On August 10th a person named Takasugi Shinsuke was born to a fairly rich family but by the Joui war would disown him for unknown reasons, he had a bit of a height complex and grew up from childhood with Gintoki and Katsura, all of them with Yoshida Shouyou as their sensei, after their sensei was killed, all three went to fight in the Joui war, there they met a fool named Sakamoto who puked on Gintoki and Takasugi's faces at their first meeting, they fought together but the Joui was ended with Amanto victory so one went to space as a merchant, one to odd jobs, one to terrorism more minor while Takasugi was drawn to more extreme terrorism, along the way he met Bansai, Kijima, Takeichi and Nizou and re-formed the Kiheitai as an extremist terrorist group, he would arrive to incite Gengai to attack the Shogun up to aiding the Hitotsubashi faction in overthrowing the Shogun Shige Shige, again and again he has faced Gintoki and the final time will settle things but no one knows what may happen to them now, his accomplice Kamui will fight Gintoki or Kagura but his future is entangled with Takasugi's own, only time will tell how this angry beast that howls in solitude at the moon's tale will end.