"I'm sorry..." "I promise I'll come back for you." "Sorry..." "I'm sorry... had a shotgun marriage." "This is rotten." "this world has gone rotten." "Cohabitation or shotgun marriages..." "People are losing their morals." "that's not what I meant." "There's something in here that looks like mold." "right?" "Indeed. it'll be the end of humanity." "that's not what I meant." "When did you buy this?" "Isn't it past the expiration date?" "Right!" "Women are too sensitive about their "expiration" date!" "They shouldn't sell themselves so cheap." "cut it out." "This is rotten." "Who bought this?" "It really is rotten!" "You bet they are." "Your brains are rotten." "they just don't listen anymore." "sometimes I feel he looks at me with contempt." "Maybe I should beat him into submission." "Kagura...?" "it's the opposite--she'd beat me up." "[This is your child." "Please raise him." "I am exhausted and can no longer care for him.]" "No." "No way." "This isn't happening." "Really." "It's so ridiculous." "No way." "That was just..." "Right..." "It's all right." "This can't be happening... no!" "No way!" "This can't be happening!" "Not happening!" "There's no way this is happening to me right now." "Uh-uh!" "No way!" "I said...!" "you idiot!" "It's too early for your crap!" "[A naturally wavy-haired baby was left in front of Odd Jobs.]" "[Gin-san is shocked by the unexpected discovery of an illegitimate child!" "]" "["Milk Should Be Served at Body Temperature"]" "You're rotten..." "You really are... but I didn't think you could be so thoughtless as to plant a seed and just move on." "I know how to control myself." "like an "A".]" "this has nothing to do with PE." "Don't act stupid." "His hair is soft like a cat's and wavy." "too." "Obviously inherited from you." "You're saying I passed on the naturally wavy hair trait?" "I'd never lay a trap like that on my own kid!" "even if it meant untwisting my genes!" "Come on!" "Silver J. Fox?" "!" "Can you stop it?" "Can you stop calling him by that name?" "I bet his young mom just left him to go play pachinko." "How annoying!" "Mr. Naturally-wavy hair is trying to dodge his responsibility." "Ginraku?" "[Note:" "Ginraku is written from the "Gin" in Gintoki and the "gura" in Kagura]" "Will you stop it?" "!" "Stop calling him by that comic storyteller's name!" "[Note:" "Many comic storytellers have a name that contains "raku."]" "this is bad!" "He's getting cranky." "Did he poop in his pants or what?" "It doesn't look like it." "He just wants some milk." "Someone!" "Does anyone have breast milk?" "Let me try." "I feel like some might come out now." "No way!" "Why are you bringing out your motherly instincts all of sudden?" "!" "I've had an upset stomach since yesterday." "That's not where milk's made!" "That's called diarrhea!" "He's drinking!" "He really is!" "he's sucking really well!" "It's like he's real!" "Hey!" "Don't let her carry the baby anymore." "too!" "You're too young!" "Come back in a hundred years!" "men can take better care of babies!" "Leave it to me as the old woman!" "Old women are really good at this kind of thing." "hey..." "This is not good." "Everyone looks so happy... what a troublesome baby." "Really..." "That's why I hate little brats." "Peek-a-boo!" "What?" "He isn't laughing at all." "It seems..." "They're all going gaga over him." "Kintoki." "Don't become a loser like your father." "Mantoki." "Ginraku." "Sakata." "Idiot Sakata." "All these names are derived from my name!" "Ah!" "Where are you going?" "!" "That bastard!" "I wonder if he's going to abandon him again..." "Over my dead body!" "Um..." "Excuse me." "I'd like to ask you something..." "An abandoned child?" "the police." "Please take care of it." "Mister?" "You and this boy are like two peas in a pod." "He's even got those dead fish eyes of yours." "all brats are like that." "and they don't play outside." "It's a really sick era." "Mister?" "aren't you?" "!" "Mister..." "It means you must reap what you sowed. so let's just wrap this up." "Why am I surrounded by people who won't listen to my story?" "Do we look so much alike?" "The two of us?" "Oh?" "Gin-san?" "Are you working now?" "You really do work hard." "O-Oh..." "Well..." "That's right..." "I was asked to do something like..." "See-ya" "Gin-san!" "please." "We don't usually have such fancy ice cream." "don't mind us... don't they?" "I'll go buy it." "It's all right." "Seriously!" "I'm not sure what she'll do!" "Gin-san!" "I said wait!" "Daina bomb?" "[Note: "Daina bomb" is a play on the word "dainagon" which is a kind of red bean sweet.]" "Ah..." "Hey..." "Are you all right?" "I see..." "That was it..." "You two were...a couple..." "I feel so stupid..." "I didn't know anything..." "I was the only one..." "I was like...a buffon..." "You played with my feelings and strung me along..." "While you two were busy making a baby together." "what are you talking about?" "I'll knock your brains out." "That's enough." "It really is!" "I look so stupid." "I really do!" "aren't you?" "I don't feel good anymore!" "Our little SM game is over!" "When did I ever do SM with you?" "You two have tons of children and have a big family!" "And live in a house with many holes in the paper sliding doors!" "[Note:" "Kids love to poke holes in paper sliding doors.]" "whatever!" "But..." "I won't let you do that!" "you're a one-woman soap opera!" "You're a B-movie script!" "Otae-san." "she isn't seen as a woman anymore!" "She's just a family member!" "You're no longer a woman!" "You've taken yourself out of the competition!" "Way to go!" "What kind of battle are you talking about?" "!" "I said I didn't give birth!" "Who wants to have a child with that pathetic samurai?" "!" "Then how do you explain that boy?" "He looks just looks like him!" "His natural wavy hair and eyes!" "He's just like him!" "I really don't know!" "At least I'm sure he's not my child!" "Gin-san?" "Say something to her!" "like son!" "That's your bastard child all right." "And you call yourself a samurai?" "For shame." "Sarutobi-san." "Why?" "Why won't anybody around here listen to me?" "Because you never listen to other people." "Oh..." "I see... but I don't know." "I've never seen a lady like this before." "I see." "I'm sorry." "I was so forward." "I still haven't introduced myself." "I'm Kahei Hashida." "I run a store here in Kabukicho." "Huh?" "That big corporation?" "What's that?" "You see?" "You can see it from the Yorozuya." "That huge building!" "what happened?" "my one and only precious grandson suddenly disappeared." "A kidnapping?" "so he probably..." "I have reason to believe that lady in the photograph was involved." "like this?" "Did you report it to the police?" "so I don't want to make this matter public." "you really shouldn't be worried about your privacy." "but... just contact me." "I'm asking for your cooperation." "And here's a photo of my grandson..." "Excuse me." "Is anybody here?" "over here." "How can I help you?" "Ah... are you?" "Where're your real parents?" "Please release me from this responsibility." "Call your father." "Say "Daddy." "You there." "Stop right now." "hey." "You've got lots of fathers..." "[OTOSE SNACK HOUSE]" "Stop!" "Let me go!" "wicked woman!" "I've finally I found you." "Where's Kanshichiro?" "Tell me!" "This woman..." "Remember who you are!" "hey." "Aren't you going a little overboard?" "She can't speak unless you stop that!" "Forgive me." "I got too worked up." "so we'll deal with it ourselves." "I'm sorry for all the fuss." "Otose-san..." "Oh!" "What?" "This is the person the old man was looking for." "A photo of his grandson." "kore?" "[Note:" "Konohamaru of Naruto ends many of his sentences with "kore."]" "kore?" "kore?" "Huh?" "Kidnapping?" "What?" "Who?" "Where?" "It's useless." "Don't play dumb." "aren't you?" "You two kidnapped the grandson of Kahei-sama in some kind of conspiracy." "aren't you?" "what are these people talking about?" "you!" "What are you talking about?" "but it doesn't matter." "It's a man." "Kill him." "hey!" "I'm not your problem!" "I just found this kid outside my door." "I do odd jobs!" "I don't know the first thing about kidnapping!" "Then give us that baby back!" "Hold on." "Don't rush." "I'd be happy to... we'll take him by force!" "Get him!" "I said..." "I don't know anything about it!" "I'll give him back to you..." "You can take the brat!" "You bastard!" "What did you do?" "!" "Catch him!" "You have an interesting fighting technique." "I wonder if you must be used to fighting to protect someone." "Dangerous people like you can't raise a child." "Get out of my way." "It's time for his milk." "Good ..." "You're good." "The smell of the beast..." "You can't hide it." "You smell like the beast and so does that brat." "It's no fun fighting a one-armed opponent." "I'll let you go." "Okada!" "what are you doing?" "!" "After him!" "Don't let him out of your sights!" "dear!" "It's so dirty!" "I wonder why men always dirty the urinal like this." "Especially on the left side." "I hear most men point left." "and it's the sign that they'll become the ruler of the kingdom." "They say Toyotomi Hideyoshi pointed to the right." "my!" "My husband points to the right." "He'll become the ruler!" "Which way do their butt-holes face?" "huh?" "It's probably those ronin our master hired." "but come on." "And who knows what our master is up to behind the scenes." "was kidnapped." "I wonder if he was involved in some bad business." "You're wrong." "It heard Ofusa did it." "no!" "That lady would do something like that?" "it couldn't be helped." "Because she..." "Who's there?" "!" "old women?" "!" "Don't look!" "Don't look at me!" "and what a stinker!" "the new guy!" "you old hags!" "Kya!" "His points to the left!" "Kya!" "His curves more!" "close it!" "Damn it!" "I shouldn't have taken this job as a janitor!" "There aren't any hot little maids here!" "There're only old women!" "Hey!" "Just keep walking." "Huh?" "That is...the girl those old women were just talking about... hey..." "This isn't the sort of place I should stay too long." "But what are you going to do if you quit this job?" "Are you going back to your loafer life?" "That's right." "I'm always like this." "I quit." "Escaping is becoming my habit." "a DORK." "He oughta kill himself." "no." "That's messed up." "Why do I have to kill myself?" "death's no trip to Kyoto." "uh-huh." "Uh-huh..." What?" "Huh?" "you guys?" "!" "Are you the one adding the weird narration and filling my head with such suicidal thoughts?" "!" "Why are you here?" "!" "We're housekeepers." "How about you?" "What are you doing here?" "Did you change jobs again?" "What do you mean "again"?" "!" "Why are you giving me that look?" "!" "can you show us around?" "Show you around?" "Damn him!" "Where did he go?" "He can't be far away!" "Find him!" "they're gone." "I said they're gone." "I said they're gone!" "There's no way I can hide in there!" "after all." "Whatever." "There's no way I could hide in there!" "Are you stupid?" "I bet you are." "I'm Katsura!" "they're probably exclusionist ronin." "And the Hashidaya they mentioned is one of the biggest corporations in Edo." "Do you know anything about it?" "Kahei Hashida is a dangerous man." "He supports the exclusionist ronin so he can move them around behind the scenes." "That's why he became so powerful." "It's not just an ordinary businessman." "Why did a man like that's grandson come to me?" "I guess you did "nyan nyan" with one of the girls at Kahei's place." "I didn't!" "And what's "nyan nyan"?" "That's an outdated word!" "Did you mean Yuyake?" "look at his arrogant face." "He's definitely identical to you!" "slacker?" "!" "What kind of childcare is that?" "!" "You've got to be kidding!" "If he starts crying now..." "I'd just throw him into the river." "yeah." "The only time a man should cry is if his hair's permed too tight." "You have good prospects in that area." "Even more than Shinpachi." "Gintoki..." "Look down." "Huh?" "but his lower part gets wet easily." "hey!" "This is bad!" "It doesn't look like the old man of Hashidaya is a harmless old businessman!" "He's more like a dangerous man with a dark rumor!" "Let's go home!" "Let's go home with this old man!" "I'll buy you some pickled seaweed!" "I can't turn back now after hearing that." "there's got to be something going on behind the scenes." "bastard?" "!" "How many?" "How much pickled seaweed were you going to offer me?" "Don't tell me four!" "You were not going to give me only four?" "!" "please be quiet." "Is this the place?" "Is this the room they brought that woman to?" "how many?" "!" "Just say it." "It's not like I'm interested or anything..." "[Diaper] yours points to the right." "You'll become somebody big in the future." "Good for you!" "What?" "What?" "Don't feel bad about wetting your pants." "Those parts of a man have a will of their own." "Something like this can happen." "There you go." "Really..." "I was mistaken for a dad and for a kidnapper..." "Today is my unlucky day." "don't we?" "there'll be days like this." "For you there'll be many more hardships in life." "Eighty percent of life is made up of hardships." "Seriously..." "Stuff like this happens to me all the time." "But it's not all bad." "sake tastes great." "shall we have a drink together?" "All right..." "Shall we go?" "already!" "Where's Kanshichiro-sama?" "You'll be released of your responsibility if you tell us." "Hey!" "Say something!" "What a stubborn woman." "filthy woman." "You seduced my son and killed him." "wicked woman!" "You guys are the ones who abducted Kanshichiro." "He's my son." "I won't let anyone take him from me!" "It's a shame a woman like you bore a child from the Hashida family." "Kanshichiro doesn't need a mother." "I'll raise him as a son and true heir." "If you won't say anything..." "We'll have to get physical..." "Hasegawa-san." "what are you doing there?" "Housekeepers?" "Um..." "That's right." "Th-These two are the new housekeepers..." "So I'm showing them around the building." "master." "we're not your "master." "don't they?" "Kagura-chan!" "No!" "Don't say that!" "please excuse me..." "Wait." "It stinks." "I smell a lying spy with the stench of a rat." "I seem to be smelling a lot of odd things today." "But right now I'm in the mood for the smell of blood and steel!" "Will you fight... the butcher?" "What's the meaning of this?" "Sorry to interrupt your fun." "But I just found some suspicious rats." "Huh?" "I saw you guys at Otose-dono's place." "my!" "You followed me here." "You're nosy people." "so I don't need your help." "too." "Kahei-san?" "You guys are more than just nosy." "There are things you're better off not knowing about in this world." "[To Be Continued]" "12)}[Preview]" "Are you asking me if I made an "apo?" "like a "Fuji Apple"?" "Get an Appo First." "[Shinpachi and the others are in a critical pinch." "And what will be the fate of Kanshichiro?" "!" "]" "Nizo Okada.]"