Gintama°: Aizome Kaori-hen

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Hey, has anybody told you what sort of place Yoshiwara is?

It's a place where you're forced to like unlikeable men.

I don't mind playing the koto, but I don't know if I could do that.

But I've also heard that for women that just can't get to liking their customers,

there's a secret drug only known to Yoshiwara

that will make you fall in love no matter what.

I wonder if someone like us, or someone like you...

could fall in love with one man after another.

I dunno...

I've never fallen in love with a man.

Yeah...

I had someone in my hometown...

But we ended up parting without me even saying anything...

If only I had a drug as convenient as that one,

then maybe I could've been honest with him.

Hataru, is there any point to conveying feelings you could only convey

by relying on someone like that?

You may be right... but it's all so difficult.

Whether it's someone you like or someone you hate

I'm sure someday you'll understand what it's like to have strong feelings

for someone you love.

Tsukuyo-chan.

Get a move on!

H-Hyakka!

Even if we sell our bodies, we don't sell our hearts.

You said that, until you met up with the man from your hometown

and told him how you felt, you'd never fall in love with anybody.

So what are you doing eloping with this nobody,

Hotaru?

And you've become such a great courtesan...

...haven't you?

P-Please! Just let us go!

You can do what you want, Yoshiwara ain't the cage it once was.

But, what you have on your back is something you'll be leaving behind.

It's not just Hotaru's, it's money all the courtesans worked tirelessly to earn.

Goddammit!

Boss!

Hotaru is...

I thought so... Did he do something to her?

Oi bastard, the fuck'd you do to Hotaru?

That woman had a man her heart was set on.

Her standards ain't low enough to be seduced by a dirty bastard like you!

This is...?

Tsukuyo-chan... I'm sorry...

I...took a whiff of some strange odor the customer presented...and it made me go crazy.

Odor?

He burned something...like a sort of incense...

After I smelled the scent, the instant I saw his face...my heart...

Incense...?

Boss...um... that thing...

- BOSS!!! YOU SHOULDN'T SMELL IT! - PUT IT OUT!! HURRY, PUT THAT INCENSE OUT!!!

That incense is most likely a special kind of incense that effects the brain.

The first person you lay eyes on after you get a whiff of that incense...

...you'll fall in love with!

I might be a sort of...love potion...

Eeeuuuyyy peni-xtinguishing comple-tah!

Ya know, this really ain't a good place to be playing with fire, ya naughty girls!

Ehh? Aren't you guys...

WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU POINTING AT US, YOU BASTARD???

- Boss! - Thank God! You didn't smell the incense right?

Of course, as if something like love potions exist anyways.

And I'm the head of the Hyakka, someone who discarded her womanhood long ago.

And really, some pervert like that who exposes himself, I could never l-l-l-...

...love him.

- BOSS!!! - THAT'S SO CLICHE!

YOU'VE BEEN COMPLETELY AFFECTED, HAVEN'T YOU?? LOOK AT YOUR EYES! YOUR EYES!!

- BOSS!! - BOSS!

No need to worry. If these eyes of mine are led astray, then all I gotta do is remove them.

Boss...

These vacant eyes will not meet that good-for-nothing's poll any longer.

All that will be in my eyes now...

...are two lovely balls.

NO WAIT! NOT THOOOOSE!!!

-Love Incense Arc- Part One

You're saying this "incense"... is a love potion?

Th-that sort of thing only exists in romantic comedies!

It's nonsense!

If it really does exist, it could overturn all of history up to this point!

Exactly, which is why it's been locked away deep within Yoshiwara.

These are a secret drug known as "Aizen Kou".

Just sniffing it will cause someone's brain to produce excess pleasure-enducing substances

leaving them to feel emotions similar to love to a person that's close to them at that moment.

Recently, courtesans have been caught taking money from shops and eloping.

Many customers have been causing bloodshed with their lovers' hands in theirs, all caused by this.

In other words, the courtesans are using it to seduce customers,

and the customers have been using it to make courtesans fall for them.

Where's the fun in landing a girl with a drug?

My thoughts exactly. Some things are only interesting when they don't go the way you want them to,

but recently there's more boorish people that don't know how to play.

Even conceding that, for the main event there's still V***ra.

But if you wanna dope up even for the foreplay, then there's nothing erotic or elegant.

It's more like a sport at that point.

What the hell are you talking about, you bastard?!?!

How's the search going, Tsukuyo?

We captured some men that held possession of the incense, but everyone's seemed to

have overdosed on it and lost their sense of self, unable to give testimony.

B-By the way Hinowa...

...h-how long does the effects of the love incense last?

Well, it depends on the amount taken I guess.

By the way...why are you sitting so far away from us?

N-No reason...

Well, could you come a bit closer then?

N-No...I'm f-f-fine here...

Corners are cool and calm me down...

What are you sweating for? This isn't Othello, taking the corner won't mean anything.

Th-This is painful... My chest is in pain...

Just being in the same room as him makes my chest feel like it's going to burst open...

If he gets any closer I'm certain I'll die...

Why...why is this happening to me...?

Something like that...a factory only capable of producing snot...

...looks like the Prince of Snot!

You're still not annoyed by that are you?

I couldn't help myself, I was drunk.

I mean, you're still a woman of Yoshiwara, right? So seeing an eyeful of rod or two or three balls is like playing with a cup and ball toy for you.

To me, he sounds like a Prince...

I'm sorry for displaying something so embarrassing earlier, seeing you just made me feel so far gone.

I wanted to show you all of me. It was a cute ball-and-cup game, wasn't it?

Calm down... Keep your eyes up ahead.

This is just an illusion caused by the love incense... Like hell I'll let it control me!

If you're all the way over there, we can't talk about the important things we need to discuss.

Come over here.

That close?!

Eh... I said you should come closer so we can hear, but this close?

W-Well, this is an important strategy meeting...

Why is the volume of your voice quieter the closer you get?!

Tsukki, you seem a bit off today, are you okay?

No, I'm perfectly fine...

You're obviously trying not to look this way!

Oi, what's wrong?

- AHHHHH MY EYES! MY EYES!!! - GIN-SAN!

- AHHHHH MY EYES! MY EYES!!! - Oh, she's drawing something!

"How we will eliminate the Aizen Kou from Yoshiwara" - Ahh, you were mumbling ideas so you could write them out in a plan, huh?

"(1) Find the source of the Aizen Kou and cut it off at the root"

"(2) To prevent the confiscated Aizen Kou from being used again, we dispose of it"

Okay, okay, I see...

"(3) Let's work out the plan together a little more"

"(4) We continue working on the plan further"

Um, excuse me, do you think we might be refining the plan a little too much?

"(5) We continue refining the plan forever. It's okay if it never ends."

What do you mean if it never ends?! Just how much of a plan are you concocting?!

Ahh, a map of Yoshiwara.

So we have everyone in the Hyakka investigate around here,

and Gin-san and Tsukuyo-san go here, right?

WHY IS IT IN A HEART SHAPE?!

Ahh I see. So it's not like that, huh?

WHY'D YOU TURN IT INTO AN UMBRELLA YOU'RE SHARING?

WHAT EXACTLY HAS BEEN GOING ON THIS WHOLE TIME?!

It's no use, my body won't do what I tell it.

If I stay with him, I won't be able to finish the mission...

We should do something with these.

I want you all to dispose of this Aizen Kou so they can never be used again.

We won't allow this devilish aroma to play with people's hearts any longer.

I'm counting on you.

Hey hey, we got it.

Just make sure you got our payment ready.

...This is for the best.

I should be fine as long as he's gone. I can act freely, just as I always have.

Yes, as long as he's gone...

As long as he's not around...

He's not here?

Huh? He's gone?

Oh well, I guess I'll just go with him.

WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?!

WHAT ABOUT YOUR JOB OVER THERE HUH?!

Th-They've got plenty of people over there...

I'm waaay more worried about you guys, how you're planning on getting rid of this incense.

DON'T WORRY ABOUT THAT!! We're just going to dump this carrier

into some lava along with the idiot inside it!!

Eh? Is it okay if I stay with you all the way to the lava?

No, it is not okay!! And why are you making such a happy face?! I'm gonna drag you off there myself!

Get the hell off already!!

Kshatriya!

FIRE!!!

Thank you so much, Sensei.

How do you like it, Otae-chan?

I should expect nothing from the best lute player here.

I'll do my best.

I'm glad to hear that. But I had my misgivings about bringing you to Yoshiwara.

I'll come with you next week, too.

Ahh it's fine. The red-light district is protected by Tsukuyo-chan and the others.

I feel much safer here than out where the gorillas live.

Oh yeah, since I'm here I should go say hi to Tsukuyo-chan.

Huh? I wonder what that smoke is.

This is bad...the Aizen Kou is spreading...

Smoke!!

E-Everyone! Hurry and take shelter in here!

Don't breathe in the smoke!

Shinpachi, Kagura, go fetch some water from nearby!

Sure!

Let's hurry, Pattsan!

Huh? Where's Gin-san?!

Excuse us, but there's a fire nearby!

Could we borrow some wa-

Heeey...when can we see each other again?

Sorry but...I'm not the type that sleeps with a woman again after doing it once.

You don't wanna get lost in your dreams...

Just forget about me.

Ahh I understand...

I know you just said you weren't feeling too well...