Hell Teacher Nube 82

Miki is the type of girl who has pure intentions...with the most selfish of reasons. But when she realizes the many problems in Doumori, someone may be looking out for her...even if it's impossible to believe for anyone but her!

#82: When You Think of Buildings, Then It’s Daidara Bocchi!

88.
Building Signs: Safety First
Protestors: Objection Objection
Sign 1: Protect Our Right to Sunshine
Sign 2: All of us Oppose the Apartment Construction.
Voice: Here, give this to your mother.
Page: Oppose the Apartment Construction
Miki: Hmph, worthless. Who do you think I am? I’m Miki, Miki!
SFX: Pe
Miki: If you ask a thing to me, then please prepare a million yen.

89.
Miki: Really, the problems—or death—of strangers isn’t connected to me.
Miki: Why is that withering…ah, is it because of the shadow of this building…
Miki: Heh, I wasn’t thinking you’re pathetic. (Kekeke…) I was looking at your plight in going to wither there.
Caption: Girl who talks to flowers.
Miki: ……
SFX: Zaku zaku zaku | Zubo

90.
Miki: Even the others are smaller but…I can’t do this for all of them.
Miki: The main point is this building is bad. Somehow please go with that huge frame!
SFX: Gan! (Wham!)
Voice: Deedara
Miki: Eh!? Did someone say something now!?
Voice: Deedara
“Giant”: Deedara…
Miki: ? ?
SFX: Ni

91.
SFX: Nu!
SFX: Deedara~~Deedara~~
SFX: Gogogogo…Zuzuzuzuzu…

92.
Miki: ………
Miki: Wa…wasn’t the apartment on this side of the road? (???)
Protestors: Objection objection
Miki: I’m certain that was the vacant side and yet…how could this happen? Haven’t those people realized it…
Voice: Ahaha…
Nube: A building moved in one night? It can’t be!
Kyouko: Weren’t you dreaming it?
Miki: It’s true! Moreover, I also heard a weird voice!

93.
Miki: It said…Deedara.
Book: Youkai Dictionary
Miki: Since very long ago in Japan, there was a giant called Daidara Bocchi, a youkai. Originally, it was said to be a sole god who created heaven and earth but…it was said to move mountains that came to be in the way of agriculture or flooded rivers for people. But it’s personality is pure with innocence…
(TN: “Daidara Bocchi” is spoken both with katakana and kanji, with the kanji translating into “Big-Thick Buddhist Priest”)
Nube: Miki, the one who speaks by explaining with composition is just me.
(TN: Nube’s starting to get disturbed by why Miki is doing this on her own…but of course, she’s been starting to do this on her own for a while so Nube really needs to watch his back)
Miki: Perhaps it is a survivor—
Nube: As such, Daidara Bocchi was given a large rice ball in thanks by the townspeople.
Sign: Japanese Folklore
“Kyouko”: Yay—that was interesting. Ple—ase, give me candy.
(TN: Don’t ask me why Kyouko is now a little girl, she just is)
Miki: Listen seriously—
SFX: Baki baki!
Nube: She was serious…?

94.
Miki: Really! Everyone acts stupid with what a person says…!!
Miki: !!
SFX: Buroro…
Miki: Watch—out!!
SFX: Doka | Kyapi
Miki: That was close; what would you have—done if he got hurt!!
Man: I’m sorry…
Miki: Generally this road is too narrow. It barely can have one car pass through…everyone is bothered by this!
Daidara Bocchi: Deedara
Miki: If you can hear me, do something, Daidara Bocchi!

95.
Daidara Bocchi: Deedara…Deedara~~
SFX: Gugugu…gugu…
Miki: A…amazing, it became a two-lane road in one day! It added a service even with this sidewalk!
Miki: Well! Nube, do you understand from these every-day commutes!?
Nube: Eh—but, here was originally…
Kyouko: Wasn’t it a two-lane road?

96.
Miki: Everyone is being deceived by the youkai!
Nube: All residents? Even I, the formost on these amazing things happening, am being deceived…
Kyouko: Generally, why is it’s voice being heard just by you, Miki?
Nube: I’m certain it’s an aesthetic sence for youkai. You are a beauty; so you’re popular not with human but with youkai. (Ahahaha…)
Miki: That’s being said by you?
Miki: Though it is true…though the street’s look has changed, no one has realized it…
Nube: ……
Nube: I do want to believe you but…it’s an amazing youkai to seems to have deceived even me…just a bit.
Miki: It’s moving buildings and roads and even Nub doesn’t believe in the youkai…It’s quite a large youkai. Maybe it’s better if I hadn’t become related to it…
SFX: Picha

97.
Miki: Droppings? Ah! A swallow!!
SFX: Giku
Sign: Do Not Enter
Miki: ……
Boy 1: Give back my binoculars~~
Boy 2: Don’t oppose her…
Boy: That pylon is being demolished tomorrow. It’s old and unusable and in the way. They’ll destroy it and put up a new one.

98.
SFX: Jiriri—n
Nube: Yes, Doumori Elementary…what’s that, Miki didn’t go home!? Understood, I’ll search her commuting route!
Nube: It’s because she’s quite dejected…she’s fallen down even into a cesspool…
(TN: Nube used the verb “Ochikomu” twice here; the first time to talk about Miki’s mood (the “quite dejected” part), the second to connect to thinking she may have “fallen into a cesspool (the “fallen” part))
Voice: Nube~
Miki: Save me—I’ve come to not descend—I’m scared—Nube

99.
Nube: What, you’re in that place again…I’m going to rescue you now; don’t move from there!
Miki: You’re saying that…I’ve already had my hands bound like this for three hours…
SFX: Zuru
Miki: Kya
Nube: Miki--!
Miki: Kyaaaa!!
SFX: Yura
Nube: Huh!

100.-101.
Daidara Bocchi: Deedara~~~!
SFX: Gogogogogo | Dosa
Nube: Ho…how stupid: that gigantic youkai was…hidden within the town without me even feeling its youki!?

102.
Miki: Da
SFX: Hyuuuu… | Hyoi
Miki: Da
Miki: Daidara Bocchi!
Miki: Ya—y, see it, 0-ability teacher!
SFX: Zun…zun…
Miki: It’s a—s I’ve said--! Hehe: as punishment, tomorrow you’re drinking ten glasses of milk!!
SFX: Gatsu

103.
Daidara Bocchi: Deeedaraaa!!
SFX: Dododododo
Nube: What power; and further its without destroying the surrounding houses and roads…is it moving the town in a place without being realized by us? It really is a survivor god that created heaven and earth…I can’t think of its youkai level!
Miki: Kya—kya—cool--! Go—place this pylon in a place where it won’t be in the way of residents--!!

104.
SFX: Zuzun…zuzu…
Miki: Thank you, Daidara Bocchi; if it’s here, then this will end up not destroying the tower. (to herself) Their nest is safe too..
SFX: Ni
SFX: Zu—n zu—n…

105.
Miki: Well, is it as I said!? Well, complete defeat for the teacher.
Miki: But w—hy was its form seen by just me…perhaps it had fallen in love with me…?...No.
Miki: The reason is understood by the teacher.
SFX: Pi—pi—pi—
Miki: One of these buildings somehow is Daidara Bocchi.
Nube: Yes, it was near to humans and watched over them since long, long ago, helping them out.
Miki: We—ll, I’m hungry.

106.
RETURN OF THE GREAT YOUKAI ENCYCLOPEDIA

#17: Daidara Bocchi

The legend that speaks in concern of giants at the initial step in the creation of heaven and earth is seen in myths not just in Japan but all over the world. Similar kinds of giants are in Greek Myths, Norse Myths and Ireland. They generally are short on intelligence and further have hateful treatments with their brutality. On the occasions of the migration of people long, long ago, they had been though of in myths that were brought forth with the friction of the former inhabitants, but that thing will be put here.

Well then, the legend of Daidara Bocchi remains in various parts of Japan. It is also called “Deedara Bocchi”, but its roots seem to be as a god. “Yatsukamizu Omitsunu no Mikoto”, which was introduced in “Izumo-no-Kuni Fudoki”, was this. Naturally, since Daidara Bocchi mostly performed the work with a plan and on a whim in regards to grounding the exact plans for the realm and making the mountains and lakes, this god already lost his divinity and seemed to change into a youkai. Due to this, it seems to be a being that is possessed by evil spirits and adds harm to humans, but generally it’s a big-hearted, nice youkai.

(TN: A few notes:
1. The mentioning of the “giants” in other origin myths are in reference to the following:
-Greek: Several of the children of original gods Gaea and Uranos, alongside the Titans and the Cyclops
-Norse: The conflicting side opposing the main Norse pantheon, including Frost Giants, Fire Giants and Mountain Giants. Strangely, many Norse giants are considered “normal size”
-Irish: Most likely referring to the giant Finn MacCoul, who built many of the notable landscape of the Irish landscape including the Giant’s Causeway and the Isle of Man.
2. The “Izumo no Kuni Fudoki” is considered the third-oldest book in Japan, written in 733 and written completely about the “Izumo Kingdom” of the early age of Japanese myth. It translates into “Topography of the Nation of Izumo”
3. Yatsukamizu Omitsunu no Mikoto is, as mentioned here, a giant god who helped form Izumo, as was domain of early Japanese gods)

TN: Well, it's finally happened...and I'm not making it up this time: for the first time in this sequence...and possibly forever (well not forever, more like 2004), I've translated a new Nube chapter. Sure it feels rather unsure compared to the previous ones, but I'm shocked the day has finally come where this chapter would be done by me.

As for the chapter itself...it was weird considering the scenario. The concept of it was rather neat: a massive giant who literally changes the world around it without ruining or harming anything and with the people around it thinking that "it's always been that way". The weird part that got me really confused...was the mere fact that it was Miki that invoked it, let alone that people got suspicious of it because...well, it was Miki. The way that Miki invoked it in particular was weird: she didn't like the flowers were withering and dying and thus lead to Daidara Bocchi to move the under-construction building to give them light. Considering that there were all these protestors who were against the building being there...and not one realizing that it had been moved, it makes you wonder what exactly they wanted to protest in the first place. The power regarding how Daidara was able to make people forget things as they were and make them remember it "as it always had been" just seemed to get confusing even if it worked, in particular with the part with the widening road. I guess all you really can say is "it's a god so of course it works in mysterious ways". Though at the same time, the mere fact that it was there and interested in Miki without Nube even sensing it was weird in itself. It makes one wonder if there are pocket dimensions in this world where youki can't be traced outside those who know of it's existence. The mere fact that Miki tapped into something that Nube couldn't just got confusing...but hey, it was a good chapter so I'm not going to complain too much about it.