Gintama 537

I finished this last night but I forgot to put it up here.

[Gintama 537 Translation by Kewl0210]
Page 0 (Cover):
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Top Yellow: Commemorating the Farewell Shinsengumi Arc climax &the start of the new TV anime series, the opening color pages!!
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Blue Band: The chapter starts on the next page!!

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Yama: Hey,
who the hell're you, ahn?
Insert: This is Yamazaki.
Title: Lesson 537
'That Name is...'
Yama: You're that sneaky bastard that's been loitering around here lately, right?
You can't fool Mountainzaki's nose.
Do you know what this place you're sniffing around is?
If you act shady around here, we, the Special Peace-Keeping Unit the Roushigmi are gonna crack down on...
SFX: GAN

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Hiji: You're the one we're gonna crack down on.
Yama: H-Hijikata-san!!
Are you standing around picking your nose or picking fights?
If you don't want me to pick for you, then go back to training. And do an extra 1,000 practice swings.
Yama: Yes, siiiir!!
Yamazaki Sagaru, heading back to work!!
Hiji: Sorry for our men's rudeness...
?
Aren't you
Lord Matsudaira's close aide...?
Sasaki: You've changed, haven't you?
These stray dogs that barking in all different directions,
in just a few days,

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Sasaki: are now howling at the heavens
as a pack
because of the one wolf
that's mixed in with them.

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Sasaki: That iron will that even repels blades off of him,
that heart he has that can take the shape of anyone and enwrap them like water...
He is quite a mysterious man,
What is his name?

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Hiji: Kondou Isao.
Our general.

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Sasaki: Kondou Isao.
A mysterious man
which possesses both kindness and austerity.
Phone: It would be nice if, rather than strait-laced like you, our child were born like that boy.
Matsudai: Hoh. That's something quite fashionable for somebody like you, you've got there.
SFX: NU BIKUH (Surprise)
Sasaki: L-L-L- LORD MATSUDAIRAAA!! [The name is a different font]
Matsu: I see, I see. You're a newlywed, right?
Isn't your wife the daughter of that noble family the Yuukis? Rumor has it she's quite a beauty.

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Matsudai: Ah, but I really didn't expect the elite Sasaki-dono to still have the humanness to do something like flirt with his new wife.
Sasaki: Y-You have it all wrong, this is, um...!!
She's visiting home to deliver our child, so she forced this on me so it would be easier for us to keep contact!
Matsu: I see. So you're not flirting by email, but you've definitely done some naughty things elsewhere before.
Sasaki: Please, enough of that, Lord Matsudaira.
I'm keeping all contact to the minimum necessary. And I don't even know how to send emails.
Matsu: In the coming era, it's not just swords, but emails you'll need to wield in order to seduce a lady.
Sasaki: You're just talking about cabaret girls, aren't you?!
Matsu: Anyhow, at least reply to her.
Sasaki: What I would like to hear about is your reply, Lord Matsudaira.
You've heard what they're saying, correct?
Matsu: You mean the Bakufu's notice about making the Roushigumi guys into an official police organization?
Sasaki: Yes. With Kondou Isao as their leader, those people have done some remarkable things.
The number of outlaw ronin they've arrested has astonished even us police.

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Sasaki: It is not just Kondou. His subordinate, Hijikata, for example,
is enforcing strict discipline on that ragtag mob, turning it into an organization.
Similarly, the other follower, Okita is at the young age of 14, yet due to his swordsmanship he is already feared amongst the ronin.
I am sure such activity has reached the ears of those above as well, if they are giving them a status fitting of such a heavy responsibility.
Matsu: Heavy responsibility? What the hell do they want them to do?
Sasaki: Guarding a member of one of the three Tokugawa branch families, Hitotsubashi Narinari
and also his son, Hitotsubashi Nobunobu.
...That is what I'll be telling them.
During their guard over them, the Hitotsubashi father and son will be attacked by insurgents.
To allow that assassination be successful,
take responsibility for it, and cut their stomachs is what their job is.
Matsu: .........
That ain't the job of the police.
Sasaki: That is correct.
SFX: SHUBO

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Sasaki: Lord Hitotsubashi known as a genius among the cabinet,
but because of that, he is shunned by the one who holds the actual power, Sadasada-sama. So he has been kept at a distance from any important positions.
However, he is secretly being supported by the anti-Sadasada faction.
And it seems that there is a plan being made to make his son, Nobunobu, the next shogun.
So essentially, in order to pinch off his political enemies, Lord Sadasada is using stray dogs to be buried in the darkness along with them.
Such a level of formality is needed in order to crush one of the three branches of the Tokugawa family, wouldn't you say?
They were originally born as something to eat and be eaten by the Joui Patriots.
It seems that those above see them as nothing more than sacrificial pawns.
Matsu: What do you think,
Sasaki?
Would you say that those people who were gathered just to be sacrificial pawns,
still now have no more value than that?
It's ironic...
While we've got way more samurai-like titles than them with our families and positions,
but because we're bound by them we can't do anything samurai-like at all.

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Matsu: We have those stray dogs that are trying to be more samurai-like than the samurai because of the fact that they have nothing
and then there's us that can't do anything because we're samurai.
I can't tell which ones are the real samurai now.
...Sasaki,
when is your kid gonna be born?
Sasaki: 1 month from now.
Matsu: Is that right...?
In an era like this one, you might not be able to do anything samurai-like or fatherly,
but you can at least
respond to her friggin' emails.

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[Ok, everybody finally shut up. Maybe I can actually get sleep tonight.]

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Guys: What the hell do we do about the name?
Name? What're you talking about?
C'mon, we can't keep calling ourselves the Roushigumi.
We're not ronin anymore.
We're real samurai now.
Hiji: You sure are being hasty. If we screw up the Lord Hitotsubashi guard mission, now only will we not move up in the world, we'll all have to cut our stomachs.
Okita: WHat're you talking about? Thanks to the rules you made, Hijikata-san, we'll have to cut our stomachs just because we put too much mayonnaise on our food.
Anyhow,
we sure have come a long way.
We came from Bu Province with nothing but the clothes on our backs
and we finally made it here.

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Sasaki: What an unexpected meeting.
I was just a bit lost as well.
Regarding what name to give...
Guys: Oh,
are you talking about a child?
Scren: It's gonna happen soon.
Have you thought of a name for our child? I'm looking forward to when the two of us see you.
Kondou: I see. Well, congratulations.
We're practically newborn kids ourselves.
Sasaki: ......Yes, but in an era as confusing as this one,
you have to wonder just how you can raise a child and just what kind of parent you should be.
If you cannot even know where you are going, how can you know what to name your child?
What kind of samurai
do you people want to be?

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Kon: I don't know.
It's very possible
that even if we become samurai
and it comes time to die like samurai,
that we still won't
have an answer to that.

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Kon: ----But

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Kon: That's all right.
What I think
is there's more than one way to be a samurai.
I think that lost, troubled posture you have when you're trying to find your place,
is what a samurai is.
So
keep searching.
Keep struggling.
From this maze-like era flooded with all kinds of things,
choose your own true, honest path and push forward.
Yes... our name is

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SFX: DOH
SFX: DOH
Guys: the Shinsengumiiii!!
T/N: Shinsengumi = True Choice Group (Different meaning from the historical one)
Insert: Howl-----!!
Bottom: Gintama
...Lesson 537 / End