[he has to keep them together, keep them rolling up and tangling like a huge ball of yarn, or rubber bands that have no choice but to cling to one another to hold their shape. This group, these gintamas plus a few pubes along the way.

Kondo shakes Gin just the slightest bit as if he can't help it, as if shaking him will shake some sense into him, make sense out of this]

No, but you have a mouth. And while it says some really stupid shit sometimes, you have good things to say too. So be there for her. You want to, don't you? You don't want to abandon her. So don't. You can be that strong, can't you?

Or should we get a new main character after all?