Jungle no Ouja Taa-chan 28

When brute strength isn't enough, Ta-chan may need some new tricks to handle the threats of poachers...of course, what he can do may even amaze himself!

No. 28: Ta-chan’s Psychic Power

90.
Jane: This lingering summer heat is relentless, it lingers.
Ta-chan: Aaaaa…
Ta-chan: I am King of the Jungle Ta-chan. Those who disturb the peace of the jungle are unforgiven!!
Caption: Badgers

91.
SFX: Peko
Ta-chan: I’m fine with your thanks. But be careful of hunters from here on.
Caption: Den entrance
Ta-chan: Hahaha, that’s why I’m fine with thanks. You don’t have to take care of me.
Caption:
Badger: A badger works out a den in a place 2-3m underground, possessing several rooms such as a food room and a sleeping room.
Captions:
Far Right: Going to get thanks.
Top Right: Sleeping Room
Top Left: Play Room
Bottom Left: Food Room: Amassed Fully
Ta-chan: I’m home. Well, when I saved a badger with a strong sense of duty, I got thanks.
Jane: Well—
Ta-chan: I told them I didn’t need it, but they weren’t satisfied.
Jane: Th…throw those away!!

92.
Jane’s Book: People With Psychic Power
Ta-chan: By the way, Jane, you’ve been reading with enthusiasm that book you borrowed from Helen-chan, but what is that book?
Jane: It’s on ESP.
(TN: “ESP” and “Psychic Powers” both possess the same Japanese reading: “Chounouryoku”, so I’ll probably be going back and forth between both)
Jane: Well, it wouldn’t be understood even if I explained it to you, being raised by a chimp, but…right: please go into the hut and bring a spoon for a moment.
Jane: OK.
Ta-chan: I don’t know.
Jane: Wrong, that’s wrong!!

93.
Ta-chan: Eh~~~you can bend a spoon with just having in your mind?
Jane: Yes. If you clear of wicked thoughts and have it in mind, you bend a spoon. That is psychic power.
Jane: If you master psychic powers, then it can come to be nothing you can’t do. You can attack hunters with willpower. (Bend~~)
Jane: It won’t bend. I give up.
SFX: Chiri—n
Ta-chan: Bend.
SFX: Guni
Jane: Did...didn’t it bend; amazing!!
Ta-chan: Bend~~!!
SFX: Nade nade
Ta-chan: Is this psychic power too?
SFX: Guni
Jane: Right—he may emit genuine willpower because he’s an idiot.
SFX: Bachi bachi bachi

94.
Narrator: Several days after that…
Ta-chan: What a well-skilled hunter. He’s used to aiming at humans!!
Ta-chan: Da…damn it!!
Hunter: Are you the famous King of the Jungle Ta-chan? Well, you aren’t even to the extent of your legend.
Hunter: Did you know: You’ll receive a hundred-thousand dollar bounty for your head among the hunters. I’m not an ordinary hunter; I’m a bounty-hunter.

95.
Ta-chan: S**t—with this, this is a desperate situation where I’ll be shot and killed by him!!
Ta-chan: Right: that psychic power that I learned by Jane originally stupidly…
Ta-chan: Stretch this idiot hunter!!
Hunter: Gyaa!!
SFX: Dota
Ta-chan: He really stretched with just him in mind…

96.
Ta-chan: Speaking about it, I can use psychic powers and I can do anything. (amazing)
Ta-chan: Falling rocks.
SFX: Gara gara
Ta-chan: Rocks, stop.
SFX: Gucha
Ta-chan: GYA
Hunter: Um—let me go by chance…
Narrator: In truth, that was the favor of the badgers.

97.
9. Happiness
Ultimately when I do work is the most happiness as a mangaka…I’m happy. Ah—I’m happy.

Hypnotist: When I count to 3, you will think that when you work is the most happiness…
Hypnotist: 1, 2, 3
Tokuhiro: WITH THIS, I’LL BE HAPPY EVERY DAY. I CAN GO OUTSIDE TWO DAYS IN A WEEK WITHOUT APOLOGY IN SOCIETY AND THAT’LL GIVE ME HAPPINESS!!

TN: So...what exactly happened with the spoon? I get the whole scenario that Ta-chan may not really have ESP (since the badgers lead to the end of the poacher), but why did the spoon bend if he didn't have ESP? The only excuse I have is that somehow it bent a bit when Jane threw it on the ground and it just bent easier somewhat when Ta-chan picked it up. That's all I can use as an explanation. But hey, eating "badger food" and the bit at the end with the boulder made for one interesting chapter.