Sakigake!! Otoko Juku 265

Deep within the heart of Africa lies an ancient palace impossible to reach...but for Otokojuku to get the second disk to save Edajima, Momo and his squad need to swing for it in order to get through this unconquerable obstacle!

Chp. 265: The First Barrier!!

125.
Momotarou: Well, we’ll be going!!
Toramaru: We…we ask of you, Momo and the others---!! Certainly grope and reach the royal palace and obtain the 2nd Floppy Disk---!! And have all of you come back safely--!!
Gascoyne: Fufu, those helpless men……!! They don’t know that they’ve come to make farewells to this world with their friends……!!

126.
Captions:
GENERAL OF OTOKOJUKU: TSURUGI MOMOTAROU
OTOKOJUKU SECOND-YEAR: HIEN
FORMER GENERAL OF PHARAOH SPHINX; CURRENT OTOKOJUKU FIRST-YEAR: PHARAOH
OTOKOJUKU FIRST-YEAR: TOUGOU SOUJI
FORMER HEAD OF POORON KOKURENJU; CURRENT OTOKOJUKU FIRST-YEAR: TOU FUUKETSU

127.
Pharaoh: Really, what an eerie jungle.
Hien: Yes, in spite of being the middle of the day, there hasn’t come to be one shine of sun.
Tougou: Even so, when will we come to arrive at the first battleground!? We’ve already continued to walk 10 km here or there since we passed through the starting barrier.
Pharaoh: Oh!! What is that!?

128.
Pharaoh: Wh…what is that building that is in that strange shape that’s like a historic ruin………!!
Momotarou: Fu, it seems this should be our first battleground.
Momotarou: There’s a door. Let’s go in.

129.
Pharaoh: Oh---!! You’re in the way!
Momotarou: Wa…wait, Pharaoh!!
Pharaoh: Huh---!?
Pharaoh: Uo!!
Momotarou: Ku!!
Pharaoh: Wha, wha!?

130.
Pharaoh: Wh…what is…is this………….!!
Pharaoh: Is…is that saying we’re fighting by swinging by those ivy vines……!!
Momotarou: I’m only thinking as such.

131.
Momotarou: Even so, that smell……………!!
Pharaoh: Beneath has some mud-like thing, but it’s emitting a tremendous stink.
Tou Fuuketsu: Fu, interesting……….!! Here you’ll leave it to Tou Fuuketsu, former head of Pooron Kokurenju!!
Momotarou: !!
Tou Fuuketsu: I’ll make them realize the secret arts of Shou-ke Jagouken, admired as the utmost limit in terror in this world!!
(TN: Reminder: “Shou-ke Jagouken” = “Bell-School Strong-Snake Fist”)

132.
Tou Fuuketsu: Ha!!
Momotarou: Ah, Fuuketsu!!
Tou Fuuketsu: How about if you show your form properly? This tremendous bloodthirst………!! I can understand that you’re lurking somewhere and are aiming for me…...!

133.
Voice: FUFUFU, YOU’RE DOING WELL: UNDERTAKING THE CHALLENGE OF THE SUICHOURA-TOU IN THE FIRST BARRIER OF “THE ROAD TO THE ROYAL PALACE”!!
(TN: “Suichoura-tou” = “Suspended-Ivy Carnage-Battle”)
Tou Fuuketsu: !!
Voice: I WELCOME YOU!!
Tou Fuuketsu: Gu!!
Tou Fuuketsu: Y…you!!
Momotarou: Fu…Fuuketsu---!!

134.
“Dangler”: Fu, you seems you’re a tad able. You’ve done well in holding back that style of wound with that blow now.
Maha Meter: My name is Maha Meter, one of the Five on the “Road to the Royal Palace”!! Your life will be taken by me!!
Tou Fuuketsu: …………!!
Maha Meter: I will say one thing, but beneath us is Fuseki Mud, particular to Africa…………!! If you fall in and inhale the poisonous air that is emitted from this mud that has changed into a corrosive acid, then you’ll get through you that even a giant elephant will die if given a minute in there.
(TN: “Fuseki Mud” or “Fusekidei” = “Rotting-Red Mud”)

135.
Maha Meter: I am a man who was born in the jungle and who was raised in this training ground of the jungle!! There isn’t even a minutes of chance of victory for you in a battle which uses these ivy vines---!!
Tou Fuuketsu: Ku!!
Tou Fuuketsu: !!
Maha Meter: He—y, where are you looking!!
Tou Fuuketsu: Huh!!

136.
Tou Fuuketsu: Guha!!
Tou Fuuketsu: Nuu!!
Momotarou; Wh…what nimble movements by that guy~~~!! It’s…as if he’s a beast!! He has tremendous speed that’s like a gibbon who flies from tree to tree---!!
Maha Meter: Fuffuffu: what’s wrong: is that snake that’s coiled around your neck merely for decoration---!!
Tou Fuuketsu: I’ll show you now!!

137.
Tou Fuuketsu: SHOU-KE HIGI: JAGOUBEN!!
(TN: “Jagouben” = “Strong-Snake Whip”)
Maha Meter: Otto
Maha Meter: Understood: it’s become a whip that exists as a poisonous snake itself?
Maha Meter: This terrible technique has been used by this youngster in social-standing!!

138.
Maha Meter: But our level ground at any rate is a battleground with a bad foothold and you can’t use that thing on me!!
Maha Meter: Even so, you should take this!!
Tou Fuuketsu: Uh!!

139.
Pharaoh: Aah! What has this come to---!! Fu…Fuuketsu’s snake has fallen into the mud with the poison gas beneath---!!
Tou Fuuketsu: …………!!
Maha Meter: Uwahhaha: if that’s what came to your snake, then it will have a ten-second life from when it breathed in the Fuseki Mud’s poison!! That was too quick a secret art!!

140.
Tou Fuuketsu: Gu!!
Maha Meter: Well, next will be the finishing blow.
Maha Meter: Now it’s your turn to be like that!!
Tou Fuuketsu: Fufu……….!!
Maha Meter: N!?

141.
Tou Fuuketsu: Fu, you’ve made some misunderstanding. That snake wasn’t falling by your knife, I dropped it with my personal intention!!
Maha Meter: What’s that!? What do you mean by that!?
Tou Fuuketsu: Do you know of the word “shedding”!? Within snakes and insects, when they come to a certain time once a year, they fling off their old skin so they can grow up and replace it……….!!
Tou Fuuketsu: My snake has an ability to do it any time by training!! What are you grabbing and dangling from with that hand now!?
Maha Meter: Wh…what is this for this unknown reason!! Obviously, I decided on ivy……

142.
Maha Meter: Uoo, th…this is~~~!!
Tou Fuuketsu: Understand!? When the snake fell below, it simultaneously shed it’s skin, leaving behind it’s cast-off skin and nimbly crept up there!!

143.
Maha Meter: Fuga!!
Maha Meter: Agyaa---!!
Tou Fuuketsu: That was a “heavy” battle. (was it so!!)
(TN: Fuuketsu’s last line is an terrible pun, with “heavy” being read in Japanese as “hebii”, which is similar to “hebi” or “snake”)

TN: Sometimes even I am confused about what the heck just happened in an Otokojuku chapter. Maybe this isn't as terrible as the time I unintentionally (though probably intentional thinking about it) avoided Edajima's "boner" in the Daibukai, but I'm still really scratching my head on what...just happened...in this fight. All I know is this: somehow Fuuketsu dropped his snake, it shed it's skin, then somehow avoided the deadly mud, slid right to the top of the arena, then captured Maha Meter. That's...pretty much it...but I just don't get it honestly. Yeah I know how snakes can be, but for it to fall down, shed, then slither back up to the top to exactly where Fuuketsu wanted it to...I think sometimes this series gets way too improbable in it's fights at times...sure most of the time it's supposed to be but even I get confused at times on how Otoko handles things. Then again...Fuuketsu probably isn't one of those characters I really typically notice so that's probably something to do with it.