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As the Hajike Block battle heats up: New challenges, new battles, new secrets...Nu handkerchief?

Ougi 69: Tea-Ceremony Panic!!

55.
Old Man: Are you alright?
Hatenko: Ah, thank you, old man. You saved me.
Hatenko: There was nothing I could do. This is because I couldn’t deceive Oyabin’s eyes…
SFX: PING
Hatenko: KU!!
Hatenko: ………………I have no time……I have to hurry and find the survivors of the Hair Kingdom…

56.
Narrator: At that moment, with the mysterious Hajikelist Apollo guiding them, Bo-bobo moved to the first floor tea-ceremony room.
Beauty: Tea Ceremony Room?
Heppokomaru: Why is there a tea room here…?
Don Patch: The Tea Ceremony is an accomplishment of Hajikelists. Hajikelists use Tea Ceremony as a means to relax their drenched hearts…thus this is a relaxing place in the base.
Heppokomaru: Really…
Beauty: That’s great…we can relax here as well.
The Yunomi: BETRAYER!! BETRAYER!!
Teacup: NO!!
Beauty: WE NEVER SHOULD HAVE COME--!!!!!
The Yunomi: YOU’RE A TEACUP WHO PUT COFFEE IN IT!! THOSE DRENCHED IN WESTERN ITEMS ARE--!!
SFX: Slice
SFX: CRA—SH
The Yunomi: Fuu
Beauty: CUTE!!!!

57.
The Yunomi: ALL OF YOU HAVE COME!! I’VE BEEN WAITING!!!! IT START NOW: THE BATTLE’S PREMONITION WAS FROM THE STANDING FROM HARDENED TEASTALK!!!!
Caption: THE YUNOMI
(Translator’s Note: “Yunomi” is a teacup used in tea ceremony…so essentially he’s “The Teacup”.)
Teastalk: No no…I wasn’t standing.
Beauty: THAT’S HOW IT WAS--!!!!
The Yunomi: A Hajikelist does a tea ceremony from beginning to end. Fine, shall we have a tea-ceremony battle?
SFX: Droop
The Yunomi: AAH!!
Don Patch: Alright—I’ll be your opponent!!!
Caption: —Opening of the Tea Ceremony Battle—
Don Patch: Pardon me.
The Yunomi: Enter.

58.
Don Patch: ORAA------!!!!!
The Yunomi: WAAAAAAAAAA!!!!
Don Patch: TEA PLEASE!!!!
The Yunomi: Don’t lose it. Don’t lose it. Alright, be right back…
The Yunomi: Here.
Beauty: A PET BOTTLE!!!?
(Translator’s Note: I don’t think Beauty meant a “pet” bottle as if for dogs…but a “PET” bottle, or “Polyethylene terephthalate”, a polyester-like plastic used for bottles for drinks)

59.
Don Patch: Delicious!!! One more.
The Yunomi: I’ll go get it from the vending machine, please wait a moment.
Beauty: A VENDING MACHINE!!!?
The Yunomi: I’M BACK. I BOUGHT YOU BUANTA!!!!
The Yunomi: How many sugars do you want?
Don Patch: Two.
Beauty: SUGAR!!?
SFX: Mix, mix
SFX: Sip…
Beauty: YOU’RE DRINKING IT!!!!
Don Patch: It has some flavor…so I’ll go next.
Beauty: You didn’t drink it!!! Aren’t you going to drink it!!! The Buanta!!!

60.
Don Patch: HERE.
Beauty: YOU’VE BASTARDIZED IT WITH FOOD!!!!
The Yunomi: Idiot…there’s chewable things!?
Beauty: Cause its ramen.
Beauty: That’s cross.
The Yunomi: Fu…that was alright…now it’s your turn to make tea.
Don Patch: Fine.
The Yunomi: Ku ku ku…idiot. I am more favorable in the methods of entrance in a tea-ceremony battle. The match is mine when I enter this room!! It will be an amazing entrance…
The Yunomi: AN AMAZING ENTRANCE…
Caption:—Opening of Tea-Ceremony Battle Round 2—

61.
Heppokomaru: He’s not coming.
Beauty: Right.
SFX: Plop, plop
Beauty: !
Beauty: KYAAAAAA, HE’S COMING FROM ABOVE--------!!!!
The Yunomi: I don’t have enough rope so I can’t fall any further.
Beauty: WHY IS HE TELLING US THAT!!!?
Narrator: After that, The Yunomi was angry over that and was given a do-over.
The Yunomi: NOT NOW!! NOT NOW!!
Narrator: And so ten minutes later
The Yunomi: Pardon me.
Don Patch: Enter.
The Yunomi: ORA--!!!!
Beauty: HE’S PARKING--!!!!
The Yunomi: GIVE ME TEA!!!!
Heppokomaru: GYA!!

62.
The Yunomi: U~~~~N! MY BAD~~~~! (No way--)
SFX: BAM
The Yunomi: OH----NO----
Princess: Oh…prince!?
Princess: !?

63.
Don Patch: ALRIGHT--!! LET’S GO THIS WAY!!
Bo-bobo: THERE’S THE STAIRWELL!!
Sign: Stairs
Bo-bobo: BUT THERE’S ONLY ONE STA—IR!!!
Bo-bobo: TOO!! I DID IT--!!!!
Narrator: 2nd Floor: Hajike Pet Corner
Don Patch: We can’t look, its full of animals!!!
Beauty: You’re one too.
Sign: AIBO?
Heppokomaru: N! “AIBO”?
(Translator’s Note: “AIBO” were a line of robot dogs developed by Sony and well sold between 1999 and 2004)
Sign: Note: We thought they were AIBO, but we haven’t come to a decision on them. Please confirm them with your own eyes. –Staff of Hajike Block
Heppokomaru: ………

64.
Heppokomaru: THAT’S NOT AN AIBO AT ALL------!!!!
Heppokomaru: I see it but isn’t it wood--!!
“AIBO”: Veneer
Heppokomaru: IT TALKED!!
Beauty: N!
Sign: He Became Offensive: DARUMA
(Translator’s Note: A “daruma” is a legless doll modeled after a Buddha and used for wishing)
Beauty: What’s this? A Daruma who became offensive?
Daruma: Pray.
Beauty: …HE’S NOT AS OFFENSIVE AS I ANTICIPATED………
SFX: Pop
Beauty: !
Statue: Breakfast time—breakfast time—
Beauty: THAT’S OFFENSIVE--------!!!!

65.
Bo-bobo: OH! ISN’T THAT A HAJIKE BIRD?
Heppokomaru: A Hajike Bird?
Caption: Hajike Bird
Bo-bobo: You grab on to the bird and it measures the Hajike frequency of the grabber. It can transform into many different things.
SFX: Poi
Bo-bobo: That’s what I get today…
Heppokomaru: Ooh, amazing--!!!
Bo-bobo: A Hajike Bird measures Hajike frequency and will change in form and size. The more your Hajike frequency, the bigger and more complex the thing becomes.
Heppokomaru: I’ll try it too.
SFX: Poi
SFX: PON
Heppokomaru: UWAAAAAAAAAA!!!!
Bo-bobo: With a low Hajike frequency, it turns into “Captain Ishida”.
Heppokomaru: WHO’S THAT!!?
Captain Ishida: HEADQUARTERS, PLEASE RESPOND.

66.
Beauty: THAT SEEMS INTERESTING! DO IT TOO, DON PATCH.
Don Patch: What a bother.
Don Patch: Ke, this is stupid. Let’s go further.
Bo-bobo: It disappeared? What does that mean?
Heppokomaru: Even so, there’s really only weird creatures here………
Tennosuke: Not really—
Heppokomaru: TENNOSUKE!!! YOU LIVE HERE!! BUT WHY ARE YOU IN THIS PLACE!!?
Tennosuke: Uuh…it’s a story both heard through tears and told through tears…
Heppokomaru: WHAT’S WITH THAT WEIRD HANDKERCHIEF!!? (Nu?)
(Translator’s Note: Yes, all of the characters on the handkerchief are the Japanese Hiragana “nu”. Get used to that character: you’ll see it a lot from here on)

67.
Tennosuke: After the battle with Gunkan was over, I returned to the supermarket as always. That man bought me and since then he’s been cruely using me…
Heppokomaru: Who? What man!?
Tennosuke: This guy.
Heppokomaru: CAPTAIN ISHIDA!!!!
Captain Ishida: Tennosuke will be sent as our first line of defense for invading Mars.
Heppokomaru: Even with a cool face, he’s given a nonsensical scary use--!!!
Martians: IT’S TOKORO TENNOSUKE OF EARTH’S FRONT LINE----!!!
Captain Ishida: He fights on Mars on weekends.
Tennosuke: I’ve had enough!! I can’t endure this life!!
Heppokomaru: HIS SORROW ISN’T GETTING TO ME THANKS TO THAT HANDKERCHIEF!!!
Captain Ishida: BY THE WAY, I AM THE GUARDIAN OF THIS FLOOR. I WILL ELIMINATE THE INTRUDERS.
Heppokomaru: !!!
Bo-bobo: You should have told us that sooner.
Heppokomaru: BO-BOBO-SAN

68.
Bo-bobo: IKEMEN
(Translator’s Note: The kanji of the attack technically translate as “STOMACH HAIR”, THUS THE ATTACK IS “STOMACH HAIR MEN”)
Captain Ishida: GYAAAAAAAA!!!!!
SFX: Boom
Bo-bobo: Shower in your own blood…
Heppokomaru: That handkerchief is getting popular!!?
Bo-bobo: Tennosuke, we’re now going to destroy this base. Want to come too?
Tennosuke: Un!
Heppokomaru: He doesn’t look cute at all--!!!!
Don Patch: The stairs are over here.
Bo-bobo: ………

69.
Bo-bobo: What is this…this is from that Hajike Bird Don Patch grabbed earlier…I never realized how huge he would make it…this is the first time I’ve seen the Hajike Bird turn into something so massive…
Bo-bobo: Don Patch, what on earth are you…?
Narrator: Top Floor of Hajike Block base.
“Mysterious Boy”: Please get up here quickly, Don Patch-senpai.

Translator's Note: And thus...the Hajike Trio finally comes together for good! Since his own fight and the little he did against Gunkan, Tennosuke proved to be one of the few characters who interacted perfectly with Bo-bobo and Don Patch, so seeing him finally perminantly join the team felt like having the conclusion we've been waiting for so long. Of course, what made his reappearance in this chapter so shocking...was how simple it was! In many shonen, you get full pictures or a bad-ass shot of the character as they re-enter the story, occasionally with foreshadowing that they are coming...yet all Tennosuke did was just slide across the floor in a small middle panel and he's back in the story! Sometimes the mundane can work just as powerfully as the flashy in my head. Furthermore, we finally get the classic Bo-bobo trademark: the "Nu handkerchief". Tennosuke probably had some weird traits he occasionally used before and after this, but the handkerchief (and ultimately just "Nu" in general) is his greatest contribution and trademark in the whole series. Probably one of my other favorite aspects of this chapter is how we're starting to get a bit of foreshadowing for someone coming after this arc. Note the symbol on Hatenko's neck...and also note that "mysterious boy" (won't say who it is for those who don't know) and the mark on his jacket. Though we're being introduced to the symbol now, we won't know of the source for a few more chapters...thus of course leading to the various linkage that we get at this point from opponent to opponent, with Sawai leading us to one but setting up another at the same time. Next up...well, the fight with the boy is coming but first we've got some other business to attend to...like getting to the top of Hajike Block!