Chapter 238

## For The Person You Like

**For The Person You Like**, or **To The One You Love** (好きな人に, *Sukinahitoni*) is the 238th chapter of the *Golden Kamuy* manga.

## Synopsis

The steamboat’s captain is furious that the waterwheel has been damaged and as a result, the boat won’t be able to move at all until another steamboat arrives. Shiraishi apologizes to the captain and explains that his group weren’t part of a gang of robbers and that they were only trying to capture Boutarou, promising to take him away without any trouble. The captain still blames Sugimoto’s Group for the damage caused to his ship and yells at them to get out of his sight.

Sugimoto turns to Boutarou and suggests that they join forces, much to everyone’s confusion. Boutarou wonders if Sugimoto is just after his information but Sugimoto denies it, saying that they will continue to search for the tattooed skins. Boutarou then believes that Sugimoto wants him to help search for the other convicts, even knowing that he himself has given up on tattooed code. Sugimoto explains that while he can understand what Boutarou had heard from Wakayama, he cannot ignore the fact that two cunning men in Tsurumi and Hijikata are still continuing to look for the skins.

Boutarou then comes to the conclusion that Sugimoto just needs some extra people to help take the skins away from Tsurumi and Hijikata. Shiraishi questions Sugimoto’s intentions, wondering if he is just showing sympathy towards Boutarou after hearing about his past. Sugimoto shoots down Shiraishi’s words, saying that they have been at a disadvantage in the battle for the gold until they met Boutarou and declares that by just figuring out the area where the gold is hidden, it will give them the upper hand over Tsurumi and Hijikata.

Sugimoto reasons that if they were to torture Boutarou for the information, they would not get any reliable information and that the only option they have is to work together with him. Boutarou agrees to help, promising that if they are able to collect all of the tattooed skins, then he will reveal what he knows to them. Shiraishi is skeptical about having Boutarou onboard, thinking that he may just take the gold for himself, but immediately backs down when Asirpa accuses him of having similar motives.

With Boutarou on the team and Vasily drifting back to rejoin them, Sugimoto’s Group makes their way downsteam towards Sapporo. Sugimoto asks Asirpa what she is doing and she explains that she is preparing a pole in order to catch some sturgeons. Boutarou then asks Sugimoto what his relationship to Asirpa is and Sugimoto just says that she is his guide to Hokkaido. Boutarou does not buy Sugimoto’s words, noting that he got very upset that he might have hurt Asirpa and deduces that she is someone important to him.

After catching a sturgeon, Sugimoto’s Group makes land and prepares the sturgeon to be eaten. Boutarou asks Asirpa if she likes sturgeon brains and Asirpa exclaims that she likes the brain of all animals and that they taste delicious if salt is added to them. Upon hearing Asirpa’s words, Boutarou is pleased that she is enjoying herself but Asirpa tells him that he talks too much and spoonfeeds him some sturgeon eggs. Meanwhile, Sugimoto and Shiraishi helps themselves to some sturgeon eggs, noting that it would go well with some vodka.

In Otaru, Sofia and her men are having a feast over a sturgeon and its eggs when Sofia takes out a picture of the revolutionaries, becoming determined upon seeing her late partners. In Sapporo, Usami and Kikuta, in their discreet disguises are investigating the murder crime scene when Kikuta wonders just when the murderer will return to the scene of the crime and whether it would be faster to just interview some prostitutes instead. Usami suddenly begins to masturbate, much to Kikuta’s bewilderment and attempts to look around for any clues in the area.

Usami climaxes and lets out a moaning sound before attempting to locate where his semen fell. Upon finding it, he calls Kikuta over to show that he was able to locate the killer’s semen and deduces that the killer comes to the scene every two days with the last time being two days ago, meaning that the killer will show up tonight. Kikuta does not believe Usami’s words but then recalls Tsurumi’s advice about Usami. Usami then heads off to recreate the scene in order to determine the killer’s height and age but immediately stops upon seeing a suspicious man nearby.

## Character Appearances

* Yoshitake Shiraishi
* Fusatarou Oosawa
* Saichi Sugimoto
* Asirpa
* Tokushirou Tsurumi *(Flashback)*
* Toshizou Hijikata *(Flashback)*
* Vasily
* Sofia
* Wilk *(photograph)*
* Kiroranke *(photograph)*
* Tokishige Usami
* Kikuta
* Sapporo Killer