Sakigake!! Otoko Juku 269

Trapped on a one-way trip to a deadly waterfall with just his motorcycle and a wire-throwing opponent, Tougou may have finally gotten himself in over his head! Can the First-Year figure some way to win without falling to his doom?

Vol. 30: The Tenacious Bloody Characters
Chp. 269: Ougi: Kyoudan Bakushi

7.
Pharaoh: Y…you’re skilled, Tougou---!! Yo…you caught the piano wire with your teeth on the verge of having your head rush off and protected yourself---!!
Pharaoh: You said you’re Vermillion? You’re soft: you can’t defeat me with that level!!

8.
Vermillion: Kukkukku; that’s fine. With this, I too can become a bit serious!!

9.
Vermillion: It’s roughly a km until the waterfall basin. We still have plenty of time.
Vermillion: These will be taken by you!!
Tougou: !!
Vermillion: OUGI: KYOUDAN BAKUSHI!!
(TN: “Kyoudan Bakushi” = “Judgement-Giving Binding-Threads”)

10.
Vermillion: I’LL SHOW IT’S POWER!!
Tougou: !!
Vermillion: Hmph!!

11.
Tougou: Uh!!
Pharaoh: W…what is that thin wire-like whip~~~!! It…it forcefully sliced that large log like it was that sweet baumkuchen---!!
(TN: “Baumkuchen”, which literally translates into “log cake”, is a popular sweet of Europe and Japan that appears layered and appears akin to a chopped tree with growth rings when cut up)

Hien: Perhaps those strings are bladed steel-wires!!
Momotarou: Umu: those strings have been sharpened and honed to be like cutlery!!


12.
Vermillion: When your limbs are entwined with these strings, you’ll end up being like that log!!
Tougou: Ku!!
Vermillion: There hasn’t ever been a person who has escaped from this Kyoudan Bakushi!!
Tougou: Nu!!

13.
Tougou: Uo!!
Tougou: Gu!!
Pharaoh: Aah, wh…what has this come to---!! The…the bike’s front wheel with the blade on it has been pruned off~~~!!
Vermillion: Fufu, with this you’ve come to not have attack power!! What remains is just to run!!

14.
Vermillion: Hmph!!

15.
Pharaoh: He…he’s had that done, that Tougou!! Even after losing his front wheel, he has a wheelie running style with the back wheel possessing that driving power and has avoided the enemy’s whip attack!!
Vermillion: Wherever you go, you’re a man who is bad at the time of his death!! The waterfall basin is quite near!! In this case, I must change my operation!!
Tougou: !?

16.
Pharaoh: Wh…what’s with that guy---!! He…he’s slicing up every last one of the logs that are flowing in the river---!!
Momotarou: Ri…right!! He…he’s………!!

17.
Vermillion: Fufu, this will be fine. The flowing driftwood are just the one you’re on and the one I’m on!!
Vermillion: If you’re thrown into these tremendous rapids, tyhen you’ll flow away and drown to death for certain!! In short: I’m saying there’s nowhere to run for you.
Tougou: Y…you!!
Vermillion: Even the sound of the flowing water has changed!! The waterfall is already near! Your end is coming near.

18.
Vermillion: Die---!!
Tougou: Gu!!
Tougou: Gaha!!
Tougou: Nun!!

19.
Pharaoh: Uoo, T…Tougou’s being teasingly slashed----!!
Momotarou: N…no!! It’s impossible to avoid that whip on top of one log where he can’t move!
Tougou: WHATEVER THAT A**HOLE IS THINKING, THIS IS DANGEROUS!! DO…DON’T I HAVE SOME PLAN, SOMETHING!?
Tougou: IF IT COMES TO THIS, IT’S SINK OR SWIM!! I CAN ONLY BET ON THIS!!

20.
Vermillion: Uwahhaha: can’t you properly decide to resign----!!
Tougou: …………!!
Vermillion: !!
Pharaoh: To…Tougou----!!

21.
Vermillion: Fu, was that desperate attack thought of reaching this point!! We just changed the logs we were mutually riding on!!
Vermillion: We—ll, we’ve come to see the waterfall. This is your end!! You now don’t have left the power to jump to that lifeline!

22.
Tougou: How about that!!
Vermillion: Huh!?
Tou Fuuketsu: ………!?
Vermillion: Fu, what are you planning!? Are you imposing you’re engine is flying like that!!

23.
Tougou: I…I’ll tell you!! The log that you’re riding on now I had opened the oil faucet of the bike on earlier and the oil has fully soaked into it………………!!
Vermillion: N!? Oil……..!!
Vermillion: Hou, understood. You were planning for me to slip on this oil?
Tougou: Wrong!! If I turn with a high rotation an engine that has become empty of oil…………!
Vermillion: !?
Tougou: I can come to do this---!!

24.
Vermillion: Huh!! The bike’s engine is em…emitting fire---!
Vermillion: Uo!!

25.
Vermillion: Uwachii~~!!
Vermillion: Uoo---!! Th…the waterfall---!
Vermillion: Ho…hoho…how has it come to this~~~!
Tougou: I’ve lost my bike thanks to you. The bill will be turned in to hell!!

TN: Well...at least it was a unique ending that threw me for a loop. Honestly, I sort of also thought that Tougou was just going to use his oil to slip Vermillion up and throw him over the falls, not just empty it out so he could turn his motorcycle into one more appropriate for Ghost Rider. Aside from that, it was an alright fight but somehow sort of par for the course for Otokojuku standards: the opponent essentially has the edge the whole time but a weird "by the seat of their pants" attack means ends up finally winning it for the Otokojuku fighter. I actually sort of liked the idea though of Vermillion's "wire whips" that chopped up the logs and were used on Tougou's limbs and his bike, but there really isn't too much to say other than that about this fight. Somehow I guess this was one either I was too obsessed in getting done or it just didn't seem as interesting as it could have been. (or maybe I'm not just a Tougou fan...of course luckily this is his only fight in the series outside his showdown with Momo) Luckily the palace is probably within view now...and when the Otokojuku fighters get their, then...well, that would be a spoiler.