Cyborg Grampa-G 27

Among Kei's many attempts to live a normal grade-school life is taking part in sporting activities...but while it's bad enough who he has to face to do so, it's worse that they may have back history with G-chan!

Chapter 27: Destined Baseball Showdown!

29.
G: ?

Voice: Really, what is this opposing team!? The promised time has passed long ago!
Kei: Well, we Thunderbirds have no fear and don’t run—
Kei: The other team may do bad, but we Thunderbirds win without playing this!! Ahahahaha

30.
Kei: Huh?
Player: Oh—who asked all of you to play baseball on this field~~!?
Boy: Huh? You’re not our opposing team.
Kei: Isn’t that Sawamura from my class?
Sawamura: You—this block is the island of Sawamura Gang—Therefore, this field is our turf too--!! I can’t forgive you using it as you please---!!
Kei: What are you saying—there were cats and dogs on here, so this isn’t your turf or s**t—
Tough: What, look closely…
Kei: Uh…
Tough: This is the turf of Pochi, raised by the Sawamura Gang!
Pochi: Woof.
Kei: Are they some yakuza gang…in short, they plan to take this side of the field. If they take this, then we won’t have a place to play baseball anymore~~~

31.
Kei: But we’re having a match here…
Sawamura: Hehe—h, the opposing team isn’t comi—ng—
Sawamura: They’re taking a nap 50 meters away.
Players: U~~h.
Tough: Well, let’s begin, sonny.
Boy: What’ll—we do—Kaizou~~
Voice: Quiet, are you at it again ag—ain!!
Kei: THE BOSS OF THE SAWAMURA GANG!!!
Float: SAWAMURA GANG YANKEES
(TN: Note that “yankee” in Japanese is in reference to a hooligan or delinquent)
Boss: You jump the gun. What are big adults facing these kids!! Are they people who love baseball---!?
Tough: Uuh…we’re sorry, boss!
Sawamura: Grand—pa has come for baseball too—
Boss: Oh—quiet, Tetsuharu is excited—huh—

32.
Boss: HEY! QUIET!! Because we’re moving ahead to the only field, we will take it from these youths. They don’t have a bit of courage!! We scoundrels will face them in our beloved baseball. I want to see your healthy spirit! Show that to them~~~!!
Team: YES!!
Boss: While we’re at it, we were bad for taking this field!
Kei: Ye…yes.
Boy: A yakuza baseball team~~~!?
Kei: The boss said it, but he seems like Sawamura’s grandpa.
Sawamura: Grand—pa, I wanna play baseball—
Boss: Oh—well well.
Boss: So then, somehow my grandson therefore wants to play baseball. So here………
Boss: We’ll have a match to determine who uses this field!!
Kei: Huh?
Boss: By the honor of my tattoo!! We—boy—will you!!
(TN: The tattoos that the trio have are all of Japanese baseball teams: the Yomiuri Giants, the Hanshin Lions and the Kintsu Buffalos)
Kei: Ye—s!!
Boy: Wha~~we’re playing adults…
Kei: We can’t turn this over in a match we can’t win---!

33.
Kei: What~~~? That f**king brat Sawamura is so stupid and yet he’s skilled in baseball—
Boy: 16-0!?
Sawamura: Hehe—h
Boys: But—if they take our field…where will we play baseball from now on--!!
Boss: Ha~~as expected, Tetsuhara—my grandson—you’ve really inherited my talent!!
Player: Actually he’s stupid but good at baseball.
Boss: You’re a bit too stupid.

34.
Boss: Long ago, I got involved in that incident and my dream to become a pro wasn’t granted……Thus, my boy will get his dream in place of me!!
Players: Ah—something’s coming this way—
Kei: N?
Kei: G-chan!?
G: Hey~~you can’t play ball he~~re!
Players: OWA--!?
Kei: G-chan, you’ve come to a good time to save me—
Tough: What, what are you—
G: Quiet!!
Q: Here we are~~
G: I was eying this land before you to turn into a field—So today I’ve come to plow it--!
G: Hyo—what good earth—
Tough: Do…don’t joke around!! This is a public baseball field!!
(TN: The word “field” for the ballplayers is actually “ground” in Japanese, whereas “field” by G-chan is “Hatake”)

35.
Boss: What’s going on!?
Toughs: Well, a mysterious grmaps has invaded and said he’s turning this land into a field.
Kei: G-chan, they’re taking our field!!
G: What---!!
Boss: Ah—it’s you~~~!!
G: Hyo
Boss: Ah—it’s you it’s you it’s you—I haven’t forgotten these scars on my head!
G: Mu!?
G: Who left this huge ball in this place!
Tough: Bo…boss, what exactly is that guy!?
Boss: It’s you~~it’s you~~
Boss: YOU’RE THE MAN WHO PUT THESE SCARS IN MY HEAD!
G: Oh—so you’re the hot-blooded baseball youth Eikichi Sawamura!?
Boss: You’ve finally realized, burning farming youth Tokijirou Kaizou!

36.
G: What are you doing in this place…didn’t you become a baseball player?
Boss: You~~how can you speak that comment so easily in front of me~~~
Boss: It’s your fault that my dream of being a baseball player was cut do~~wn! Give back my dream--!
Tough: Please calm down, boss~~
Kei: What is this, G-chan.
G: Muu, as I recall, it was early in Showa……
G: We always had conflicts on two or three things as students…
Boss: (as a boy): I challenge you, Tokijirou!
G: A challenge!?
Book: MODIFIED HUMAN SUSUME
Boss: I can’t stand you being called a genius and me a prodigy! The genius is me!!

37.
Boss: From the story I’ve heard, you are persuing agriculture by modifying into a mechanical body~~~!! That’s ridiculous!!
G: I’m going home to farm.
Boss: Are you running—
Boss: I can’t lose if it’s baseball!
Boss: Take my powerful fastball~~in the future, I’m joining a “Big Japan-Tokyo” Baseball Club and become a great pitcher with my high-speed fastball--!!
G: What’s---that! That powerful fastball!! Even if you have quite good motor nerves, I will surely avoid it!!
G: You said nothing of Tokijirou……

38.
Boss: How could you hit it back with your plow—
G: Kuwa kuwa kuwa
(TN: “Kuwa” is “plow” in Japanese, but G-chan ends up laughing here with “Kuwa” over and over…therefore this was a bit of a pun)
Boss: AND FURTHER. THAT PLOW BROKE WHEN IT HIT AND FLEW TOWARDS ME!! (past): !?
Boss: IT SPUN SEVERAL TIMES 1 MM DEEP INTO MY FACE, BUT LUCKILY IT WASN’T SERIOUS.
Boss: My hard-work high-speed fastball…………
Boss: And yet it was returned…while reading a book…
Boss: And with a plow…
Boss: My self confidence was lost from then…I fell and fell until finally I became a yakuza~~
G: …
Toughs: BUWAHAHA
Boss: Qu…Quiet, don’t laugh—
Boss: I CHALLENG YOU TOKIJIROU!! THIS MATCH WILL CLEAR AWAY MY RESENTMENT OF TH—EN!!
G: MUU~~~THAT’S WHAT I WISH--!!

39.
Kei: Please~~G-chan, protect this ground from the yakuza—
G: Leave it to me!!
Boss: Oh! Quiet down, I don’t care whatever you use—I don’t acknowledge losing this match at all!!
Yankees: YE—S
Q: You can do this~~I’ll be cheering you~~
Players: Kaizou~~do this—

GANTETSU BODY DESIGN SPECIAL
--How was Gantetsu Born—
#1: He really couldn’t move.
#2: Felt disgusting seeing his brain.
#3: Gantetsu possessed iron-rock.
#4: If the battery goes out, he dies.
#5: It was no good making his body a vegetable.
#6: Why is a dog a mole?
AND SO GANETSU WAS BORN!!

40.
Kei: Please, G-cha—n.
G: It’s best to throw it over there.
Kei: Stop them from scoring points—
G: This ball is a Homing Dynamite Ball. It will fly aiming for the oscillation of the catcher’s mitt!
G: If you can hit it, then hit! If it takes even a bit of shock, then the nitro will cause a big explosion!
Tough: Wha—what the—
Gantetsu: SHI~~!?
G: Hey—Gantetsu, don’t ru~~n!!
G: Idiot!

41.
Umpire: Strike, batter out!
G: You did it, G-chan! You stopped them from scoring—
Boss: Ununu—these guys are really doing it.
Z: O—K, my turn next!!
Gantetsu: ?
Kei: Do it, Z--!!
G: With the transformed Gantetsu Bat, you will absolutely hit it!
Boss: Tetsuhara, do it with flash soon!
Sawamura: OK, Grand—pa.
Boss: FUFU, THEY WON’T GET A RUN AT ALL—
Sawamura: Hehe~~
Sawamura: Take this—m—y Dosu Ball.
(TN: “Dosu” is a type of yakuza sword with a short wooden handle and a blade that is slightly curved, appearing more like a giant knife...then again it's just the name considering that the ball is nothing really like that unless it has "dosu blades" in it)
Z: Uwa.
Gantetsu: Shi!?
Z: That’s dirty--!!

42.
Gantetsu: Shi~~
Kei: Run, Z!!
Z: Daaa~~
Sawamura: Damn—
SFX: Stab
Tough: Th…that’s not it, bo…boy.
Narrator: And so the Thunderbirds, lead by G-chan, protected the field with the do-or-die spirit and teamwork of Kei and the others. With G-chan’s heroic action, they quickly built pressure. And so, by the bottom of the 9th, they somehow caught up to 16-15!!
Kei: Two outs! We’ll have a tie score if we bring in Z from second, G-chan.
G: My turn!!
Tough: What will we do, boss…If they get a home run, then that’s a goodbye loss…
Boss: U—m, they’ve caught up until now…
Tough 2: Shall we kill ‘em?
Boss: No, wait! There is one way which that farming guy won’t hit it!!

43.
Kei: G-chan, if they take our field, we won’t play baseball anymore. Please, somehow do it~~
Boy: …
G: Leave it to me. Will we hand this over to them! I’ll send it flying with G-chan’s special plow, which I use when I cut them up!!
Q: You can do it—
Boss: How’s that, use this ball.
G: Hyo. Somehow, they’ve done many bad things!
G: Come at me! I’ll send any ball flying!!
Z: Master—please do it. If it’s a homer, then it’s a goodbye win!!
Boss: We all care, Tetsuharu—we beg you, boy~~
G: Now come, stupid brat!
Sawamura: Nishishi…

44.
G: Hyo—I’ll dig it up for farming and send it flying with this hit--!!
G: MU!?
G: This isn’t a ball…!? Ah…it’s a potato…!?
G: Uh…
Kei: Wh..why can’t you hit it? Isn’t it right in the center, G-chan!
Boss: Fu—fu. Tokijirou, you ca~~n’t hit that ball.
G: I can easily hit a home run. Bu…but…I’m hitting a potato…that’s the same as ignoring farming. I can’t do that cursed behavior……!!
G: Muu…
Umpire: Strike two—
Kei: What are you doing? If G-chan is out, we lose the match—Didn’t you promise to protect this field—

45.
Q: Hey—Grandpa--!!
Q: You’re making Kei’s team cry—Are you a grandpa if you don’t help your grandson! Look at my cheerleader form and hear my cries!!
Q: Grandpa, ehe—h. (This…is embarrassing~~)
G: HYO—(Irresitible~~)
Narrator: From the desire to be at an age for grandma’s charm…
Sawamura: This is strike thr—ee.
Boss: Ha—haha, I’ve defeated Tokijirou—the field is mine.
Narrator: G-chan’s male hormones became excited and activated him…
G: BECOMING YOUNG VERSION!

46.
Boss: AH!
Toughs: WHA--!?
Kei: Go—G-chan!!
Q: That was embarrassing—
G: I’LL CUT IT……I’LL SHOW YOU, GRANDMA…!!
G: DEADLY HIRAGUWA FINE DUST CUT!!
(TN: Hiruguwa = "flat hoe")
Toughs: Wha—it’s raining potato~~~

47.
G: I would be humbled to hit food, but by chopping it up, they became fries for curry! Further, it doesn’t trouble the potato!
Boss: Mumumu.
G: How could you consider facing me with crops made with my sweat!!
Boss: Fi—ne, everyone get it together—With no ball, we can’t get him out---!!
Kei: Now spin around the bases, G-chan!
G: Muu!
Kei: That’s not what I mean—
Narrator: And so, while the Yakuza were gathering up the potato, Z & G ran to home! The Yankees fell to 17-16 and, happily, the right to use the field was seen to become the Thunderbirds…
Kei: Ye—s, thanks G-chan!!
G: This time, we’ll use a real ball that won’t humble food!!
Boss: Well I’m not a ball.
Narrator: The next morning.
G: How’s that, Kei? It became a nice field!!
Kei: Ah—if that’s it, it would have been better with the yakuza---!!

48.
Certainly Useful
GANTETSUISH COURSE (4)
(FINAL LESSON)

The answer to Gantetsuish Course (3)
IT WAS “I WANT TO GO PEE.”!!

CONGRATULATIONS ON GRADUATING!!
GRADUATION CERTIFICATE

TO _______
SHI SHI SHI SHI SHI SHI SHI SHI SHI SHI SHI SHI SHI SHI SHI SHI SHI SHI SHI SHI SHI SHI SHI SHI SHI SHI SHI SHI SHI SHI
GANTETSUISH BOARD OF EDUCATION
LECTURE CHAIRMAN
HEISEI GANTETSU

TN: This chapter sort of left me with mixed emotions...I really liked the weirdness continuing with stuff like the "baseball-headed grandfather" and playing against Yakuza is enough to make G-chan's methods seem normal...but ultimately it was a tad predictable. You sort of figured that they would win...but it was just how. I did find it peculiar that Q remained in her "youth form" the whole chapter this time, though that is scary since "the cheerleader" bit makes you guilty that she could turn back into a 68-year old bittie at any moment. My only real regret for the chapter: I made "ground" into "field" for the baseball field, but it could end up confusing with the "field" as in G-chan's farming land! I probably should have used another word but it made the whole thing funnier.