Kinnikuman 210

A mysterious mountain has risen to the surface leading to the revival of an ancient Choujin tag tournament! Suguru may want to take part, but no one wants to side with him! At least he still has Terryman...perhaps...

Chapter 210: Dream Choujin Tag Arc (2): Terryman’s Decision!!

105.
CHOUJIN BEST TAG DIRECTORY (1)
CHOUJIN TEACHER-STUDENT COMBO

INDIVIDUAL TITLE HISTORY:
Robin Mask:
-British Empire Heavyweight
-Choujin Olympics Champion (’75)
-Choujin Olympics Runner-Up (’79)
(TN: I thought it was 1980)

Warsman:
-Leningrad Choujin Heavyweight
-Choujin Olympics: The Big Fight Runner-Up (’80)

TAG TITLE HISTORY:
-All-American Choujin Tag Champions (Taken from Devil Magician/Skull Bozu)

106.
Suguru: You…guys…
Suguru: Please reconsider--!!
Sign: EXIT
Suguru: ………!!

107.
Suguru: …………Why?
Suguru: Why must I fight…
Suguru: my comrade Justice Choujin…
Terry: For mutual improvement!
Terry: We Justice Choujin view each other as rivals even as boasting our absolute strength, and as a result have to polish our force.
Suguru: Fufufu, of course, of course.
Suguru: With that, I want to fight those guys.
Suguru: OK! If that’s the case, Terryman, then we’ll shake them up like in America 2 years ago. We’ll get revenge on them with the strength of The Machineguns!!

108.
Terry: Kinnikuman, I’ve been thinking for a while about taking part in the Tag Tournament alongside you…
Suguru: If…you’ve been thinking, then Terry, you…!?
Terry: I’m the same in thinking of you as a rival!
Suguru: So then, I must face you too…!?
Terry: Yes. Like all the others, you’re my antagonist!!
Terry: Kinnikuman, I’ve studied that I can’t express the many words I have in tag-team with you……However, with this, I want to graduate from tag with you already!!
Suguru: How could you say you’re canceling a tag-team with me! Have you obtained a tag partner?
Terry: I thought of teaching a young warrior!
Suguru: Who…who then is this young warrior…!?

109.
Suguru: Th…that’s.
Suguru: Geronimo!!
Terry: Geronimo, who fought alongside us hiding that he was a flesh-and-blood human so he could restore function in Warsman and then ended up dying so he could save us from the Five-Tier Ring…
Terry: I saw a true Choujin soul within the form of Geronimo!!
Suguru: Bu…but, the Choujin who died fighting the devils should have all been revived by the eternal light later emitted by the Perfect Mask!

110.
Terry: Actualy, all the Choujin were revived. However, Geronimo, a human who doesn’t have the function of a Choujin……was revived in just his heart, even bathing in the light of the Perfect Mask, but in the end……
Terry: His spirit has died!!
Meat: He’s…a vegetable…
Terry: But I haven’t given up!
Terry: If that Geronimo’s Choujin soul hasn’t died, then Geronimo should be revived! No, he will be revived!!
Terry: I have work to do by reviving Geronimo into a perfect Choujin and graduate from you in tag-matches!!

111.
Suguru: Te…Terry!!
Suguru: Wa…wait—
Suguru: If you’re angry, I’ll do whatever I have to!! With you, the Machineguns can aim for the championship----!!
Ashura: We Devil Choujin remain calm, even in just mobilizing our war potential. The Justice Choujin have become fragile with just their teamwork stolen…
Sunshine: Kinnikuman, losing his greatest buddy, won’t recover for a while. With this, we’ve created an opening that we devils can take advantage of!!
Meat: Prince…are you to that extent on Terryman……
Suguru: I’ll look for a new partner.

112.
Caption: SPACE CHOUJIN COMMITTEE—
Harabote: Fuo fuo fuo, look, Mayumi-chan. We’ve got a mountain of griten applications of Choujin tag participants! I’m happy there’s this much shown interest in this tournament to the young Choujin.
Mayumi: However, the requirement for challenging Tournament Mountain is for 8 teams! That’s why these 8 teams have to be decided by recommendation of the Choujin Committee.
Mayumi: How many teams have you decided on now?
Harabote: Ummm, essentially it will be a strict secret until that day of the tournament…
Harabote: I’ll do this favor for no one but Mayumi-chan! I’ll show it to you special.
Suguru: Hohoo, aren’t the members very magnificent!
Mayumi: Ooh, Suguru, what are you planning!
Harabote: Hey, hey, he can’t see it if you’re standing there.
Suguru: Please, let me see it, because I won’t do that any—more.
Harabote: Got it, got it!

113.
Harabote: Our first one is the 4-D Killer Combo of Black Hole and Pentagon!!
Harabote: Their magnificent mid-air killer moves make them No. 1 of our participants. The other teams will have problems being captured by them.
Suguru: A very promising team.
Harabote: Next are the Most Dangerous Team of Wolfman and Brocken Jr. You can’t get stupider than this instant team! Just from that, they’re a team conceived for whatever unknown dangers that pop out!!
Harabote: Unexpectedly, they may get into the finals by defeating a stronger opponent.
Suguru: Hahaha, they’re young, young! Hahaha~~
Harabote: And now there’s this team, but we have everything about them already. Frankly they’re the first top favorite! The Choujin Teacher-Student Combo of Robin Mask and Warsman!!

114.
Harabote: Watch a bit of this film!

115.
Suguru & Meat: Ooh!!
Robin & Wars: Double German Suplex Hold!!
Harabote: That’s how the Choujin Teacher-Student Combo has handled even the All-American Tag Champion of Skull Bozu and Devil Magician!!
Meat: So…somehow, those two have seemed to have powered up against those goons from before!
Suguru: Awawa…

116.
Harabote: Aside from them, we’ve had many champion teams up as candidates, but formally we’ve decided on just these three teams…
Mayumi: So…there’s just one team remaining, chairman!!
Harabote: I’ve figured that from here we have five teams remaining!!
Mayumi: He can still do it. A tag team of idol Choujin comrades representing Japan and America…that super-popular combo called “The Funks” of the Choujin World…
(TN: "The Funks" is in reference to a team between brothers Dory Funk Jr. and Terry Funk, prominent through the 70s and 80s alongside their own solo careers)
Suguru: I’ve go—t it, you say you want The Machineguns with me and Terry!!
Mayumi: Correct~~
Harabote: According to the committee report, The Machineguns of Kinnikuman and Terryman have refused the tournament this time due to breaking up three days ago.
Mayumi: What—The Machineguns broke up!?
Mayumi: Is that true, Suguru!!
Suguru: Well—it’s just that with this tournament gathering magnificent members, I’ve rejected Terryman due to him being a tad insufficient in power, hahahaha.
Meat: You’re just lying since you were rejected!

117.
Mayumi: What are you doing in breaking up your team on the verge of a tournament—
Suguru: Owa—
Suguru: I’m properly searching for a new partner. I should have a reply within 2 to 3 days-----
Caption: HENAN GOVERNMENT, CHINA—
Mailman: This is actually the address…
Mailman: Mongolman, where is your house?
Voice: ACHO—
Mailman: Wha.

118.
Mongol: Ha ha ha
Mailman: Uh…um, is Mongolman around here……
Mongol: If you have mail, place it over there!
Mailman: Ye…yes!!

119.
Mongol: Another from Kinnikuman…
Letter:
HEY, MONGOLMAN
THIS LETTER IS
ALREADY THE 10TH I’VE SENT.
TO START, TERRYMAN
IS A TRAITOR
LOAN ME YOUR POWER
TO PUNISH THOSE
CHAMPION CHOUJIN GATHERING
THROUGH THE UNIVERSE
DON’T SAY NO RESPOND SOON.
-SUGURU KINNIKU

Caption: OKLAHOMA OF THE AMERICAN MID-WEST—here, Terryman has come to a Cherokee village in Oklahoma, which is the birthplace of Geronimo—

120.
Ann: Uuh~~How could Geronimo come back to Ann-chan this way, many months since leaving the village to pay back the favor to the Choujin who saved his life when he was very young………!!
Terry: Geronimo coming back like this is the responsibility of us Choujin. However you act, you should be resigned to it.
Ann: Geronimo, come back to Ann-chan—
Ann: You dummy, you dummy
Cherokees: We don’t know if you’re a Choujin or what, but we’ll kill you---!!
Terry: Ooh!! Geronimo, who’s spirit should be dead, is…
Cherokees: Ann-chan!!

121.
Chief: What’s wrong, all of you?
Ann: Aah!! Chief Cheyenne!
Cheyenne: Those fair eyes…If you’re a Choujin, then what’s your goal!?
Terry: I really want to borrow Geronimo’s burning soul of conflict!
Cheyenne: However, Geronimo is equal to an invalid.
Terry: With you, Geronimo should be revived!
Cheyenne: It’s impossible. For as long as I’ve been chief, I can’t revive a dead human!
Terry: Of…course…
Cheyenne: Well, it’s impossible for a human to, but if he became a Choujin, then he may be able to be reborn!!

122.
(DREAM CHOUJIN TAG ARC)
SPECIAL VTR II
GERONIMO, WHO HAS SHOWN A CHOUJIN SOUL GREATER THAN CHOUJIN

TN: I already talked about the "abandonment" issues Suguru faced in the last chapter, but this time I guess the main factor is Terryman telling to his face regarding why everyone has split up, why he doesn't want to reunite the Machineguns...and why somehow it should make more sense than "Ashuraman and Sunshine stole his friendship". It does seem random that Terry just wants to suddenly align with Geronimo, particularly since he was one of the first to realize there was something not right with him being a human instead of a Choujin. But in a weird way, I think it's more an alignment of being "the Choujin from Texas alongside the "awakened Choujin" from Oklahoma in a weird Western "cowboys and indians" theme. Speaking of Indians...yeah, I'm trying to figure how in the world Yudetamago could depict them so...mixed. Officially it sounds like Geronimo is a Cherokee, but his chief is named "Cheyenne" (another tribe) and...well, something even weirder next time from yet another Native American group. And that's not even getting into Ann: is she a tribe member or a sister...and if she is a sister, why is she still small...and if she isn't, where is Geronimo's sister from that old flashback? At least one really cool thing: among the Choujin taking part in this tournament is a return engagement of Black Hole...I always liked him of the Devil Choujin, and while I don't quite get why he's with Pentagon of all characters, at least someone other than Buffaloman has found a path to redemption.