Gintama 529

It's raining again.

[Gintama 529 Translation by Kewl0210]
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Title: 'Gintama'
Insert: In a certain prison----
Kondou: Y...
You're...
Why are...
you here...?
Katsu: I'm going to save this country.
But for that goal, Kondou......
I need your, the Shinsengumi's, power.
But in order to save you from this predicament

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Katsura: you need my,
'Runaway Kotarou's', power.
Kondou: You don't mean...
you
Katsura: Kondou, I am going to free you from this place.
So
save this country with me.

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Insert: Old enemies
entrust their back to each other.
Bottom Insert: ☆The new series of the 'Gintama' TV Anime starts April 2015 on Tokyo TV and affiliates!! Details to be announced next issue!!
☆The newest, Jump Comics Volume 57 is now on sale as well!!
TItle: Lesson 529
Forgotten Thing
Author: Sorachi Hideaki

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Sasaki: Katsura has been......
Nobume: Yes.
Sasaki: 'The Young Noble of Madness', 'Runaway Kotarou',
the Joui Patriot ringleader that goes by many aliases.
I've wondered what sort of man he is.
What a brief, disappointing end, wasn't it?
Nobume: If he was not after Lord Nobunobu's head,
then
perhaps he went to save that man?

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Sasaki: Regardless, we have hooked a big catch with unexpectedly cheap bait.
Though I was fishing for a different fish,
it seems there was value in hanging around that hooligan shogun that wants nothing more than to show off his newly-found power.
He's lost his memory of what happened before and after the incident, so he should not have realized that we allowed Sakata-san to escape.
Matsudaira Katakuriko, Kondou Isao... and Katsura Kotarou.
I certainly never expected so many heads that made up the old era to end up lined up together.
A truly appropriate opening for the new era.
Nobume: ......So,
what will we be doing for that new era of yours?
With everyone, both allies (Takasugi) and enemies (the Shinsengumi) gone,
and us standing on top of this pile of corpses,
are we to sit sprawled up on our perch
and call our job done?

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Sasaki: It's a surprisingly comfy seat.
Would you like to try sitting in this command chair?
Nobume: I would rather crawl on the bare ground
then sit in a place like that.
SFX: UIIN
Sasaki: Honestly,
what an excitable girl.
I haven't forgotten.
Both you
and I

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Sasaki: were born there, the bare ground.
So our place to return to is the same.
SFX: KORO KORO
Katsura: Swallow that pill on my signal.
It will allow you to die without waiting the 3 remaining days to your execution.
Though it will in actuality be a kind of state of suspended animation.
If it fools the guards,
Guard: The gorilla's dead!!!
Katsura: The gates of this place will open without the gates of hell opening for you.
Kondou: H-H-Hold on!!
What the hell are you planning to do?!!
You're a Joui Patriot.......
You got yourself caught on purpose to rescue your arch enemy, the Shinsengumi Chief?

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Katsura: There is no need to be concerned. To me, a prison is no different than a diner. It's nothing more than a place to enjoy free food.
Kon: Wait, food at a diner isn't free!! Have you been dining and dashing?!
Zura: In addition, it was you who said we said that in here, we should forget our pasts.
Therefore what I am doing is nothing more than eating a meal at a diner and returning an escaped gorilla back to his cage at the zoo.
Kon: But at the end there you hit me with a comeback about gorilla cages!!
I dunno what you're up to, but there's no way I'm going to let you cause any more of an uproar!! It's gonna cause trouble for Toshi and the others on the outside!!
Zura: There is no need to worry about that, either.
Right about now your comrades should be joining forces with Elizabeth and concocting a plan to rescue us.
Kon: Have you been listening to me?!
What do you mean joining forces?!
Don't tell me you've dragged them into this......!!
That's gonna end everyone's heads up on pikes!! Even if they succeed, who's going to protect Edo afterwards?!
Katsura: As things stand, nothing can be protected.
Not even one woman in love.

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Kon: !!
Did something happen to Otae-san?!
Tae: I'm sorry.

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Tae: First the Shinsengumi, now the Yorozuya...
If I just hadn't... done that sort of thing back there...
I'm sorry, everyone...
Kagura: It is not your fault, Boss Lady.
Shin: Yeah. The one at fault here is...
Hiji: We, the police, are the ones
that couldn't do anything.
Tae: ...Hijikata-san.
Hiji: I can't do anything.
Kondou-san
put his life on the line
to entrust this police notebook to me.
But... The way things are going now...

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Hiji: As police
we can't protect Kondou-san, Edo, anything at all.
Kagura ....So will you throw away that police notebook,
join hands with a former enemy, and pick a fight with the whole country?
Hiji: .........
Is that what they're saying they'll do?
Kagura: .........
They say they will join with whoever they have to if they can save the Gorilla.
But...
Okita: I'm
not going anywhere.

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Okita: 4th article of the Kyokuchuu Hatto.
In the absense of the Chief, the right to command is passed to the Vice Chief and all officers are to obey him.
I'm... not moving until he gives orders.
I made it this far. If I'm going to go save Kondou-san or abandon him, I'm going to stick with him.
Someone: -----Once we move, we can't go back.
but if we allow ourselves to be kept by a country like this,
we won't be able to protect anyone from it.

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Zura: If you die obeying this rotten country's laws
the your comrades, loved ones
and as this country cannot be saved.
If there's something you want to protect,
break that warped cell apart.
If there is something you cannot protect,
tear off those rusty chains.
Is what kept you all gripping your swords
some brittle laws that change with the passing of time?

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Zura: No.
Tape: Do Not Enter
Sign: Special Police Shinsengumi Police Station
ZUra: It's those iron laws you swore your souls to,
the Kyokuchuu Hatto, is it not?
Gin: Forget something?

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Hiji: ......
Yeah.
Gin: But if you take it back,
that'll be the end.
If you open that door,
you won't be able to come back here again.
I'm the same way.
A long time ago, I did something a lot like that.

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Gin: There were two things I wanted to protect.
I didn't want to lose either of them.
But it ended up where if I didn't throw away one of them,
I would end up losing both.
Hiji: Which did you choose?
Gin: I tried to protect both,
but that was the same as throwing both away.

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Gin: ...Even now, I dream about it.
Wondering if there was some better way.
But there's nothing for you to hesitate about, right?
Because if you act now.
you can still make it in time.
SFX: GOGOGO

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SFX: ZAH

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Gin: You can still protect both.
Knowing you,
and knowing them.
SFX: BASAA
Okita: Forget something, Vice Chief?
Hurry and get changed
and give us our instructions!!
Hiji: .........
To hell with instructions.
SFX: BASAA
Hiji: Whoever scribbled on my uniform, commit seppuku!!
Insert: The signal fire has been lit!!
Bottom: Gintama
...Lesson 529
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