# E305 - Shogun Assassination Arc Part Six: Sworn Enemy
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**[00:02] (Flashback) Gin**
Hey, you.
**[00:05] (Flashback) Gin**
Takasugi, was it?
**[00:07] (Flashback) Gin**
Don't get cocky just because you won.
**[00:11] (Flashback) Gin**
In the time it took you to
beat me once by sheer miracle,
**[00:14] (Flashback) Gin**
how many times did I beat you?
**[00:18] (Flashback) Gin**
If you truly wanna beat me...
**[00:20] (Flashback) Gin**
If you wanna make up for all your losses,
**[00:23] (Flashback) Gin**
come back tomorrow.
**[00:26] (Flashback) Gin**
I'll be the one to win then, too, though.
**[00:38] Tak**
Too bad, Gintoki.
**[00:41] Tak**
The score is now 247-246.
**[00:48] Tak**
I win.
***SIGN*** Shogun Assassination Arc
Part Six
***SIGN*** Sworn Enemy
***SIGN*** Watch the Shogun Assassination Arc in a bright
room and at a safe distance from your TV!!
**[02:33] (Flashback) Kat**
Now here's a pleasant sight.
**[02:35] (Flashback) Kat**
There's a moron flying in the sky.
**[02:37] (Flashback) Tak**
Yeah, it's a pleasant sight.
**[02:39] (Flashback) Tak**
I can look down on a moron.
**[02:42] (Flashback) Kat**
What are you going to do from now on?
**[02:44] (Flashback) Tak**
There's nothing I can do.
**[02:47] (Flashback) Tak**
I was told I'd be disowned if I ever
set foot in that place again.
**[02:50] (Flashback) Kat**
I see. So your father caught
wind of that rumor, too.
**[02:55] (Flashback) Kat**
There's a rumor saying that the Shoka
Sonjuku school gathers local kids
**[03:01] (Flashback) Kat**
and feeds them shady anti-bakufu
and seditious propaganda.
**[03:05] (Flashback) Sho**
You can each flaunt your own brand of bushido
**[03:08] (Flashback) Sho**
and become your own samurai.
**[03:13] (Flashback) Tak**
Sounds about right.
**[03:15] (Flashback) Tak**
If all samurai were like the ones he talks
about, this country would fall to ruin.
**[03:20] (Flashback) Kat**
Perhaps.
**[03:22] (Flashback) Kat**
But they were a pleasant bunch.
**[03:27] (Flashback) Kat**
I always thought samurai were prisoners,
shackled by all kinds of things.
**[03:33] (Flashback) Kat**
But if it is possible,
**[03:35] (Flashback) Kat**
I'd love to be a free-spirited
samurai like that.
**[03:42] (Flashback) G**
The rumors were right.
**[03:44] (Flashback) G**
We were wondering why we hadn't
seen you at the academy lately.
**[03:47] (Flashback) G**
Who'd have thought you'd get attached
to this shady temple school?
**[03:51] (Flashback) G**
I guess you'll finally be expelled from
the Military Arts Academy, Takasugi.
**[03:55] (Flashback) G**
But too bad, this school might
get shut down as soon as tonight.
**[03:59] (Flashback) G**
I told my father about some of the
nasty rumors about this place.
**[04:04] (Flashback) G**
The officials will make their move soon.
**[04:06] (Flashback) G**
That man will either be run out
of here or arrested, if he's lucky.
**[04:10] (Flashback) G**
Serves that random vagabond right
for pretending to be a teacher.
**[04:14] (Flashback) G**
This is what happens when you step
out of line and insult us samurai.
**[04:20] (Flashback) G**
Takasugi, you'll never be a samurai now.
**[04:30] (Flashback) Kat**
Takasugi.
**[04:32] (Flashback) Kat**
Should you be staying out this late?
**[04:35] (Flashback) Kat**
You could actually get disowned this time.
**[04:38] (Flashback) Tak**
No need to worry.
**[04:41] (Flashback) Tak**
I'm going to get disowned tomorrow anyway.
**[04:47] (Flashback) Tak**
And you, Katsura?
**[04:48] (Flashback) Tak**
You could lose your scholarship if you're
caught hanging around here this late.
**[04:53] (Flashback) Kat**
You needn't worry.
**[04:55] (Flashback) Kat**
I was getting sick of that worthless,
spoiled education anyway.
**[05:00] (Flashback) Kat**
I told them to run before nightfall.
***SIGN*** Shoka
Sonjuku
**[05:04] (Flashback) Kat**
After all, debts ought to be repaid.
**[05:08] (Flashback) Kat**
The prestigious Military Arts Academy's
biggest prodigy and bad boy are teaming up.
**[05:13] (Flashback) Kat**
We should be able to stall the officials.
**[05:17] (Flashback) Gin**
Two students from a prestigious
school? Don't make me laugh.
**[05:21] (Flashback) Gin**
Don't you mean the den of evil that's
training rebels to topple the government,
**[05:26] (Flashback) Gin**
the Shoka Sonjuku school's three bad boys?
**[05:33] (Flashback) Kat**
Why are you here?
**[05:34] (Flashback) Kat**
I thought I told you to run.
**[05:36] (Flashback) Gin**
That was for Shoyo.
**[05:38] (Flashback) Gin**
Why would I have to run?
**[05:41] (Flashback) Gin**
Besides, you guys learned how to
play hooky and enjoy the nightlife.
**[05:45] (Flashback) Gin**
You're part of our school already.
**[05:48] (Flashback) Gin**
Of course I'd come to say goodbye.
**[05:51] (Flashback) Gin**
But you've done enough.
**[05:52] (Flashback) Gin**
I'll handle the rest, so get out of here.
**[05:56] (Flashback) Gin**
Shoyo and I are nomads to begin with.
**[05:58] (Flashback) Gin**
We can find a home anywhere.
**[06:01] (Flashback) Gin**
But you guys are different.
**[06:03] (Flashback) Gin**
If you get involved any further,
you won't be able to go back.
**[06:07] (Flashback) Gin**
Do you wanna be stripped
of your samurai status?
**[06:10] (Flashback) Tak**
If I had anywhere to go, I wouldn't
be here in the first place.
**[06:15] (Flashback) Kat**
I've been all alone since my grandma died.
**[06:18] (Flashback) Kat**
More than anything,
**[06:20] (Flashback) Kat**
I no longer have any ambitions I'd
need some kind of status to fulfill.
**[06:24] (Flashback) Tak**
Even if I had ambitions like that,
I wouldn't want them just handed to me.
**[06:28] (Flashback) Tak**
I'd find them with my own eyes...
**[06:30] (Flashback) Kat**
...and grab them with my own hands.
**[06:35] (Flashback) Gin**
That so?
**[06:36] (Flashback) Gin**
I won't say anything more, then.
**[06:41] (Flashback) O**
Hey, you kids over there.
**[06:44] (Flashback) O**
What are you doing at this late hour?
**[06:47] (Flashback) Gin**
I'm Sakata Gintoki, disciple of Yoshida
Shoyo and student of Shoka Sonjuku.
**[06:52] (Flashback) Kat**
Katsura Kotaro, likewise.
**[06:54] (Flashback) Tak**
Takasugi Shinsuke, likewise.
**[06:58] (Flashback) All**
En garde!
**[06:59] (Flashback) O**
What's with these brats?
**[07:01] (Flashback) Sho**
Don't draw them.
**[07:04] (Flashback) Sho**
Keep your swords sheathed, all of you.
**[07:09] (Flashback) Sho**
Please don't make me draw mine.
**[07:11] (Flashback) O**
Yoshida Shoyo!
**[07:13] (Flashback) O**
You bastard!
**[07:15] (Flashback) Sho**
You can say what you want about me.
**[07:18] (Flashback) Sho**
If you find me an eyesore, I'll gladly leave.
**[07:23] (Flashback) Sho**
But...
**[07:27] (Flashback) Sho**
If you point those blades at my students,
**[07:30] (Flashback) Sho**
I won't hesitate to truly
topple the government.
**[07:42] (Flashback) Gin**
Shoyo...
**[07:43] (Flashback) Sho**
Goodness.
**[07:45] (Flashback) Sho**
I thought I'd sent all students home.
**[07:48] (Flashback) Sho**
There were a few bad boys left here, huh?
**[07:53] (Flashback) Sho**
But I'm sorry, Dojo Challenger.
**[07:56] (Flashback) Sho**
There is no dojo or school
left for you to challenge.
**[08:01] (Flashback) Tak**
Don't worry.
**[08:03] (Flashback) Tak**
My target isn't some dojo.
**[08:06] (Flashback) Tak**
It's you, Shoyo-sensei.
**[08:09] (Flashback) Kat**
And if you ask us,
**[08:11] (Flashback) Kat**
so long as you're there, even a
meadow or a farm can be our school.
**[08:16] (Flashback) Tak**
Besides, neither your
brand of bushido nor ours
**[08:20] (Flashback) Tak**
is frail enough to be broken
by something like this, right?
**[08:25] (Flashback) Sho**
Gintoki.
**[08:26] (Flashback) Sho**
You seem to have brought along a couple
of students more impertinent than you.
**[08:32] (Flashback) Gin**
I know, right?
**[08:35] (Flashback) Sho**
Very well.
**[08:36] (Flashback) Sho**
Let me get right to teaching
you a roadside lesson, then.
**[08:40] (Flashback) Sho**
You half-growns are a hundred years
too early to be out playing at night.
**[08:46] (Flashback) Sho**
Welcome to Shoka Sonjuku.
**[09:20] Tak**
Sensei...
**[09:23] Tak**
Have you come to punch me again?
**[09:28] Tak**
Are you here to stop me
from half-assing things?
**[09:36] Gin**
He's gone.
**[09:39] Gin**
Sensei is no longer in this world.
**[09:44] Gin**
We're the only ones who can stop us now.
**[09:54] Gin**
If we don't like something,
**[09:57] Gin**
and we can't accept it,
**[10:01] Gin**
we'll have to stop it with our own fists!
**[10:12] Gin**
Takasugi...
**[10:15] Gin**
How long will you keep using
that crushed left eye of yours
**[10:19] Gin**
to look at the back of your eyelid?
**[10:23] Gin**
Open the one eye you've got
left and take a good look.
**[10:28] Gin**
The guy you've got to swing your fist at
**[10:32] Gin**
is right here!
**[10:37] Tak**
I can see that with my eyes closed!
**[10:42] Tak**
Gintoki!
**[10:51] Tak**
I, and this closed eye of mine,
**[10:56] Tak**
still see the desires from back then,
**[11:08] Tak**
along with the bonds,
**[11:15] Tak**
the aspirations,
**[11:20] Tak**
and...
**[11:28] Tak**
the hatred.
**[11:40] Tak**
I haven't forgotten any of it.
**[11:44] Tak**
I've never once lost sight of it.
**[11:48] Tak**
The guy I have to swing my fist at
**[11:51] Tak**
is still burned into the back of my eyelid.
**[11:56] Tak**
Now, stand up,
**[11:59] Tak**
Gintoki.
**[12:02] Tak**
Our sworn enemy is right here.
**[12:05] Tak**
Don't avert your eyes.
**[12:07] Tak**
Clench your fist.
**[12:10] Tak**
Avenge Sensei.
**[12:15] Tak**
We can't point a blade at ourselves.
**[12:21] Tak**
But we've got someone far more
intimate to cut and curse.
**[12:28] Tak**
I have you,
**[12:31] Tak**
and you have me!
**[12:43] (Flashback) Ten**
How pitiful
**[12:46] (Flashback) Ten**
for youngsters with hearts so concerned for
their country to meet such a terrible fate.
**[12:52] (Flashback) Ten**
Is this what you wanted to do,
**[12:56] (Flashback) Ten**
Shoyo?
**[12:58] (Flashback) Ten**
Your students died in vain,
just as you taught them to.
**[13:04] (Flashback) Ten**
You're trying to say you never taught
them anything of the sort, huh?
**[13:10] (Flashback) Ten**
Shall we put it to the test, then?
**[13:14] (Flashback) Ten**
Will your students choose
to die in vain with you,
**[13:20] (Flashback) Ten**
or will they
**[13:22] (Flashback) Ten**
choose to live on, even if they have to
kill their teacher with their own hands?
**[13:30] (Flashback) Ten**
It's the perfect execution for an
educator like you, don't you think?
**[13:35] (Flashback) Ten**
Pick whichever you like,
your teacher or your friends.
**[14:09] (Flashback) Sho**
Gintoki, I leave the rest to you.
**[14:14] (Flashback) Sho**
Protect your friends... Protect everyone.
**[14:20] (Flashback) Tak**
Gintoki, if I die...
**[14:24] (Flashback) Tak**
Take care of Sensei.
**[14:27] (Flashback) Tak**
This is a favor I can only ask
of a fellow good-for-nothing.
**[14:31] (Flashback) Gin**
Then I've got a favor to ask
of a good-for-nothing, too.
**[14:35] (Flashback) Gin**
Don't die.
**[14:56] Tak**
Gintoki!
**[15:05] (Flashback) Tak**
N-No, Gintoki!
**[15:10] (Flashback) Tak**
Please!
**[15:25] (Flashback) Tak**
Please stop!
**[15:47] (Flashback) Tak**
N-No, Gintoki!
**[15:51] (Flashback) Tak**
Please!
**[15:58] (Flashback) Sho**
Thank you.
**[16:57] (Flashback) Tak**
Gintoki!
**[17:09] (Flashback) Obo**
Don't waste your lives after
your teacher saved them.
**[17:16] (Flashback) Ten**
Are you really going to send them back alive?
**[17:20] (Flashback) Ten**
Did you take pity on that man, Oboro?
**[17:25] (Flashback) Obo**
These men have lost everything
they wanted to protect.
**[17:29] (Flashback) Obo**
For samurai, that is no different from dying.
**[17:33] (Flashback) Obo**
What's more, they destroyed it with their
own hands, due to their own weakness.
**[17:41] (Flashback) Obo**
They're not even worth killing.
**[17:43] (Flashback) Obo**
They'll probably never hold a sword again.
**[17:55] Tak**
The last thing I saw with my left eye
**[18:08] Tak**
was your face.
**[18:12] Tak**
If the enemy burned into
this eye had been the bakufu,
**[18:17] Tak**
everything would be so much easier.
**[18:26] Tak**
Our sworn enemy is ourselves.
**[18:32] Tak**
Even though we fought to save him,
**[18:38] Tak**
we were so weak, we had to use his
life as a stepping stone to survive...
**[18:44] Tak**
And we made you bear that cross.
**[18:50] Tak**
Every time I remember your
face etched into this eye,
**[18:54] Tak**
the scar throbs and bays for blood.
**[18:58] Tak**
"Why won't you avenge Sensei?"
**[19:02] Tak**
"You can put an end to everything by
piercing that chest with a sword!"
**[19:10] Tak**
And that's exactly right.
**[19:12] Tak**
We weren't meant to survive.
**[19:16] Tak**
Why did you come to save us?
**[19:20] Tak**
Why didn't you abandon us and save Sensei?
**[19:25] Tak**
I'm sure you could've done it.
**[19:28] Tak**
You promised me back then.
**[19:32] Tak**
And you must've wanted to
save him more than anyone.
**[19:39] Tak**
So why...
**[19:41] Tak**
Why?
**[19:44] Tak**
Why did you choose us, Gintoki?!
**[19:53] Gin**
If you'd been in my shoes back then,
you would've done the same.
**[19:59] Gin**
That's why you point your sword at me.
**[20:04] Gin**
That's why you slash not
yourself, but your alter ego.
**[20:11] Gin**
That's why you seek a revenge that'd
hurt you far more than cutting yourself.
**[20:18] Gin**
Well, too bad for you.
**[20:21] Gin**
I...
**[20:22] Gin**
I, your alter ego, won't go down.
**[20:28] Gin**
Until you fall, and until you stop,
I'll stand up as many times as it takes.
**[20:37] Gin**
Takasugi, I don't recall ever choosing you.
**[20:43] Gin**
It's just that while I knew
well what you held dear,
**[20:46] Gin**
I knew what he held dear all too well.
**[20:52] Gin**
Even if I have to walk
over my teacher's corpse,
**[20:57] Gin**
and even if I have to walk over your corpse,
**[21:00] Gin**
I'll protect the soul of his student, our friend,
and Shoka Sonjuku's Takasugi Shinsuke!
**[21:11] Gin**
I'm Sakata Gintoki,
disciple of Yoshida Shoyo!
**[21:19] Tak**
I'm amazed you can still say that now...
**[21:25] Tak**
I see. I had no idea.
**[21:30] Tak**
I haven't been expelled yet, have I?
**[21:50] Obo**
I thought I told you
**[21:55] Obo**
not to waste your lives after
your teacher saved them.
**[22:03] Obo**
The Yatagarasu's prophecies
offer no second chances,
**[22:07] Obo**
Shoyo's disciples.
***SIGN*** To Be Continued
***SIGN*** Shogun Assassination Arc
Part Seven
***SIGN*** The Crows Caw
After The Battle Ends
**[23:49] ---**
A sudden assassin's blade
takes out Takasugi.
**[23:49] ---**
Why is Oboro of the Tenshoin Naraku here?
**[23:54] ---**
The Shogun Assassination
Arc reaches its endgame.
**[23:54] ---**
Things go awry on Kagura
and Shinpachi's end, too!