Kinnikuman 202

As if Akuma Shogun couldn't get any harder...he gets literally harder, changing his body to the power of diamond! Has Suguru's chance of taking him down finally become impossible?

Chapter 202: Gold Mask Arc (43): Ultimate Hardness Battle!!

157.
Announcer: Akuma Shogun has split Robin Mask’s armor in two with Diamond Power which surpasses Sapphire Power—
Robin: You…you fool! There’s a Choujin in this world whose power surpasses the hardness of my armor!

158.
Shogun: I’m the only Choujin who possesses a Hardness 10: Diamond Power which is said to be impossible in the Choujin World---!!

159.
Suguru: My…my Muscle Curtain only has at most a Hardness 4.5! How can I win against Diamond Hardness, which is over two times greater……
Harabote: Wh…what are you saying, Kinnikuman, get up!
Mayumi: Aah, chairman!!
Harabote: Owa—
Harabote: Kinnikuman, the Life-Support Systems are starting to break again---!! At this rate, many of the Justice Choujin that are here will be destroyed in within an hour. Hurry, hurry and finish the match and get back the Gold Mask!

160.
Suguru: Of course……!! I nearly forgot about everyone and abandoned the match!
Suguru: It may be impossible for iron to destroy diamond…but if I don’t do this
Suguru: Muscle Curtain!!
Shogun: Kukukuku, if you flatly get hit by me, then you will be smashed!
Suguru: I highly understand!
Shogun: O—K, as you wish, I’ll break you to smithereens.
Shogun: Hell Merry Go Round!!

161.
Suguru: Now!
Suguru: Muscle Curtain Atta—ck!!
Mongol: Smart!! Kinnikuman should be doubling the hardness of his body by spinning it…!!
Announcer: Hell Merry Go Round and the Muscle Curtain are clashing mid-air---!!

162.
Terry: Kinnikuman!!
Suguru:My…my body wasn’t torn up. I’m safe!!
Suguru: A…Akuma Shogun?
Shogun: Kukukuku

163.
Shogun: You seem to have gotten a scratch onto my body at last.
Suguru: What?
Suguru: Th…that risky attack used up all of my power…
Suguru: It’s…too late……!!
Announcer: Kinnikuman appears to be furious at wasting his stamina for his thought!
Meat: Te…Terryman, Prince can’t get his wish of reversing it anymore?
Terry: U—m, he finally did get a scratch on him……
Terry: A scratch…!!
Terry: Kinnikuman, you’re giving up too quickly. A being of any hardness will unexpectedly become fragile from a scratch--!!
Suguru: Fragile from a scratch…!!
Shogun: Die—
Suguru: Thanks, Terryman

164.
Suguru: Gu
Suguru: Burning Megaton Punch!!
Announcer: We…We—ll, wh…whatever happened, Akuma Shogun’s prided diamond hardness body has been smashed up by an ordinary punch by Kinnikuman----!!
Suguru: Diamond crystals are…

165.
Mayumi: He—y, you’ve done it, Suguru. You’ve won. Now hurry and take back the Gold Mask and save the Choujin at Kourakuen from their support devices—
Suguru: Got it!!
Shogun: You haven’t won yet!
Suguru: Ge
Terry: Stop, Kinnikuman, it’s a trap!!
Suguru: You’re still alive—

166.
Suguru: Gyaa—
Announcer: The diamond crystals scattered through the ring have bunched together and are breaking through Kinnikuman’s entire body—
Shogun: No matter how many times my body is smashed, it won’t surpass the combination of the Six Knights…
Shogun: No matter how many times you don’t destroy my real head, I will return!
Suguru: The…Go…Gold Mask!!

167.
Announcer: The Gold Mask was destroyed…so then it was made as a copy!!
Suguru: Kuku…damn.
Suguru: We…we had to prepare the real Gold Mask and the Silver Mask for this match. This is clearly a violation by Akuma Shogun.
Mongol: What is it, Akuma Shogun?
Shogun: That really was a fake!
Shogun: But, I do have the real Gold Mask.
Shogun: As proof, here, isn’t the Silver Mask on the ceiling crying!
Suguru: Ooh, it’s for real. That sound occurs when the two masks are matched!

168.
Mayumi: It’s fine they’re matched, but it appears Akuma Shogun doesn’t have the Gold Mask anywhere!
Shogun: But the Silver Mask is crying here.
Suguru: Silver Mask.
Suguru: Let’s discover where the greatest matching place is.
Suguru: Ah…there……!!
Suguru: There!! On Akuma Shogun’s head--!!

169.
Buffalo: OH NO--!!
Sign: Medical Office
Buffalo: Kinnikuman has wished to see what’s under Akuma Shogun’s mask……!!
Terry: Aah!!
Suguru: You…you’re
Shogun: You’ve finally found it!!

170.
(GOLD MASK ARC)
SPECIAL VTR XV
KINNIKUMAN VS. AKUMA SHOGUN (3)

TN: You really have to wonder how many of those fake Gold Masks were made for this entire scheme to go about. Six were obviously used by the Devil Knights, then we had this seventh here...and the real one was there all along! It didn't hurt that the real one was probably the same one as the one that became Akuma Shogun way back, but people probably forgot by now to realize that it is one and the same. My only real problem with what was mostly a decent chapter was that Suguru just added "Burning" to a normal punch and...there goes Akuma Shogun's body. It's obvious that it is a reference to "Burning Inner Strength" and that usually kicks in when Suguru is at wits end, but I think it was just an excuse to throw it out to take down the diamond body. Sometimes I just wonder why he ends up using this power even when he's not unconscious...