Gintama 558

[Gintama 558 Translation by Kewl0210]
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Top Insert: They've boarded Nobunobu's warships!!
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TItle: 'Gintama'
Nobu: Y-
You!!
D-Don't move from that spot!!
If you do...
Your fleet
will be showered with my army's gunfire!!

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Gin: Just try it.
What do you think's gonna happen first? You guys destroying our fleet
Or us
taking your shogun's head?
Guys: P...
Protect the shoguuuuun!!!

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Insert: Collision----!!
Title: Lesson 558
Hometown
Author: Sorachi Hideaki

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[Lookat them gooo]

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[Even Sakamoto looks like a baddass]

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Bansai: In the blink of an eye
we went from that state of utter despair...

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Bansai: into this......
These
are the men that fought alongside Shinsuke.
Someone: All units, hold your firrrre!!

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SFX: PIH
Guys: Quit fighting, everybody!!
We're all friends now!!
Gin: Ma~~n. Once we got to talking, it turned out there was a slew of misunderstandings.
Like whether we were laughing at the shogun's 'Drag me to Hell' eyebrows or not.
Zura: But we resolved that misunderstanding, too.
It wasn't his eyebrows but his 'short haircut' that we were laughing at.
It's kinda funny he's got such an old man's trimmed haircut.
Gin: WAHHAHHAHHA! You're one to talk with that old-man's long hair of yours, Zura!
Zura: It's not long hair, it's Katsura!!
Gin: So anyhow, we resolved the whole thing by saying we'd trim Zura's long hair next time.
Zuraa: Why do I have to have messed up hair like that?!!

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Gin: Also, as a symbol of our reconciliation with him, the shogun has invited us to a 'Hawk Trim Meet'.
It's this get-together where we go to town trimming every hawk-head in the universe.
So because of that, he decided that this military operation is being halted and he wants you retainers to go on home to earth ahead of him.
Nobu: There is no need.
You may be intending to take me as a hostage in order to escape,
but you will not be able to run. Not you or the retainers.
If you cannot kill these insurgents,
then all of you retainers, cut your bellies.
Because you are so useless that you cannot protect one shogun
I have had to suffer disgraces at the hands of low-lives like these.
If you get in the way of my new era, then retainers will be treated the same as insurgents.
Either cut down the enemy or cut down yourselves. It's your choice.
So, which do you pick? Hurry and get up.
Are you not heeding my orders? Are you aware of who I am?

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Nobu: I am the barbarian-subduing Shogun Tokugawa Nobuno-
SFX: BUH
SFX: DODOO

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Bansai: Even retainers that protect a shogun
do not need the resolve to offer up their lives for the sake of a shogun.
Leave.
This country no longer
has a ruler worth such a price.
SFX: PUNN
Handwritten: A-ah! One of the shogun's teeth got knocked out again......
Gin: So, how's it feel?
Overthrowing the Bakufu... How's it feel for the desire you've held for so long to be granted so easily?

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Bansai: Nothing at all has been granted, I daresay.
Even if we have taken the head of a doll, that head will simply be replaced. Nothing about this country will change.
With the Shinsengumi, Mimawarigumi, and the retainers all having abandoned it,
even if you fell that empty castle that once held the ones that both halted that rampage and the ones that defended it,
I daresay it is quite meaningless.
How ironic.
Because this man stood at the top of a country he became alone,
but that man,
because his wings were broken and he fell to earth, there were those that gather there.

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Bansai: Shinsuke
had all of you.
Perhaps with these men
Shinsuke can once again...
There is something I must talk with you all about.
When those unforeseen circumstances occurred and our unit was scattered,
there is a secret place where we promised to assemble.
I am sorry, Shinsuke.
I know you may get fly into a rage at me for this,

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Bansai: But if we are to fight Harusame, then I daresay we need these men's strength.
No, beyond that... I have seen it with my own eyes.
The face you once made
when you lived alongside these men,
Shinsuke.

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Abuto: What an elegant face he has when he sleeps.
No matter how many people are being burned by the flames of war outside those eyelids
he dozes in his dreams with a cool look on his face.
I swear, there are no generals anywhere that are any good.
Seriously, back when the Seventh Division was in danger of being wiped out,
what sorta dreams was our general off entranced in?
He's he one who said to gather here no matter what happened.

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Abuto: ...But I really never thought
he'd 'a picked here.
The planet he abandoned, Rakuyou.
T/N: The kanji for Rakuyou mean 'burn' and 'sunshine'.
One giant ruin broken apart by huge wars.
Recluses and rogues chased from planets all over will gather here.
So it's well suited for hiding from Harusame,
but I thoroughly
do not think that this old hometown
is a place we wanted to get near.
SFX: ZAH

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Abuto: So even guys like you
get homesick sometimes, huh?
You monster father and son.
Insert: Long ago, a parent and his children lived there on that planet----
Bottom: Gintama
...Lesson 558
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