Kinnikuman 248

The 20 Million Powers want to ignore the Friendship Power so crucial to the Justice Choujin to concentrate on defeating the Hell Missionaries. But with them weighed down with a metal sweat, can either find a way to free themselves from their fate?

Chapter 248: Dream Choujin Tag Arc (40): Tenacious Flames!!

47.
Announcer: The Missionaries’ Tombstone Driver has skewered Mongolman and Buffaloman into the canvas--!!
Suguru: Mongolman!! Buffaloman!!
Announcer: Now we’re starting the Knockout Count in the ring! If the 20 Million Powers don’t stand within the 10 Count, then the Hell Missionaries will be going to the finals--!!
Neptune: Do you see—Justice Choujin who has lost their friendship like these must live as lumps of iron--!!

48.
Suguru: Ooh!! Their amount of Iron Sweat is increasing!!
Buffalo: U…Ugu…
Mongol: Moving now while you still have technique damage remaining is dangerous, Buffaloman!
Buffalo: Mongolman!!
Mongol: We’ll take it easy here until the 9 Count and attack them at once while they’re unprepared.
Buffalo: Oh…OK!
Neptune: What—they’re taking it easy until 9 Count and then attack us!!
Neptune: We’ll drag them up from there before they can---!!

49.
Neptune: Magnet Power!!
Announcer: What force of the Magnet Power! They’re pulling up really easily Mongolman and Buffaloman, who are buried in the ring---!!

50.
Neptune: Magnetic Suplex!!
Announcer: The Missionaries are aiming the 20 Million Powers into the wire-screen with a German Suplex---!!

51.
Neptune: Kukuku, not yet. This is where our attack begins.
Announcer: The Missionaries are inhuman! They’ve seem all the more to be pulling the 20 Million Powers, who have completely fainted, out of the wire-screen----!!
Terry: N…no!! Even with their bodies surrounded by the heavy Iron Sweat, further taking the full course of the Perfect Choujin’s hell will have the 20 Million Powers be killed for sport!!
Suguru: 20 Million Powers! I’m advising you of your relations you had originally as a fellow Justice Choujin!!
Suguru: 20 Million Powers! If you continue the match like this, then yo…you will not have a good result---!!

52.
Suguru: Courageously abandon the match here----!!
Announcer: Kinnikuman is counseling the 20 Million Powers, who were formerly Justice Choujin, to abandon the match---!!
Brocken: Ki…Kinnikuman!!
Neptune: Kinnikuman is rational, but how can you two do that?
Mongol: ……………
Mongol: Fu…how appropriate. Our next advice is counsel to abandon the match! Indeed he is saying that as feelings for his allies, but he just doesn’t want us to advance to the finals after all!

53.
Buffalo: However, we can’t do that. We vow to advance to the finals and defeat the Muscle Brothers!
Suguru: Y…you! I’m thinking this for you.
Mongol: Don’t help us!!
Mongol: Just now, we’ve discovered a massive weakness of the Perfect Choujin’s Magnet Power!!
Buffalo: If we had the time to hit your big mouth, then we can think up a plan to defeat the 20 Million Powers!!

54.
Announcer: The revived 20 Million Powers have started their attack---!!
Suguru: Uwa—h, dad, the 20 Million Powers are mean~~~
Mayumi: Suguru, please understand. The Iron Sweat is wasting not just their bodies but their hearts. Those two have spirit being Justice Choujin.
Suguru: Spirit…!?
Mayumi: You similar Justice Choujin say many things, but we disagree. Can’t Mongolman and Buffaloman disagree with you giving them orders?
Suguru: The spirit of Justice Choujin…!!
Neptune: Impudent!! Inferior Choujin---!!

55.
Mongol: Move to their reverse—Buffaloman!!
Neptune: Are you escaping--
Mongol: To the reverse again! Buffaloman!!
Announcer: The 20 Million Powers, who have taken this much of the Missionaries’ Magnet Power until now, this time are splendidly continuing to avoid them!
Neptune: Wh…what has happened to the 20 Million Powers?
Mongol: I’ve seen the movement at the moment of Magnet Power emission and realized this…
Mongol: Magnet Power can only be fired in the front half of your entire body!

56.
Brocken: Right! By turning to their backs, they can’t be bathed by Magnet Power----!!
Suguru: Dad, it seems the 20 Million Powers have completely recovered!
Mayumi: Their plan to defeat Magnet Power was certainly accurate. However, this won’t overcome the will stuck to them in regards to not speaking to Suguru’s group!
Suguru: !
Mongol: Well are you shocked by our Magnet Power Destroyer!
Neptune: ……………
Neptune: Fuffufufufu

57.
Neptune: You’ve guessed it. Magnet Power can only be fired from the front! However, you haven’t realized “that” characteristic of magnetism!!
Mongol: Th…that characteristic…!?
Neptune: Magnetism can be transmitted through all iron and metal--!!
Neptune: Transmitted Magnet Power!!
Audience: AAH…

58.
Announcer: The Magnet Power radiating from the bodies of both Neptuneman and Budo is being transmitted and running into the barbed wire--!!
Terry: N…no!! Mongolman and Buffaloman, hurry and get away from there---!! It will get terrible if you don’t—

59.
Mongol & Buffalo: Uh, damn!!
Neptune: Even if we can’t release Magnet Power from behind, by transmitting Magnet Power into another item, we can easily take down an enemy whose back is turned!

60.
Mongol: Fufufu…A person like me…wouldn’t realize such a simple trick.
Buffalo: Me neither!! The two of us are getting cooked around more and more!
Terry: N…no. Those two are unable to take on the Missionaries and will die this time!!
Mayumi: Now the one who can rescue the 20 Million Powers is…
Mayumi: Only you, Suguru!
Suguru: 20 Million Powers, again I advise you to abandon the match!!
Mongol: Kinnikuman, no matter how much you exert yourself, it seems that you wishing us to not advance to the finals…
Buffalo: But we won’t abandon the match, we’ll lose by KO!

61.
Suguru: The way I was speaking earlier was a bit too sincere…I am taking away your wish for you two to advance to the finals…yet if you don’t go for that consideration
Suguru: What consideration will you go for?
Suguru: If you two abandon this match, the Muscle Brothers will abandon our right to go to the finals!!
Brocken: Kinnikuman, what are you saying?
Suguru: I have good faith that will allow for the original Justice Choujin to ally themselves!
Brocken: What’s the opinion of your partner Great?
Terry: Kinnikuman’s opinion is naturally my opinion too!
Brocken: Great!!

62.
Mongol: Ki…Kinnikuman, yo…you are that sort of man…
Buffalo: To do that for us…
Terry: Ooh, look! The Iron Sweat that’s covering the 20 Million Powers!!
Budo: Neptuneman-sama!
Neptune: We—ll, don’t lose your mind Budo. Does that sort of sincerity crumble the Iron Sweat!!
Neptune: As you wish, Mongolman, I’ll take you down—
Neptune: Magnet Power!!

63.
Announcer: What will Neptuneman use while pulling Mongolman with his Magnet Power!!
Mongol: Take this!! Law-Breaking Robin Special—
Suguru: Mongolman!!
Announcer: That stance is the Robin Special, the special technique of Neptuneman’s rival Robin Mask---!!

64.
Announcer: Neptuneman is falling without catching him in the legs---!!
Neptune: Damn!! The cursed dolls that govern the Justice Choujin’s friendship—
Announcer: This is a sign of the friendship restoration of the Justice Choujin---!!

TN: The good news: this is finally the end of the friggin dolls that have plagued this arc. If I ever see another doll in this series, it will be too soon. Secondly...I get the whole matter of friendship being slammed down our throats this entire arc, but I think this fight is probably the worst offender of the whole matter. Let's review: Mongolman and Buffaloman want to win the tournament. But by fighting, they subsequently ignore Suguru's team (while at the same time still helping them in a weird way) Their ignorance leads to some stupid metal sweat to surround their entire body while, by the way, facing living magnets. Sure it sounds like they really, really care about them, but unfortunately it's not enough for the sake of the fighters. Finally, Suguru gets through to them about their need to, now get this, "surrender"...and when Suguru goes through some stupid speech about surrendering too, it's powerful enough to destroy the Iron Sweat and pretty much restore the last of the Friendship Power!?

Am I the only one who really thinks that this series has stepped over the line into Care Bears territory? I get it, this is supposed to be a manly heroic duty but the whole way Friendship Power has been used this whole friggin arc, in particular culminating with this bullcrap of a chapter...at least the only good thing I can say anymore is that Neptuneman had some great strategy in this chapter. Other than that...I'm just speechless.