Chapter 249

## Various Dreams

**Various Dreams** (それぞれの夢, *Sorezore no Yume*) is the 249th chapter of the *Golden Kamuy* manga.

## Synopsis

As the 7th Division prepares to meet in Sapporo, Tsukishima and Koito discusses how they will interact with Tsurumi now that their opinion of him has changed and Koito offers to exchange *menko* coins with Tsukishima to keep with them. Elsewhere, Sugimoto’s Group and Hijikata’s Group makes plans to capture the Sapporo Killer by splitting up into groups consisting of a decoy, an attacker, and a signaller, the latter of whom will shoot up a firework to signal the other groups of the killer’s whereabouts.

Upon noticing who will be the attackers in each group, Shiraishi wonders if there is even a need to signal everyone else to come and help. Hijikata replies that there is still a possibility that some unforeseen circumstances could happen, like the convict running away. As they prepare to remove the streetwalkers around the brewery area, Boutarou suggests to keep Asirpa out of the action as if something were to happen to her, they would be unable to solve the code.

Sugimoto and Asirpa turns down Boutarou’s words, saying that they are partners, that Asirpa cannot be the only one who remains safe, and that the buried gold is for the sake of the Ainu and their future. Boutarou asks if her dream is to protect the Ainu of the future, wondering if it will make her happy. Asirpa grows annoyed, saying that Boutarou talks too much about dreams but Boutarou says he is just using it for his own references, saying that if there is something better than “becoming a king and having a big family”, then he will change his dream.

Boutarou explains that when he was left all by himself, he realized that if he died, the memories of his family would die as well and that realization made him felt lonely. Boutarou then declares that he would be happy if his own children as well as their children would continue to speak of him even long after he has passed away. As Sugimoto hurries off and warns a streetwalker to leave the area, Boutarou asks Asirpa if Sugimoto will be in the future she is thinking of.

Sugimoto’s Group and Hijikata’s Group splits up to carry out their plans and a man approaches Shiraishi who is in disguise as a streetwalker, commenting on his butt. However, Sugimoto quickly knocks him out only to find that he is not the Sapporo Killer, signalling Asirpa not to launch the fireworks. Meanwhile, in another location, a man in a hat greets Kantarou, the decoy of his group, who notices that he is a foreigner. He thinks back on to when Kadokura spoke of Michael Ostrog who became the first foreigner in Japan to be put on death row.

Ishikawa wonders if Ostrog is really only imitating the London killings as he could have committed the killings in his thirties and reemerged in his fifties, which Kadokura confirms that Ostrog is around that age. He believes that Ostrog is remembering London and is trying to recreate the crime scenes that he himself had committed in order to create his own sacred ground in Sapporo. Back in the present, Usami approaches Kadokura, the decoy of his group, with the map he managed to take from Ishikawa.

## Character Appearances

* Yoshitake Shiraishi
* Hajime Tsukishima
* Kouhei Nikaidou
* Otonoshin Koito
* Toshizou Hijikata
* Shinpachi Nagakura
* Tatsuma Ushiyama
* Kadokura
* Kirawus
* Anji Toni
* Kantarou
* Rikimatsu Ariko
* Fusatarou Oosawa
* Asirpa
* Saichi Sugimoto
* Sapporo Killer
* Takuboku Ishikawa *(Flashback)*
* Tokishige Usami