Hell Teacher Nube 138

Once, a yukionna who died for love was reborn with a new body and her memories of the past wiped clean. But when her beloved returned, these feelings began to reawaken within her...to the point that she may need to go back to see him again...

#138: Yukime: Come Home to Doumori Town
(TN: It was tough to really determine whether “return” or “come home” works for the “kaeru” used here in the title of the chapter, but I went to “come home” due to the connection she and Nube had prior and the aspect that she’s “returning home” to a place she was welcome and accepted prior…even with all the crap she pulled the last few volumes)

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Nube: Remember, Yukime!
Nube: Oni no Te, transmit the memories of Yukime within my heart!!
(TN: Slight adjustment: the original version of the dialogue has Nube saying “Oni no Te, transmit to this girl the memories within my heart!”, but I guess they wanted to slightly adjust it from the original encounter…which was essentially 12 chapters ago)
Yukime: Aaaaah
SFX: Hyuuu…
Yukime: ………What exactly is this…when I think about that man, my chest aches…
Yukime: ………I’m going…

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Yukime: To Doumori Town…
Right Sign: Today’s departing trains
Left Sign: Tohoku Bullet Train (Shinkansen)

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SFX: Puaaan…
Yukime: Why…am I worried about that man like this…
Man: Hey, girl, is there a vacancy next to you?
Yukime: Go ahead. Do as you please.
Man: Achoo, haha, it’s a tad cold. Where are you coming from?
Yukime: In truth…the previously Yukime was in love with that man…but the me now isn’t the former Yukime…Yukime died and the Mountain God used her snow crystals and reincarnated her…and breathed a different soul into it…

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Man 2: Hey, girl, want a drink? (Get out of the way).
Yukime: Ultimately like he said, the separate snow crystals of my body have remaining the soul of the Yukime of long ago…can he revive the memories of how I met him…and bring back the former Yukime? That’s ridiculous…
Man 3: Hey, how about cards?
Yukime: But…
Yukime: Why those tears……?
Yukime: I can’t go without meeting with him. I’ll meet with him…and get an answer for…these tears…

143.
Voice: Gurururu
Nube: It’s hot—it’s already completely summer—
Book: 5th Grade Japanese
Fan: Cool
SFX: Dara~~
Kyouko: Hold on! Look sharp; you’re indecent!
Voice: Old man—
Miki: You’re the worst; showing your underwear in front of ladies!
Nube: No…nothing I can do. I’ve pawned off my summer outfits.

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Nube: I can do my class even if it’s in one pair of underwear! Now open your textbooks…
SFX: Kon kon
Ritsuko: Nueno-sensei, you forgot a handout in the staff office……Kyaaa!?
Nube: Uwaaa, Ritsuko-sensei!?
SFX: Bi
Caption: Leg
Nube: Huh?
SFX: Piki—n
Nube: Aryaryaryaryarya!?
SFX: Tsuru tsuru tsuru~~ (Slip Slip Slip~~)
Ritsuko: Kyaaaaaaa!!
SFX: Boin! | Mugyu!
Ritsuko: Nooo~~

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Ritsuko: Kyaaa! Waaa! Hieee
SFX: Barin | Baki | Doka
Yukime: ……Hmph…I was ultimately mistaken about that man…
SFX: Zugagaga | Dogoooo~~
Ritsuko: I hate you!
Nube: Why…was my leg frozen…
SFX: Kachin kochin
Nube: ! Th…this is…it can’t be…

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Nube: For that reason—today we’ll be jumping into the pool.
Miki: Enough! Why is it just me they think of for reader service? Nothing—I can do about it—
Miki’s swimsuit: 5-3: Hosokawa Miki
Nube: So then, first I’ll show you the model for it!
Hiroshi: O—oh, he’s hustling.
Kyouko: Does he have something?
Nube: She’s hesitating in meeting with me but…if I show my cool form, she’ll say that I’m “dreamy” and jump right out. (Fu)

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Kyouko: Hey, are you alright!? From that height…
SFX: Gura gura…
Nube: It’s fine, it’s fine, it’s good to be flashy.
Nube: Ha
SFX: Pi
Nube: Gebe
SFX: Dogaaa!
Kyouko: Kyaaa
Hiroshi: It was flashy—

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Student: Look, look, it’s an ice flow.
Kyouko: Pool for today is suspended.
Caption: Can’t swim
Hiroshi: It’s like the Sea of Okhotsk.
(TN: The Sea of Okhotsk is a sea in the western Pacific Ocean mostly surrounded by the western coast of Russia, but includes various areas of Japan and Japanese-disputed territories, including the northern edge of Hokkaido and the Kuril Islands.)
Miki: Well, but the one who could do this is…
Kyouko: It has to be
Hiroshi: That’s right, it certainly is!
SFX: Puka~~
Yukime: He looked bad… (Fuu…; to herself) That man…where was he good…?
Yukime: That’s enough. There’s nothing I can do even if I watch him…I’ll go back to the mountain.
Yukime: …Here is his classroom…
SFX: Gara…

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Yukime: !
Yukime: This is…(to herself) Living supplies…of my former…self…!?
(Past Dialogue: from Chp. 110:
Yukime: Here! It’s shirko, sweet and tas—ty.
(TN: As I explained prior, shiruko is a sweet red-bean soup that is served cold)
SFX: Kachin kochin
Nube: That I say is par for azuki beans in this world but.)

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Nube: Here we go, Yukime!
Yukime: Right!
SFX: Gyu
Voice: Yukime.
Kyouko: Welcome home, Yukime-san!
SFX: Pan papan

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Nube: Welcome home, Yukime-kun. Everyone else is celebrating too…it’s co~~ld frozen food.
SFX: Niko
Yukime: Nueno-sensei… (to herself) ……Warmth…aaah…this is it…this was it.
Yukime: A thing not at the mountain…a thing I forgot…(out loud) Teacher…

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Voice: Kekeke…you betrayed us after all. Betrayed, betrayed.
SFX: Sha—
“Rats”: The Mountain God is angry. Angry. Will you break the law and live with a human man in the human world again? Again?
Yukime: Ko…Kodama Mice!
(TN: “Kodama Mice” is originally in Japanese “Kodama Nezumi”)
Nube: Eh!?
Nube: Wh…what are Kodama Mice!?
SFX: Kachi

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Miki: Kodama Mice: they’re folklore among the matagi of Akita Prefecture. When you meet one within the mountains, it patiently comes to not move, puff out and swell up like a balloon and cause a great explosion. They’re familiar spirit for the Mountain God to have the laws of the mountain known by humans.
(TN: A “matagi” is an ancient style of hunting used in Tohoku and Hokkaido (particularly in Aomori and Akita Prefectures) where groups of hunters go out together without modern equipment. Their practice is dwindling due to reduced forests and protection of some of their former prey like serow, but they are still known to hunt bear)
Yukime: Everyone run, they’re dangerous.
Kodama Mice: You can’t do that: those who break the law of the Mountain God shall all be killed. All be killed!
Students: !
SFX: Puku—puku—
Students: Kya—
Yukime: We’re surrounded!!

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Nube: Byakue Reihekiju!
(TN: A variation on Nube’s typical “Byakue Reibakuju”, the “Baku”, which is the kanji for “binding”, is replaced with the kanji “heki” which is “wall”; thus “Byakue Reihekiju” = “White-Robe Spirit-Wall Curse”, with “White Robe” being in connection to “Byakue-Kannon”)
SFX: Bari bari bari
Yukime: It’s impossible, Nueno-sensei; they’ll instantly utilize their amazing youryoku…this can’t be protected with your spirit power!
Nube: But we can’t run…don’t worry; even in exchange for my life
Nube: I will protect you!
SFX: Gogogogogo…
SFX: Ka

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SFX: Dooon
Student 1: Kyaaa!!
Student 2: What was that?
SFX: Zuzuzu—n
Student 3: A gas explosion!?

156.
Nube: Are you safe?
Yukime: Ah…
Kyouko: Hey, did you remember that when Nube protects students and important people, his spirit power rises to infinity?

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Yukime: Wao, you’ve done it—with that, Nube, marry me.
Kyouko: It’s the grand finale.
Nube: ?
SFX: Su…
Yukime: That…we can’t do yet.
Yukime: I…ultimately am not the former Yukime…no matter how much of Yukime’s soul I possess, my personality is different…and my youki is different. It will still take time for the two Yukime within me to fuse and for the former Yukime to return…until then…please wait for that.
Nube: Th…that’s right…
Kyouko: It’s complicated.
Miki: A—ah, back to the drawing board.
(TN: Miki’s expression here is “Furidashi ni modoru”, with “furidashi” either being a starting point or a drawing or issuing. “Back to the drawing board” sounded like the best expression for this certain moment)
Narrator: And so, Yukime came home to Doumori Town. But…this newly reborn Yukime...can she really become the exact couple with Nube like before…?
Top Sign: Doumori Real Estate (Existing)
Center Page (that Yukime is looking at): Casa Ooyuki: 80,000
(TN: “Ooyuki” is a Japanese term for “heavy snow”)

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NUBE’S WEIRD FILES

#25: Kodama Mice

In the legends handed down by the matagi (hunters) of Kitaakita District, Akita Prefecture, the Kodama Mice are beings that were the spirits of seven former matagi changed into youkai. Their appearance is of small animals that are just like mice, but there is a great explosion when they meet humans. Afterwards, the vicinity of the area is scattered with organs and pieces of meat and it comes to be a terrible scene. And so due to those who see them absolutely being visited by a curse, they are a youkai who are terribly feared among matagi. It is said that it’s best to chant the spell “Namu Abu Raun Kenso Waka” in order to ward off the curse.
(TN: “Kitaakita District” is an area in the north-central area of Akita Prefecture, with its notable city as Kamikoani)

TN: Am I the only one who is sort of getting a tad tired of "old Yukime"/"new Yukime" by now? I know the whole factor they're trying to get across: its' Yukime's body but with new power and obedient memories courtesy of the Mountain God...yet with the snow making Yukime's body still containing memories of her former life. I mean it just seems like they're trying to make "new Yukime" a completely new character...when it's just Yukime whose a bit bitchier and more prone to do things on a whim akin to a regular, old fashion yukionna. I just wish this was more of a "memory loss" storyline than merely "she's not Yukime but a new character who looks, acts and feels like the old Yukime...but she's not Yukime!" I get the whole concept of the Yukime story at this point, but somehow it just never really comes across as something I want to keep reading about over and over again. Still, the chapter just feels like a weird combination of some tender moments (like the scene with Yukime's old items in 5-3 and her recollections of previous incidents with them), some really stupid comedy (like all the random ice moments when its like 'well she's here...but we can't prove it') and...well a few weird but cute moments. (see Kyouko's expression when the pool freezes over) Nube I guess is trying to do the right thing to lure Yukime out and make sure she's alright, but some of the incidents here just feels like it was more random than the sense it really was. And the Kodama Mice...well, it was an interesting safeguard the Mountain God used, but the resolution where Nube literally protects everyone while a good chunk of Doumori Elementary blew up...we know Nube is powerful when protecting his students but sometimes it does feel a tad overblown on how powerful of a defense he has. All in all, the chapter is somewhat of a mess...but still important since Yukime is finally back in Doumori and not on some stupid mountain. Now if only we can get rid of "new Yukime" once and for all...