Gintama 526

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH

[Gintama 526 Translation by Kewl0210]
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Insert: An uproar in the city...?!
Title: 'Gintama'
People: ......That's awful.
People who protected the peace in Edo for so long
meeting such a fate...
What're you talkin' about? They're the awful ones!

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People: They say it's their fault that Shigeshige-sama died.
Who the hell needs police
that can't even protect their master?

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Hiji: AAAAAHHHHHH
SFX: GABAH
SFX: HAA HAA
Haji: Geez.
Fallin' asleep in the middle of a stakeout? What a newbie.
Well, can't blame ya.
You haven't gotten much sleep in the last few days.

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Hiji: I... I'm sorry.
Haji: Ya can go home fer today. Ya don't need ta worry, there's nothin' but little imps that'll just make ya sleepier around here.
Hiji: I can't do that. I'm taking over.
Haji: Hey, don' force yerself, Vice Chief.
Hiji: Don't call me
that name.
There's no more
Vice Chief.
SFX: TON
Kozeni: Let 'im do what he wants.
Haji: Aniki.

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Kozeni: There are times when men
need to drown themselves in their work and forget about everything else.
----Yes.
About all you can do for a hard-boiled man like that
Barkeep, I'll have the usual.
is enough to treat them to a Camus after work.
SFX: DON
Carton: Strawberry Milk
Gin: We ain't got that.

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Kozeni: There are times when a man confuses a bar and a perm.
Gin: Hey, who're you calling perm? We're fellow perm-boiled guys!
But man,
are you telling me that bastard went to work for you guys, Kozenigata?
How's he holding up?
Kozeni: As you can see, whether I invite him for a cold one or a long one, he's just not into it.
Gin: What do you mean a long one? What the hell are you inviting him to?
Kozeni: I guess that Demon Vice Chief can't be tamed so easily. He had some crazy subordinates after all.
Some men are noble wolves that cannot be restrained by the rope known as power.
It looks like that man and I are of the same breed.
Ropes just don't do it for me anymore. Please use a chain!
Gin: Uh, you're restrained like crazy here. Why don't you just tie that chain around your neck?
What about the rest of the Shinsengumi?
Kozeni: It's much the same story with them.
As soon as the new shogun was enthroned, he remodeled the entire police force.

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Kozeni: Speaking of which, though he dressed it up to sound nice,
Lord Nobunobu has basically been removing anyone that would be an obstacle to him.
And those soldiers are all that're left.
He's purging people that supported Lord Shigeshige or Lord Matsudaira one after another.
Even ones that don't are either losing their jobs or being driven to do-nothing jobs.
It's only us rank-and-file guys out on the fringes that are safe.
The Shinsengumi was no exception. After it was dissolved, everyone was assigned to fringe organizations.
Everybody was split up.
Edo no longer
has any hard-boiled police force to...
no longer has a Shinsengumi to truly uphold justice.

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Gin: .........
Wait.
What's
goin' on here?
Gorilla,
you bastard......
Nobume: That is unfortunate.
I expected this would come to blades, but it would seem the others are absent.
SFX: KACHARI

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Nobume: Or would
you like to oppose us in their place?
Gin: Depending on the answer I get, I'd be glad to dye that uniform blood red.
What's going on here?
I'm surprised.
I wouldn't have expected someone always quarreling with this lot to make such a face.
Is it that because you both bear the sin of letting the shogun die, some feeling of comradery has sprouted between you?
If that is the case, then that person must be elated in the next world.
For someone like you that lost what they held so dear,
to be trying to have such a thing again...
Gin: ......You're unusually talkative today, ain'cha?
The hell do you know about me?
Nobume: Nothing...
Just that if you do not want to lose everything again, then there are other things you have to do, no?

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Nobume: Even if this place was empty by coincidence on today of all days,
that man probably... knew.
That with Lord Nobunobu in power, the Shinsengumi would not be around much longer.
That's why he assigned his men to the security for the national funeral.
If he were hauled off right in front of them, his men would certainly not have stood idly by.
And if that is what happened, then things would play out just as Lord Nobunobu wishes,
and the entire Shinsengumi would be annihilated as traitors.
Yet he called you, alone, here.
I do believe you know
why that is.

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Kondou: Tell this to Toshi and the others for me.
Don't do anything stupid,
Edo still
needs you.

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Kondou: Well......
I've passed them on.

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Gin: I'm sorry.

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Guys: Fuck this!!
What the hell did the chief do?!
Does that Nobunobu guy intend to pin the whole blame of the shogun being assassinated on other people?!
Let's march into Nobunobu's place!!
The Shinsengumi's gone anyhow!! We don't have any master to be serving now!!
Then let's use our lives to save our general!!
Hiji: Still...
he told us to live, didn't he?

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Hiji: Even if the Shinsengumi as an organization is gone,
even if we're chased into do-nothing jobs and scattered apart,
he said for each of us to do what we can
as our own Shinsengumi.
That's what
Kondou-san said, right?
Okita: Even
if we have to step over Kondou-san's corpse?
Hijikata-san,
is it really worth it?
To just sit back and watch Kondou-san die,
and word for this rotten-to-the-core Bakufu, is being a samurai really that meaningful?

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Okita: Even after that,
would Edo still be a place we'd have to protect at all costs?
I... don't want to be part of that.
If you can't protect a shogun
or even protect your own general,
then you're not a samurai anymore. You're just a coward.
Hiji: Do what ya want.
If that's the Shinsengumi you guys believe in,
then I won't stop you.
SFX: ZAH
Guys: Vice Chief!!

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Hiji: Even I don't know
which way is right anymore.
I just know I don't want Kondou-san to die.
That feeling is the same as you guys'.
And I don't want you guys to die.
That feeling is the same Kondou-san's.
I no longer have the authority to bind you from doing anything.
There's no more Demon Vice Chief or Kyokuchuu Hatto.
But if there's still something binding your hearts,
I'm sure that's... the most important thing a Shinsengumi can have.
Believe in that,
fight,
whatever path that may be.

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Hiji: You guys are Shinsengumi.
Okita: That's so dirty.
With a demon making a face like that at us...
Sign: Special Police
Shinsengumi Station
Tape: Do Not Enter

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Okita: we can't do anything.
Tape: Do Not Enter
SFX: POTA
Hiji: .........
Is it raining?
Okita: Geez.
Being homeless is rough.
Title: Lesson 526
The Day the Demon Cried
Author: Sorachi Hideaki
Insert Text: Like a waking dream----
Bottom: Gintama
...Lesson 526
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