Hell Teacher Nube 21

If you are what you eat, then one of Nube's students may be the creme de la creme. But when his gourmet nature is put to a spiritual test, he may be starving for the ultimate relief...

#21: Gakidama

107.
Woman: Now come on out. I’m certain you’ll be cured with the teacher that is here!
SFX: GATSU GATSU MUSHA MUSHA…

108.
Caption: THE VICTIM THIS TIME: SHIRATO SHUICHI-KUN
Shuichi: Fu.

109.
Announcer: Everyone, it’s time for the lunch campus broadcast.
Nube: Ooh~~today’s school lunch is cream stew? Thank you every day to the lady of the lunch center! (so happy~~)
(TN: “Cream stew” is generally a stew made with a white, creamy sauce)
Caption: For the single Nube, the school lunch is the sole chance he can have an honest meal! (the rest are just instant commodities). Pray that he gets married to Ritsuko-sensei soon!

110.
SFX: POI POI
SFX: ZABA—
SFX: GAN GAN
Nube: No~~o
Shuichi: Adiós.
Nube: AGAIN, SHUICHI!
Nube: What’s with leaving them like this? You didn’t eat most of it.
Shuichi: Fu
Shuichi: It’s because I’m a gourmet. (Fu) These plain things can’t be received in my stomach.
Girl: No way~~
Girl 2: How about it’s because your home manages a high-class restaurant—
111.
Nube: How are they plain things? Look, Hiroshi and Kyouko are joyfully eating it like they’re starving pigs!
Hiroshi & Kyouko: It’s bad.
Shuichi: Well well, you don’t know of my home. For me, I wouldn’t eat it even if I was on the verge of starving to death.
Kyouko: Te…teacher, calm down…
Nube: UOOO
Hiroshi: We won’t let go so you won’t once hit that cheeky brat!
Nube: HOW DARE YOU SPEAK ILL OF MY BELOVED SCHOOL MEALS~~~
Shuichi: Well, if I wanted to eat a school meal, I’d bring out steaks of living scallop abductors and abalone little-deviled-style and a T-bone steak of fresh Kobe beef.
(TN: A couple notes:
“Deviled style”, whether it is seafood like scallops or abalone or other means, is usually a highly-spicy dish, usually involving mustard or cayenne but could also just be a really spicy dish.
While “Kobe beef” is rather well known throughout the world, the reason why it is known involves the raising of special “Tajima-ushi” breed of Wagyu cattle in a strict tradition held in Hyougo Prefecture, which includes the city of Kobe. This leads to the beef becoming a delicacy and highly prized throughout the world for it’s flavor and marbled texture of meat and fat)

Principal: Nueno-kun, a moment.
Principal: A student in Doumori requested they want an exorcism without fail…
Sign: PRINCIPAL OFFICE

112.
SFX: GA GA MUSHA…
Hiroshi: Eww, what is that greedy woman?
Kyouko: She seems like she’s gone without eating or drinking for months…
Nube: You can’t see this exorcism; return to the classroom.
Kyouko: What, is she possessed by such a dangerous spirit?
Nube: What possesses this girl is a “wasteful monster”, so you say.
Nube: This possesses you if you humble food. And the possessed person becomes malnourished and ends up dead.

113.
Nube: If you understand, then return to the classroom; because the possessed person is within here.
Kyouko: Chie—
Shuichi: Hmph…
Woman: She’s suddenly become skinny since exactly a month ago…even if she eats and eats, she simply…
Nube: I’ll be fine, mother. I’ve experienced this exorcism several times.
Nube: Please go outside from here. And never watch this. This is contagious.
Voice: Chie, he locked it and closed the curtain.
Shuichi: That Nube, he plans on insulating it from me, but can I be scared of this lie that’s kid’s stuff?

114.-115.
Shuichi: I’ve got it! One of them is open. Al—right, I’ll peep in there…
SFX: SUSUSU…
Shuichi: !
Shuichi: What? Are these lights like fireflies…?
SFX: SU—
SFX: SHURURU…
Shuichi: Uh…
Shuichi: Something…is making me feel bad. I shouldn’t have seen that after all…
Nube: Eh—so, now for the 5th Period class…

116.
SFX: GUU~~GURURU…KYU~~
Shuichi: I’m hungry…
Shuichi: What’s wrong with me, I’m at my limit today…it would have been better to eat the school lunch…
SFX: GURURU | KYU~~
SFX: Koso Koso
Shuichi: Miki-kun, can’t you share a bit of that candy?
Miki: No way, can’t you buy your own since you have money?
Shuichi: I’ll exchange my German-style fountain pen.
(TN: While there is a long history for fountain pens, the Germans became well known for them in the 1800s and it remains a notable writing implement in Western Europe even today)
Box: CHOCO MATANKO
Miki: N, I’ve given them to you already. Say a—h (heart)
Shuichi: No…I’m getting hungry from when I eat to as I’ve eaten them…why?
SFX: GATSU GATSU | GUU | KYUU—
Kyouko: Hold on! Where is that book I loaned you last month?
SFX; GURURU~~KYU—
Hiroshi: U—m, it’s actually in my desk…

117.
Kyouko: WH…WHAT IS THAT~~!?
Hiroshi: HIEEE, ITS MOLDY BREAD, GROSS~~~
Caption: —6th Period—
Nube: Eh? You want to rest from phys-ed due to a pain in your stomach?
Nube: Right, well rest in the infirmary.
Nube: !
Nube: Could it be? No…They were exterminated, not leaving one…they should be…
Shuichi: Haa…haa…this pain…
Shuichi: Why is my stomach empty like this? I’ll take off my clothes and look at my body…
SFX: GURURU | GUU~~ | KYU~
SFX: !

118.
Shuichi: UWAA!?
SFX: GO!
Shuichi: Hii!?
Shuichi: Uuh~~food, food--!
SFX: GARBAGE CAN
Shuichi: Uuuh…there’s mold growing on it, it stinks, and I feel bad…this is terrible but…I’m hungry and I can’t go without eating…
SFX: TACHA KUCHA TACHA KUCHA
Shuichi: I’ve been cursed for humbling food…Teacher, save me~~~!

119.
Shuichi: Uuh…uuuuuh…
Sign: FLOWER BED: DO NOT ENTER!!
Shuichi: I’M HUNGRY…I’M HUNGRY~~~!!
SFX: GATSU GATSU | MUSHA MUSHA
Shuichi: Ge~~~wh…what did I eat…no, my stomach is too empty and I’ve come to be unlit by discrimination…
Shuichi: At least…a much more honest thing…
Girl: Well—today we’re making cake in Home Ec!

120.
SFX: BITA~~
Shuichi: Uuuh…
Girls: KYAAAA!!
Nube: WHAT, THAT WAS SHUICHI!?
Kyouko: He ate up all of the ingredients in the Home Ec lab…and going to the science lab!
Nube: It can’t be…
Nube: Shuichi--!
SFX: GARA | SHI

121.
SFX: MUSHA…MUSHA…MUSHA…|NITA~~~…
Kyouko: He’s eating a snake specimin…
Nube: Damn it, he was possessed after all…
Nube: Get the exorcism tools from the staff office! And then scraps of the school meal!
Kyouko: Right!

122.
Shuichi: GUOOO~~~FEED ME SOMETHING—I’M HUNGRY!
Nube: Don’t come in and don’t enter.
SFX; DOTAN BATAN
Girl 1: Wh…who is that!?
Girl 2: That’s Shuichi-kun!
Boy: That’s a lie---!
Nube: If you don’t want to be like this, don’t watch!
Nube: Well, Shuichi, I have the remains of the school lunch earlier. Do you want this?
Shuichi: FEED ME! I’LL KILL YOU IF YOU DON’T!
SFX: GYA—GYA—
Nube: They’re controlling to his heart…if I don’t drive them out…(out loud) –Right, but this isn’t the situation to feed you. Just smell the scent.
Shuichi: WHAT, AND YOU’RE A TEACHER? WILL YOU LET A STUDENT DIE OF STARVATION!?
Shuichi: FEED ME—OR ELSE…I’LL BITE AT YOUR TESTICLES!

123.
SFX: POU POU POU
Shuichi: !?
Shuichi: Ah…!? The fireflies I saw earlier…?
Nube: Seems you’ve return to your senses. Those are Gakidama.
(TN: “Gakidama” = “Hungry Demon Soul”; as an added bit of info: the “Gaki” in “Gakidama” also have a meaning of “brat” or “kids” as is usually seen but also has the meaning of “ghouls”)
Nube: When this enters into a person, they multiply like roundworms and suck up the nutrition in your body. Because they suck up all of the nourishment no matter how much you eat, the human ends up dying of malnutrition. Thus, they have a form like a hitodama and fly through graveyards and such…
Nube: Watch, they’re revealing their true forms now.
SFX: POU | POU

124.
Shuichi: Uwaaa, they’re coming out in swarms! Such a bad feeling! Teacher—kill them with the Oni no Te quickly--!
SFX: GATSU GATSU MUSHA MUSHA
Nube: Well hold on; the sun will set on them if we kill just one. I have a knack for exorcizing them.
Nube: BYAKUE REIBAKUJU!!
SFX: BAAAA

125.
SFX: KATSU
Nube: With this, those things can’t come to leave for the outside.
Shuichi: What will happen when they run out of bait…
Gakidama: I’M HUNGRY I’M HUNGRY—
SFX: GABU | GYATSU | BARI
Shuichi: Cannibalism…
Nube: Yes, they’re low-grade spirits with just appetite. By doing this, their numbers will decrease.
SFX: BARI BARI MUSHA MUSHA
Nube: The last one.
SFX; BARI BARI
SFX: PUCHI

126.
Nube: Well, you understand the worth of food when you’re starving. It’s fine to be a make-believe gourmet but…shouldn’t you be moderate!
Nube: By the way, there’s a one person portion of lunch left but
Shuichi: I want that!
Shuichi: Tasty! School lunch is delicious.
Nube: That’s—right, that’s—right.
Narrator: Several days later…Nube was invited to Shuichi’s restaurant…
Shuichi: Whatever I eat has been tasty since then! We have pig eyeball soup, green caterpillar sauté and monkey brain sherbet made by our chef. Well, don’t be reserved.
SFX: UPPU
Nube: THANK YOU, IT’S TASTY…
Hiroshi: Isn’t he just come to eat merely strange things? That boy…

TN: Can we please send Shuichi back to Pintok Palace where he and his monkey brains will feel right at home? Yeah, the chapter wasn't too bad and just really freaky in some manners (why do I just get an image of "Thinner"?) but I have to admit it now: Shuichi is probably one of my least favorite students in the class. He just seemed like he was made to give girls something along the lines of the guys get from Kyouko, Miki and Ritsuko-sensei. And to tell the truth, the less encounters I have with Shuichi the better. But hey, seeing Nube chowing down on his free meal (yeah he needs female companionship...whether it's Ritsuko or someone else) and Miki getting a free pen for chocolate isn't too bad a deal.