Kinnikuman 333

Both of their teams have been eliminated except Ataru (the fake Soldier) and Phoenix, forcing them into a final showdown for the finals participant...except that neither one may not truly be on their own...

Chapter 333: Scramble for the Kinniku Throne (60): The Miraculous Reinforcements!!

128.
Announcer: Soldier has put on the supporter left behind by Buffaloman on his left arm and has thrown a Lariat to Phoenix’s throat---!!
Announcer: It’s as if Soldier is in a ghastly fight like he’s been transferred the grudges of his four teammates who have been defeated, starting with Buffaloman!!
Ataru: Buffaloman, these supporters you’ve left me were immediately helpful.

129.
Phoenix: Soldier, think about protecting your own body before you get flooded in memories of the dead Choujin---!!
Announcer: However, Team Phoenix’s captain Phoenix hasn’t lost! He’s using a Screw Drop Kick to an opening of Soldier; however, Soldier hasn’t noticed it!!
Suguru: Wh…what is that scarf that’s floating in midair!?

130.
Phoenix: Ge!!
Phoenix: Wh…what is this scarf!? I…can’t see……!!
Announcer: Phoenix has both eyes obstructed by the mysterious scarf, stalling his Drop Kick!!
Announcer: Soldier has thrown a killer poisonous needle Elbow Drop, not overlooking Phoenix’s failure---!!
(TN: “Killer poisonous needle Elbow Drop” uses the Japanese term “dokubari sappou” alongside the literal “Elbow Drop”: though it literally does translate into “poison-needle killer technique”, it is a Japanese term for an “elbow drop”…and since I didn’t really want to say it twice, I ended up using both the literal version in Japanese and “Elbow Drop” together)
Ataru: Th…that was dangerous: if it hadn’t been for that mysterious scarf obstructing Phoenix’s eyes…
Phoenix: Th…that’s…!?

131.
Ataru: Isn’t this the scarf removed from the neck of The Ninja so he could further his fierce fighting during his match with Satan Cross!!
Ataru: This…can’t be…feeling my crisis, this scarf possessed an intention to help me out…
Phoenix: You just have strong bad luck barking about a reason that this scrap of cloth possesses intention----!!
Announcer: Phoenix now has Soldier from the top level of the rope

132.
Announcer: And has captured him in the stance for an Avalanche-Style Double Arm Suplex---!!
Announcer: This is a Double Arm with long flight duration: will this be Phoenix’s resuscitating shot---!?
Suguru: Owa—that Phoenix: he’s planning on investing all his own power in this shot!!
Suguru: He’ll be helpless taking that!!
Suguru: Ooh, that’s!?

133.
Suguru: Isn’t that Ashruaman’s apron---!?
Phoenix: Die, Soldier!!
Announcer: Phoenix is throwing Soldier with the power of his entire body~~…
Announcer: Ah…we—ll, please hold on: something is suddenly diving into the ring---!!
Ataru: Th…that’s Ashuraman’s…!?
Phoenix: Uo!!
Announcer: Ashuraman’s apron has entered to rescue Soldier…

134.
Announcer: It was late! It was after Phoenix had already attacked with his Avalanche-Style Double Arm Suplex---!!
Audience: It’s too late!!
Suguru: Aah!!
Suguru: A military uniform: it’s the military uniform Brocken Jr. flung off during his deadly struggle with Prisman---!!

135.
Announcer: It’s a continuing miracle! Now Brocken Jr.’s military uniform has caught Soldier’s body on the verge of him crashing the canvas!!


136.
Ataru: Ashuraman and Brocken Jr!! Are you two watching over me too!!
Ataru: I am such a lucky fellow: with these, even while I’m fighting alone, these left-behind ring costumes of my defeated teammates have protected me! Thank you, everyone!!
Robin: Apparently this is a strange incident thinking of this miracle, but if you think of Soldier and his teammates, who are tied by firm bonds and trust greater than we Idol Choujin, this miracle occurring is natural…

137.
Ramen: …The True – Friendship Power of Team Soldier with Soldier’s group has their breath blown even to the ring costumes of the deceased…
Suguru: …………
Robin: Kinnikuman…
Suguru: Robin and Ramenman: perhaps, we may be paired up with Team Soldier in the Finals Ring!! It isn’t clearly black or white whether the original Friendship Power of we Idol Choujin or their True – Friendship Power will win!!

138.
(No comment really, just a page holder)

139.
Announcer: Well, with the success of his immediate turnaround, it seems a matter of time before the wave-riding Soldier will defeat Soldier and head forwards to the finals---!!
Ataru: Take this—my finishing Flying Head Butt---!!
Announcer: Is this match---!?
Voice: Hold on: don’t forget that I’m still on Team Phoenix!!
Announcer: Somehow a gold Shachihoko is flying aiming for the cube ring from around the Fighting Castle---!!
Announcer: It’s aiming for Soldier from that direction---!!

140.
Ataru: Ha!!
Mammoth: You’re one who avoided it skillfully as expected, Soldier.
Ataru: Ma…Mammothman, you’re alive!!
Announcer: So…somehow Mammothman, who we had thought took Buffaloman’s life-risking Buffalo Bomb and was KOed, is alive---!!

141.
Mammoth: We should have said this: every one of us on Team Phoenix is all immortal.
Ataru: …So why did you show yourself taking Buffaloman’s attack and getting K.O.ed!?
Mammoth: It was so I could steal this thing I had wanted him to be negligent with.
Ataru: Ge! Is…isn’t that the page written with my true identity from the Muscle Prophecy!!
Caption: OSAKA CASTLE—
Mayumi: That can’t be: that Prophecy page that Buffaloman had desperately protected to his end should not have been handed over to Mammothman!!

142.
Mammoth: In truth, I had not stolen the page of the Prophecy even once during my struggle to the death with Buffaloman.
Mammoth: However, at the moment he thought he had K.O.ed me with his Buffalo Bomb, Buffaloman was greatly negligent.
Mammoth: He forgot about protecting the Prophecy page because of the cube ring, whose floatation device broke down and fallen to there.
Mammoth: So he could save Soldier, Buffaloman released the Prophecy page without thinking…
Mammoth: And that’s the reason that I, who appeared to be K.O.ed, successfully got my hands on it.

143.
Mayumi: Wh…what’s he saying: that page of the Prophecy Buffaloman protected to the end by throwing his life away is in the hands of Team Phoenix---!!
Phoenix: Kukuku…you attacked an opening in Buffaloman…you’ve done it, Mammothman. Now read out loud the true identity of the fake Soldier that is written on that Prophecy page, Mammothman!!
Mammoth: Got it—
Mammoth: …Um…wh…when the skull falls…
Mayumi: Uwa~~this is the end of everything~~~!!
Mammoth: ……The vortex man…
Voice: That’s far enough, Mammothman!!

144.
Ataru: Mammothman, if you’ve finish reading all of that Prophecy Page, Phoenix’s body will be stuck to the ground 350m below us!
Announcer: Soldier is carrying Phoenix’s body in the stance of a Brain Buster---!!
Phoenix: Mammothman, don’t care about me, read out the Prophecy!!
Mammoth: Bu…but…
Ataru: Do you think this is merely a threat?
Mammoth: Uuh…damn…
Suguru: As expected, your bargaining is great, Soldier!!

145.
Ataru: Uuh!!
Phoenix: ………?
Ataru: Guwa!!
Announcer: What’s wrong here: the power from the outside isn’t really being added, and yet Soldier’s body is suddenly starting to twist around---!!
Audience: AAH!!
Mammoth: Wh…what: the moment I twisted the Prophecy’s page, Soldier’s body suddenly…
Mammoth: Right: it’s due to this. This Prophecy page written with the true identity of Soldier is…the blood, muscle and bones for Soldier too! In short, this thing is Soldier’s existence!!

146.
Phoenix: Right—therefore, Mammothman, if you twist that Prophecy page, it also twisted Soldier’s body!!
Phoenix: Mammothman, I’ve thought of a fun idea.
Phoenix: Burn that Prophecy page in a torch that’s blazing around the Fighting Castle!!
Mammoth: Got it!!

147.
Mayumi: Wh…what is this…all of the prophecies that are written in the Muscle Prophecy are things written with what will certainly happen in the future by the ancestors of the Kinniku Clan! Burning that one page is like erasing a part of history!!
Mayumi: In…other words: burning that page written about Ataru will end up erasing Ataru’s existence from history!!
Announcer: So…somehow now Soldier’s legs have started to disappear---!!

148.
(SCRAMBLE FOR THE KINNIKU THRONE ARC)
SPECIAL VTR LI (XXXXXI)
KINNIKUMAN SOLDIER VS. KINNIKUMAN SUPER PHOENIX

TN: You know, this chapter has just revealed to me the truth regarding Team Phoenix...in particular, the true genius of this "Intelligence team". Super Phoenix may claim he's the big shot calling all the shots, but he just seems to be a puppet or pawn of the Evil Gods...whether just his own or all five as it is now. Satan Cross is just a Choujin who essentially has battle skill but is mostly just Samson Teacher possessed by a parasite paying back a debt. Prisman...is just crazy and battle happy. And #5...who knows what he's like! And yet with all the others being either controlled or oblivious to everything, the true genius emerges: Mammothman. Think about it: everything Mammothman has done in this entire tournament, even as far back as the Big Body fights (when we saw him figure how to instantly kill Leopardon, hold an even match with Goleman until three of Mariposa's fighters won and took the fall against Cannonballer just so Phoenix could fight the leader) has just shown an incredible battle genius that just doesn't exist within any of the other members of Team Phoenix! And meanwhile, we've seen his genius already in literally saving Phoenix from a killing-intent Napalm Stretch by manipulating air currents with nothing but his Big Tusks and a piece of canvas. But this chapter...well, whether intentional or not, it just ended up proving that Mammothman has a sixth sense to everything regarding the match! If Mammothman had not decided to crumble the Muscle Prophecy page at that one moment just before Ataru threw his boss overboard, then Phoenix would have died instantly (Evil Gods or no Evil Gods) and it would have been all for nothing to even have that page for either himself or Phoenix! I don't know if it's intentional or just coincidental but...the more I see Mammothman fight, the more I realize him as the genius he truly is...or the utter idiocy that now is screwing even further thanks to how broken and ridiculous the Muscle Prophecy is in the first place. (I mean come on: considering how many names are on that page about Ataru, why is it suddenly "Ataru's page" just because he saved Suguru for that one moment?...AND WHERE THE HECK DID THOSE STUPID TORCHES COME FROM ALL OF A SUDDEN: THEY WEREN'T AROUND EITHER CASTLES BEFORE, LET ALONE THIS SO-CALLED FUSED FIGHTING CASTLE WHERE THE TOURNAMENT HAS BEEN TAKING PLACE ALL THIS TIME!??!?!? ARE THEY THAT DESPERATE TO KILLING ATARU OFF!?)

I really have nothing further to say this time...I could complain about the "magic clothing" of Team Soldier, but with the bizarre insane things Friendship Power has come to do in this series, this is now par for the course so I can't really say that it's really shocking or stupid or sick. Though the one funny thing: Ataru ended up doing some technique we've never seen Buffaloman do with that "Buffalo Hammer"...but I guess considering he doesn't have the 10 Million Powers of the original owner nor the 100 Million of Phoenix, this is as close as he is going to get to a Hurricane Mixer, so just live with it.