Gintama 530

The crows are gathering.

[Gintama 530 Translation by Kewl0210]
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Title: 'Gintama'
Insert: Mortal enemies, confronting each other...!!

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Eli: It seems you have resolved yourself, huh?
Hiji: ...What do you mean?
The resolve to
go sword-to-sword with you Joui Patriots?
Did you think that the Shinsengumi and Joui Patriots
could really join hands?
SFX: ZAH
There's no way we could just forget about all the grudges we've held over the years.
SFX: ZAH

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Hiji: As long as you guys are Joui Patriots,
SFX: SHURA
Hiji: and we are the Shinsengumi,
it's our destiny to fight each other.
So this joint operation
will be our final battle.
Even if we rescue Kondou-san and survive this war,
the Shinsengumi is going to disappear from this world.
And if you guys are going to join forces with us, you won't be able to go back to the way things were for you, either.
It won't just be the country, you'll also make enemies of Joui Patriots.
In other words, this battle is going to be
the requiem for bot the Shinsengumi and the Joui Patriots.
There's no need to forget about grudges and positions.
You guys are free to swing those swords like you always do until the Shinsengumi is destroyed.

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SFX: KIIN
Hiji: And until the end,
we'll swing our swords as Shinsengumi as well.
And in the new era or whatever that comes after this,
you happen to run into some idiots that aren't anybody anymore,
then how 'bout instead of blades,
we exchange sake cups instead?

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Hiji: Together with our generals.
Insert: A united struggle begins-----!!
Title: Lesson 530
The Shogun and the Villains (Joui Patriots)
Author: Sorachi Hideaki
Kondou: We're gonna die.
If you do something like that, everyone's gonna...
Toshi and the others are gonna die meaningless deaths along with your comrades.
For some schmuck like me, are you just gonna......?
Zura: No one is going to die.

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Zura: That is because I know.
I know all about how strong the Shinsengumi is from these many years of terrible torment you've put us through.
And you should know, Kondou.
Know the tenacity of the Joui Patriots after the terrible burns we suffered at your hands.
We should know.
That if the Shinsengumi and the Joui Patriots,
if we join together, no country or anything for that matter is worth fearing.
Tottsan: Good grief.
Zura: ?
Tottsan: There was a guy who said the same thing a while back.
To you, Katsura.

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Matsu: What the hell's happening to the world
when the Shogun that rules the world below the heavens and the worst villains under the heavens
are sayin' the same nonsense?
Which one's the crazy one?
Handwritten: Tottsan...
Zura: .........
I made a promise with that crazy shogun.
Shigeshige: Katsura,
the next time we meet, one may lose their head, but...
Zura: Yes, I know.
The one remaining must create a new world.
I have no objections.

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Matsu: Keh.
Looks like both of you are nuts.
......Katsura,
SFX: ZAH
Matsu: Hurry up and hand me onna those pills, too.
Kon: T-Tottsan!!
Matsu: Kondou, our luck ran out when we started serving a crazy master.
And you've gotta be crazy
to avenge a crazy Shogun.
And now that we've made an enemy out of this country,
there's really no use in bellowing about little details like who's an enemy and who's an ally.
If I can smoke just one more cigarette,
I'll be allies with Yama, Gautama Buddha, or whomever else I need to.
T/N: Yama is the deity that judges souls in hell in East Asian mythology. Guatama Buddha is the founder of Buddhism.

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Kon: !!
Zura: Hmph. So that master had retainers like this, eh?
Aye, understood. Then let us go together.
As that man's former enemy and former retainers,
let us go to the place he dreamed of.
To the dawn of this country!!

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SFX: ZUSHAAA
SFX: PARA PARA
Kon: KA~~~TSURAAA~~~?!

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Kon: What the hell's this guy doiiiing?!!!
He decides on his own to save somebody and ends himself in a state of apparent death, alooone?!
Matsu: Hey, what's going on?!! I still haven't heard a thing about breaking out of here! Hurry and wake him!!
Kon: Wake him?! How the hell do you wake up a guy in suspended animation?!!
Wake up, Zuraaaa!!!
Er, hey, maybe he's not in suspended animation, he's actually dead?!
Handwritten: It's not Zura, it's Katsura.
Kon: He's leaving something that kinda looks like a dying message!!
Matsu: You idiooot! Like hell somebody in a state of apparent death is gonna wake up from something half-assed like that!!
You've gotta bring him back to life like you're trying to kill him!!
SFX: BUN
SFX: GON
Kon: What do we do if we do kill hiiiiim?!!
Matsu: How was that? He woke up, right? The rocks on the floor sure came in handy when trying to escape.
Kon: No they didn't!! And now he's not gonna be able to be handy ever again!!
SFX: DOKU DOKU

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SFX: ZAH ZAH ZAH
Kon: Oh no, guards...!!
If we get seen like this... What do we do, Tottsan?!!
Matsu: There's no choice. We've gotta play dead, too, now!!
Kon: HUUUH?!
Handwritten: Gorilla
Matsu: You use the same strategy that you use when you run into a bear in the woods as when you run into a gorilla in a cage!!
Kon: I've never heard 'a that!! And I'm the gorilla!!
There's no way in hell we're gonna fool them like that! Hey, Tottsa...
!!
SFX: ZAH
Handwritten: It's not Gorilla, It's Gorilla Gorilla Gorilla.

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SFX: CHIRAH (Glance)

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SFX: BASASA
SFX: KAA KAA
Oboro: Mukuro... Rescind your bloodlust.
We may have parted ways once,
but now we are in positions serving the same Heaven (Tendoushuu).
Nobumi: I have no intention of serving that lot a second time.

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Oboro: Regardless of how you stand, and whomever your master is,
that way of working which has been removing those that are obstacles to the new government
has brought great joy to the Tendoushuu.
All that is left are Matsudaira and Kondou, yes?
I had intended to use their heads as bait to lure out other insurgents...
but it seems there were some large ones in that school of fish.
if we fall behind with them as our opponents,
it is possible our arms may be torn off along with the bait.
The teachings of the Yatagarasu are never to be forgotten.
When the crow that delivers death drops its feathers,
it is already flowing away.

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SFX: DOGOO
SFX: GAH
SFX: MISHI MISHI
Kon: This guy...
isn't just some guard...!!
SFX: GOH
SFX: GASHAAN

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Zura: ----Kondou,
we may have differing positions,
but I do believe that our desire to fight for the sake of the country
is the same.

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SFX: GOH
Matsu: KONDOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOU!!
SFX: FOSHAA

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SFX: GAH
SFX: DON
Zura: ...Now
SFX: PEH
Zura: both you (the Shinsengumi Chief) and I (a Joui Patriot)
have died once.
Zura: Now, will we be reborn as enemies or allies?
Kon: Keh. How should I know?
Insert: Now, escape!!
SFX: DOH DOH
Bottom: Gintama
...Lesson 530
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