Kinnikuman 203

After all their turmoil and struggles, the Gold Mask...was Akuma Shogun all along!? How could a respectable god be connected with a powerful devil? And how will this affect Suguru and the ultimate goal of this match!?

Chapter 203: Gold Mask Arc (44): Devil and God!!

171.
Sign: Medical Office
Buffalo: They can’t see what’s under Akuma Shogun’s mask~~!!
Nurse: Buffaloman, calm down! Your struggling is opening your wounds!
Buffalo: He—y, let go—
Nurse: Buffaloman!!
Buffalo: They…can’t.
Buffalo: If they see under Shogun’s mask…then at that time, the Justice Choujin will
Buffalo: Ah…

172.
Buffalo: I’m…too late.
Announcer: The Gold Mask has appeared from under Akuma Shogun’s mask--!!

173.
Suguru: He’s hatefully wearing the Gold Mask so I won’t be able to take it.
Suguru: I’m sick of this!
Suguru: In any case, under the Gold Mask
Suguru: Shogun is hiding his ugly face!
Shogun: Ge
Suguru: Wh…what? That mask won’t come loose, as if it’s stubbornly gobbled up Shogun’s real face!

174.
Shogun: It won’t come lose……because this is my real face!
Suguru: What!!
Choujin: A…Akuma Shogun’s true form is the Gold Mask, our guardian diety—
Suguru: Th…this is stupid. The Gold Mask that was stolen by the Six Devil Knights and which we were going to rescue…is Akuma Shogun’s true form…!!
Buffalo: It’s…best that you didn’t know! For all of your sakes…

175.
Suguru: How…how then…
Suguru: Did it come to this—
Suguru: Wh…what? Leave out those “gle—am, gle—am” I don’t get.
Mongol: If that is.
Mongol: Kinnikuman! It’s the Gold Mask’s signal. Receive it with the Silver Mask!!
Suguru: Wh…what!?

176.
Gold: It’s been a while, Silver Mask! No, little brother Silverman!
Choujin: Ooh!!
Silver: Big…brother Goldman, why are you here…!? Weren’t you taken away by the Six Devil Knights?
Gold: Ku ku…did you really think I was taken away!?
Gold: That was a play I conspired with the Six Devil Knights!
Robin: Eeh!?
Terry: Wh…what!!

177.
Silver: Wh…why did you need to show that play?
Gold: Why?
Gold: Have you forgotten! The Quarrel of Heavenly Brothers between me and you hasn’t been settled yet---!!
Audience: AAAH…
Silver: The…match then was supposed to have been settled by our mutual beheading under the Judgment God…
Mayumi: Weren’t the limits of that fight supposed to be that the two of you were to be enshrined in the Great Kinniku Temple with your matching hearts of hatred float in water and become symbols of peace—
Gold: The humiliation of a big brother tying with their little brother can’t be expunged so easily—

178.
Gold: While I pretended to be a symbol of peace at the Great Kinniku Temple
Gold: I never forgot about my revenge for you, little brother—
Gold: Before long, this burning flame of revenge summoned the Great Devil Satan—
Satan: Goldman! I understand your hatred against your little brother. I too hate peace and justice like you! How about this here? With my power, we’ll clot up justice. How about we paint the Choujin World in the color of evil?
Gold: I don’t want your power! However, to have a body to fight them…
Satan: If that’s what you want, then it’s better for me to loan you the Six Devil Knights, my other selves. Your towering battle ability and the muddily trained power of the Six Devil Knights. If you fuse the two of them, then we can smash out peace and justice.

179.
Satan: GYAHAHAHA
Soldier: This…is terrible—The Gold Mask has been stolen---!!
Gold: And so, I hid my real face dazzling with light with a Death Mask and was reborn as Akuma Shogun!
Mayumi: A…God sold his soul to the Devil, that’s ridiculous!!

180.
Buffalo: Sa…Satan saw it best to use one close to the Justice Choujin to destroy them. So he stretched his tentacles to the Gold Mask…
Shogun: Die—
Silver: Gold Mask, if you had true justice and challenged me to a fight, then we can’t do anything about it! However, A battle with you on the Devil’s side does not please me.
Suguru: This isn’t a problem for just you brothers anymore.
Suguru: This is a Survival Deathmatch over whether Justice or Evil will win!!

181.
Shogun: Gugu…
Announcer: Kinnikuman has escaped from Shogun’s Neck Hanging--!!
Suguru: So, are you sorry? Justice will truly win--!!
Shogun: Hmph…Justice will truly…win!
Shogun: Look there!
Suguru: Ge—All of the Choujin in the Life-Support Systems have disappeared--!!
Shogun: The disappeared Choujin are here!!
Suguru: Wha…

182.
Suguru: Geee~~
Announcer: The Choujin of Kourakuen have had their support devices moved to under the combat ring--!!
Shogun: Take this—
Suguru: Owa.
Choujin: Uwa—

183.
Suguru: Aah!!
Announcer: The shock on the ring has broken the Life-Support Systems and the Choujin under the ring must support it as a Living Ring---!!
Suguru: Are…you OK, everyone—
Choujin: Uwa~~
Shogun: A direct impact on the ring will be sent as damage to the Choujin. If you take my techniques, then the hit will wound your allies under the ring!
Suguru: Guuu~~That’s foul~~~

184.
Shogun: If you too are at the edge of the Justice Choujin, then this power of Justice won’t save your allies from the ways of devils---!!
Announcer: This contest of strength appears to be Shogun’s—
Shogun: The Choujin beneath the ring don’t have their Life-Support Systems. Now their living bodies will be eaten by the ring!
Suguru: Guoo~~
Choujin: Gyaa~~

185.
Shogun: Die---!! Together with your allies~~~
Suguru: Uwa~~
Suguru; Burning Bridge!!
Announcer: Kinnikuman is enduring with guts---!!
(End of Vol. 16)

TN: You know it's sort of strange: when I read comments by many fans of later series in the Kinnikuman universe, many of them sort of want Akuma Shogun to come back. But after reading the twist of the last couple chapters and the whole explanation...I don't think he can! Mostly think of it this way: if Akuma Shogun were to return, then essentially Goldman would still have his grudge and therefore would still have the Six Devil Knights to give him a body so that he could ultimately fight. But...after this arc is over, there may not really be a need for Akuma Shogun any further so...how the heck can he come back? I can see Satan creating a new force to befuddle them, but I can't see Akuma Shogun's return! Perhaps my only other confusing point about this chapter: why the heck is Canadianman back with the "Life-Support Choujin"? Wasn't he one of the ones who was saved when he was absorbed into Planetman? That, my friends, is probably the real mystery of the chapter...