Gintama 549

Sad.

[Gintama 549 Translation by Kewl0210]
Page 1:
Nobume: Isaburou,
Insert: ☆The anime is airing every Wednesday on TV Tokyo at 6PM!!
☆The newest, Jump Comics volume 59 is now on sale as well!!
Nobume: wake up.
If you die in a place like this
I'll never forgive you.
We promised, didn't we?
We promised that I would be the one to kill you.
Insert: At the edge of that land of death----
Title: Lesson 549
Nobume
Author: Sorachi Hideaki

Page 2:
Nobume: So I
can't die yet
and neither can you.
Sasaki: ......
GEHOH
For God's sake.
You grab onto a corpse and start talking about what?
I forgot about that promise a long, long time ago.

Page 3:
Sasaki: If we're bound by that rusty chain
then you'll die, too.
Nobme: It should be no concern of yours
what happens to your enemy that killed your family.
Saski: Nobume-san,
I really don't... have any enemies here, do I?
Back then
there was something odd in that place where my wife was killed.
There was a trail of blood like someone had run away...

Page 4:
Sasaki: Nobume-san,
the one that attacked my wife that night
was not you, was it?
Every one of my wife's attendants were slaughtered.
That being the case, then the one that left that trail of blood would have to be the attacker.
However, it is doubtful that the resistance from the attendants caused a wound.
They were splayed about the ground quite cleanly, like they did not even have a chance to use their tools to fight back against their enemy.
Then just who was it
that dealt such severe wounds to such skilled assassins and wiped them out?

Page 5:
Sasaki: The only one that could do such a thing
is the illegitimate child of the Shinigami.
......
Nobume-san,
I realized that possibility.
That you
did not kill Saishi.
And that you were trying to protect her, weren't you?

Page 6:
Sasaki: Knowing that,
I called you my enemy
and used you as a tool
for my revenge.
SFX: ZUZU...
SFX: DOH
Sasaki: I am... not worth you risking your life for.
And
you no longer have any reason to be used by me.
Nobume: Isaburou,
Whatever happened, that doesn't change the fact that I could not protect your family.
That... is enough to make me your enemy, isn't it?
And
just like you...

Page 7:
Nobume: Even if it was with an enemy,
I wanted someone to be by my side.
Even if it meant being called an enemy,
I wanted to be next to someone.
I didn't want to be all alone.
I didn't want to be left all by myself.
Isn't that enough of a reason
for us to stay by each other's side?

Page 8:
Nobume: So please, Isaburou,
stand up.
Don't let those legs give out.
We may have lost everything again,
but it's different from back then.
The name you gave me
will not disappear.
Imai Nobume
will never leave your side.
No matter what we lose or how many times we lose it,
as long as you do not willingly close those eyes,

Page 9:
SFX: DOH DOH

Page 10:
Nobume: You are
we are
not alone.
Guys: We can't hold out any longeeer!!
SFX: GOGOGO
Guys: Hurry! If we don't launch now, the ship will be sunk before we can escape!!
SFX: DOH
Someone: Not yeeeeet!!

Page 11:
Hiji: Just try to launch this thing without my go-ahead!
I'll chop the fucking wings off!!
Just a little more. Just a little longer!
Hurryyyyy!!

Page 12:
Guys: Vice Chiiiiief!!
Enemies approaching from the rear as well...!!
SFX: WAAA
Guy: Prepare to launch!!
SFX: DOH
Guy: Take off the moment they get on board!!
Papers: Hanako [Top one]
ho [But off right one]
Mami [bottom one]
T/N: The name Yuuko (友子) contains the kanji for the word "friend" (Yuu) and "child" (ko) which is a common 2nd kanji for girls names.
Phone: What do you think about the name ''Yuuko'? I don't have many friends, so it could be a name given to a child with the hope that she is blessed with lots of friends.

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Phone: Then how about 'Kyouko'? I'm not the most cooperative person, so it would be a name filled with the hope she can cooperate with everyone.
Then what about 'Yuuko'? So she grows up to be a child that people sympathize with?
Then how about 'Ganko'. Surely then she will be a child with a strong will that never yields to any obstacle and will have a one-track mind just like you. [Cut off on the right]
T/N: Kyouko (協子) contains the kanji for "cooperation". Yuuko (優子) means kind. Ganko (頑子) means obstinate.
Phone: Do you have any alternate suggestions? Enough already. Let's just go with 'Man**'. That'll be fine.
T/N: They're suggesting 'Manko', meaning vagina.

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[Oh man it's some bald guy.]

Page 15:
Sasaki: There are too many ideas I want to put into her name, I can't narrow it down.
Handwritten: I'm just too elite.
Sasaki: .........
Well, that...
might be all right.

Page 16:
Sasaki: If she can just
grow up healthy,
for the rest, we'll just believe.
Paper: Nobume
T/N: Nobume is made up of the kanji for "belief/faith/confidence" and "woman".
Sasaki: She's an elite girl after all.
I'd better mail this out.

Page 17:
SFX: DODOH
SFX: DON
Nobume: Isaburooooooou!
SFX: DOGOO

Page 18:
Sasaki: I'm glad I believed.
You have lots of friends,
you get along so well with everyone,
and you're kind
and stubborn,

Page 19:
Sasaki: Nobume-san.
My email
has finally
been delivered.
Insert: The Monster of Thee Heavens falls----
Bottom: Gintama
...Lesson 549
/ End