Gintama 602

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[Gintama 602 Translation by Kewl0210]
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Title: 'Gintama'
Narration: In a war long ago...
Somebody: The Gun Smoke Prince, Enshou.
T/N: The name "Enshou" means "Circle" and "Soar" but it's also the same reading as "gun smoke" (Shouen) with the syllables reversed.
Shijaku: Even you, a man said to love the gun smoke of the battlefield more than a gorgeous throne,
must yearning for his hometown right now.
I've heard your wife back on your planet is to give birth soon.
If you have time to hang around places like this, firing particle cannons at neighboring nations like usual, then why don't you go be by your wife's side and do some Lamaze?
A father's battlefield isn't in front of an enemy general, it's by the mother's side, wouldn't you say?
Or is it that a seasoned war veteran is perhaps afraid of becoming someone's father?
Enshou: Shijaku,
that's the fathers of your milk-toast planet.

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En: In the great military nation of Burei, any man boorish enough to return from the battlefield empty handed is not fit to be a father.
T/N: The planet "Burei" is made up of the kanji for "military arts" and "peak/ridge".
En: My wife would my ass back to the battlefield.
She is fighting as well.
She described it as a race
to be the first to gain glory in battle.
SFX: KAPA
Shi: I suppose I should have expected no less from the wife of the Gun Smoke Prince.
Then as your arch-enemy, I will have to wage a war I'm not ashamed of.
Even if that means taking away the father of a child that's about to be born.
En: Arch-enemy? You must be joking, Shijaku.
Seeing as you interfered with my wedding and my grandfather's funeral,
I think your head would make a great toy for my newborn child.
Guy: My Prince, a report from Burei...!!
Shi: Hmph.
It seems we've reached our conclusion already.
The winner is neither you nor me. But rather your wife?

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Shi: What is it, Enshou?
En: The Altana Gate in my country went out of control.
It's thought to have been done artificially, rather than by accident.
The royal capital has been devastated.
As for survivors...

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En: This is the first time I returned from a battlefield empty handed.
But
there's no one here to rebuke me.
Shijaku... Why did you stay quiet and allow me to escape?
Why didn't you use this opening to attack my country?
Shi: ......I believe I told you.
As your arch-enemy, I had to wage a war I wasn't ashamed of.
And the enemy was not a neighboring country.
We know they were somewhere else.
Gun Smoke Prince... Now that you've lost your kingdom, should I still call you that?
Enshou... you returned having achieved something quite glorious.
You gained a comrade with which
to stand and face the irrational rulers known as the Tendoushuu.
En: ..........
Even though I've lost my country,
maybe my place
is still on the battlefield?

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En: Then from this battlefield,
from this gun smoke,
what say I grasp it with my own hands?
Our freedom!!
We, the Altana Liberation Army will release this universe from hands of the Tendoushuu!!
Insert: Lesson 602
Delinquent Kids have Long Hair Going Down the Backs of their Necks
Author: Sorachi Hideaki
Insert: The revenge begins...!!

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Guys: What?!!
Earthlings?!
Guys: A unit with unknown affiliation has attacked an Earth garrison.
They're currently engaged in combat,
but two war ships have already been sunk and the number of casualties is...
Y...
You bastards...

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Guys: Have you lost your minds?!!
Did you come here to die,
or did you honestly think you could win after picking a fight with the Liberation Army...?!!
Utsuro: That's exactly right.
We came to die.
SFX: DO DO

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Utsuro: Along with you
and this planet.
Guys: This is a serious situation.
The one who suggested to silently observe the rebellions going on on Earth
and withdraw our troops was you, Admiral Shijaku.
If we'd exterminated the insurgents straight away and gotten them under our control, this situation could have been avoided.
It is because you needlessly took pity on those monkeys by trying to settle things peacefully that this happened.
Shijaku: ..........

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Nobu: It seems I've ended up making quite an unreasonable-sounding request of you.
But please understand,
we Earthlings do not wish for a meaningless conflict.
If you stop your soldiers,
we in turn will absolutely not take action against you.
And we will bring the heads of the Tendoushuu to you without fail.
If we cannot fulfill our promise, we are prepared to give you my head as reparation.
Shijaku: Resolve to risk your own life to protect a country...
So that is what a 'bowelcut' truly is?
But is there any chance you'll succeed?
Saka: Your freedom is something you just gotta take back on your own.
And our battle starts there.

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Guys: Now that the Tendoushuu's rule has weakened,
the enormous power known as Altana is being used freely all over the universe.
In other words, now each of us has gained the freedom to easily destroy an entire planet if we just felt like it.
If we're crushed by that freedom, then all that awaits us in the future
is destruction.
Because of that, dignitaries of the Liberation Army,
both we and you must fight.
With freedom
and with ourselves.
Shijaku: When they said that, their eyes
were not those of puppets.
They said they would honor their promise with their lives. This situation is not something they caused.
This is a trap setup by someone who wishes to use strife between us to expand the war.

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Guy: The one caught in a trap is you. You fell for the Earthling's smooth talk hook line and...
En: That is not so.
This state of affairs isn't the only trap.
What this man is saying is that this war that the entire universe has been roped into
may be a trap constructed by the Tendoushuu.
So he's saying that if you're going to blame someone,
blame me for starting this war.
Guys: Prince Enshou...
Shijaku: I did not go that far.
Honestly, Prince Shouen is a very simple man when it comes to words and appearances.
Enshou: Shijaku, you used to be part of a royal family as well. Yet now you're a savage warmonger, aren't you?
Shi: Don't group me in with you.
I threw away my hometown and my status and dedicated my body and soul to the battlefield.
I felt great moral justification for this war to regain our freedom and so I stood up with all of you.
However...

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Shijaku: as those Earthlings said,
the end result of freedom without responsibility is only destruction.
Enshou, what awaits us at the end of this war may be destruction.
And because of that, our responsibility may be to stop this war.
Guys: !! Are you insane?! Stop the war?!
Admiral, you...
Enshou: ..........Is the situation that extreme,
Shijaku?
If the reason the Tendoushuu destroyed planet after planet
was to start this war,

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Enshou: then are you saying that they
are trying to elevate the war, draw us into further conflict,
and cause the universe to destroy itself?
Guys: F-
Firrrrrre!!

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Shijaku: Ask them for the details.
Enshou, I've set up a private conference room
for you to meet them.
They'll be here soon.
Without their cooperation, the situation is already beyond control.
En: ...I see.
Shijaku... To be honest with you, there's someone I want you to meet with privately as well.
En: Me? Who might that be?
En: .........
Shijaku, do you remember?
The day the Gun Smoke Prince first fled a battlefield?
On that day, I made a vow.
That I would defeat them, the Tendoushuu that had taken everything from me,
and that this time I would bring back those heads
to my wife and child.
The people assembled here are the same way.
They had their countries and their families taken by the Tendoushuu,
vowed revenge, and started this war.

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En: If this war suddenly ends here,
what do you think will happen to their hatred?
Where do you think our sadness will go?
Shijaku: Enshou, what are you...?
En: One month ago, the Earth Search Unit
found the wreckage of a ship.
The results of the investigation
revealed that the ship belonged to a certain group of people.

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Shi: This war cannot be ended.
And that is because
it has already ended. ["already" in italics].
Allow me to introduce to you my arch-enemies,
the gentlemen of the Tendoushuu.

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Shi: Th... This can't be!
What in the world...?
Enshou, what is going on here?!
These are... the Tendoushuu?! Then are they...!!
En: They're alive.
Surprisingly enough.
Or, perhaps it would be more apt to say they can't die. ["can't" in italics]
I don't know what happened, but these living pieces of meat were found inside the wreckage of the ship.
Shi: Then who is it that's attacking the garrison?!!
En: I don't care who it is.
Whether they're Earthlings or Tendoushuu,
if they're an enemy we can take out our hatred on...
Shi: En... Shou, you...
SFX: GACHARI

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En: Shijaku,
we need an enemy. We need a war.
Otherwise, this enormous hatred and sadness will have no place to go.
If it's ended already,
it cannot end.
Then
we just need it to not end.
As long as these pieces of meat are still living here, as long as they do not appear in front of the Liberation Army,
we have not lost our enemy that is the Tendoushuu.

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En: We can keep fighting.
We can keep hating.
The Gun Smoke Prince
can continue to stand on the battlefield.
Throw him in a jail cell.
And notify the soldiers
exterminate the insurgents
and subjugate the Earth.
Insert: Sadness run amok---
Bottom: Gintama
...Lesson 602
/ End