10x10 - Jump and Power Creep Go Hand-in-Hand

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Oug: W-Wait...

Oug: After breaking the code and abandoning your crew,

Oug: where are you going to live out your life now?

Oug: You're the Dakini's greatest warrior, the one hailed as the "Divine Horn."

Oug: Are you really going to leave the b*ttlefield forever?

Hed: I'd give away these horns if I could.

Hed: How many planets do you think we've turned into wastelands?

Hed: How many lives blooming on those planets have we plucked right out of the ground?

Hed: Just as we Dakini were born to fight,

Hed: the lives we plucked out must've been trying to bloom for a purpose of their own.

Hed: I now want to see how they live, and what kind of flowers they will make bloom.

Oug: I hear you were being treated for a parasite you contracted on Planet Kohaku.

Oug: They said it was a parasitic plant that takes root in its host's brain,

Oug: and that you changed completely as a person ever since.

Hed: I didn't change.

Hed: I bloomed.

Hed: I grew a flower of my own.

Gintama,OP Card: Gintama

Silver Soul,OP Card: Silver Soul

Title: Silver Soul Arc

Title: Jump and Power Creep Go Hand-in-Hand

Warning,Warning: Watch the Silver Soul Arc in a bright room and at a safe distance from your TV!!

: Your friends are takin' a nap outside.

: You should be careful. This town is a bit dangerous.

: If you're caught sleepin', you'll have everythin' stolen in a flash!

Sot: You fiends!

Sot: We operate under the policy of one for all.

Sot: We would gladly lay down our lives for the greater good.

Sot: That's the way of the Shinra.

Jir: I told you...

Jir: We remember how you people k*ll.

Gin: You're not alone?

Jir: Well, neither are we.

Jir: I guess fighting as a group isn't so bad once in a while.

Gin: I dunno. I was this close to skewering the annoying ganguro geezer, too.

Jir: Well, too bad about that.

G: Sotatsu-sama!

See that?

This is the power of the universe's greatest gangsters,

the Sewer Rats led by Jirocho!

And I'm the Sewer Rats' right-hand man,

the greatest seven-three part in the universe, Kurogoma Katsu—

Kag: The universe's greatest gangsters, my ass!

Kag: Our young'uns were the ones who took down the enemy's boss!

Kag: We're the universe's greatest gangsters, the Odd Jobs Family!

Shin: When did we become gangsters?!

Chin: Besides, you ain't the right hand man of the Sewer Rats, Kacchan.

Chin: Jirochon said he'd leave the family's future in my hands.

What?!

Why haven't I heard of this? What's this about, Jirochon?!

Jir: Who're you calling Jirochon?

Do you have any idea how much I did to keep the g*ng going while you were gone?

Ever since that time, I've always thought of you as...

Yes. Back then, I was as sharp as a Kn*fe, hurting anyone who dared touch me.

Jir: Whoops. Sorry about that.

Flashback: ,Hey, hold it right there!

Flashback: ,You bump into someone and that's all you got to say?

Flashback: ,Wh-Who are you?

Jir: Kid, snapping at everyone around you in a youthful frenzy is all well and good,

Jir: but let me say just one thing...

Jir: Do we really need a flashback for you?

Flashback: ,He rejected my flashback within the flashback!

Jir: I think it went something like that.

Could you not alter my old man?!

You can't do this after multiple flashbacks about your youth!

Anyway, I fell for you back then and followed you all this while!

And you're tellin' me to quit right after I got the g*ng back on its feet?!

Jir: I don't remember ever saying that in the first place.

Jir: What kind of father would want his daughter to be a gangster?

Chin: What? But you said, "I'm sure you could handle being the young leader."

Jir: It was a hypothetical statement. I didn't tell you to actually take that spot.

Chin: You did, too.

Jir: No, I didn't.

Chin: You did, too!

Jir: No, I didn't.

Chin: But you really did say it...

Jir: Pirako, I can't back down on this.

Jir: If I let you take such halfway measures,

Jir: I'd never hear the end of it from your mother, who left you in my care.

Jir: If you're gonna do it, take the throne, Boss Pirarin.

Jir: Jirochon will be yakuza association chairman.

Chin: Hooray!

That's what you meant by halfway?!

Jir: Aren't you glad, Katsuo?

Jir: Now you'll forever be the right-hand man—halfway to the top.

I never said I wanted to be the right-hand man of the Pirarin Family!

There's a limit to bein' a doting father!

Young Miss, when will the Jirocho we know and love return to us?

Chin: Not Young Miss, Kacchan. That's "Boss" to you.

Chin: What will I do with you?

Chin: I'll let you off with five chopped fingers this time.

Chin: It'll be ten each from next time.

How many fingers do you think I have?!

Gin: Good grief. I really should've skewered him.

Gin: If this keeps up, even if we chase off the Liberation Army,

Gin: this town still won't ever be peaceful.

Jir: Do you think this town will calm down once I die?

Jir: You'll still be here after I'm gone.

Jir: And those guys will still be here after you're gone.

Jir: Those brash kids who only feel

Jir: truly alive within the hustle and bustle.

Jir: Tatsugoro...

Jir: This ain't your place to die.

Jir: Let's go back together, Tatsugoro,

Jir: to our town.

Tsgr: But if we walk this slowly, she'll become a gran by the time we get back.

Tsgr: But I guess that ain't too bad.

Tsgr: That's the one thing I want to see most right now.

Tsgr: Jirocho...

Tsgr: What kind of town do you think our home will become?

Tsgr: What kind of geezers and grans will you become,

Tsgr: and what kind of youngsters will gather there?

Jir: Knowing us, we'll be stubborn geezers lecturing youngsters who can't stand us.

Tsgr: That sounds amazing.

Tsgr: I want to hurry up and lecture some kids.

Jir: Yeah, I can't wait, either.

Oug: The first was that man.

Oug: And I used my broken horn as motivation to grow much stronger.

Oug: So why have I had a horn broken once again?

Oug: Why are we once again...

Oug: running in fear from these apes like so?

Oug: And it isn't just us.

Oug: The head?!

Oug: Retreat!

Tsu: Don't let them escape!

Oug: What are these people?

Oug: How are they driving back proud warrior races one after the other?

Hed: The lives we plucked out must've been trying to bloom for a purpose of their own.

Oug: What were they born for, and what are they living for?

Oug: What is the name of the flower these Earthlings are growing?

Jir: They're finally falling apart.

Jir: But unless we do something about their main force,

Jir: we'll still be in a desperate situation.

Jir: If they regroup with the main force, that's it for us.

Jir: What we did would amount to nothing more than sticking a needle into an elephant.

Gin: Sure, one needle isn't enough to defeat an elephant.

Gin: But if it were tipped with poison, it'd soon spread throughout that huge body

Gin: and render the elephant immobile.

Gin: Fear is contagious, you know?

Kaubki: , Kabuki District First

Gin: If they wanna get out of this town, let them.

Gin: But...

Gin: Only after we've laced them with the poison known as fear!

Sai: Pako?

Gin: Our visitors will be leaving, Mama.

Gin: They had their fair share of fun in our town.

Gin: Right down to their butt hair, we'll...

Kag: ...fleece them for everything they've got!

G: N-No way!

G: The last mercenary group came back with their tails between their legs!

G: It's not just here!

G: Even at the West Gate...

G: and the South Gate!

Jir: I've gotten in on quite the gamble.

Jir: Opening all the gates to drive out the enemies inside

Jir: and using that momentum to make the main Liberation Army force withdraw?

Jir: But who knows if we'll be able to make that huge force sense impending defeat?

Jir: I'm a gangster, and even I wouldn't make such a reckless gamble.

Bim: But maybe the only one capable of doing something as absurd as saving the world

Bim: is a huge moron who could doom the world to destruction with one misstep.

Gin: Run!

Gin: Keep running forward until you can't see any enemies up ahead!

Gin: Squeeze out every last ounce of energy you have!

Gin: Burn everything you have, and leave nothing behind!

Gin: Keep running until you're running on empty!

Oug: Your enemy is that way.

Oug: If you still want to withdraw, then I'll take you on.

Oug: Fight, you small fry!

Shin: With one roar, he revived their fighting spirit!

Shin: Their fear of us was overwritten by an even greater fear!

Oug: I am a Dakini. One who was born to fight, and one who lives to fight.

Oug: There is nothing I fear.

Oug: If there were something, I would simply pluck it out with my own hands.

Oug: Hey, you. Didn't you hear me?

Oug: Anyone who flees here has to answer to me.

Hed: I'm terribly sorry.

Hed: I heard a w*r was about to break out, so I was helping everyone evacuate.

Hed: That's why I couldn't get here in time.

Hed: If only I'd planted you elsewhere sooner...

Hed: I'm so sorry!

Oug: Th-That flower... It can't be!

Oug: The parasite, Parappa Heaven!

Oug: It takes root in its host's head, gradually takes over his thoughts,

Oug: and eventually turns their mind into an empty, blissful bed of flowers...

Oug: A deadly parasitic plant from Planet Kohaku!

Hed: I bloomed.

Hed: I grew a flower of my own.

Oug: Are you...

Oug: The Dakini's greatest warrior, the one who broke my horn...

Oug: The one hailed as the "Divine Horn"...

Hed: I have no idea who you are.

Hed: I'm just a friendly neighborhood florist.

Hed: I love the flowers, the lives, that bloom on this planet,

Hed: and to Odd Jobs, I'm...

Hed: Neighbor Hedoro!

Hed: And so, I ask.

Hed: Who was it that trampled upon one of this planet's lives?

Hed: Please be honest and raise your hand!

Shin: H-Hedoro-san...

Oug: Get him!

Oug: All hands, defeat this man!

Oug: Break the Divine Horn!

Hed: This won't do.

Hed: I did ask you to be honest and raise your hand,

Hed: but I wasn't expecting so many of you to do it.

Hed: I wanted the culprit to apologize to the flower, but this will take all day.

Oug: Corrupted by the flower, you've lost your character and all your fighting skill.

Oug: You don't need those horns anymore!

Hed: But...

Hed: Even if making you all apologize is out of the question,

Hed: I think I can manage punishing each of you with a punch.

Hed: Now...

Hed: I'd like to get this over with quick, so could you all come to me at once?

Shin: H-Hedoro!

Shin: He took out that monster in one hit!

Shin: He threw the Liberation Army into the deepest depths of fear!

Shin: The enemy's been consumed by fear and is retreating all at once!

Shin: Hedoro-san, you're too scary! You really are the scariest one of them all!

Shin: Gin-san! Now's our chance to g*ng up on them!

Shin: Even these guys are running away!

Shin: Why are you all being consumed by fear, too?!

Gin: Are you stupid?

Gin: If that monster's flower withers, that'll mean the advent of a new demon king!

Gin: This final arc was nothing but the prologue for Jump's trademark power-creep system!

Gin: I've had it with this! I'm making the jump to Shonen Sunday!

Shin: What are you even talking about?!

Gedo: No need to worry, Gintoki-sama.

Gedo: No matter what manner of demons or evil monsters show up,

Gedo: Edo has the Ketsuno Clan of onmyoji on its side.

Kag: Gedomaru! Ketsuno Ana!

Shin: Wh-Why are you here?

Ket: The Ketsuno Clan was entrusted by the bakufu with the guarding of Edo.

Ket: Did you think we only take on demons or spirits?

Ket: Tell them, Gedomaru-san.

Ged: I'm late 'cause Satan stubbornly started the Third Underworld w*r with Nurarihyon,

Ged: but I'm now prepared to switch from occult to sci-fi.

Shin: Uh, that other thing sounds much more scary!

Ged: From here on, I won't be a shikigami of the Ketsuno Clan.

Ged: I'm ready to fight together with you all as a human friend.

Ged: So Gintoki-sama, please wipe that pathetic look off your face.

Ged: If you still want to withdraw,

Ged: then I'll send you to the same hell I sent Satan to. Is that okay with you?

Shin: The bad guy just played that same card earlier!

Ged: Fight, you small fry!

Shin: I can't tell which ones are the shikigami here!

G: Wh-What the hell is that?

G: They're coming this way!

G: Run for it!

Shin: Wait a damn second!

Shin: Instead of making the enemy retreat, we're retreating faster than the enemy here!

Kag: We overtook the enemy! We left them in the dust!

Gin: Hey, this is bad! We're gonna catch up to the monster up ahead!

Shin: We're sandwiched between monsters!

Shin: What kinda sandwich is this? Which earl came up with this thing?!

Gin: Crap! There's nowhere left to run!

Ged: Get going already.

Sei: An illusion technique?

Sei: To make an army that large retreat, we can't fight with only what we have on hand.

Dou: You must make your empty hand look like it's full of cards

Dou: and borrow the strength of the nonexistent.

Dou: Only con men or we onmyoji could pull that off.

Sei: Indeed.

Sei: Con man, I don't intend to recognize you as an onmyoji.

Dou: But I will recognize you as this country's best con man.

Dou: Even a con man's ability can come in handy at a time like this.

Sei: Doman!

Dou: Seimei!

Bo: Throw in everything you've got!

G: Hold your ground!

G: If we retreat any farther, the entire force will collapse!

G: We have an overwhelming numbers advantage!

G: Surround the enemy and crush them!

G: Reinforcements will arrive soon! Hold out until then!

G: Is it reinforcements?

G: N-No way...

G: There's no way they still have so many troops remaining...

G: Hey, look!

G: They keep showing up from everywhere!

G: I-In crazy numbers!

G: Is this it? Are we surrounded?!

G: Calm down! That can't be!

G: How are we supposed to calm down?

G: D-Does that mean we're... we're...

G: Hey, wait!

G: I said wait!

Shin: We did it.

Shin: The Liberation Army...

Shin: ...retreated!

Kag: Gin-chan, we did it!

Kag: W-With this, a little peace will return to the Kabuki District.

Kag: Gin-chan?

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Kag: Nothing beats peace after all.

Jir: This town is noisy all year round.

Title: Silver Soul Arc

Jir: Nights like these ain't so bad once in a while.

Title: Peace and Destruction Are Two Sides of the Same Coin

TextR: The battle ends, the sun sets,

TextL: and we jump out of the frying pan into the fire.

TextR: Now that the flower's been ripped out,

TextL: what's going to happen?