Kinnikuman 338

A clue by a mysterious (sort of) Choujin has lead Suguru to two towers that reflect as one...but will this be the key to solving the mystery of the Perfect Muscle Spark? And what of Warsman and Ramenman's preparations for the finals?

Chapter 338: Scramble for the Kinniku Throne (65): Enlightenment!? Muscle Spark!!

47.
Terry: That’s right: using the mysterious phenomenon where the images of the South Tower and North Towers overlap in this mirror-surface lake and are reflected as one
Robin: If we put up dolls performing the Suguru-Edition Muscle Spark on the South Tower and the Ataru-Edition Muscle Spark on the North Tower…
Suguru: The images will overlap and the Perfect Muscle Spark may appear in the mirror-surface lake!!

48.
Robin: He—y, this is Robin here on South Tower. Doll stand-by OK!!
Terry: Terry here, I’m OK too!!

49.
Robin: I’m putting together these two dolls in the form of the Suguru-Edition Muscle Spark on South Tower
Terry: Now I’m putting together these two dolls in the form of Ataru-Edition Muscle Spark in North Tower
Suguru: Going from 1 & 2 to 3, drop both of them from the South and North Towers at the same time! When we do that, the image of the combined Suguru-Edition and Ataru-Edition will be reflected in the mirror-surface lake; that probably will be the form of the Perfect Muscle Spark!!
Suguru: …Theoretically I think it will be perfect, but whether it really will be successful or not………
Robin: What’s wrong, Kinnikuman: if this isn’t going to be successful, then it’s better that you think up a different method!!
Terry: Choujin go down the thorny path, as was said in the Three Knowledges of the Kinniku Royal Family!! Don’t give this up, Kinnikuman!!

50.
Suguru: Alright: I’m stand-by on OK here too! Come at it at any time!!
Robin: Right, let’s go: Suguru-Edition Muscle Spark!!
Terry: Here too is the Ataru-Edition Muscle Spark!!
Robin: Well—Kinnikuman, was it successful---!?

51.
Suguru: …It’s…it’s reflecting what it’s reflecting………it still hasn’t become the reflection of the Perfect Muscle Spark, it’s just reflecting the overlap of the images of the Ataru-Edition and Suguru-Edition Muscle Spark---!!
Terry: It failed………
Suguru: Ho…hold on---!!
Suguru: The Suguru-Edition and Ataru-Edition Muscle Sparks reflecting in the lake have started fusing into one---!!
Suguru: Here it comes, here it comes………!

52.
Suguru: There it is--!!
Caption: A CERTAIN BAMBOO THICKET IN NARA
Wars: N…no: I had this special bamboo arrow training I was performing so I could counter Mammothman’s Nose Fencing and Big Tusks, but…I can’t avoid just one of the fifty flying arrows no matter what…

53.
Wars: I’m getting stabbed a countless number of times by arrows that I’ve come to avoid there throughout my body for that reason…what’s…left in where I can’t get stabbed is just my heart section………
Wars: If…if I unmistakingly get shot through my heart when I come to avoid these arrows one more time, I’ll die…
Neptune: …………
Wars: Hey, I really won’t be able to fight Mammothman at Osaka Castle by getting stabbed in the heart by an arrow here! Somehow I must clear these fifty arrows---!!

54.
Wars: My actions have to be quicker by 0.01 seconds than how it’s been until now…if I can do that, then I certainly could avoid the last one.
Wars: 45, 46, 47…I’m…doing it! My body is light like a lie! I can do it like this: I can avoid the final, 50th arrow!!
Wars: This is the last one—
Neptune: Mammothman’s Big Tusks isn’t limited in attacking you one at a time: there are times he uses two simultaneously---!!

55.
Wars: Ge—there’s another spear along with the bamboo arrow---!!
Wars: But if I can’t avoid it, I’ll die!!
Wars: ……

56.
Wars: Warsman Smile!!
Wars: Haa haa, wh…what can I say? Though I had just been avoiding the last of the bamboo spears that I couldn’t avoid even with this many troubles until now, I easily coped with even the appearance of an unexpected giant spear…
Wars: Perhaps I may not have been able to avoid this last arrow having been soft in my preparations in my practices until now…my body was naturally nervous with the appearance of the unplanned giant spear and it fully opened a sleeping power within me…
Wars: It seems I had been taught by this giant spear.

57.
Wars: But who exactly threw this spear!?
Caption: KOUBE—
Prism: Phoenix-sama, that Warsman has finally seemed to master a plan to defeat Mammothman’s Nose Fencing and Big Tusks.
Phoenix: Ugu…
Caption: SARUSAWA POND—
Ramen: Uwa!!

58.
Ramen: N…no: no matter how many times we do this, I get showered by the beam.
Meat: Ramenman, what are you doing---!!
Meat: I clearly told you: the attack that you’re facing from the Prisman doll now has been the lowest among the special-trainings today.
Meat: You’re too scared of the Rainbow Shower being fired by the Prisman doll; you take in the attack as your body prepares to flee.
Ramen: Though I am watching it, I see Prisman’s doll body that fires the spontaneous Rainbow Shower…thus, my body comes to not move being already scared and by the time I realize it, I’m flatly taking the Rainbow Shower!
Neptune: …………

59.
Ramen: Brocken, you too died while shaking of the terror of the Rainbow Shower like this--!!
Ramen: What’s that?
Meat: It seems like a letter.
Ramen: Your eyes are just on your face…they’re not on the back of your head…
Letter: YOUR EYES ARE JUST ON YOUR FACE
THEY’RE NOT ON THE
BACK OF YOUR HEAD
Meat: What’s that: that meaningless sentence? The back of your head…
Ramen: Of…of course: I’ve figured it out!!

60.
Ramen: Meat-kun, watch this: my plan to defeat Prisman’s Rainbow Shower!! I’m resuming special training !!
Meat: Huh!! You’ve turned your…back to it!?
Ramen: If I turn to the front, then I’ll see Prisman’s body with my eyes, feeling terror from it again…
Ramen: Thus, I might as well turn my back to it, making it better for completely not seeing Prisman’s body---!!
Meat: No—no matter how much you can’t see Prisman’s body, it won’t suspend his Rainbow Shower!!

61.
Meat: Clever! He stopped Prisman’s Rainbow Shower with his coat!!
Ramen: Rear Windmill---!!
(TN: This attack I sort of had a tough time figuring out: the Japanese name is “Kouhou Fuusha”; “Fuusha” is obviously “Windmill”, but “Kouhou” is Japanese for “behind”, “back” or “rear”. Originally I was going to use “Reverse” for it, but it’s not a “reverse technique”, it’s merely Ramenman hitting Prisman’s doll with his feet without looking at it moving backwards. I ended up going with “rear” since it is Ramenman moving from the rear to Prisman’s front)
Neptune: Ramenman and Warsman have done well here…so then, shall I go look at Kinnikuman’s state again…

62.
Caption: YAKUSHIMARU TEMPLE: IN FRONT OF SOUTH AND NORTH TOWERS—
Robin: Kinnikuman, Terryman, have you made your preparations--!!
Terry: Yep: Terryman’s preparations are ready here on North Tower!!
Suguru: Kinnikuman is always ready here on South Tower!!
Suguru: Fine then, Terryman: the performance of the techniques isn’t going to be doll to doll this time: it will virtually be us performing the Suguru-Edition and Ataru-Edition Muscle Sparks by our own hands!!
Suguru: I’ll do the Suguru-Edition Muscle Spark from the top of South Tower!!
Terry: I’ll do the Ataru-Edition Muscle Spark from the top of North Tower!!

63.
Suguru: The two Muscle Sparks will fall from the top of both South and North Towers at the same time! When we do that, this time 50% + 50% will become 100% and the Perfect Muscle Spark, which is the dreams of big bro Ataru and myself, will appear by being the image in the mirror-surface lake where Robin is standing!!
Robin: The sun will be starting to set soon; we don’t have time, so let’s start--!!
Suguru: Right!!
Suguru: Let’s go, Terryman!!
Terry: Right!!
Suguru: Suguru-Edition Muscle Spark!!
Terry: Ataru-Edition Muscle Spark!!

64.
Robin: There…it is---!!
Robin: It’s the perfected Muscle Spark that seemed to appear when we tested with the dolls earlier!!
Robin: It’s there---!! An image of a perfected Muscle Spark by living Choujin---!!

65.
Voice: Ugyaa---!!
Robin: Geee—it isn’t just an image reflected in the lake; Kinnikuman is virtually performing a Perfect Muscle Spark on Terryman---!!

66.
(SCRAMBLE FOR THE KINNIKU THRONE ARC)
SPECIAL VTR LV (XXXXXV)
WHO IS THE TRUE IDENTITY OF THE MYSTERIOUS SHADOW WATCHING OVER THE JUSTICE CHOUJIN?

TN: There's something that I really like about this chapter and the previous one that I really never got the chance to say...and that this will probably be the only time I'll be able to say it: I like that we actually have quiet away from all matters of Choujin fighting for once. No roaring crowds, no insane explanations, no stupid announcer repeating everything that we see...just Suguru and the other Justice Choujin honing their skills for what will be the fight of their lives. Yeah there isn't any particular character development like the early days and it's more on technique development, but to tell the truth...I like the quiet. For the first
time in forever, it feels like they're doing something else, but of course this is essentially the calm before the storm: the battle of Osaka Castle will be the final battle of the series so having this three-days of quiet is enough time to take a long-needed breather before the home stretch.

On the other hand, I think it's about time I bring something up about...well, Neptuneman. (mysterious helping Choujin my butt, it's not like anyone else wears that visor with the only other one a dead corpse last seen being preyed upon by the Evil Gods) I really don't mind and understand Neptuneman being good again considering he learned his lessons for being lead astray in the stupid propaganda of Neptune King using his strength to lead to an invasion of his own forces. My only real question for the moment this: why is he so intent to make sure Suguru's team win the tournament? Well OK, maybe it's obvious (to stop the Evil Gods from doing so), but the next question: why would he rather help Suguru's group in the shadows instead of showing himself? We know he does show respect to Ataru from a couple chapters ago, but there are some strange questions as to why he is doing what he's doing...well aside from figuring out how an exploding Perfect Choujin comes back to life but that we'll find out later.