ED Card:  Gintama

Silver Soul,ED Card:  Silver Soul

 TextR: The first half of the Silver Soul Arc

 TextL: reaches its climax!

 TextR: That man

 TextL: joins the fray, too.

Warning:  Watch the Silver Soul arc in a bright room and at a safe distance from your TV!!

Soy:  I'm Tokugawa Shigeshige's little sister,

Soy: Soyo.

 Soy: Nobunobu-sama...

 Soy: It's you, isn't it?

Sak: What's wrong, g*n-sama?

Sak: Weren't you tryin' ta get in touch  with your retainers on Earth?

 Sak: Hello. I'm Sakamoto  Tatsuma, of the Kaientai.

 Sak: For reasons, I'm workin'  with the g*n right now.

Sak: Don't worry. He's perfectly fine.

Sak: And...

G: Admiral!

Sak: With the support of Liberation Army  Admiral Shijaku and his faction,

Sak: we've just broken out of jail!

 Title:  Silver Soul Arc

 Title:  Bushido Is Found  One Second Before Death

 G: The comms have been restored.

 G: What's going on?

G: Don't tell me, old man Gengai...

G: If the enemy's w*apon start  working again, we're done for!

Hij: Hurry!

Hij: No matter what, we must find Gengai  and free him from the enemy!

Gin: Calm down, you guys.

Gin: That geezer ain't the type to  become the enemy's puppet.

Gin: He'll die quietly for us.

Shin: Don't k*ll him off!

Gin: Don't worry.

Gin: He's a surprisingly good communicator,

Gin: so he'll do fine in space or in hell.

Shin: Stop k*lling him off already!

Gin: In more pressing matters,

Gin: I need to take some Hepa,  and I need you to get me a sick bag.

Gin: Wait a second. Don't shake me so much.

Gin: I feel sick...

Hij: Hey! Why would you drink  until you puke during a w*r?!

Gin: I figured this was the save  point before the last boss, too.

Gin: I was planning on recovering all my HP.

Gin: But when I woke up, I found myself  rolling in a pit of poison.

Gin: My status screen had turned green.

Gin: Real life doesn't have save points.

Gin: Life is all about how your hitbox  grows larger with each step you take.

Gin: In the first place, do you have  proof the geezer was abducted?

Oki: He was caught when he took an outdoor  dump and was immobile due to no TP.

Oki: There was an unfinished  sh*t left on the scene.

Oki: And yet there was no sign he wiped.

Gin: So that means he was taken somewhere  with sh*t still stuck to his ass.

Gia: What the hell? That's the most  useless deduction ever.

Gia: Can you stake your gramps's name on it?  Wouldn't you be ashamed to face him?

Shin: Even if so, maybe Gengai-san left us a clue.

Oki: A clue, huh?

Shin: I see.

Shin: Looks like we've h*t the jackpot.

Shin: Okita-san, that's just sh*t.  We've sh*t the jackpot.

Oki: Take a closer look.

Shin: The sh*ts are in regular intervals?

Oki: He must've left these markers  for us so we could find him.

Shin: What kind of Hansel and Gretel is that?

Oki: If we follow these, we should find Gengai.

Hij: Hey, Sogo, can you stake your  gramps's name on it? You can, right?

Gin: It's probably some stray dog's poop.

Shin: Isn't this a bit too orderly for that?

Hij: And can one person really poop this much?

Oki: He might be in danger.

Oki: Let's hurry.

Kon: I guess I drank too much since  I saw her after so long.

Kon: I was going to pretend it never happened,

Kon: but I believed that you guys would notice.

Kon: Did you buy spare underwear for me?

Kon:  Toshi!

Oki: Oops. It was just a stray gorilla.

Hij: Yeah, that was a stray gorilla.  There was no human there.

Hij: Got that, you guys?

Shin: I mean, sure, but are you okay with  your leader being a stray gorilla?

Shin: But what now? We're out of leads again.

Hij: Hey, look at that.

Shin: Blood stains? Don't tell me...

Hij: This might be the clue Gengai left us.

Shin: No... You mean Gengai-san is...

Hij: Dunno, but we need to hurry.  That much is for sure.

Oki: Hijikata-san,

Oki: can you stake gopchang on that?

Sign: Gopchang  (Small Intestines)

Hij: Why do I have to stake gopchang?  Let me stake my gramps's name, too!

Shin: Look, the blood's gradually increasing!

Hij: This is bad! Hurry!

Zen: I-I drank too much and had  a hemorrhoid expl*si*n.

Zen: But I believed that you  would definitely notice.

Sign: Poraginol A

Zen: Please apply this to my ass.

Hij: Hey!

Hij: Your drinking party has left everyone in  tatters, their lower halves in particular!

Gin: Don't try to worm out of it with a jab.

Gin: Your deduction was off the mark, so  hurry up and bring out the gopchang.

Hij: Make him bring out his gramps first!

Oki: Sorry, Hijikata-san,

Oki: my gramps died a long time ago,  so you hurry up and die, too.

Hij: What kind of logic is that? You guys  have no right to speak of deductions!

Shin: Enough already! This isn't the time!

Hij: We'll have to use the comms and have  people check every nook and cranny.

Kag: This way.

Shin: Kagura-chan?

Oki: You have an idea where he might be?

Kag: Trust my instincts.

Kag: It's on nights like these that the  rabbits of the night turn into hunters.

En: Oh? He still has his ears and nose, I see.

 Y: It's easy to tell if t*rture will work  on someone by looking at their face.

 Gen: Hey.

 Gen: You the leader of the Liberation  Army? I finally get to talk to you.

 Gen: As you can see, the comms are back up.

 Gen: I wanted to get a good look at your face,

 Gen: so I set the virus up to go light.

 Gen: But the nanomachines won't stop.

 Gen: You guys won't get anywhere close to Earth.

 Gen: Because I don't know how  to stop them, either.

En: I figured.

En: But that goes the same for us.

En: We cannot stop anymore.

En: We, the Altana Liberation Army,

En: gathered and took up arms to free  planets from the Tendoshu's clutches.

En: If any planet refuses to accept our crusade,

En: if any planet decides to fight us,

En: we will grant their wish.

En: Earth, and all of the insects living on it,

En: will be reduced to space dust!

Shi: Forgive me.

Shi: I forced you guys to commit treason, too.

G: It's fine, sir.

Shi: Did anything happen while I was in prison?

G: Admiral, Prince Ensho is...

Sak: We will now work with Admiral Shijaku,

Sak: as well as his home planet, Okoku,

Sak: and Okoku's Prince Dragonia.

Sak: and Stup—I mean Prince Hata,

Sak: and take over the Heavenly Bird,  mothership of the Liberation Army's fleet.

Sak: There's still a huge numerical disadvantage,

Sak: but we're already on the mothership.

Sak: If we use this situation ta our  advantage, things could work out.

 So please pass on a message  ta the guys fightin' on Earth:

 "Hang in there just a bit longer.

 And let's stay alive and  meet on Earth for sure."

 Will that do, g*n-sama?

Shi: What?!

Shi: I-Is that true?

Sak: Admiral?

Sak: What's wrong?

Shi: I'm sorry,

Shi: my friends from Earth.

Shi: Everything was too late.

En: w*apon of destruction,  the Flame of Kagutsuchi.

En: The Heavenly Bird is but a  platform for this massive w*apon.

En: Since it has the power to  destroy a planet in one sh*t,

En: it was deemed a forbidden w*apon  and sealed away for ages...

Shi: But we brought it back when  we started our crusade.

Shi: The Flame of Kagutsuchi has  already g*n preparing to f*re.

Shi: In other words,

Shi: six hours from now, that blue planet  will be gone from the universe.

 Gen: If you can't get close to Earth,

 Gen: you'll finish things off  with one sh*t from space?

 Gen: After making so many sacrifices in this  w*r, you want to reduce it to nothing?

 Gen: Along with your comrades still on this  planet, who joined you in your cause?

En: That's the reason.

En: To ensure that our comrades'  sacrifices aren't in vain,

En: our crusade cannot end in a loss.

En: Our comrades on Earth would be glad to  become the foundation for our victory.

G: Prince, what exactly are we fighting?

G: Destroy a planet along  with our comrades on it?

G: Wouldn't that make us the  same as the Tendoshu?

G: Please stop, Prince.

G: This is no crusade!

En: Just cause is but an excuse readied for  weaklings who can't fight without a reason.

En: I knew all along

En: that defeating the Tendoshu won't  bring back what we've lost.

En: Then why do we fight?

En: Isn't it because that's the  only thing we have left?

En: Having lost even our means to  soothe our hatred and sorrow,

En: all we can do is keep burning  them in the flames of w*r.

En: It is as you see.

En: We're prepared to walk over the  corpses of our comrades to fight...

G: Prince!

 Sak: Run!

Shi: There's no time!

Shi: Or any sh*t at victory!

Sak: So what?

Sak: Whether we have a sh*t at victory or not,  what we must do remains the same!

 Sak: Yeah. It changes nothing.

 Sak: Whoever said bushido is found in  death was right on the money.

G: The reinforcements from  Planet Okoku have arrived.

Kat: Good.

Kat: Deploy at the edge of the Liberation  Army's radar net at once.

Kat: Lure the enemy fleet as far away  from its mothership as possible.

Kat: We'll use that chance to raid the  mothership with our stealth ship.

Hata:  Why is this happening?

Kat: So says Prince Dragonia.

 Sak: Even if the end will arrive in one second,

 Sak: live your life so you  don't leave any regrets.

 Sak: That's the samurai way.

Gin: I will never drink again!

 Soy: Sakamoto-san...

 Soy: Sakamoto-san!

Soy: Sakamoto-san! Sakamoto-san!

 NbNb: Rest assured.

 NbNb: I will protect Edo and our  country, no matter what.

 NbNb: That's what your brother would say, right?

NbNb: That's what a real g*n would say.

NbNb: Unfortunately, I have neither the  right nor the capability to do so,

NbNb: but I do have the right to act  as the country's stepping stone.

NbNb: So many people died failing to  protect what they wished to protect,

NbNb: and I have the right to die for  the things they left behind.

 NbNb: Forgive me.

 Soy: I won't forgive you.

 Soy: Unless you come back alive,

Soy: I won't forgive you.

Soy: Come back here, accompany  me to Brother's grave,

Soy: and report to him that we protected Edo.

Soy: If you don't...

Soy: I'll never forgive you!

Y: That prince came up with  quite the interesting plan.

Y: To think he would thr*at us, too...

Y: Let the Liberation Army on Earth know.

G: "HQ has abandoned us.

G: If you want to avoid dying with Earth,

G: you only have two options:

G: either do something about  the nanomachine virus,

G: or bring down this country by dawn"?

G: Elder Son, what shall we do?

Son: Isn't it obvious?

Son: We'll survive and k*ll that brat.

Son: Gengai, you say you don't have the  means to stop the nanomachine virus,

Son: but what if I say it can be  the means to k*ll that prince?

En: How pitiful.

En: They are Earth's last hope?

G: I-Is this an error?

En: What's the matter?

G: The radar is detecting several  ships behind the Heavenly Bird.

G: But there's no way such a  large army could be here...

 Hata: It's no error.

Hata: Members of the Liberation Army,

Hata: your actions toward Earth are nothing but  an invasion in the name of liberation!

Hata: Even if the universe will stand  for this savagery, we will not!

Hata: Planet Okoku's...

Hata: ...Gramps says he won't stand for it.

Jii: Wh-Why, you!

Jii: Why are you trying to blame someone else  and save your skin now, Prince Hog?

Hata: But I haven't done anything!

Hata: I was just suddenly carried off and  told to read this note out loud!

Jii: Then I've done practically  nothing all these years!

Jii: All I did was grow my beard!  I was just a walking corpse!

Hata: Do some damn work!

 Hata: How'd things end up like this, anyway?

 Hata: Who was it that said we'd fight?  He can read the note!

 Jii: Which one of you said we'd fight?

 Jii: Raise your hand! I won't yell at you!

 Hata: Fine. Everyone close your eyes.

 Hata: I'll close mine, too.

 Hata: Only the Liberation Army needs to know.

 Jii: Don't peek. No cheating, okay?

 Jii: Whoever stole the lunch money, fess up!

 Hata: Not the lunch money bit!

 Mad: No fair! That was a fake-out?

 Mad: You all said you'd keep your eyes closed!

 Hata: There was a lunch money thief among us!

 Mad: Not exactly lunch money.

 Mad: You only fed me dog food, so I just stole  some of your pudding from the fridge!

 Hata: I was wondering why my royal pudding  always went missing! It was you?

 Mad: Shut it!

 Mad: You get to eat amazing food every  day, so quit whining over pudding!

 Jii: Prince, let me handle this punk.

 Jii: How dare you steal my one job?!

 Jii: Give back my pudding!

 Hata: You ate them, too?!

G: Follow the prince!

G: Open intercepting f*re!

Kat: So it begins. I hope they  manage to escape later.

Kat: Then shall we go, too?

Kat: I hope you're all ready.

G: Katsura-san, you needn't ask now.

G: We'll expel the aliens thr*at  our country to protect it.

G: We are...

Kat: I am...

Kat: Joi Rebel Katsura Kotaro!

Kat: I swear on my name that I shall deliver  divine judgment upon the Liberation Army!

Kat: Let's go!

En: Beautiful.

En: Such a pure, beautiful light.

En: There's no doubt about it.

En: This is a crusade.

Hij: Earth will blow in six hours?

Hij: Is that why the Liberation  Army's on the move again?

 Mat: I didn't expect them to give their troops  a kick up their backside this way.

Hij: Is there anything we can do, Pops?

Mat: Well, are there any cabaret clubs still open?

 Hij: Don't go giving up!

Mat: No! I'm sure there are cabaret girls  who will fight until the world ends.

 Hij: I wasn't talking about them!

Mat: Toshi, giving up isn't such a bad thing.

Mat: You guys throw Earth aside  and go rescue Gengai!

 Hij: Earth is the one thing we  shouldn't throw aside!

Gin: It's not like you'll throw it at nobody.

Gin: I don't know if they're worthy of  being tasked with saving the world,

Gin: but there are some guys who are  even more persistent than us...

Gin: There's a guy who won't sit back  and watch the world be destroyed.

Gin: That's for sure.

Kat: What's going on?

G: We've been h*t!

Kat: No... Does the enemy mothership have

Kat: some scouting function that  surpasses our stealth function?!

Kat: Don't falter!

Kat: Charge in!

Shi: Hurry this way!

Shi: Fall back!

Shi: Change direction!

G: The control system broke!

G: We can't steer!

G: At this rate, we won't  reach the enemy mothership!

G: Katsura-san!

Sak: One after another...

En: Burn.

En: Turn into ash.

G: We're under att*ck from the right!

G: That's...

G: That fleet is...

Kat: What the—

Tak: What are you wasting time for?

Tak: Keep up or I'll leave you behind,

Tak: Zura.

Tak: This won't do.

Tak: I don't care if you're the  Liberation Army or whatever,

Tak: but you can't do whatever  you want while I'm gone.

Tak: You're hurting my business.

Sak: Y-You...

Tak: A w*apon of destruction that'll erase Earth?

Tak: Sorry, but it won't get a chance to shine.

Tak: The one to destroy this world

Tak: will be me.

Sign: The Silver Soul Arc

Sign: will be back.

Sign: Look forward to it!!

 TextR: You know how plays and old movies

 TextL: have breaks in the middle?

 TextR: Sorry, but we're doing the same.

 TextL: It's now the intermission.
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