Sakigake!! Otoko Juku 206

With Date completing his mission of trash removal, the battle with Ryouzanpaku has finally reached it's end! Otokojuku is headed for the Daibukai finals...but when you've defeated the 3-time defending champion, is there any challenge left!?

Chp. 206: The Secret of Meiou Island!!

29.
Toramaru: He…he did it---!! Fi…finally Ryoukou, the last one of Ryouzanpaku’s Three Bosses, has been defeated---!
Togashi: A…as expected, Date! You’re overwhelmingly strong---!!
Toramaru: Uuh, di…did you see, Ra…Raiden………!! Wi…with this, y…your regrets have been……!!
Momotarou: Hold your tears, Toramaru……!! We must win the final battle, even so Raiden’s death wasn’t futile.
Toramaru: Right……

30.-31.
Momotarou: LET’S GO!! TO THE TENCHOU GORIN DAIBUKAI’S FINALS BATTLEGROUND!
Togashi & Toramaru: RIGHT~~~!!

32.
Old Man: Th…they’re great men, Otokojuku……!!
Hakuhou: Yeah, this was a thorough defeat. But I don’t have regrets if we’ve lost to them.
Hakuhou: He—y, we’ll pray for your victory----!! Certainly win in the finals and become champions of this Daibukai----!!
Hakuhou: I’ll do that too, so Ryouzanpaku can be reorganized once more!!

33.
Onihige: Pr…Principal---!!
Onihige: Th…they’ve done it---!! We…we’ve gotten a report that ou…our Otokojuku has defeated the strong enemy Ryouzanpaku, who were scheming for their 4th straight championship in this Daibukai and broke through the semi-finals----!!
(TN: Slight slip-up by Miyashita: he stated that Ryouzanpaku was aiming for their 3rd straight Daibukai…but they already won three straight, so I changed it to the appropriate “4th straight”)
Onihige: Ri…right now, they are on the march towards the finals battleground!!
Edajima: Right……they’ve finally done it………!!

34.
Onihige: Ugu: if…if I think about it, it’s really been a long road to here……………!! B…but, he is the wire puller of Japan, who has already sold to the enemy the lives of 2,830 lives of our Japanese compatriots during World War II in a breath and seized a huge fortune in wealth and influence with many evil deeds after the war. We…we have to attack Toudou Hyoue…!!
Edajima: Right…………!! The only time the deep-precautioned Toudou shows himself to the public is at the awards ceremony for the champion team of the Tenchou Gorin Daibukai, which he himself organized…! We won’t have the chance to kill him except then!!
Onihige: By…by the way: who exactly is this team that is the enemy in the finals!? No…now we’ve defeated Ryouzanpaku, who had achieved three straight championships in the Daibukai, I think that Otokojuku’s championship is almost a certain thing but……!!
Edajima: Idiot……you don’t know about them?
Onihige: Huh…!?

35.
Edajima: THEIR NAME IS THE MEIOU ISLAND 16-WARRIORS!! They’re the strongest murder-grappling group, called out by the assets of that Toudou, chosen as people of genius from around the world and well trained by super-modern training equipment!!
(TN: The Japanese name of the team is “Meioutou 16-Shi; The “Shi” typically has a meaning of “Samurai” or “Gentlemen”, but neither seemed to work for them. However, since the kanji is also a radical used for “warrior” in Japanese, I decided to go with “Warriors” as their denomination)
Onihige: Wh…what, the Meiou Island 16-Warriors~~~!! So…so then, they’re a personal team built by Toudou~~~~!!
Edajima: Right……!! The tournament now is their debut battle! And the one who manages these 16-Warriors is……!!

36.
Caption: TOUDOU MANSION
Toudou: Fuffuffu: who could have predicted this?
Toudou: Otokojuku……a newcomer team we hadn’t heard of has now won their way to the finals.

37.
Toudou: But I recognize their power. Even just a bit, they’re somehow pass to be opponents that will compete in the finals with the Meiou Island 16-Warriors.
Toudou: Understand this: there are three powers in the world: Political, Assets…AND VIOLENCE!!
Toudou: When the Meiou Island 16-Warriors become the champion, I will grasp in my hands these three powers!! They will be the ultimate grappling group in the world, called even artistic in being poured and constructed by all the power I possess.
Businessman 1: As you wish.
Businessman 2: Otokojuku will be no match for them!!
Toudou: Even so, the power of the man who leads the 16-Warriors is magnificent…!! He is the appropriate man to take over all of the power I possess.

38.
Togashi: Fu—is it fine to wherever we’re really walking? Are we there yet, at the finals battleground?
Momotarou: This path, which is shaped like a tournament chart, is headed for the center of the island.
Date: There, we reasonably should be clashing with the competition opponent that won their way through the opposing block.
Togashi: Ooh—what is this smoke---!!
Toramaru: We’ve come to not see anything in front. Everyone pay attention to your feet…
Toramaru: Uo!!

39.
Toramaru: Wh…what~~~~!! Th…this is~~~!

40.
Toramaru: He…here is the Tenchou Gorin Daibukai’s Finals Battleground……………
Togashi: So we’re going down a rope-ladder just like in the semi-finals and we…we’re going down to that flat area to fight.
Toramaru: E…even so, that smell seems like lava below.

41.
Momotarou: The enemy team hasn’t arrived yet.
Date: Yes.
Togashi: Even so, what’s with that self-important homely face over there? It’s lying in wait.
Toramaru: That’s the baboon oldie Toudou, the sponsor of this tournament.
Toramaru: Kakkakka: isn’t it decent for him to have your own statue in the midst of generally living at all this time and places.
Toramaru: Eee!!
Toramaru: I…it moved---!! Toudou’s eyeballs carved in the rocky mountain is glaring this way---!
Togashi: Uwahhahaha: are you half asleep Toramaru? That can’t reasonably be happening--!!

42.
“Voice”: That’s Otokojuku………

43.
“Voice”: Those men who have wounds all over their body are 12 altogether……!! And yet we, the Meiou Island 16-Warriors, haven’t shed even a drop of blood to this point.
“Voice” Those men; this Meiou Island is the stronghold of us 16-Warriors. They can’t think even in their dreams of every single piece of training equipment devoted in the essence of science that is arranged within this tower.
“Voice”: Right: we train the strongest men in the world here!! The new headquarters of every grappling technique in the world, including Chinese Kenpou!!

44.
“Voice”: The battle data until now for men like these has entirely been inputted into the computer!!
Caption:
DATA:
HIEN
OTOKOJUKU SANMENKEN
CHOUJINKEN
KAKUSHI SENBON
Etc……

“Voice”: Even the weaknesses for their Ougi are apparent with this……!!
Caption:
DATA:
TSURUGI MOMOTAROU
OTOKOJUKU GENERAL
WELL VERSED IN ALL MARTIAL ARTS:
SWORDSMANSHIP – KENPOU – OTHER
Etc…..
“Braid”: Excuse me, commander, a correspondence from home!!
Toudou: TAKE HEART IN THIS!! I WILL NOT FORGIVE FAILURE NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS IN THIS MATCH!!

45.
“Commander”: Please be relieved!!
Gouki: Toudou Gouki never knows the word defeat. FATHER!!
Toudou: Fuffuffu: I’m blessed in having a good son.

46.
Togashi: Ooh!! L…look—so…someone is e…emerging from within the tower---!
Red Thunder: My name is Red Thunder, the first player of the Meiou Island 16-Warriors!! Now, you should come, valorous man of Otokojuku.
(TN: Considering the all-star international flair of the Meiou Island team, we’re going to be getting a lot of “katakana names” with Japanese/Kanji readings akin to some of what we had with Olympus. In this case, the Native American’s name is Red Thunder, but has a “Japanese name” of “Akai no Inazuma”, which is Japanese for “red thunder”)

47.
Togashi: Wh…what is…that~~~!!
Toramaru: Th…that seems like an Indian chief who appears in westerns---!!
Voice: The Meiou Island 16-Warriors………!! It seems here is their home turf.
(TN: The person speaking here states the term “niwaba”, which literally is “garden ground”…but considering that the kanji for “garden” can also be used in conjunction with “home” in some cases, I went with “home turf”)
Toramaru: Wha!!
Momotarou: For this match, I’ll be going first!!
Togashi & Toramaru: MO…MOMO---!!

TN: Momo going first...I never thought I'd see that day coming. For a character like him who usually seems more aloof and more determined in taking out the strongest on any side (such as Akashi, J, Date, Jaki, etc.), seeing him take on the very first opponent (this weird Native American guy) is just surprising...but then again it may just be a measure to see whether or not these "Meiou Island 16-Warriors" really are up to snuff. And speaking of that...the mere fact that Toudou would have his own team after all this time just makes a strong bit of sense to me. For a man who has everything, being able to possess the strongest team on Earth just makes sense from his standpoint. With the ultimate force of martial artists by his side, no one would ever be able to stop him from doing anything he wants in controlling the dark underbelly of the world. And the fact that "his son" is the leader...I'd say nepotism but there is a bit behind Gouki we're not going to know until we get there. But Gouki isn't the worry next time...it's Red Thunder up first and Momo's got his hands full!