Gintama 309

p.1
[1 inset] The battle is over. What lies ahead after he awakens...!?
[Title] Reading 309: Humbled to Make Your Acquaintance
[3] My, my, looks like the noisy one's awake
[4] Would've really helped us out if you'd just stayed asleep
[5] They could at least have taken some care assigning the rooms / Would you normally have a stabbing victim and the assailant sharing a room?

p.2
[2] This isn't / a hospital
[3] it's some kind of house of horrors! / GU GU* / PISHAAA* / With you and Seirogan over there!!**
* Zzzz zzzzz / sksssh
** T/N: Seirogan is a pill with a well known trumpet logo. Otose appears to be referring to his snoring.
[4] Somehow... It seems that every last one of us / stubbornly survived
[5] You didn't survive, you were spared
[6] She nursed you for three days and three nights without a wink of sleep / that daughter of yours
[7] And then she asked me, though I collapsed from reopening my wounds, to watch over you and make sure you didn't run again / Father and daughter sure are alike in being nuisances. She was so formal in her request I couldn't refuse.

p.3
[1] ......Well, nothing I can do will work / whether I stab you or tie you up, you just can't be stopped, you old bat. / I don't want to hear it from you / you stubborn old man
[2] I thought I was pretty damn stubborn, too / but I've realized now that compared to you all, I'm just a good-natured, reasonable old man / To hell with everyone / imitating Tatsugorou
[3] No... he might actually be even more thickheaded than Tatsugorou / seeing as how I lost a contest of wills
[4] ......For someone who lost a fight / you certainly have a pleasant look on your face
[5] Yeah... / First time in a long while I've had someone to fight with

p.4
[1] Someone who'd fight me man to man
[3] Seeing as I lost in such a thrillin' way / I can't help but smile
[4] I've thrown lots of things away along the road I've walked to keep my promise / But him / He's been living out his promise by pickin' everythin' up and savin' it / me included
[5] ......Seems my chains / had rusted out right under my nose
[6] He took these ugly chains hanging around my neck / and smashed 'em

p.5
[1] Even if you weren't here, I would've... / We would've protected this town
[2] 20 years... For 20 years, I went all out for the sake of my promise, and now look at the sorry state I'm in
[3] In the end, all I've done is cause misery all around me / that one promise is the only thing I could protect
[4] Otose
[5] You've / done so much for me
[6] But I've just been spinning my wheels / and in the end
[7] I couldn't pay you back at all

p.6
[1] I'm sorry / that I couldn't bring you happiness...
[3] Jirochou... / I...
[4] DODOTSU*
* booom
[5] PARA PARA* / Owww
* crumble

p.7
[1] GABATSU* / What the hell're you guys doing!!? Just when it was getting interesting!!
* fwish
[2] Tha's why I told ya not ta lean on me!! What're you doin, moron!? / It's cuz of that huge camera ya got, bro / Shut up! This is our Uncle's rarely-seen love scene!! We've got to make it a good keepsake for the gang!!
[3] Oh my, don't men have any delicacy? Barging in on someone's sentimental moment like that / And what the hell is that you've got in your hand!!? / Everyone, please cease and desist. We cannot increase Otose-sama's embarrassment any further. We can collect footage later / Recording mode is OFF / PITSU* / I definitely heard something!! You had it turned on, didn't you!!? You were definitely recording!
* beep
[4] Heyyy!! Just what do you think you're doing at a time like this!!? / GYA* / We've just come for a little get-well visit / GYA* / Get well!!? That's sake!! Do you know just where the hell you are!!?
* commotion / commotion
[5] Now now, let's put formalities aside!! This is gift to commemorate the end of the war!! / What're you talking about, this is our sake! You rats can slurp up the mud!! / WA- GYA* / What'd you say? Do you know how much trouble it was being on standby on the old hag's roof? / Shut it! Think about it, whose fault is this whole mess, anyway?
* commotion
[6] GYA GYA / DOTA*
* commotion / bang
[7] BATA* / DOGASHAA*
* smack / smash
[8] Jirochou / take a look

p.8
[1] In this town / in this town that you and Tatsugorou have protected / your will is definitely being carried on
[2] seeing as how there are / so many fools who've inherited your spirit
[3] You've protected this town splendidly, and delivered it safely to the next generation / You've fulfilled your promise splendidly, Jirochou
[4] Otose...
[5] So don't / leave her behind anymore
[6] Don't you still have plenty / of promises you have left to fulfill?

p.9
[1] You know what, Jirochou? / GYA GYA* / I'm really happy right now
* commotion
[2] It was here in Kabukichou
[3] that I met Tatsugorou
[4] and the rest of them
[5] and where I rediscovered / the Jirochou we loved so much
[7] TON*
* tap

p.10
[1] Thanks for everything / Jirochou
[3] GOSHATSU*
* wipe
[4] This is no good / It looks like something's gone wrong with my eyes
[5] Just when you think you've gone incontinent / ......it's like that up here too
[6] I hate / getting old
[8] ZAZA*
* shff

p.11
[1] Understand? The Four Heavenly Kings are already at death's door / Ignore the others, just concentrate on killing them / If they were only to disappear, the thugs will degenerate into a disorderly mob and meet their end as well
[2] I won't let it end like this / Just watch, Heavenly Kings
[3] DOSHUUUU* / I've been waiting, Kada-sama~~~~
* splish
[4] Y... / DOSHASHA* / You!!
* spsssh
[5] Unlike a man, / a woman won't allow herself to be fooled a second time
[6] Sorry, but~~~ could you stay out of the way~~ / I finally / get to see pops' face like this / please don't get in the way any more~~~~

p.12
[1] Quit whining, little girl!! / Don't you understand that you're the one who's the biggest obstacle!!? / I understand just fine
[2] This obstacle's gonna disappear / DOTSU DOTSU*
* shink shink
[3] It's just / that I'll be taking you obstacles with me
[4] You're the only one who'll be disappearing!! / JYAKI*
* shing
[5] DOTSU*
* thud
[6] DOSHA*
* fwump

p.13
[1] B...
[2] Bro!!
[3] We can't let you offer yourself up as the price to end this fight / DODOSHATSU* / You're mistaken if you think your sins will disappear if you and the enemy take each other out, bitch!!
* kafwump
[4] ...so they say. Now then, what're you going to do, Pirako-chan? / ZATSU*
* fwump
[5] .....My duties have ended / KARAN* / All that's left is for me to be boiled or grilled or whatever~
* clang
[6] That's admirable... You sure? Everything settled with your old man?
[7] I... I realized~~ / That pops has to stay here
[8] It's because pops... because Jirochou was here in Kabukichou that the flowers could bloom for the first time / I... don't think I can bring an expression like that to pops' face
[9] It's frustrating... / but I don't have... the confidence to win...... against a wonderful town like this

p.14
[1] So... it's fine / The pops I wanted to see... The pops mom and I were waiting for
[2] already... / came home
[3] Bro / members of the Yorozuya / ZAZATSU* / It's would be too absurd for me to apologize, but let me say this
* shff
[4] Thank you so much / for letting me see my pops in the end
[5] Though I couldn't become either / Pops' daughter or your underling
[7] even though it was just for a moment
[8] I was really happy to be...... / ......a resident of this town
[9] Now, please settle the debt...**
** T/N: This might be too subtle in the TL, but the insinuation is for her life to serve as compensation for the trouble she's caused
[10] PASA*
* fwip

p.15
[1] Sorry, but / ZATSU ZATSU* / I'm not sadistic enough to hit a crying girl. I'm exhausted / Wait at the place written there
* shff shff
[2] Once these wounds are healed up, I'll definitely come to settle the score / Stop your crying by then
[3] GIIII* / BATAN*
* creak / slam
[4] WAI WAI* / GYA GYA*
* yay / commotion
[5] Huh? / Who's the strongest man in Kabukichou?
[6] You from out of town? / Every once in a while some fearless hoodlum tries to make a name for himself in this town
[7] I had those same bright eyes when I was young, but / this town is different. It's too dangerous
[8] Among the Four Heavenly Kings, Kada's been overthrown and Jirochou retired / The powers that've maintained this delicate balance have started to crumble / This year's been unusually tense

p.17
[1] Is that you... Bro...?
[4] I'm humbled to make your acquaintance / ZATSU*
* shff
[5] I was born and raised in Kabukichou in Edo / To match that town of hooligans, I lived as a hooligan and for a long time, I ordered my life around swords and spears
[6] It's embarrassing, but having been warned to follow the path I should truly be by brothers trying to save me / I'm on a journey to repent and pick up the things I dropped along the way as I clung to the path of the gambler
[7] I've been called chivalrous, and a kingpin, and all sorts of things / But now I've thrown all that away
[8] BASATSU*
* fwish

p.18
[1] I am father to Chinpirako, / known as Jirochou
[3] ......Pardon me, but / your introduction?
[4] I... I am... / ....the lowest underling of the Yorozuya...
[5] in Kabukichou in Edo... / I am on a journey to find my missing father
[6] I've come... this far... / POTA POTA* / through the warmth and chivalrous hearts of my brothers
* drip drip
[7] I am daughter to Jirochou, / known as Chinpirako**
** T/N: This whole page is a jikoshoukai, or self-introduction, in a quasi-yakuza manner

p.19
[2] It must be fate that we would meet in such a place / If you'd allow, might I accompany you... on that journey?
[7 inset] A place to return to...
[Bubble bottom] I'm home