Sakigake!! Otoko Juku 68

Hien has finally sent Dokugantetsu plunging towards defeat, but once again a member of the Otokojuku Shitennou lies in wait! What abilities will be revealed by the tall-haired Senkuu...and will Hien finally rest to let Togashi fight!?

Chp. 68: Rikuke Murderer Fist

26.
Dokugantetsu: Gyaaa--!!
Dokugantetsu: Hi hii, I…I don’t want to die--!!
Toramaru: …………………!!

27.
Toramaru: Th…that Hien, he has a terrifying side with that kind face………………th…there isn’t any brutal killing method like that……………
Momotarou: Where are you looking? Toramaru, look closer once again.
Toramaru: Wh…what……!?
Toramaru: N~~!?
Toramaru: Aah! That Dokugantetsu is tied down by a string just in front of the basin---!!

28.
Hien: I just saved your life. You’ve freely tasted the terror of death.
Date: Fuffufu, he’s that sort of man.
Momotarou: When we didn’t know it, he tied his body to a cord.
Toramaru: Of…of course………

29.
Hien: This is what happened to your partner. While we’re at it, it’s best that you save him from falling from this ladder.
Senkuu: That won’t be necessary.

30.
Hien: !!
Dokugantetsu: Gugyaa---!!

31.
Toramaru: Wh…what--!!
Togashi: Th…that guy, he was your partner---!!
Senkuu: My partner………
Senkuu: I don’t remember having that worthless partner.

32.
Hien: Heretic……!!
Momotarou: Yet even so, that guy earlier had a technique that cut the rope Dokugantetsu was dangling on from a distance……!? He released it from 10 meters. And further, I didn’t see him throwing a blade.

33.
Senkuu: It’s best that you switch to the other partner. With your tired condition, there won’t be a match even if you fought me. You I’ll face slowly later.
Togashi: Right, Hien! Leave him to me here---!! Switch with me---!!
Hien: I…can’t, Togashi…I understand his strength…you who don’t know kenpou can’t possibly win.
Togashi: Wh…what is this, you Hien--!!
Senkuu: Fuffufu, you understand my strength………

34.
Hien: !!

35.
Hien: Wh…what---!!
Toramaru: Wh…what exactly is going on--!! Hi…his body is standing still floating in air----!!

36.
Hien: ……………!!
Senkuu: Are you Hien…your Choujinken is quite a thing. However, it’s kenpou status is different from mine.
Senkuu: RIKUKE OUGI: SENJOU ROUCHUUKEN!!
(TN: First, “Rikuke” = “Riku-School”, whereas “Riku” = “Kill”; secondly, “Ougi” is “Secret”, so this is a “Secret of Rikuke” or “Secret of Riku-School”. Finally, “Senjou Rouchuuken” = “Thousand-Piece String Set Fist”)
Hien: !?

37.
Toramaru: Hien---!! It’s…that! The technique that cut Dokugantetsu’s ropes----!!
Senkuu: Rikuke Ougi: Senjou Rouchuuken. As the name implies, you’ll die with your whole body getting chopped up into a thousand pieces.
Hien: I…don’t understand: this is different from even Tenbin Shouha! It’s as if my body is being cut by an innumerable amount of razor blades!


38.
Senkuu: Kakushi Senbon...did you think these things would get to me?
Senkuu: Now come on: can’t you get close to me while unarmed?
Hien: ………………!!
Hien: Though I don’t have weapons, it’s enough if I have one of my hands.

39.
Hien: Ugu!!
Hien: Th…this is………!!

40.
Senkuu: Fuffufu, you’ve stopped well. If you went one step further, your neck would have become separated from your body.
Toramaru: Right: he seemed like he could float through air because he was riding with those piano-string like things above him.
Momotarou: His hands spreading out before he flew earlier were so he could hit and attach the piano strings from point to point on the walls of the room.
Wan Taaren: Rikuke Ougi: Senjou Rouchuuken……………there isn’t anything that can fully see this technique today.
Commentary:
Senjou Rouchuuken…the secret fist of Rikuke, whose might was halved by the terrifying murdering kenpou Mouryouken, flowing in the darkness in the history of Chinese kenpou. It is a technique where blade-like steel wires, thing enough so they can’t be seen by eyes but sharpened so they’re terribly sharp, are freely controlled like whips. Due to its speed without air resistance with its thinness, it’s impossible to see with the naked eye. Further, its power is said to cut even bone to pieces.
-From “The Full Story of Rikuke”, Minmei Publishing
(TN: I really don’t know if they’re saying that Rikuke was “halved” by Mouryouken or is half of the terror alongside Mouryouken, I suggest someone look into this)

41.
Senkuu: You can see these steel wires…But even if you can somehow see them when they’ve stopped, you can’t see them when they wage their attack!
Senkuu: My next attack will end this.
Hien: No good…as he said: at this point, there isn’t any art that can get through those steel wires.

42.
Senkuu: Die--!!
Senkuu: !!

43.
Senkuu: Fuffufu, that’s your thought…………you’re reading the movement from putting the hair on your head on these unseeing steel wires…………
Hien: Togashi………at any rate, I ask you for the rest.
Togashi: Huh…!!
Hien: I’ll show you the final technique of Choujinken Hien!!

TN: Oh boy...when someone mentions a "final technique" at the end of a chapter, you know that's not a good sign! Then again, Hien is just stubborn thinking that Togashi, who is now calm and for the most part healthy (aside from that giant kanji on his body scarring him) can't fight because "he doesn't have a kenpou"...well he didn't have a kenpou when he fought you and took you to a draw, Hien, so don't say such things! Senkuu really didn't turn out as girly as I thought he would be, particularly with how creepy his "Senjou Rouchuuken" turned out in it's manipulation and only being seen either when stopped or when having something like hair revealing it's location. (not to mention literally turning Senkuu into one of those "flying Hong-Kong movie fighters)