Gintama 527

Aw dang. Well, perhaps we are entering the final arc.

[Gintama 527 Translation by Kewl0210]
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Long Haired Weirdo: Shogun,
I only ever opposed you as an enemy,
but we shared the same will of trying to create a better country.
As your enemy, I may not have been able
to give someone the coup de grace,
but as fellows that chased after the same will...
SFX: BASAA
Weird Hippie: I swear I will fulfill my promise
as a friend.
Insert: The flowers of a vow fall-----
Title: Lesson 527
New Ones and Old Ones
Author: Sorachi Hideaki

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Tae: Okay, I'll be going, then.
SFX: SHAKA SHAKA
Tae: You're
going to stay in today again, huh?
When you head to the Yorozuya,
make sure you lock up.
Shin: Sister,
don't worry. There's no need to lock up anymore.
Above the ceiling,
below the floor

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Shin: behind the fences,
and behind the telephone polls,
are all free of that Gorilla stalker now.
But
I wonder why...
that doesn't make me
the least bit happy.

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Kozeni: -----Long ago, I was asked by some idiot
if I could bring one thing to a deserted island, what would I bring?
And I answered this.
Some Camus.
Humans are creatures that live on water.
But a man lives on liquor.
And after all, this goes with everything.
Fish, meat, women,
complaints, whining...
Men live blending together the good things and the bad things in this world and drinking it up.
But there is one appetizer this does not go well with.
SFX: GAN

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Gin: Geez. You drink with such a glum look on your face.
You're gonna make the booze taste bad. Get out.
Hiji: Ya friggin' drink booze when you're feeling glum. Why don't you get out?
Why're you at my welcome party anyhow?
Gin: These guys brought me along telling me they'd have free booze.
If it weren't for that, nobody could drink while looking at a gloomy face that looks like a soggy b*ll sack in the rainy season.
Hiji: Who're you calling a b*ll sack? This from a guy who looks like a droopy b*ll sack that was left out in the sun too long all year round!
Kozeni: Booze and idiots.
Gin: A b*ll sack that's been out in the sun too long is a more sanitary b*ll sack than one that's soggy!!
Handwritten: Oh my!
Hiji: There's nothin' sanitary when it comes to b*ll sacks, you b*ll sack!!
Haji: I'll bet yer glad ya called Gin-san here, eh, Aniki?
Kozeni: He really cheered up the Vice Chief even when he was so down.
SFX: GYAAA GYAAA
Kozeni: I've got one more thing I would take to the deserted island.
A man is something that may have their b*ll sack squeezed by an 'enemy' they're competing with.
SFX: GASUH
Tae: Then it's not a deserted island anymore. And that has nothing to do with b*lls.
SFX: GAN
[She's hitting him over the head with the top box from the last panel. The one on the bottom is the same as the one on the last panel.]

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Tae: Would you please cut that out?
If you're going to cause a ruckus in our shop, we're going to have to ask you to leave.
Box: GYAAAA
SFX: BUSHAAA
Boxes: Before that, could you stop them from deciphering other people's hard-boiled sayings
and making them into weapons?
SFX: GAN GAN GAN URAAAA
Tae: ...Otherwise,
if you really do want to drink,
I don't mind spending a while with you.
Hiji: .........
If you poured it for me with that face, I wouldn't be able to drink it.
If there's something you wanna ask, even if you're not totally prepared, you should ask it sober.
That goes for you, too.
Unfortunately I won't be able to give you much of an answer.
After all, I don't really know myself what I want to do or how I should do it. I can't even really tell where I'm going right now.

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Hiji: Thanks to that, my comrades have been scattered.
I'm sick of hearing the name Demon Vice Chief.
Without that guy,
I can't do anything.
Someone: That is not so.
Hiji: ?
Someone: You are doing quite well.
Even though you have lost everything because of your foolish superior,
you are even now doing all you can for Edo,
little that may be.
SFX: ZAH
Sasaki: Allow me, the Director of Police,
to give you personally praise you,
loser.

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Nobunobu: Sasaki.
I do believe I told you to forget about professional duties today.
SFX: KAH
Nobu: The previous Shogun, Lord Shigeshige
had a hobby of slipping into the populace
and observe the lives of the common people, did he not?
So I thought, why not try it myself?
No need to reposition yourselves.
Continue to drink as usual.
Tonight
I am simply Nobunobu.
Let me hear
the barks of you dogs.

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Guys: Well if it ain't Okita Sougo of the Shinsengumi?
SFX: ZAZA
Okita: You've got the wrong person. Go away.
SFX: ZAZAH
Guys: Come with us quietly...
Okita: Didja not hear me?

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Okita: I told ya,
there ain't no Shinsengumi no more.
Or are you
a bunch of Joui flies that thought that since we're split up now you came thinking you could get yourselves some revenge?
Good call.
I'm not part of any organizations nor do I have a police license anymore.
SFX: KACHA
Okita: I'm just a man-slayer disconnected from everything.
How 'bout we skip the pig-pen and send you straight to the bowels of hell?
We can forget duties and positions and just do flat-out whatever we want.
Guys: Y... You bastard...
SFX: DOH

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Guys: GOHAAA!!
SFX: ZUSHAAAA
Kagura: Outta my way.
You are blocking my walk, yes?
Sign: Snack Smile
Nobu: Tonight, I have bought out this whole restaurant.
Everyone, you may drink to your hearts' content.
SFX: TOKU TOKU

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Nobu: You, too.
What say we drink to Lord Shigeshige's happiness in the next world?
Or perhaps
to your superior?
Sasaki: Nobunobu-sama, I do believe you are being a bit hasty.
Matsudaira Katakuriko and Kondo Isao's executions are still 5 days from now.
We have still yet to clean up the largest negative left behind by the previous administration.
If we do not taken great care, those of them that are still breathing may start a rebellion.
Nobu: I thought you told me to forget about work. We have already hunted down every last one that would rebel against me.
As a test,
what do you say we assign that man as a security for the execution site?

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Nobu: It would be quite entertaining to have a subordinate oversee his own former superior's execution.
And it would be a perfect opportunity to test his loyalty to me.
If he sheds a single tear,
we can just have him be the security for the executions of other comrades of his.
What's wrong?
Still don't feel like drinking?
Are you saying
you cannot drink my sake?
Girls: HIIH!!
SFX: GASHAAAA
SFX: KORO KORO (ROLL)
Nobu: Hmph.
I can't blame you for not drinking it. Such a vulgar liquid could hardly be called sake.
I had heard that this shop was on good terms with Lord Shigeshige, but both the liquor and the women are unbearable to me.
Someone: I... I'm terribly sorry. They were all things that Lord Shigeshige enjoyed.
Nobu: ...I see. My apologies, but could you clean this up?
Woman: R-Right away!!
Nobu: No, not that.
Woman: ?

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Nobu: You two.
SFX: DOH DOH
Someone: KYAAAAAAAA
Nobu: Did you perhaps think that I would be satisfied with the same things as that man?
Tokugawa Nobunobu is a man that will build a new era.
For that end, the liquor, women, and subordinates must all surpass the old ones.
If you have no high-grade sake, bring me high-grade women.
Tae: You two...
what in the world are you doing?

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Tae: Harming innocent people one after the next,
remaking the world into one that's convenient for you...
you call that a new era?
Who in the world
would follow people like you?
What kind of shogun, what kind of police,
can't support the country or protect the people?
Kozeni: Otae-chan!
SFX: ZAH
Nobu: This is my new era.
In other words, incompetent police that can't protect a shogun even if they can protect the people,
and an incompetent shogun that died without being able to protect the country,
are no longer needed.
SFX: ZAH

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Nobu: And
the same goes for foolish citizens
that turn against that new era.
Tae: Real police
and real samurai
don't do things like this.
That man
wouldn't do something like this.

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[Aw shit.]

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SFX: GOSHAA
Gin: Pull that fist away.
SFX: POTA
Gin: So you can punch that idiot superior that left you guys here.

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SFX: GAPAA
Gin: We don't need you police for this.
SFX: GASHAAAA
Gin: A drunk's fist is what's suitable for a drunk.
Insert: The man, Gintoki!!
Bottom: Gintama
...Lesson 527
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