Gintama 523

And so, a new era dawns. And maybe next chapter... we can get back to dick jokes.

[Gintama 523 Translation by Kewl0210]
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Top Insert: ☆A splitting of fates!! A color page for the climax of the Shogun Assassination Arc!!
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Bottom left Insert: Their destination is-----
Author: Sorachi Hideaki

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Shigeshige: Lord Nobunobu,
Insert: The two "shoguns" meet face to face-----.
Title: Lesson 525
Resistance
Nobu: I am the Barbarian Subduing Great Shogun
Tokugawa Shigeshige.
So whoever you are,
I have no obligation to take orders from you.
I will return to my country
with my own feet.
SFX: GOGOGOGOGO

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SFX: GOGOGOGOGO
Shige: With my
comrades.
Guys: That's...
it can't be.

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Matsu: Sorry.
SFX: GOGO...
Matsu: Guess we really kept ya waiting,
Shou-chan.
Someone: It's a little early to be peckin' at dead flesh,
crows.
They're not dead yet.

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Okita: The Shogun...
this country
still has us.
And as long as we, the Shinsengumi, are around
nobody's gonna have an easy time taking this country.
Ain't that right,
Kondou-san, Hijikata-san?

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SFX: GOGOGO...
Oboro: They are thoroughly unaware of when to quit.
SFX: WAAAA
Oboro: Even at this late hour,
they still cling on, do they?
SFX: ZUSHAAAA
SFX: DODOOO
Oboro: They still resist against the heavens?

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Kagura: Out of the waaaaaaaay!!
Boro: No,
perhaps this is heaven's arrangement as well...?
We will withdraw.
SFX: GOGOGOGO
This war is not worth enough
for us to oppose both the Takasugi Group and the Shogun Faction.
Their political defeat has already been decided.

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Nobu: B... But!!
Tendou: Lord Nobunobu has already received the emperor's permission.
He is the Shogun.
Lord Shigeshige,
SFX: ZA ZA
Tendou: We well understand your inclination.
That you have no intentions of vacating the seat of Shogun.
However, there is no longer anywhere in this country for you to sit as Shogun.
Or do you intend to perhaps raise a new country?
If one country has two established rulers,
the country will split in two as well and the people will be thrown into turmoil.
Will you still fixate on your seat?
Shige: This country... no longer has a master.

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Shige: All there is is a mere puppets tossed by the waves of the era
that has been raised and used by the statesmen of the age.
But even us dolls will soon be no more.
Isolation has been abolished. Now in this age where all kinds of thoughts and all kinds of values flood the world,
the hearts of the people cannot be fastened together by one person.
If they lose their barometer, people will be swallowed by the era just like we are, lose sight of themselves, and walk the path of destruction.
Paper: Heaven's Punishment
Shige: That is exactly why we must take them back once again.
Without getting lost in this chaotic age,
our own resolute ways of living.
Our own Samurai.

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Shige: They've taught me
that even without a ruler,
for the sake of their friends, for the sake of what they hold dear, for the sake of belief in what they cannot surrender,
or because of each person's master,
they can become their own samurai.
No matter what chaos they find themselves in,
people are able to find their own way of life which they find beautiful.
What will be needed in the world henceforth will be the samurai that have embraced such masters.
There is no longer any room for us.
Tendou: Interesting, Lord Shigeshige. So you suggest that rather than two shoguns,
that every person should have their own ruler?
And for that reason you are personally abolishing the position of shogun?
Shige: If it hinders their ways of living...
then I, along with that pitiable puppet
will gladly be the last of the shoguns.

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Oboro: What are you doing?
SFX: GABA
Oboro: Mukuro.

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Oboro: Is this more of your work?
Shouyou?
Is this what you wanted to do?
You resisted against the heavens, were brought down to earth,
and now while you await your death in this filthy gaol, you are giving lessons to your jailer?
Shouyou: ...What I resisted
was not the heavens,
it was myself.
I've was thinking how with these hands that only took things away,
I might be able to give something.

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Shouyou: But in the end, that wish couldn't come true.
It was me that was given something.
People are being that
carry their weakness as they live.
That may be a character flaw, part of their physical appearance, or the environment they were born into.
Everyone lives carrying a self they can't reach an understanding with and suffers.
It's unfortunate, but there is no way to escape that suffering.
However, you can also suffer by resisting.
One is not only toyed with and suffers because of their weakness.
You can face your weakness, and suffer while trying to resist and change it.
Those little samurai taught me that.

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Shouyou: People
have more freedom than I thought.
Oboro: Go ahead and resist.
If that
is your fate as that man's disciples,

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Oboro: Go ahead and continue to resist
with those broken swords.

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[Ok, so here's Hiji X Oki]

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[And worried Shinapchi.]

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Gin: I forgot to tell ya.
That issue of Jump... if you're interested in what happens next,
I'll give it to ya for half price.
Hattori: How the hell am I supposed to read that?
Insert: ----Welcome back.
Bottom: Gintama
...Lesson 523
/ End