"I came after hearing about a corpse-eating demon..." "Would that be you?" "A rather cute demon." "Did you also take that from a corpse?" "is it?" "That's very impressive." "you no longer need that sword. should be thrown away." "I shall give you my sword." "If you wish to learn how to properly use it..." "Then come with me." "Hey..." "Get your hands off her." "Get your stinkin' hands off this woman." "Y-You're...?" "!" "Gintoki..." "Why did you... come here...?" "the Heavier and More Difficult It Is to Shoulder It."]" "Look at yourself..." "I told you to run..." "You fool..." "I won't be dying." "Nobody will be dying." "I won't let anyone die in Yoshiwara." "You see..." "We aren't gonna leave you all alone." "You followed my threads to find this place?" "Commendable." "They say one climbs the spider thread to reach for paradise..." "[Note:" "A reference to Ryunosuke Akutagawa's "The Spider's Thread"]" "you climb up to reach for hell." "Your idiocy would leave Buddha and Enma both speechless." "Gintoki...!" "Don't bother telling me to run again." "Trying to shoulder the burden all by yourself?" "Don't be such a stranger." "Weep and ask for help." "Lean on me with your runny nose." "Cry when you feel like crying." "Laugh when you feel like laughing." "I'll give you a good cry with an uglier face." "I'll laugh in a louder voice." "That's how it should be. than to throw away yourself and die a clean death." "You offer to carry her burden?" "You will help carry Tsukuyo's burden?" "Don't you understand?" "You are Tsukuyo's burden." "You people are the reason Tsukuyo has suffered so much." "The reason she's grown so hideous." "you must be hungry." "I shall prepare you a top class meal." "Of the pathetic worm who followed the moon into my web." "I don't give a damn about who you've betrayed." "Do whatever you like to the Shogun or any other lords." "But you called yourself her master and then you betrayed your student... who's believed in you since she was a kid..." "Who's followed in your footsteps for so long..." "You made her your prey." "You don't deserve to call yourself her master..." "You don't deserve to call her your student." "Get lost." "you sick son of a bitch!" "This man..." "His eyes aren't that of a prey." "Nor the eyes of a meal." "My threads are quivering." "My web is reacting to an unprecedented invasion." "That's..." "Those eyes are...!" "Jiraia..." "You're the one who's been caught in a web." "My web. don't expect to leave alive." "Spill your rotten gut as you die!" "A battle between hunters?" "Amusing." "I'll show you who the master of this web is." "shall be part of my web!" "You cannot catch me with those injuries." "Do you intend to escape outside?" "!" "Fool!" "You're the fool." "Gotcha." "time for supper." "Let's dig in!" "If you wish to learn how to properly use it..." "Then come with me." "you will swing that sword." "Not to cut down your enemies." "Not to cut away your weaknesses and protect yourself." "But to protect your very soul." "Gintoki!" "How...?" "How can you have power that rivals mine?" "By someone unable to abandon their sense of self... just to have a place to return to...?" "!" "I have sacrificed everything... even my comrades..." "All for my prey..." "For you..." "Yet why...?" "Why?" "!" "You still can't understand?" "Some of the things you sacrificed were too important." "You abandoned your comrades?" "No." "You were afraid of losing your comrades." "You fought alone?" "No!" "You wouldn't have to feel the pain of solitude if you'd been alone to begin with." "You abandoned your sense of self?" "No." "You were running away from the pain you caused and the pain you endured." "You're just a coward!" "She's far stronger than you could ever be." "A coward is enough to deal with another coward." "I'm enough to take you." "Silence!" "You don't have the right to call yourself her master!" "You don't have the strength to shoulder a student and their pain!" "Gintoki..." "Let's go back." "To your home..." "Jiraia!" "Stop!" "Give up already." "There's nothing in your web. spinning threads into the sky while gazing at the distant moon." "What are you babbling about?" "I already knew that long ago." "Stop!" "Jiraia!" "Yes..." "This is how..." "How it should be..." "The spider will disappear in a pool of blood." "It doesn't... feel as good as I expected... to be killed by myself." "I want to kill myself." "were you...?" "your final prey... huh?" "Your goal wasn't to kill the clone you'd raised and trained." "as yourself." "is it...?" "We met once before." "Have you come to avenge your father and comrades again?" "I lost interest in revenge a long time ago." "I have no interest in crushing a spider who's fallen to earth." "...Danzo." "So you've done your research." "Jiraia the Spider." "Real name:" "Danzo Tobita." "Born to a country samurai in Iga and mastered ninja techniques at a young age." "Your natural aptitude had people calling you a prodigy." "The samurai in Iga were fighting year round." "The Tobita family was one of the larger families in Iga." "its foes weren't going to stand by idly." "The only survivors were you and your still young sister." "You felt ashamed of the skills which kept you alive while everyone else was killed. what would have been your prey." "That gave birth to your twisted sense of devotion." "Sacrifice oneself for the country." "You literally sacrificed your sense of self to devote yourself to work." "you had no choice. and shame of serving the ones who exterminated your family was to forget your identity and focus on mechanically carrying out mission after mission." "You used that intoxication to escape the pain." "your sister couldn't bear seeing her older brother like that." "No more..." "No more." "Stop pushing yourself for my sake." "live your own life." "Live freely for yourself." "Your sister took her own life. you still couldn't protect your sister." "you're still haunted by that fact." "And so you attempted to kill yourself in the worst possible way. and die by her hands." "That was your self-inflicted punishment for failing to protect your sister." "No..." "I was just scared." "I was scared of losing anything else..." "A coward who was too scared to bear the burden." "That is why I became drawn to her." "I wanna protect Yoshiwara and Hinowa!" "The child who tried to shoulder everything on that small back..." "That was why I taught you everything I knew." "I didn't want you to be hurt..." "The way I was... then why shoulder the burden to begin with?" "No need for a home or comrades..." "But you defied my expectations..." "You've managed to find friends... a home..." "You possessed a strength I never did." "the pain you endured..." "I was scared of losing someone else again..." "You were headed somewhere far away from me..." "I was trying to draw you back..." "To the same fate I suffered..." "I wasn't protecting you or my sister..." "I was only protecting myself..." "And I became tired of myself." "That was all... yet I'd managed to do it again. yet I'd managed to do it again." "I forced you to shoulder a worthless burden." "I am sorry..." "I wish you had told me this sooner." "I wish you had allowed me to share your burden." "We would have been able to arrive at a different answer. what is the student's duty?" "To grow strong enough to shoulder the master." "You're light..." "Master..." "I never knew you were so light..." "Master?" "Yes..." "I can see..." "A moon more beautiful... than any..." "I've ever seen..." "That's one helluva student." "huh? so I was never able to do that." "...Same here." "12)}[Preview]" "Tsukuyo-chan!" "Let's go out and play!" "damn it." "We're hitting the pachinko parlor." "right?" "["Watch Out For A Set of Women and A Drink"]" "I'll blow it all for you." "[Ohh!" "JUMP-san!" "Don't use profanity in the important parts!" "]" "[See you next time.]"