10x24 - Salvation

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Shin: He's alive?

Shin: What are you talking about, Okita-san?

Shin: Don't tell me...

Shin: You mean...

Oki: Utsuro.

Oki: Yoshida Shoyo.

Oki: Nah.

Oki: He might've taken a completely different form that's neither of them now,

Oki: but he's still alive.

Title Card: Gintama

Title Card: Silver Soul

Title: Silver Soul Arc

Title: Salvation

Shin: When did you know that he wasn't dead yet?

Gin: I knew all along.

Gin: Back then, he willingly threw himself into the ley line.

Gin: But he was born from Altana anyway.

Gin: So it'd be no surprise if he came back reborn from some part of it.

Gin: To top it off, I heard what he said.

Uts: Humans.

Uts: This isn't the end.

Uts: You have gone and chosen...

Uts: An endless w*r,

Uts: and a life dyed in sorrow and suffering.

Uts: Nobody can save your teacher anymore.

Gin: He tried to end the world.

Gin: We managed to stop that,

Gin: but we couldn't manage to save our teacher.

Gin: So I went back to being alone.

Gin: Not a member of Odd Jobs, but just a student again.

Gin: I found something I needed to do as Shoka Sonjuku's Sakata Gintoki.

Ane: Investigate all the gates?

Ane: But why?

Mone: Gates are spiritual points where energy from the ley lines gushes out to the surface.

Mone: They differ in size and are scattered all across the world.

Mone: Not even we, the priestesses of the Golden Dragon, know about all of them.

Mone: And you want to go around checking every single one?

Mone: We've worshiped that gate for generations.

Mone: As such, we've witnessed strange happenings in these lands every now and then.

Mone: But that one stood out among them all.

Mone: At first, we thought it was an animal corpse.

Mone: But within a few days,

Mone: it began taking a different form.

Mone: But that, um... What do I even call it?

Mone: I'm not the least bit certain.

Mone: Is this child human?

Gin: I couldn't put an end to it.

Gin: I don't know if he knew how I felt or not.

Gin: He just grew rapidly in the blink of an eye.

Gin: Not only did he never talk to me, but he never even expressed any will or desire.

Gin: He just quietly followed me,

Gin: no matter where I went.

Gin: Sheesh.

Gin: Can't you at least ask for help?

Gin: Actually, I guess I'm the one being unfathomable here.

Gin: I feel like I'm raising a final boss.

Sho: You have to grow stronger than me using your own sword.

Gin: Is this how you used to feel, Shoyo?

Sho: No, I don't think so.

Sho: Compared to how you were as a kid,

Sho: I was a much cuter, much better boy, wasn't I?

Gin: Shoyo?

Gin: Are you... Shoyo?

Sho: Shoyo? That sounds so nostalgic.

Sho: I've been called many, many names and have lived just as many lives.

Sho: But of those countless old names, I remembered just this one.

Sho: That's who I am.

Sho: You're the one who made me remember, Gintoki.

Sho: So I want to tell you while I still can...

Sho: Entrust you with this while I'm still myself.

Sho: Gintoki, I...

Sho: Good grief.

Sho: It seems we have some unwanted visitors.

Sho: I'm sorry,

Sho: but I won't let you have him.

Sho: This is my heart right now.

Sho: Utsuro... We must not be left to roam free in this world.

Sho: I entrust it to you.

Sho: I'm sorry I caused you trouble to the very end.

Sho: And I'm truly happy to have met you again...

Gin: Utsuro lost his body in the battle two years ago.

Gin: But the massive amount of Altana within him

Gin: combined with the Altana he fell into and regenerated his body.

Gin: So now that I have this, Utsuro will never come back to life again.

Gin: Looks like the remnants of the Naraku were working behind the scenes to bring him back,

Gin: but he stopped them by gouging out his own heart and giving it to me.

Gin: I spent these past two years wandering everywhere, trying to save him.

Gin: But in the end, he had to go and save me yet again.

Tak: What exactly is the salvation you speak of?

Tak: Putting an end to Sensei and Utsuro as he wished?

Tak: If so, why carry that around like it's some precious treasure?

Tak: Maybe it's your resolve that's wavering and wandering.

Tak: Then why not just give it back to Utsuro?

Gin: Takasugi, you...

Tak: Not a bad idea if it means we can see Sensei again, right?

Tak: Though it'll be a gamble on whether he or Utsuro shows up.

Gin: What's wrong with you?!

Tak: Don't get so worked up.

Tak: I don't intend to take that gamble. There's no need.

Gin: Huh? What do you mean?

Tak: Why bring him back to life?

Tak: His body's still alive.

Tak: After you received his heart, the Naraku took Utsuro's body back.

Tak: It's in an inanimate state, but that's probably more convenient for them.

Gin: Convenient?

Gin: Weren't they coming for the heart so they could bring Utsuro back?

Tak: Nope.

Tak: I don't know about the Naraku,

Tak: but the people controlling them...

Gin: Wait, you mean...

Gin: Takasugi, you...

Gin: How'd your body end up like that?

Gin: What did you see, and where?

Gin: What did you learn?

Gin: Takasugi, you...

Gin: How'd your body end up like that?

Gin: What did you see, and where?

Gin: What did you learn?

Tak: I'm sorry.

Tak: I don't think I can take your ashes back to the Shoka Sonjuku.

Tak: Before I drop dead, there's something else I need to do.

Tak: I must destroy them, if nobody else!

Ten: To think there'd still be someone who'd point such eyes at us.

Ten: Right now, we have no power.

Ten: We can't even die.

Tak: So what?

Tak: My left eye knows...

Tak: What you did,

Tak: and what it is I must do.

Tak: If you don't know how to die, I'll teach you.

U: How cruel is that?

U: They were no more than pawns.

U: The one who really cursed you students and your teacher to this fate

U: was me, was it not?

U: If you must k*ll someone, k*ll me.

U: But the seeds I have sown are already spreading across the country.

U: You're going to die soon.

U: Do you really have the time to weed out all of them?

U: This is the path you humans chose.

U: The suffering won't end.

U: The sorrow won't end.

U: You have made another terrible mistake.

U: Your enemy

U: is yourselves!

G: All right! Carry them out!

G: Hurry up! The ship's gonna crash!

G: Get a move on!

Tak: Stop it.

Tak: That power can't be allowed to survive.

Tak: It's too much for people to handle.

Tak: Are you trying to start the cycle again?

Tak: Are you going to make Sensei suffer even more?

Tak: Am I going to fail

Tak: to save him once again?

Tak: Move...

Tak: Move!

Tak: Please, give me just a bit more time!

Tak: Lend me your strength, senior student,

Tak: so that we may save our teacher!

Tak: I had no proof.

Tak: But I felt no panic or hesitation, either.

Tak: Our senior, and our teacher's blood, helped me stand there once more,

Tak: and I knew the reason all too well.

Tak: The fact that I stayed alive by taking in the ashes was practically a miracle.

Tak: But this body's regenerative abilities have already weakened,

Tak: and it's starting to fall apart.

Tak: I don't have much time left.

Tak: But thanks to that,

Tak: I've now become able to do what I really want to.

sign___Tokugawa_Nobunob,Sign: Tokugawa Nobunobu

Shi: My earthling friends...

Shi: We must never make the same mistake again.

Shi: These past two years, I've done all I can to make sure we don't.

Shi: But perhaps we had already overlooked something crucial back then...

Shi: The seeds of calamity that are sprouting today.

Kat: It happened again?

Shi: Yeah.

Shi: They've all been major t*rror1st incidents.

Shi: And a huge amount of Altana was stolen in each one.

Shi: Each was caused by residents of the planet on which it occurred.

Shi: People with no links to one another

Shi: suddenly teamed up one day, committed terrorism, and k*lled themselves.

Shi: But there's one thing we've learned while investigating their backgrounds.

Kat: Are you talking about this?

Shi: Katsura, you...

Kat: One need only look at history to know.

Kat: Any time chaos engulfs the world, people always turn to religion.

Kat: The idol they worship is the phoenix...

Kat: In other words, immortality.

Kat: It's spreading across Edo, too.

Shi: That w*r was a major reason the spread was so wide and so quick.

Shi: People wanted to get back the family and friends they had lost.

Shi: And the religion worshiping immortality sucked them all in.

Shi: It was all started by some Liberation Army members taking immortal blood with them.

Tak: I spent these past two years pursuing them.

Tak: Utsuro's blood had scattered across the world,

Tak: and I wanted to destroy it all.

Tak: But the seeds had already begun sprouting.

Tak: They've started to understand how to use the immortal blood.

Shi: The remnants of the Tendoshu used that power as bait to rapidly gain massive power.

Shi: They said, "Believe in us, and you will gain immortality."

Shi: And they need one last key to open that door...

Kat: The reborn Utsuro, huh?

Tak: They're trying to find the recipe for all-encompassing immortality,

Tak: and that heart you have is the crux of their research.

Tak: So you and I were both working toward the same goal in different places, huh?

Tak: We worried, hesitated,

Tak: and in the end,

Tak: we couldn't change a thing.

Tak: But isn't that enough?

Tak: Sensei and you have suffered more than enough.

Tak: If you wanna save him, go ahead.

Tak: You can do that now.

Tak: Let's just go save what we couldn't back then.

Tak: Let's save Sensei from them and his cursed fate.

Tak: This time for sure!

Gin: Where is Shoyo's body now?

Gin: Where is this boat headed?

Tak: Edo.

Tak: Their next target is Edo.

Shi: What's going on?

Kat: Run, Shijaku!

Kat: I didn't expect them to att*ck me first!

Kat: Immortality technology will require massive amounts of Altana,

Kat: so surely they want Earth's Altana for themselves.

Shi: You've figured out that much?

Kat: Part of the reason I took this crazy position

Kat: was to control the cabinet, spread a net to every corner of the country,

Kat: pick up any movements related to Utsuro, and to prepare for it all.

Kat: That was my own way of doing the right thing.

Kat: Shijaku, take a different route to escape!

Kat: And if I don't return,

Kat: take care of Princess Soyo and the new government!

Shi: Katsura?!

Shi: Wait, Katsura!

Kat: Fret not, Nobunobu.

Kat: I know that when I die, the country dies with me.

Kat: Do you really think I succeeded you shoguns without being ready for that?

Kat: Behold from up there in heaven...

Kat: what this country and its prime minister are capable of!

Kat: Let's roll!

Oki: Katsura!

Shi: Wait, who are you?!

Shi: The enemy's not who I expected at all!

Shi: What's worse, most of them are coming my way!

Shi: Is this how you do things?!

Kag: What are you gonna do, Pachi-boy?

Kag: He said Utsuro's still alive,

Kag: and that he needs to find Gin-chan, so he wants our help.

Kag: It's not like we know where he is now, either.

Shi: If Utsuro's alive, Gin-san must've already made his move.

Shi: Actually, that's probably why he left Edo in the first place.

Kag: To k*ll him again?

Shin: I don't know.

Shin: But maybe Gin-san didn't know, either.

Shin: What would I do?

Shin: If someone dear to me from the very bottom of my heart

Shin: became an enemy of the world,

Shin: would I fight them to protect the world?

Shin: Or would I believe in them, even if it turned the whole world against me?

Shin: I don't know.

Shin: But there's one thing I do know I'd want...

Shin: I'd want to see them again.

TBC,Sign: To Be Continued

Title: Silver Soul Arc

Gin: Dun dun!

Title: Dun Dun

Dun dun.

Dun dun.