# E324 - Master of Kouan
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**[00:06] (Flashback) Ub**
"The strongest man in the universe."
**[00:08] (Flashback) Ub**
The people who call me that
are but frogs in the well.
**[00:13] (Flashback) Ub**
The universe is a big place.
**[00:15] (Flashback) Ub**
A planet is no more than one of
innumerable specks of sand within it,
**[00:19] (Flashback) Ub**
and the world one can see in a lifetime
is no more than a tiny part of the whole.
**[00:24] (Flashback) M**
You mean to say there are
many more stronger than you?
**[00:27] (Flashback) M**
But you must've been the strongest
man in the world my father saw.
**[00:32] (Flashback) M**
Otherwise, he...
**[00:33] (Flashback) M**
The captain of the Chidori Space Pirates
wouldn't entrust his dear daughter to you,
**[00:38] (Flashback) M**
Umibozu.
**[00:40] (Flashback) M**
Or should I say, my father's
old friend, Kanko?
**[00:44] (Flashback) M**
You needn't say a thing.
**[00:46] (Flashback) M**
I, Mutsu, shall withdraw our request myself.
**[00:50] (Flashback) M**
You are far too great a man to
be teaching someone like me.
**[00:53] (Flashback) M**
But, whenever you feel like it,
**[00:55] (Flashback) M**
would you come chat with this
ignorant, sheltered bird in a cage?
**[01:02] (Flashback) M**
And tell me about the innumerable specks
of sand you have seen with your eyes?
***SIGN*** Gintama
***SIGN*** The Battle on Rakuyo
***SIGN*** Battle on Rakuyo Arc
Part 8
***SIGN*** Master of Kouan
***SIGN*** Watch the Battle on Rakuyo arc in a bright room
and at a safe distance from your TV!!
**[02:45] U**
I sensed from the start that
things between you and me
**[02:48] U**
would eventually come to this point.
**[02:52] U**
And, having met you, I think
I have found my answer...
**[02:55] U**
As to why, despite building an
advanced interstellar civilization,
**[02:59] U**
we still don't stop fighting.
**[03:03] U**
It has nothing to do with
standpoints, views, or creeds.
**[03:08] U**
It comes from our fundamental
nature as creatures.
**[03:11] U**
No matter how far we evolve,
**[03:14] U**
our psyche may always force us to determine
**[03:16] U**
which of us are predators,
and which of us are prey.
**[03:21] U**
And when it comes to two creatures
at the top of the food chain...
**[03:27] Ub**
The strongest man in the universe?
**[03:29] Ub**
Are you one of those fools who
keep talking about that crap, too?
**[03:33] Ub**
Well, I'm sorry, but I have
no interest in that title.
**[03:37] Ub**
Begone!
**[03:39] Ub**
I don't care what happens to the world.
**[03:41] Ub**
Even if I am a frog,
**[03:43] Ub**
I will protect the well I live in,
even if it kills me.
**[03:49] Ub**
I'm fine with being just a frog.
**[03:52] U**
You are no frog in the well.
**[03:56] U**
As someone who has seen the rise and
fall of many a species, I guarantee it.
**[04:02] U**
But that's exactly why I know that,
**[04:04] U**
even if you are a
once-in-a-millennium warrior,
**[04:09] U**
you cannot escape the principles of life.
**[04:12] U**
Indeed, you will inevitably fall someday.
**[04:17] U**
Because I *have* escaped
the principles of life,
**[04:20] U**
and you ended up standing in my way.
**[04:26] Sak**
Mutsu! Hurry!
**[04:32] (Flashback) UB**
Someone stronger than me?
**[04:34] (Flashback) M**
Yes.
**[04:35] (Flashback) M**
If you say that even you can't
be called the strongest,
**[04:38] (Flashback) M**
have you met anyone worthy of the title?
**[04:41] (Flashback) UB**
Hosen, whom I fought when I was
younger, was pretty strong.
**[04:44] (Flashback) UB**
But that's only if we're talking
about creatures like us.
**[04:49] (Flashback) UB**
The things I've fought in my life as a hunter
**[04:51] (Flashback) UB**
were all beyond comparable
concepts such as strength.
**[04:54] (Flashback) UB**
Could you compare anyone's strength
to that of a typhoon or tsunami?
**[04:57] (Flashback) M**
There's no need to.
**[04:59] (Flashback) M**
Nobody else could stop a natural
disaster by themselves.
**[05:06] (Flashback) M**
I've heard of it, you know.
**[05:07] (Flashback) M**
How you earned the title of "strongest."
**[05:11] (Flashback) M**
The reason Yato hail you as a hero.
**[05:15] (Flashback) M**
About the battle in which
Umibozu took back our home.
**[05:20] (Flashback) M**
The Yato's home planet, Kouan,
**[05:22] (Flashback) M**
suffered an all-out attack by the
Allied Planets during the Great War
**[05:25] (Flashback) M**
and was destroyed along with many Yato.
**[05:30] (Flashback) M**
Altana began to gush out of the ground,
**[05:33] (Flashback) M**
and the ruined planet became
a nest for mutant creatures.
**[05:40] (Flashback) M**
Among them was something that made
people call Kouan the planet of death...
**[05:48] (Flashback) M**
The planetary parasite Orochi,
considered the Master of Kouan.
**[05:52] (Flashback) M**
It fed on the Altana
reserves, grew 108 heads,
**[05:56] (Flashback) M**
and eliminated anyone who
dared approach its nest.
**[06:00] (Flashback) M**
Everyone abandoned the place
**[06:01] (Flashback) M**
and didn't approach it for centuries,
but one man charged into its nest alone
**[06:05] (Flashback) M**
and took back the Yato's home...
**[06:08] (Flashback) M**
That was you, Umibozu, was it not?
**[06:12] (Flashback) UB**
Took back our home?
**[06:15] (Flashback) UB**
I just lost a bet with a friend.
**[06:18] (Flashback) UB**
I said I'd go to our deserted home and hit
on a woman if I lost a drinking battle.
**[06:27] (Flashback) UB**
I'd never experienced
anything like it before.
**[06:30] (Flashback) UB**
The moment I saw them,
**[06:34] (Flashback) UB**
it stood up.
**[06:38] (Flashback) M**
Stood up?
**[06:39] (Flashback) M**
What did?
**[06:40] (Flashback) UB**
I guess it was too early for you, kid.
**[06:42] (Flashback) UB**
Well, you could call it my instinct.
**[06:45] (Flashback) UB**
The moment I laid eyes on them,
**[06:46] (Flashback) UB**
my genes immediately came to a conclusion.
**[06:49] (Flashback) UB**
"You're going to die."
**[06:51] (Flashback) UB**
"Hurry up and make some babies," they said.
**[07:00] (Flashback) UB**
I went after them again and again,
but I just couldn't break through.
**[07:05] (Flashback) UB**
It felt like I was fighting
the earth I stood on.
**[07:09] (Flashback) UB**
Like I was a mere insect
going up against a planet.
**[07:14] (Flashback) M**
Your genes admitted defeat before you did?
**[07:17] (Flashback) UB**
Simply put, I felt fear for
the first time in my life.
**[07:22] (Flashback) UB**
But, as much as his genes
may cry out in terror,
**[07:25] (Flashback) UB**
a man cannot cry until his battle is over.
**[07:28] (Flashback) UB**
So I told my right ball...
**[07:31] UB**
Quit rattling.
**[07:33] UB**
*Lefty, you shut up and watch, too.*
**[07:35] UB**
*I planted my seeds a long time ago.*
**[07:38] UB**
*My best ones, in fact.*
**[07:40] UB**
*So let me fight! Let me protect my family!*
**[08:00] (Flashback) M**
I don't believe it.
**[08:02] (Flashback) M**
You suppressed your instincts by force?
**[08:06] (Flashback) UB**
Thanks to that, my worldly desires died down,
**[08:08] (Flashback) UB**
and I could hit on the
woman with a clear mind.
**[08:10] (Flashback) M**
The woman?
**[08:11] (Flashback) M**
Was the Orochi female?
**[08:13] (Flashback) UB**
What are you talking about?
**[08:15] (Flashback) UB**
Why would I crush one of my balls
to fight a scrub like that?
**[08:20] UB**
Is that arm regenerating?
**[08:23] (Flashback) UB**
Like I said,
**[08:24] (Flashback) UB**
I was on that planet to hit on a woman.
**[08:27] UB**
I see.
**[08:29] UB**
I knew it...
**[08:31] UB**
You really are just like her.
A being of Altana...
**[08:34] (Flashback) M**
Who are you talking about?
**[08:34] U**
Who are you talking about?
**[08:46] UB**
I'm talking about the woman
I risked my life to court.
**[09:06] (Flashback) UB**
On the Yato's home planet, which had
fallen to ruin a long time ago,
**[09:09] (Flashback) UB**
on the planet of death...
**[09:13] (Flashback) UB**
There stood a woman.
**[09:29] (Flashback) UB**
And I, too, stood tall.
**[09:34] (Flashback) UB**
I can't believe there
really was someone here.
**[09:39] (Flashback) UB**
Hey, wait!
**[09:41] (Flashback) Ko**
This planet isn't dead or anything.
**[09:44] (Flashback) Ko**
It may have become uninhabitable for people,
**[09:46] (Flashback) Ko**
but these guys still live here,
eating the rotten earth,
**[09:49] (Flashback) Ko**
those guys still live here,
drinking the rotten water,
**[09:53] (Flashback) Ko**
and I still live here.
**[09:55] (Flashback) Ko**
All that happened was that one species
among many on this planet died out.
**[10:00] (Flashback) Ko**
You shouldn't judge an entire
planet by your standards alone.
**[10:04] (Flashback) Ko**
Leave.
**[10:06] (Flashback) Ko**
I don't want to erase another life
from this planet to save an intruder.
**[10:11] (Flashback) Ko**
I must put them to sleep.
**[10:14] (Flashback) UB**
That's when I learned
**[10:17] (Flashback) UB**
that "Master of Kouan"
**[10:22] (Flashback) UB**
referred to that woman.
**[10:25] (Flashback) UB**
Hey, wai—
**[10:36] (Flashback) UB**
I said wait!
**[10:40] (Flashback) UB**
Out of my way!
**[10:45] (Flashback) UB**
Listen to me!
**[10:51] (Flashback) UB**
"That woman is dangerous."
**[10:53] (Flashback) UB**
That's what my instincts told me.
**[10:55] (Flashback) UB**
But, at the same time, they
were also telling me this...
**[10:58] (Flashback) UB**
H-Hey, lady.
**[11:01] (Flashback) UB**
If you don't mind, why don't
we forget about this Orochi
**[11:03] (Flashback) UB**
and go take out the Orochi in my pants?
**[11:09] (Flashback) UB**
"She is the one."
**[11:12] (Flashback) UB**
For three days and three nights, she kept
fighting to put the Orochi to sleep.
**[11:17] (Flashback) UB**
And I kept trying to woo her in order
to put the Orochi in my pants to sleep.
**[11:25] (Flashback) UB**
Why don't we go get some coffee?
**[11:28] (Flashback) UB**
But she paid no heed to me at all.
**[11:38] (Flashback) UB**
Just as she took out the 59th head
and the Orochi began to retreat,
**[11:47] (Flashback) UB**
I suppressed my last Orochi, too.
**[11:51] (Flashback) UB**
There was something I wanted to tell her not
out of instinct, but with my own words.
**[11:56] (Flashback) UB**
My name is Kanko.
**[11:59] (Flashback) UB**
I'll ask your name next
time I'm here or something.
**[12:02] (Flashback) UB**
If the Master of Kouan will
let me come here, that is.
**[12:06] (Flashback) Ko**
Did you tag along all this
while just to say that?
**[12:10] (Flashback) UB**
When you visit someone else's home,
**[12:12] (Flashback) UB**
it's common courtesy to first knock
on their door and introduce yourself.
**[12:15] (Flashback) UB**
Sorry for causing a fuss.
**[12:17] (Flashback) UB**
Tell your family I apologize, Master.
**[12:23] (Flashback) Ko**
This isn't someone else's home.
**[12:25] (Flashback) Ko**
It's your homeland.
**[12:27] (Flashback) Ko**
If you want to come back, feel free.
**[12:30] (Flashback) Ko**
Though, as far as I know,
**[12:32] (Flashback) Ko**
you're the only weirdo who's ever come
back here, let alone knocked on the door.
**[12:39] (Flashback) Ko**
The Orochi wasn't trying to get rid of you.
**[12:42] (Flashback) Ko**
It just got excited and wanted to play.
**[12:45] (Flashback) Ko**
We thought everyone had
forgotten this planet,
**[12:47] (Flashback) Ko**
but there was someone out
there who remembered us.
**[12:50] (Flashback) Ko**
Maybe that made it happy.
**[12:53] (Flashback) Ko**
Also, I'm not the Master of Kouan.
**[12:57] (Flashback) Ko**
I'm Kouka.
**[13:00] (Flashback) UB**
After that, I began going home regularly.
**[13:04] (Flashback) UB**
At some point, the Orochi
stopped attacking me.
**[13:10] (Flashback) Ko**
Maybe it accepted you as part of this planet,
**[13:14] (Flashback) Ko**
or maybe it accepted you as its new master.
**[13:17] (Flashback) Ko**
You might actually be suited to the role.
**[13:20] (Flashback) UB**
There's nothing good to eat.
**[13:22] (Flashback) UB**
All you can find here is
rotten earth and water.
**[13:25] (Flashback) UB**
I wouldn't even last ten days here.
**[13:27] (Flashback) UB**
Kouka, why do you stay here?
**[13:30] (Flashback) Ko**
I'm the same as you all.
**[13:36] (Flashback) Ko**
You abandoned the planet because
you couldn't live here anymore.
**[13:41] (Flashback) Ko**
I can't live anywhere but here.
**[13:44] (Flashback) Ko**
That's why I remain.
**[13:46] (Flashback) Ko**
The few Yato who survived the Great
War scattered to other planets.
**[13:52] (Flashback) Ko**
But there were some who chose
to die with their home.
**[13:57] (Flashback) Ko**
Most of them died sooner than
they normally would have.
**[14:01] (Flashback) Ko**
However, some among them could
adapt to this harsh environment.
**[14:06] (Flashback) Ko**
I am a descendant of that admirable clan,
**[14:09] (Flashback) Ko**
its sole survivor.
**[14:11] (Flashback) Ko**
If it came down to it, I could even
eat your stinky boots to survive.
**[14:16] (Flashback) Ko**
I'd rather die, though.
**[14:18] (Flashback) UB**
If you don't have any family or friends here,
**[14:21] (Flashback) UB**
you don't have a reason to live
alone here, eating boots to survive.
**[14:25] (Flashback) Ko**
But I don't have a reason
to leave, either, do I?
**[14:28] (Flashback) UB**
Any other place would be
heaven compared to this.
**[14:31] (Flashback) UB**
Besides,
**[14:33] (Flashback) UB**
aren't you lonely?
**[14:35] (Flashback) Ko**
Lonely?
**[14:37] (Flashback) Ko**
The thought never crossed my mind.
**[14:39] (Flashback) Ko**
Could something like that
be a reason to leave?
**[14:44] (Flashback) Ko**
Even if it could,
**[14:45] (Flashback) Ko**
I forgot a long time ago when you're
supposed to feel that emotion.
**[14:51] (Flashback) Ko**
I was born and raised on this planet.
**[14:54] (Flashback) Ko**
No baby hates the cradle it slept in, right?
**[14:59] (Flashback) Ko**
I don't know how you see it,
**[15:01] (Flashback) Ko**
but I quite enjoy this life, where I get
to hog an entire planet and do as I please.
**[15:08] (Flashback) Ko**
Also, it's not like I can't have fun here.
**[15:11] (Flashback) Ko**
I can read all the books on the planet,
**[15:13] (Flashback) Ko**
sing at the top of my lungs
without worrying about anyone,
**[15:17] (Flashback) Ko**
and toy with the occasional
invader that shows up.
**[15:24] (Flashback) UB**
I always told her stories about
all the planets I'd visited.
**[15:29] (Flashback) UB**
I thought she'd find them interesting
because she'd never set foot off of Kouan.
**[15:35] (Flashback) UB**
And she always listened to me
with a bored look on her face.
**[15:48] (Flashback) UB**
But then, one day...
**[15:50] (Flashback) Ko**
Kanko.
**[15:52] (Flashback) Ko**
Enough.
**[15:54] (Flashback) Ko**
I've grown sick of listening.
**[15:58] (Flashback) Ko**
I want to see another
planet with my own eyes.
**[16:01] (Flashback) UB**
B-But you...
**[16:04] (Flashback) Ko**
I don't mind if it's from afar.
**[16:07] (Flashback) Ko**
Would you take me?
**[16:12] (Flashback) UB**
She gazed at it without saying a word,
**[16:15] (Flashback) UB**
wearing the same bored expression as always.
**[16:18] (Flashback) UB**
But she gazed at it intently,
without budging an inch.
**[16:22] (Flashback) UB**
Is it pretty?
**[16:24] (Flashback) UB**
That's what most planets
people live on look like.
**[16:28] (Flashback) UB**
Have you heard of Earth?
**[16:29] (Flashback) Ko**
Earth?
**[16:31] (Flashback) UB**
Apparently, it's a remote planet
that's still developing,
**[16:34] (Flashback) UB**
but it's blessed with clear
water and fertile land,
**[16:37] (Flashback) UB**
and is said to be very beautiful.
**[16:41] (Flashback) UB**
Would you like to go see Earth with me?
**[16:47] (Flashback) UB**
No, not just Earth.
**[16:49] (Flashback) UB**
If there's anywhere you want to go,
**[16:51] (Flashback) UB**
the great Umibozu will bring you away
from that rotten planet and take you.
**[16:56] (Flashback) UB**
So, be my... m-my...
**[17:02] (Flashback) UB**
Be my, uh, partner!
**[17:05] (Flashback) UB**
Y-Yeah! My business partner!
**[17:07] (Flashback) UB**
If we teamed up, we could be the
strongest alien hunters ever!
**[17:10] (Flashback) UB**
Don't you agree?
**[17:12] (Flashback) Ko**
Partner, huh?
**[17:14] (Flashback) Ko**
That doesn't sound bad.
**[17:16] (Flashback) Ko**
If that were possible,
**[17:20] (Flashback) Ko**
I bet it'd be really fun.
**[17:26] (Flashback) UB**
That day...
**[17:27] (Flashback) UB**
Even though she never used to see me off,
**[17:30] (Flashback) UB**
she didn't take her eyes
off my ship as it flew off.
**[17:54] (Flashback) UB**
It didn't hit me until then.
**[17:56] (Flashback) UB**
The reason she never used to see me off.
**[18:00] (Flashback) UB**
The reason she saw me off that day.
**[18:03] (Flashback) UB**
I spent twelve whole days looking everywhere,
**[18:05] (Flashback) UB**
but I couldn't find her.
**[18:15] (Flashback) UB**
That's when I saw the
Orochi standing silently.
**[18:25] (Flashback) Ko**
This is a problem.
**[18:28] (Flashback) Ko**
When did you tame the Orochi to this extent?
**[18:34] (Flashback) Ko**
I wasn't going to see you anymore.
**[18:37] (Flashback) Ko**
Why'd you come here?
**[18:40] (Flashback) Ko**
Didn't I tell you that I belong to the
clan that would die with this planet?
**[18:46] (Flashback) Ko**
I've lived all my life by myself.
**[18:48] (Flashback) Ko**
I have to live by myself.
**[18:53] (Flashback) Ko**
So why?
**[18:57] (Flashback) Ko**
Why do you remind me of these feelings?
**[19:03] (Flashback) UB**
I'm sorry, Kouka.
**[19:05] (Flashback) UB**
But I'm the same as you.
**[19:08] (Flashback) UB**
Even if I'm on a planet bustling with life,
**[19:11] (Flashback) UB**
even if I have thousands of people around me,
**[19:15] (Flashback) UB**
I still feel lonely without you by my side.
**[19:25] (Flashback) UB**
I don't want to let you die alone.
**[19:28] (Flashback) UB**
If you want to stay here, then so will I.
**[19:33] (Flashback) UB**
If you want to go somewhere else,
**[19:35] (Flashback) UB**
I'll go anywhere with you.
**[19:38] (Flashback) UB**
So...
**[19:39] (Flashback) UB**
Die with me, Kouka.
**[19:46] (Flashback) Ko**
I'm betraying my clan.
**[19:51] (Flashback) Ko**
I feel like the planet's asking me
if I'm going to abandon it, too.
**[19:59] (Flashback) UB**
Really?
**[20:11] (Flashback) UB**
If you ask me,
**[20:13] (Flashback) UB**
it looks like it's thanking you.
**[20:17] (Flashback) UB**
Like it's saying, "thanks for everything."
**[20:29] (Flashback) M**
I see.
**[20:30] (Flashback) M**
Legend calls you a hero who took the Yato
home from the monstrous "Master of Kouan,"
**[20:37] (Flashback) M**
but you were actually a Casanova who wooed
her and took her from the dying planet?
**[20:44] (Flashback) UB**
Legend, my foot.
**[20:47] (Flashback) UB**
The strongest creature the
great Umibozu ever encountered
**[20:51] (Flashback) UB**
can be found all over the universe...
**[20:54] (Flashback) UB**
A wife.
**[20:56] (Flashback) UB**
And I, just like every other
pitiful man in the universe,
**[20:59] (Flashback) UB**
ended up under my wife's thumb, basically.
**[21:03] (Flashback) M**
That's hilarious.
**[21:05] (Flashback) M**
The strongest man in the universe
was the weakest in his household?
**[21:09] (Flashback) UB**
Don't laugh.
**[21:11] (Flashback) UB**
A household is a whole other universe.
**[21:14] (Flashback) M**
But it's a fine legend.
**[21:16] (Flashback) M**
Rather than stories about lonesome
monsters dying all alone,
**[21:20] (Flashback) M**
I prefer ordinary stories about finding
companionship, parenthood, and a family.
**[21:31] (Flashback) UB**
You can say that again.
**[21:33] (Flashback) UB**
Building a legend of being
the strongest means nothing.
**[21:36] (Flashback) UB**
Building such ordinary happiness
is far more valuable.
**[21:43] (Flashback) UB**
I knew nothing back then.
**[21:48] (Flashback) UB**
I can't live anywhere but this planet.
**[21:52] (Flashback) UB**
Not even what her words truly meant.
**[21:56] (Flashback) UB**
I'm neither a hero nor a father.
**[22:01] Kam**
He's a murderer.
**[22:03] Kam**
That man killed our mother.
***SIGN*** To Be Continued
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**[23:44] UB**
I'll take care of Mom's illness somehow.
**[23:46] Ko**
Good grief. He inherited all your stupidity.
**[23:49] Kam**
Take us away.
***SIGN*** Battle on Rakuyo Arc
Part 9
**[23:51] Kam**
Take Mom and me away from this planet.
***SIGN*** The Lost Rabbit
***SIGN*** To protect his family, the young Kamui sought something.
***SIGN*** His earnest desire grows twisted with time...
***SIGN*** Can the bald old man reform his stupid son?
***SIGN*** And how will his fight with the monster that barged in end?