# E143 - Those Who Stand On Four Legs Are Beasts. Those Who Stand on Two Legs, Guts, and Glory, Are Men
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/G6Q4MQ3ER/those-who-stand-on-four-legs-are-beasts--those-who-stand-on-two-legs-guts-and-glory-are-men)
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**[01:33] Abuto**
Life is just one important decision after another.
**[01:37] Abuto**
Go ahead and see how far your naive decisions can take you.
**[01:43] Abuto**
I told you, didn't I? I...
**[01:47] Abuto**
...hate killing my own kind.
***SIGN*** ["Those Who Stand On Four-Legs Are Beasts. Those Who Stand On Two-Legs, Guts, and Glory Are Men."]
**[01:56] Shinpachi**
H-He...
**[01:58] Shinpachi**
saved us...
**[02:01] Kagura**
Shinpachi...
**[02:03] Shinpachi**
Kagura-chan!
**[02:04] Shinpachi**
Thank god.
**[02:05] Shinpachi**
You're back to normal...
**[02:06] Kagura**
I...lost.
**[02:09] Kagura**
To my Yato instincts...
**[02:11] Kagura**
To my own self...
**[02:13] Kagura**
I tried to kill him.
**[02:15] Kagura**
After all that preaching I did...
**[02:17] Kagura**
In the end, I wasn't any different...
**[02:19] Kagura**
from them...from my brother.
**[02:24] Shinpachi**
That's not true.
**[02:26] Shinpachi**
Kagura-chan, weren't you fighting to protect us?
**[02:30] Shinpachi**
Sorry...
**[02:31] Shinpachi**
It's because I was weak that...
**[02:33] Shinpachi**
If only I were stronger...
**[02:37] Kagura**
I couldn't see anything...
**[02:38] Kagura**
I couldn't hear anything...
**[02:40] Kagura**
Inside that total darkness, I heard...
**[02:43] Kagura**
Your voice...
**[02:46] Kagura**
Shinpachi, you're the one who protected me.
**[02:55] Kagura**
I feel so frustrated.
**[02:57] Kagura**
I want to become stronger...
**[02:59] Kagura**
Strong enough to protect everyone.
**[03:01] Kagura**
Strong enough so that I won't lose to anyone, not even myself.
**[03:07] Shinpachi**
I feel the same way.
**[03:09] Shinpachi**
But, for now!
**[03:10] Shinpachi**
There are people who need our help.
**[03:15] Shinpachi**
There are things even we can protect.
**[03:18] Shinpachi**
Every time we protected something,
**[03:21] Shinpachi**
we became a little stronger, didn't we?
**[03:24] Shinpachi**
So let's wipe our tears and go.
**[03:26] Shinpachi**
I'm sure we'll become a little stronger.
**[03:39] Hyakkaf**
Don't let them get to Hinowa-sama!
**[03:41] Hyakkag**
Hold them back!
**[03:43] Kamui**
So persistent.
**[03:49] Kamui**
It's not my style to kill women.
**[03:52] Kamui**
Women may give birth to strong children, right?
**[03:55] Kamui**
Well, I suppose I can't expect anything from your children.
**[04:00] Seita**
S-Stop it!
**[04:01] Seita**
What's so fun about killing people like that?!
**[04:05] Seita**
How can you kill people and just smile like that?!
**[04:08] Kamui**
That's harsh. After all I did to bring you here.
**[04:11] Kamui**
Besides, they're the ones keeping your mother locked up here.
**[04:15] Seita**
I don't remember asking for it!
**[04:17] Kamui**
I pay my respects with a smile when killing.
**[04:21] Kamui**
Regardless of how their life was, it's appropriate to send them off with a smile,
**[04:24] Kamui**
so they can die soundly.
**[04:26] Kamui**
You could even say that, I intend to kill when I'm smiling.
**[04:32] Kamui**
I'm kidding.
**[04:34] Kamui**
I don't believe in killing children.
**[04:36] Kamui**
After all, they may grow up to be strong.
**[04:41] Kamui**
Come here.
**[04:43] Kamui**
You should also smile.
**[04:44] Kamui**
You don't want to meet your mother with such a strained look on your face.
**[04:48] Seita**
Mom is...here...?
**[04:53] Kamui**
Eight years ago,
**[04:55] Kamui**
when she was captured while trying to help you escape,
**[04:58] Kamui**
she traded her own freedom for yours.
**[05:03] Kamui**
She's only a courtesan in name.
**[05:06] Kamui**
Hosen locked her up here when he wasn't using her to attract customers.
**[05:12] Kamui**
She was allowed no clients nor freedom.
**[05:14] Kamui**
Hosen forced Hinowa to rot to death here.
**[05:18] Kamui**
No, I suppose you could say that Hinowa chose this for herself.
**[05:22] Kamui**
In order to protect you.
**[05:25] Kamui**
Yet you still came here.
**[05:27] Kamui**
Wasting Hinowa's years of hardship and resolve and putting yourself in danger...
**[05:34] Kamui**
But you still came to see her.
**[05:37] Kamui**
Which means you're resolved in your own way.
**[05:40] Kamui**
It's your job to go from here on.
**[05:48] Hinowa**
Leave.
**[05:50] Hinowa**
You won't find what you're seeking here.
**[05:55] Hinowa**
Leave.
**[05:56] Seita**
M-Mom...?
**[05:59] Seita**
Is that you, mom?!
**[06:00] Seita**
Open up!
**[06:01] Seita**
You know who I am, right?!
**[06:03] Seita**
I'm your son, Seita!
**[06:05] Seita**
Mo...!
**[06:05] Hinowa**
I have no son.
**[06:07] Hinowa**
I don't know any dirty brat like you.
**[06:11] Seita**
Why do you know...?
**[06:14] Seita**
Why do you know I'm a dirty brat?
**[06:17] Seita**
You were watching me, weren't you?
**[06:19] Seita**
Whenever I was looking up at you from below,
**[06:22] Seita**
you were also looking at me, right?
**[06:25] Seita**
You never responded when I shouted to you,
**[06:28] Seita**
but that was so I wouldn't get involved.
**[06:30] Seita**
You were struggling to keep your mouth shut, weren't you?!
**[06:35] Seita**
Mom...
**[06:37] Seita**
I had no idea...
**[06:39] Seita**
that you were suffering here.
**[06:42] Seita**
I always wondered why I was the only unfortunate one.
**[06:46] Seita**
When I was living in poverty with Grandpa...
**[06:49] Seita**
When I was all alone after Grandpa died...
**[06:52] Seita**
I blamed it all on you for abandoning me.
**[06:55] Seita**
I had no idea.
**[06:58] Seita**
I didn't know anything at all.
**[07:02] Seita**
That you were protecting me this whole time.
**[07:10] Seita**
Now it's my turn!
**[07:14] Seita**
Now it's my turn to save you, mom!
**[07:19] Seita**
Now I'm going to protect you, mom!!
**[07:22] Seita**
I won't leave you in there!!
**[07:24] Seita**
This time we'll leave this place for sure!
**[07:26] Seita**
Both of us are going up together!
**[07:29] Seita**
So mom...
**[07:30] Seita**
Open the door!
**[07:32] Seita**
Please, mom!
**[07:33] Seita**
Mom!!
**[07:34] Seita**
Mo...!
**[07:35] ---**
Stop it!
**[07:37] Hinowa**
Your mom isn't here.
**[07:40] Hinowa**
Didn't I tell you that?
**[07:42] Seita**
M-Mom...
**[07:44] Hosen**
That's not true.
**[07:47] Hosen**
If you want to see her so badly, I'll let you.
**[07:53] Hosen**
Personally...
**[07:56] Seita**
H-Hosen!
**[07:57] Kamui**
Oops, we've been found.
**[08:00] Hosen**
Take her with you if you want.
**[08:03] Hosen**
Child, that is your mother.
**[08:08] Hosen**
Hinowa isn't your mother.
**[08:11] Hosen**
Your mother left this world long ago.
**[08:16] Seita**
What are you...talking about...
**[08:18] Hosen**
You think a courtesan of Yoshiwara could give birth to a child unnoticed?
**[08:26] Hosen**
Eight years ago, a prostitute became pregnant with a child.
**[08:30] Hosen**
But becoming pregnant in Yoshiwara means death for both.
**[08:35] Hosen**
So a number of the women hid her and secretly assisted the birth.
**[08:42] Hosen**
Yes...
**[08:44] Hosen**
That was you, child!
**[08:46] Hosen**
Your mother was weak and died after giving birth to you.
**[08:52] Hosen**
Unfortunately, the woman over there isn't your mother.
**[08:56] Hosen**
Dreaming of becoming a mother, yet couldn't.
**[09:00] Hosen**
Just a pathetic women who immersed herself in playing a mother role.
**[09:06] Hinowa**
Why...
**[09:08] Hinowa**
Why did you come to this place?
**[09:11] Hinowa**
Why did you come?
**[09:14] Hinowa**
You should have just forgotten about someone like me.
**[09:18] Hinowa**
Just knowing you lived up there for the rest of us would have been enough.
**[09:23] Hinowa**
I'm not worth risking your life to protect.
**[09:30] Hosen**
You won't find your mother anywhere in this world.
**[09:34] Hosen**
Now that you understand, take that memento of her and get lost.
**[09:37] Hosen**
Of course, it's a different story if you wish to see your mother in the afterlife.
**[09:47] Seita**
I have a mother!
**[09:49] Seita**
Right here!
**[09:50] Seita**
My mom is alive!
**[09:52] Seita**
Right here!
**[09:54] Seita**
The one who delivered me from this eternal darkness to the surface!
**[09:57] Seita**
The one who risked her life to give birth to me!
**[10:00] Seita**
It doesn't matter if we aren't related by blood!
**[10:03] Seita**
This person is my mom!
**[10:07] Hosen**
You don't know when to give up, child.
**[10:09] Hosen**
I have no choice.
**[10:11] Hosen**
Go meet your real mother in the underworld.
**[10:21] Seita**
Th-This is...
**[10:23] Gin**
Hey, I wasn't told about this.
**[10:26] Gin**
I came cause they said the best woman in Yoshiwara was here.
**[10:31] Gin**
But it looks like she's got a kid.
**[10:35] Gin**
Those tears prove it.
**[10:39] Seita**
M-Mom...?
**[10:41] Gin**
Hey manager, get me a different girl.
**[10:44] Gin**
One that can withstand some really rough SM play.
**[10:47] Hosen**
Who are you?
**[10:52] Gin**
Nobody special.
**[10:54] Gin**
Just a girl-loving playboy.
**[11:07] Seita**
Gi...
**[11:08] Seita**
Gin-san!!
**[11:10] Gin**
What are you doing, dummy?
**[11:12] Gin**
Just get going and don't worry about me.
**[11:14] Seita**
But...
**[11:17] Seita**
Is it okay for me to go?
**[11:20] Seita**
Is it okay for a dirty brat like me
**[11:23] Seita**
to call such a beautiful person my mom?
**[11:28] Gin**
You called her that all this time and now you're asking?
**[11:31] Gin**
Call to her.
**[11:33] Gin**
Yell "Mom" from the bottom of your heart.
**[11:43] Seita**
M-Mom...
**[11:45] Hinowa**
Are you sure?
**[11:46] Hinowa**
Calling someone not related to you...
**[11:49] Hinowa**
a dirty woman like me, your mom?
**[11:54] Seita**
Mom...
**[11:56] Hinowa**
Are you sure?
**[11:57] Hinowa**
Calling someone who wasn't able to do anything for you...
**[12:01] Hinowa**
a woman like me, as your mom?
**[12:05] Seita**
Mom...
**[12:06] Hinowa**
Are you sure?
**[12:08] Hinowa**
A woman like me becoming your mom...?
**[12:14] Seita**
Mom!
**[12:17] Hinowa**
Seita!
**[12:29] Kamui**
He was the one from when...
**[12:34] Kamui**
Wow, so he survived.
**[12:37] Hosen**
I see.
**[12:39] Hosen**
You're the ronin the child hired.
**[12:42] Hosen**
Are you the one who's been running wild around my city?
**[12:46] Gin**
Running wild?
**[12:48] Gin**
Don't make me laugh.
**[12:49] Gin**
I haven't bought a single woman.
**[12:52] Hosen**
I see.
**[12:53] Hosen**
Then I'll prepare a banquet for you.
**[12:56] Hosen**
A banquet of blood.
**[12:58] Gin**
I appreciate the generous gesture, but I'll have to pass.
**[13:02] Gin**
I can't enjoy a drink while looking at an old geezer's receding hairline.
**[13:07] Gin**
I can't enjoy a drink at a place like this.
**[13:11] Gin**
Yeah, you did a fine job with bringing in this many babes.
**[13:17] Gin**
But it doesn't matter how many beautiful women,
**[13:20] Gin**
or how much fine liquor you have.
**[13:22] Gin**
I won't drink a single drop in your place.
**[13:26] Gin**
I can't enjoy a drink poured by women in chains.
**[13:32] Gin**
I can't enjoy a drink poured by someone in tears.
**[13:37] Gin**
I'd take a crappy snack joint full of old ladies instead,
**[13:40] Gin**
if they serve me with a smile.
**[13:43] Gin**
I'd take a bar run by a vicious cabaret girl instead,
**[13:47] Gin**
if everyone could drink and laugh.
**[13:51] Gin**
I'd take a field in the middle of nowhere with no women, wine, or even a roof instead,
**[13:54] Gin**
if we could drink cheap liquor and watch the moon.
**[13:58] Gin**
A woman's tears...
**[14:00] Gin**
are too much to go with drinking.
**[14:04] Hosen**
So you came to shatter those chains?
**[14:06] Hosen**
To free Hinowa...the woman of Yoshiwara from the King of the Night?
**[14:13] Gin**
It's not that big a deal.
**[14:15] Gin**
I just want a drink.
**[14:18] Gin**
And have the finest courtesan serve it to me with one great smile.
**[14:23] Kamui**
How amusing.
**[14:25] Kamui**
Picking a fight with the King of the Night for the sake of a drink.
**[14:29] Kamui**
Guess Earth has its share of amusing people.
**[14:32] Kamui**
Right, Boss Hosen?
**[14:40] Kamui**
Ooh, scary.
**[14:41] Kamui**
Don't be so angry.
**[14:43] Kamui**
Don't worry. I won't interfere with you anymore.
**[14:46] Hosen**
Kamui! What are you after?
**[14:49] Hosen**
After attempting to take my life, you help that child by taking him to Hinowa.
**[14:55] Hosen**
You want to interfere with me that badly?
**[14:58] Hosen**
Or perhaps...
**[15:00] Hosen**
Watching that child long for his mother brought back memories of the past?
**[15:06] Hosen**
You now feel like atoning for abandoning your sick mother?
**[15:15] Kamui**
What nonsense.
**[15:18] Kamui**
I was wondering what sort of woman could turn the King of the Night into a fool,
**[15:23] Kamui**
but she turns out to be a miserable wretch clinging to a dirty brat.
**[15:26] Kamui**
The sun of Yoshiwara? Yeah, right.
**[15:29] Kamui**
This isn't it.
**[15:30] Kamui**
The strength I seek isn't for some cheap crap like this.
**[15:35] Gin**
Like not hesitating to kill your own sister or father.
**[15:38] Gin**
Is that what you mean?
**[15:40] Gin**
Talk about ironic.
**[15:42] Gin**
If there's a brother willing to kill his real sister,
**[15:45] Gin**
there are people with bonds stronger than those between a parent and a child.
**[15:50] Gin**
Who knows which would be considered the real family.
**[15:54] Hosen**
Very amusing.
**[15:58] Hosen**
Why don't you show me how strong those bonds are?
**[16:06] Hosen**
Whether you can release them from my chains...
**[16:10] Hosen**
or for me to break through their bonds.
**[16:15] Hosen**
Let's see who will win!
**[16:19] Hosen**
Can a mere Earthling shatter the chains...
**[16:24] Hosen**
of the King of the Night?!
**[16:26] Gin**
A chain made from a perverted old man's wet dreams?
**[16:30] Gin**
I'll break it with a single strike.
**[16:33] Gin**
Every night has to end eventually.
**[16:35] Gin**
It's time for this city to see dawn.
**[16:38] Gin**
The King of the Night can watch the sunrise,
**[16:41] Gin**
and go nighty night!!
**[16:43] Seita**
Gin-san!
**[17:01] Seita**
G-Gin-san!
**[17:07] Hosen**
Ah...
**[17:11] Hosen**
So you blocked my attack?
**[17:14] Gin**
What the hell...
**[17:17] Gin**
One hit...
**[17:18] Gin**
One strike and it feels like...
**[17:20] Gin**
my body's lost all its energy and stamina!
**[17:26] Gin**
Hosen, King of the Night.
**[17:28] Gin**
This is the power of the man once known as the King of the Yato?
**[17:33] Kamui**
Oh, wow.
**[17:35] Kamui**
You lasted ten seconds against the King of the Night.
**[17:37] Kamui**
This is getting interesting.
**[17:39] Kamui**
Good luck, mister.
**[17:41] Kamui**
I feel like rooting for you now.
**[17:42] Gin**
Don't look down on me, you damn kid.
**[17:45] Gin**
Ten seconds? Hell, I'll last till I die of old age.
**[17:48] Gin**
I'll die peacefully while surrounded by grandchildren, you bastard!
**[17:52] Hosen**
Your life has already ended.
**[17:56] Hosen**
The second you decided to oppose Yoshiwara...the King of the Night!
**[18:06] Gin**
My bones are grating...
**[18:08] Gin**
My muscles are crying in pain...
**[18:10] Gin**
I can't relax a single finger, a single muscle!
**[18:15] Gin**
I'll be crushed in the next moment!
**[18:39] Gin**
No time to breath...or even blink!
**[18:43] Gin**
A single blow forces my soul from my body!
**[18:56] Seita**
Gin-san!
**[18:57] Kamui**
What, over already?
**[19:00] Kamui**
That's no fun.
**[19:02] Hosen**
It seems you're not just all talk.
**[19:05] Hosen**
Within Earth standards, that is.
**[19:08] Hosen**
Of course, you samurai wouldn't be able to shatter my chains,
**[19:13] Hosen**
when you couldn't even protect your own nation from the Amanto.
**[19:18] Hosen**
When a lion loses a turf war,
**[19:21] Hosen**
it must turn over its land and its females.
**[19:25] Hosen**
Do you understand?
**[19:27] Hosen**
You samurai no longer have a home,
**[19:29] Hosen**
or the right to hold women.
**[19:33] Hosen**
Because your lands and females all became ours long ago!
**[19:40] Hosen**
That's right.
**[19:42] Hosen**
This city, its women, and Hinowa all belong to the King of the Night!
**[19:46] Hosen**
They're chained up as my pets.
**[19:50] Hosen**
They cannot escape anywhere.
**[19:52] Hosen**
And you losers don't have the right to stop me!
**[19:57] Hosen**
It's your fault for being too weak to protect anything!
**[20:03] Hosen**
A loser should act like one and just suck on his thumb...
**[20:08] Hosen**
and watch as this nation and its women are violated by the stronger ones!
**[20:14] Hosen**
In the other world, where your comrades are waiting for you!
**[20:23] Gin**
We haven't lost...
**[20:27] Gin**
...I'm still fighting!
**[20:30] Hosen**
You son of a...!!
**[20:37] Seita**
Gin-san!!
**[20:38] Gin**
Stay back!!
**[20:39] Gin**
What are you doing, idiot?
**[20:41] Gin**
Get going already.
**[20:43] Gin**
Take your mom and get outta here!
**[20:46] Seita**
N-No!
**[20:47] Seita**
Are you telling me to run away by myself and leave you behind?!
**[20:50] Seita**
I can't do that after getting you involved in all of this!
**[20:55] Gin**
Getting me involved?
**[20:57] Gin**
I butted in on my own.
**[20:59] Gin**
Get going.
**[21:01] Gin**
If something happens to the two of you,
**[21:03] Gin**
we'll have come here for nothing.
**[21:06] Seita**
No...!
**[21:07] Seita**
No way!
**[21:09] Seita**
I may be useless,
**[21:11] Seita**
but I'll help you!
**[21:12] Seita**
I'll stay with you until the end!
**[21:14] Gin**
You stupid...
**[21:15] Seita**
You said so!
**[21:17] Seita**
That there were bonds stronger than family, even when people aren't related by blood?
**[21:22] Seita**
That's right.
**[21:23] Seita**
Blood doesn't matter.
**[21:25] Seita**
You all reformed me from being a thief.
**[21:29] Seita**
You all taught me how to lead a respectable life.
**[21:32] Seita**
You all kept me...from being all alone.
**[21:36] Seita**
It wasn't very long, but it was fun.
**[21:39] Seita**
Ever since Grandpa died, I never had that much fun.
**[21:44] Seita**
Just like Mom...
**[21:47] Seita**
Everybody...Gin-san...
**[21:50] Seita**
You're all like family to me!
**[21:54] Seita**
The one and only people who taught me what's important!
**[21:59] Seita**
And you're telling me to abandon you here?!
**[22:02] Seita**
To let you die in this place?!
**[22:07] Gin**
Hearing you say that is more than enough...
**[22:12] Gin**
Get going.
**[22:14] Gin**
Don't make me into a loser again.
**[22:19] Seita**
Gin-san...
**[22:27] Seita**
Gi...
**[22:29] Seita**
Gin...!
**[22:30] Seita**
Gin-san!!
***SIGN***
**[24:06] Tsukuyo**
What a joke this is.
**[24:08] Tsukuyo**
After all that big talking, look at you!
**[24:11] Tsukuyo**
Where's that sun you promised?
**[24:14] Tsukuyo**
I was a fool for expecting anything from you.
**[24:17] Tsukuyo**
You...stinkin' big bluff!
***SIGN*** [The next episode: "Don't Trust Bedtime Stories"]
***SIGN*** [There was a heart-wrenching reason why Hinowa was stuck there.]
***SIGN*** [Inspired by Gintoki's words, Seita sets out to rescue his mother all by himself.]