield with nothing to show for themselves. Such a foolish man has no right to fatherhood.
If I were to return empty handed, my wife would haul my ass right back to the battlefront.
She is engaged in battle as well.
She herself said...
That it is a competition for glory in battle.
(Sfx- Kapa pop)
Shijaku: I should have expected nothing less from the wife of the prince of gunsmoke.
Then as your greatest enemy I too have to fight a war that leaves no room for regret.
Even if it means snatching a father away from his child.
Enshou: Greatest enemy? Don't make me laugh Shijaku.
You disrupted both my wedding and grandfather's funeral.
So in return I will take your head and present it to my newborn child as their first toy.
Amanto: Your highness! There's been a report from Burei!!
Shijaku: Heh.
It would appear this fight has been settled.
Neither you or I were able to gain any glory...seems your wife beat us out.

003
Shijaku: What is it, Enshou?
The altana gate in my country went berserk.
It is thought that the cause of this is man made.
The royal capital has been annihilated.
...As for survivors...

004
Enshou: For the first time in my life I have fled from the battle field with nothing to show for it.
However,
There is no one here to refute my decision.
Shijaku, why did you do nothing and allow me to escape?
Why did you not take this opportunity to attack my country?
Shijiaku: I said it before.
As your greatest enemy, I want to have a battle with you that leaves no room for regrets.
The enemy was not a neighboring country....
We know they are in another location.
Gun smoke prince....now that you no longer have a country, should I still call you this?
Enshou, you returned with an achievement like no other.
A comrade who desires to stand with you and...
Fight against the tyrannical rule of the Tendoushuu.
Enshou: Despite losing my country....
I still have a place I belong –
The battlefield.

005
Enshou: If that's how it is...
Then from within a column of gun smoke..
We shall claim it...
Our freedom!!
We, the Altana liberation front, will wrench the universe free from the Tendoushuu's grip!!
(Sfx- Kuwaaahh roaaar)
GINTAMA
Lesson 602: It's the bad kids who have long hair growing on the backs of their necks.
SORACHI HIDEAKI
(Side text- And now the quest for revenge begins!!)

006
Amanto: What?!
The Earthlings are...
It would seem a group who's allegiances are unknown has attacked the garrison on Earth.
They are in battle as we speak,
But two warships have already fallen victim to them and the number killed is...
Y---
You bastards...

007
Amanto: Have you gone mad?
Is it that you came here with a death wish?
Or stupider still, you actually thought you could defeat us?!
Utsuro: You guessed correctly.
We're here to die.
(Sfx- Dodooo dsshhhhh)
(Sfx- Chiiin click)

008
Utsuro: Along with you...
And this planet.
Amanto: This is a grave matter.
It was you, Commodore Shijaku who lobbied for the return of our troops...
If we had taken measures to suppress the rebels and then eliminated them or brought them under our influence, we could have avoided this.
Your decision to try and level with those monkeys through peaceful negotiation has lead to our current situation.

009
Nobunobu: We're asking for a lot from you lot...
But I want you to understand...
The last thing we Earthlings desire is meaningless conflict.
Should you withdraw your troops,
We promise to take no adverse action against anyone on your side.
Furthermore I guarantee that we will serve you the Tendoushuu's heads on a silver platter.
Should I be unable to hold up my end of this agreement, I will offer my head as recompense.
Shijaku: The resolve to risk your life for the sake of your country....
Is this the real meaning of “harakiri”?
But, do you have any prospects for victory?
Sakamoto: Freedom's a thing ya gotta just go out and take on your own.
And our battle is only startin'.

010
Sakamoto: Now that the Tendoushuu's grip has grip on it has weakened...
Tha great power known as altana is bein' used all over the universe.
Which is to say, now everyone's got the ability to destroy a planet if they're feelin' up to it.
If we let that freedom get tha best of us and crush us under foot, then our futures themselves will be...
annihilated.
So, gents of the Liberation Front,
You all, and we as well gotta fight.
With freedom..
And ourselves.
Shijaku: When they said that...
The glint in their eyes was not that of a puppet.
They swore to uphold that promise with their lives. This situation is not of their doing.
This is a trap by another party –one who schemes to utilize this strife to stoke the flames of war.

011
Amanto: And you fell into that trap. You let those monkey's sweet talk you and...
Enshou: That's not it.
The situation before us isn't the only trap.
What he's telling us that this war engulfing the entire universe...
Is a trap that the Tendoushuu has constructed.
In short, if you want to point fingers,
Then feel free to do so at me –the man who started this war.
Amanto: Prince Enshou...
Shijaku: I didn't go that far.
My, my. Your apperance and words are lacking Prince of gun smoke.
Enshou: Shijaku, you were once a member of a royal bloodline, no? Yet now you no more than a war hungry savage.
Shijaku: Don't you dare compare me with you.
I abandoned my social status and even my home so that I could fully embrace the battlefield heart and soul.
It was my obligation to be in this war to regain our lost freedoms and stand alongside you.
Now, however...

012
Shijaku: It's as the earthlings said.
A freedom without responsibility will bring only annihilation.
Enshou perhaps the only thing that awaits us at the end of this war is destruction.
As such, the responsibility falls to us to stop this war from happening.
Amanto: You can't be serious!! Stop the war?!
Commodore, you...
Enshou: Have things become that dire....
Shijaku?
If it is as you say and...
The Tendoushu destroyed planets one after another,
to start a war...

013
Enshou: And now you're insinuating,
They are trying to accelerate the war, embroil us in further fighting..
And have the universe rip itself apart?
Someone: F...
Fiiiiiiiiiireeee!!

014
Shijaku: You can discuss the particulars with them.
Enshou, I've arranged a private meeting between you and them...
So you can talk to them yourself.
They should be here before long.
Without their inclusion and aid, we really will lose control of this situation.
Enshou: I see.
In truth, there's someone I'd like you to meet one-on-one myself, Shijaku.
Shijaku: Me? Who is it?
Enshou: Shijaku, do you remember....
That day where I, the Gun smoke prince first abandoned a battlefield?
I made a vow that day...
That I would defeat the Tendoushuu who snatched everything from me...
And bring their heads back..
To my wife and child.
The lot gathered here all have the same story...
The Tendoushuu stole their families and countries.
For the sake of revenge they vowed to fight in this war.

015
Enshou: If the war suddenly comes to an end right here and right now...
What do they do with that pent up loathing?
Where do you think all of that sadness gos?
Shijiaku: Enshou what are you....
Enshou: A month ago, the Earth investigation faction,
Found the remnants of a shipwreck.
Upon further analysis, they found....
That the ships owners were a certain group of people.

016
Enshou: Shijaku, this war cannot and will not end.
Why?
Because it has already ended.
I'd like to introduce you to my bitter enemies,
The esteemed Tendoushuu.

017
Shijaku: Th—This cannot...
What in God's name is....
Explain this, Enshou?!
These are the Tendoushuu?! Then they're...
Enshou: Strangely enough,
They're actually alive.
Or well, I should say it seems that they are unable to die.
I haven't the foggiest of what actually happened out there, but these slabs of living carcasses were in the wreckage of that ship.
Shijaku: Then who's attacking the garrison?
Enshou: I don't give a damn at this point.
Tendoushuu, or Earthling....
If they're an enemy that can withstand this loathing then...
Shijaku: En---Shou, you....
(Sfx- Gachariri click)

018
Enshou: Shijaku...
We need enemies....we need this war.
Otherwise we will have no outlet for this unbearable loathing and pain.
If it's already ended...
Then it cannot end.
We just...
Must keep it from ending.
As long as these slabs of living carcasses remain hidden here...
And the Liberation front does not learn of their existence then our enemies –the Tendoushuu are still alive.

019
Enshou: We can still fight.
We can still loathe them.
The Gun smoke prince,
Can continue to exist on the battlefield.
Toss his ass in prison.
And tell the soldiers...
Their orders are to eliminate the rebels...
And completely subjugate Earth.
(Side text- As sadness runs wild...)
GINTAMA LESSON 602.............END.