Kinnikuman 201

Suguru has finally knocked the armor off Akuma Shogun...but underneath is...nothing!? How the heck can the great evil be fighting without a body!? And is there a way to defeat a bodiless opponent?

Chapter 201: Gold Mask Arc (42): The Ultimate Weakness!!

141.
Announcer: Inside Akuma Shogun’s armor is a bodiless void--!!

142.
Suguru: Wh…wha, how dumb. You’re a Choujin without a body…!! This is some sort of trick.
Suguru: Ge
Suguru: Ge…he really…ha…has no body!!
Shogun: Fufufufu
Suguru: Owa—yo…you’re a Ghost Choujin~~~!!
Shogun: Even without a body, just my head is alive—

143.
Suguru: Uwaaa
Announcer: This is intense! Kinnikuman has caught Akuma Shogun in a Bear Hug--!!
Shogun: Kukukuku, constricting techniques have no use on me without a body...!!
Suguru: Even so—
Suguru: Ge
Suguru: Awawawa…
Shogun: Uwahahaha, since I don’t have a body, I can even do a trick like that.

144.
Suguru: Ge
Announcer: Akuma Shogun has escaped from Kinnikuman’s Bear Hug---!!
Suguru: Awa—
Everyone: AAH
Terry: Of course: it’s because Akuma Shogun is a Choujin without physical form, that’s why his body is soft like rubber and he can’t feel pain with any techniques…
Terry: Even if I didn’t have my own body, of course it would be at the expense of just being a head…
Shogun: Even with just a superior mind, a being called “Choujin” doesn’t need a body……!! All deadly techniques that are drawn in my head are reproduced by the Six Devil Knights who become my limbs!

145.
Announcer: The fragments of armor have turned back into the Six Devil Knights!!
Suguru: OWA~~~
Shogun: Now, all of you, its best that you return to your peaceful ground!!
Suguru: Aah.

146.
Shogun: In short, it’s important to have a magnificent battle mind that responds to various conditions and can communicate the power of the Six Knights with appropriate judgment!!
Suguru: I under—stand well. Your ultimate weapon is your mind!
Suguru: But, your ultimate weapon will be your ultimate weakness!!
Shogun: What!?
Suguru: That’s…

147.
Suguru: If I put your mind to sleep, then the Six Knights power will be put to sleep too!!
Announcer: Kinnikuman is using the Kinniku Buster again—
Suguru: I only destroyed your armor before, but this time I’ll break that mask with it--!!
Suguru: Sorya—Side Kinniku Buster---!!
Shogun: Hmph…are you stupid…
Suguru: Ge

148.
Shogun: Side Kinniku Buster Reversal---!!
Announcer: Akuma Shogun is pulling the rope with his hand and reversed the Kinniku Buster--!!
Suguru: Gee
Suguru: Geho
Shogun: If I was a stupid mind that could fall for the same technique twice, then the Six Knights would have been driven off by my harsh words long ago!!

149.
Shogun: Thus those who face me disappear.
Mongol: One, Two!!
Shogun: The count is useless. Kinnikuman’s not getting up…
Mongol: So, what’s that?
Mayumi & Meat: Aah.
Shogun: Are…you still alive!!
Announcer: Kinnikuman’s getting up with his persistant willpower—
Shogun: He…hey!!
Suguru: Yo…your body is the same as an eel: it’ll slip away if it’s caught and it will slip away again if it’s caught.
Suguru: This…trick to catch an eel is to remove the feeling of being caught...you can hold on to their body by not defying the direction of an eel’s motion…

150.
Shogun: Wh…what is that monologue!
Announcer: Kinnikuman uses another Bear Hug--!!
Shogun: Hahaha, if you think that’s what I do, then why another Bear Hug?
Shogun: I’ll reverse it once more.
Suguru: When an eel is caught, then it will slip away.
Announcer: Shogun has slipped away again--!!
Shogun: Die—
Announcer: And now an elbow to the back of Kinnikuman’s head!!

151.
Suguru: The trick to catch an eel is to hold on to their body without defying the direction of their motion…!!
Meat: He did it—the non-existent body of Shogun has actually been caught this time!!
Suguru: Uryaa~~~!!
Announcer: It’s Kinnikuman’s Reversal Front Suplex.
Audience: Yes—He struck Shogun’s “head” weakness into the canvas---!!

152.
Shogun: You pesky--!!
Announcer: Akuma Shogun is throwing a Drop Kick towards Kinnikuman—
Suguru: Muscle Curtain!!
Shogun: Uwa
Announcer: But Kinnikuman’s Muscle Curtain has repelled it--!!
Suguru: Gyahaha, can your soft body defeat my Muscle Curtain, with the hardness of iron--
Shogun: Kukukukuku

153.
Shogun: If you think that this is just merely soft, then you’re greatly mistaken!
Suguru: What~~
Shogun: For example, your Muscle Curtain holds an iron hardness but…If that’s what it is, then if I have an emerald body which is harder than even iron, then I can easily defeat your Muscle Curtain!
Shogun: Hardness 7: Emerald Power!!
Shogun: Take this—
Suguru: Ge—
Robin: Run—Kinnikuman.

154.
Suguru: Gebo
Meat & Mayumi: Aah.
Shogun: Ke…you run well. But I’ll kill you this time!!
Suguru: Owa—
Robin: Kinnikuman, here!
Suguru: Ooh, what amazing power!!

155.
Robin: Shogun! If your swords are Emerald with Hardness 7, then my armor can stop you with Hardness 9: Sapphire.
Shogun: Interesting.
Shogun: So then I’ll go Hardness 10: Diamond Power!
Shogun: Hell Merry Go Round~~~!!

156.
(GOLD MASK ARC)
SPECIAL VTR XIV
KINNIKUMAN VS. AKUMA SHOGUN (2)

TN: You know there are a lot of sick jokes you can make about some of what was going on in this chapter but I'll spare you at this time. Instead, I'm just going to say that Suguru finally figuring out a way to handle Shogun's slipperiness was another clever thing. I never really got how Suguru really knew about eels unless he watched TV, but it's such a part of Japanese diet that my assumption is he had eel once or twice amidst his gyuudon diet. As for the body bit, yeah, it is a tad weird but it makes sense. Somehow I sort of wish at least one member of the Devil Knights rebelled but that's why he has the loyalty of them. My only other comment for the chapter: was it me or did somehow the scanning ended up turning a couple of pages upside-down and inside out? Thankfully I flipped before translating and got them in the right order but somehow it was annoying.