# E52 - If You Want to See Someone, Make an Appo First
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**[00:02] Kahei**
There're things in this world you're better off not knowing about.
***SIGN*** [Gin-san's illegitimate child is revealed! Or so we thought. The case escalates to the matter of the child being the heir of a wealthy merchant.]
***SIGN*** [Ofusa, the mother of baby Kanshichiro. Kahei Hashidaya, a truly dangerous man.]
**[01:54] Hasegawa**
Excuse me. I...um...have nothing to do with this, so can I go home?
**[01:58] Shinpachi**
Kagura-chan!
**[01:59] Kagura**
How would like your coffee? With sugar or milk?
**[02:04] ---**
But coffee tastes best with...
**[02:06] ---**
sugar...isn't that right?!
**[02:08] Samurai A**
A smokescreen?
**[02:09] Kahei**
You, meddling scum!
**[02:14] Kahei**
Damn it! The woman! The woman escaped!
**[02:18] Kahei**
Search the entrance! She has to be somewhere in this room!
**[02:21] Nizo**
A smokescreen... But it won't work against me.
**[02:29] Nizo**
There's something different about the airflow. The smoke is flowing out somewhere...
**[02:33] ---**
I wonder where...
**[02:36] Nizo**
There...
***SIGN*** ["If You Want to See Someone, Make an Appo First"]
**[02:55] Gintoki**
I said I want to meet the president.
**[02:59] Receptionest A**
Excuse me, but do you have an "apo"?
***SIGN*** [Note: Apo is short for appointment in Japan]
**[03:02] Gintoki**
What's an "apo"? Oh, you mean that? A kind of fruit from the north?
**[03:06] Gintoki**
Does the president like Fuji apples?
**[03:08] Receptionest B**
It's not an apple. Why are you saying only certain parts in English?!
**[03:10] Gintoki**
Give me a break. "Apo" or Kobo-chan...
***SIGN*** [Note: Kobo-chan is a four-cell manga on newspaper, like a comic strip.]
**[03:14] ---**
I just want to see the president.
**[03:17] Kanshichiro**
Apo.
**[03:18] Gintoki**
That's right. Nowadays, you can't do anything in Japan without slogging through a mountain of red tape.
**[03:26] Gintoki**
Ah! What's Japan coming to?!
**[03:32] Receptionist A**
E-Excuse me, but could you please not speak so loud?
**[03:36] ---**
Ah?
**[03:37] ---**
Wait a minute. That child could be the president's...
**[03:41] Receptionist A**
What? What is that?
**[03:43] Receptionist B**
Ah! Excuse me, but you can't go in there without permission!
**[03:47] Receptionist B**
Please wait!
**[03:48] Gintoki**
Apo.
**[03:49] Kanshichiro**
Napo.
**[03:52] Shinpachi**
Oh, no! We're done for! I'm sorry! I'm sorry!
**[03:57] Hasegawa**
My lungs! My lungs hurt! It's like they're bursting! I've made up my mind!
**[04:00] Hasegawa**
From this day forth, I will quit smoking and quit hanging with you guys!
**[04:03] ---**
Where's Kagura-chan? She's not here!
**[04:11] Shinpachi**
No kidding...
**[04:12] Hasegawa**
W-Wait a minute...
**[04:14] Shinpachi**
We're still here! We're still here!
**[04:17] Hasegawa**
Wait!
**[04:29] Hasegawa**
Unbelievable! He's like a monster or something!
**[04:31] Shinpachi**
We don't stand a chance against him! Run!!
**[04:35] Hasegawa**
All right!
**[04:36] Hasegawa**
Well, weren't we already running away in the beginning?
**[04:40] Hasegawa**
Damn it!
**[04:41] Hasegawa**
Hey!
**[04:42] ---**
Are you all right?
**[04:46] Shinpachi**
Ah! We're gonna fall!!
**[04:54] Samurai A**
What?! They disappeared! Where did they go?!
**[04:57] Samurai A**
Damn it! Let's check over there!
**[05:03] Ofusa**
Um... Are you all right?
**[05:05] Shinpachi**
What a relief! There was another roof underneath.
**[05:07] Hasegawa**
Oh, I was so scared I almost wet my pants.
**[05:10] Ofusa**
Well, who are you guys?
**[05:13] Shinpachi**
It was you, right? The one who left the baby in front of our house?
**[05:19] Hasegawa**
N-No kidding...
**[05:19] Ofusa**
Huh? So, you guys...
**[05:20] Shinpachi**
Don't worry. The baby has been taken into protective custody.
**[05:21] Hasegawa**
I'm 38 already ...
**[05:24] Ofusa**
Really?! Kanshichiro... Kanshichiro is safe?!
**[05:28] Hasegawa**
Oh, I must have gotten this while cleaning! So if I take off my apron...
**[05:29] Shinpachi**
Whoa! Hey, hey! Calm down. Please calm down!
**[05:33] Shinpachi**
You're the baby's mother, right?
**[05:36] Shinpachi**
Can you tell us what happened? I think we have the right to know at least.
**[05:48] Ofusa**
I was from a poor family,
**[05:51] Ofusa**
So I was sent to work as a servant here at the Hashidaya.
**[05:56] Ofusa**
My job was to take care of the master's son, Kantaro-sama, who was sickly and bedridden.
**[06:03] Ofusa**
Um... I'm Ofusa... I'm honored to be working for you.
**[06:06] Kantaro**
Ah, you're the new servant. Nice to...
**[06:14] Ofusa**
Somebody help! Somebody!
**[06:17] Ofusa**
Somebody, please!
***SIGN*** [Surprise!]
**[06:20] Kantaro**
Gotcha! That was a surprise!
**[06:22] Ofusa**
Somebody help!! Kantaro-sama is... Kantaro-sama is...!
**[06:26] Kantaro**
Well...hey...look over here...
**[06:27] Ofusa**
Kantaro-sama is dead!
**[06:30] Kantaro**
No, I'm not. Hey, over here...
**[06:31] Ofusa**
Someone!
**[06:33] Kantaro**
Hey! Are you listening to me?!
**[06:35] Ofusa**
Kantaro-sama loved to joke around. And he often played tricks on his servants.
**[06:43] Ofusa**
But he was also a very kind person, who treated me like a friend.
**[06:49] Ofusa**
And I gradually grew attracted to him.
**[06:55] Kantaro**
Ofusa, how much longer do I have to stay bedridden?
**[07:00] Ofusa**
There you go again. You've been coughing a lot today, so you can't go for a walk.
**[07:05] Kantaro**
I know I won't live very long. Well, if I live lazy like this, I might live a bit longer.
**[07:13] Ofusa**
The master would be sad to hear you say that.
**[07:16] Ofusa**
Master is trying very hard to cure your illness, Kantaro-sama.
**[07:21] Kantaro**
That old man just wants me to succeed him to protect his fortune.
**[07:28] Kantaro**
Fortune and living a long life... Are they really that important?
**[07:32] Ofusa**
It sounds to me like you're being selfish.
**[07:37] Ofusa**
It's the selfishness of someone who already has everything.
**[07:39] Kantaro**
Maybe so.
**[07:41] Kantaro**
If that's the case, I don't need anything.
**[07:45] ---**
Let's say...
**[07:48] Kantaro**
I'd rather be like a cherry blossom.
**[07:50] Ofusa**
Cherry blossom?
**[07:53] Ofusa**
Kantaro-sama, but if you turn into a cherry blossom, you'll wither away before spring ends.
**[07:59] Kantaro**
That's the way it should be.
**[08:01] Kantaro**
They're brilliant and fully bloomed, just like that.
**[08:08] Ofusa**
Six months later, Kantaro-sama and I left the house and ran away together.
**[08:16] Ofusa**
I knew it was wrong, but I wanted to make Kantaro-sama happy.
**[08:22] Ofusa**
We started living together.
**[08:25] Ofusa**
Our lives were difficult, but we worked really hard.
**[08:29] Ofusa**
Crying and laughing... We were so happy... However...
**[08:38] Kahei**
I finally track you down and look at you.
**[08:41] Kahei**
If you had stayed home and kept to your bed like I told you to,
**[08:43] Kahei**
your illness wouldn't have taken a turn for the worse.
**[08:47] Kahei**
You were deceived by that nasty woman.
**[08:49] Kahei**
This is all your fault! Anyway, I'm taking Kantaro back home.
**[08:55] Ofusa**
Please wait, Master!
**[08:56] Kahei**
Shut up!
**[09:00] Kahei**
It can't be... You're carrying... Kantaro's...
**[09:04] Kahei**
Abort it. If word of this got out, the family name would be tarnished.
**[09:16] Ofusa**
After that, Kantaro-sama and I were not allowed to see each other anymore.
**[09:23] Ofusa**
Until he passed away...
**[09:26] Ofusa**
Then Kanshichiro was born.
**[09:29] Ofusa**
I decided to do my best to raise him.
**[09:41] Ofusa**
Master!
**[09:43] Ofusa**
Master had lost his only son, so he had his eye on Kanshichiro as his heir.
**[09:51] Ofusa**
I lost Kantaro-sama,
**[09:53] Ofusa**
and I couldn't stand losing Kanshichiro, too.
**[09:58] Ofusa**
But they kept chasing me.
**[10:01] Ofusa**
And I knew it was only a matter of time before Kanshichiro and I were captured.
**[10:14] Ofusa**
I'm sorry, but I'll come back for you...
**[10:18] Ofusa**
I'm sorry.
**[10:20] ---**
I'm sorry.
**[10:27] Ofusa**
Please forgive me...
**[10:32] Ofusa**
I feel sorry about what I did. I got you guys involved in this for my own selfish reasons.
**[10:35] Hasegawa**
Ofusa-chan, you're a young woman whose had a tough life, huh?
**[10:39] Hasegawa**
But it sounds like that bastard Kahei is a real lowlife.
**[10:43] Kahei**
That woman is the lowlife.
**[10:46] Kahei**
That wench killed my only son.
**[10:49] Kahei**
If it weren't for her, my company would be secure.
**[10:53] Kahei**
I planned for Kantaro to become my heir and then my life's work would've been complete.
**[10:59] Kahei**
But that vulgar, lowborn woman ruined everything.
**[11:03] Kahei**
Do you have any idea what I endured for the sake of this company?
**[11:08] Kahei**
I groveled in the mud, I hobnobbed with human scum, I even betrayed my own conscience.
**[11:15] Kahei**
Can you understand my feelings?!
**[11:17] Ofusa**
Kantaro-sama hated that part of you.
**[11:20] Ofusa**
Why are you so obsessed with this business? Is it money? Or power?
**[11:26] Kahei**
Humph! A woman like you will never understand...
**[11:33] Kahei**
A man spends his entire life trying to create a single work of art.
**[11:37] Kahei**
Art is infinite in variety, from one person to another and takes on many forms.
**[11:41] Kahei**
For me, it's the Hashidaya.
**[11:45] Kahei**
No matter what, I have to finish my masterwork.
**[11:48] Kahei**
I will sink to any depth to protect it.
**[11:51] Kahei**
Go!
**[12:04] Gintoki**
Hey, is this the president's office?
**[12:07] Kahei**
Wh-What?!
**[12:12] Gintoki**
So, this is what...I need to see you, right?
**[12:16] Gintoki**
Apo.
**[12:18] Kanshichiro**
Napo.
**[12:30] Kahei**
What? Bastard! Who the hell are you?!
**[12:32] Gintoki**
Huh? Who am I?
**[12:34] Gintoki**
That's right. I'm...
**[12:36] Gintoki**
...a babysitting lone wolf.
**[12:38] Shinpachi**
Gin-san!
**[12:39] Ofusa**
Kanshichiro!
**[12:40] Gintoki**
It seems things have got way more complicated here. Shinpachi, explain it in thirty words or less.
**[12:45] Shinpachi**
That's impossible, Gin-san. Why are you here? You explain it in thirty words or less.
**[12:51] Gintoki**
Impossible.
**[12:52] Hasegawa**
Are you crazy?! Why would you bring the baby into enemy territory?!
**[12:56] Gintoki**
What's with you? I just saved your butt.
**[13:00] Gintoki**
What are you doing here anyway? In thirty words or less.
**[13:04] Hasegawa**
Shut up!
**[13:06] Hasegawa**
That old man is trying to steal that kid! His son knocked up the kid's mother.
**[13:10] Hasegawa**
And now the old man's knocking her down.
**[13:11] Hasegawa**
He wouldn't accept the tyke while his son was alive, but now that his son's dead...
**[13:13] Hasegawa**
He wants the kid to become his heir!
**[13:17] Gintoki**
Hey, hey. I came here to return the kid, but I guess I'll have to change my plan.
**[13:22] Kahei**
This is nonsense! He's my grandson. He's the heir to the Hashidaya. Hand him over.
**[13:29] Gintoki**
I really don't care whether I give you to your grandpa or your mother
**[13:31] Gintoki**
as long as I'm not stuck with you anymore, but...
**[13:34] Gintoki**
Hey, what do you think?
**[13:37] Gintoki**
Oh, I see, I see.
**[13:41] Gintoki**
Sorry, old man.
**[13:43] Gintoki**
He said he'd rather suck momma's flat chest than suck on your hairy old teats.
**[13:48] Ofusa**
Please stop! Please stop using such disgusting expressions!
**[13:52] Kahde**
Do you think you can outrun us? We've got an ace up our sleeve.
**[14:00] Kahei**
Although he's blind, he's a master of Iai.
***SIGN*** [Note: Iai, as in Iai jutsu, are techniques for drawing a sword.]
**[14:04] Kahei**
He's also a master assassin who can kill anyone with one unstoppable blow.
**[14:08] Kahei**
His name is Nizo Okada. Otherwise known as...Nizo the butcher.
**[14:13] Nizo**
Yo, I knew I'd see you again.
**[14:16] Gintoki**
I've seen you before... You were blind?!
**[14:20] Nizo**
Both of your hands are free this time. I'm glad. Now we can fight for real.
**[14:28] Kahei**
Nizo! As long as we have Kanshichiro, we've won half the battle! Kill them all!
**[14:33] Shinpachi**
Gin-san! Be careful! That guy is a master of Iai! So don't let his timing affect you!
***SIGN*** [Note: Timing is one of the elements of Iai jutsu.]
**[14:46] Shinpachi**
Gin-san!
**[14:49] Ofusa**
Kanshichiro!
**[14:50] Nizo**
That's not good.
**[14:53] Nizo**
You should've held on tighter to your baby.
**[14:56] Nizo**
Eh, Mother?
**[14:57] Ofusa**
Kanshichiro!
**[14:58] Kahei**
Great job, Nizo. That was quick and fearless! I'll just sit back and enjoy the show.
**[15:07] Nizo**
I'm sorry, Master... It seems I won't be able to put this guy away as easily as I thought.
**[15:13] Nizo**
Sorry, but you'd better take the child and quickly go.
**[15:20] Ofusa**
Kanshichiro!
**[15:22] Kahei**
Hey, hey! Don't move so much!
**[15:23] Kahei**
Wh-What's the matter?! Hey!
**[15:26] Gintoki**
Hey, hey. He seems to hate you, doesn't he?!
**[15:30] Gintoki**
When he was with me, he was as quiet as a middle school boy on his first date.
**[15:36] Gintoki**
Should I teach you how to soothe him?
**[15:38] Kahei**
What?!
**[15:39] Gintoki**
In general, a grandchild likes his grandpa.
**[15:44] Gintoki**
You're not qualified to be his grandpa, are you?
**[15:48] Kahei**
Shut up!
**[15:49] ---**
Nizo!
**[15:50] Kahei**
Go for the kill!
**[15:52] Gintoki**
Shinpachi, Kagura, I'll be fine. You go after the kid and the old man.
**[15:57] Shinpachi**
But!
**[15:58] Gintoki**
Just go!
**[15:59] Kagura**
Gin-chan!
**[15:59] Shinpachi**
Gin-san!
**[16:01] Gintoki**
Later...
**[16:03] Gintoki**
I promise to meet you later.
**[16:08] Nizo**
Are you sure? A samurai shouldn't make a promise he can't keep.
**[16:14] Gintoki**
No sweat. I'm more dependable than I look.
**[16:19] Gintoki**
I'm the type of guy who arrives for a date 30 minutes early.
**[16:25] Nizo**
You're such a funny man, just like I thought.
**[16:27] Niza**
I lost my eyesight to a disease when I was young.
**[16:31] Niza**
But humans are tough creatures.
**[16:34] Niza**
The other senses grow more acute to compensate for the loss of vision.
**[16:39] Nizo**
Because of that, my nose, ears and intuition have become very sharp.
**[16:43] Nizo**
My whole body works as my eye. I see the world more fully than before.
**[16:50] Nizo**
Have you ever seen what comes out of a man the moment he dies? I wonder if it's his soul.
**[17:00] Nizo**
It's released at the same time I kill a person...
**[17:03] Nizo**
And it's such a beautiful color.
**[17:06] Nizo**
So I kept chasing it, and people started calling me the butcher.
**[17:10] Nizo**
So, what color is your soul?
**[17:14] Gintoki**
You... Your eyes are even better than Sankon-san's?
***SIGN*** [Note: Osuman Youla Sankhon is a Guinean performer on Japanese TV who was known for having exceptional eyesight.]
**[17:18] Gintoki**
I don't care if your whole body is your eyeball, or that old man's eyeball.
**[17:21] Gintoki**
But I don't need any special powers to see.
**[17:24] Gintoki**
I can see... The color of your grimy soul. It's the color of a turd.
**[17:29] Gintoki**
The only kind of person who can kill people is a piece of crap
**[17:32] Gintoki**
who doesn't even try to understand the feelings of others.
**[17:35] Gintoki**
Even if your whole body can see, your soul can't see anything.
**[17:39] Nizo**
Want to find out?
**[17:41] Gintoki**
Come on. I'll smash your skull into pieces!
**[17:53] Nizo**
You asked for it...
**[17:56] Nizo**
Was I too fast for you? Now which one of us is blind?
***SIGN*** [Refreshing Nose]
**[18:05] Gintoki**
What's wrong? Did you see an illusion of me dying?
**[18:10] Nizo (M)**
I-Impossible! I just killed him, I'm sure of it...
**[18:17] Nizo**
Wh-Why?
**[18:19] ---**
My sword blade...
**[18:20] Gintoki**
Your Iai was quick on the draw. But this time it worked against you.
**[18:24] Nizo (M)**
It can't be! His first strike broke my blade?!
**[18:29] Nizo (M)**
He was even faster than my speedy Batto jutsu?
***SIGN*** [Note: Batto jutsu are techniques for drawing a sword. Also called Iai jutsu.]
**[18:32] ---**
I thought I cut him, but that was only in my head!
**[18:36] Gintoki**
I already told you. Your soul can't see a thing.
**[18:41] Gintoki**
A bit more...
**[18:42] Gintoki**
You should open your soul and live!
**[18:49] Kahei**
S-Stay back! Kanshichiro is my grandson!
**[18:53] Kahei**
The Hashidaya is also mine! No one can take them away from me!
**[18:56] Ofusa**
You can do whatever you like with the Hashidaya. But that child is my son.
**[19:01] Kahei**
Damn you, woman.
**[19:04] Kahei**
You took Kantaro away from me and now you're trying to take Kanshichiro and the Hashidaya away, too?
**[19:09] Kahei**
H-Hey! Be quiet!
**[19:12] Ofusa**
Kanshichiro can hear...
**[19:14] Ofusa**
...what you're saying.
**[19:17] Kahei**
Impossible! What can a baby like this understand?
**[19:21] Ofusa**
He understands. And he remembers.
**[19:24] Ofusa**
All babies do. Especially the memory of being held tenderly...
**[19:29] Ofusa**
Kantaro-sama always told me that.
**[19:32] Ofusa**
There was an altar covered with flowers and a picture of a beautiful woman...
**[19:40] Kahei**
Don't worry... Everything will be all right. We'll survive somehow.
**[19:44] Kahei**
We'll be fine...
**[19:46] Kahei**
I'll cook the meals and change the diapers...
**[19:49] Kahei**
Well, I don't know how to, but I'll change the diapers somehow...
**[19:52] Kahei**
So you can go on without a worry.
**[19:56] Kahei**
I'll protect Kantaro and the Hashidaya.
**[20:02] Ofusa**
Do you think what you're doing would make Kantaro-sama and your wife happy?
**[20:07] Kahei**
Kantaro was born sickly.
**[20:10] Kahei**
The doctor said he would, at the most, live one-third a normal lifetime.
**[20:15] Kahei**
After hearing that, my wife said that we would make him three times happier.
**[20:22] Kahei**
Like a cherry blossom--he can live a full life, even if it's short.
**[20:31] Kahei**
But I wasn't as clever as my wife.
**[20:35] Kahei**
I hired all the doctors I could and raised my son like a bird in a cage.
**[20:42] Kahei**
I wanted them alive in any way possible. My wife...
**[20:47] Kahei**
And Kantaro...
**[20:49] Kahei**
Now, I've lost everything. I couldn't keep any of my promises after all...
**[20:59] Ofusa**
You haven't lost everything.
**[21:01] Ofusa**
In fact... See?
**[21:05] Kahei**
Kanshichiro...
**[21:07] Ofusa**
Kanshichiro is my child.
**[21:09] Ofusa**
But he's also your grandson.
**[21:14] Ofusa**
So the next time you visit my house, it won't be as the master of Hashidaya,
**[21:19] Ofusa**
but as a grandfather who loves his grandson.
**[21:25] Ofusa**
And we'll have tea and cakes together.
**[21:34] Hasegawa**
I guess no one can beat a mother. It's like, "Mothers are strong," huh?
**[21:39] Gintoki**
Hey, why are you wearing a diaper? Hey!
**[21:43] Ofusa**
So, it's time for us to go home.
**[21:46] Ofusa**
Thank you so much for everything. I'll never forget what you did for us.
**[21:50] Hasegawa**
Please don't remember me losing my dignity as a person.
**[21:57] Gintoki**
How is it? Taste good?
**[22:00] Gintoki**
What? The milk isn't good enough for you?
**[22:03] Gintoki**
Hey, hey. It's a hundred years too early for you.
**[22:06] Gintoki**
You can start drinking sake after you at least grow some hair in a few places.
**[22:09] Gintoki**
Yeah... When you're a little older...
**[22:13] ---**
...and if you still remember me.
**[22:16] Gintoki**
Come see me sometime. I'd be glad to have a drink with you.
**[22:21] Gintoki**
Yes, you have my word. A samurai doesn't make a promise he can't keep.
**[22:25] Gintoki**
Well, laugh a lot and cry a lot and grow up quick.
**[22:31] Gintoki**
I'll be waiting.
**[22:33] Hasegawa**
Yeah, yeah.
**[22:35] ---**
What's the matter?
**[22:36] Ofusa**
Oh, my! He's crying so hard! How strange, he hardly ever cries...
**[22:45] Gintoki**
Spring is almost over...
***SIGN*** The next episode... "Stress Makes You Bald, but It's Stressful to Avoid Stress, so You End Up Stressed Out Anyway, so in the End There's Nothing You Can Do."
***SIGN*** [Serial arson in Edo! Tatsumi, the female firefighter pursues the criminal.]
***SIGN*** [These brats, who often appear, are Yo-chan and Ken-chan. Kids' annoyance factor is proportional to the length of their hair.]