E178 - Once You’re Entangled in a Spiderweb, It’s Hard to Get It Off

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[01:35] Tsukuyo
    I saw a spider.
[01:38] Tsukuyo
    A spider tattoo on that man's neck...
[01:44] Gintoki
    A spider, huh?
[01:46] Gintoki
    Not much to go by, but oh well.
[01:49] Gintoki
    I'll have to let myself be caught.
[01:52] Gintoki
    In the spiderweb.
[01:54] Tsukuyo
    I'm the one who brought
    you into this mess.
[01:57] Tsukuyo
    Go, quickly!
[01:58] Tsukuyo
    I'll follow behind shortly.
[01:59] Gintoki
    Sorry, but I try not to take a woman's
    last minute nonsense seriously.
[02:06] Tsukuyo
    Please go, I beg you.
[02:09] Tsukuyo
    I wish to stay as your equal.
[02:13] Tsukuyo
    When I'm with you, my resolve weakens.
[02:17] Jiraia
    Give up on being a woman, Tsukuyo.
[02:21] Tsukuyo
    Don't shake up my feelings any further.
[02:28] Gintoki
    Pay attention, you idiot!
[02:35] Jiraia
    You're the one
[02:36] Jiraia
    who's not paying attention.
SIGN    ["Once You're Entangled in a Spiderweb, It's Hard to Get It Off."]
[02:53] Tsukuyo
    Gintoki!
[02:58] Tsukuyo
    Bastard!
[03:01] Jiraia
    You need to shut up.
[03:10] Gintoki
    Tsukuyo!
[03:12] Jiraia
    I knew you would come, Tsukuyo.
[03:16] Jiraia
    You've become so beautiful.
[03:18] Jiraia
    I almost didn't recognize you.
[03:21] Jiraia
    However...
[03:22] Jiraia
    Your soul has become
    repulsive to behold.
[03:25] Jiraia
    A tragedy.
[03:26] Tsukuyo
    Who... are you?!
[03:33] Jiraia
    You must be the one
    who ruined the moon.
[03:37] Jiraia
    The one who soiled my beautiful moon.
[03:41] Jiraia
    It must have been you.
[04:06] Jiraia
    I see...
[04:07] Jiraia
    Your movements are still sharp
    despite the injuries.
[04:11] Jiraia
    I can see how you were
    able to defeat Hosen.
[04:14] Gintoki
    Who the hell are you?!
[04:20] Jiraia
    Someone you can trust
    to watch your back.
[04:23] Jiraia
    Someone who would protect you,
    instead of being protected.
[04:28] Jiraia
    Did that bring back the womanhood
    you thought to have given up on?
[04:32] Jiraia
    Or could it be...
[04:34] Jiraia
    You've fallen for this man?
[04:39] Seita
    Gin-san and Tsukuyo are really late.
[04:42] Seita
    They should have returned by now.
[04:45] Hinowa
    I hope that they weren't caught
    up in any trouble.
[04:48] Kagura
    Don't worry. She's with Gin-chan.
[04:50] Shinpachi
    Though the fact that she's with Gin-san
    gives us something else to worry about.
[04:54] Shinpachi
    Anyway, sorry about today, Hinowa-san.
[04:57] Shinpachi
    We checked all over but we weren't
    able to learn anything.
[05:01] Hinowa
    It's fine.
[05:01] Hinowa
    I'm sorry about forcing you to do this.
[05:04] Hinowa
    To be honest, I was more worried about
    her than this whole drug deal.
[05:09] Kagura
    Are you talking about Tsukky?
[05:12] Hinowa
    Yes, Tsukky.
[05:14] Hinowa
    You're the only ones who
    would call her that.
[05:17] Kagura
    Does it sound dumb?
[05:19] Hinowa
    No, it's wonderful.
[05:21] Hinowa
    I'll call her Tsukky from now on.
[05:25] Hinowa
    She always tries to bear
    the burden alone.
[05:29] Hinowa
    I'm always so worried.
[05:32] Hinowa
    Protecting me and Yoshiwara for so
    long, when she's only a woman...
[05:36] Hinowa
    Yet she never tries to rely on other
    people when something happens.
[05:41] Hinowa
    She's so focused on protecting others that
    she doesn't allow others to protect her.
[05:45] Hinowa
    It was the same this time.
[05:47] Hinowa
    She was thinking of how to deal
    with this problem by herself.
[05:51] Hinowa
    Acting recklessly without considering
    the danger to herself...
[05:56] Hinowa
    I wish she'd be willing to rely on
    me when there was trouble.
[06:00] Hinowa
    It's because I'm so useless like this...
[06:04] Hinowa
    But it's different with you people.
[06:08] Hinowa
    When she's with you, she's able to relax.
[06:12] Hinowa
    Able to face you on equal footing
    and ask for help or offer help.
[06:17] Hinowa
    Able to forget that she's the leader of the
    Hyakka and become an ordinary girl.
[06:23] Hinowa
    You people are a true marvel...
[06:26] Hinowa
    Any heavy burden, any
    attempt to shun others
[06:32] Hinowa
    feels stupid when we're around you.
[06:36] Shinpachi
    Hinowa-san...
[06:37] Shinpachi
    Was that a compliment? Or an insult?
[06:41] Hinowa
    It makes me happy to see
    Tsukuyo look that way.
[06:45] Hinowa
    It doesn't have to involve business.
[06:46] Hinowa
    Please come to see her when
    you have a little time.
[06:50] Hinowa
    She needs people like you.
[06:55] Hinowa
    Ever since he died...
[07:01] Shinpachi
    He?
[07:03] Shinpachi
    Who do you mean?
[07:05] Hinowa
    A long time ago, there was a person
    she was able to rely on.
[07:11] Hinowa
    A person who would protect
    her no matter what.
[07:17] Jiraia
    Tsukuyo, I made this clear.
[07:20] Jiraia
    One who can't give up on being a woman
    couldn't possibly protect a thing.
[07:25] Jiraia
    Have you forgotten the pain
    which came with that scar?
[07:37] Jiraia
    Tsukuyo.
[07:39] Jiraia
    If you wish to become one who protects
    instead of one who is protected,
[07:43] Jiraia
    give up on being a woman.
[07:49] Jiraia
    How can you protect someone or something
[07:52] Jiraia
    if you're busy ensuring your own safety?
[07:59] Jiraia
    Devotion can only come
    from sacrificing the self.
[08:04] Jiraia
    But devotion to what?
[08:06] Jiraia
    Not the Bakufu, not the
    Shogun, not your lord.
[08:10] Jiraia
    It is to what you believe in,
    what you must protect.
[08:14] Hinowa
    Yes, he protected Tsukuyo.
[08:19] Hinowa
    And Tsukuyo respected him in return.
[08:22] Hinowa
    However, it wasn't Tsukuyo
    that he was protecting.
[08:27] Hinowa
    Tsukuyo turned out this way because...
[08:31] Shinpachi
    Who are you talking about?
[08:36] Jiraia
    You may not be the sun which
    shines above the people.
[08:40] Jiraia
    But I alone know of your lunar beauty
    which secretly illuminates the land.
[08:46] Jiraia
    I alone shall watch over you.
[08:48] Jiraia
    I alone will protect you.
[08:57] Jiraia
    That's right...
[08:58] Jiraia
    I've come to protect your former beauty.
[09:04] Hinowa
    He was one of the strongest
    Ninja in Edo.
[09:07] Hinowa
    Yet he was banished from the
    Oniwabanshu for his sins,
[09:10] Hinowa
    and ended up in Yoshiwara.
[09:12] Hinowa
    Nobody knows his real name.
[09:16] Hinowa
    He's known as...
[09:19] Hinowa
    Jiraia.
[09:21] Hinowa
    The original head of the Hyakka.
[09:24] Hinowa
    And Tsukuyo's...
[09:26] Tsukuyo
    Ma-
[09:28] Tsukuyo
    Master?!
[09:44] Tsukuyo
    Ma-
[09:45] Tsukuyo
    Master...
[09:47] Jiraia
    So you weren't able to see
    through my disguise.
[09:50] Jiraia
    It's ironic.
[09:52] Jiraia
    I gave up my face when
    I gave up my identity,
[09:56] Jiraia
    yet now that very face serves
[09:58] Jiraia
    as the only proof of my existence.
[10:01] Jiraia
    The face of my identity...
[10:07] Tsukuyo
    Master...
[10:09] Tsukuyo
    How can you be alive?
[10:12] Tsukuyo
    Why are you doing this?!
[10:17] Jiraia
    Isn't it obvious?
[10:19] Jiraia
    To see you, Tsukuyo.
[10:24] Hinowa
    He was the one who trained
    Tsukuyo from a young age
[10:29] Hinowa
    to create a hardened warrior.
[10:33] Hinowa
    He was the one who made Tsukuyo
    abandon her life as a woman.
[10:38] Hinowa
    He was the one who created
    the Tsukuyo we now know.
[10:42] Hinowa
    And as a final lesson, he sacrificed
    himself and died.
[10:48] Shinpachi
    Died?
[10:50] Hinowa
    There was a great fire in Yoshiwara
    four years ago.
[11:09] Hinowa
    He died to protect Tsukuyo.
[11:17] Hinowa
    He was never trying to
    protect Yoshiwara.
[11:22] Hinowa
    He was protecting his beloved
    student, Tsukuyo.
[11:27] Hinowa
    I'm grateful to him for risking
    his life to protect her.
[11:33] Hinowa
    For providing her with support
    this whole time...
[11:36] Hinowa
    But she remains reluctant
    to depend on others
[11:41] Hinowa
    because she's walking in his footsteps.
[11:46] Hinowa
    And he probably wasn't even protecting
    Tsukuyo as a person.
[11:55] Hinowa
    He was protecting Tsukuyo
    as his creation.
[11:59] Jiraia
    Tsukuyo, you were a masterpiece that
    came from my blood and sweat.
[12:06] Jiraia
    I have been watching you, ever since I feigned
    my death and vanished from Yoshiwara.
[12:12] Jiraia
    And you alone...
[12:14] Jiraia
    After losing your only source of support,
[12:16] Jiraia
    you were desperate to protect Yoshiwara,
    Hinowa on your own.
[12:21] Jiraia
    You were beautiful to behold.
[12:24] Jiraia
    Just like the moon.
[12:27] Jiraia
    Humans acting in selfless devotion can
    transcend flesh, good, and evil...
[12:34] Jiraia
    Only your beautiful soul remains.
[12:39] Jiraia
    You would have never been perfected
    as a creation without my aid.
[12:43] Jiraia
    But my existence was also
    preventing your perfection.
[12:48] Jiraia
    A weak human who had someone to rely
    on could never sacrifice her sense of self.
[12:53] Jiraia
    Once your heart is strong enough to bear
[12:56] Jiraia
    the loneliness of having
    no one to depend on,
[12:59] Jiraia
    you are able to abandon
    your sense of self.
[13:02] Jiraia
    You were perfected when you lost me.
[13:09] Jiraia
    Yes, that should have been the end.
[13:14] Jiraia
    Until you all appeared!
[13:25] Jiraia
    Tsukuyo, you understand nothing.
[13:28] Jiraia
    You do not need anything
    to rely on, depend on.
[13:33] Jiraia
    You only need solitude and
    an enemy for your blade.
[13:41] Jiraia
    Look, Tsukuyo.
[13:43] Jiraia
    You will watch as one who
    protects you vanishes.
[13:47] Jiraia
    And a new enemy will be born here
    to replace your King of Night.
[13:52] Jiraia
    I, Jiraia!
[13:54] Tsukuyo
    Gintoki! Run!
[14:09] Jiraia
    You won't get away.
[14:11] Jiraia
    You are already caught in my web.
[14:17] Gintoki
    He's floating?!
[14:39] Tsukuyo
    Gintoki!
[14:40] Tsukuyo
    The threads!
[14:41] Tsukuyo
    He's strung up threads all around!
[14:44] Tsukuyo
    We can't beat him here!
[14:46] Tsukuyo
    Run!
[14:48] Gintoki
    Threads?!
[14:53] Gintoki
    He's using imperceptible
    threads as a foothold?!
[14:56] Gintoki
    The first set of kunai was
    for setting this up?!
[15:14] Jiraia
    By the time you notice
[15:17] Jiraia
    that you're caught in a spiderweb,
[15:20] Jiraia
    it's already too late.
[15:33] Tsukuyo
    Gintoki!
[15:40] Jiraia
    Now, to finish you off.
[15:42] Jiraia
    With your death, the moon
    will become whole again.
[15:47] Jiraia
    Gaze at my beautiful moon
    from the afterlife.
[16:09] Jiraia
    No matter.
[16:10] Jiraia
    He won't survive those wounds.
[16:15] Tsukuyo
    Gin...
[16:16] ---
    Gin...
[16:18] Tsukuyo
    Gintoki...
[16:35] Zenzo
    Not my problem.
[16:37] Zenzo
    I didn't see a thing.
[16:38] Zenzo
    I've been reading JUMP the whole time.
[16:40] Zenzo
    Because Ninjas can read
    JUMP even in the dark.
[16:44] Zenzo
    I have nothing to do with this.
[16:50] Seita
    Gin-san!
[16:52] Shinpachi
    Hang in there, Gin-
[16:55] Shinpachi
    Gin-san!
[16:57] Seita
    Thank goodness!
[16:59] Seita
    I thought you were gonna die!
[17:02] Kagura
    Are you stupid?
[17:03] Kagura
    It'll take more than this to kill Gin-chan!
[17:05] Seita
    But he was unconscious
    for three whole days!
[17:08] Seita
    And these injuries are terrible.
[17:11] Gintoki
    Hey, why am I alive?
[17:15] Gintoki
    How did I make it back here?
SIGN    [Ugly Girls Club]
[17:21] Zenzo
    C'mon! Drink up!
[17:23] Woman
    You're a good man.
[17:26] Woman
    But aren't you going to run out of
    money if you come every day?
[17:30] Zenzo
    Oh, it's fine.
[17:32] Zenzo
    I got a bunch of coupons
    from the Hinowa lady.
[17:36] Zenzo
    Besides, I'm rich.
[17:38] Zenzo
    I actually used to work for the Shogun.
[17:41] Woman
    You're such a kidder.
[17:43] Woman
    Why would someone from
    a fine background
[17:45] Woman
    surround himself with fuglies
    in a rundown club.
[17:50] Zenzo
    I find more beauty in ruined buildings
[17:53] Zenzo
    and funky caverns than
    shiny skyscrapers.
[17:58] Zenzo
    You're a real wreck.
[18:00] Zenzo
    A rare breed.
[18:02] Zenzo
    What happened here?
[18:03] Zenzo
    Were you attacked by a Giant Warrior?
[18:04] Zenzo
    What are these two caverns?
[18:06] Zenzo
    Why are they pointing up?
[18:08] Zenzo
    Can I stick it in?
[18:10] Zenzo
    Can I stick an electric plug in?
[18:19] Zenzo
    Ow...
[18:20] Zenzo
    Bastard!
[18:22] Zenzo
    Is this how you treat the man
    who saved your life?
[18:24] Zenzo
    Do you have any idea how hard it was to fish you
    out of the ocean and drag you down here?!
[18:29] Gintoki
    What the hell are you babbling about?
[18:31] Gintoki
    You have no right to talk when you stood
    by and watched while I was almost killed.
[18:36] Zenzo
    Why would I come to your rescue?
[18:39] Zenzo
    Besides, I have no interest in pretty girls.
[18:42] Gintoki
    What the hell were you doing there?
[18:45] Gintoki
    What happened to Tsukuyo?
[18:47] Zenzo
    Had a little business to take care of.
[18:49] Zenzo
    The pretty girl was taken.
[18:51] Gintoki
    Where'd they go?
[18:52] Zenzo
    Beats me. I said that I have
    no interest in pretty girls.
[18:58] Zenzo
    Hey, where are you going?
[19:00] Zenzo
    Just to be clear,
[19:01] Zenzo
    you don't have a chance against him.
[19:04] Zenzo
    Even if you weren't all beat-up.
[19:08] Gintoki
    So you have no interest in pretty girls,
[19:11] Gintoki
    but you seem to be very interested
    in fuglies and old men.
[19:15] Zenzo
    Jiraia the Spider...
[19:17] Zenzo
    He belonged to the last generation.
[19:19] Zenzo
    His power was said to rival my old man's,
    the strongest of the Oniwabanshu.
[19:26] Zenzo
    However, despite his abilities, he was
    banished from the Oniwabanshu...
[19:31] Zenzo
    Because of his dangerous nature.
[19:34] Zenzo
    I'm trying to be helpful.
[19:36] Zenzo
    Give up on the woman.
[19:38] Zenzo
    If you've been caught in his web,
[19:40] Zenzo
    you're beyond saving.
[19:54] Jiraia
    Are you awake?
[19:56] Jiraia
    How do you feel?
[20:02] Tsukuyo
    Master...
[20:05] Tsukuyo
    No, Jiraia...
[20:09] Jiraia
    You no longer wish to call me master?
[20:13] Jiraia
    That's fine.
[20:14] Jiraia
    You only need solitude and an enemy.
[20:20] Tsukuyo
    So I'd been struggling in your
    web all these years?
[20:25] Tsukuyo
    I believed you.
[20:27] Tsukuyo
    I wanted to follow in your footsteps...
[20:31] Tsukuyo
    But it was all a lie?
[20:35] Jiraia
    What was it that you believed in?
[20:39] Jiraia
    The kind master who gave
    his life to protect you?
[20:45] Jiraia
    Or the harsh master who taught you
    the meaning of selfless devotion,
[20:49] Jiraia
    to give up your identity, to give
    up on being a woman?
[20:54] Jiraia
    In that case, it wasn't a lie.
[20:57] Jiraia
    Even now, am I not sacrificing myself
    for the sake of creating you?
[21:06] Tsukuyo
    Creating me?
[21:09] Tsukuyo
    You killed him just for that reason?
[21:15] Jiraia
    That's right.
[21:16] Jiraia
    If you hadn't grown weak,
[21:19] Jiraia
    I would have left Yoshiwara alone.
[21:22] Jiraia
    If you hadn't learned to rely on others,
[21:25] Jiraia
    I wouldn't have killed that man either.
[21:29] Jiraia
    You are the one who killed him, Tsukuyo.
[21:35] Jiraia
    And the tragedy that will soon play out
[21:39] Jiraia
    will all be your fault.
[21:42] Tsukuyo
    What do you intend to do?!
[21:45] Tsukuyo
    Wait! Jiraia!
[21:48] Jiraia
    Abandon your sense of self to
    protect Yoshiwara and Hinowa.
[21:52] Jiraia
    That was the oath you
    swore on that scar...
[21:59] Jiraia
    But Yoshiwara has become more
    than a place for you to protect.
[22:05] Jiraia
    It has become a place where you belong,
    where you can rely on others.
[22:15] Jiraia
    None of that is necessary.
[22:17] Jiraia
    I shall burn
[22:20] Jiraia
    the cobwebs and roots in your heart.
[22:23] Tsukuyo
    Wait!
[22:25] Tsukuyo
    Jiraia!!
SIGN    
[24:08] Gintoki
    Screw that.
[24:10] Gintoki
    Screw that to hell.
[24:15] Gintoki
    I'll die before I let that son of a
    bitch call himself her master!
SIGN    ["It's the Irresponsible One Who's Scary When Pissed."]
SIGN    [Jiraia's spiderweb cloaks all of Yoshiwara.]
SIGN    [Feelings towards the master, who misses Gintoki...]
SIGN    [See you next week.]