Sakigake!! Otoko Juku 259

With their Principal's life at stake, the forces of Otokojuku head off into the unknown to take on the Battle of Seven Tusks! But are the alliance of gutsy students just walking on thin ice into unknown dangers!?

Vol. 29: Road to the Royal Palace!!
Chp. 259: The First Tusk!!

8.
Toramaru: Where exactly is this helicopter taking us to!?
Togashi: Yeah, really.
Tougou: It’s already been a complete day and night since we left the school.
Gobarski: Gahahaha: there isn’t destitution with just the food.
Sou Reigen: Outside the window is just snow.

9.
Momotarou: But this is a thing thought up by them too. Launching the Principal in a condition of cold-storage outside our atmosphere in a man-made satellite.
Akashi: Umu: even if he’s quite the principal, he can’t do anything in space.
Hien: We’re going to get the Principal home alive when we fight in those seven locations of the world and gather those seven floppy disks. It operates with the computers that is at the headquarters of those guys “Dark Tusks” with those seven floppy disks.
Gouki: This is really a plan they put thought into………!!
Announcer: This is to inform the Gentlemen players for Otokojuku who have boarded!!
Toramaru: Uh!!
Announcer: Our plane now is entering the landing altitude. We appreciate your efforts for this journey of this long time!!
Momotarou: Fu, we’ve finally landed.

10.
Toramaru: Uwa!!
Togashi: Owow, damn: that was a rough landing.
Announcer: Well, you should get out!!
Toramaru: Uo!!
Togashi: Wh…what is th…this snow storm!?
Momotarou: !!

11.
Togashi & Toramaru: WH…WHAT, TH…THIS IS----!!

12.
Toramaru: A…tower………!! A…giant tower……!
Gobarski: E…even so, it’s cold like the entire surface of the huge snow field is frozen…!!
Tou Fuuketsu: Wh…where exactly is here!?
Voice: We’ve been waiting for you, Gentlemen of Otokojuku.
Students: !!

13.
“Bearded Man”: Welcome to the First Tusk of the “Battle of Seven Tusks”: Mouryou Tower!! This here is 12 degrees East Longitude, 89.7 degrees South Latitude in Antarctica.
(TN: A couple things:
1. “Mouryou Tower” or “Mouryoutou” = “Tower of Spirits and Goblins”
2. Searching for 89.7S Latitude, 12E Longitude in Google Maps, I can attest that, yes, that is a location in Antarctica)
Togashi & Toramaru: Wh…what---!! The Antarctic---!
A. Kamshin: I was slow in saying this, but my name is Aleut Kamshin!! I am the advanced responsible party for this First Tusk.
A. Kamshin: All of you will be fighting in this five-level tower. On each floor, five elites of our “Dark Tusks” have been respectively prepared and are waiting for you.
(TN: “Prepared” here is actually “Tegusune wo hiku”, which is an expression involving the preparation of a bow and arrow with resin and oil in preparation for battle. Since I had a hard time figuring this out myself, I ended up translating this with the general meaning that I found for it)

14.
A. Kamshin: And when you splendidly have gone up to the top floor and defeated the fifth enemy, then you will obtain the first floppy disk that you desire. Have you come to understand this!?
A. Kamshin: So then, choose the five players who will enter the tower!!
Momotarou: One will be me!!
Date: I’ll go too!!
Souketsu: I’ll go too!!
Sou Reigen: I too!!
Gobarski: Gahahahaha, this seems amusing: I’ll go too!!

15.
A. Kamshin: Fufu: you’ve spoken quicky. Fine then: with that you’ve decided on five.
A. Kamshin: So then, you can enter through that door!!
Toramaru: I…I ask of you, Momo! Earnestly be careful!!
Togashi: We…we know nothing yet about the power of the enemy.
Momotarou: Aah, leave this to us. I’m certain we’ll leave the tower with all five of us present!!
A. Kamshin: Fufufu: they’re helpless guys.

16.
Date: What’s that: I can’t see anything inside with this total darkness!!
Date: !!

17.
“Fighter”: I’ve waited impatiently.
Samtan: My name is Samtan, one of the five of Mouryou Tower!! All of you won’t be going upwards from here!!
Souketsu: That great self-confidence. In that case, Souketsu shall be your opponent.

18.
Souketsu: Uh!!
Souketsu: This is………!!
Momotarou: Ice!!R
Samtam: Fufu, right: here is the Room of Ice!! The whole surface under your feet is said to be covered in ice!!

19.
Samtam: You will realize!! The techniques that have me possess the nickname of the Murderer of the Skating Rink!
Date: Nuu: that guy has things that are like skate shoes with blades attached to his feet……!!
Samtam: Fufu: there hasn’t ever been a person who has defeated this technique!!
Samtam: HERE WE GO---!!

20.
Souketsu: HA!!
Samtam: Fufu: where are you looking?

21.
Samtam: Wahhahaha: how’s that: my nimble movements that can’t even be seen by the eye----!! On the other hand, you are preoccupied with your easily-slipping feet and can’t even set up that bow that’s in your hand with this---!!
Souketsu: That’s a foolish technique. It’s absurd to call that a technique.
Samtam: Huh!?
Souketsu: One. If I have one arrow, that’s enough in order to defeat someone like you…!!
Sou Reigen: ………!!
Samtam: Wh…what are you joking about---!!

22.
Samtam: Unforgivable!! You, who can’t even use his arms or legs, are mocking me----!!
Souketsu: I don’t have time to play with you any further.
Samtam: Ku!! Pl…play…………!!
Souketsu: I will show you: this Ougi of Ryouzanpaku Toukyuujutsu!!

23.
Everyone: Huh!?
Samtam: Wahhahaha, how has this idiot lost his mind---!! He’s setting up by facing his arrow in reverse---!!
Samtam: Well, if you’re saying you’ll defeat me with that, then do it!!
Souketsu: OUGI: KYOUHONSAI!!
(TN: “Kyouhonsai” = “Duck-Running Crush”; the first kanji, “Kyou”, is literally a kanji for a domestic duck)

24.
Samtam: Kukku, that’s an Ougi---!?
Samtam: What were you thinking?
Souketsu: In the end, I ask for your name one more time!!
Samtam: Hu—h, the end!?

25.
Samtam: Whose coming to the end is you---!! My name is the Murderer of the Skating Rink…………!!
Samtam: Uo!!
Souketsu: Four left……!! You weren’t my match after all……!!

TN: It sort of feels strange that the Otokojuku students just walk right in and begin fighting right away from the word go, considering that the previous arcs at least laid a bit of breathing room from arrival to the moment the students actually enter the arena for the first time. (heck even with the Daibukai, the first chapter of every battle seemed to end with either the first opponent or the first Otokojuku student setting up for the battle) But...considering that the series was pretty much starting to enter "live-or-die" mode, my guess is Miyashita just wanted to cut the crap and get right into the action with this new arc as quickly as possible. (of course this isn't the worst of it...) The chapter in itself was rather interesting with the possibilities, in particular the whole idea of a giant Leaning Tower in the middle of Antarctica that the Otokojuku students had to climb just to get to the top. As for the battle itself...well, honestly, one thing I just have to say is that I sort of wished we got more of Souketsu. Sadly with the way the series was, this was his only fight outside his Daibukai throw-down with Gekkou and just seeing his style showing him as pretty much the quiet one just felt like a nice change compared to some of the other more serious fighters we've seen in the series. I'm honest to say that I do like Souketsu...both due to his fight with Gekkou and his usage in this chapter and the party last time. It's a shame he never got too much done beyond this...but the way he mocked the stupidity of Miyashita's idiot kenpou and impaled that idiot figure skater with an icicle was just awesome.