# E178 - Once You’re Entangled in a Spiderweb, It’s Hard to Get It Off
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/G6VNXEP0R/once-youre-entangled-in-a-spiderweb-its-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.]