Kinnikuman 306

As the showdown with Team Phoenix continues, Ashuraman enters the ring to defeat Satan Cross...but ends up with a reunion with his old mentor Samson Teacher! But...why would his tutor side with the enemy!? (and have four legs?)

Chapter 306: Scramble for the Kinniku Throne (33): A Choice for Justice!!

108.
S. Teacher: U…uoo: I can’t escape being hindered by the neck lock…
Announcer: There is only one escape route from the Ashura Buster: escaping by removing your neck from the right shoulder, but it’s been prevented with the emergence of a neck lock from Ashuraman’s right shoulder guard!!
Soldier: It’s an item given to Ashuraman by The Ninja.
Buffalo: Those shoulder guards!?
Ashura: Ninja, these shoulder guards you gave me have helped me!!

109.
Announcer: Can Satan Cross no longer do anything---!!
S. Teacher: Ninpou: Sand Cushion!!
Announcer: Satan Cross has instantly spread out a giant sheet drawn with pattern of sand on his falling point----!!

110.
Ashura: What!?
Buffalo: That guy—he pulled out an artificial sand pit so he could soften even a bit the shock at the moment he crashed into the ring from the Ashura Buster.
Ashura: S**t---!!
Announcer: Ooh, he had softened the shock at the moment of impact with the Sand Cushion, but Satan Cross, who became prey to the destructive power of the Ashura Buster as expected, suddenly can’t move.
Brocken: Now’s your chance, Ashuraman!!

111.
Brocken: He killed our important Ninja; finish him off---!!
Ashura: Ashura Face: Angry!
Announcer: Ashuraman is aiming for Satan Cross from the top level of the ropes and doing a Flying Elbow Drop with benefit of his three arms---!!
S. Teacher: Uh…U—h……
Ashura: Th…those eyes…!!

112.
Ashura: They’re the eyes of Samson Teacher……
Ashura: N…no: I can’t do this!!
Ashura: Uh!!
Announcer: What’s going on here: Ashuraman has self-destructed his Elbow Drop by moving away from Satan Cross’ body---!!

113.
Ashura: Wh…what was I doing with that…I did an Ashura Buster on Samson Teacher, whom I’m obliged to.
Brocken: Don’t give him sympathy, Ashuraman: no matter how he was your home tutor long ago, now he’s our enemy!!
Buffalo: He’s the perpetrator who slaughtered Ninja---!!
Ashura: He’s the perpetrator who slaughtered Ninja!!
S. Teacher: Oh…ooh…
Ashura: Ha…

114.
Ashura: No…no matter how much his form has changed, he’s my Samson Teacher!!
Brocken: A…Ashura…
Ashura: You taught me, whose heart grew wild in devotion to brutality, the importance of loving people. You’re Samson Teacher, who took my place in being gulped by the waterfall basin----!!
S. Teacher: Yo…young master…you’ve become a kind, splendid warrior in the short time I haven’t seen you…
Ashura: It’s all thanks to you: if I had fallen into that waterfall basin back then, I would have died with my brutal soul…I’m indebted with an undivided gratitude to you.
S. Teacher: So then, now I’ll pay back my debt. (KUKU)

115.
Ashura: Eeh!?
S. Teacher: Please lose this match to me, young master.
Ashura: Ge!!
S. Teacher: BREAKDANCE SHOOT!!
Announcer: Satan Cross is spinning his own body with his head as his axis, swinging aroudn Ashuraman who is inserted within his legs!!

116.
Ashura: Wh…what’s going on? That brutality and hatred: how could that unfair tactics come out from Samson Teacher who chanted about love?
S. Teacher: I’ve changed: while that waterfall incident has awakened love in you.
S. Teacher: I’ve awakened to brutality from that incident…

117.
Ashura: Why did you save me by wagering with your own life?
S. Teacher: To act to serve a person by wagering your own life: that is love. (out loud) –At that time when I rescued you, I spoke that cool speech while being swallowed by the waterfall in your place—
S. Teacher: However, I did plan to really die like that, but by being exposed to the violent force of the water, steadily the terror ran through my body: I came to regret saving you…
S. Teacher: And then, while being struck into the rocks many times (flashback) Uwa—save me
S. Teacher: Before long I fell over the waterfall—
S. Teacher: At my limits, I lost consciousness.
S. Teacher: And then, after some time, I regained consciousness from a pain in the lower-half of my body…(flashback) Uuh!!

118.
S. Teacher: Both of my legs were squashed broken by the impact when I fell from the waterfall—
S. Teacher: M…my lower body is---!!
S. Teacher: At that moment, the God of Intelligence appeared before me.
Intelligence: Fufufu…no matter how much more important it is to have a soul that loves people over a brutal soul that hates people, the consequence of loving people is those broken legs.
S. Teacher: Waah.
Intelligence: If you had a brutal soul that would abandon the drowning Ashuraman, that wouldn’t have happened to your legs.
S. Teacher: Re…really…
Intelligence: Saying that you love people is a nice thing. But ultimately, what’s important to a Choujin who fights is a cruel, cold-blooded, cool-headed soul of ice.

119.
S. Teacher: I’m begging you, God of Intelligence: please make my legs as they were before with your power!!
Intelligence: Samson, for a master of your level, it’s regrettable that you break so easily…
Intelligence: Fine then: this larva of Satan Cross, the parasite Choujin, will be best to replace your legs.
S. Teacher: ?
Intelligence: That Satan Cross larva from now on will reside in your body, sucking the necessary nutrients from your body and growing rapidly. In three months, he’ll act by becoming your splendid legs.

120.
Intelligence: Will that do, Samson Teacher? I’m loaning it to you. Now, when I need you for something, you will work for me as my sacrifice---!!
(TN: This was a tad hard to translate but the God of Intelligence says “mi wo ko ni suru”, which essentially translates similar to “throw your body away for me”, therefore “to be a sacrifice”)
S. Teacher: From then on, the parasite Choujin Satan Cross that was settled in my body started to grow.
S. Teacher: A month later, Satan Cross’ face floated onto my stomach.
S. Teacher: Before long, it was three months: on that day, as I woke in the morning, the lower half of my body which was easily broken was reborn into four legs!!
S. Teacher: And then from then on, I covered my body in armored helmet.
S. Teacher: I changed my name to the Choujin Satan Cross and came to invade my way with my prided killer ninja tactics in big-prize wrestling matches throughout the universe.

121.
Ashura: I had heard rumors of the bounty-hunting newcomer Satan Cross, but it can’t be that he really was Samson Teacher.
S. Teacher: It’s been 20 years since then: now I’ve heard that the God of Intelligence has become Kinnikuman Super Phoenix was participating in this Throne Succession match; I haad to return to pay back my debt by being one of his members and participating in this fight.
Phoenix: Fufufu……that Satan Cross, he’s ended up revealing everything.
Announcer: How can this be: Satan Cross’ true identity as Ashuraman’s home tutor is surely a shocking confession!!

122.
Caption: HIMEJI CASTLE—
Suguru: That which is called "a teacher and student experience" is a thing that can't ever be cut off even if it is, even if their an opponent who has fallen into the hands of the enemy. Perhaps Ashuraman truly can't attack Satan Cross.
Terry: Choosing his friendship with Soldier's team or choosing his feelings for Satan Cross: whichever it is, Ashraman will decide here and now.
S. Teacher: Well, Ashuraman, I've gone ahead and revealed myself, even if it was to Soldier too. It's not too late even now: serve Phoenix-sama.

123.
Announcer: Ashruaman has chosen Satan Cross, even throwing away his friendship to Soldier----!!
S. Teacher: Uh!!
S. Teacher: Ashuraman, you...
S. Teacher: If this was me still in my days as a Devil Choujin, I'd calmly betray Soldier and Brocken and switch over to Super Phoenix's side!!

124.
Ashura: However, I've been shaken by how I've spoken to you; even so, did you think I, who have been enchanted in the persistant fighting of The Ninja who died without giving up for his team, could do such cowardly behavior---!!
Announcer: Ashuraman is pursuing the falling Satan Cross in the stance for a Double Knee Drop.
S. Teacher: Keke--are you really going like that---!!
Announcer: Ashuraman is reattaching both of his shoulder guards to both of his knees----!!

125.
S. Teacher: Ge--I can't get away!!
Announcer: Ashuraman's neck-lock shoulder pads are now quickly changing into leg-locks!!

126.
(SCRAMBLE FOR THE KINNIKU THRONE ARC)
SPECIAL VTR XXVII
ASHURAMAN VS. SATAN CROSS

TN: This was a weird chapter...in many ways. And lets start with the most obvious of reasons: where else but in a silly wrestling manga from the 1980s...would we get a move based on breakdancing? Samson Teacher's (yeah, I know he's Satan Cross but as I said: considering that Satan Cross is both him and the parasite, I'll be referring to "him" for the rest of the arc by his proper name) "Breakdance Shoot" was just such a crazy and weird move that it could only be of this era. Second: I get that Ninja was thinking about Ashuraman when making up those weird shoulder pads...but why would he need them when he has the Improved Ashura Buster? I mean, Ashuraman solved the whole "the neck is the escape point" problem in the last arc, so why would he need this to hold the neck down while performing his trademark technique? (the only real excuse I have is that essentially since The Ninja was dead when Ashuraman figured out how to improve his Ashura Buster, he didn't know it had happened and made it to make things easier for him to perform it while keeping his hands open) Next: while I do understand that they are the "Evil Gods", how in the world do they relate to the Devil Choujin down there anyway? It doesn't really seem like those types would even worry about the 105 Gods of Planet Kinniku in the first place...but of course it is the God of Intelligence who gave Samsom Teacher...a helmet-wearing worm with a weird face to become Satan Cross. (I guess it's like a tapeworm...only it makes you grow more legs) As for the whole Ashuraman/Samson Teacher relationship and fight...well I guess it's sort of weird but in a way it does work further on some of the storylines we're getting in this arc and furthers the story and connections as started back when Samson Teacher was introduced back in the Tag tourney storyline. (it's sort of a recurring theme in this arc: first with Warsman and Robin, now with Ashuraman and Samson Teacher...and it won't be the last, let me warn you now) I wish I really had more to say...but I'm so exhausted after the last two monstrosities of chapters that I'll just leave it at that. Breakdancing and magic tapeworms don't take as much out of me as the other nonsense, I can assure you of that.