With Sakamoto held captive by the former commander of the Chidori space pirates, Mutsu is forced to relive her past. Meanwhile, Gintoki comes to a startling realization about the woman known as the Razor XO.

Mutsu gets sick of Sakamoto after his idea of selling bags with room for 50 million falls flat, and dumps him in the ocean.

Gintoki and Hijikata try everything they can to split Otae and Dozaemon-san up, but there are some other switcheroos happening behind the scenes.

Upon finding out that their egos were switched by Gengai's Fully Automatic Egg-on-Rice Maker, Gintoki and Hijikata head out to find the cat's corpse that sucked in half of Gintoki's soul, only to find it transformed into something completely unexpected.

When they meet with a traffic accident, Gintoki and Hijikata miraculously escape without a scratch, but their souls end up switching bodies. With no means to return to normal, Gintoki has to live as a freedom-loving Hijikata, and Hijikata as a Gintoki who stresses strict discipline. The change in these two leaders transforms the Shinsengumi and Odd Jobs into completely different organizations.

The two big events of summer, watermelon splitting and endless homework, come together in this episode! Kagura and Princess Soyo wonder if there's a way to make watermelons even tastier, and Gin-san tells them how. However, this somehow leads to the princess getting kidnapped! With summer break drawing to a close, Seita visits Odd Jobs with the most troublesome of requests: he wants help finishing his summer homework. Speaking of which, have you finished yours?

The dirty hero who protects the Earth from the shadows of the kitchen shows up? On the night of the summer festival, when everyone's in high spirits, Hijikata and Okita are making their rounds when they run into a man brandishing his sword at couples, who ends up being Kondo. He seems to have gone mad after his beloved Otae turned down his invitation to spend the festival together. Unable to bear the sorry sight, Hijikata and Okita give him a Roachief RX mask and run away.

Gin-san gets arrested for killing a shogun! The Shogun, meanwhile, loses his memories.

Gin-san opens up a confessional booth for Tama, but things go awry very quickly as the confessions lead him to a very painful truth.

Has Madao finally found a job?! For some reason, he's become the friendly scary-story teller at the park and comes to Odd Jobs to collect some more scary stories.

Asaemon points her blade at Yaemon of her own free will, but has a hard time due to Yaemon's overwhelming strength. Gintoki joins the fight but gets wounded by Hitotsubashi retainers backing Yaemon up. With Gintoki and Asaemon on the backfoot, Yaemon tells Asaemon about how Gintoki killed her biological father. This makes her waver, with sword in hand. Just who will Asaemon kill, Gintoki or Yaemon?

The Reaper was Ikeda Asaemon, from a family of executioners. She had committed the sin of betraying and killing the former head of the family. And Gin-san was a criminal who was supposed to have been beheaded by the Ikeda family in the past. The family head, Ikeda Yaemon, requests Odd Jobs to keep Asaemon safe. The ship prepared for them seems to sailing smoothly but gets stopped in its tracks by Okita and Hijikata's appearance. That's when Okita reveals to them all the facts of this case...

The Kabuki District is thrown into turmoil by a series of serial killings targeting drunkards. They were all cut through the neck, leaving just one tiny bit of flesh attached. And because of that, now there are rumors that it \Nwas the work of a Reaper. When Gin-san takes the deserted streets home drunk, he runs into a Reaper who asks for his help in committing suicide. This Reaper turns out to have a backstory that cannot be made public, and Gin-san and gang end up getting mixed up in this incident.

Tohru's finally gotten the hang of her maid duties. Suddenly interested in what Miss Kobayashi does at work, she heads out to observe. There she watches how everyone relies on Miss Kobayashi and falls for her again. However, there's also a boss being mean to Miss Kobayashi, which makes Tohru very angry... Out on the town she runs into Fafnir from the other world. Since he says he'll be living in this world too, Tohru winds up helping him find a place to live?!