# E316 - Farewell Shinsengumi Arc Part Nine: Farewell Shinsengumi
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**[00:09] Ymz**
*Yamazaki Sagaru's observation report:*
**[00:14] Ymz**
* As a Shinsengumi inspector,*
* I've performed stakeouts at many locations*
**[00:19] Ymz**
*and have written observation reports on them,*
**[00:22] Ymz**
*but never did I imagine*
**[00:24] Ymz**
* that the last report I'd ever*
* write would be on this place...*
***SIGN*** Shinsengumi
**[00:32] Sign**
* The gang of degenerates that*
* plotted to overthrow the bakufu,*
**[00:35] Sign**
*Shinsengumi.*
**[00:38] Sign**
* That name may well go down in*
* history as a group of traitors.*
**[00:44] Sign**
* In case that day does come,*
* I record the truth here so—*
**[00:49] Sign**
*No, the truth is...*
**[00:56] Sign**
* To be honest, I don't even know*
* if what we did was good or bad.*
**[01:06] Sign**
*But there is one thing I can say for sure.*
**[01:10] Sign**
* We don't care whether we're*
* called loyalists or traitors.*
**[01:18] Sign**
*We just wanted to be*
**[01:21] Sign**
*Shinsengumi with him.*
***SIGN*** Farewell Shinsengumi Arc
Part Nine
***SIGN*** Farewell Shinsengumi
***SIGN*** Watch the Farewell Shinsengumi Arc in a bright
room and at a safe distance from your TV!!
**[03:15] Mat**
Don't look back!
**[03:18] Mat**
Keep moving, looking nowhere but forward!
**[03:21] Mat**
No matter what...
**[03:24] Mat**
We must escape!
**[03:28] Ymz**
*The Mimawarigumi,*
**[03:30] Ymz**
*and the Katsura-led Joi Rebels...*
**[03:34] Ymz**
*With help from several parties,*
**[03:37] Ymz**
* we shook free of the*
* Naraku's persistent pursuit*
**[03:42] Ymz**
* and barely managed to*
* escape from Kokujo Island,*
**[03:48] Ymz**
*successfully rescuing Chief Kondo.*
**[03:53] Ymz**
*But it came at a huge cost.*
**[04:04] Kon**
Toshi...
**[04:06] Kon**
Did either he or I really have to die?
**[04:09] Kon**
Was there no other way?
**[04:13] Kon**
Instead of just black and white,
**[04:15] Kon**
couldn't I have worked with him
to bring out a different color?
**[04:22] Hij**
Kondo-san,
**[04:24] Hij**
the colors have already mixed.
**[04:29] Hij**
We have to wear a shade of black that
has various other colors mixed in
**[04:32] Hij**
and keep moving forward.
**[04:36] Hij**
That's our duty as survivors.
**[04:47] Tet**
I had no idea
**[04:50] Tet**
that my brother had someone
who would shed tears for him.
**[04:55] Tet**
I was related to him by blood,
**[04:58] Tet**
but I never understood Sasaki Isaburo at all.
**[05:04] Tet**
It seems I didn't know him
well enough to cry for him.
**[05:09] Tet**
I found people I could call brothers
where my brother dumped me.
**[05:16] Tet**
I met comrades I could call family despite
having no blood relation with them.
**[05:22] Tet**
And yet, I don't know why...
**[05:26] Tet**
But the first person I
wanted to show them off to
**[05:32] Tet**
was him, after all.
**[05:38] Tet**
If possible,
**[05:43] Tet**
I wanted to see all of my brothers
**[05:47] Tet**
having a heart-to-heart.
**[05:58] [Messenger] ---**
Contacts Menu Apps
**[06:00] (Flashback) Sas**
Have you been receiving my emails?
**[06:05] (Flashback) Sas**
Nobume-san, you are truly discourteous.
**[06:10] (Flashback) Sas**
If you don't reply to my
emails once in a while,
**[06:14] (Flashback) Sas**
then even as an elite,
**[06:15] (Flashback) Sas**
I'm going to end up sulking, yo.
**[06:28] Kon**
Pay your respects to the
Commissioner-General!
**[06:52] Nob**
*Isaburo...*
**[06:55] Nob**
*Thank you for giving me*
**[06:58] [Messenger] ---**
Isaburo...
Thank you for giving me
such a wonderful name, yo.
**[07:00] Nob**
*such a wonderful name, yo.*
**[07:07] Ymz**
* Sasaki Isaburo vanished into the darkness,*
* never to see the light of dawn again.*
**[07:13] Ymz**
* But his struggles opened the*
* door for change, if only a bit.*
**[07:19] Ymz**
* The unprecedented revolt that*
* came from the heart of the bakufu*
**[07:23] Ymz**
* would shake the newly formed*
* government to its very core.*
**[07:27] Ymz**
* The mastermind was the*
* Commissioner-General of Police.*
**[07:30] Ymz**
*And while they had been manipulated,*
**[07:32] Ymz**
* a lot of police organizations*
* took part in the revolt.*
**[07:37] Ymz**
* When Shogun Nobunobu heard the*
* news, he flew into a fit of rage.*
**[07:40] Ymz**
* He crushed every police organization that*
* had been under the influence of Sasaki*
**[07:44] Ymz**
* and decided to reform the police*
* system from the ground up.*
**[07:49] Ymz**
* Those who had begun to doubt Nobunobu's*
* methods because of that started to fall apart,*
**[07:56] Ymz**
* and Lord Matsudaira, who had*
* anticipated this all along,*
**[07:59] Ymz**
*secretly took them under his wing*
**[08:02] Ymz**
*and meticulously absorbed them*
**[08:04] Ymz**
* into the anti-bakufu faction*
* Lord Shigeshige had founded.*
**[08:09] Ymz**
* A mere three months after the*
* establishment of the new government,*
**[08:12] Ymz**
* as the people's trust in*
* the bakufu kept falling,*
**[08:16] Ymz**
* it started a groundswell of*
* sentiment in favor of upheaval.*
**[08:36] HB2**
Wait, wait!
**[08:38] HB2**
That's reckless!
**[08:39] HB2**
You can't go back home, Otae-san!
**[08:43] HB2**
Did you forget that you got into
a huge fight with the shogun?!
**[08:48] HB2**
So what if that stupid lord
is preoccupied right now?!
**[08:52] Tae**
But I can't continue to
trouble you all any longer.
**[08:57] Tae**
Kozenigata-san's wounds have healed,
**[08:59] Tae**
so he doesn't need my help anymore.
**[09:01] Tae**
I think it's about time.
**[09:02] HB2**
No, no!
**[09:03] HB2**
Boss took an injury to the
head that won't ever heal,
**[09:06] HB2**
his heart's in tatters due
to his wife running away,
**[09:09] HB2**
his feet stink,
**[09:10] HB2**
and his breath stinks!
**[09:12] HB2**
Please look after him a while longer!
**[09:18] HB1**
He's right, Otae-chan!
**[09:20] HB1**
Even though my wound had almost
healed, it opened up again just now.
**[09:23] HB1**
Feel free to stay as long as you like!
**[09:26] HB2**
Besides, if something were to happen,
**[09:27] HB2**
the police force is hardly
functional right now!
**[09:30] HB2**
It's too dangerous!
**[09:32] Tae**
Yes.
**[09:34] Tae**
That's exactly why police need
to go back to doing their jobs,
**[09:38] Tae**
and cabaret girls have to
go back to doing theirs.
**[09:42] Tae**
If you're ever worn out from work
again, please stop by the bar.
**[09:45] Tae**
I'll give you special treatment.
**[09:47] Tae**
Thank you for having me.
**[09:49] HB2**
Wait, Otae-san—
**[09:51] HB1**
Haji.
**[09:52] HB1**
That's enough.
**[09:54] HB1**
She'll be all right now.
**[10:00] HB1**
They must have come back...
**[10:04] HB1**
Her police.
**[10:24] Tae**
Don't you think it's high
time you stopped doing this?
**[10:34] Tae**
You'll catch a cold.
**[10:40] Kon**
Why'd you have to say something
like that today, of all days?
**[10:50] Kon**
I wish you'd acted like usual,
**[10:51] Kon**
called me a perverted stalker,
**[10:54] Kon**
and hit me like you always do.
**[11:00] Kon**
You're making it hard to say goodbye.
**[11:20] Hij**
Abscond from Edo?
**[11:24] Hij**
You're telling the
Shinsengumi to abandon Edo?
**[11:28] Kat**
Given the political situation,
if you stay in Edo,
**[11:30] Kat**
the lives of Kondo and
Matsudaira that you just saved,
**[11:33] Kat**
and even your own, will be danger.
**[11:36] Kat**
Dying without achieving a thing
**[11:39] Kat**
is what would count as truly
abandoning Edo, Hijikata.
**[11:44] Kat**
Nobunobu definitely won't leave you alive.
**[11:47] Kat**
If he let the rebels who embarrassed the
bakufu and destroyed its image walk free,
**[11:53] Kat**
the new government would crumble.
**[11:55] Kat**
He must be desperately looking
for you right about now.
**[12:00] Kat**
At this point, Matsudaira and you Shinsengumi
**[12:02] Kat**
are symbols of the revolutionary faction.
**[12:06] Kat**
Should these symbols be lost yet again,
**[12:08] Kat**
the flame of revolution trying to change
this country will surely die out this time.
**[12:13] Kat**
If you truly love this country,
**[12:15] Kat**
you must leave it for now
and focus on staying alive.
**[12:23] Ymz**
*Our role is to leave the political center,*
**[12:26] Ymz**
* stir up revolutionaries all*
* over the country, take them in,*
**[12:30] Ymz**
* and secure the revolutionary faction's*
* foundation as its nucleus.*
**[12:35] Ymz**
*Abandoning Edo to protect it...*
**[12:39] Ymz**
*While we understood the reasoning,*
**[12:40] Ymz**
*it was difficult for our hearts to accept it.*
**[12:44] Ymz**
* Because it meant parting with the*
* people we'd protected all this while.*
**[12:55] Ymz**
* Because it meant parting with the people*
* who'd supported us all this while.*
**[13:02] Ymz**
*And because*
**[13:07] Ymz**
*it meant our parting as Shinsengumi.*
**[13:19] Hij**
We knew things would end up this
way, but it's still ironic.
***SIGN*** Set Meals
**[13:24] Hij**
We always fought to remain the
Shinsengumi, no matter what happened.
**[13:28] Hij**
And yet, because of that, we can't
remain the Shinsengumi anymore?
**[13:33] Gin**
So Zura tricked you and sucked you dry, huh?
**[13:36] Gin**
This is why I told you to
be wary of that con man.
**[13:40] Hij**
What are you going to do?
**[13:43] Hij**
You helped us out,
**[13:46] Hij**
so you can't stay in Edo anymore, either.
**[13:51] Gin**
If even Odd Jobs left after you guys,
**[13:55] Gin**
it'd make the people of Edo sad,
**[13:57] Gin**
wouldn't it, lady?
**[14:02] Hij**
You're saying you'll stay?
**[14:05] Hij**
Do you really understand the situation?
**[14:07] Hij**
Edo no longer has...
**[14:13] Hij**
That's exactly why, huh?
**[14:17] Oki**
Boss is staying because Edo has lost the
Shinsengumi and Mimawarigumi, right?
**[14:24] Oki**
If you stay behind for us,
**[14:27] Oki**
we'll be able to leave Edo without worry, huh?
**[14:32] Oki**
You've gotta be kidding me.
**[14:35] Oki**
Be it our general or yours,
**[14:39] Oki**
I can't let anyone else die.
**[14:43] Kag**
What, are you saying we can't
protect Edo by ourselves?
**[14:48] Kag**
Do you wanna see for yourself, then?
**[14:55] Oki**
The hell are you doing?!
**[14:57] Oki**
I'm not completely healed yet!
**[14:58] Kag**
What the hell did you come here for?
**[15:01] Kag**
Are you here to meekly say goodbye?
**[15:04] Kag**
Who, you?
**[15:06] Kag**
Don't you have something else
to do before worrying about us?
**[15:10] Kag**
Both our groups are in equal danger.
**[15:13] Kag**
But looking at how you're acting, you
guys seem likelier to drop dead first.
**[15:22] Oki**
You're right.
**[15:24] Oki**
I'd forgotten that I needed to clear
something up before leaving Edo...
**[15:32] Oki**
Which of us is stronger!
**[15:35] Kag**
Exactly!
**[15:41] Tae**
There's no need for goodbyes.
**[15:49] Tae**
After all, so long as you're around,
**[15:51] Tae**
the Shinsengumi will carry on,
no matter where you all go.
**[15:56] Tae**
After all, wherever you may be,
**[15:58] Tae**
you'll be fighting to protect Edo and all of us,
**[16:03] Tae**
and I know that.
**[16:06] Tae**
So please don't look so gloomy.
**[16:10] Tae**
Leave with your head held high
and a smile on your face.
**[16:15] Tae**
If you don't, I won't be able
to keep my promise to Shin-chan.
**[16:20] Tae**
I won't be able to say "take
care" or "welcome back."
**[16:31] Shin**
When you come back this time,
**[16:34] Shin**
don't do it from above the
ceiling or under the overhang.
**[16:37] Shin**
Waltz in through the front gate.
**[16:42] Shin**
We'd be more than happy
to offer you some tea.
**[16:47] Hij**
I've got some good alcohol stocked up there.
**[16:51] Hij**
I don't like drinking in a big group,
**[16:53] Hij**
so I often came here and drank by myself.
**[16:58] Hij**
You can have it.
**[17:00] Hij**
They're expensive, so
drink them one at a time.
**[17:04] Hij**
By the time you've finished all of them,
**[17:06] Hij**
I'll be back.
**[17:08] Hij**
And I'll repay the rest of the debt then.
**[17:12] Gin**
I'll gladly take the booze,
**[17:14] Gin**
but I don't recall ever doing you a favor.
**[17:18] Hij**
Oh, you did.
**[17:20] Hij**
Your faulty brain may have forgotten,
**[17:23] Hij**
but I remember.
**[17:26] Hij**
I'll never forget.
**[17:29] Gin**
Even if I did, you repaid me a long time ago.
**[17:44] Gin**
I'm the one who got help recovering
something he'd forgotten.
**[17:51] Gin**
So don't come back carrying
some debt to be repaid.
**[17:55] Gin**
Bring back a bottle of booze,
**[17:57] Gin**
not to drink alone, but to
be shared with a big group.
**[18:00] Gin**
That's more than enough.
**[18:03] L**
Here you are. Your usual.
**[18:06] L**
One Uji Gintoki bowl and
one Hijikata Special.
**[18:11] L**
Huh? What's the matter, you two?
**[18:14] L**
Not eating?
**[18:17] Gin**
Nah...
**[18:17] Gin**
Sorry, lady, but today...
**[18:22] Bo**
It's the other way around.
**[18:33] Kag**
Looks like we've both got a ways to go.
**[18:38] Oki**
Well, duh.
**[18:40] Oki**
We couldn't do a thing against
that incomprehensible crow.
**[18:46] Oki**
But keep this in mind.
**[18:48] Oki**
By the next time we meet,
**[18:51] Oki**
I will be stronger than you and that crow!
**[18:54] Oki**
So make sure you...
**[19:01] Bo**
Don't lose to anyone else!
**[19:16] Bo**
That was awful.
**[19:49] Kon**
I'll be back.
**[19:58] Tae**
Take care.
**[20:13] Kon**
No education, no status.
**[20:16] Kon**
The only thing we can trust
is our own swords.
**[20:19] Kon**
And we want to make a name
for ourselves using them.
**[20:22] Kon**
So we gathered in Edo.
**[20:25] Kon**
Today, we will have to leave it,
**[20:29] Kon**
but our dreams won't end here.
**[20:33] Kon**
Let's come back, no matter what,
**[20:36] Kon**
to the Shinsengumi's home.
**[20:40] Kon**
We'll swear it as many times as it takes.
**[20:43] Kon**
We're gonna become samurai here in Edo!
**[23:27] Ymz**
*That's right.*
**[23:29] Ymz**
* The Shinsengumi's dream*
* is only just beginning.*
**[23:35] Ymz**
* The end of our true path*
* is still far, far away.*
**[23:49] ---**
Thank you for all your support
**[23:49] ---**
over the past year.
**[23:54] ---**
Our battle has
**[23:54] ---**
only just begun!!!