Gintama 540

More sads.

[Gintama 540 Translation by Kewl0210]
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Oboro: Sasaki Isaburou.
Insert: The past is told...
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Oboro: Long ago, that man,
in order to save the Shinsengumi,
no,
in order to preserve his own dignity as a samurai,
he worked out a plan to deceive the heavens (Tendoushuu).
But...
The crows did not overlook that.
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Insert: The price he paid was far too large...
Title: Lesson 540
Villain
Sorachi Hideaki
Oboro: Sasaki should have died
together with his wife and child.

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Oboro: But
our crow
did not cut down what it should have.

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[Dang.]

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Oboro: Sasaki did not cut down his target either.
Because he locked his sights
on the enemy he really should cut down.
----After that, Sasaki curried Lord Hitotsubashi's favor.
The way he used his ability to make the Hitotsubashi Faction's power grow to a level where it was the only force that could resist Sadasada
was while establishing the status of a faction within the Bakufu as well as his own status
he started the Mimawarigumi, made contact with the Joui Patriots, and brought in their power as well.
He conspired with Takasugi's group,
assassinated Sadasada, and even drove his successor Shigeshige to lose his standing.

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Oboro: Finally, the Hitotsubashi had hegemony of the land under the heavens.
They had finally obtained enormous power.
But still,
to that man, it was only part-way down his path.
The enemy Sasaki set his sights on...
was not the crow that killed his wife and child,
nor was it Sadasada or the Tendoushuu that had prompted them to act.
That man's enemy...

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Oboro: was himself,
Sasaki Isaburou.
The reason he went all over with Nobunobu demonstrating the power of the state, suppressing and purging opposing forces
was to make himself a symbol of the new administration's misrule, making him an enemy of the populace.
By doing so, he is attempting to prompt the rise of a rebellious force
and repaint the era as one of 'overthrowing the Bakufu'.

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Oboro: Capturing Kondou
and dissolving the Shinsengumi
was all in preparation for that.
To make you people incur a rebellion.
To, along with you,
end the 'Era of the Samurai'.
Gin: .........!!
Oboro: -----Yes, that man
is like you.
SFX: GOGOGOGOGOGOGO

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Oboro: Just a rebel.
SFX: GAKAH
SFX: DOOON

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SFX: GOPAAA
SFX: DOGOOO
SFX: KARAN
SFX: ZUSHAAA
Hiji: GUH!
SFX: KAHAH
Somebody: Th...
This is...

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SFX: DOON DOON
SFX: DODOOON DOGOOON
Sasaki: Dear me.
Even being a villain is quite hard work.
SFX: ZAH
Sasaki: There are enemies everywhere.
It doesn't look like anyone will become email buddies with me now.
Very well. An elite does both good deeds and evil deeds in an elite manner.
I, the demon king Sasaki Isaburou will take every one of them on together.
SFX: YORO... (Unsteady)

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Sasaki: However, Hijikata-san, you are different.
A demon of an opponent like you cannot be handled as a side job.
I will clean this up promptly, so would you wait just a minute?
SFX: GOGOGOGO
Nobume: Isaburou shot the fiery arrow of rebellion at this world.
But Naraku realized that without delay.
Before the flame of 'overthrowing the Bakufu' could spread across the country, before the rebel forces could become a force to topple the Bakufu,
they are trying to completely extinguish the sparks.

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Nobume: So Isaburou
SFX: PIPIPIPI
SFX: DOOON DOOON
Guys: !!
Nobume: Intends to use the flame occurring here.
He is investing all of the power he can access on this island.
SFX: OOOOOOOOOO
Nobume: He will collide the rebel forces and Naraku with it
and destroy all of them completely
SFX: DODOOON
SFX: WAAAAA
Nobume: and scrape away this country's power.

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SFX: WAAAA
Okita: He's trying to get enemies and allies to crush each other?
Is this guy trying to commit seppuku and take the whole country with him?
SFX: GAKIIIN
Okita: What the hell kinda war is that?
What the hell kinda general is that?
SFX: GIRI GIRI
Okita: Do you intend to just sit back and watch
as your general commits double suicide with this country?
Nobume: ...That is
my duty, after all.

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Sasaki: ...Youngster,
why didn't you cut me down?
You said it yourself. Both you and I are murders that act contrary to reason.
That's exactly right. As I am no, I will not hesitate to kill a child like you.
Yet why do you not cut me down?
Why
are those things dripping down your cheeks?

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Nobume: ...I don't know.
Why are these things are dripping from my eyes.
Why can't I cut you down?
Why do I have to cut all of you down?
A long time ago... a certain person told me.
He said that humans are creatures that must carry weakness with them from the time they're born.
But we are not creatures that simply suffer being swung around by our weakness.
He said that we can suffer by trying to resist the weakness and change ourselves.
That we are free creatures.
So maybe
the thing you were so frantically resisting,
I
have to resist, too.

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Nobume: I am not deserving of cutting you down.
I only deserve to be cut down by you.
SFX: SUH
Sasaki: ......If you want to be cut down,
then I will not do it.
What I have to cut down
is this era where such acts of barbarity are committed by the country.
And...... myself
that could not protect anything from this era.
...Keep using that sword for my sake.
And when the time comes,

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Sasaki: use that sword to cut me down.
That is my revenge.
Nobume: -----Yes.
That is my duty.
Even after taking everything from Isaburou,
he could not slay me.
I ended up living much longer.
My final duty
is that this time
I will do the slaying.

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Nobume: I will...
put an end to that person for him.
SFX: GAKIIIN
Nobume: !!
Kagura: Stop right there!!
That is enough...... That is plenty, yes? You two!
Insert: Fate, severed!!
Bottom: Gintama
...Lesson 540
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