# 317 - The Monster and the Monster's Child
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**[00:08] Gin**
Here we are.
**[00:10] Gin**
It's the late night slot.
***SIGN*** Late
Night
**[00:11] [SONG] Sign**
Goodbye, Red-Haired Esper
***SIGN*** The Goddess of the Night
***SIGN*** "No Airing the Nitty-Gritties of Ketsuno Ana!"
After predicting heavy rain once again for tonight,
Ketsuno Ana does a surprise raid on Snack Bar Smile"
**[00:15] Kag**
This place is kinda dusty.
**[00:17] Gin**
Deal with it.
**[00:19] Kag**
What's this?
**[00:20] Gin**
Probably something the previous
occupant left behind.
***SIGN*** To the Late Night Slot
**[00:23] Gin**
Now, then...
**[00:25] Gin**
Shinpachi.
**[00:26] Shin**
Yes?
**[00:27] Gin**
This is a late night slot.
**[00:29] Gin**
We'll need to greet the
viewers appropriately.
**[00:30] Shin**
Right.
**[00:32] Gin**
Hello to all you night owls
watching the television.
**[00:35] Gin**
The Gintama anime will now resume
in its late night incarnation.
**[00:38] Gin**
One, two...
**[00:40] Gin**
Gilgamesh!
**[00:41] Shin**
You just wanted to do that, didn't you?!
***SIGN*** Please watch this program in a bright room
and at a safe distance from your TV!!!!!!
**[00:49] (Flashback) Gin**
Ow...
**[00:50] (Flashback) Gin**
Damn, not yet.
**[00:52] (Flashback) Gin**
My sword ain't broken yet.
**[00:56] (Flashback) Gin**
One more time,
**[00:58] (Flashback) Gin**
Shoyo!
**[01:06] (Flashback) Sho**
You nearly had me there, Gintoki.
**[01:08] (Flashback) Gin**
Where, exactly?
**[01:10] (Flashback) Sho**
There.
**[01:11] (Flashback) Gin**
Could you be more specific?
**[01:12] (Flashback) Sho**
Right around there.
**[01:14] (Flashback) Gin**
How can I be as strong as you, Shoyo?
**[01:18] (Flashback) Gin**
I'd never lost until I met you,
not even to grown-ups.
**[01:22] (Flashback) Gin**
But you're far less simple than a grown-up.
**[01:26] (Flashback) Gin**
You're a giant.
**[01:27] (Flashback) Sho**
You're wrong, Gintoki. I am...
**[01:31] (Flashback) Sho**
a Hanshin fan.
**[01:32] (Flashback) Gin**
Would you listen to me?
**[01:34] (Flashback) Gin**
I'm saying I've never seen a monster like you.
**[01:37] (Flashback) Gin**
What the hell were you up to before we met?
**[01:41] (Flashback) Gin**
Who the hell are you?
**[01:45] (Flashback) Sho**
You were called the "Corpse-Eating
Devil," so you should understand.
**[01:49] (Flashback) Sho**
There's no difference between a
monster and the child of a monster.
**[01:53] (Flashback) Sho**
They are both inhuman beings that are
only born within a bloody pool of sin.
**[01:58] (Flashback) Sho**
And a monster's sword cannot
cut another monster.
**[02:01] (Flashback) Sho**
So, Gintoki,
**[02:03] (Flashback) Sho**
stop trying to grow stronger by imitating me.
**[02:07] (Flashback) Sho**
I'm not going to teach you how to
wield the sword like me, either.
**[02:11] (Flashback) Sho**
You have to grow stronger
than me using your own sword,
**[02:14] (Flashback) Sho**
the sword of a human.
**[02:18] (Flashback) Sho**
I expect great things from you.
**[02:21] (Flashback) Sho**
Someday, hopefully...
**[02:24] U**
You'll come cut down the monster that I am.
**[02:32] U**
It's too bad.
**[02:33] U**
Like I said, a monster's sword...
**[02:37] U**
Your sword can't reach me.
**[02:52] Gin**
Just a dream, huh?
***SIGN*** Gintama
***SIGN*** The Battle on Rakuyo
**[04:32] Kat**
Elizabeth! An enemy attack?
**[04:33] Gin**
That's right.
**[04:35] Gin**
A seriously lethal weapon
was about to pierce my skull.
**[04:38] Kat**
What?
**[04:40] Kat**
The evil arm of the bakufu extends all the
way to this underground town of Akiba?
**[04:43] Kat**
But rest assured, Gintoki.
**[04:44] Kat**
We will protect your life in hiding.
**[04:48] Kat**
Don't let a single rat
get close to the hideout!
**[04:50] Kat**
Don't you dare let anyone
find out Gintoki is here!
**[04:54] Gin**
Even from space, you could
tell this is a hideout!
**[04:56] Gin**
Go look up the word "hiding"
in the dictionary!
**[04:58] Gin**
Like I need all your nasty b*lls
lined up in that tiny-ass room!
**[05:01] Gin**
I never asked you morons to be my bodyguards.
**[05:04] Kat**
Even if you didn't, nobody would
leave their group's ace to die.
**[05:08] Gin**
I don't recall becoming any group's ace.
**[05:10] Kat**
It's too late to play that card now, Gintoki.
**[05:13] Kat**
You charged into Edo Castle,
**[05:15] Kat**
got into a huge fight with the bakufu army,
and threw Lord Sadasada out of power.
**[05:18] Kat**
You insulted and harassed the former
shogun, Shigeshige, many a time,
**[05:22] Kat**
and even punched his successor,
Nobunobu, injuring him gravely.
**[05:25] Kat**
You took part in the Shinsengumi's mutiny
**[05:27] Kat**
and helped them rescue their commander,
Kondo Isao, from the bakufu.
**[05:31] Kat**
Even among the Joi Rebels, nobody else
has pulled off so many acts of terror!
**[05:35] Kat**
You're a terrorist, and a far more radical
one than Takasugi and me, at that!
**[05:39] Kat**
There's no going back for you at this point.
**[05:42] Kat**
You will never have a peaceful life again.
**[05:45] Kat**
You won't even be able to hold your
loved ones with your bloodstained hands!
**[05:48] Kat**
The only thing left in those hands
is a bloody, metallic revolution!
**[05:52] Gin**
Uh, you practically sound like a bad guy.
**[05:55] Gin**
I never committed any acts of terror.
**[05:57] Gin**
I punched a guy who pissed me off, and he
just happened to represent the country.
**[06:01] Gin**
And, since it turned into a big deal,
**[06:02] Gin**
I just tried to cut it
into pieces and bury it.
**[06:05] Gin**
Don't lump me in with you lot.
**[06:06] G**
Forget terrorist, you're
just a homicidal maniac!
**[06:08] Kat**
Do you think you can go back to the
Kabuki District once things calm down?
**[06:12] Kat**
I hate to break it to you,
but that's impossible.
**[06:14] Gin**
Ack!
**[06:15] Gin**
A wanted poster?!
***SIGN*** If this face triggers your memory, call
**[06:16] Gin**
For real? They're circulating these?
**[06:19] Gin**
And that photo just screams violence.
**[06:21] Gin**
Who took this? And when?
**[06:23] Gin**
Isn't this just some
violent impostor in a wig?
**[06:25] Kat**
I'm not an impostor. I'm Katsura.
**[06:27] Gin**
It was you?!
**[06:29] Kat**
The previous photo made
you look way too evil,
**[06:32] Kat**
so I took your guise, showed off your
sweet tooth, and had a fancier one taken.
**[06:35] Gin**
It's supposed to be me eating cake?
**[06:36] Gin**
Just having the cake cut off
made me look so violent?
**[06:40] Kat**
And then I circulated the new one.
**[06:42] Gin**
Recall it!
***SIGN*** If this face triggers your memory, call
**[06:43] Kat**
Don't worry. I altered it.
***SIGN*** Odd Jobs Gin-chan Akiba Branch
**[06:47] Shin**
We're Odd Jobs Gin-chan,
and we've expanded into Akiba!
**[06:51] Kag**
Need to collect *Love Live!* bonus items or
sell off your *Love Live! Sunshine!!* goods?
**[06:55] Kag**
You name it, we'll do it!
**[06:57] Kag**
If this face triggers your memory, come see us!
**[07:01] Gin**
Can I do this if I get triggered instead?
**[07:04] Gin**
Reusing wanted posters as store flyers?
Could you make this any more violent?!
**[07:08] Shin**
Now is the time for positive
thinking, Gin-san.
**[07:11] Gin**
What you're doing is more
like primitive thinking!
**[07:13] Kag**
Even when we fall, we don't get back up
for free. That's the Odd Jobs motto.
**[07:16] Gin**
I'll give you money, so stay down!
Never get back up again, please!
**[07:19] Kag**
Don't worry.
**[07:20] Kag**
Akiba folk are just walking corpses who
ironically call themselves Love Livers.
**[07:24] Kag**
Nobody cares about you.
**[07:26] Gin**
You'd better knock it off, or you'll
be wanted by Love Livers, too!
**[07:30] Gin**
Don't look down on Love Livers!
**[07:32] Gin**
Those guys are insane!
**[07:33] Gin**
Not even love survivor ninja robots
would be a match for them!
**[07:35] G**
Oh, hello? Uh...
**[07:37] G**
There's a guy here who looks a lot
like someone on a wanted poster.
**[07:42] G**
Uh, hello?
**[07:46] G**
My phone!
**[07:48] Gin**
Are you stupid?
**[07:48] Nob**
Excuse me. I'm here because I saw the flyer.
**[07:51] Nob**
Odd Jobs Gin-chan Akiba Branch...
**[07:54] Nob**
Mind if I make a request?
**[08:03] Nob**
Looks like you'll need to relocate again,
**[08:06] Nob**
Odd Jobs.
**[08:07] Gin**
Right back at you.
**[08:09] Gin**
I would've thought you'd left Edo long ago.
**[08:12] Gin**
What happened to the Mimawarigumi?
**[08:13] Nob**
I don't have the ability or
right to lead them anymore.
**[08:18] Nob**
A lot of them wanted to repay Kondo Isao
for saving them on the battlefield,
**[08:21] Nob**
so they went with the Shinsengumi.
**[08:24] Nob**
They'll be much better
off with a man like him.
**[08:29] Nob**
I've got my own job to do...
**[08:32] Nob**
As Sasaki Isaburo's comrade,
**[08:36] Nob**
and...
**[08:38] Nob**
as one of Shoyo's pupils.
**[08:43] Nob**
I can't let this country and
that man do what they want.
**[08:48] Gin**
I didn't know I had a junior here.
**[08:51] Gin**
But you know a side of Yoshida
Shoyo that we don't know...
**[08:56] Gin**
You know Utsuro, don't you?
**[08:58] Gin**
Tell us, what did Shoyo—
**[09:01] Gin**
My.
**[09:02] Mat**
Freeze!
**[09:04] Mat**
You betrayed us, Imai Nobume?
**[09:07] Mat**
Why is the White Yaksha here?
**[09:11] Mat**
Y-You're...
**[09:13] Mat**
One of Takasugi's Kiheitai,
**[09:15] Mat**
Kijima ****ko!
**[09:16] Mat**
Why the hell did you bleep that out?!
**[09:18] Mat**
That's misleading! Just say Matako!
**[09:20] Gin**
No, we can't talk about that
in a late night anime.
**[09:23] Gin**
Let's keep the **** under wraps, okay—
**[09:27] Nob**
Put your gun away, D***ko.
**[09:29] Mat**
What did you say?!
**[09:30] Mat**
Did you just use a totally
different four-letter word?!
**[09:32] Mat**
You're the one who should
put her weapon away.
**[09:35] Mat**
The Mimawarigumi was
supposed to be on our side.
**[09:37] Mat**
Why are you with the White Yaksha's gang?
**[09:39] Kat**
Oh, right.
**[09:40] Kat**
Before Nobunobu sold you out,
**[09:43] Kat**
you were working together as the
Hitotsubashi Faction to take over the country.
**[09:49] Nob**
It was Sasaki Isaburo, the individual,
who formed an alliance with you.
**[09:53] Nob**
The Mimawarigumi were only being used.
**[09:57] Nob**
And Isaburo and the Mimawarigumi
are both gone now.
**[10:02] Hen**
So the rumors were true.
**[10:05] Hen**
Good grief.
**[10:07] Hen**
We came here as a last resort,
**[10:10] Hen**
but it seems we don't have
any allies anywhere anymore.
**[10:14] Nob**
You may not have allies here,
but you do have Shoyo's students
**[10:18] Nob**
and the Odd Jobs Akiba Branch,
which will do anything you want.
**[10:22] Gin**
Don't tell me your request is...
**[10:25] Nob**
Tell us.
**[10:26] Nob**
What happened to...
**[10:29] Nob**
the other student of Shoyo's?
**[10:43] Hen**
Nobunobu and the Elders betrayed the
Kiheitai and cut us out of the Harusame,
**[10:49] Hen**
making us nothing but a tiny,
isolated army wandering in space.
**[10:52] Hen**
But even in that crisis, Kamui-dono's
7th Division went on the attack
**[10:58] Hen**
and successfully captured one of the
syndicate's bases, the Southern Paradise.
**[11:05] Hen**
However, it turned out to be
a trap laid by the Harusame.
**[11:12] Hen**
We and Kamui-dono barely managed to escape,
**[11:17] Hen**
but half our fleet was
reduced to space debris.
**[11:25] (Flashback) Abu**
Are they trying to hunt
every single rabbit down?
**[11:29] (Flashback) Abu**
We're an endangered species, you know.
**[11:32] (Flashback) Abu**
They could stand to be a little nicer to us.
**[11:36] (Flashback) Kam**
Nah, they know their stuff.
**[11:38] (Flashback) Kam**
Abuto, rabbits can die of loneliness.
**[11:42] (Flashback) Kam**
But the enemy has prepared
a fun playground for us.
**[11:45] (Flashback) Kam**
We need to show our gratitude.
**[11:49] (Flashback) G**
Wh-What the?
**[11:54] (Flashback) Kam**
Charge in!
**[11:59] (Flashback) Hen**
*Abuto-dono!*
**[12:00] (Flashback) Hen**
*Why would you charge into the flagship by
yourselves? Are you out of your minds?!*
**[12:03] (Flashback) Abu**
You're barking up the wrong tree!
**[12:06] (Flashback) Abu**
He said he felt like getting up close
and personal with the enemy general.
**[12:09] (Flashback) Abu**
Grab Takasugi and scram while
we're distracting the enemy.
**[12:14] (Flashback) Abu**
*If we live to meet again, give
this moron a piece of your mind.*
**[12:18] (Flashback) Hen**
What are you saying, Abuto-dono?
**[12:20] (Flashback) Abu**
*I've got a bad feeling about this.*
**[12:22] (Flashback) Abu**
The Harusame never fought like this before.
**[12:26] (Flashback) Abu**
Someone who's familiar with the Yato's
killing style has joined them.
**[12:35] (Flashback) Abu**
I knew it.
**[12:36] (Flashback) Abu**
Who the hell have they teamed up with?
**[12:40] (Flashback) Kam**
Just think about who could
pull this crap against Yato.
**[12:43] (Flashback) Kam**
Only two people in this entire universe...
**[12:51] (Flashback) Kam**
Stupid me, and my stupid father.
**[12:56] Shin**
Umibozu-san?
**[12:58] Shin**
Wh-Why?
**[12:59] Hen**
That's what we'd like to know, but...
**[13:02] Hen**
What we do know is that
he and the Harusame
**[13:04] Hen**
banished the Kiheitai and the
7th Division into the darkness of space.
**[13:10] Hen**
Kamui-dono has gone missing,
**[13:13] Hen**
and so has Shinsuke-dono.
**[13:32] (Flashback) Ban**
Takechi has readied an escape vessel.
**[13:35] (Flashback) Ban**
Run, Matako.
**[13:37] (Flashback) Ban**
I promise to bring Shinsuke with me.
**[13:41] (Flashback) Ban**
So...
**[13:42] (Flashback) Ban**
Live on.
**[13:45] (Flashback) Ban**
Don't let the Kiheitai end this way.
**[13:56] Mat**
Shinsuke-sama is still alive.
**[13:58] Mat**
The Kiheitai aren't finished yet.
**[14:01] Mat**
I bet they're waiting for our help right now.
**[14:05] Mat**
So... So...
**[14:08] Gin**
That so?
**[14:09] Gin**
Guess I should go finish him off for good.
**[14:12] Shin**
Gin-san!
**[14:13] Gin**
Sorry, Nobume-san, but that's
the most I can do for them.
**[14:17] Gin**
Or do you want me to avenge those morons?
**[14:22] Nob**
Unless the Harusame are taken out,
this country will never change.
**[14:25] Nob**
The Harusame Space Pirates
have links to the Tendoshu
**[14:28] Nob**
and have amassed great power.
**[14:31] Nob**
If Naraku is one of Utsuro's wings,
**[14:33] Nob**
then the Harusame is the other.
**[14:37] Nob**
Tear it off, and you'll bring the crows that
look down on mankind crashing down.
**[14:43] Nob**
And only you, Shoyo's pupils,
have the power to do that.
**[15:01] E**
It has been a while, Utsuro-dono.
**[15:04] E**
Thank you for traveling all the way
to the end of the universe to see us.
**[15:08] E**
Though we didn't exactly invite you.
**[15:11] U**
Rest assured.
**[15:12] U**
I may be one of the Tendoshu,
**[15:14] U**
but unlike those senior citizens, I don't
like sitting too long in one place.
**[15:20] E**
Ah, you're telling us senile geezers
to shut up and sit our butts down?
**[15:24] U**
Senile geezers wouldn't be able to
sink an entire fleet from their seats.
**[15:28] U**
Thanks to your efforts in keeping a
part of the rebels occupied in space,
**[15:33] U**
we managed to take on the enemies on Earth.
**[15:38] U**
We're truly grateful.
**[15:40] E**
All we did was deal with our enemies.
**[15:43] E**
We don't need your gratitude.
**[15:45] E**
Indeed. We should stick to the
agreement we've had until now
**[15:49] E**
and help each other only
when our interests align.
**[15:54] U**
"So don't get any closer"?
**[15:58] U**
Dear me. Everyone in the
universe hates the Tendoshu.
**[16:01] U**
Even the Elders of the cosmos' biggest
crime syndicate are wary of us?
**[16:07] U**
Do you think a youngster like me
could be plotting something?
**[16:10] E**
I wonder which of us is
really the youngster here.
**[16:13] E**
In your eyes, even we geezers must look
like nothing more than greenhorns,
**[16:20] E**
Utsuro-dono.
**[16:23] Nob**
You people need to know
**[16:26] Nob**
just what the Tendoshu
controlling this country are,
**[16:29] Nob**
and just who Utsuro is.
**[16:33] Nob**
They're all beings born from Altana.
**[16:37] Nob**
Altana being the new energy
resource the Amanto discovered.
**[16:41] Nob**
Some in this country call them ley lines.
**[16:45] Shin**
I've heard about that.
**[16:47] Shin**
I think Ane and Mone mentioned
**[16:49] Shin**
that the terminal the Amanto
built is powered by that.
**[16:54] Nob**
Right.
**[16:55] Nob**
The invention of a method to
convert Altana into usable energy
**[16:59] Nob**
led to rapid development across the universe.
**[17:03] Nob**
Interstellar travel became easy,
**[17:05] Nob**
as did the development of weapons
capable of destroying planets.
**[17:10] Nob**
And those in possession of Altana
gained massive influence.
**[17:17] Nob**
After many a war,
**[17:19] Nob**
states signed a non-aggression pact that
rendered Altana reserves off-limits
**[17:24] Nob**
and formed a centralized organization
to monitor Altana gates, or "holes."
**[17:29] Nob**
That is the Altana Preservation Agency,
**[17:33] Nob**
later known as the Tendoshu.
**[17:35] Gin**
So, basically, the people who were
meant to monitor the resource
**[17:38] Gin**
used its power for their own benefit?
**[17:40] Kat**
The holes in each planet were closed
off, and only they had access to it.
**[17:45] Kat**
That's how they took control of
countless planets and consumed them...
**[17:49] Kat**
Like parasites.
**[17:51] Nob**
Part of the reason they're
obsessed with Earth
**[17:54] Nob**
is its massive Altana reserves,
which were previously untouched.
**[17:58] Nob**
But what they're probably most interested
in is a certain phenomenon...
**[18:04] Nob**
An unexplained effect, which had been
documented as a miracle in the past,
**[18:08] Nob**
that somehow influences
the very principles of life.
**[18:13] Nob**
On this planet, it happened
to take the form of a man.
**[18:17] Nob**
Utsuro,
**[18:19] Nob**
the founder's name passed down through
generations of Tenshoin Naraku.
**[18:23] Nob**
Each head of the Naraku is said
to have inherited that name and
**[18:26] Nob**
worked behind the scenes for
the authority of their time.
**[18:29] Nob**
But that wasn't the truth.
**[18:31] Nob**
It came to light during the Tokugawa's reign,
when Naraku served the Tendoshu.
**[18:38] Nob**
The Utsuro at the time
mysteriously went missing.
**[18:41] Nob**
Since Naraku made traitors pay
for their sins with death,
**[18:44] Nob**
they looked all over for him.
**[18:53] Nob**
Utsuro had changed his name,
concealed his background,
**[18:57] Nob**
and was teaching kids.
**[19:00] Nob**
It's said that the look in his eyes
made him seem like a different person.
**[19:04] Nob**
Later on, his students
caused a major uprising,
**[19:08] Nob**
but they were defeated,
**[19:11] Nob**
and Utsuro was executed.
**[19:17] Nob**
That's when something unexpected happened.
**[19:42] Nob**
That's the truth behind Utsuro.
**[19:49] Nob**
Over its 500-year history, the
Tenshoin Naraku had thirteen heads.
**[19:55] Nob**
But they were all the same man...
**[20:00] Nob**
A man who became incapable of
dying due to the power of Altana.
**[20:05] Nob**
"Yoshida Shoyo" was but a fleeting
smile that Utsuro let slip.
**[20:12] U**
Surely you jest.
**[20:14] U**
The Tendoshu, a bunch of immortals?
**[20:17] U**
Where did you hear a
baseless rumor like that?
**[20:19] E**
Where, indeed?
**[20:21] E**
But I hear you used to be an
agency that researched Altana.
**[20:26] E**
It would make sense if that research led you
**[20:30] E**
to the entire universe's
greatest wish, immortality.
**[20:33] E**
That's how looking at your
unfathomable smile makes us feel.
**[20:39] U**
The entire universe's
greatest wish? Is it really?
**[20:44] U**
Can an endless life really be called "life"?
**[20:47] U**
If living can be defined as not being dead,
**[20:50] U**
can life really exist in the absence
of the very concept of death?
**[20:55] U**
I would call that a void.
**[20:57] U**
A hollow, "Utsuro," if you will,
devoid of life and death.
**[21:01] U**
When people suffer for long,
they seek an end to it all.
**[21:06] U**
But even in times of happiness,
when they find out that it's everlasting,
**[21:11] U**
they seek an end to it all.
**[21:13] U**
And I have met my end and taken
birth over and over again.
**[21:17] U**
But no matter how many times I started
over, I was still "Utsuro," a void.
**[21:21] U**
That's why the me of now was born...
**[21:24] U**
To kill all of myself and
put an end to all of Utsuro.
**[21:31] E**
The 12th Division of the Harusame?!
**[21:34] E**
I see.
**[21:35] E**
You've already...
**[21:37] U**
Respected Elders,
**[21:39] U**
I'm here today to sign a
new agreement with you.
**[21:43] U**
Under its terms, you will first transfer
all control over the Harusame to me.
**[21:46] U**
And second...
**[21:48] U**
You snot-nosed brats will shut up
and keep your butts seated.
**[21:55] Nob**
There's no telling how long
Utsuro has been living for,
**[22:00] Nob**
or whether Shoyo is still
a part of him or not.
**[22:05] Nob**
But one thing is for sure:
**[22:08] Nob**
he's currently the most dangerous
being in the universe.
***SIGN*** Battle on Rakuyo Arc
Part One
***SIGN*** The Monster and the Monster's Child
***SIGN*** Battle on Rakuyo Arc
Part Two
**[23:49] Gin**
We're coming back here, no matter what...
***SIGN*** Next Episode
Leave Letter
**[23:51] Gin**
The three of us, and one critter.
***SIGN*** A leave letter even though we just started?!
***SIGN*** There's a reason deeper than the universe for this...
***SIGN*** Somehow or the other, the Battle on Rakuyo Arc has begun!
***SIGN*** What's "Rakuyo"?? Find out next time!