Gintama 539

[Gintama 539 Translation by Kewl0210]
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Insert: Isaburo emails with his wife.
Phopne: Are you still worrying over a name? If you're the one that came up with it, any name will be
Title: Lesson 538
Undelivered Email
[The phone says the same thing here]
SFX: PARA
SFX: MOGU MOGU (Chewing)

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Sasaki: Youngster, you should not be eating in a place like that.
Nobume: ......
Someone: When you're not in prison,
no one has the right to complain about what you eat.
Guy: Sasaki-dono,
I'm glad you came.
Sasaki: Sakon-dono, this is different from what I was told.
You mean this doesn't seem like an appropriate place to hold covert talks about an assassination?
Do not worry.
The ones here most suited to assassination are those children.

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Sakon: The Tenshouin Naraku.
Since long ago, they have been used by those currently in power. They are the assassination group that shoulders the darkness of this country.
They get adopted by Naraku and are raised to kill people.
They are fine assassins.
Especially that young girl called Mukuro. With the Naraku, she is a prodigy that's been called the bastard child of a shinigami.
She is so preeminent in the organization that she is counted as one of the 'Naraku Three'.
I'm certain that she will be able to complete this case with ease.
Sasaki: .........
So in other words, you intend to leave this assassination of the Hitotsubashi father and son
to those youngsters?
Sakon: Do you object?
Perhaps that children cannot be made to do such a thing?

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Sakon: This is all for the sake of maintaining peace.
For that end, we must become stepping stones in the name of our benevolent Lord Sadasada and support this country.
We must use any means necessary to dispose of those that impede it.
Yes. It is the will of the heavens.
SFX: NUH
Sakon: So will you do it? Or will you not?
Nobume: Is it odd for children that know nothing of the world to be killing people?
Or is it odd for adults that know quite a bit to be the ones killing?
I am a child yet I kill people,
and you kill people yet you are worrying over the name of your soon-to-be-born child.
Both are quite contrary to reason.
[Same phone as before.]

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SFX: WAH
Guys: Cut your way through here no matter what it takes!
SFX: NUH
Paper: Nmai Stick
SFX: DOOON
Guys: Protect our general
to the eeeend!
SFX: WAA
SFX: ZUH ZUH

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SFX: DOFUU
SFX: HYAGAAA
SFX: DOH
SFX: GOH

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SFX: GAH
SFX: GOOU
SFX: GAKISHIKAA

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Oboro: Men that do not know when to give up.
The shogun has died
and Takasugi has disappeared.
But
like how you have inherited Shigeshige's will,
you have inherited
Takasugi's will as well?
Sasaki Isaburou.
A treacherous friend.
The reason that man climbed to the position of director of police
and used his power along with Nobunobu to remove the power of the former administration
was not to protect the new administration or his own status.

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Oboro: That man...
Someone: Day 14 of the plan.
Hitotsubashi Narinari and Nobunobu
will be targeted on their way back from an inspection of a shipbuilding yard.
Their guard is the Roushigumi, now Shinsengumi, that was employed by the shogunate for this position.
They may be police in name only, but they should have been able to put together a minimum level of presentation.
On their way back, they will take a rest at a post-town and you will create a gap in their guard.
Distract them with the youngsters and arrange assassins.
If you give them 10 seconds, those youngsters should be able to fell the Hitotsubashi father and son's heads.

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Somebody: We do not care if the Shinsengumi has many casualties.
They will have to take responsibility and cut their bellies anyhow.
Use them as you like.
Guys: Oookay, let's take a break here.
How's Lord Hitotsubashi doing, Kondou-san?
Kon: Matsudaira Tottsan said to stay on the safe side and be sure not to bring them out of the palanquin until we reach the destination.
Hiji: Sheesh. So basically he told us not to take any breaks, huh?
Kon: Well that's what we want, right? This is the 'Shinsengumi's' first mission.
It's vital we carry it out safely to show them our strength.
Matsu: ----It's ironic.
While we've got way more samurai-like
titles than them with our families and positions,
Because
we're bound
by those
things, we
can't do
anything samurai-like
at all.
I can't tell which ones
are the real samurai now.

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Guys: !
What's that?
SFX: TON
Kid: Sorry, sorry!
Old guy, could you throw that ball over he~~re?!!
Guys: Who're you calling old guuuuy?!!
Nobume: You kill people yet you are worrying over the name of your soon-to-be-born child.
Both are quite contrary to reason.
Kon: There's somebody pretty important riding in that palanquin, so you can't get too close.
Go play somewhere else, kid.
Kid: O... Okay... But
there are these scary old guys with katanas all over the place and they told us to go away.
We don't have anywhere to play now.
Hiji: Is that true, kid?
Kon: No way... Do you think some Joui Patriots could be waiting to ambush us?
Hurry and patrol the area.
SFX: ZAZAZAZA
Kon: Hey, kid. Where are these scary old men and how many of them were...
!!

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Guys: It... can't be.
Stoooooop, kid!
Kon: ---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 then it's fine
for you to worry and hesitate, too, right?
About your child's name.
I'm sure that's what a father is, right?

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Magazine: O-ero.
Kid: Umm, I got you the magazine you wanted, Lord Hitotsubashi.
Guy: Oh, good work!
SFX: GARARA
Kid: Um... I'm sorry. A little while ago
I was told I'd get a big reward if I brought a porno mag to the palanquin
by a long-faced old guy.

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SFX: WAAAA
Guys: !!
A... An attaaaack!!
There really were Joui Patriots waiting to ambush us!!
Kon: DOn't let them take one step towards the palanquiiin!!
Let's go, you bastards!!
Matsu: Hey, I said to go get a really masochistic one.
SFX: PIPIPI
Sasaki: It would be quite embarrassing if you got assassinated with something like that on you, wouldn't it?
SFX: PIPIPIPIPI

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Sasaki: Not-Lord Hitotsubashi.
Rather Lord Matsudaira.
Matsu: Shut up
long-faced old guy.
Sasaki: I circulated information regarding Lord Hitotsubashi's expedition among the Joui Ronin and agitated them.
If we're lucky, they will undergo the ronin's attack before any assassination can take place.
Matsu: They're already undergoing it.
I wonder if we can really prevent the assassination this way.
SFX: DOH
Matsu: With unexpected different attack, the expedition will be halted and even if the assassination ends at just an attempt, none of the higher-ups are likely to blame them.
Of course, that is on the premise that they survive this deadly situation and return home.
In the end, their fate is in their hands, it would seem.
Even if they fail, you will just have to die, Lord Matsudaira. So you can rest easy and enter Nirvana.

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Matsu: Wait, Sasaki.
Why...
did you lend me a hand?
Sasaki: ........
I have no recollection of lending you a hand.
All I did was move my fingers to send emails.
I studied how to use my cell phone.
SFX: PIH
Phone: It's a healthy baby girl. Unfortunately she has a face just like yours, but she is very cute.
Sasaki: So I had better hurry and respond.
That is the era we are in. I may not be able to become a great samurai or a great father.
But
I do believe I will able to send a great name.

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SFX: BASA BASA
Okita: You're saying that Sasaki...
saved us?
Nobumi: Not just you.
I think that back then, Isaburou
tried to save... us children as well.

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Nobume: ...But
there was no one there...
to save Isaburou.
No one could save him.
Sasaki: I finally came up with a good name.
This time I'm sure
you will like it, too.
When will I get there?
Please email me when I get close.
Or even if I'm far.
Phone: Could not be sent.
Could not be sent.
Could not be sent.
Sasaki: Please email me.
I'll go meet you
wherever you are.

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Sasaki: You and
Nobume.
Insert: A tragedy... lit up by the moon.
Bottom: Gintama
...Lesson 539
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