Gintama 571

Seleepy...

[Gintama 571 Translation by Kewl0210]
Page 1:
Insert: What the 'eye' grasps is projections of killing intent...!!
Bat: This time, I won't let you get away.
Title: 'Gintama'
SFX: GISHI
Bat: Your target is
my sword arm, my life as a swordsman.

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Bat: The real one
is you.
Insert: Is the conclusion near----?!
SFX: DON
Title: Lesson 571
Manjuus and Breakfast
Author: Sorachi Hideaki
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SFX: GIRIRI
Somebody: ----When a swordsman perceives their own death,
what do they think?

Page 4:
Somebody: What do they think at the final moment
when the swordsman is dying?
With this 'eye' of mine,
I've seen it numerous times.
Swordsman dying with the flash of a sword
do not have sadness nor regret nor the time to give praise.
What is there
is nothing.

Page 5:
Bat: In order to accept the irrationality of 'death',
a swordsman simply becomes empty.
With true despair, even the word despair ceases to exist.
'Hollow' (Utsuro).
So when I saw that 'hollowness',
I sense them.
Victory and
my own life.

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Gin: I think I'll have
sunny-side up eggs for breakfast tomorrow.

Page 7:
Bat: !!
No!!!
This person is...
He's still...
far from death...!!

Page 8:
Bat: THEEEEEEEEEERE!!

Page 9:
Gin: Too bad, that one's a miss, too~~~
I told you before, that eye's too good.
When you get greedy and try to see everything, you even lose sight of what's right in front of you.
Even if I don't goggle with some huge eye,
even I can see what's deep in your stomach.
So how about I try and hit it?
SFX: GAGAH

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Gin: It's empty.

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[Dang]

Page 12:
SFX: DOGAGA GOSHAAA
SFX: GARA GARA (CLATTER)
Bat: You're the second person.
SFX: ZAH
Gin: The second person whose mind
I could not fully read with this eye.
One was
a man that was thinking about his breakfast tomorrow when he was standing at the abyss of death.

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Bat: And the other
is a man that is 'empty' while being alive.
What is... that thing to you?
Are you intending to go head to head with that thing?
......I'd like to know.
Gin: There's something I'd really like you to see for me with that eye.
Bat: Even if I can open this eye again,
there's no way I could see the outcome of a fight between two strange people whose minds I can't read.
...You're a man that lived with death right beside him.
Whether it's someone else's death or your own,
you always lived in a place where you could teach your hand out and touch it.
And even right now, you still live there.
To you, 'breakfast' and 'death' are not all that different.
Like a neighbor that visits like it's perfectly natural to do.

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Bat: But that man has no 'life' or 'death'.
How do you challenge an 'emptiness' like that to a fight?
Before long, that hollow despair could swallow you and the whole world.
Gin: .........
Unfortunately, I don't have a neat eye like yours that can see all sorts of shit.
It's all I can do to follow after the thing in front of my eyes.
So then
even if it's the abyss of death or just a big hollow emptiness,
I'm not fighting for the manjuu set the front of my grave.
I'm fighting for the breakfast I'll eat the next day.
T/N: A manjuu is a Japanese confectionary. This is a reference to putting offerings at graves or altars.

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Gin: That's all.
Bat: ...How ironic.
Now that this 'eye' is closed off, I can see for the first time
that that is not a bottomless swamp,
but rather a bottomless idiocy.
SFX: DODOON
SFX: GOGOGOGO

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Guys: Shirei-sama!!
After Fusou, Houtei was shot down as well!!
Shi: ......What are they doing?
Their enemy is not a battleship...
It's just
one old man!!
Abuto: ----Honestly, what's going on?
Whether it's the son or that dad,
they really seem to have the power to crush Harusame all on their own.
If this ends up as a fight that goes down in legends, I wonder if we'll even get to play a part in it.
SFX: DODOON

Page 17:
SFX: WAAAA
Abuto: As the men who protected a legendary back.
Guys: Hurryyy!!
While Abuto-dono has drawn the enemy's attention,
we must protect
the commander's life at all.......
SFX: DOOON
Guys: Commandeeeer!!
Insert: A sudden development...!!
Next issue, the opening color pages!!
Bottom: Gintama
...Lesson 571
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