10x04 - The Line Between Tenacious and Annoying is Paper-Thin

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Uts: While an "ending" is a conclusion, it is also a release.

Uts: Through an ending, we will be freed of all that shackles us.

Uts: Such as the endless cycle of foolish wars,

Uts: or the sorrow and suffering they cause.

Uts: And still, Sakata Gintoki, you stand your ground there?

Uts: You reject an ending and choose to continue suffering...

Uts: You choose the suffering of striking your teacher down?

Uts: Then I must make my own choice.

Uts: To choose the suffering of striking my disciple down.

Nob: That's...

Nob: The third and last of the Three Wings of Naraku, Hitsugi!

Gin: Teacher? Disciple?

Gin: That crap doesn't exist here.

Gin: The guy in front of me is nothing but a villain.

Gin: And the guy in front of you

Gin: is nothing but Odd Jobs!

Gin: You took his blood, too?

Shin: There's no end to them!

Nob: Time's up, huh?

Nob: I'll secure an escape route. Run away.

Nob: We can't fight both Utsuro and the Liberation Army at the same time.

Nob: I'm sorry. I didn't think things through.

Nob: That immortal man and his immortal army

Nob: can't be defeated by us alone right now.

Uts: It won't reach.

Uts: It can't reach.

Uts: Your sword...

Uts: can't reach me.

Gin: Utsuro!

Gin: Utsuro...

Nob: Hurry!

Kag: Your glasses broke.

Shin: I hope what I'm seeing right now is a mistake caused by my glasses, too.

Shin: But unfortunately, it looks like my glasses weren't the only thing that broke.

Shin: Gin-san!

Kag: Nobutas!

Nob: Hurry up and stop Utsuro and the Liberation Army.

Nob: Forget about me.

Gin: We both did stuff we normally wouldn't.

Nob: I just didn't want to watch our prospects get any worse.

Gin: Then keep this in mind:

Gin: In our eyes, you're a valuable part of our prospects, too,

Gin: Mimawarigumi Vice Chief Imai Nobume.

Gin: We need you to put in your chief's share of the work.

Gin: Don't you dare drop dead here.

Gin: He'll laugh in your face.

Nob: I'm sure he already is.

Nob: Isaburo, even in a world without you, it seems I still have a purpose.

Nob: But I don't know...

Nob: You entrusted your hopes to them,

Nob: but I don't know how to protect them from that huge evil.

Nob: I don't know how to protect Edo, which has lost both its elite and hooligan cops.

G: Target has been silenced by concentrated fire.

G: No signs of any enemies remaining.

En: What are you saying?

En: The enemy's still there.

En: Burn everything to the ground.

G: We're done for!

G: This is why I said we should surrender at once!

G: But to surrender while Nobunobu-sama was in the midst of negotiating with them?

G: We can't believe in a figurehead shogun!

G: I'm sure he has long abandoned this country and fled!

G: If we waste time here, we'll end up dying with the country, too!

Soyo: Go ahead and flee.

Soyo: No need to worry about the country.

Soyo: I'll watch over the castle while everybody's gone.

G: P-Princess Soyo.

Momo: Princess Soyo did what?

Momo: Why didn't you keep a closer eye on her? I repeatedly told you to take utmost care.

G: We're terribly sorry.

G: We couldn't really follow her into the bathroom, and she took that chance.

Momo: Find her at once.

All: Ma'am!

Zen: This country's done for.

Zen: You only have one job now.

Zen: Run away, Princess Soyo.

Zen: Edo'll be engulfed in the flames of w*r soon.

Zen: Arrange a ship that'll get you off of Earth immediately.

Soyo: Zenzo-san, I want to fight alongside you all.

Soyo: After all, I am his...

Soyo: Shogun Tokugawa Shigeshige's sister.

Zen: You're not the shogun's sister anymore.

Mai: Watch your mouth, Zenzo-dono!

Zen: You're just a sister, and it's your duty to live your brother's share of life.

Zen: And as the one who failed to protect your brother,

Zen: it's my duty to protect you to the end.

Soyo: What happened to Brother wasn't your fault.

Zen: Forget it.

Zen: If you're going to throw a tantrum, I'll drag you away even if I have to spank you.

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Momo: Oh? And then what?

Momo: Will you live in a land with no familiar faces, counting all the friends you've lost?

Momo: Zenzo, using your life to make up for failing your friend is all well and good.

Momo: But don't forget that you have other friends here who are doing their best to live.

Zen: Jump is the only friend I have.

Momo: And Bessatsu Margaret is my only friend.

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Momo: But here's how I feel.

Momo: Living a lost friend's share of life

Momo: and fighting and dying with your friends who are still alive

Momo: are both fine displays of friendship.

Soyo: Zenzo-san, he's fighting, isn't he?

Soyo: Then I... We must fight, too.

Soyo: We must struggle and crawl out of the depths of sorrow and hatred.

Soyo: We can't be outdone!

Soyo: Not by him!

Zen: That so? Got it.

Momo: Where are you going?

Zen: If the princess is staying back, then I won't be of any use by her side.

Zen: Take care of her, Momochi.

Soyo: Zenzo-san!

Zen: I'm gonna do what I want, so you do as you please, too.

Zen: Not as a princess, but as his kid sister.

Momo: Princess...

G: What are you thinking?

Soyo: You all should evacuate at once.

Soyo: I'll take care of this castle myself.

G: Of all the preposterous ideas!

Soyo: We cannot leave this castle empty.

Soyo: When its people are fighting to defend the country, how can the country abandon them?

G: But what obligation do you have to go to such lengths?

G: This country took your brother's life!

G: And you are...

Soyo: Not a princess.

Soyo: I am Tokugawa Shigeshige's sister.

Soyo: And I will remain that forever.

Shin: Then Utsuro is...

Gin: Sorry. I let him get away.

Gin: Or maybe he was the one who let me get away.

Shin: But he must have been caught in that expl*si*n.

Gin: If he was the type to die from that, we wouldn't be having such a hard time.

Kag: So in the end, we couldn't do anything?

Kag: We couldn't protect anything?

Kag: Is everything going just as Utsuro wants?

Kag: Can the w*r no longer be stopped?

Gin: Don't give up!

Gin: It's not too late! We can still stop it!

En: Fire.

G: I told you so.

G: If they go crazy up in the skies, we ground troops won't get any sh*ts at glory.

G: We're fighting over four dirty apes?

G: What matters in a hunt isn't the game, but the hunters you're up against.

Gin: Run for it!

Gin: I run and run, but I don't feel like I'm getting anywhere.

Uts: Your sword...

Sho: ...can't reach me.

Gin: Have I not taken a single step forward since then?

Gin: I don't think I'll ever reach him.

Kon: It's not over yet!

Kon: Don't go ending things for yourselves.

Kon: Keep your eyes forward and your hands on your sword.

Kon: Fight, Odd Jobs.

Kon: Together with us Shinsengumi!

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Title: The Line Between Tenacious and Annoying Is Paper-Thin

G: Wh-What's going on?

G: O-Our own tanks suddenly fired at us!

Kon: Your friends are all gone.

Hij: They'd parked their vehicles in a weird spot and were blocking traffic.

Oki: So we gave them tickets and impounded their vehicles.

Oki: We're currently investigating the case.

Kon: But you guys won't get off that lightly.

Kon: For traffic violations, destruction of property, et cetera,

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Kon: you are under arrest!

G: Y-You guys are...

All: The police.

Nob: They're back?

Nob: Edo's hooligan cops are back in town?

Kon: Charge!

Oki: What're you standing around for?

Kon: You'll get left behind.

Hij: The battle's just getting started.

Hij: This country...

Hij: isn't finished just yet.

G: Fire!

G: What?

Mat: Good grief.

Mat: I gathered troops to fell Nobunobu's country,

Mat: but look what I'm doing now.

Mat: Get lost, rubberneckers.

Mat: You guys were fighting an empty country,

Mat: but its owners are back now.

Mat: Whether we defend this country or destroy it,

Kon: the decision is for us, its citizens, to make!

Kon: You have no horse in this race.

Kon: Men, show them how strong this country really is!

Hij: I thought you'd lost your will to fight out of fear,

Hij: but I'm glad to see you're still that same old unpredictable moron.

Gin: Look who's talking.

Gin: You took awfully long to drag out your grapefruits after they'd shrunk back inside.

Kon: When your enemy goes from one country to the entire universe,

Kon: no grapefruits are big enough.

Shin: Sorry! We tried to prevent this, but failed!

Oki: Jeez. Who was it that cockily said to leave Edo in her hands?

Kag: And whose stinking mouth was it that said he'd come back stronger than anyone?

Oki: If nothing else, I have grown strong enough to one-sh*t you.

Hij: We gathered up rebels from across the country,

Hij: used the old bakufu's connections, and gained support from other countries.

Kon: We have more political power than we could even imagine before.

Kon: We even bought cutting-edge weaponry and battleships.

Gin: That so?

Gin: And how long will all of that last against the entire universe?

Kon: Even if we can't win the w*r,

Kon: we might be able to create an opening with which to stop it.

Kon: Besides, it wasn't just our political power or weapons that grew stronger.

Shin: Kondo-san!

Kon: Do you really think we were twiddling our thumbs while we were away from Edo?

Kon: We swore to protect Edo for sure this time, and that we'd grow stronger to do it.

Kon: Sit back and watch the reborn Shinsengumi's strength.

Shin: No way, was that...

Kon: A restraint to keep my excessive strength in check,

Kon: and a special-alloy headband that constantly put strain on me to make me stronger.

Kon: Did you really think I'd change my costume for no reason?

Kon: The time has finally come to release this power.

Kon: Gori...

Kon: Ah, my head hasn't felt this light in a long time.

Shin: Of course it does! There's nothing in there!

Shin: You're taking the "release" thing too far!

Shin: Who the hell coordinates their entire getup with weights?!

Kon: Oops, nearly forgot to take this off, too.

Shin: Don't take off the mosaic!

Kon: What's this? I can't even feel my own weight.

Kon: It's like I've become one with the universe.

Shin: Kondo-san!

Kon: Hey. What are you looking at, tree trunk?

Shin: What are you showing off, your junk?!

Kon: I see it.

Kon: I see it.

Kon: I see it all!

Kon: The rounds are clearly visible, like they're a slow-ass turtle.

Shin: Uh, your turtle, rounds, and ass are clearly visible, too!

Shin: But wow. He's so fast.

Shin: Oh, the mosaic.

Shin: Why?!

Shin: What happened, Kondo-san?!

Shin: Don't tell me the real thing was behind that mosaic!

Shin: Did you step on your own d*ck?!

Oki: Oh, well.

Hij: Hey, take care of Kondo-san.

Shin: Hijikata-san! Okita-san!

Hij: We wanted to save this for a turning point...

Oki: But now, we have no choice but to release our powers as well.

Shin: Wait, are you two...

Oki: We attained this to protect Edo once again.

Hij: Behold our new powers!

Shin: Th-That's...

Hij: Nicotine Dispel!

Hij: Allow me to explain.

Hij: Nicotine Dispel, which involves quitting smoking to increase lung capacity

Hij: and make food taste better, is Hijikata's new power.

Shin: All you did was start taking care of yourself!

Oki: Mayonnaise Burst!

Oki: Allow me to explain.

Oki: Mayonnaise Burst, which involves wasting mayonnaise in front of Hijikata,

Oki: who lives only for mayonnaise, is Okita's new power.

Shin: That's nothing new!

Shin: In the past and now, all you've ever done is harass the guy!

Hij: This is the new Shinsengumi's strength!

Oki: Watch and be amazed!

Shin: Hey! They haven't changed one bit!

Gin: They've gotten worse, if anything.

Ymz: Well, duh, boss.

Ymz: People can't change that easily.

Ymz: In other words...

Ymz: Our desire to protect Edo hasn't changed one bit, either.

Gin: Uh, who are you? A new character?

Ymz: What're you talking about?

Ymz: It's me, Zakiyama.

Gin: You're a totally different person now!

TBC,Sign: To Be Continued

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Ymz: We came back with our desire and ambition to protect Edo still intact.

Ymz: We're the same old Shinsengumi.

Gin: Why'd he alone grow far beyond his potential?!

Gen: Let's show them what Earth is truly capable of.

Title: Silver Soul Arc

Title: Geezers Carve the Things They Shouldn't Forget into Their Wrinkles

TextR: The hooligan cops are back,

TextL: but who knows if they've grown or regressed?

TextR: With even more dangers looming large on the horizon,

TextL: the golden man makes his move!