Kinnikuman 321

It's the final showdown of two Fated Princes as the greed-driven Kinnikuman Zebra faces off for a final time against the friendship-empowered Suguru! But with everything on the line, who will have the trump card that will take this!?

Chapter 321: Scramble for the Kinniku Throne (48): Zebra Kid’s Friendship

67.
Ramen & Robin: THE HANDSHAKE OF FRIENDSHIP!!
Announcer: Kinnikuman, who was thrown out of the ring by Zebra, has been rescued by Robin Mask and Ramenman’s Handshake of Friendship---!!

68.
Zebra: Wh…what!?
Ramen: …………
Ramen: U…uuh, my body’s getting ripped to pieces…
Robin: You can do this, Ramenman, if you let go of Kinnikuman’s hand, Kinnikuman’s body will crash into the arena wall…
Ramen: Ooh…leave it to me: even if my body is torn in two, I won’t let Kinnikuman’s hand go…
Suguru: Ra…Ramenman, Robin…
Announcer: This truly is Team Kinnikuman, who is betting their lives for Kinnikuman’s succession to the throne and are fighting by becoming one!!

69.
Zebra: Wh…why~~though they don’t have a large amount of money from Kinnikuman, why are these guys betting their lives?
Zebra: Did they say it was for friendship? If this had friendship only for money, then you can buy them and you can throw them away----!!
Suguru: Zebra, do you remember: we said there is a thing that can never be bought with money in this world…
Suguru: That is…

70.
Suguru: FRIENDSHIP POWER---!!
Announcer: Kinnikuman has been thrusted head-first, aiming for the face of Zebra in the ring---!!

71.
Ramen: Aah!!
Announcer: It was Kinnikuman, who waged the attack, who was knocked down---!!
Zebra: R…right: the power of malice and hatred that covers my body has strengthened my body while simultaneously making my soul brutal.
Zebra: So to say, it’s the same effect as putting a steel armor over my body!!
Zebra: Kukuku…the goddess of victory hasn’t abandoned me.
Announcer: Zebra has taken out one of the four iron poles supporting the ring, but what is he really planning to do!?

72.
Announcer: This is cruel: Zebra is beating up the fallen Kinnikuman with the iron pole that he took out!!
Zebra: Gya—hahaha: I’ve won! The power of malice and hatred beats Friendship Power!!
Suguru: Guo!!
Ramen: Kinnikuman…
Zebra: It’s over---!!
Zebra: (internal) UH!!
Zebra: (internal): WH…WHAT’S GOING ON? I SHOULD BE USED TO SEEING A CHOUJIN WITH GREAT BLOODSHED, AND YET THE MOMENT I SAW KINNIKUMAN BLEEDING, MY POWER OF MALICE AND HATRED HAS FADED…
Announcer: Zebra isn’t moving!!

73.
Suguru: Zebra, somehow the moment you saw blood, your power of malice and hatred faded, like you’ve come to not believe in this brutality!
Suguru: That’s because in just one part of your body, there is a part not dyed black in the shadow of malice and hatred---!!
Zebra: That’s right…since there was Robin Mask, who possesses the power of justice, in one part of Parthenon’s body when I undertook the Shadow Shower a second time from Parthenon earlier, there is white remaining that had not been fired as a shadow of malice and hatred just from there----!!
Zebra: Therefore, by seeing Kinnikuman’s bloodshed, I couldn’t believe in this brutality…

74.
Suguru: Friendship Power cannot die---!!
Announcer: Kinnikuman’s Screw Kick has exploded the part of Zebra’s body that isn’t covered in the shadow of malice and hatred---!!
Suguru: Take it once more!!
Zebra: Am I going to do that---!!
Announcer: He avoided Kinnikuman!!

75.
Zebra: Kinnikuman, don’t forget that I still have remaining one of the Three Secrets of the Kinniku Clan.
Announcer: Zebra is nimbly jumping around the entire space of the rope, increasing his own form by multiple times---!!
Ramen: Th…that technique is!?
Robin: That cornered Kinnikuman to the verge of KO earlier…
Suguru: The Muscle Inferno!!
Announcer: That’s what it is! This technique, which was used to exchange his affectionately beloved Kid, who was his only close friend since he was young, for backdoor admission into the Choujin Association by slaughtering him, was said to be this Muscle Inferno.

76.
Zebra: Kinnikuman, the Muscle Inferno I used on you earlier clearly an incomplete one used for its debut. Until now, I’ve only used the Perfect Muscle Inferno when I massacred my beloved Kid!!
Zebra: However, now I have come to must use the perfected Muscle Inferno on you, Kinnikuman, for the first time since Zebra Kid!!
(TN: Zebra actually makes an expression of “Shimauma Kiddo Irai Hisashiburi Ni”, which is “after a long time since Zebra Kid”…but since he hasn’t used it since then, I made it work as “for the first time since Zebra Kid”)
Robin: Kinnikuman, it’s ridiculously honest that you can’t take this technique!! The equivalence of extent of Zebra’s technique is just within the ring! If you can escape to the outside, then you can end it without taking the technique!!
Suguru: Robin, I really do want to run away, but, greater than that, I’ve come to want to clear away the grudge of Zebra Kid, who died being betrayed by the master he believed in.
Robin & Ramen: What’s that---!!
Suguru: What exactly were Kid’s feelings when he died……

77.
Zebra: Hey, I’m sure that he died thinking he was betrayed by me. Further, I won’t repent for it.
Zebra: Ge!!
Suguru: There’s something you don’t know, but I have a hunch that Zebra Kid is making an address to my heart from somewhere.
Zebra: Ki…Kid’s form is behind Kinnikuman~~~!!
Zebra: That’s…stupid: how could I say that the dead Kid is appearing in that form: I’m certain it’s an illusion~~~~!!
Zebra: Sorya---!!
Announcer: Well, Zebra, who has increased to four, are simultaneously swooping down on Kinnikuman---!!

78.
Caption: OSAKA CASTLE—
Mayumi: Run! Don’t you get that I’m saying to run, Suguru!!
Announcer: The true Zebra, who has become one, is pushing up Kinnikuman’s body high to the ceiling----!!
Zebra: MUSCLE INFERNO---!!

79.
Robin: That Kinnikuman, what is he thinking? Isn’t this what Zebra is wishing for?
Ramen: It’s Kid…The soul of Kid, who was massacred by Zebra, has possessed Kinnikuman.
Announcer: Has Kinnikuman already prepared himself? He really doesn’t show an indication that he’s escaping from the technique!!
Suguru: Zebra Kid: you too took the Muscle Inferno by Zebra many years ago like this, slaughtering you…
Suguru: The front wall is drawing near before my eyes bit by bit…you were certainly scared!!
Suguru: Wh…what…Kid, you crashed into the wall with the top of your head and didn’t hold even a bit of fear when you smashed into it!?

80.
Suguru: How---!?
Zebra: Wh…what is this nostalgic feeling!? I should be riding the body of Kinnikuman, but it’s as if I’m riding on the back of Kid.
Zebra: Hey, that’s fine with me too: at any rate, I’ll defeat Kinnikuman and fulfill the being the first to reach the finals----!!
Announcer: Is there nothing more Kinnikuman can do---!?
Suguru: Rodeo Skip!!
Zebra: Uh!!

81.
Announcer: Zebra’s stance has been destroyed on the verge of completing his technique---!!
Ramen: Right: a horse has a disposition of shaking whoever is riding them from their back when confronted with a crisis---!!
Robin: Therefore Kinnikuman, who was possessed by the soul of Kid, unconsciously shook of Zebra!!
Suguru: Now!!

82.
Suguru: Kinnikuman Special Hold No. 3! Incomplete Muscle Spark!!
Phoenix: Now it’s over.
Zebra: Geho!!

83.
Zebra: Ho…how…my Muscle Inferno, which was just that perfect a finisher, was…
Suguru: Zebra Kid, who took that Muscle Inferno by you many years ago, simply could have shaken you off just like today.
Suguru: However, Kid couldn’t dare to. It was because he thought he didn’t care even for dying as a sacrifice if you, Zebra, could enter the Choujin Association! Kid took the Muscle Inferno on purpose and died for your successful career!!
Zebra: A...man such as me didn't kn...know these feelings of Kid…forgive me, Ki…Kid…

84.
Announcer: This grand battle of secrets has been lifted by the tactics of Kinnikuman!! At this moment, it’s decided that Team Kinnikuman is the first to traverse to the Scramble for the Throne finals---!!
Suguru: ZEBRA, THAT ACT BEING TAKEN BY YOUR BELOVED KID: THAT'S WHAT HE CALLED FRIENDSHIP…
Robin: Well, Kinnikuman, the Bloodstained Snow-White Cape Ceremony!
Suguru: Right...if I don't dye this snow-white cape crimson with the blood that flows from the body of the crushed Fated Princes, I won't be recognized as the legitimate Throne Successor of Planet Kinniku by the Choujin Gods.
Suguru: As a fellow maskman, I always get embarrased by this moment...

85.
Suguru: Forgive me, Zebra.
Announcer: Well, continuing from Mariposa, Kinnikuman has dyed his snow-white cape with the blood of Zebra---!!
Suguru: That's one more!!
Suguru: Though really, will I be fighting in ring of Osaka Caslte for the finals against Phoenix...? Or will it be Soldier...?

86.
(SCRAMBLE FOR THE KINNIKU THRONE ARC)
SPECIAL VTR XL (XXXX)
KINNIKUMAN VS. KINNIKUMAN ZEBRA

TN: Let's get this straight one more time in case we hadn't missed it before: Muscle Inferno is a poor excuse for a be-all-and-end-all final special technique. Considering that this technique pretty much has the silliest and most obvious of flaws (push your body up like a horse to throw your rider off), it really has no purpose of being there except looking cool. And let's not forget the stupidest part: the only reason it seemed so ultimate is because Zebra Kid WANTED to die! Yeah, it was sort of obvious last chapter considering that this zebra who was best friends with the man who took care of it and helped him raise the money decided to let himself become a pelt so that Powerfulman could enter the Choujin Associations (corrupted by the message of the man who wanted it instead of the one who provided it in the first place), but it just seems so dumb that the hoopla of this match and the hype of one of the most powerful techniques in existence...would be deflated by the whole aspect of "you can throw him off at any time, most just don't realize it because they don't have a zebra possessing them through the magical power of friendship". (strangely enough, I did like that Zebra got deja vu to Zebra Kid during the final Muscle Inferno...but having him literally be by Suguru's side and possess him making it fail was just ridiculous beyond compare, yet another deus es machina in a series filled with them) And meanwhile...well, it's really hard for me to call Suguru's final the "incomplete Muscle Spark" because it really was nothing like the Muscle Spark at all and just used some concepts of it in a completely new and different move that was "sort-of-Muscle Spark-ish". But...at least this is over and we can get to...oh brother, one of the longest fights of the series filled with it's own can of worms ready to erupt!