Thank you for your continued support. I actually got vey surprised when I noticed e-mails reporting that many chose to follow the story long after I published the latest chapter. I now study full-time at University (125% to be correct) so I ask of you not to behead me too soon. *humble bow* Sorry, this chapter might be a little short but I really wanted to give you something. :3
~ Earlier Chapter ~
"Since you know that I know that you know that I know Katsura... I suppose I'll say a few words about him too and not only Takasugi. It all began with Zu-, Katsura, getting beat by a fellow called.. Nizou I think. W-, I, began searching for Katsura but didn't find him and then I took on a job. To find a katana namned Benizakura. Soon I got attacked and lost, he cheated though. It was the same who attacked Katsura. I survived and got a blade made and tracked Katsura to Takasugi's airborne ship. There I battled Nizou and won. I also found Katsura who blew up most of the inner parts of the ship, he succeeded with destroying weapons powerful enough to destroy Edo which they were actually made for. Takasugi had intended to bring Edo down with those weapons... Soon the Harusame Space Pirates arrived, a troublesome bunch of Amanto. Katsura and I dealt with a few. Then we declared the following to Takasugi: 'The next time we meet, we'll cut you down.' After that we jumped off the ship and escaped." Gintoki finished.
Yorozuya, where have you been?
III
It was a short explanation by the Yorozuya leader but it also explained what basically had happened. Although, the story did sound somewhat fishy according to the vice captain. It was like the, usually stubborn, bastard's willingness to share this important information was there to cover up fundamental understanding about the main characters involved which were Takasugi, Katsura and Shiroyasha.
"You jumped from the ships? What were you playing at, Lupin?!" Hijikata bursts out after longer consideration of what Gintoki actually had told them. He received dead fish eyes from the asked.
"My thoughts exactly but you know, Z-Katsura told me it was quite successful. Luping* that is", he replied lazily and scratched his head.
"Don't go making Lupin a thing you bastard! It would be like if we had a second power-up it would be called bankaing*! We'll get sued!" he quickly countered and stood up once again, angrily and with a demonic smile.
"No, we can do this! We've already climbed the ultimate wall Dragon B*ll Kai!"
"ENOUGH!" the now demonic vice captain shouted and was about to pull his katana but got stopped by Sougo who claimed the following; "Sit down Hijikata-san, this is only the author rambling because of author's writing block."
Hijikata calmed down, coughed slightly, sat down and kept silence in a serious manner. The eyes on the other hand was covered by a shadow as he kept his head lowered and glared into the floor. 'The friggiiiii~n wall!' He was as quiet as if on an awkward school trip where the teacher explains that the bus just entered the legendary dead street and gone off the GPS-route.
Kondo, the man in command despite his stalkish gorilla-appearance, decided to speak up. "Yorozuya", he began and Gintoki stilled, "you are free to leave now. I doubt there is anything more for you to share, right?" Gintoki nodded silently and stood up, brushes off some dust of his legs and then went for the door but stopped to turn to Hijikata who had not said anything for a while.
"Compensation, for the chocolate parfait", he said coldly and left. The mood left in the room was something most would like to avoid. Sougo was still planning murder attempts on his superior but now he had more interest in the silver samurai, wondering exactly what experience the said man had on the battlefield he himself hadn't experienced. Kondo simply wondered how they would deal with him in the future, criminal, ally or neutral? Surely they could not call him anything close to "neutral" anymore.
The last man in the room picked up a cigarette package from his pocket, took a cigarette and lit it up. He could send Yamazaki, aka anpan idiot, to observe Yorozuya however the success rate in anything as such was pretty slim looking. Also, the events around him was pretty difficult to foresee. How would they know, next time, how and when he was involved with either Takasugi or Katsura?
He took a deep breath and blew up a string of smoke and turned to Kondo, "Kondo-san, I think we should.."
Later that day, Sakata Gintoki aka Shiroyasha or Yorozuya or even "boss", found himself surrounded. Again.
To be continued...
luping* = Lupin, a thief from an old anime famous for his fast escapes. Luping; "doing something Lupin-a-like".
bankaing* = the second transformation of the anime and manga Bleach death god's swords called Bankai. Bankaing; "doing bankai".
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