Sakigake!! Otoko Juku 295

With a tragic connection revealed between the two of them, Wan Taaren and the Kennou of Shinken Temple go forth to have their great showdown! But what surprises will whirl down with the two greatest students of this great school?

Chp. 295: Shinken Temple: The Two Secret Ougi!!

149.
Chishou: Gugu!!
Chishou: Uh!!

150.
Kennou: Wan!! We absolutely won’t use tricks in our match. If it’s like this, then this match will be concluded at once with that secret fist handed down by Shinken Temple.
Wan Taaren: ……That secret fist…right: that illusionary Ougi that you’ve finally mastered!!
Momotarou: An…illusionary Ougi handed down by Shinken Temple…!?
Date: He’s suddenly going to end it with this!!
Kennou: I didn’t master it yesterday or today. I already had mastered it long and far ago…………!!

151.
Kennou: Remember about that day!!
Kennou: It was the 10th year since we had entered this Shinken Temple…!! The previous Kennou appointed strange training to us two, who had finished all of our basic training.
Kennou: You had lifted over your head a rice-sack that was packed with iron sand and just rotating it………!!
Kennou: I was just brandishing the same rice sack like I was drawing an arc………!!

152.
Kennou: Hey Wan, are we going to continue with this training forever!? It’s already been over three years since we started this.
Kennou: Day after day it’s just this……What is the meaning of this!?
Wan Taaren: I don’t understand it either.
Wan Taaren: But Kennou’s sotry said it’s a thing for respectively mastering the two secret Ougi handed down for generations at Shinken Temple……What exactly are those two Secret Ougi……
Kennou: Do those things actually exist?
Wan Taaren: Well, somehow I’ve come to not believe in it.

153.
Kennou: Then one day, we went out to be used as messengers by Kennou’s command to the temple beyond the mountain. We had conveyed our business and when we were hurrying on the return trip, the sun had already set long ago and it was becoming night.
Kennou: Wait, Wan!!
Wan Taaren: N!?
Kennou: Don’t you know it, that bloodthirst!! Th…there’s something here in the bamboo grove……!!
Wan Taaren: Wh…what’s that!!
Kennou: !!
Wan Taaren: Bandits!?

154.
Kennou: Wh…what---!!
Wan Taaren: Ti…tigers……!! Giant man-eating tigers that are said to infest this mountain recently----!!
Kennou: We…we have to run…!! They’re really not opponents we can match. The two of us will split and mutually go in different directions!!

155.
Wan Taaren: Uoo!!
Kennou: I ran!!
Kennou: There were emotions I was lost in…
Kennou: But I ended up cornered to a steep wall of rock!!

156.
Kennou: I was prepared to die.
Kennou: But at the moment when the tiger bared its fangs and attacked!!
Kennou: I unconsciously…!!
Voice: GAWAWAA-----!!

157.
Kennou: I was enlightened…!! At that moment where I was cornered to the limit…!! That secret Ougi handed down by Shinken Temple was…!!
Kennou: Fu, that was insignificant gossip. Now I will show you the secret fist!!
Wan Taaren: !!

158.
Chishou: Take this---!!
Kennou: !!
Chishou: Wahhaha, have you realized---!! Can Chishou silently take just that disgrace and cave in----!!
Wan Taaren: …………!!
Pharaoh: Wh…what a guy he…he is---!!
Hakuhou: In spite of his match with Wan Taaren already done, he crept up from behind and slashed at him---!!

159.
Chishou: Pl…please, Kennou. That guy will have a match with me just once more!! Ea…earlier I was just unprepared!!
Kennou: You’ve lost your mind, Chishou……!! Your crime of dishonoring a match of man and man must be redeemed with your death!!
Chishou: Huh!?
Kennou: HAAA---!!
Chishou: It…can’t be, th…that stance is………!! Ke…Kennou---!!

160.
Kennou: THIS IS SHINKENJI HIKEN: SHOURYUU TENKAIREKI!!
(TN: A couple things:
-“Shinkenji Hiken” = “Secret Fist of Shinken Temple”
-“Shouryuu Tenkaireki” = “Rising-Dragon Unexpected-Heaven’s Lightning”)
Chishou: Uooo---!!

161.
Chishou: Gugyaa---!!
Pharaoh :Wh…what, a…tornado----!! A…giant tornado is whirling up Chishou’s body into the sky---!!

162.
Kennou: Wan!! Next is your turn!! There isn’t a way to escape from this secret fist!!
Wan Taaren: Kennou…!! You forgot one important thing.

163.
Wan Taaren: I too was chased by a tiger simultaneous with you that day.
Wan Taaren: And I was cornered to a precipitous cliff, lost my footing and my body was dropped into the valley. It was an eternal bottom where you absolutely can’t be saved if you fall…!!
Wan Taaren: I am now alive and doing as such. Don’t you think that’s strange!?
Kennou: Fu, How could you say that at this late point?

164.
Kennou: I will end this match with this blow----!!

165.
Wan Taaren: Nugu!!
Pharaoh: Wa…Wan Taaren---!!
Hakuhou: Wa…Wan Taaren is being swallowed in the tornado and rolled up into it---!!
Kennou: What remains is just to crash to the ground………!! My destined showdown with your ends with this!!

166.
Kennou: ………
Kennou: ……!?
Hakuhou: Wh…what, that’s strange…………!! Wa…Wan Taaren hasn’t fallen to the ground, even if it’s been an eternity……!!
Pharaoh: Th…that’s stupid…………!!
Momotarou: L…look!! That’s……!!
Hakuhou: Uo---!! Wh…what is that---!?
Pharaoh: Th…that’s, it…can’t be!!

167.
Wan Taaren: THIS IS SHINKEN TEMPLE’S OTHER SECRET OUGI: KOURYUU TENRINHEKI!! JUST LIKE YOU, I TOO MASTERED IT ON THAT DAY!!
(TN: “Kouryuu Tenrinheki” = “Descending-Dragon Heaven-Confronting Thunder”)
Wan Taaren: Prepare yourself, Kennou!!

TN: So then...well, Taaren's helicopter attack was awesome, that I can't lie about. The way he was able to use his staff and float around was a neat technique really worthy of his character. But on the other hand...why the heck was Kennou given what seemed like a variation of Jaki's ultimate technique? Yeah, his was merely wind currents while Kennou uses a tornado, but I just can't help but see the obvious similarities between the two of them when I see that massive wind sweeping him high into the sky. Sure it doesn't obliterate you instantly like Jaki's did...but then again no one in this series can ever replace Jaki. Aside from that, was it just me or was just skipping to the "final attack" after finally meeting with Kennou after all this time seem a tad abrupt? It feels like that as long as this has been, this confrontation of Taaren and Kennou could have been way longer...but hey, the series is starting to approach critical so at least we get this.