Gintama 579

[Gintama 579 Translation by Kewl0210]
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SFX: DODOOON
Title: Gintama
Umi: With the Yato Homeworld
having been devastated long before,
there should not have been anyone there at all.
But there, on that planet of death
stood a woman.
Insert: The one Umibouzu encountered was---

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SFX: PASA
Umi: And I "stood up", too.
You...
I never would've dreamt
that there'd be someone here
on this planet of death.

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Umi: Hey, wait!!
SFX: ZAH
Woman: This planet
is not dead.
The soil is dried out, the water is rotten,
and people can no longer live here,
but those ones that eat dried out soil
are alive.
The ones that drink rotten water
are alive.
I am alive.
It is only one species, 'people', among the countless creatures that live on this planet that have died out.
You should not measure a planet based purely on your standards.
You should leave.
I do not want to erase another life from this world for the sake of an intruder.
SFX: DOH DOH
Woman: I will have to quiet them down.

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Umi: At that moment
I realized.
The master of this planet
was that woman.
Insert: Noble and beautiful---
Title: Lesson 579
Kouan's Master
Author: Sorachi Hideaki

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Umi: H-Hey!
Wai-
SFX: DOOON
Umi: I said wait, goddammiiit!!

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SFX: OOOO
SFX: GAOON
Umi: Outta my waaay!!
SFX: DOOON
Umi: Listen
to what I'm sayiiiing!!
That woman is dangerous
I could end up dead if I get involved with her.
That's what my instincts told me.
But at the same time, my instincts also told me...

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Umi: U... Um, m-miss?
How about instead of suppressing these orochi, you suppress the orochi in my pants?
SFX: GACHA
SFX: DOKAAAA
Umi: It had to be this woman.
From then, for three days and nights,
that woman fought nonstop to suppress the Orochi.
And for three days and three nights
I sweet talked her nonstop to suppress my own orochi.

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Umi: It was a bit too savage and primitive an expression of instinct to call it love at first sight.
How about we get some teaa?!!
I was so flustered that it was like I'd gone back to being a little brat again. I was being tossed around by my instincts.
But that woman didn't even spare a glance at me.
When the woman had defeated the 59th Orochi,
they started to retreat.
SFX: BUCHIH

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Umi: And I
made the final Orochi stand down.
There was something that not my instincts,
but my self wanted to tell her.
My name is Kankou.
Maybe I
could get your name next time I come here.
If the master of Kouan will allow it, that is.
Woman: You followed me for three days and nights to say something like that?
SFX: ZAH

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Umi: It's just good manners to knock on the door and tell them your name when you come to a stranger's house.
Sorry for all the ruckus I caused.
Please apologize to your family, those Orochi, for me,
Master-dono.
Woman: ..........
This isn't a stranger's house.
It's your, the Yato's, homeworld.
If you want to come back to it, you're free to do so without anyone's permission.
Umi: But as far as I know,
the only one curious enough to not only knock on the door, but visit a place like this at all, is you.
The Orochi weren't rejecting you. They were just excited and playing around.
Woman: Perhaps here on this planet that everyone had left behind and forgotten
they was just happy to see someone
that remembered them.

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Woman: By the way,
I'm not the master of Kouan.
I'm Kouka.
T/N: Kouka (江華) is made up of the kanji for inlet/bay and flower/splendor.
Umi: After that, I would periodically return to the planet.
And at some point, the Orochi stopped attacking me.
Kouka: I guess they've recognized you as one of this planet's allies.
Or perhaps as a new master.
You seem like someone that could really fill that role.
Umi: There's bare anything here to eat.
The place's only got rotten soil and water.
I doubt I'd last 10 days here.
Kouka, why in the world are you staying at a place like this?

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Kouka: The same as you all.
You all threw this planet away because you couldn't live on it anymore.
Well can't live anywhere but here. ["but" in italics.]
That is why I'm here.
After the great war, the small number of Yato that survived scattered, moving to different planets.
But there were those that chose not to abandon their planet and die along with it.
Of those that chose to survive eating the poison on their poison-covered planet,
many did not live for a long time after that, but among them there were those that adapted to the harsh environment.
I am the last remaining descendant of one of those commendable tribes.
If I felt like it, I could survive on eating those smelly leather boots of yours.
Though I think I'd be better off dying.
Umi: Well you don't have any friends or family, so what reason would you have eating a boot out here by yourself.
Though I guess you don't have a reason for leaving, either.
If you ask me, anywhere is heaven compared to this place.
And... aren't you lonely?

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Kouka: Lonely?
I could never conceive of such a thing.
I would not leave this place for some reason like that.
Even if I had such an emotion,
I would have long forgotten when it was I was feeling it.
I was born and raised on this planet.
No baby feels bitterly about the cradle they sleep in.
I don't know how it looks to your eyes,
but I like this life where I have a whole planet to myself and can do whatever I want well enough.
And it's not like there's nothing fun to do here.
I can read every book on the planet or sing in a loud voice without caring about how people see me,
or tease the
occasional visitor.

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Umi: I would always talk to Kouka about all the different planets I had visited
thinking someone who had never set foot off her own planet would be deeply interested.
But she always just blew smoke with a disinterested look on her face.
Yet, she always stayed and patiently listened to what I had to say.
Once, she interrupted my talk and said,
Kankou, that's enough talking about that sort of thing.
I'm
tired of it.
Of the talk.
I want to see other planets
with my own eyes.
Umi: But you...
Kouka: It's okay if it's from far away.
But would you bring me with you?

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Umi: She stood silently starting at those planets.
It was the same bored-looking face as usual, but she stood there in that spot, transfixed.
Umi: Pretty, isn't it?
Planets that people live on are basically always like that.
But space if vast, and greatness is comparative. Have you heard of Earth?
Kouka: Earth?
Umi: They're apparently a remote planet that's still developing, but I've heard it's a really beautiful planet blessed with pure water and fertile soil.
Kouka: ..........
Umi: Kouka... Want to check it out with me?
Earth?
I mean, not just Earth, if there's anywhere you want to go,
I, Umibouzu-sama, will take you from the world you knew to wherever it is you want to be.
So will you be my...
My...

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Umi: My, uh...
P-Partner? How 'bout it!!
Y-Yeah!! My business partner!!
If you and me join up, we can be the strongest alien hunters out there!! D-Don't you think?!
Kouka: Partner... huh?
That doesn't... sound bad.
If we could do something like that
I'm sure it would
be fun.
Umi: That day, even though she usually never saw me off,
she gazed at my ship until it was out of sight.

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Umi: And the next time I visited Kouan,
her house had become an empty shell.
Then I realized.
The reason she never said saw me off
except for that one day.
I looked for her nonstop for 12 days, not eating or drinking a thing.
But I couldn't find her.
And then the Orochi quietly stood up.

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Kouka: Geez, what am I gonna do with you?
When the hell did you tame the Orochi this much?
I didn't intend to ever see you again,
so why
did you come all the way out here?
I told you, didn't I?
I'm part of a clan that dies with the planet.
I've always lived alone.
I need to live alone.
So...
SFX: ZUZU...

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Kouka: why did you make me remember these emotions?
Umi: Sorry, Kouka.
But you and I are the same.
No matter how busy a planet I'm on,
no matter how surrounded by people I are,
without you,
I'm lonely.
Insert: One destiny quietly began got moving---
Bottom: Gintama
...Lesson 579
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