Gintama 525

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[Gintama 525 Translation by Kewl0210]
Page 1:
Gin: Huh? They're making another anime?
Geez, just give it up already.
Kagura: Now Shuueisha will make a profit, too, yes?
Shin: Don't say things like that on the coveeeeeeeeer!!!
Insert: Gin-san, the anime is resuming. [right side]
Commemorating the new anime series and making it past the 11-year anniversary, Opening Color Pages
Bottom Left: Gintama

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Narration: How many times have they two-timed us with this 'it's really over this time' thing?
...No, don't say that! [Top right, small]
I knew it, it's back!!!!
Insert: Everyone on the staff!
Are you all ready to not have any hair left on your head?!
Bottom: Starting in April on TV Tokyo and associates, the broadcast of the new series staaaaaaaaars!!!!

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Top Left Insert: ☆Commemorating the new anime series and making it past the 11-year anniversary, Opening Color Pages!!
☆Jump Comics Volume 57 is now on sale with great fanfare!!
Middle Insert: With all of their fates intertwining---- they're on the move.
Bottom Right: Commemorating making it past the 11-year mark!!
A lottery wherein 50 people will get a tapestry of these color pages as a special present!! To learn how to enter, go to page 48!!
The manga continues on page 31!!
Bottom Left: Gintama
Sorachi Hideaki

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Title: Lesson 525
3 Sake Cups
Insert: Gray clouds cover Edo----

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[Sad]

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Someone: Shogun......
sama......
Newspaper: Previous Shogun
Lord Tokugawa Shigeshige Assassinated

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Tendoushuu: One country does not need two shoguns.
And
a puppet that disobeys our will has no value whatsoever.
Tokugawa Shigeshighe... a pitiful man.
If he had only obediently allowed himself to be out pet, he need not have died.

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Tendoushuu: And to try to establish new right in order to abolish the position of shogun of all things,
did he think if he borrowed the emperor's power that our hands would not be able to reach him?
Truly shallow.
And truly
it was a very appropriate end to that man.
Momochi: The murderer was once a loyal retainer of the shogun.
He was a close friend of his since childhood, I've heard.
When the shogun met with them face-to-face, he obstinately refused for his guard to come with him.
It's likely he wanted to display for them that he believed in them, but also that he believed in himself.

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Momochi: That's where the Tendoushuu poked.
They snuck poison in through the friend's garbs
and the shogun
trusted his friend until the end, and that is why he died.
Hattori: ...In other words
If he hadn't met us.....
he would've gotten through this alive.
Momochi: ...Who can be sure?
Regardless of what the result turned out to be, this is a path the shogun chose himself.
A puppet that was long controlled by the era
in the end also chose the place where the path of his life would end himself.
And went to meet you, his friends.
Hattori: Unfortunately, I no longer have the right to call myself that.
Somebody that killed a friend in order to protect one

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Hattori: creating many victims, but ultimately
wasn't even able to protect that friend,
somebody that lost,
has no right to talk about those.
I couldn't protect a thing and couldn't change a thing.
All that's left now is someone dyed in this blood,
a sinner.

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Sign: Special Police
Shinsengumi Police Station
Handwritten: EII!!
OOH!!
EII!!

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Kondou: EII!!
SFX: GON
Kon: OOO!!
EII!!
SFX: BUN
Gin: I can see some indecision in your swordsmanship.
A police dog ignores a lost kitten and gets lost himself, there's not much use for him.
Wanna get some training in? I think I could beat you with this thing.
Kon: Heh. I think I'll pass.
Even a policeman doesn't know where a wandering cloud that's lost all year round ends up.
At least don't wander into this filthy place if you're sober.
What the hell do ya want? Where's everybody else?
Gin: I dunno. I guess maybe they're at the funeral.
.........
Kon: I don't deserve to show my face there.
SFX: ZAH

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Kon: But this is perfect. The place is empty
and we still haven't given you Yorozuya guys your reward yet, right?
Well, you know,
if it weren't like this with everyone gone,
a legendary Joui patriot and a Shinsengumi chief
wouldn't have a chance to drink together, right?
Stick around for a cup, Shiroyasha.
Guy: Right yourself.

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Guy: Did you not hear me telling you to right yourself?
You are in the presence of the shogun! And you're...
SFX: KAKI
Matsu: Shogun?
Sorry, but there's only one guy that worked for.
I'm the type that, once I decide on my brand of cigs
as well as my master, I don't just change it like it's nothin', Lord Nobunobu.
Guy: You bastard, that's incredibly rude!
Nobu: !!
Matsudaira, you're quite a loyal retainer.
One could never guess you were someone so useless they couldn't protect the life of a single master.
Matsu: Not as useless as a shogun that commits high treason by murdering a former master right under the emperor's nose and steals his position.
When the truth comes out, it'll be the biggest blot on this country's history since it started.
The murderer took poison immediately, killing himself,
but perhaps a relative of his had been taken hostage and he carried the plan out unwillingly. Once we scrounge his background, I'm sure we'll find the mastermind.

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Nobu: Matsudaira... If I am the mastermind,
then such a relative would no longer be in this world.
Matsu: Don't be so hasty, Lord Nobunobu.
I haven't moved anybody yet.
This is something I've gotta do myself.
SFX: ZAH
Sasaki: Lord Matsudaira.
Unfortunately you no longer have the right to judge people.
Please drop what you have.
Both the cigarette,
and that.
Matsu: ......Sasaki.
I'm surprised. Seems like you, too, are man that understands loyalty.
I was sure you would be abandoned along with Takasugi and the others,
but here I find you still insistently wagging your tail for Lord Nobunobu.
Sasaki: Takasugi? Whoever is that?
I have only ever served one person from the beginning, Lord Nobunobu.
I cannot imagine why you would think I might be abandoned.

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Nobu: That's exactly right. Matsudaira, you no longer have the right to judge anyone.
Make sure you understand just who it is that's standing in front of you.
He is director of police
Sasaki Isaburou.
Sasaki: Unfortunately, former director, ["former" in italics]
your era has ended.
Gin: ......Is it normal to invite somebody injured to drink alcohol?
Kon: If I you cared about stuff like that, then as somebody who got a massive head injury right after they were born, you could never drink for your whole life.
Gin: Have you been slurping up some rotten fruit juice you found in the jungle, gorilla?!
Kon: ...Also
there are some wounds that only this stuff can heal.
War really is hell, ain't it?
Whether you win or lose, you always lose more than you get.

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Kon: Still, while the winners can count what they won on their fingers
and comfort themselves by saying that what they lose was worth the price of it,
all a loser can count up is what they lost.
Allies they couldn't protect, enemies they cut down,
sins born from war, all of it lays a heavy weight on that person.
You wonder what our battle even was.
Did the price we paid... did dirtying our hands... mean anything at all...?
Have you
felt things like that a lot in wars before?
Gin: ........
There's no meaning.
Whether you win or lose,
no matter what you protect or what you lose, there's no meaning in war.
No matter how you tidy it up, it's a pointless act that ends you up with nothing but corpses and sins.
There's really... nothing worth going that far to protect.
If there were something like that,
it would be the ideas (souls) of those that are trying to build an era without such needless war
or of those that fight themselves, rather than an enemy.

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Gin: And those souls
still aren't dead.
Not as long as there are those that carry on those ideas.
Shige: You are the only ones
I can entrust Edo to.
Kondou: Then we don't need a funeral
or any words of farewell, huh?
Exchanging these sake cups is plenty.

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Kon: Yorozuya,
SFX: HUUU
Kon: I'm glad you have the same feelings as me.
That there are some things you have to protect no matter whose corpses you have to step over.
SFX: ZAH
Kon: Tell this to Toshi and the others for me.
Don't do anything stupid,
Edo still needs you.
Well... I've passed it on.
And also...

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Kon: I had fun finally drinking together, just the three of us. ["three" in italics.]
Though I wish we'd done it sooner.
Nobu: You can leave the investigation of Lord Shigeshige's assassination to Sasaki.
Matsudaira, what you should do is take that responsibility.
Lord Shigeshige's assassination occurred as a result of you not stopping him from running wild like that.
And not only you. Responsibility also lies with your subordinate that assisted you and chased Lord Shigeshige to the place of his death.
And so, I now decree,
Matsudaira Katakuriko and your subordinate Shinsengumi Chief Kondou Isao
are sentenced to decapitation.
And as of today, the Shinsengumi is disbanded.
Insert: Pain that's chained together----
Bottom: Gintama
...Lesson 525
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