Gintama OVA: Earth-Shaking! The World Government Descends!
Shogun Castle.
The fifth-floor main palace of the Tenshu Pavilion.
The air here had frozen solid like a block of heavy ice.
Portraits of past shoguns hung on the walls, silently looking down from the dim light.
Those imposing faces seemed faintly bewildered as well.
Shogun Shigeru sat in the seat of honor.
His right hand gripped the folding fan resting on his knee.
The young shogun, known for his innocence and straightforward nature, now had fine beads of sweat forming on his forehead.
His gaze remained fixed on the space footage on the television screen before him.
More than two hundred points of light representing the Shogunate Self-Defense Fleet—
were neatly, silently, obediently moving aside.
They were clearing a path to Earth for nearly six hundred glaring red points.
"Still... no contact with Commander Mido?"
Shogun Shigeru's voice carried undisguised tension and gravity.
"No response on any frequency, Your Excellency."
A communications officer shook his head helplessly.
"Rebellion!"
Matsudaira Katakuriko, the current chief of the Police Department, immediately erupted into curses.
His usually roguish face was now dark with storm clouds.
"That bastard Mido actually dared—"
"No."
An aged yet firm voice interrupted him.
Rokuten Muzō.
The white-haired shogunal attendant, who had lost his left arm, slowly shook his head.
Even under such circumstances, his voice remained steady.
"The Mido family has served the shoguns for generations. I know Hirotada's character very well."
"He might die in battle, but he would never betray us."
"But the facts are that the fleet under his command cleared a path for the enemy!"
Matsudaira growled, "If that isn't betrayal, then what is?"
"Could that naval fleet calling itself the 'World Government'—"
"control more than two hundred space warships from afar?"
"Now is not the time