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Questions are finally answered: who is that mysterious boy at the top of Hajike Block? How does he know Don Patch? Is he the real block leader? And...who's the best carbohydrate-based character in this series!?

Ougi 71: Rice

87.
Narrator: Bo-bobo’s team has climbed up to the 4th floor.
Sign: Leader’s Room
Beauty: This is the leader’s room…
Heppokomaru: Ku…I wouldn’t be wrong if you have to have amazing Hajike to be leader.
Beauty: …Even so, we’ve seen many things up until now, yet it’s slight and quiet. I haven’t been surprised…
SFX: Creak
Beauty: KYAAAAAAA!!!! (There’s a man inside rice--!!!!)
(Translator’s Note: OK, before we go further, you have to realize that there are multiple ways the Japanese say “rice”. Here, Beauty is saying “gohan”, which stands for rice which is eaten at meals.)
Rokka: Y…you’re wrong. I’m not “rice”. It’s true!!! Believe me!!!!
Beauty: I understand what I see.
Rokka: DON’T EAT ME--!!!!
Rice: Aren’t you late?
Bo-bobo & Beauty: !

88.
Rice: You are late, so come in and sit right down.
Don Patch: Who are you? Are you the boss here?
Rice: No way—you’re wrong.
Rice: The boss is that guy. I’m someone who’s employed by the Hair Hunters in order to kill all of you.
Caption: Hajike Block Leader: Rokka
SFX: Mix mix
Rice: But please calm down. I’m not in the mood to fight you. How’s this? If it’s fine with you, we’ll have a meal together.
Don Patch: AH, WE’RE BAD!
Beauty: GREAT, I’M STARVING.

89.
Beauty: HE’S IN A KILLING MOOD------!!!!
Bo-bobo: Delish, delish! GOBA!!!
Don Patch: More please!!! GUBA!!
Beauty: THEY’RE EATING IT!!!!
Bo-bobo: Wouldn’t it be delicious for these calcium to go with Lamune?
(Translator’s Note: As I explained prior, “Lamune” is a type of lemon soda)
Don Patch: You said it.
Beauty: THAT’S POISON!!!
Rice: This level of trap doesn’t scratch you after all.
Don Patch: Naturally.
Beauty: YOU’VE BEEN FRAGILY SCRATCHED!!!
Tennosuke: ……
Tennosuke: I’LL EAT IT IN ONE GULP!!!
Beauty: IS THAT REALLY THE PROBLEM!!!!

90.
Tennosuke: GUBA!!!
Don Patch: HEY YOU!!! YOU’RE REALLY TRYING TO DECIEVE US!!!
SFX: Crick
Don Patch: GU!!!
Don Patch: Ku…it’s from then. When I hurt myself…
Narrator: Three hours earlier.
Woman: Ah! Time for Aerobics class.
Sign: ANYONE CAN DO IT: AEROBICS CLASS
Woman: N!
Don Patch: 1-2 1-2
Woman: That one seems weird!!!!
Woman: HE’S PLAYING THE KEYBOARD--!!!

91.
Don Patch: TRF!!!!
(Translator’s Note: Don Patch is referring to the notable J-pop group TRF [Tetsuya Komuro Rave Factory], a group notable not just for their music [a style of rap/hip hop] but also for their dancers and choreography)
SFX: Snap
Don Patch: GYAAAAA MARC PANTHER—I opened the wound from then…
(Translator’s Note: Staying with Japanese hip-hop, Don Patch is now referring to “Marc Panther”, a rapper born Ryuichi Sakai originally known as a multi-lingual MTV Japan VJ [he spoke Japanese, English and French] and eventually a member of the popular J-pop group “globe”)
Leg: You’re wrong.
Beauty: HIS LEG TALKED!!!
Leg: The source of your left leg’s pain…it is…
Creature: From me!
Beauty: SOMETHING WEIRD HAS APPEARED--!!!
Creature: Sorry for being late…I am “Itami”!
(Translator’s Note: His name is literally “pain”)
Beauty: HE HAS A CALLING CARD------!!! (He is well mannered--!!!)
Don Patch: Get out.
SFX: Fling
Beauty: KYAA--!!!

92.
Rice: Ha ha ha, Don Patch-senpai is an interesting person.
Don Patch: Senpai? I don’t even know you.
Rice: Well of course. This is the first we’ve met.
SFX: Pat pat
Beauty: HE’S STILL PILING THE RICE!!!!
Rice: MY NAME IS RICE. I’VE KICKED SENPAI OUT AS THE INHERITOR OF THE TITLE “KING OF HAJIKELISTS”.
Caption: Rice
(Translator’s Note: This is the second “rice” in this chapter, and this one is completely made of katakana spelling out “Raisu”, but could be understood as either style of rice)
Bo-bobo: WHAT DID YOU PUT IN OUR RICE--!!!!
Rice: UWA!!!
Beauty: BO-BOBO!! WHY DID YOU TURN INTO BREAD!!?
Bo-bobo: YOU IDIOT----!!! DID YOU PUT IT IN WITHOUT BREAD!!!
Bo-bobo: DID YOU PUT IT IN WITHOUT BREAD--!!!!
Bottle: Beer

93.
Bo-bobo: We bread are…
Beauty: HE’S DRUNK--!!!!
Bo-bobo: WE ARE BREAD. WE SHOULD BE EATEN INSTEAD OF RICE!!! WE BREAD ARE STAPLE FOOD!!! RICE DOESN’T GIVE OFF SATISFIED FACES ANYMORE!!!
Rice: Fu, what are you? What are you saying?
Bo-bobo: WHICH IS STAPLE, RICE OR BREAD! WE SHOULD CLEARLY DECIDE AT THIS TIME!!!!
Tennosuke: HOLD ON!!!!
Tennosuke: TOKOROTEN WILL ALSO PARTICIPATE IN THE STAPLE BATTLE!!
Beauty: IT’S USELESS!!! YOU’LL NEVER WIN!!!!
Narrator: And so many voted and a staple battle was conducted…
Narrator: The result
Side Sign: Staple Food King
Top Sign: STAPLE FOOD DECISION BATTLE
Panels: Rice/Bread/Tokoroten
Announcer: RICE IS THE WINNER.

94.
Bo-bobo: Damn it----!!!!
Tennosuke: I’ve got two…Two nice people use tokoroten as their staple…
Tennosuke: Ha!!
Beauty: …We thought it would be pathetic if you had no votes…
Heppokomaru: Hope you’re happy.
Tennosuke: ………You…you guys…
Tennosuke: THEN, STARTING TOMORROW, THE TWO OF YOU WILL EAT TOKOROTEN!!! YOU MU—ST EAT IT!!! EAT YOUR STAPLE!! IT’S A MUST!!!!
Heppokomaru: If that’s pitiful, it’s over…
Rice: …Well, anything would be good, but the one I want to fight is only Don Patch. The rest of you have no meaning to me. Can you go home so you won’t get in the way?
Heppokomaru: YOU’RE AN ANGRY ONE.
Beauty: WE CAN’T GO HOME LEAVING DON PATCH BEHIND!!!
Bo-bobo: Whoever goes home isn’t a man—

95.
Tennosuke: Ah
Bo-bobo: YOU’RE A KID!!! YOU’RE A KID!!!
Tennosuke: BUT HE GOT ANGRY AT ME SO QUICKLY!
Bo-bobo: He-y, Don Patchu~~I’m not scaredchu~~~~
(Translator’s Note: Bo-bobo apes Tennosuke by changing “desu” to “de-chu”…I tried to emulate that)
Tennosuke: TOU!!!
Don Patch: WHAT!!?
Rice: ……………I get it. Seems I’ll have to kill all of you…
Voice: WOULDN’T YOU LIKE TO DO THAT!!!
Rice: !

96.
Bo-bobo: WE PROTECT LOVE AND SKIN THAT SHINES. SLIGHTLY TOMBOY FRESH GIRLS: MAGICAL VITAMIN SOLDIERS “GASTRIC GIRLS” HAVE ARRIVED!!!!
(Translator’s Note: The actual name of the team in Japanese is “Ieki Girls”, with “Ieki” standing for “Gastric”)
Don Patch: WITH KISSES THE FLAVOR OF LEMON: LEMON PRINCESS!!
Bo-bobo: WITH PREMONITION OF SWEETNESS ONE AT A TIME: STRAWBERRY PRINCESS!!
Tennosuke: With a year-end gift: Melonko.
Don Patch: EAT THIS!!! LEMON PRISM!!!
Rice: Fu…how foolish.
SFX: Slide

97.
Bo-bobo: STRAWBERRY DO------N!!!!
Rice: GUWA!!!
Bo-bobo: THE FLOWERING WORD OF STRAWBERRIES IS “LONG-LIFE RETIREMENT”!!!
Rice: Ku!!
Rice: That
Rice: !!
Tennosuke: This way is fine…
(Translator’s Note: Tennosuke uses the term “budou”, as in the “way of the samurai”)
Tennosuke: YOU’RE WEAK!!!!
Rice: GOBA!!!!

98.
Tennosuke: UWAAAAAAAA, STRAWBERRY PRINCESS~~!!!!
Bo-bobo: MELONKO--!!!
Tennosuke: YOU’RE NOT NICE!!!!
Tennosuke: WA----N
Rice: You’ve drawn out my blood…I’ll never forgive you…
Don Patch: FORGIVE ME!
Rice: CAN I FORGIVE THAT!!!!
Bo-bobo: !!

99.
Beauty: WH…WHAT’S THAT!!?
Heppokomaru: A MASSIVE BOWL OF RICE APPEARED.
Rice: MAYBE IT’S BETTER IF I MIX YOU ALL IN MY RICE…
Rice: TAKE THIS!! KOME SHINKEN OUGI: ZESTY KABOOM!!!!
(Translator’s Note: The “kome” in “Kome Shinken” is the final “rice” in this chapter. Compared to “gohan”, though, “kome” is used either for uncooked or grains of rice.)
Bo-bobo, Don Patch & Tennosuke: UWAAAAAA
Bo-bobo: DON PATCH!!!
Don Patch: WHAT IS IT!!?
Bo-bobo: I WON’T FORGET YOU!!!!
Don Patch: GYAA!!!
Don Patch: Hel------p!!!

100.
Don Patch: Rice is eating me--!!!! Rice is eating me--!!!!
Don Patch: AH! IN THS CASE!!
Don Patch: PAPERCLIPS FOR ANYWHERE~~~~!!!
Bo-bobo & Tennosuke: AS EXPECTED, PATCHEMON!!!
(Translator’s Note: Bo-bobo & Tennosuke are referring the famed earless cat-robot Doraemon, star of manga and anime alike)
Don Patch: WATCH, IN THIS MANNER, ADDING IN PAPER CLIPS MAKES THE RICE TASTIER.
(Translator’s Note: Note Don Patch’s face continuing the Doraemon reference)
Bo-bobo: It pains the inside of my mouth.
Tennosuke: It’s rough, Patchemon.
Bo-bobo: GUBA!
Tennosuke: BU—
Don Patch: Fu…I’m saved…
Beauty: KYAAAAAAAA!!
Bo-bobo: BEAUTY!!!
Heppokomaru: IT…IT’S HARD!!!

101.
Beauty: KYAA
Heppokomaru: BEAUTY
Rice: She’s first.
SFX: BECHA
Rice: Once you enter the rice bowl, then you can not escape from my techniques…Furthermore, if you remain in the rice for over an hour.
Rice: YOU’LL TURN INTO A PANDA AND DIE LIKE THE LEADER!! (You won’t die but it will be over)
Rokka: N------?
Rice: Horrific deaths are great.
Heppokomaru: Th…THAT F**KING GUY!!
Sign: To be continued

Translator's Note: There are many, many horrific, terrifying ways to die...but who the heck would want to turn someone into a panda before killing them!? Of course, its the ludicrous that actually makes the whole scenario freaky yet hilarious at the same time. I know that there are probably a few fangirls who had been waiting for Rice's apperance the story...and personally, while I don't get the bishonen obsession they have (being male and all), he does show himself as a formidable opponent in this chapter. Besides...I doubt Rokka would have done too much to challenge the Hajike Trio anyway! One more quick note: this is actually the first of the many longer "boss battles" that now occur in this series. While fights like Tennosuke, Gunkan and Dengaku Man were "in and done" in three, Sawai probably decides to make them longer both for the tension...and to throw in the silliness a bit more. BTW: Melonko forever!