Gintama 528

When that man shows up, you know it's about to really get crazy.

[Gintama 528 Translation by Kewl0210]
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SFX: PARA PARA (Clatter)
Title: Lesson 528
Heroes Show Up Late
Insert: Gintoki's fist sends the tyrant Shogun flying----!!
Author: Sorachi Hideaki
SFX: GACHA GACHA

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Guys: Y-You bastaaaard!!
What have you done to the Shogun?!!
Sasaki: Hello~~~~
Nobunobu-sama~~! Are you ali~~ve? Is it okay if I register your email address while I've got the cha~~nce?
SFX: KASHA
Sasaki: Geez.
Phone: to Nobutasu
The Shogun's teeth got broken again, lol
Sasaki: Just when those wounds from before were finally almost healed. Poor thing.
Sakata-san, I never imagined you would lay a hand on him in front of Hijikata-san.
Looks like you've committed a crime that cutting your belly a thousand times couldn't make up for, huh?
Gin: You're kidding, right?
Is Bakatono's most loyal retainer Kuwa-man or me?
T/N: Bakatono refers to the variety show "Ken Shimura no Bakatono-sama" is a tv show starring Ken Shimura. Kuwa-man is the nickname of the comedian that played his royal retainer.

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Gin: Tonight, I want to forget about duties and drink.
That's what that "just Nobunonu-san" lying there said.
I was just following his lead.
He wants to know how the lower classes live, right?
Around here, when you bite at somebody, you get bit back.
That's just common sense.
Somebody that's not prepared to get hit back shouldn't be shaking your fist above people.
Guys that aren't prepared to drink in just a pair of briefs shouldn't expect to be able to drink shoulder-to-shoulder with us.
Tell that to that rich snob that doesn't know shit about the real world, little mutts.

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Okita: ...Hey,
what do you think you're doing, bastard?
Can't you see what's going on here?
Why the hell did you decide to show up?
Kagura: You are a policeman, right?
So you should at least be managing traffic.
I cannot walk my dog like this, yes?
Okita: There ain't no policemen here.
Didn't you hear? The Shinsengumi's been...
Kagura: Dissolved, yes?
Then why are you still in that getup?
Why do you not take that outfit off?

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Kagura: I heard.
About how
you protected Soyo-chan back then.
From that bothersome idiot.
Okita: There's no point if you can't protect the main thing.
I'm sure Hime-sama is cursing me, too. Probably saying I'm just a man-slayer that couldn't protect her dear brother.
........
Kagura: Well, it is true she has been saying nothing but bitter words.
Like that because of you, she cannot not eat any liver or offal anymore.
So left with no choice, she is preparing a shop with everything you like, so she wants you to tell her your favorites before she sends you an invitation.
Even if the Shinsengumi is gone,
the life that was saved thanks to you is still there, yes?

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Kagura: It does not change that you
protected two girls, yes?
Do not worry... Even if you do not wear that thing,
we know.
We know that you are our police.
No matter what you guys may do in the future,
we know you.
So quit wasting time around a place like this.
Whether you are going to spring the gorilla from jail
or direct traffic, hurry up and do your job.
SFX: DON
Okita: ......
Huh? Don't tell me you're trying to cheer me up? Did you think I was depressed?
Kagura: Yeah, right.
And those rags you have got on stink very much, you should go change them.

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Okita: Then I've made up my mind.
I'm never taking off my uniform again. There's no way in hell I'm gonna do what you want.
Did you hear that, grunts?
As long as I keep this uniform on,
the Shinsengumi ain't dead!
So no matter what, you guys are all deaaaad!!
Somebody: Then everything's exactly the same as it was before!
SFX: GUOOO
Guys: Waaaaaait!!
Would you just listen to us alreadyyyyy?!! We're your...
Okita: If you're begging for your lives now, you're too late!!
Kagura: You are in the way of my walk, dammiiiit!!
Guys: Wait!
Please wait, Captain Okita!!
Sasaki: I see.
SFX: KOH KOH

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Sasaki: So even if the shogun changes and we enter a new era,
fools are still fools, then.
Please release her.
Tae: !!
Sasaki: Tend to the wounded.
It is true that Nobunobu-sama went too far in his pranks tonight.
So rather than slay any more citizens of this town and cause bad publicity of this new government to spread,
SFX: GACHARI
Sasaki: it would be faster to have one idiot bear all the sins.
Tae: !!
Gin-san!

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Sasaki: What is it you are doing, Hijikata-san?
Haji: Sorry, but we can't letcha take that guy.
If we just sit here quietly while this happens, not only ain't we hardboiled,
we won't even be police anymore, right, Aniki?
SFX: ZA
Haji: Whoever the opponent is,
if you lose track 'a who ya should be judging and who ya should be protecting, ya ain't police anymore.
Kozeni: You're the odd one.
If you keep this up, the country's going to fall apart, Director of Police.
I swallowed those words along with my Camus.
There are some words that a man shouldn't say out loud.
Haji: After all this has happened, don't go gettin' scared and runnin' off all hard-boiled!!

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Sasaki: Do you know how it is that humans have been able
to survive on earth after 5 billion years of changing environments?
It is because they 'adapt'.
If I am to put it in terms that you non-elites can easily understand,
when a new Sentai series starts, you say "I don't approve of this! Bioman was better!".
T/N: Super Sentai is a long-running live action superhero series like Power Rangers that changes every season. Bioman was the 8th series, running from 1984-1985. Changeman ran from 1985-1986.
Sasaki: But you think that every time, don't you? And yet when the series ends, you have a hard time saying goodbye to Changeman.
And so humans survive by getting used to every change.
The heroes this time, the police, are not heroes that defend the weak.
They are new-age heroes that do away with the old and protect the new.
Eventually, you will grow used to them, no, you'll have no choice but to.
Because even if you lament and struggle,
the old era and the old heroes never come back.
Otherwise, you are only walking the path of destruction,
just like the Shinsengumi.
Hiji: Director-dono,
not a single one of us has died yet.

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Sasaki: Hijikata-san,
you had best not move from where you are.
If you take even one step,
both you and your comrades will all disappear from the annals of history as traitors.
I believe you understand.
You can no longer
be heroes.
Tae: Gin-san!!
Guy: Customers.

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Guy: We have retrieved
the items that were ordered.
Packets: Nmai-Bou (Delicious Stick. Based on Umai-bou, cylindical corn snacks.)
Sasaki: I don't recall ordering anything like that.
Guy: No,
they are were ordered by the one that was sitting over there not too long ago...
The customer wearing only briefs,
ordered them for everyone.
Sasaki: Briefs?
Guy: We have already received payment, so there is no need for that.
We no longer intend to ask anything
of the Bakufu or of you police.
And that is because...
SFX: FASA

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Zura: There is a hero
right here.

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Okita: What the hell are these guys doing?
SFX: ZAZA
Okita: Why are you guys
with the Joui Patriots?
Okita: Hey, Yamazaki, you bastard, what the hell do you think you're doing?
Yama: Huh?! Why're you singling me out? You usually treat me like a background character, so why now?
Okita: Depending on your answer I may not let you off the hook. Just you.
Yama: HIH... HIIH!!
SFX: DAH
Yama: You've got it all wrong, Captain Okita!
C'mon, say something!
SFX: GABA

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Elly: Something
Yama: Please don't use classic comedy bits like that!!
SFX: ZUN
Kagura: !! Elly!!
Okita: You guys are with Katsura's group?!
Big Bro Shimaru!
Shimaru: Calm down, Sougo-kun.
Elly: There's an explanation for this.
SFX: GABA GABA
Okita: Um... Guys...
Shimaru: The truth is
listen to
Elly: Forget him, listen to me!
The thing is...
Okita: Your placards and your characters are overlapping, I can't tell what's going on.
SFX: GAH GOH
Elly: Anyhow, we mean you no harm.
Okita: Uh, I'm not the least bit convinced.
SFX: GAN GOH GAH
Elizabeth: Today, we're not the Shinsengumi or the Joui Patriots.
We came here to talk simply as samurai.

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Guys: It's a smokescreeeen!!
SFX: WAAA GEHO GOHO
Gin: !!
Zura: Hurry, go!
Gintoki,
we'll meet at 'dawn'.
Gin: ......!!
That bastard.
What the hell's he scheming?!!

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SFX: GASHAN
Kon: A new inmate?
If they put you in a place like this,
that means you've gotta be a pretty bad criminal. What'd ya do?
Zura: Well...
I have no recollection of doing anything wrong,
but if I had to pick something, I'd say I got in a huge quarrel against the country.
Kon: I see. I'm the opposite.
I was supposed to be protecting the country and somewhere along the way, I ended up here.

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Kon: But I guess if we'd met outside these cells, we'd be enemies, eh?
What a weird coincidence.
Now, we're in the same jail and have a common bond, both just being prisoners.
Though I guess I can't blame you for bringing the affairs of the outside world in here.
But this is gonna be a short association anyhow. What do you say we let bygones be bygones?
Zura: ..........
It's just as you say.
Right now, the outside is the same as in here.
Everyone is a prisoner bound to the prison called the nation.
Enemies and allies have to forgot the cause of their enmity,
become one unit and fight to change the country or else
the country itself will be executed.
It is no longer possible for the Joui Patriots to do anything on their own.
For that reason, I ask you.

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Zura: Shinsengumi Chief
Kondo Isao,
please lend me your strength
so that we may protect this country.
Insert: Now is the time...!!
Bottom: Gintama
...Lesson 528
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