Gintama 92 1 Takasugi: Isn't it incredible? Takasugi: This sword is the next generation of automatic weaponry. Teaser Text: The whole terrible scenario comes to light!! Tetsuya: This should be more than enough for even a man of your great ambition to overthrow the shogunate!! It is incredible!! Takasugi: The men with the greatest ambitions are usually the ones who become great. Takasugi: But I'm not the type to boast. Takasugi: I can't believe you created such a thing... no, it's exactly as I would expect from the only son of the unequalled master swordsmith, Murata Jintetsu... Takasugi: They say that even common people can produce a genius child, so the child of a genius would be something truly extraodinary. Takasugi: We'll show them that the samurai and the sword are not yet extinct... Tetsuya: I have no interest in your plans or your reasons! Tetsuya: As a swordsmith, my only interest is in making swords that cut! Tetsuya: I have only one thing to tell you! 2 Tetsuya: This sword... Tetsuya: There is nothing it cannot cut! Text: [Chapter 92] Text: [Don't leave your umbrella at home.] Random Samurai: Takasugi Shinsuke? Random Samurai: So he's the one who kidnapped Katsura and gave orders to Okada Nizou? 3 Random Samurai: We've been looking for Katsura-san as well, and we've conducted our own... but that's impossible. Random Samurai: To think that a joui-roushi, one of our own, could do something like this... (joui-roushi could be translated as imperialist party, I guess... back in the real Bakumatsu the anti-shogunate forces said they were for "sonnou joui", which means "revere the emperor, expel the barbarians.") Random Samurai: It can't be Takasugi Shinsuke... he and Katsura-san were sworn comrades in the war against the alien invaders... he couldn't have... Random Samurai: There have been rumors... about Takasugi and that assassin, Nizou... Random Samurai: And Kijima Matako, who wields bloodstained pistols... Random Samurai: And the eccentric strategist, Takechi Henpeita. (lol, I'm dumb, I just got the joke that he's named after Takechi Hanpeita... yeah, Takechi Hanpeita formed the Tosa Loyalist Party (famous for Sakamoto Ryouma, all-around cool guy of the 1860s *lol* to me at least). Takechi organised a lot of assassinations and was a bit of a xenophobic nutjob. LOOK YOU CAN LEARN SHIT FROM MANGA. THERE WILL BE A TEST AT THE END.) Random Samurai: Also, the master swordsman Kawakami Bansai, a assassin like Nizou. (Based on Kawakami Gensai, aka the dude that Kenshin from Rurouni Kenshin was based on. Supposedly the real Kawakami was kind of girly looking but a total bastard.) Random Samurai: These five are said to be at the center of the Kiheitai revival... ("kiheitai" literally means "cavalry", but it's written with characters that make it look like "demon soldier group." The real Takasugi Shinsaku's group was also called Kiheitai, but he wrote it as "commando group" or literally "miracle soldier group." Yay random Japanese wordplay. Try not to learn too much, okay? I'm sure that won't be too hard if you're anything like the average Shounen Jump reader.) Shinpachi: Kiheitai? Random Samurai: It's the volunteer army lead by Takasugi. Literally, soldiers that fight like demons. Random Samurai: He secretly formed a group of the strongest soldiers... Random: And with this phenomonal army he planned to stage a coup d'etat. His ambition is terrifying... Random Samurai: Recently, Katsura-san has moved away from the idea of expelling the aliens by military force, and has followed a different path. Random Samurai: Maybe this is Takasugi's way of avenging what he sees as a betrayal by his close friend... 4 Another Samurai: How can we stand by so uselessly at a time like this?! Yet Another Samurai: Let's help sneak Elizabeth-san into Takasugi's base!! Another Samuri: Here's Katsura-san's sword! Elizabeth's sign: Calm down! Yet Another Samurai: Use it to cut off Takasugi's head! Elizabeth: ! Elizabeth's sign: Wait! Gintoki: I see... So Takasugi and your brother... Gintoki: Have some kind of unexplained connection...? Gintoki: So? As far as I know, your brother is just being duped into acting as a front man. Gintoki: I just wanna find that sword. It's already had a taste of my blood. Gintoki: I guess that Nizou guy really has it out for me... well, maybe they both do... Gintoki: It's a bad situation, but do you really know everything that's going on? 5 Gintoki: Maybe your brother didn't tell you what he was really trying to do? Gintoki: Maybe your brother is going to turn around at the last second? Gintoki: You know, people can read your face like an issue of Shounen Jump? Tetsuko: ...I'm sorry. Tetsuko: There's nothing I can say. Tetsuko: I understand everything you've said, but... Tetsuko: If you do find something... please forgive him... I haven't said a word of this to anyone... Gintoki: You two really are alike. Gintoki: Maybe you're plotting murder together? Otae: GIN-SAN! Gintoki: You wouldn't even need a sword. A real assassin could use a kitchen knife. Gintoki: If you strike with the real desire to kill, any weapon will do. Tetsuko: You sound just like my late father. Tetsuko: Those words have stained my brother and I. Tetsuko: My brother became a swordsmith even though he doesn't have the brains for it... Tetsuko: He frantically beat the iron as if he were trying to exceed our father. Tetsuko: He studied until he became like a robot, just so he could create a great sword. Tetsuko: It was then that he started hanging around with strange people... 6 Tetsuko: I thought that maybe they were bad people, but I didn't even try to stop him... Tetsuko: We should just make swords and not think about the consequences. Tetsuko: That's out job... Tetsuko: I know a killer can use a kitchen knife... Tetsuko: But a sword has no other purpose than to kill. Tetsuko: ...So I... Tetsuko: I can't help feeling guilty about it... Tetsuko: And that sword... Tetsuko: That my brother worked so hard on... Tetsuko: I knew that if anyone ever used it... Tetsuko: I would regret that too. Tetsuko: But I knew I couldn't stop him on my own, so I came here. Tetsuko: I don't know what to do... I... 7 Gintoki: I don't know what to do either. Otae: Where are you going with those injuries!? Otae: Did your brain get damaged too? Gintoki: Hey, I don't need any consolation money, okay? Gintoki: You should go home. Gintoki: Sorry for your troubles. Shinpachi: [Gin-san can't get up, so I have no choice but to go myself...] Shinpachi: [I'm sure Kagura-chan is on that boat...] 8 Shinpachi: [But how can I sneak on board?] Shinpachi: [The place is crawling with rounin...] Shinpachi: [They look pretty scary... what should I do?] Shinpachi: [!?] Shinpachi: [WHAT THE HELL...!?] Shinpachi: [WHAT IS THAT FREAKISH THING!?] Kijima: *ugh* Kijima: Ow... Kijima: Damn that Nizou... now my voice is all hoarse... Kijima: [That sword...] Kijima: [I can't believe I'm alive... that was a really close one...] Kijima: ! 9 Kagura: LET ME GO!! Kagura: WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU ARE!? Kagura: Gin-san is gonna beat you guys to a pulp!! Kijima: Oh boy... Kijima: Looks like you're all pretty pulped. Kijima: You should hurry up and apologise, Takechi-senpai. Kijima: I can't believe you let one brat reduce you to this. Takechi: I don't think we'll get any useful information out of her, but it's a shame to kill her... Takechi: In two of three years, a girl like that could be truly astounding... Kijima: Please stop being such a lolicon, Senpai. Takechi: I'm not a lolicon. I'm a feminist. 10 Takechi: Just look - her injury from last night is already healed. Takechi: She's unusually strong, and her skin is very pale. Kijima: Please, senpai, don't sound so perverse... Takechi: I AM NOT! Didn't I tell you? I'm a feminist! And I just happen to like children! Kijima: Then how are you NOT a lolicon!? Takechi: I give up. You just can't understand it. Kijima: You're an idiot. Takechi: As I was saying, her features match those of the Yato Clan... she'll be killed. Kijima: You're the one who's gonna die. Kijima: I've heard of the Yato, of course - a clan of hired mercenaries? She must have been targeting Shinsuke-sama. Why else would a professional assassin be here? Kijima: But who sent her? Takechi: She spoke of a "Zura"... Kijima: YOu've got to be kidding! Kijima: Feminist, lolicon, whatever - you're so pathetic it makes me sick. Kijima: Let me show you how it's done. Kijima: Hey, you... Kijima: DAMN YOU!!! How dare you do such a thing in your position!? I'll kill you!! Takechi: No, you can't, in two or three years she'll be magnificent... Kijima: Don't hold me back, Takechi-hentai!! Takechi: That's "senpai", not "hentai!" (I'm sure you know what hentai is because you've got 30 GB of it on your hard drive. If you don't know, go ask your mother.) 11 Man: Oi, hey you. Man: Yeah, you, the freaky-looking guy. Man: I've never seen such a freak around here before. Man: I'd remember somebody that weird. Shinpachi: [Damn it, what are they doing!?] Shinpachi: [Watch out!!] Elizabeth's sign: Excuse me, I'm in a bit of a hurry... Men: Huh? Elizabeth's sign: I'm going to the gates of hell! 12 Kagura: Alright, make it a spitwad from deep i your throat! Takechi: Stop,stop, this is dirty! Kagura: ...And spit! Kagura and Kijima: Bleh!! Kijima: What!? Kagura: What was that!? 13 Man: What the hell are you doing!? Man: Intruder alert!! Shinpachi: [Elizabe...] Elizabeth's sign: Hurry up! 14 Shinpachi: [Elizabeth-senpai!!!!!!!!!!!!] Shinpachi: Uwaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!! Otae: I'm relieved. Gintoki: Huh? Otae: You can't go anywhere! Otae: Not with that body. Gintoki: *sigh* 15 Otae: If you did try to go, Otae: You'd definitely die. Gintoki: Yeah.. Otae: It's a shame about that girl... Otae: But what can you do? Gintoki: Yeah, yeah. Otae: ......Gin-san? Gintoki: Yeah? Otae: Please stop doing such reckless things. Otae: If something happened to you, Shin-chan and Kagura-chan would be sad. 16 Gintoki: Yeah. Otae: I know you've always been a little wild and mischevious, but... Otae: Isn't it time to grow up a little? Gintoki: It's WORK, you idiot!! Gintoki: I know you still read Jump! I saw you buying Akamaru! People must have thought you were buying it for your kid! (Akamaru Jump is one of the many divisions of Jump, it publishes mostly one-shots and previews of stuff that might go on the be serialised in Weekly Jump.) Otae: Fine, fine. Otae: I get it. Gintoki: Jeez, sorry. Man: Watch where you're going, bitch! 17 Gintoki's letter: "Wait for me at the Kajiya - The Freelancer" Gintoki: Maybe I'm onld enough to know better, but... Gintoki: ! 18 Otae's letter: That's my favorite umbrella, so be sure to return it to me. Otae: Tch. Otae: That's either a woman with no style... Otae: Or a stupid man.