Kinnikuman 258

Terry's secret identity of Kinnikuman Great is under siege by Neptuneman, who has predicted he'll be exposed after the match started! But will Suguru's trust in him be enough to help the Muscle Brothers keep going to victory?

Chapter 258: Dream Choujin Tag Arc (50): The Secret Friendship Plan!!

68.
Suguru: Missionaries, seemed to think it would be advantageous to open this match by cracking the teamwork between myself and Great, but you doing so has instead ended up in hardening further the bonds of our friendship!!
Neptune: Hmph…
Neptune: Do we Perfect Choujin need these tricks that you inferior Choujin have? I’m giving you a warning regarding this valuable friendship!
Suguru: Regarding our friendship!?
Neptune: Great, I know everything. Your true identity…and the true identity of the former Great as well……!!

69.
Neptune: If you creep out of your mask now, how would Kinnikuman react seeing your true face? The true identity that I know you are displays you have a different face. Further, as for the face that you have, it is the face of a long time close friend!
Neptune: The close friend that I believe you are is deceiving only a little bit…perhaps Kinnikuman will hate you.
Terry: You’re lying—how long have you known about me—

70.
Terry: How could you speak that from your mouth--!!
Announcer: Kinnikuman Great is unusually using a Texas-fighting Spinning Toe Hold!!
Neptune: Hmph…do you see sometimes you use that Texas-fighting? That will end up supporting your true identity more and more.
Terry: I…was unaware!
Neptune: A chance!!

71.
Neptune: Sword Bomber!!
Terry: Uwa
Announcer: Taking Neptuneman’s Sword Bomber a second time, Great’s true identity is being revealed even more--!!

72.
Suguru: Great~~~!!
Suguru: Are you alright!?
Terry: Stop! Don’t touch my mask!!
Suguru: Gr…Great!!
Terry: I’m…sorry…I got a bit excited.

73.
Suguru: What’s wrong, Great?
Terry: Fufufufu……aren’t you afraind of Neptuneman’s bottomless strength?
Terry: ……Kinnikuman, at any case, we’ll have the truth of Neptuneman’s Mask-Hunt Announcement ten minutes after the start of the match.
Suguru: What’s with the timidness!! Believe much more in Friendship Power! We’ll get even with the greatness of Friendship Power on those Choujin who just have power without emotion!!
Terry: Ri—ght! If our Friendship Power is healthy, then I have just one reversal plan that uses this Friendship Power!!
Suguru: What is this reversal plan?
Terry: The remaining time for Neptuneman’s Mask-Hunt declaration is three minutes. Within these just less than three minutes, you can’t come in to rescue me, Kinnikuman, no matter how I look!

74.
Suguru: Then—the one receiving the Mask-Hunt declaration is you, Great! Can I let you die without helping!!
Terry: Kinnikuman, listen well: this is our plan!!
Terry: With less than three minutes left in the Mask-Hunt declaration, Neptuneman will attack me desperately to take my mask. I’ll continue to give him the slip in avoiding him.
Terry: In doing so, he’ll certainly ask for reinforcement from his partner Budo when there are 30 seconds remaining and set up their Cross Bomber, their final trump card.
Terry: There, when I give the sign, I’ll take Neptuneman and you’ll take Budo and we’ll do an undeluded Muscle Docking!!
Suguru: I…understand.

75.
Terry: Fine then: they’ll wage their attack when they have 30 seconds remaining; when the Hell Missionaries become impatient, then there’s no meaning to not do this.
Terry: Therefore, Kinnikuman, the logic of a friendship by going in to rescue when an ally is getting hurt is throwing it away. From here with less than three minutes, I’ll have anything happen but you must not leave from your corner until I give the sign!!
Mayumi: It seems their meeting is finally over.
Robin: Th…that Great, what he’s doing is a big sink-or-swim match where’ he’s betting his own life--!!
Audience: EEH…

76.
Suguru: Gr…Great, I really can’t do this at all!!
Terry: There are moments where you abandon your ally, but that’s when it can become friendship too.
Suguru: Great…
Announcer: 7 minutes and 30 seconds have passed!! There are 2 mintues 30 seconds left until Neptuneman’s Mask-Hunt announcement---!!
Neptune: You may polish up many plans, but you can’t make the stronghold of the Perfect Choujin crumble!!
Neptune: Quietly accept the Mask-Hunt---!!

77.
Terry: Dorya--!!
Announcer: Ooh!! Great has jumped, avoiding the Quarrel Bomber--!!
Terry: Sorya—
Announcer: It’s a Flying Leg Lariat in the style of Mongolman---!!
Terry: There, one more!!
Announcer: And without landing, it’s into a Rolling Savate!!

78.
Neptune: Guhe
Announcer: 8 minutes have passed!!
Suguru: We have two minutes left, Great!!
Neptune: Well, you can’t take me down with the stamina I still have.
Announcer: And that’s the stance for a Pile Driver!!

79.
Terry: He’ll take this and take a two-minute nap---!!
Suguru: All right, we’ve got him--!!
Robin: Geee—
Terry: It…can’t be!!
Announcer: Neptuneman has escaped his hardship by grabbing the corner post with both hands, moments before crashing onto the canvas----!!

80.
Neptune: Ha—haha, it’s irritating that you say you’ll decrease time even a bit by taking me down with that technique.
Neptune: Sorry, but you can’t---!!
Announcer: This time, Neptuneman has inverted his body throwing a Reversal Pile Driver--!!
Suguru: Great~~!!
Terry: Are you planning to betray our friendship---!!
Suguru: Fr…friendship!!

81.
Neptune: Fufufu…to take me down with my own style is good courage!
Neptune: So then, shall you take a parade of my techniques?
Suguru: Aah!!
Neptune: Dorya---!!
Neptune: Double Leg Suplex!!
Announcer: That’s intense--!!

82.
Announcer: And he’s taken Great’s body, who is faintly breathing, and put him in an Airplane Spin--!!
Suguru: Great~~
Robin: Th…that stance is my special technique, the Robin Special!!
Neptune: Guoo—
Neptune: Law-Breaking Robin Special—
Announcer: Thus this is Neptuneman’s finishing technique--!!

83.
Suguru: Uwa
Suguru: Aah!!
Announcer: Kinnikuman Great is hanging with both legs on the stadium lights, preventing his fall---!!
Suguru: Gr…Great, you would do that…
Announcer: 9 minutes have passed!!
Suguru: You have one minute, Great!!
Terry: Th…thirty seconds until the attack……I have to hold on here.
Neptune: If you do that, then I’ll knock you down even with willpower!!

84.
Terry: Uh.
Robin: Watch out!!
Announcer: 39, 37, 35
Neptune: You…have bared with that many injuries while having such physical strength…no, willpower!!
Suguru: It’s time—there’s 30 seconds remaining--!!

85.
Budo: Ha…here I am!
Neptune: O—K, Budo, prepare the Cross Bomber!
Terry: Get in, Kinnikuman!!
Suguru: Ooh!!

TN: It's sort of bad enough that we do have to hear the friendship bit over and over, but this chapter sort of goes on with another "cliche" that sort of feels a bit tired if a bit stupid: the "trust me, I know what I'm doing" bit. You know the ordeal: someone is fighting an opponent, a friend or ally wants to come in to help but the fighter is like "no, you can't do that, but I will set things up in such a way and you must not divert from it or else it will ruin everything". Sure this version was ruined by the whole "friendship" concept of the arc but it just is the same bit as we've seen before in other places done much better. Strangely though the chapter wasn't too bad on the action, particularly Neptune's siege of battle and running amuck with various techniques before Terry finally nearly stops him by hanging from the lights. Even in it's stupid moments, the series can have moments of cool...oh, and the funniness of Neptuneman complaining about him using a subconscious Spinning Toe Hold and being called out for it...but then performing Mongolman's attack and isn't being claimed to suddenly be Ramenman instead. (you have to realize: Choujin copy attacks all the time so it wouldn't be weird if, say, Kamehame knew Spinning Toe Hold too...even if we know it's Terry under there)