Kinnikuman 260

Neptuneman's prediction has come true: Kinnikuman Great has been unmasked revealing Terryman to the world, including to a shocked Suguru! Well...at least it looks like it's time for a whole lot of explaining...

Chapter 260: Dream Choujin Tag Arc (52): The Truth of Great!!

105.
Terry: This is the true identity of the 2nd Great. Don’t beg to explain.
Neptune: Hmph…it’s as I thought.
Announcer: Underneath the Great Mask appears the Texas Bronco Terryman--!!

106.
Girl: It…can’t be: Kinnikuman Great’s true identity was Terryman……
Boy: I’m sure Terryman should have been crushed by the Stray-Devil Combo with Geronimo in the New Machineguns in the first round.
Suguru: Wh…why was Terryman in the Great Mask…
Suguru: What’s going on…
Mayumi: Meat, I’m sure Great’s true identity was Kamehame.
Meat: …………We did think that but…

107.
Terry: I…I’m sorry, Kinnikuman.
Terry: That I had continued to
Terry: De…deceive you until now…
Announcer: Terryman, who has taken the Missionaries’ Cross Bomber, has exhausted his power from the damage and is down---!!
Announcer: We’re into the 10 Count without delay---!!
Meat: You can do this, Terryman-sa—n.
Mayumi: What is that Suguru doing? His partner is in a pinch!

108.
Suguru: It’s…a dream…
Mayumi: Su…Suguru!!
Suguru: This is a bad dream…
Announcer: So…somehow Kinnikuman isn’t appearing to lending a hand at all to his partner Terry--man!!
Announcer: Terryman is finally holding on to the 2nd level rope!!
Terry: Uo~~

109.
Terry: Uh…The damage of the Cross Bomber…
Announcer: However, he ran out of power and is down again—
SFX: BING!!
Announcer: With a KO-time in this 3-round no time limit match of 10 minutes 10 seconds, the Hell Missionaries are the winners of the 1st round---!!

110.
Announcer: The Muscle Brothers, who had continued to have an invincible march in comfort, have finally suffered a complete defeat by the Hell Missionaries--!!
Audience: Damn—
Caption: DEVIL CHOUJIN WORLD—

111.
Announcer: Further, the promise of the Mask-Hunt announced for 10 minutes at the start of the match had also been accomplished! The Hell Missionaries are dreadful!!
Terry: Guu…
Ashura: The shock about this first defeat in the first round of a three-round match is they still have a large amount of damage remaining for the 2nd and 3rd rounds!!
Ashura: Uoo—unforgivable!! The defeat of the Muscle Brothers is my job--!!

112.
Devil Choujin: Pl…please calm down, prince. It’s dangerous to move your body!!
(TN: The “prince” here is tied to the word “obocchan”, an honorable version of “son”, only in this case it is “obocchama”, making even more honorable therefore making him more like his princely nature)
Ashura: Let go—I must go—
Devil Choujin: So…someone get the Daioh!
Ashura Daioh: What—my son is running amuck--!!

113.
Ashura Daioh: I’m…too late…
Robin: Even so, I don’t understand…I’m sure in the first round, Terryman should have been seen in the spectator seats with Geronimo during the match of the Kinnikuman and Great team!!
Brocken: Then again, Great should have been watching in Terryman and Geronimo’s New Machineguns in the spectator seats after our matches were completed!
Robin: So then Great in the first round was another person and Terryman playing as the 2nd Great from the 2nd Round on!

114.
Brocken: And thus, with Great’s true identity switching to Terryman for the 2nd, even his partner Kinnikuman didn’t know it.
Brocken: Kinnikuman, who believed it was the 1st Great, is completely disturbed knowing the identity of the 2nd Great!
Brocken: You too, Kinniku Daioh and Meat!
Neptune: As expected, your inferences are magnificent, even among you stupid inferior Choujin!
Robin & Brocken: Neptuneman!!
Neptune: ……Fine, since you have perfect reasoning, I’ll give you this hint!
Neptune: Great’s true identity before he switched with Terryman…in short, the key to solving the identity of the 1st Great, is right behind you!!

115.
Robin: The key to solving the identity of the 1st Great
Brocken: Is behind us~~~?
Robin & Brocken: Ge—Th…that man!!
Announcer: It’s the current Hawaii Choujin Heavyweight champion Prince Kamehame, said to be the god of the Hawaiian Choujin world----!!
Mayumi & Meat: Eeh?
Suguru: ………Kamehame.
Suguru: Where’s Master Kamehame---!!

116.
Robin: Is it true? Are you the true identity of the 1st Great?
Brocken: I thought that his elegant, sharp fighting wasn’t typical…
Robin: He…he’s…!?
Suguru: He—y, Master Kamehame, hurry, come over here and please switch with Terryman. I haven’t shown my true power since I wasn’t teamed up with you.
Robin: Kinnikuman, the Kamehame that is here is
Brocken: Dead!
Suguru: You…lie. How could the immortal Master Kamehame die…………………

117.
Suguru: You’re lying—my master will always be here!! He had a doctor’s certificate that he can fight until the Choujin age of 100.
Terry: Ki…Kinnikuman…
Terry: Do you remember, Kinnikuman? During the confrontation with the Stray-Devil Combo that the team of Geronimo and I faced…
Terry: ……During then, when I was thrown into Sunshine’s Cursed Roller…the 1st Great, thus Kamehame, threw himself in and saved me! However, after that, Kamehame destroyed his stance and was taken into Sunshine’s Cursed Roller as my replacement.
Terry: Yes! At that moment, Great was already dead.
Terry: Ev…even so, Kamehame used up the last of his power in the dressing room, granted me the Great Mask and died…

118.
Suguru: Terryman, you—killed Master Kamehame—
Suguru: And yet didn’t you feel it was a crime to dress up as Great---!?
Neptune: The corpse of Prince Kamehame was discovered in a nearby cemetery by Budo, but he discovered the corpse of one more interesting person in the same grave as Kamehame: …
Suguru: Who?
Budo: The corpse of Choujin physician Doctor Bombe!!
Suguru: It…can’t be. I heard that Doctor Bombe was defeated by being overworked after the surgery on my left arm, but I didn’t hear that he had died!
Neptune: According to our investigation, Doctor Bombe had a fatal tumor in his stomach and had one year left to live. However, he took the burden physically and mentally to restore your left arm. He hastened the time of his death so he could undertake your great surgery!

119.
Suguru: The…killer of the doctor was me…
Suguru: Is the one who should be blamed only Terryman? Don’t I have the same offense for killing Doctor Bombe---!!
Robin: Kinnikuman!
Meat: Prince…
Kamehame: Kinnikuman, you shouldn’t be blaming yourself!

120.
Suguru: Th…that voice is Kamehame!!
Kamehame: Both me and Doctor Bombe died believing in the friendship restoration of the Justice Choujin……From here on, it’s best that you and Terryman join your power and become the champion of this tag tournament.
Suguru: But it’s clear that I’m bitter over Terryman continuing to deceive me until now!
Suguru: On top of this ill feeling, I don’t have the confidence to have a smooth tag-team with Terryman. Thus, my best partner is you, Master Kamehame!!
Kamehame: Kinnikuman, for argument’s sake, even if you and I were champions of this tournament, we can’t pull out the trophy stuck on Tournament Mountain.
Suguru: Huh?
Kamehame: As you know, that championship trophy can only be pulled out by those who possess true friendship. No matter how much our teamwork towers over the rest, ultimately the relationship of a master and student isn’t true friendship.
Kamehame: However, you and Terryman have it on the surface and communicate it through the depths of your hearts. That is true friendship!

121.
Suguru: N…no. No matter how steadfast I am with Terryman, I don’t feel its friendship!!
Neptune: You shouldn’t worry, Kinnikumnan. Terryman can’t continue the match teaming with you due to before.
Suguru: What?
Neptune: The Terryman already had lost to the Stray-Devil Combo of Ashuraman and Sunshine in the first round as part of the New Machineguns with Geronimo!
Neptune: It’s common sense that a player who has already been disqualified once can’t participate in the tournament again!
Terry: What~~
Suguru: Ho…however, Terryman wasn’t knocked out or didn’t give up in the match with the Stray-Devil Combo.
Neptune: That is correct. However, didn’t he surrender to Ashuraman the Star Emblems, the symbol of American Choujin, to prove his surrender then?
Neptune: Look here!

122.
Terry: Now that he says it, it was then…!
Terry: Th…that moment: I took off my Star Emblems at once to save the life of Geronimo, who was taken as a hostage by Ashuraman!
Neptune: Terryman, you’re a Choujin who has lost his fighting spirit. You’re a Choujin who is not permitted to enter the ring ever again!
Terry: …………!?

123.
Neptune: Wh…what is that!?
Ashura: Te…Terryman, I’ve come to deliver what you’ve lost………!!

124.
(DREAM CHOUJIN TAG ARC)
SPECIAL VTR XXVI
KINNIKUMAN DUMBFOUNDED WITH GREAT’S TRUE IDENTITY

TN: Let me just start with this silly thought: why the heck are the "other faces" of Ashuraman suddenly on two of his three faces? Maybe he actually has spares back at home...I dunno. OK, with that said...it was obvious a whole explanation was going to be needed when Terry was finally exposed as Great as opposed to Suguru's conception that he was Kamehame all this time. He was going to be as lost as everyone else and was going to need to sort through things such as various realizations and situations that pretty much had been building all arc. But of course, the way that it was finally figured out sort of ruined whatever good really could have come of it anyway in a weird, strange way. For starters...yeah, Kamehame's corpse suddenly becomes a projector that allows for his ghost to be seen by Suguru. It was strange enough when Kamehame's ghost suddenly appeared the moment he died to Terry, but to literally have his body turn into a fleshy projector with his eyes as lenses...yeah, not a very smart idea. Another really silly aspect is...once again we got the whole matter of time and situations. As you remember, Terry made a promise to Dr. Bombe after his death that he would bury him and Kamehame together, due to all the friendship crap that was going on anyway. First of all...why the heck would he bury someone as important as Kamehame, one of the greatest Choujin warriors on Earth, so very close to the tournament site where Big the Budo (who is starting to get rather suspicious but I'll get to that soon) can exhume him instead of...well, waiting and holding on to the body to give it a proper burial elsewhere that is closer to where Kamehame felt more at home? Kamehame is crucial in the Choujin world so it's not like they couldn't hold on to it. (oh and I'm not really going to get into the matter of "Robin and Brocken know him too" since it really isn't an issue to one of them: remember, considering Robin took the same World Tour that Suguru did after winning his Choujin Olympics, it's obvious he too started in Hawaii and probably met/fought Kamehame while there...though that doesn't explain Brocken, he probably just heard of him) The second matter is, once again, a matter of time: Terry made a promise to Bombe to bury him and Kamehame together...and then they cut right back to the Tag Tournament finals without giving any real sense of how much time, whether it was a couple minutes or several hours, since that time! Did Terry even have enough time to take Bombe's body, go to a cemetery (let alone one which it's unknown if Kamehame was buried in yet), throw both in the ground, and then get back to prepare for the tag finals? I know I'm making too much of a big deal out of it...but sometimes I just wonder about the stupidity that sort of goes on when we aren't looking. Oh and one more thing: what exactly are Terry's star emblems made of that could break the last remaining glass pane on Tournament Mountain?