Gintoki mocks Hijikata for his demotion as he was now working in a rural village. In the interrogation room, Gintoki and Hijikata bicker like the old days. Gintoki is arrested by the policemen led by none other than Hijikata.
He realises that something is amiss, but the two were quickly surrounded by the local policemen, giving Takasugi the opportunity to escape. Gintoki inflicts a cut on Takasugi's face but is shocked to see the wound close up immediately. Gintoki and Takasugi strike at each other. He sees Takasugi in front of a grave, which Takasugi explains belonged to Oboro due to the promise he made in Episode 328 to bring him back. In a small village, Gintoki visits the burned down remains of the Shoka Sonjuku school. Mutsu has decided to return to her roots as a space pirate and hands over the ultimate weapon that Matsudaira ordered - Kagura's daughter, Kanna! The little girl punches Shinpachi in the face. Sakamoto tried to recover their losses by investing in cryptocurrency but left them bankrupt.
She explains that the Kaientai lost most of their ships during the battle two years ago. He meets the black market dealer, who turned out to be Mutsu. The distraction caused Sakamoto to fall off the plank. He calls Sakamoto for help but finds out that the latter was trying to win back money from walking a plank on a alien ship. Under Matsudaira's orders, Shinpachi goes to the pier with Tamako to receive a dangerous weapon from a black market trader and to meet with a top-rate assassin. Princess Soyo tells them that she believes Katsura would make a good leader as he has not forgotten his promise to her brother in the Confessional Arc to build a brand new country.
Matsudaira did not think that Katsura would survive the battles and threatens Shinpachi into becoming an accomplice. Matsudaira had promised Katsura to bring him into power in exchange for helping him escape the Kokujo Island prison in the Farewell, Shinsengumi Arc. Shinpachi finds out that Matsudaira was the one who orchestrated the assassinations. Suddenly, a group of assassins attempt to kill Katsura but the ex-Joui rebel evades all their attack skillfully. The crowd cheers him on when he tells them to work together to rebuild Edo. In his opening remarks as the newly appointed prime minister, Katsura tells the people of Edo that the two former shoguns said that their country no longer needed a shogun there was countless kings in the hearts of each and every person.