Rokudenashi Blues 75

Chapter 75: Kyokutou Five-Man Raid

1 - cover

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Katsuji: BOOOOSS! // WE GOT TROUBLE, BOOOOSS!

Maeda: What is it!? Hachi!

Katsuji: ....

Maeda: Heeeh...

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Maeda: Nahaha, that's it, that's it! // One more time, Katsuji! One more time!

Katsuji: Again, seriously!? This is the fourth time! /// All that running got me exhausted!

Maeda: Ok, then take it from where you open the door!

Hironari: This is it? Why are WE dressed up like this?

Koheiji: That's all, Maeda? // There's no soul in it when you look over your shoulder. // Allow me to demonstrate! They used to call me Zenigata Koheiji! // Like so. // WHAT IS IT, HACHI!? // Somebody look at me...

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Person: It's still really amazing that we're allowed to dress up like this in Eigamura!

Other person: Not like WE'RE happy...

Person: That's cause you're not putting your whole heart into it! You have to put on the wigs, you know! Try it!

Kazumi: Hey, let's all take a picture together!

Katsuji: Kazumi, you look like an idiot!

Kazumi: Chiaki's like, all disguised too!

Katsuji: It's dressed up! You say dressed up!

Kazumi: She's like SO CUTE!

Katsuji: Wh...wha...

Someone: !!

Chiaki: Hi...

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Katsuji: WHY DIDN'T YOU PUT THAT ON!?

Kazumi: But...

Photographer: Ok, everybody, say cheese!

Everyone: YOU'RE IN THE WAY!

Chiaki: What did you want to tell me about?

Maeda: I destroyed it.

Chiaki: Hm?

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Maeda: Your treasure.

Chiaki: Oh... // .....

Maeda: I...I'm so sorry, Chiaki! // Those guys were fighting me in the middle of the train and I...

Chiaki: ....

Maeda: I'm serious! This guy Godai stepped on it and...

Chiaki: ..... // Oh, well. Nothing we can do.

Maeda: .... // Don't be mad.

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Chiaki: Don't worry. // I'm not.

Maeda: You...you think it was me, don't you!? // I swear to god, it was really...

Chiaki: I said I understand.

Maeda: .....

[Sign - Eigamura]

Guy: Those fuckers really here?

Other guy: Yeah, no doubt.

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Godai: If Tatsuyoshi-san found out we got beat by guys from Tokyo... // We'd be real fucked. // We gotta take care of 'em here. // Anyway, I heard ya been here a lot before, ain't ya?

Guy: Heheh, yeah, I have.

Godai: When he was fightin' us, the button from his sleeve was tore off. // This button's tellin' me who's comin' to Kansai, so I can find out what they're doin' when. // I think it's Teiken High, and I heard they were stayin' near Eigamura fer a couple days, so it's gotta be them.

Guy: I gotcha...

Other guy: Shouldn't we be carryin' weapons or somethin'.... // Since we were all beaten up...

Godai: That's cause you were all drunk. // They're on a school trip, there's no way they'll be prepared... // If we strike first, we can bring 'em down.

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Godai: There they are. // Search everywhere till ya find 'im.

Guy: Hey, asshole!

Nakajima: That hurts! // Well, aren't you rude!

Guy: YA WANT SOME MORE!?

Nakajima: Ouch!

Guy: Ya know those three guys who missed the train?

Nakajima: You mean Maeda and...they're over there!

Guy: Ya said he's Maeda!? Thank ya very much!

Mika: Ah!

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Mika: (It's those guys from yesterday... // Maeda-kun's in trouble...I have to tell him...)

Guy: They ain't here... // Those three really comin' here?

Godai: HUH!?

Guy: Uh...ain't that them?

Godai: Guess they don't get how funny those clothes look on 'em! // Ya can't mistake that forehead and that nose.

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Godai: Let's go!

Katsuji/Yoneji: You...It's you bastards!

Katsuji: Gwah!

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Godai: Hahaha, ya strike first and ya win!

SFX: *flick*

Guy: Huh... // Oh, sh...

Katsuji: You followed us all the way here!?

Yoneji: Looks like you really do have a death wish.

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Yoneji: Just because this sword is bamboo doesn't mean it won't hurt!

Person: Agh!

Person: F...freakin' hell...what kinda weapons they got?

Godai: I...I had no idea that they'd have freakin' swords! // Ow! // I...I'm outta here!

Person: Wait, Godai! // Ow!

Maeda: You're kidding, those guys...

Mika: Yeah! They totally came to pick another fight!

Maeda: Those...fuckers...

Chiaki: ....

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Maeda: Ok! // Watch me, Chiaki! I'll show you who really broke the music box!

Chiaki: I...It's fine, you don't have to...

Godai: Hha...Hha... // Gotta hide here for a little while...

Maeda: !!

Godai: Didn't think they'd be that... // And that fuckin' Maeda guy's gonna fuckin' kill me...if he got a sword too I dunno what I'm gonna do... // Fuckin' moron...

Maeda: Fucking...!? // Yo!

Godai: Uh...

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Godai: Th...the hell's this guy!? // My...my bad, I gotta be quiet... // I'm bein' followed.

Maeda: .... // Who'd you say was a fucking moron!?

Godai: The hell's ya problem! None of ya freakin' business! // Whoa...I think I've seen ya before....

Maeda: Y...you...you broke...that...m-music...box...didn't you?

Godai: Music box? Whatdaya mean "music box", grampa?

Maeda: You...you want to try and...play dumb!? // D-didn't...didn't you...

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Maeda: Didn't you see this!?

Godai: Wh...wha...there's nothin'... // Aah! That bird!

Maeda: You're...just a m-mo-moth fl-flying into an inferno!

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Godai: OHSHI-

Maeda: Pick it up! Let's duel!!

Godai: (I...if Tatsuyoshi-san finds out I ran away now...he's definitely gonna...) // Kh... // Yeah, I broke ya music box! Whatcha gonna do about it, shithead!?

Maeda: You hear that, Chiaki? He did it!

Chiaki: It's fine, you don't have to do that! // No!

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Maeda: You made Chiaki...

Godai: Nuoh... // Nuoh...

Maeda: Cry!

Chiaki: !

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Maeda: You got that, Chiaki? // It was him!

Chiaki: I told you I understood from the beginning... // But... // thank you...

END

Translation Notes
- pg. 1: The guys are acting out the intro to a popular 70s samurai drama, Zenigata Heiji, based on the story of a lawman who caught crooks by throwing coins. Inspector Zenigata of Lupin III stole the name and the throwing shtick, if that sounds familiar.

- pg. 3: Eigamura, sometimes known as Toei Movie Land, is where they filmed many samurai drama in Japan from about the 50s to the 80s. Hence the various shoutouts to samurai dramas.

- pg. 5: In the original, Kazumi confuses the word 変装 hensou with 扮装 funsou.

- pg. 16: This one's a double shout out. The bird on the shoulder is a reference to the drama Toyama no Kinsan, about a magistrate who revealed his identity by showing the distinctive sakura tattoo on his left shoulder. What Maeda says is the catchphrase of the (actually still running) drama Mito Komon, about a traveling government official in disguise righting wrongs, used the main character of Mito Komon revealed his emblem. If Mito Komon sounds familiar, that's because it was part of the inspiration for the manga Shin Angyo Onshi. The actual phrase he says for "moth flying into an inferno" is a common samurai drama cliche "Tonde hi ni iru natsu no mushi", meaning "(someone will be destroyed) like a summer bug flying into a fire"