08x01 - The Monster and the Monster's Child
Posted: 09/24/22 05:49
Gin: Here we are.
Gin: It's the late night slot.
Sign: Late Night
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Kag: This place is kinda dusty.
Gin: Deal with it.
Kag: What's this?
Gin: Probably something the previous occupant left behind.
Sign: To the Late Night Slot
Gin: Now, then...
Gin: Shinpachi.
Shin: Yes?
Gin: This is a late night slot.
Gin: We'll need to greet the viewers appropriately.
Shin: Right.
Gin: Hello to all you night owls watching the television.
Gin: The Gintama anime will now resume in its late night incarnation.
Gin: One, two...
Gin: Gilgamesh!
Shin: You just wanted to do that, didn't you?!
Sign: Please watch this program in a bright room and at a safe distance from your TV!!!!!!
Gin: Ow...
Gin: Damn, not yet.
Gin: My sword ain't broken yet.
Gin: One more time,
Gin: Shoyo!
Sho: You nearly had me there, Gintoki.
Gin: Where, exactly?
Sho: There.
Gin: Could you be more specific?
Sho: Right around there.
Gin: How can I be as strong as you, Shoyo?
Gin: I'd never lost until I met you, not even to grown-ups.
Gin: But you're far less simple than a grown-up.
Gin: You're a giant.
Sho: You're wrong, Gintoki. I am...
Sho: a Hanshin fan.
Gin: Would you listen to me?
Gin: I'm saying I've never seen a monster like you.
Gin: What the hell were you up to before we met?
Gin: Who the hell are you?
Sho: You were called the "Corpse-Eating Devil," so you should understand.
Sho: There's no difference between a monster and the child of a monster.
Sho: They are both inhuman beings that are only born within a bloody pool of sin.
Sho: And a monster's sword cannot cut another monster.
Sho: So, Gintoki,
Sho: stop trying to grow stronger by imitating me.
Sho: I'm not going to teach you how to wield the sword like me, either.
Sho: You have to grow stronger than me using your own sword,
Sho: the sword of a human.
Sho: I expect great things from you.
Sho: Someday, hopefully...
U: You'll come cut down the monster that I am.
U: It's too bad.
U: Like I said, a monster's sword...
U: Your sword can't reach me.
Gin: Just a dream, huh?
Gintama,OP Card: Gintama
OP Card: The Battle on Rakuyo
Kat: Elizabeth! An enemy att*ck?
Gin: That's right.
Gin: A seriously lethal w*apon was about to pierce my skull.
Kat: What?
Kat: The evil arm of the bakufu extends all the way to this underground town of Akiba?
Kat: But rest assured, Gintoki.
Kat: We will protect your life in hiding.
Kat: Don't let a single rat get close to the hideout!
Kat: Don't you dare let anyone find out Gintoki is here!
Gin: Even from space, you could tell this is a hideout!
Gin: Go look up the word "hiding" in the dictionary!
Gin: Like I need all your nasty b*lls lined up in that tiny-ass room!
Gin: I never asked you morons to be my bodyguards.
Kat: Even if you didn't, nobody would leave their group's ace to die.
Gin: I don't recall becoming any group's ace.
Kat: It's too late to play that card now, Gintoki.
Kat: You charged into Edo Castle,
Kat: got into a huge fight with the bakufu army, and threw Lord Sadasada out of power.
Kat: You insulted and harassed the former shogun, Shigeshige, many a time,
Kat: and even punched his successor, Nobunobu, injuring him gravely.
Kat: You took part in the Shinsengumi's mutiny
Kat: and helped them rescue their commander, Kondo Isao, from the bakufu.
Kat: Even among the Joi Rebels, nobody else has pulled off so many acts of terror!
Kat: You're a t*rror1st, and a far more radical one than Takasugi and me, at that!
Kat: There's no going back for you at this point.
Kat: You will never have a peaceful life again.
Kat: You won't even be able to hold your loved ones with your bloodstained hands!
Kat: The only thing left in those hands is a bloody, metallic revolution!
Gin: Uh, you practically sound like a bad guy.
Gin: I never committed any acts of terror.
Gin: I punched a guy who pissed me off, and he just happened to represent the country.
Gin: And, since it turned into a big deal,
Gin: I just tried to cut it into pieces and bury it.
Gin: Don't lump me in with you lot.
G: Forget t*rror1st, you're just a homicidal maniac!
Kat: Do you think you can go back to the Kabuki District once things calm down?
Kat: I hate to break it to you, but that's impossible.
Gin: Ack!
Gin: A wanted poster?!
Sign: If this face triggers your memory, call
Gin: For real? They're circulating these?
Gin: And that photo just screams v*olence.
Gin: Who took this? And when?
Gin: Isn't this just some violent impostor in a wig?
Kat: I'm not an impostor. I'm Katsura.
Gin: It was you?!
Kat: The previous photo made you look way too evil,
Kat: so I took your guise, showed off your sweet tooth, and had a fancier one taken.
Gin: It's supposed to be me eating cake?
Gin: Just having the cake cut off made me look so violent?
Kat: And then I circulated the new one.
Gin: Recall it!
Sign: If this face triggers your memory, call
Kat: Don't worry. I altered it.
Sign: Odd Jobs Gin-chan Akiba Branch
Shin: We're Odd Jobs Gin-chan, and we've expanded into Akiba!
Kag: Need to collect Love Live! bonus items or sell off your Love Live! Sunshine!! goods?
Kag: You name it, we'll do it!
Kag: If this face triggers your memory, come see us!
Gin: Can I do this if I get triggered instead?
Gin: Reusing wanted posters as store flyers? Could you make this any more violent?!
Shin: Now is the time for positive thinking, Gin-san.
Gin: What you're doing is more like primitive thinking!
Kag: Even when we fall, we don't get back up for free. That's the Odd Jobs motto.
Gin: I'll give you money, so stay down! Never get back up again, please!
Kag: Don't worry.
Kag: Akiba folk are just walking corpses who ironically call themselves Love Livers.
Kag: Nobody cares about you.
Gin: You'd better knock it off, or you'll be wanted by Love Livers, too!
Gin: Don't look down on Love Livers!
Gin: Those guys are insane!
Gin: Not even love survivor ninja robots would be a match for them!
G: Oh, hello? Uh...
G: There's a guy here who looks a lot like someone on a wanted poster.
G: Uh, hello?
G: My phone!
Gin: Are you stupid?
Nob: Excuse me. I'm here because I saw the flyer.
Nob: Odd Jobs Gin-chan Akiba Branch...
Nob: Mind if I make a request?
Nob: Looks like you'll need to relocate again,
Nob: Odd Jobs.
Gin: Right back at you.
Gin: I would've thought you'd left Edo long ago.
Gin: What happened to the Mimawarigumi?
Nob: I don't have the ability or right to lead them anymore.
Nob: A lot of them wanted to repay Kondo Isao for saving them on the b*ttlefield,
Nob: so they went with the Shinsengumi.
Nob: They'll be much better off with a man like him.
Nob: I've got my own job to do...
Nob: As Sasaki Isaburo's comrade,
Nob: and...
Nob: as one of Shoyo's pupils.
Nob: I can't let this country and that man do what they want.
Gin: I didn't know I had a junior here.
Gin: But you know a side of Yoshida Shoyo that we don't know...
Gin: You know Utsuro, don't you?
Gin: Tell us, what did Shoyo—
Gin: My.
Mat: Freeze!
Mat: You betrayed us, Imai Nobume?
Mat: Why is the White Yaksha here?
Mat: Y-You're...
Mat: One of Takasugi's Kiheitai,
Mat: Kijima ****ko!
Mat: Why the hell did you bleep that out?!
Mat: That's misleading! Just say Matako!
Gin: No, we can't talk about that in a late night anime.
Gin: Let's keep the **** under wraps, okay—
Nob: Put your g*n away, D***ko.
Mat: What did you say?!
Mat: Did you just use a totally different four-letter word?!
Mat: You're the one who should put her w*apon away.
Mat: The Mimawarigumi was supposed to be on our side.
Mat: Why are you with the White Yaksha's g*ng?
Kat: Oh, right.
Kat: Before Nobunobu sold you out,
Kat: you were working together as the Hitotsubashi Faction to take over the country.
Nob: It was Sasaki Isaburo, the individual, who formed an alliance with you.
Nob: The Mimawarigumi were only being used.
Nob: And Isaburo and the Mimawarigumi are both gone now.
Hen: So the rumors were true.
Hen: Good grief.
Hen: We came here as a last resort,
Hen: but it seems we don't have any allies anywhere anymore.
Nob: You may not have allies here, but you do have Shoyo's students
Nob: and the Odd Jobs Akiba Branch, which will do anything you want.
Gin: Don't tell me your request is...
Nob: Tell us.
Nob: What happened to...
Nob: the other student of Shoyo's?
Hen: Nobunobu and the Elders betrayed the Kiheitai and cut us out of the Harusame,
Hen: making us nothing but a tiny, isolated army wandering in space.
Hen: But even in that crisis, Kamui-dono's th Division went on the att*ck
Hen: and successfully captured one of the syndicate's bases, the Southern Paradise.
Hen: However, it turned out to be a trap laid by the Harusame.
Hen: We and Kamui-dono barely managed to escape,
Hen: but half our fleet was reduced to space debris.
Abu: Are they trying to hunt every single rabbit down?
Abu: We're an endangered species, you know.
Abu: They could stand to be a little nicer to us.
Kam: Nah, they know their stuff.
Kam: Abuto, rabbits can die of loneliness.
Kam: But the enemy has prepared a fun playground for us.
Kam: We need to show our gratitude.
G: Wh-What the?
Kam: Charge in!
Hen: Abuto-dono!
Hen: Why would you charge into the flagship by yourselves? Are you out of your minds?!
Abu: You're barking up the wrong tree!
Abu: He said he felt like getting up close and personal with the enemy general.
Abu: Grab Takasugi and scram while we're distracting the enemy.
Abu: If we live to meet again, give this moron a piece of your mind.
Hen: What are you saying, Abuto-dono?
Abu: I've got a bad feeling about this.
Abu: The Harusame never fought like this before.
Abu: Someone who's familiar with the Yato's k*lling style has joined them.
Abu: I knew it.
Abu: Who the hell have they teamed up with?
Kam: Just think about who could pull this crap against Yato.
Kam: Only two people in this entire universe...
Kam: Stupid me, and my stupid father.
Shin: Umibozu-san?
Shin: Wh-Why?
Hen: That's what we'd like to know, but...
Hen: What we do know is that he and the Harusame
Hen: banished the Kiheitai and the th Division into the darkness of space.
Hen: Kamui-dono has gone missing,
Hen: and so has Shinsuke-dono.
Ban: Takechi has readied an escape vessel.
Ban: Run, Matako.
Ban: I promise to bring Shinsuke with me.
Ban: So...
Ban: Live on.
Ban: Don't let the Kiheitai end this way.
Mat: Shinsuke-sama is still alive.
Mat: The Kiheitai aren't finished yet.
Mat: I bet they're waiting for our help right now.
Mat: So... So...
Gin: That so?
Gin: Guess I should go finish him off for good.
Shin: Gin-san!
Gin: Sorry, Nobume-san, but that's the most I can do for them.
Gin: Or do you want me to avenge those morons?
Nob: Unless the Harusame are taken out, this country will never change.
Nob: The Harusame Space Pirates have links to the Tendoshu
Nob: and have amassed great power.
Nob: If Naraku is one of Utsuro's wings,
Nob: then the Harusame is the other.
Nob: Tear it off, and you'll bring the crows that look down on mankind crashing down.
Nob: And only you, Shoyo's pupils, have the power to do that.
E: It has been a while, Utsuro-dono.
E: Thank you for traveling all the way to the end of the universe to see us.
E: Though we didn't exactly invite you.
U: Rest assured.
U: I may be one of the Tendoshu,
U: but unlike those senior citizens, I don't like sitting too long in one place.
E: Ah, you're telling us senile geezers to shut up and sit our butts down?
U: Senile geezers wouldn't be able to sink an entire fleet from their seats.
U: Thanks to your efforts in keeping a part of the rebels occupied in space,
U: we managed to take on the enemies on Earth.
U: We're truly grateful.
E: All we did was deal with our enemies.
E: We don't need your gratitude.
E: Indeed. We should stick to the agreement we've had until now
E: and help each other only when our interests align.
U: "So don't get any closer"?
U: Dear me. Everyone in the universe hates the Tendoshu.
U: Even the Elders of the cosmos' biggest crime syndicate are wary of us?
U: Do you think a youngster like me could be plotting something?
E: I wonder which of us is really the youngster here.
E: In your eyes, even we geezers must look like nothing more than greenhorns,
E: Utsuro-dono.
Nob: You people need to know
Nob: just what the Tendoshu controlling this country are,
Nob: and just who Utsuro is.
Nob: They're all beings born from Altana.
Nob: Altana being the new energy resource the Amanto discovered.
Nob: Some in this country call them ley lines.
Shin: I've heard about that.
Shin: I think Ane and Mone mentioned
Shin: that the terminal the Amanto built is powered by that.
Nob: Right.
Nob: The invention of a method to convert Altana into usable energy
Nob: led to rapid development across the universe.
Nob: Interstellar travel became easy,
Nob: as did the development of weapons capable of destroying planets.
Nob: And those in possession of Altana gained massive influence.
Nob: After many a w*r,
Nob: states signed a non-aggression pact that rendered Altana reserves off-limits
Nob: and formed a centralized organization to monitor Altana gates, or "holes."
Nob: That is the Altana Preservation Agency,
Nob: later known as the Tendoshu.
Gin: So, basically, the people who were meant to monitor the resource
Gin: used its power for their own benefit?
Kat: The holes in each planet were closed off, and only they had access to it.
Kat: That's how they took control of countless planets and consumed them...
Kat: Like parasites.
Nob: Part of the reason they're obsessed with Earth
Nob: is its massive Altana reserves, which were previously untouched.
Nob: But what they're probably most interested in is a certain phenomenon...
Nob: An unexplained effect, which had been documented as a miracle in the past,
Nob: that somehow influences the very principles of life.
Nob: On this planet, it happened to take the form of a man.
Nob: Utsuro,
Nob: the founder's name passed down through generations of Tenshoin Naraku.
Nob: Each head of the Naraku is said to have inherited that name and
Nob: worked behind the scenes for the authority of their time.
Nob: But that wasn't the truth.
Nob: It came to light during the Tokugawa's reign, when Naraku served the Tendoshu.
Nob: The Utsuro at the time mysteriously went missing.
Nob: Since Naraku made traitors pay for their sins with death,
Nob: they looked all over for him.
Nob: Utsuro had changed his name, concealed his background,
Nob: and was teaching kids.
Nob: It's said that the look in his eyes made him seem like a different person.
Nob: Later on, his students caused a major uprising,
Nob: but they were defeated,
Nob: and Utsuro was ex*cuted.
Nob: That's when something unexpected happened.
Nob: That's the truth behind Utsuro.
Nob: Over its -year history, the Tenshoin Naraku had thirteen heads.
Nob: But they were all the same man...
Nob: A man who became incapable of dying due to the power of Altana.
Nob: "Yoshida Shoyo" was but a fleeting smile that Utsuro let slip.
U: Surely you jest.
U: The Tendoshu, a bunch of immortals?
U: Where did you hear a baseless rumor like that?
E: Where, indeed?
E: But I hear you used to be an agency that researched Altana.
E: It would make sense if that research led you
E: to the entire universe's greatest wish, immortality.
E: That's how looking at your unfathomable smile makes us feel.
U: The entire universe's greatest wish? Is it really?
U: Can an endless life really be called "life"?
U: If living can be defined as not being dead,
U: can life really exist in the absence of the very concept of death?
U: I would call that a void.
U: A hollow, "Utsuro," if you will, devoid of life and death.
U: When people suffer for long, they seek an end to it all.
U: But even in times of happiness, when they find out that it's everlasting,
U: they seek an end to it all.
U: And I have met my end and taken birth over and over again.
U: But no matter how many times I started over, I was still "Utsuro," a void.
U: That's why the me of now was born...
U: To k*ll all of myself and put an end to all of Utsuro.
E: The th Division of the Harusame?!
E: I see.
E: You've already...
U: Respected Elders,
U: I'm here today to sign a new agreement with you.
U: Under its terms, you will first transfer all control over the Harusame to me.
U: And second...
U: You snot-nosed brats will shut up and keep your butts seated.
Nob: There's no telling how long Utsuro has been living for,
Nob: or whether Shoyo is still a part of him or not.
Nob: But one thing is for sure:
Nob: he's currently the most dangerous being in the universe.
Ep Title,Title : Battle on Rakuyo Arc Part One
Ep Title,Title : The Monster and the Monster's Child
Ep Title,Next Title : Battle on Rakuyo Arc Part Two
Gin: We're coming back here, no matter what...
Ep Title,Next Title : Next Episode Leave Letter
Gin: The three of us, and one critter.
TextR: A leave letter even though we just started?!
TextL: There's a reason deeper than the universe for this...
TextR: Somehow or the other, the Battle on Rakuyo Arc has begun!
TextL: What's "Rakuyo"?? Find out next time!
Gin: It's the late night slot.
Sign: Late Night
Sign: Goodbye, Red-Haired Esper
Sign: The Goddess of the Night
Sign: "No Airing the Nitty-Gritties of Ketsuno Ana!" After predicting heavy rain once again for tonight, Ketsuno Ana does a surprise raid on Snack Bar Smile"
Kag: This place is kinda dusty.
Gin: Deal with it.
Kag: What's this?
Gin: Probably something the previous occupant left behind.
Sign: To the Late Night Slot
Gin: Now, then...
Gin: Shinpachi.
Shin: Yes?
Gin: This is a late night slot.
Gin: We'll need to greet the viewers appropriately.
Shin: Right.
Gin: Hello to all you night owls watching the television.
Gin: The Gintama anime will now resume in its late night incarnation.
Gin: One, two...
Gin: Gilgamesh!
Shin: You just wanted to do that, didn't you?!
Sign: Please watch this program in a bright room and at a safe distance from your TV!!!!!!
Gin: Ow...
Gin: Damn, not yet.
Gin: My sword ain't broken yet.
Gin: One more time,
Gin: Shoyo!
Sho: You nearly had me there, Gintoki.
Gin: Where, exactly?
Sho: There.
Gin: Could you be more specific?
Sho: Right around there.
Gin: How can I be as strong as you, Shoyo?
Gin: I'd never lost until I met you, not even to grown-ups.
Gin: But you're far less simple than a grown-up.
Gin: You're a giant.
Sho: You're wrong, Gintoki. I am...
Sho: a Hanshin fan.
Gin: Would you listen to me?
Gin: I'm saying I've never seen a monster like you.
Gin: What the hell were you up to before we met?
Gin: Who the hell are you?
Sho: You were called the "Corpse-Eating Devil," so you should understand.
Sho: There's no difference between a monster and the child of a monster.
Sho: They are both inhuman beings that are only born within a bloody pool of sin.
Sho: And a monster's sword cannot cut another monster.
Sho: So, Gintoki,
Sho: stop trying to grow stronger by imitating me.
Sho: I'm not going to teach you how to wield the sword like me, either.
Sho: You have to grow stronger than me using your own sword,
Sho: the sword of a human.
Sho: I expect great things from you.
Sho: Someday, hopefully...
U: You'll come cut down the monster that I am.
U: It's too bad.
U: Like I said, a monster's sword...
U: Your sword can't reach me.
Gin: Just a dream, huh?
Gintama,OP Card: Gintama
OP Card: The Battle on Rakuyo
Kat: Elizabeth! An enemy att*ck?
Gin: That's right.
Gin: A seriously lethal w*apon was about to pierce my skull.
Kat: What?
Kat: The evil arm of the bakufu extends all the way to this underground town of Akiba?
Kat: But rest assured, Gintoki.
Kat: We will protect your life in hiding.
Kat: Don't let a single rat get close to the hideout!
Kat: Don't you dare let anyone find out Gintoki is here!
Gin: Even from space, you could tell this is a hideout!
Gin: Go look up the word "hiding" in the dictionary!
Gin: Like I need all your nasty b*lls lined up in that tiny-ass room!
Gin: I never asked you morons to be my bodyguards.
Kat: Even if you didn't, nobody would leave their group's ace to die.
Gin: I don't recall becoming any group's ace.
Kat: It's too late to play that card now, Gintoki.
Kat: You charged into Edo Castle,
Kat: got into a huge fight with the bakufu army, and threw Lord Sadasada out of power.
Kat: You insulted and harassed the former shogun, Shigeshige, many a time,
Kat: and even punched his successor, Nobunobu, injuring him gravely.
Kat: You took part in the Shinsengumi's mutiny
Kat: and helped them rescue their commander, Kondo Isao, from the bakufu.
Kat: Even among the Joi Rebels, nobody else has pulled off so many acts of terror!
Kat: You're a t*rror1st, and a far more radical one than Takasugi and me, at that!
Kat: There's no going back for you at this point.
Kat: You will never have a peaceful life again.
Kat: You won't even be able to hold your loved ones with your bloodstained hands!
Kat: The only thing left in those hands is a bloody, metallic revolution!
Gin: Uh, you practically sound like a bad guy.
Gin: I never committed any acts of terror.
Gin: I punched a guy who pissed me off, and he just happened to represent the country.
Gin: And, since it turned into a big deal,
Gin: I just tried to cut it into pieces and bury it.
Gin: Don't lump me in with you lot.
G: Forget t*rror1st, you're just a homicidal maniac!
Kat: Do you think you can go back to the Kabuki District once things calm down?
Kat: I hate to break it to you, but that's impossible.
Gin: Ack!
Gin: A wanted poster?!
Sign: If this face triggers your memory, call
Gin: For real? They're circulating these?
Gin: And that photo just screams v*olence.
Gin: Who took this? And when?
Gin: Isn't this just some violent impostor in a wig?
Kat: I'm not an impostor. I'm Katsura.
Gin: It was you?!
Kat: The previous photo made you look way too evil,
Kat: so I took your guise, showed off your sweet tooth, and had a fancier one taken.
Gin: It's supposed to be me eating cake?
Gin: Just having the cake cut off made me look so violent?
Kat: And then I circulated the new one.
Gin: Recall it!
Sign: If this face triggers your memory, call
Kat: Don't worry. I altered it.
Sign: Odd Jobs Gin-chan Akiba Branch
Shin: We're Odd Jobs Gin-chan, and we've expanded into Akiba!
Kag: Need to collect Love Live! bonus items or sell off your Love Live! Sunshine!! goods?
Kag: You name it, we'll do it!
Kag: If this face triggers your memory, come see us!
Gin: Can I do this if I get triggered instead?
Gin: Reusing wanted posters as store flyers? Could you make this any more violent?!
Shin: Now is the time for positive thinking, Gin-san.
Gin: What you're doing is more like primitive thinking!
Kag: Even when we fall, we don't get back up for free. That's the Odd Jobs motto.
Gin: I'll give you money, so stay down! Never get back up again, please!
Kag: Don't worry.
Kag: Akiba folk are just walking corpses who ironically call themselves Love Livers.
Kag: Nobody cares about you.
Gin: You'd better knock it off, or you'll be wanted by Love Livers, too!
Gin: Don't look down on Love Livers!
Gin: Those guys are insane!
Gin: Not even love survivor ninja robots would be a match for them!
G: Oh, hello? Uh...
G: There's a guy here who looks a lot like someone on a wanted poster.
G: Uh, hello?
G: My phone!
Gin: Are you stupid?
Nob: Excuse me. I'm here because I saw the flyer.
Nob: Odd Jobs Gin-chan Akiba Branch...
Nob: Mind if I make a request?
Nob: Looks like you'll need to relocate again,
Nob: Odd Jobs.
Gin: Right back at you.
Gin: I would've thought you'd left Edo long ago.
Gin: What happened to the Mimawarigumi?
Nob: I don't have the ability or right to lead them anymore.
Nob: A lot of them wanted to repay Kondo Isao for saving them on the b*ttlefield,
Nob: so they went with the Shinsengumi.
Nob: They'll be much better off with a man like him.
Nob: I've got my own job to do...
Nob: As Sasaki Isaburo's comrade,
Nob: and...
Nob: as one of Shoyo's pupils.
Nob: I can't let this country and that man do what they want.
Gin: I didn't know I had a junior here.
Gin: But you know a side of Yoshida Shoyo that we don't know...
Gin: You know Utsuro, don't you?
Gin: Tell us, what did Shoyo—
Gin: My.
Mat: Freeze!
Mat: You betrayed us, Imai Nobume?
Mat: Why is the White Yaksha here?
Mat: Y-You're...
Mat: One of Takasugi's Kiheitai,
Mat: Kijima ****ko!
Mat: Why the hell did you bleep that out?!
Mat: That's misleading! Just say Matako!
Gin: No, we can't talk about that in a late night anime.
Gin: Let's keep the **** under wraps, okay—
Nob: Put your g*n away, D***ko.
Mat: What did you say?!
Mat: Did you just use a totally different four-letter word?!
Mat: You're the one who should put her w*apon away.
Mat: The Mimawarigumi was supposed to be on our side.
Mat: Why are you with the White Yaksha's g*ng?
Kat: Oh, right.
Kat: Before Nobunobu sold you out,
Kat: you were working together as the Hitotsubashi Faction to take over the country.
Nob: It was Sasaki Isaburo, the individual, who formed an alliance with you.
Nob: The Mimawarigumi were only being used.
Nob: And Isaburo and the Mimawarigumi are both gone now.
Hen: So the rumors were true.
Hen: Good grief.
Hen: We came here as a last resort,
Hen: but it seems we don't have any allies anywhere anymore.
Nob: You may not have allies here, but you do have Shoyo's students
Nob: and the Odd Jobs Akiba Branch, which will do anything you want.
Gin: Don't tell me your request is...
Nob: Tell us.
Nob: What happened to...
Nob: the other student of Shoyo's?
Hen: Nobunobu and the Elders betrayed the Kiheitai and cut us out of the Harusame,
Hen: making us nothing but a tiny, isolated army wandering in space.
Hen: But even in that crisis, Kamui-dono's th Division went on the att*ck
Hen: and successfully captured one of the syndicate's bases, the Southern Paradise.
Hen: However, it turned out to be a trap laid by the Harusame.
Hen: We and Kamui-dono barely managed to escape,
Hen: but half our fleet was reduced to space debris.
Abu: Are they trying to hunt every single rabbit down?
Abu: We're an endangered species, you know.
Abu: They could stand to be a little nicer to us.
Kam: Nah, they know their stuff.
Kam: Abuto, rabbits can die of loneliness.
Kam: But the enemy has prepared a fun playground for us.
Kam: We need to show our gratitude.
G: Wh-What the?
Kam: Charge in!
Hen: Abuto-dono!
Hen: Why would you charge into the flagship by yourselves? Are you out of your minds?!
Abu: You're barking up the wrong tree!
Abu: He said he felt like getting up close and personal with the enemy general.
Abu: Grab Takasugi and scram while we're distracting the enemy.
Abu: If we live to meet again, give this moron a piece of your mind.
Hen: What are you saying, Abuto-dono?
Abu: I've got a bad feeling about this.
Abu: The Harusame never fought like this before.
Abu: Someone who's familiar with the Yato's k*lling style has joined them.
Abu: I knew it.
Abu: Who the hell have they teamed up with?
Kam: Just think about who could pull this crap against Yato.
Kam: Only two people in this entire universe...
Kam: Stupid me, and my stupid father.
Shin: Umibozu-san?
Shin: Wh-Why?
Hen: That's what we'd like to know, but...
Hen: What we do know is that he and the Harusame
Hen: banished the Kiheitai and the th Division into the darkness of space.
Hen: Kamui-dono has gone missing,
Hen: and so has Shinsuke-dono.
Ban: Takechi has readied an escape vessel.
Ban: Run, Matako.
Ban: I promise to bring Shinsuke with me.
Ban: So...
Ban: Live on.
Ban: Don't let the Kiheitai end this way.
Mat: Shinsuke-sama is still alive.
Mat: The Kiheitai aren't finished yet.
Mat: I bet they're waiting for our help right now.
Mat: So... So...
Gin: That so?
Gin: Guess I should go finish him off for good.
Shin: Gin-san!
Gin: Sorry, Nobume-san, but that's the most I can do for them.
Gin: Or do you want me to avenge those morons?
Nob: Unless the Harusame are taken out, this country will never change.
Nob: The Harusame Space Pirates have links to the Tendoshu
Nob: and have amassed great power.
Nob: If Naraku is one of Utsuro's wings,
Nob: then the Harusame is the other.
Nob: Tear it off, and you'll bring the crows that look down on mankind crashing down.
Nob: And only you, Shoyo's pupils, have the power to do that.
E: It has been a while, Utsuro-dono.
E: Thank you for traveling all the way to the end of the universe to see us.
E: Though we didn't exactly invite you.
U: Rest assured.
U: I may be one of the Tendoshu,
U: but unlike those senior citizens, I don't like sitting too long in one place.
E: Ah, you're telling us senile geezers to shut up and sit our butts down?
U: Senile geezers wouldn't be able to sink an entire fleet from their seats.
U: Thanks to your efforts in keeping a part of the rebels occupied in space,
U: we managed to take on the enemies on Earth.
U: We're truly grateful.
E: All we did was deal with our enemies.
E: We don't need your gratitude.
E: Indeed. We should stick to the agreement we've had until now
E: and help each other only when our interests align.
U: "So don't get any closer"?
U: Dear me. Everyone in the universe hates the Tendoshu.
U: Even the Elders of the cosmos' biggest crime syndicate are wary of us?
U: Do you think a youngster like me could be plotting something?
E: I wonder which of us is really the youngster here.
E: In your eyes, even we geezers must look like nothing more than greenhorns,
E: Utsuro-dono.
Nob: You people need to know
Nob: just what the Tendoshu controlling this country are,
Nob: and just who Utsuro is.
Nob: They're all beings born from Altana.
Nob: Altana being the new energy resource the Amanto discovered.
Nob: Some in this country call them ley lines.
Shin: I've heard about that.
Shin: I think Ane and Mone mentioned
Shin: that the terminal the Amanto built is powered by that.
Nob: Right.
Nob: The invention of a method to convert Altana into usable energy
Nob: led to rapid development across the universe.
Nob: Interstellar travel became easy,
Nob: as did the development of weapons capable of destroying planets.
Nob: And those in possession of Altana gained massive influence.
Nob: After many a w*r,
Nob: states signed a non-aggression pact that rendered Altana reserves off-limits
Nob: and formed a centralized organization to monitor Altana gates, or "holes."
Nob: That is the Altana Preservation Agency,
Nob: later known as the Tendoshu.
Gin: So, basically, the people who were meant to monitor the resource
Gin: used its power for their own benefit?
Kat: The holes in each planet were closed off, and only they had access to it.
Kat: That's how they took control of countless planets and consumed them...
Kat: Like parasites.
Nob: Part of the reason they're obsessed with Earth
Nob: is its massive Altana reserves, which were previously untouched.
Nob: But what they're probably most interested in is a certain phenomenon...
Nob: An unexplained effect, which had been documented as a miracle in the past,
Nob: that somehow influences the very principles of life.
Nob: On this planet, it happened to take the form of a man.
Nob: Utsuro,
Nob: the founder's name passed down through generations of Tenshoin Naraku.
Nob: Each head of the Naraku is said to have inherited that name and
Nob: worked behind the scenes for the authority of their time.
Nob: But that wasn't the truth.
Nob: It came to light during the Tokugawa's reign, when Naraku served the Tendoshu.
Nob: The Utsuro at the time mysteriously went missing.
Nob: Since Naraku made traitors pay for their sins with death,
Nob: they looked all over for him.
Nob: Utsuro had changed his name, concealed his background,
Nob: and was teaching kids.
Nob: It's said that the look in his eyes made him seem like a different person.
Nob: Later on, his students caused a major uprising,
Nob: but they were defeated,
Nob: and Utsuro was ex*cuted.
Nob: That's when something unexpected happened.
Nob: That's the truth behind Utsuro.
Nob: Over its -year history, the Tenshoin Naraku had thirteen heads.
Nob: But they were all the same man...
Nob: A man who became incapable of dying due to the power of Altana.
Nob: "Yoshida Shoyo" was but a fleeting smile that Utsuro let slip.
U: Surely you jest.
U: The Tendoshu, a bunch of immortals?
U: Where did you hear a baseless rumor like that?
E: Where, indeed?
E: But I hear you used to be an agency that researched Altana.
E: It would make sense if that research led you
E: to the entire universe's greatest wish, immortality.
E: That's how looking at your unfathomable smile makes us feel.
U: The entire universe's greatest wish? Is it really?
U: Can an endless life really be called "life"?
U: If living can be defined as not being dead,
U: can life really exist in the absence of the very concept of death?
U: I would call that a void.
U: A hollow, "Utsuro," if you will, devoid of life and death.
U: When people suffer for long, they seek an end to it all.
U: But even in times of happiness, when they find out that it's everlasting,
U: they seek an end to it all.
U: And I have met my end and taken birth over and over again.
U: But no matter how many times I started over, I was still "Utsuro," a void.
U: That's why the me of now was born...
U: To k*ll all of myself and put an end to all of Utsuro.
E: The th Division of the Harusame?!
E: I see.
E: You've already...
U: Respected Elders,
U: I'm here today to sign a new agreement with you.
U: Under its terms, you will first transfer all control over the Harusame to me.
U: And second...
U: You snot-nosed brats will shut up and keep your butts seated.
Nob: There's no telling how long Utsuro has been living for,
Nob: or whether Shoyo is still a part of him or not.
Nob: But one thing is for sure:
Nob: he's currently the most dangerous being in the universe.
Ep Title,Title : Battle on Rakuyo Arc Part One
Ep Title,Title : The Monster and the Monster's Child
Ep Title,Next Title : Battle on Rakuyo Arc Part Two
Gin: We're coming back here, no matter what...
Ep Title,Next Title : Next Episode Leave Letter
Gin: The three of us, and one critter.
TextR: A leave letter even though we just started?!
TextL: There's a reason deeper than the universe for this...
TextR: Somehow or the other, the Battle on Rakuyo Arc has begun!
TextL: What's "Rakuyo"?? Find out next time!