Sakigake!! Otoko Juku 212

After a misinterpretation of his skills, Michele has literally been taken by the balls by Togashi! But with Gouki's patience running thin, can the Frenchman find a means to still obtain victory against the persistent gutsy warrior?

Chp. 212: Dance to Death!!

149.
Togashi: Hehhehe: so, what will you do Michele-chan? Ca…can you be crushed by an unbecoming rough son with this? Even so, can you let out lamentations and acknowledge defeat---!!
Togashi: It’s two-in-one~~~!!
Michele: Uguoo----!!
Toramaru: Wahhaha: g…great, Togashi---!! Th…this is Kenka Sappou Ougi: Kintama Tsubushi----! Do…don’t care about him; he’ll be crushed with this----!!
(TN: A couple things:
1. As explained in another chapter, “Kenka Sappou”, Togashi’s ‘style’, is “Brawling Killing Method”, which pretty much perfectly personify Togashi’s ways.
2. “Kintama Tsubushi” = “Testicle Smash”; it is easily translatable but considering the previous patterns I decided not to)

150.
(Title page…I doubt Michele is going to go easy on Togashi after this embarrassment)

151.
Togashi: Won’t you answer---!! I said this but it’s futile regardless of how much wicked mischief you pull!! Because I won’t let my hand go no matter what happens to me!
Michele: …………!!
Togashi: Or do you really want to become a woman----!!
Michele: F…fool………
Togashi: Huh!?
Michele: Di…did you think you could seriously defeat me with this?

152.
Togashi: !!
Togashi: Uh!!
Togashi: Wh…what is this!?
Michele: Fu, the tip of this rose is smeared with a powerful muscle relaxant. Already you don’t have your grip!!
Togashi: Ooh!!

153.
Michele: Haa!!
Toramaru: Aah~~~damn, what is this~~~!! Th…the finally caught Michele has escaped----!!
Togashi: Y…you---!!

154.
Michele: MEIOUTOU OUGI: KILLING ROSE DANCING!!
(TN: “Killing Rose Dancing” = “Satsubara Kyokuyou” = “Killing-Rose Thorn-Dance”)
Togashi: Guo!!
Togashi: Chii!!
Togashi: Heh, a…again with rose attacks without learning!! N…now can…can’t you answer how you’ve come to stab these things into my legs!!

155.
Michele: I am Michele the Black Rose, descendant of a lineage of French nobles…I’ve never tasted humiliation to this extent. I won’t merely kill you; I will present the most atrocious death to you.
Michele: Do you know: the story of the dancing girl who put on the magic red toe shoes………!!
Togashi: Huh---!?
Michele: They were red toe shoes obtained by a girl aiming to be a prima donna in ballet from a witch in exchange for her soul……the girl who wore them got her dream granted, but appeared to dance in ecstasy to her death without being able to take off those shoes ever again; yes: to her death……
(TN: A little more about the story told here: “The Red Shoes” is a fairy tail originally written by famed Danish storyteller Hans Christian Andersen. In the original version of the tale, the girl already possessed the shoes and merely wore them as part of a vain, unpious lifestyle. When she started her “dance to the death”, she ultimately only was able to stop by chopping off her own feet. The original tale also ultimately finds the girl finding God and “dying in ecstasy” due to the continued intrusion of the shoes in her life, but the ballet version of the tale is a similarly well known version of the story, mostly due to a notable 1948 British film based on the story directed by Michael Powell)
Michele: Fufu: you now are wearing these magic red shoes!!
Togashi: Wh…what………!?

156.
Togashi: Uoo!!
Togashi: Wh…what---!! Wh…what is this, he…here----! My…my feet are moving on their own----!!

157.
Togashi: Uoo: e…even if I stop them, they won’t stop----!! My…my feet are unreasonably moving~~~~!!
Togashi: It…it’ll be fine whatever I do, hey----!!
Michele: Fufu: have we come to the end?
Michele: I varnished a drug that puts out of order the central nerves of the muscles on the rose I stabbed your legs with earlier. Already, you can only dance in ecstasy until you die!!
Togashi: Wh…what---!!

158.
Togashi: Uoo! I…I’m crashing into the wall----!!
Togashi: Guwa!!
Togashi: Guge!!
Togashi: Ooh!!
Togashi: Th…this is stupid; ha…having to do this----!!

159.
Toramaru: Wh…what is this: Togashi will continue to dance like that until he dies---!! Da…damn that Michele guy; he…he used an outrageous technique---!!
Momotarou: No, the effect of the drug has a limit. Bu…but it’s a matter of time of his legs missing its footing from the cliff with that trackless movement.
Togashi: Awawawa----!!
Michele: Fufu: is that fine? There is the abyss of death……!! Below is the sea of lava; the depths of hell.
Togashi: Hii---!!
Toramaru: To…Togashi’s falling down----!!

160.
Togashi: KUO!!
Togashi: Ho…how about this?
Michele: Fu: you’ve thought of that; striking your dosu to the ground and stopping the movement.

161.
Michele: Fu, but my anger is steadily clearing away watching your unshapely appearance.
(TN: There are actually two verbs for “hareru”; one for “to clear away” and one for “to swell”; I assume that it probably is the latter but the kanji here is for the former version so thus why I wrote down “clearing away” or maybe “exposing”)
Michele: Any further is just unsightly. I shall present liberation from your agony instantly with this sword. This is what is called the soul of a noble’s chivalry.
Togashi: Ho…how could an a**hole have the spirit of a noble’s chivarlry………………!! The…the spirit of Otokojuku won’t lose to…to that………………!!
Togashi: A…as long as I still have this dosu………
Togashi: Wh…what!? I…I can’t take it out!!

162.
Michele: DIE---!!
Togashi: NUGAA!!
Michele: Hou.
Togashi: Ugugu!!

163.
Togashi: SORYAA----!!
Michele: This sword shall be given to you.
Togashi: WHA!!
Togashi: UOO----!!
Toramaru: He…he’s been killed----!! To…Togashi’s falling from the cliff----!

164.
Michele: Fufu: you were strong until the end of ends…but there isn’t a means to be saved falling from here.
Toramaru: To…Togashi…………!! Th…that dummy……!!
Michele: Mu!!
Michele: …………
Michele: !!

165.
Gouki: That’s match at last, Michele the Black Rose.
Gouki: Even so, this wasn’t a battle that was like you at all.
Gouki: You took your time like such with a novice sludge that had not a technique at all and challenged you with old-fashion idealized persistence like him. Fu, at any rate, it was you. You wanted to play around with him and yet that happened.
Michele: Commander, those are your words but…………This man Togashi was by no means even a novice or sludge.
Gouki: WHAT…!?

166.
Michele: He…he’s a great man………he…he pretended to not be able to take out his dosu and hung to that as his lifeline………!!
Gouki: !!
Toramaru: Wh…what---!! Mi…Michele’s sword is pierced into his chest---!!
Michele: Sp…splendid.

167.
Togashi: Th…that dummy, what is with that misunderstanding!! Th…the dosu that came to not come out actually just caught onto my fundoshi unexpectedly! BU…BUT, LUCK IS MY OWN TRUE POWER!!

TN: People can learn things from Togashi in just how to handle a fight: sometimes you have to have guts...and sometimes you have to have luck. The fact that Togashi was literally prepared to die while trying any means to kill Michele was a nice factor, leading to him stabbing him with his own sword. But of course...the fact that Togashi would get his fundoshi stuck in his own dosu even though he didn't plan for any of it (either the dosu getting completely stuck in the ground after stopping his dancing or the fundoshi getting caught in it) is another Togashi matter: somehow his luck just always gets in the way of his guts leading to a lot of his greatest moments. Then again, some probably could also blame Michele himself for Togashi's win considering how long he toyed with him instead of, say, just letting him die with the poisonous flowers, but I went into that in the previous chapter. Hey, just remember that Togashi probably would have found a way regardless so it's not like Michele could do much and merely just sped up the means by which it was done. But what's done is done and now...it's merely a matter of someone getting back up in the end. (whether Michele getting that sword out of him...or Togashi getting his fundoshi uncaught and diving right into that lava)