Kinnikuman 234

The semi-final matchups have been determined (for the most part), but Terry now must face a troubling, recurring enemy yet again! Can he find a way to finally bring conclusion to the war with the Devil Choujin!?

Chapter 234: Dream Choujin Tag Arc (26): Bold Suggestion!!

160.
Announcer: The second card of the semi-finals has been determined as the Muscle Brothers vs. the Stray Devil Combo---!!

161.
Man 1: Hey, is this right? It’s the Stray Devil Combo that even that Terryman couldn’t defeat!!
Man 2: Well can that helpless Kinnikuman defeat them!
Mayumi: Won’t you shut up—The Muscle Brothers isn’t just the helpless Kinnikuman--!! There’s the calm and composed Kinnikuman Great!!
Meat: Really, he doesn’t have confidence in his own son at all!
Announcer: Well, from here they’ll go into Tournament Mountain once again and hold the semifinals!! The match of the decided top combination of the 20 Million Powers vs. the Hell Missionaries will be the 2nd match.
Announcer: Further, the showdown of the now-decided combo of the Muscle Brothers vs. the Stray Devil Combo will be the 1st match in just shortly!!

162.
Suguru: Hey, Great, we should let go of the rope because the match-up’s been decided already!!
Terry: Thank you. The opponents we must defeat first isn’t the 20 Million Powers or the Missionaries……it’s the Stray Devil Combo! I wasn’t thinking of anyone except those two!!
Terry: This will knock you devils into the depths of hell. A funeral battle for those important to me!!
Terry: Sorya
Announcer: Kinnikuman Great has started to pull the rope again!!
Suguru: Gr…Great!!

163.
Ashura: Wh…what is that Kinnikuman Great? He’s burning with an abnormal tenacity for his first showdown with us!!
Ashura: We won’t lose this either!!
Ashura: Uwa
Ashura: You~~~
Terry: Let’s do this!!
Announcer: Both teams are entering the ring---!!

164.
Harabote: Hold on—you two!! This is still the entrance ceremony. The match hasn’t started yet!
Harabote: Have you forgotten that the place of your fights is just within that Tournament Mountain!
Terry: I have a request, chairman!!
Harabote: What is it Great!!
Terry: Until now, there have been too many indefinite results in the showdowns of Justice Choujin and Devil Choujin!! In what just happened to the New Machineguns, while I attacked the Devil Combo, in the end, it ended with an unwilling result from the dandy method of match abandonment!!
Ashura: What? Are you finding fault in a forceful victory?
Terry: Because of this, I want this showdown of the Muscle Brothers and the Stray Devil Combo to be completely settled in a deathmatch!!

165.
Announcer: Kinnikuman Great has requested a deathmatch against the Stray Devil Combo----!!
Boy: That Great is brave!!
Suguru: I…I too have the same view……
Sunshine: As you wish.
Harabote: Even without all you saying that, I as the chairman have prepared a match method for complete settlement so we can come to conclude the destiny of the Justice Choujin and Devil Choujin.
Suguru & Terry: A match method for complete settlement!?
Choujin: Chairman! We’ve made the preparation.
Harabote: So will all four teams please go inside.

166-167.
Announcer: Look, this is the stage for complete settlement between the Muscle Brothers and the Stray Devil Combo!!
Audience: Ooh!! It’s coming, it’s coming.
Suguru: N?
Suguru: Ho…how is this a stage for complete settlement? Isn’t this a typical match ring? Chairman!
Harabote: Actually, this isn’t an unusual ring. But the key for complete settlement is outside the ring.
Suguru: What?
Suguru: Wh…what? There are many Choujin surrounding the ring…!?

168.
Harabote: Long ago, within the woodcutters of Oregon in America, when there was a one-on-one fight of men, their partners surrounded them; when the fighters were defeated or tried to run, this human wall pushed them back in and they continued to fight until it was impossible to fight and they gave up. This was a match method called the Lumberjack Deathmatch!!
Suguru: Understood, I get that. The Choujin surrounding the ring have a duty to push back the Choujin with a disadvantage situation who try to escape the ring!!
Ashura: In short, the Choujin are replacing the cage of the cage death match? This will be a complete settlement.
Harabote: Well then, both teams don’t object in the Lumberjack Deathmatch rule!
Harabote: From there, the settlement method by KO, again, is that a team wins by throwing the duo of the opposing team who gives up within that gondola!!
Ashura & Sunshine: ………!!

169.
Harabote: Please watch!!
Suguru: Hie—with that, even if the opponent who should be KO even starts breathing again, they won’t be able to swoop back in anymore!!
Terry: This…surely is a match method for a complete settlement!!
Harabote: So then with that, let’s start the match!!
Harabote: Now will the 20 Million Powers and the Missionaries add themselves to the Choujin fence surrounding the ring’s circumference.
Neptune: Fine.

170.
Announcer: Well, the world’s first Lumberjack Gondola Deathmatch is finally starting in the ring!!
Audience: Great~~!! Do it Muscle Brothers.
Terry: But, can I truly fit in the duty of replacing Great?
Suguru: Master Kamehame!
Terry: Oh……Ooh…
Suguru: During the showdown with the 4-D Killer Combo, I was under a compulsion of an unthinkable hard fight which I really butt in!! Here this time, I’ll leave it to master, go ahead first!!
Terry: Ho…how could he say that suddenly…
Suguru: You can do this, master!!
Ashura: Well!! Of the Muscle Brothers, I’m scared of just that Great guy. We’ll give him a concentrated attack first and defeat him, then later we’ll leisurely bake up that weak Kinnikuman……!!
Sunshine: Got it!

171.
Terry: Kinnikuman is perfectly convinced I’m Kamehame……
Announcer: Well, the gong has rung for the start of the match----!!
Ashura: Sorya—
Suguru: Great, in front---!!
Announcer: Facing an unprepared Great, Ashuraman is fiercely rushing him---!!
Terry: Otto
Announcer: There it is—Great’s #18 Rolling Savate---!!

172.
Terry: Ah
Announcer: This is unusual. Kinnikuman Great has fallen out of his Rolling Savate--!!
Announcer: Sunshine is going to help Ashuraman---!!

173.
Suguru: His Flying Kneel Kick won’t fail---!!
Sunshine: ………!!
Announcer: Continuing from his Rolling Savate, his Flying Kneel Kick has failed too. What’s wrong, Kinnikuman Great!?
Suguru: Is there truly something wrong, Great!!
Ashura: Kakaka—let’s harvest him!! Great today is in a bad condition!!
Ashura & Sunshine: If we defeat him, it’s now!!

174.
Ashura & Sunshine: HELL COMBINATION PART II!!
Sunshine: Yes, once more!
Suguru: Run away, Great, get out of the ring---!!
Announcer: Kinnikuman Great is leaving the ring!!
Neptune: Well, escaping the ring in this match is treated as against the rules!!

175.
Neptune: Double Leg Suplex~~~!!
Suguru: Great~~~
Suguru: What have you done!!
Neptune: We’re the exterior fence surrounding the ring. I don’t have a reason to complain!!
Suguru: Great, we’re unexpectedly swallowed in this outrageous match method!! Our enemy isn’t two, it’s all six!!

176.
(DREAM CHOUJIN TAG ARC)
SPECIAL VTR XIV
KINNIKUMAN GREAT VS. ASHURAMAN

TN: Alright, let's get this straight: Terry wanted to finish the battle with the Devil Choujin once and for all...but Harabote already had decided to pull this Lumberjack Deathmatch from the start!? What, now he's a mind reader or can see into the future? Yeah, weird matches have always happened in this series in one way or another, but to suddenly have Harabote know he wanted an inescapable matchup where he and Suguru can take down Ashuraman and Sunshine with no further intrusions...yeah, I doubt that. Aside from that (and perhaps the fact that all generic Choujin seem like refugees from Solid Gold for some pathetic reason), you really see a lot to show that Terry is trying to live up to Kamehame as the second Great...but can't quite with both his injuries...and his recent crash course! Though the nonsense of Suguru suddenly going "I want you to go first" was more set-up for that crap to happen. One more thing: what was the point of the "escape bit" when they should have already known there was no escape...except to have Neptuneman demonstrate the deathmatch concept and build things up with the Justice Choujin...