Gintama. (銀魂)

"The strongest man in the universe."

The people who call me that are but frogs in the well.

The universe is a big place.

A planet is no more than one of innumerable specks of sand within it,

and the world one can see in a lifetime is no more than a tiny part of the whole.

You mean to say there are many more stronger than you?

But you must've been the strongest man in the world my father saw.

Otherwise, he...

The captain of the Chidori Space Pirates wouldn't entrust his dear daughter to you,

Umibozu.

Or should I say, my father's old friend, Kanko?

You needn't say a thing.

I, Mutsu, shall withdraw our request myself.

You are far too great a man to be teaching someone like me.

But, whenever you feel like it,

would you come chat with this ignorant, sheltered bird in a cage?

And tell me about the innumerable specks of sand you have seen with your eyes?

Gintama

The Battle on Rakuyo

Battle on Rakuyo Arc Part 8

Master of Kouan

Watch the Battle on Rakuyo arc in a bright room and at a safe distance from your TV!!

I sensed from the start that things between you and me

would eventually come to this point.

And, having met you, I think I have found my answer...

As to why, despite building an advanced interstellar civilization,

we still don't stop fighting.

It has nothing to do with standpoints, views, or creeds.

It comes from our fundamental nature as creatures.

No matter how far we evolve,

our psyche may always force us to determine

which of us are predators, and which of us are prey.

And when it comes to two creatures at the top of the food chain...

The strongest man in the universe?

Are you one of those fools who keep talking about that crap, too?

Well, I'm sorry, but I have no interest in that title.

Begone!

I don't care what happens to the world.

Even if I am a frog,

I will protect the well I live in, even if it kills me.

I'm fine with being just a frog.

You are no frog in the well.

As someone who has seen the rise and fall of many a species, I guarantee it.

But that's exactly why I know that,

even if you are a once-in-a-millennium warrior,

you cannot escape the principles of life.

Indeed, you will inevitably fall someday.

Because I have escaped the principles of life,

and you ended up standing in my way.

Mutsu! Hurry!

Someone stronger than me?

Yes.

If you say that even you can't be called the strongest,

have you met anyone worthy of the title?

Hosen, whom I fought when I was younger, was pretty strong.

But that's only if we're talking about creatures like us.

The things I've fought in my life as a hunter

were all beyond comparable concepts such as strength.

Could you compare anyone's strength to that of a typhoon or tsunami?

There's no need to.

Nobody else could stop a natural disaster by themselves.

I've heard of it, you know.

How you earned the title of "strongest."

The reason Yato hail you as a hero.

About the battle in which Umibozu took back our home.

The Yato's home planet, Kouan,

suffered an all-out attack by the Allied Planets during the Great War

and was destroyed along with many Yato.

Altana began to gush out of the ground,

and the ruined planet became a nest for mutant creatures.

Among them was something that made people call Kouan the planet of death...

The planetary parasite Orochi, considered the Master of Kouan.

It fed on the Altana reserves, grew 108 heads,

and eliminated anyone who dared approach its nest.

Everyone abandoned the place

and didn't approach it for centuries, but one man charged into its nest alone

and took back the Yato's home...

That was you, Umibozu, was it not?

Took back our home?

I just lost a bet with a friend.

I said I'd go to our deserted home and hit on a woman if I lost a drinking battle.

I'd never experienced anything like it before.

The moment I saw them,

it stood up.

Stood up?

What did?

I guess it was too early for you, kid.

Well, you could call it my instinct.

The moment I laid eyes on them,

my genes immediately came to a conclusion.

"You're going to die."

"Hurry up and make some babies," they said.

I went after them again and again, but I just couldn't break through.

It felt like I was fighting the earth I stood on.

Like I was a mere insect going up against a planet.

Your genes admitted defeat before you did?

Simply put, I felt fear for the first time in my life.

But, as much as his genes may cry out in terror,

a man cannot cry until his battle is over.

So I told my right ball...

Quit rattling.

Lefty, you shut up and watch, too.

I planted my seeds a long time ago.

My best ones, in fact.

So let me fight! Let me protect my family!

I don't believe it.

You suppressed your instincts by force?

Thanks to that, my worldly desires died down,

and I could hit on the woman with a clear mind.

The woman?

Was the Orochi female?

What are you talking about?

Why would I crush one of my balls to fight a scrub like that?

Is that arm regenerating?

Like I said,

I was on that planet to hit on a woman.

I see.

I knew it...

You really are just like her. A being of Altana...

Who are you talking about?

Who are you talking about?

I'm talking about the woman I risked my life to court.

On the Yato's home planet, which had fallen to ruin a long time ago,

on the planet of death...

There stood a woman.

And I, too, stood tall.

I can't believe there really was someone here.

Hey, wait!

This planet isn't dead or anything.

It may have become uninhabitable for people,

but these guys still live here, eating the rotten earth,

those guys still live here, drinking the rotten water,

and I still live here.

All that happened was that one species among many on this planet died out.

You shouldn't judge an entire planet by your standards alone.

Leave.

I don't want to erase another life from this planet to save an intruder.

I must put them to sleep.

That's when I learned

that "Master of Kouan"

referred to that woman.

Hey, wai—

I said wait!

Out of my way!

Listen to me!

"That woman is dangerous."

That's what my instincts told me.

But, at the same time, they were also telling me this...

H-Hey, lady.

If you don't mind, why don't we forget about this Orochi

and go take out the Orochi in my pants?

"She is the one."

For three days and three nights, she kept fighting to put the Orochi to sleep.

And I kept trying to woo her in order to put the Orochi in my pants to sleep.

Why don't we go get some coffee?

But she paid no heed to me at all.

Just as she took out the 59th head and the Orochi began to retreat,

I suppressed my last Orochi, too.

There was something I wanted to tell her not out of instinct, but with my own words.

My name is Kanko.

I'll ask your name next time I'm here or something.

If the Master of Kouan will let me come here, that is.