Sakigake!! Otoko Juku 192

His sword has been sealed by magnetic powder and he's trapped in a net taking hits from the tactical General Soukou! But will this turn of events really be the end of Akashi...or does he still have something to turn the match around!?

Chp. 192: A One-in-Ten Thousand Miracle!!

109.
Soukou: Fu: highly igniting your blood…………!!
Soukou: No matter how you speak of your courage, it’s useless. The blow now somehow just avoided your vitals, but it should be quite a severe wound.
Akashi: Guku!!
Soukou: This will end it---!!

110.
(Title page…he’s going to need to clean his sword to stand a chance)

111.
Akashi: Kuu!!
Soukou: Wahahaha: do you think you can avoid this in that state---!!
Akashi: Gaha!!
Akashi: Nuu!!
Togashi, Toramaru & Momotarou: A…Akashi---!!

112.
Akashi: Gufu!!
Soukou: That blow now I’m certain hollowed even your internal organs. Fufufu: however, even if you possess abnormal physical strength, this will make it match.
Akashi: …………!!
Togashi: Uoo, A…Akashi---!!
Toramaru: Th…that idiot---!! Th…that Akashi-senpai will be killed---!

113.
Momotarou: N…no…………!! There’s no way he can escape from the Koushi Net with the wounds increasing and his Zanganken sealed.
Date: Th…there is nothing more that can be done!!
Voice: Nothing more that can be done……!?
Toramaru: RA…RASETSU---!!
Rasetsu: Those words don’t exist to him!!

114.
Togashi: Huh!?
Toramaru: Wh…what does that mean? Wh…what exactly…is that Rasetsu---!!
Togashi: He…suddenly has an old rag dyed in old blood and is holding it over his head towards the battlefield---!!

115.
Soukou: N---!? What behavior is this--!?
Soukou: It’s natural that your conscious is already dimming with that bleeding. It’ll be a story if you saw it with your eyes.
Akashi: ………!!
Rasetsu: Let me tell you: the origin of this blood-stained cloth!!
Rasetsu: This saved 123 Otokojuku lives, including my own………………!!
Momotarou: It saved 123 lives……………!?
Togashi: Wh…what exactly does that mean……!!

116.
Rasetsu: This was before all of you entered Otokojuku as First-Years……!! I had accepted an order of Jaki-sama and decided to make a showdown with an old enemy of many years in the northern countries, leading all 123 members of Otokojuku’s Second and Third-Years. In the midst of a terrible snowstorm, the trucks marched forth on a direct route in the center of the mountains.
Rasetsu: At the time, he was going forth as a lone scout three kilometers ahead of us by my direction.
Rasetsu: And then………!!
Akashi: !!

117.
Rasetsu: The enemy, who had sensed our mobilization, blew up the bridge on the direct route.
Rasetsu: Our field of vision was mostly ineffective; if we had progressed on that direct route without knowing this, we would have fallen into the depths of hell and all of us inevitably would have died……

118.
Rasetsu: But even if he seemed to know, his voice would have been erased even if he raised it in the raging furious snowstorm and there was nothing he could make a sign with in a one-color white world across the entire surface of the area.
Rasetsu: It was there that he………
Rasetsu: Mu!!
Rasetsu: Wh…what is…that---!! I…I can see something in front of us----!!

119.
Rasetsu: ST…STOP---!!
Rasetsu: The truck stopped in a place that was another several meters from the precipitous cliff.
Rasetsu: The thing that we saw there was……!!

120.
Rasetsu: The figure of a person who had split his own chest, put up high a shirt that had been dyed deep red and in a Niou-Stance!!
(TN: “Niou-stance” was explained prior as a stance akin to a guardian Niou statue at certain Buddhist temples)

121.
Rasetsu: He wasn’t conscious due to already having frostbite and his bleeding. But he was still waving it: the blood-stained flag that saved 123 lives…!!
Rasetsu: He’s a man who bet his own life in a one-in-ten thousand miracle and made the impossible possible………………!! That is the man Akashi Gouji, Head of Otokojuku’s Second-Years!!
Toramaru: Wh…what an a…amazing story………!!
Togashi: We…we hadn’t known of that story; he’s…completely an amazing person……………!!
Momotarou: Bu…but, what can he do from this situation…………!!
Rasetsu: He’s aiming for it……………!! Just like that snowy day, he’ll endure until he’s at the limit of life-or-death and bet for a one-in-ten thousand victory………!!

122.
Soukou: Fufufu: that’s painful. But you should be anxious; now I will liberate you from this agony.
Soukou: Eternally!!
Soukou: DIE----!!

123.
Soukou: !!
Akashi: Ha!!
Soukou: Ho…hoo…yo…you ha…have this power remaining somewhere in that body!!

124.
Togashi: He…did it---!!
Toramaru: He…he barely cu…cut the net with Momo’s sword and successfully escaped—
Soukou: Fufu: you’re completely a tenacious man. But this isn’t about escaping: not even a finger can be touched on me being engulfed by this perfect defense of the unseen Kyouji Daihatsukai.
Akashi: Is that really so…………!!

125.
Soukou: !?
Soukou: Wahhaha: what’s with that behavior!! If that’s the sword that isn’t covered by magnetic powder, then is hasn’t taken the influence of the magnetic field, but where was it aiming!?
Akashi: Right!! With that sword, I can break through your magnetic field!

126.-127.
Soukou: Wh…what---!! He…connected the sword and gone…into the magnetic field---!
Soukou: GUWA!!
Soukou: GYAHI!!

TN: Alright, there's such a thing of being prepared...and there's "being prepared"...like this. OK, I have nothing against some of the stuff Miyashta uses in allowing for Otokojuku's side to win a match, but somehow while it does make sense that Akashi would use Momo's sword to win (since it was just his sword covered in the magnetic powder, not Momo's), it just makes me question about why Akashi asked for it other than so Miyashita could give us this scene. I mean, what if Akashi happened to be in a situation where he couldn't use the sword at all alongside his own sword...or what if something else happened? I guess usually I do like when he pulls these sorts of things but here it just seemed a tad too...perfect. On the other hand, the real highlight of the chapter was Akashi's incident regarding how he saved Rasetsu and most of the rest of the Second and Third Years years ago. Heck...for that whole story, I can forgive the whole sword bit.