07x49 - Karma

[bunniefuu]

Sas: Keep swinging your sword for my sake.

Sas: And when the time comes, use it to k*ll me.

Sas: That is my vengeance.

Nob: Yes, that is my duty.

Nob: This time, for sure, I must k*ll him.

Kag: Stop right there!

Kag: That's enough.

Kag: You two have done enough.

G: Fire!

Hij: What the hell?

Hij: Why are the Mimawarigumi and Naraku fighting?

Hij: Did you betray the bakufu, Sasaki?!

Mat: You've got it wrong.

Hij: Pops!

Mat: You have to be on someone's side to betray them.

Kon: Shimaru!

Kon: Hang in there, Shimaru!

Mat: But he never had any allies to betray.

Mat: He saw the bakufu, us, his men, and even himself as enemies he ought to destroy.

Mat: Isn't that right?

Sas: That's rude, Lord Matsudaira.

Sas: I do have someone I can have email exchanges with.

Sas: It's just that I haven't been able to send an important email for a long time.

Sas: Reception's been poor, you see.

Sas: But I'm sure it'll go through from here.

Sas: From this place atop the ruins of this country...

Sas: Atop a mountain of samurai corpses.

Title: Farewell Shinsengumi Arc Part Seven

Title: Karma

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

Obo: The time for judgment has come, White Yaksha.

Obo: No matter what he may be planning,

Obo: no matter how you struggle,

Obo: this country will not change.

Obo: But you may rejoice, White Yaksha.

Obo: Your persistent howling

Obo: has at last reached the heavens.

Obo: And they will bring judgment down upon you with their own hands.

Obo: That's...

Oki: What the hell are you playing at?

Oki: Get out of the way.

Oki: Do you really want me to?

Oki: If you're really up for this fight, then keep going.

Oki: But if you're having doubts, then stop.

Oki: If you two were actually serious, though, I wouldn't still be standing.

Oki: At this rate, both the black police and the white police will be destroyed.

Oki: This is no time to be fighting each other.

Oki: Whose fault do you think that is?

Oki: They...

Kag: I don't know about them,

Kag: but I do know her.

Kag: I don't know what she did in the past,

Kag: but I do know who she is now.

Kag: She's not a bad guy.

Nob: Even if I cut you down from behind?

Nob: You don't know a thing.

Nob: I'm someone who can s*ab you in the back.

Kag: Go ahead.

Kag: If that's what you really wanna do, then feel free.

Kag: But

Kag: don't cry anymore.

Kag: Don't lie to yourself anymore.

Kag: I used to be just like you.

Kag: But I changed after meeting everyone here.

Kag: This is a planet of freedom.

Kag: Everyone here is free to live as they see fit.

Nob: I could k*ll whoever I was ordered to.

Nob: That's how I was raised.

Nob: That's how I've lived my life.

Nob: But when I met that man, I turned weird.

Nob: I ended up wanting to live like him.

Nob: For the first time, I was unable to k*ll someone.

Nob: Even after taking everything from him,

Nob: I couldn't finish him off.

Nob: All I can do now is put an end to Isaburo.

Sas: Do you hate the thought of k*lling people now?

Nob: Not really.

Sas: You like donuts, don't you?

Sas: Eat up.

Sas: From now on,

Sas: I'll eat with you.

Kag: Nobume!

Kag: Hey, pull yourself together!

Kag: Attention, all squads on Kokujo Island.

Kag: Withdraw from combat at once.

Kag: The aerial squads are to keep the enemy fleet occupied

Kag: and provide cover fire for the ground troops to escape.

G: Is this Vice Commander Imai?!

G: But the Commander-General ordered us to keep fighting until the enemy was wiped out!

G: The Commander-General probably isn't coming back.

G: From here on, prioritize your own lives above all else.

G: Even if the Mimawarigumi are no more.

Sas: Wait a second!

Sas: Just what happened, Nobume-san?

Sas: Nobume-san!

Kag: Nobume!

Nob: Go.

Nob: Quickly, before I change my mind.

Nob: If you don't hurry,

Nob: he'll come.

Nob: Capable of taking the entire country's life,

Nob: he is a real crow, a real reaper.

U: Mukuro,

U: you betray your master not once, but twice?

U: The first time, it was me.

U: Now, it's him.

U: Your orders were the same both times...

U: To k*ll that man.

Sas: k*ll me.

Sas: That is my vengeance.

Nob: I won't take orders from anyone anymore.

Sas: Eat up.

Sas: From now on, I'll eat with you.

Nob: Be it Isaburo, or you people.

Nob: No matter who I have to k*ll,

Nob: I'll swing my sword of my own free will.

Nob: That is my atonement!

U: Mukuro,

U: it seems that your wings were clipped long ago.

U: You can't fly anywhere with the ones you have left.

U: There's nowhere you can run.

U: None may escape from a true Yatagarasu's wings.

U: Oh?

U: We have a rare rabbit of the night with us.

U: But it doesn't know how to correctly use its body yet.

U: You're all fated to die either way.

U: The order matters not to me...

U: Mukuro.

Oki: Am I trembling with excitement?

Oki: Unfortunately, that doesn't seem to be the case.

Oki: It's not like I'm afraid,

Oki: but my body has realized before my brain

Oki: that for the first time, I'm faced with an enemy

Oki: I might not be able to b*at!

Oki: Who the hell are you?

U: Utsuro.

Nob: A crow who served, and eventually reached, the heavens.

Nob: Former leader of the Tenshoin Naraku,

Nob: and a man who became one of the Tendoshu,

Nob: Utsuro!

Hij: Out of the way!

Hij: Where's Kondo-san?

Hij: And where the hell is Sasaki?!

Mat: Watch out, Toshi!

Hij: Katsura?!

All: Vice Chief!

Kat: I'm glad you're all right, Matsudaira, Hijikata.

Kat: What's going on here?

Mat: It's all going according to Sasaki's plans.

Mat: Everyone's been split up, both allies and enemies.

Kat: There's no time.

Kat: If we don't act during this chaos, we won't get another chance to escape this island.

Hij: We've already told our men.

Hij: The longer this operation drags on, the harder it'll be to escape.

Hij: An hour and a half.

Hij: Once that time passes, they've been told to retreat, whatever situation they're in.

Hij: Pops.

Hij: Gather our troops and slip through the enemy barricade.

Hij: There's a decoy squad standing by out at sea.

G: V-Vice Chief...

G: Even if Kondo-san and I don't return, run away without waiting for us.

G: Whether I make it back or not,

G: this is my final order as Shinsengumi Vice Chief.

G: You will obey it, won't you?

Shin: That's...

Ymz: The signal to retreat.

Shin: What about Kondo-san's rescue?

Ymz: We'll just have to assume it succeeded.

G: Now!

G: Retreat!

Ymz: We'll make use of that cover fire, too!

Ymz: Retreat!

U: Too bad.

U: My wings span far and wide.

U: Not a single rat may escape their reach.

Ymz: C—

Ymz: Captain Okita!

Obo: Utsuro-sama.

Obo: You needn't stain your hands with the blood of these vulgar rodents any further.

Obo: We'll take care of the rest.

U: Good grief.

U: Treating me like a retired senior citizen, are we?

U: It isn't often I get to descend to the surface.

U: Let me have a little fun.

Obo: I hate to say this, Utsuro-sama,

Obo: but the rat you were most fascinated by

Obo: was already blown away by a mere flap of your wings.

U: Oh.

U: That's a shame.

Ymz: Shinpachi-kun!

Oki: Run!

Oki: Hurry up and run away!

U: Oh? You still breathe?

U: It wouldn't be any fun otherwise.

Shin: Okita-san!

U: If you have risen in a bid to change this country,

U: then you mustn't lose heart over this.

U: Muster up every last ounce of strength you have.

G: Commander-General, are you all right?!

G: We can't reach the vice commander.

G: What are we to do—

Sas: Sheesh.

Sas: You ordered the men to retreat, but you're still there after all, huh?

Sas: You realized that my plan was never going to succeed, didn't you?

Sas: Even if we mustered up everything we had,

Sas: it still wouldn't be enough to topple this country or the heavens, huh?

Sas: I never imagined you would act this way.

Sas: I suppose even elites have a lot they don't know.

Sas: Like why you continue to fight there instead of abandoning me...

Sas: Or why I'm heading there.

Nob: Got you.

U: There's no one on your side who can move, either.

Gin: Oh, there is.

Gin: There's one right here!

Oki: He's actually going toe-to-toe with that monster.

Oki: Is he dealing with that swordsmanship on pure instinct alone?

Oki: No, it looks more like...

Oki: He's familiar with that sword?

Oki: Like having a chance reunion with a sword it has crossed thousands of times,

Oki: only his sword is reacting.

Oki: Boss, don't tell me...

U: You know my sword, don't you?

U: If so, then it's probably

U: in a memory

U: of defeat you cannot wipe away.

: You know

U: that your sword

U: can't reach me.

Kag: Gin-chan!

Gin: Even if my sword can't reach you,

Gin: our sword will.

Gin: Begone, specter.

Obo: White Yaksha.

Obo: No matter how many times you cut him down,

Obo: you can't escape

Obo: the karma you took upon yourself back then.

Obo: So long as you defy the heavens,

Obo: you're fated to keep k*lling that man.

Oki: H-His wound...

U: Like I said, your sword can't cut me.

Ymz: Now! Retreat!

Ymz: On the double!

Oki: Boss!

Oki: We can't last any longer.

Obo: After them.

Obo: Don't let a single one escape.

Gin: Just who...

Gin: Who the hell is that?!

Nob: Someone who's both Shoyo and not at the same time.

Nob: One thing's for sure.

Nob: You're not the one who k*lled Shoyo.

Nob: It was him!

TBC,Sign: To Be Continued

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Nob: Is there any point to this?

Sas: Not really. I just came up with it right now.

Nob: We agreed that I'd be the one to k*ll you!

Title: Farewell Shinsengumi Arc Part Eight

Sas: I'll trust you with the rest.

Sas: After all, you're an elite's child.

Nob: Isaburo...

Sas: I need to send an email.

Shinsengumi and Mimawarigumi...

Reunions and farewells...

The generals of both organizations are faced with

their greatest crisis... and a life-or-death decision.