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Gintoki has naturally wavy hair, which causes him no end of distress. Nevertheless, for many reasons, Gintoki threw his partners into a river and ended up working in the Yorozuya alone until the start of the series. Together, their business flourished and they became famous. In return, he made a promise to her husband that he would protect Otose until she dies.Īfter this encounter, Gintoki became a tenant on the second floor of Snack Otose and founded the Old Yorozuya with Kanemaru, Ikesawa, and Furuhashi. Gintoki then ate her husband's manjuu without asking him, saying that dead people don't speak. He asked her if he could have the manjuu offerings she set down and she told him to ask her husband, who was receiving the offerings instead of her. Injured and starving he wandered in the cold winter night to a graveyard to die, until he encountered Otose leaving food offerings at her husband's grave that he was leaning on. He saw Gintoki's deeds, and after executing Asaemon's father, declared that he had no right to execute the person who was a good man, then presumed to release him. In jail, he unknowingly met the girl that he saved, who was adopted by the executioner, the 16th Ikeda Yaemon. Gintoki offered himself in the daughter's place to protect her both he and the informant were arrested. The man was a Joui informant who had given up information on certain Joui and their families to these officials that belonged to a political faction within the government. Sometime later, a wandering Gintoki overheard a man trying to offer his daughter to be executed in his place to a group of officials. Sakamoto was only able to find Gintoki before he too, left. After their enemies left, the trio buried their teacher's head and their comrades' corpses, then went their separate ways, leaving the war. Shouyou gives Gintoki a final "thank you" before he is beheaded by him. He decided to keep his promise to Shouyou and protect his friends, but in turn "broke" his promise to Takasugi. Gintoki was forced to choose between killing Shouyou to save Katsura and Takasugi and vice versa. During a battle, after Sakamoto was taken off the front lines due to injury, everyone except Gintoki, Katsura, and Takasugi were killed, and the trio was captured. At one point, Takasugi asked Gintoki to protect Shouyou in his stead, though Gintoki never truly agreed and instead asked Takasugi for a promise: to stay alive. They met Sakamoto Tatsuma during the fight and Gintoki gains the nickname Shiroyasha ("White Yaksha") due to his mostly white attire, silver hair, and of course, his ferocious fighting style. After learning what happened, the students decided to join the ongoing Joui War, allied with the Joui, to rescue their imprisoned teacher. Before leaving, Shouyou asked Gintoki to protect his fellow students, as a promise, to which Gintoki mentally agreed. Years later during the Kansei Purge, despite Gintoki's best efforts to stop them, the Tenshouin Naraku arrested Shouyou and burned down the school. Gintoki later earns himself a rival in Takasugi. The two will later officially join after helping fend off some officials from trying to arrest Shouyou. The two were attracted by the school's goal for the children, striving to achieve their own ideal of a samurai while struggling against themselves. They also gained the attention of two military academic students who became disillusioned with the academy and the people attending it, Katsura Kotarou and Takasugi Shinsuke. After gathering more students, all mostly poor, the school earns the attention and scrutiny of the wealthier people in the village. Gintoki became Shouyou's first student of his newly opened school, Shoka Sonjuku, where he learned basic swordsmanship and academics. Taking a liking to Gintoki and seeing himself in the child, Shouyou gave Gintoki his sword and asked him to follow him. During one search, Gintoki encounters Yoshida Shouyou who had heard the rumors about the child and came to investigate. He gained the nickname "Corpse Eating Demon" from the nearby villagers due to being commonly seen wandering in deserted battlefields searching corpses for food and weapons to survive.
It is also unknown how long he was doing this. It is unknown where he was born, what happened to his parents, and what he was doing before becoming a child scavenger. 9.1 Gintama The Final Chapter: Be Forever Yorozuya.