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Introduction[]

Isaburo continues his plan of rebellion while the alliance retreat from the battlefield. But both plans go south with the arrival of a certain Tendoushuu.

Plot[]

Hijikata watches the Mimawarigumi and the Naraku airships fight each other, surprised that Isaburo had betrayed the bakufu. Matsudaira, injured from the bombing along with others like Saito, corrects him; the commissioner was never on their side to begin with. The older man revealed that he was aware of Isaburo's plan to wipe out the government, the police and himself. The elite policeman merely responds that he had been desperately trying to send an email to someone (implied to be his wife) with little success; maybe he eould get better reception on top of all the samurai corpses and ruins of the country.

Meanwhile, the Naraku bombard the battlefield with laser-fire, along with disembarking and attacking the alliance and the Mimawarigumi. As Gintoki and Oboro continue their fight, the Naraku leader mocks both him and Isaburo for their fruitless struggle to change the country. He amusingly admits that their rebellion had finally caught the attention of the "heavens", revealing one of the Tendoushuu members on one of the ship which fired a blast at Gintoki's location. At another part of the cliff, Okita demands why Kagura stopped his fight with Nobume. She answers that the two have become too conflicted to fight properly and that right now they must work together to save everyone. She also adds that Nobume was a good person despite Nobume claiming otherwise. Kagura tells the Mimawarigumi Vice-chief about her belief in how Earth was a planet of freedom and that thanks to the people she met, she had changed for the better. Nobume herself remembered how both Shouyou and Isaburo had changed her from a thoughtless killing machine to who she is now. Suddenly she snaps out of her thoughts and pushes Kagura out harm's way, leading to her being stabbed in the stomach by a thrown sword.

Okita and Kagura rush to her side, just to see the young woman command the entire Mimawarigumi force to retreat with her walkie-talkie. The two wonder why until she pleads with them to flee as well before someone arrives. Unfortunately, this someone, the Tendoushuu member, appears with his powerful and deadly aura, reprimanding Nobume for betraying both the Naraku and Isaburo for defying orders and refusing to kill Isaburo both times (now and in her childhood). She responds that she will no longer follow anyone's orders but will fight under her own free will. The disappointed member attacks the three and easily defeats them. Okita realizes that they cannot defeat the figure and demands to know who he was. Nobume answers that the man was the former leader of the Naraku before earning a place as a member of the Tendoushuu, named Utsuro.

In the forest, Hijikata searches for Kondou and Isaburo while fighting the Naraku. Katsura and Elizabeth arrive to meet him, confused by the present state of affairs. Matsudaira tells them this was going according to Isaburo's plans, both allies and enemies have split up due to the chaos. Katsura worries that they will be unable to escape this island with the worsening situation but Hijikata had forewarned the waiting alliance in the ocean. The vice-chief had set things up so that after a certain amount of time, a signal flare should be sent, indicating the order to retreat. He tells Matsudaira and his group to escape while he searches for Kondo and they should leave without the two leaders.

Shinpachi, carrying an injured Yamazaki, sees the flare and they along with the Mimawarigumi start retreating. But they stop in horror when a badly injured Okita falls to the ground from the cliff along with Utsuro landing next to him. Oboro tells his boss to not bother with the others and let the Naraku handle this, killing some of the white-clothed policemen. The person Utsuro was really interested in, Gintoki, had already been buried under rocks by Utsuro's bombardment. Enraged, Shinpachi tried to attack the Tendoushuu member but is barely saved by Okita before being stabbed in the head. More assassins arrive to attack while Utsuro continues to "play" with the combined forces of Kagura, Nobume and Okita. Meanwhile, the injured Isaburo rushes to Nobume's location, wondering about both his and his second-in-command's "strange" behavior of refusing to leave each other. Back to the fight, Nobume is stabbed in the shoulder and pushed into the cliff face. She grabs Utsuro's sword and stabs hers in his foot, holding him in place. He tells her that her weak attack was futile as both Kagura and Okita were too injured to fight. At that moment, Gintoki emerges from under the rubble, jumping down the cliff and attacking Utsuro in the head.

Utsuro blocks the attack and the two men fight, Gintoki wielding his bokutou and Nobume's sword. Okita watches the fight and comments on how Gintoki was fighting slightly evenly with Utsuro. But the first captain notices that this "evenness" was due to Gintoki being subconsciously knowledgeable of Utsuro's fighting style and wonders if they ever met. As Gintoki loses his swords and Utsuro loses his mask and hat, Utsuro wonders the same thing, before striking at Gintoki's neck. The fact that Utsuro shows a striking resemblance to Shouyou causes Gintoki to freeze in place and suffer a breakdown. He is saved by Kagura holding back Utsuro's sword with her bare hands and calling out to him, snapping him out of it. Okita attacks Utsuro from behind but is hit in the chest;Okita holds the man's arm in place. Utsuro tells Gintoki that his sword would never reach him, just like how a flashback of a younger Gintoki could not defeat his teacher. Gintoki grabs Okita's thrown sword and slashes Utsuro across the chest, saying that their sword would reach him, and finishing it off with grabbing his own wooden sword and striking him into the wall. Oboro mocks Gintoki for his suffering and that he would never escape his fate of always hurting his teacher if he continued to defy the "heavens". Utsuro rises from the rubble unfazed, with his wound healed under the horrified eyes of Kagura, Gintoki and Okita. A Naraku ship explodes between them and the alliance uses that chance to flee. While fleeing, Gintoki wonders out loud the true identity of Utsuro. Nobume responds that he is someone that both Shouyou and not at the same time; he was the one truly responsible for killing Shouyou.

Characters[]

  1. Shinsengumi
    1. Okita Sougo
    2. Hijikata Toushirou
    3. Kondou Isao
    4. Saitou Shimaru
    5. Yamazaki Sagaru
  2. Mimawarigumi
    1. Sasaki Isaburo
    2. Imai Nobume
  3. Tenshouin Naraku
    1. Oboro
  4. Matsudaira Katakuriko
  5. Sakata Gintoki
  6. Kagura
  7. Jouishishi
    1. Katsura Kotarou
    2. Elizabeth
  8. Shimura Shinpachi
  9. Utsuro (debut)
  10. Yoshida Shouyou (flashback)

Trivia[]

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