07x51 - Farewell Shinsengumi

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Ymz: Yamazaki Sagaru's observation report:

Ymz: As a Shinsengumi inspector, I've performed stakeouts at many locations

Ymz: and have written observation reports on them,

Ymz: but never did I imagine

Ymz: that the last report I'd ever write would be on this place...

Writing,Sign: Shinsengumi

Sign: The g*ng of degenerates that plotted to overthrow the bakufu,

Sign: Shinsengumi.

Sign: That name may well go down in history as a group of traitors.

Sign: In case that day does come, I record the truth here so—

Sign: No, the truth is...

Sign: To be honest, I don't even know if what we did was good or bad.

Sign: But there is one thing I can say for sure.

Sign: We don't care whether we're called loyalists or traitors.

Sign: We just wanted to be

Sign: Shinsengumi with him.

Title: Farewell Shinsengumi Arc Part Nine

Title: Farewell Shinsengumi

Warning,Sign: Watch the Farewell Shinsengumi Arc in a bright room and at a safe distance from your TV!!

Mat: Don't look back!

Mat: Keep moving, looking nowhere but forward!

Mat: No matter what...

Mat: We must escape!

Ymz: The Mimawarigumi,

Ymz: and the Katsura-led Joi Rebels...

Ymz: With help from several parties,

Ymz: we shook free of the Naraku's persistent pursuit

Ymz: and barely managed to escape from Kokujo Island,

Ymz: successfully rescuing Chief Kondo.

Ymz: But it came at a huge cost.

Kon: Toshi...

Kon: Did either he or I really have to die?

Kon: Was there no other way?

Kon: Instead of just black and white,

Kon: couldn't I have worked with him to bring out a different color?

Hij: Kondo-san,

Hij: the colors have already mixed.

Hij: We have to wear a shade of black that has various other colors mixed in

Hij: and keep moving forward.

Hij: That's our duty as survivors.

Tet: I had no idea

Tet: that my brother had someone who would shed tears for him.

Tet: I was related to him by blood,

Tet: but I never understood Sasaki Isaburo at all.

Tet: It seems I didn't know him well enough to cry for him.

Tet: I found people I could call brothers where my brother dumped me.

Tet: I met comrades I could call family despite having no blood relation with them.

Tet: And yet, I don't know why...

Tet: But the first person I wanted to show them off to

Tet: was him, after all.

Tet: If possible,

Tet: I wanted to see all of my brothers

Tet: having a heart-to-heart.

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Sas: Have you been receiving my emails?

Sas: Nobume-san, you are truly discourteous.

Sas: If you don't reply to my emails once in a while,

Sas: then even as an elite,

Sas: I'm going to end up sulking, yo.

Kon: Pay your respects to the Commissioner-General!

Nob: Isaburo...

Nob: Thank you for giving me

Phone,: Isaburo... Thank you for giving me such a wonderful yo.

Nob: such a wonderful yo.

Ymz: Sasaki Isaburo vanished into the darkness, never to see the light of dawn again.

Ymz: But his struggles opened the door for change, if only a bit.

Ymz: The unprecedented revolt that came from the heart of the bakufu

Ymz: would shake the newly formed government to its very core.

Ymz: The mastermind was the Commissioner-General of Police.

Ymz: And while they had been manipulated,

Ymz: a lot of police organizations took part in the revolt.

Ymz: When Shogun Nobunobu heard the news, he flew into a fit of rage.

Ymz: He crushed every police organization that had been under the influence of Sasaki

Ymz: and decided to reform the police system from the ground up.

Ymz: Those who had begun to doubt Nobunobu's methods because of that started to fall apart,

Ymz: and Lord Matsudaira, who had anticipated this all along,

Ymz: secretly took them under his wing

Ymz: and meticulously absorbed them

Ymz: into the anti-bakufu faction Lord Shigeshige had founded.

Ymz: A mere three months after the establishment of the new government,

Ymz: as the people's trust in the bakufu kept falling,

Ymz: it started a groundswell of sentiment in favor of upheaval.

HB : Wait, wait!

HB : That's reckless!

HB : You can't go back home, Otae-san!

HB : Did you forget that you got into a huge fight with the shogun?!

HB : So what if that stupid lord is preoccupied right now?!

Tae: But I can't continue to trouble you all any longer.

Tae: Kozenigata-san's wounds have healed,

Tae: so he doesn't need my help anymore.

Tae: I think it's about time.

HB : No, no!

HB : Boss took an injury to the head that won't ever heal,

HB : his heart's in tatters due to his wife running away,

HB : his feet stink,

HB : and his breath stinks!

HB : Please look after him a while longer!

HB : He's right, Otae-chan!

HB : Even though my wound had almost healed, it opened up again just now.

HB : Feel free to stay as long as you like!

HB : Besides, if something were to happen,

HB : the police force is hardly functional right now!

HB : It's too dangerous!

Tae: Yes.

Tae: That's exactly why police need to go back to doing their jobs,

Tae: and cabaret girls have to go back to doing theirs.

Tae: If you're ever worn out from work again, please stop by the bar.

Tae: I'll give you special treatment.

Tae: Thank you for having me.

HB : Wait, Otae-san—

HB : Haji.

HB : That's enough.

HB : She'll be all right now.

HB : They must have come back...

HB : Her police.

Tae: Don't you think it's high time you stopped doing this?

Tae: You'll catch a cold.

Kon: Why'd you have to say something like that today, of all days?

Kon: I wish you'd acted like usual,

Kon: called me a perverted stalker,

Kon: and hit me like you always do.

Kon: You're making it hard to say goodbye.

Hij: Abscond from Edo?

Hij: You're telling the Shinsengumi to abandon Edo?

Kat: Given the political situation, if you stay in Edo,

Kat: the lives of Kondo and Matsudaira that you just saved,

Kat: and even your own, will be danger.

Kat: Dying without achieving a thing

Kat: is what would count as truly abandoning Edo, Hijikata.

Kat: Nobunobu definitely won't leave you alive.

Kat: If he let the rebels who embarrassed the bakufu and destroyed its image walk free,

Kat: the new government would crumble.

Kat: He must be desperately looking for you right about now.

Kat: At this point, Matsudaira and you Shinsengumi

Kat: are symbols of the revolutionary faction.

Kat: Should these symbols be lost yet again,

Kat: the flame of revolution trying to change this country will surely die out this time.

Kat: If you truly love this country,

Kat: you must leave it for now and focus on staying alive.

Ymz: Our role is to leave the political center,

Ymz: stir up revolutionaries all over the country, take them in,

Ymz: and secure the revolutionary faction's foundation as its nucleus.

Ymz: Abandoning Edo to protect it...

Ymz: While we understood the reasoning,

Ymz: it was difficult for our hearts to accept it.

Ymz: Because it meant parting with the people we'd protected all this while.

Ymz: Because it meant parting with the people who'd supported us all this while.

Ymz: And because

Ymz: it meant our parting as Shinsengumi.

Hij: We knew things would end up this way, but it's still ironic.

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Hij: We always fought to remain the Shinsengumi, no matter what happened.

Hij: And yet, because of that, we can't remain the Shinsengumi anymore?

Gin: So Zura tricked you and sucked you dry, huh?

Gin: This is why I told you to be wary of that con man.

Hij: What are you going to do?

Hij: You helped us out,

Hij: so you can't stay in Edo anymore, either.

Gin: If even Odd Jobs left after you guys,

Gin: it'd make the people of Edo sad,

Gin: wouldn't it, lady?

Hij: You're saying you'll stay?

Hij: Do you really understand the situation?

Hij: Edo no longer has...

Hij: That's exactly why, huh?

Oki: Boss is staying because Edo has lost the Shinsengumi and Mimawarigumi, right?

Oki: If you stay behind for us,

Oki: we'll be able to leave Edo without worry, huh?

Oki: You've gotta be kidding me.

Oki: Be it our general or yours,

Oki: I can't let anyone else die.

Kag: What, are you saying we can't protect Edo by ourselves?

Kag: Do you wanna see for yourself, then?

Oki: The hell are you doing?!

Oki: I'm not completely healed yet!

Kag: What the hell did you come here for?

Kag: Are you here to meekly say goodbye?

Kag: Who, you?

Kag: Don't you have something else to do before worrying about us?

Kag: Both our groups are in equal danger.

Kag: But looking at how you're acting, you guys seem likelier to drop dead first.

Oki: You're right.

Oki: I'd forgotten that I needed to clear something up before leaving Edo...

Oki: Which of us is stronger!

Kag: Exactly!

Tae: There's no need for goodbyes.

Tae: After all, so long as you're around,

Tae: the Shinsengumi will carry on, no matter where you all go.

Tae: After all, wherever you may be,

Tae: you'll be fighting to protect Edo and all of us,

Tae: and I know that.

Tae: So please don't look so gloomy.

Tae: Leave with your head held high and a smile on your face.

Tae: If you don't, I won't be able to keep my promise to Shin-chan.

Tae: I won't be able to say "take care" or "welcome back."

Shin: When you come back this time,

Shin: don't do it from above the ceiling or under the overhang.

Shin: Waltz in through the front gate.

Shin: We'd be more than happy to offer you some tea.

Hij: I've got some good alcohol stocked up there.

Hij: I don't like drinking in a big group,

Hij: so I often came here and drank by myself.

Hij: You can have it.

Hij: They're expensive, so drink them one at a time.

Hij: By the time you've finished all of them,

Hij: I'll be back.

Hij: And I'll repay the rest of the debt then.

Gin: I'll gladly take the booze,

Gin: but I don't recall ever doing you a favor.

Hij: Oh, you did.

Hij: Your faulty brain may have forgotten,

Hij: but I remember.

Hij: I'll never forget.

Gin: Even if I did, you repaid me a long time ago.

Gin: I'm the one who got help recovering something he'd forgotten.

Gin: So don't come back carrying some debt to be repaid.

Gin: Bring back a bottle of booze,

Gin: not to drink alone, but to be shared with a big group.

Gin: That's more than enough.

L: Here you are. Your usual.

L: One Uji Gintoki bowl and one Hijikata Special.

L: Huh? What's the matter, you two?

L: Not eating?

Gin: Nah...

Gin: Sorry, lady, but today...

Bo: It's the other way around.

Kag: Looks like we've both got a ways to go.

Oki: Well, duh.

Oki: We couldn't do a thing against that incomprehensible crow.

Oki: But keep this in mind.

Oki: By the next time we meet,

Oki: I will be stronger than you and that crow!

Oki: So make sure you...

Bo: Don't lose to anyone else!

Bo: That was awful.

Kon: I'll be back.

Tae: Take care.

Kon: No education, no status.

Kon: The only thing we can trust is our own swords.

Kon: And we want to make a name for ourselves using them.

Kon: So we gathered in Edo.

Kon: Today, we will have to leave it,

Kon: but our dreams won't end here.

Kon: Let's come back, no matter what,

Kon: to the Shinsengumi's home.

Kon: We'll swear it as many times as it takes.

Kon: We're gonna become samurai here in Edo!

Ymz: That's right.

Ymz: The Shinsengumi's dream is only just beginning.

Ymz: The end of our true path is still far, far away.

Side Bar Top Pink,: Thank you for all your support

Side Bar Bottom Pink,: over the past year.

Side Bar Top Gray,: Our battle has

Side Bar Bottom Gray,: only just begun!!!