Hell Teacher Nube 179

The trials of a female are hard, particularly in trying to keep themselves attractive to males even if they say otherwise. But in Miki's case, her own infamy has forced her to turn to much more drastic measures...and a certain naughty witch!

#179: Search for the Mandragora!

50.
Miki: Fua~~a… Ya~~wn…)
SFX: Pori pori
Miki: N~~?
SFX: Gara |Wai wai gaya gaya
Blackboard:
The Female You Don’t Want As Your Lover
(from right)
-Kusai Unko
-Dokumamushi Shuuko
-Yamada Pekeko
-Hosokawa Miki
(TN: The “three girls” competing for the worst sweetheart [with Miki] are all strange puns in one way or another:
-Though it is spelled in a way to make it sound like a name, the first girl is literally “Kusai Unko” or “Smelly Poop”
-The second name has kanji that all seem to be rather derogatory towards the female: “doku” uses the kanji for “poison”, “mamushi” is “viper” and the “Shuu” is the kanji that is usually used for “minikui” or “ugly”. Thus this name seems to emphasize this girl as “a poison viper that’s ugly”
-In the last name, “Yamada” is a rather generic name sort of like “Smith” or “Jones” in Japanese, but the “Peke” of “Pekeko” is “No Good”)
SFX: Gogogogogogo
Blackboard: Hosokawa Miki

51.
SFX: Da
SFX: Tatatatata…
Miki: Agya~~
SFX: Zudodododo

52.
Miki: Wh~~y!? Wh~~y me! What’s the reason I’m the #1 “Female You Don’t Want as Your Lover”!?
SFX: Uh-- | Ze—ze—
Miki: It’s me, the beautiful girl of this era with these refined proportions (heart)
Katsuya: She’s stripping again…
Hiroshi: But…you tell just gossip of people…
Caption: Manga Vol. 1, chp. 3
Kaneda: Have stuck on the hide of greed…
Caption: Manga Vol. 18, chp. 151
Makoto: Came to be the nosehair girl.
Caption: Manga Vol. 18, chp. 155
Shuichi: And you’re over-egotistical.
Katsuya: I like even those things about y…
SFX: Geshi!
Miki: Does those seriously make me #1!?
Hiroshi: But this was majority rule.
Kaneda’s Minion: I think it’s an impartial opinion~~

53.
Miki: ………
Miki: …Right.
Hiroshi: Did we tell her a bit too much?
Kaneda: It’s fine. She was a bit disgusted with it.
(TN: I really had a hard time figuring out the means by which Kaneda was talking of Miki here: he uses the term “korita” which is the verbal “koriru”, which could either be “to learn from experience” to “to be disgusted”. Honestly I think the former worked but it was tough to really work out in how she would learn a bit of experience in English, so I went with the latter considering Miki was a tad disgusted with what they chose to pull with this)
Miki: Those guys~~If~~it’s come to this, I’ll absolutely have them kneel to me by force!
SFX: Garuru…
Miki: Isn’t there a quick an easy method where I can make men into my slaves like magic? Like magic…magic…
Miki: That’s right!

54.
Sign: Staff Office
SFX: Ban!
Nube: …What’s with Miki’s appearance?
Kyouko: She’s scheming something again.
SFX: Kyoro kyoro
Miki: She’s here!
Mami: Suuparomi Nuuparomi

55.
Mami: Alight Nueno-sensei’s heart with the flame of my love!
SFX: Chiri chiri chiri
Nube: Gya--!
SFX: Booo
Mami: What, I failed? (What could I—do with him really becoming alight)
SFX: Poi
Nube: Wachachacha (Hothothothot)
“Voice”: Magnificent!
Mami: Eh?
Miki: Mami-sensei, make me your pupil! Please teach me the magic that will make men into slaves!
Mami: ?

56.
Nube: Wh…what are you thinking, Miki!
Kyouko: You--! In spite of being witch-like, you’re overfalling into it in addition!
Miki: Shut it.
Nube: Generally, Mami-sensei’s magic is half-way; there isn’t a reason she can make men into slaves.
Mami: Muka
Mami: Excuse me; I can!
Book: Introduction to Magic
Mami: We’ll use the “Mandragora”.
(TN: For those that missed it, the “Supplemental” for the previous chapter to this, chp. 178, was actually the one for this chapter and was on the Mandragora)

57.
Mami: Mandragora (Alias: Mandrake) is a plant that is the highest-grade ingredient for making magical drugs. With that, it can easily be made into a drug that will make men into slaves.
Mami: They are well sold at magic shops and in mail order but they aren’t too useful being they’re daikon that is made into human-shape. (I too use black magic just in form but)
Mami: Real ones grow beneath execution stands and suck the blood of those condemned to death.
(TN: “Execution stand” is a translation of the term “Shikeidai”, with “shikei” being “death penalty” or “capital punishment”, with “dai” being a “stand/support”, thus a “stand for the death penalty” was best translated into “execution stand”)
Mami: When they’re pulled out, they give off a terrible shriek as “gya~~~”. Those who hear that voice will die in that place.
“Mandragora”: Gyaaaa~~
SFX: Zo…

58.
Mami: Because it’s an ingredient that is taken betting your life, it’s effectiveness is immense. However...since there aren’t execution stands in Japan today, we can’t obtain it first of all.
Nube: Well, there are none; there isn’t a way to use it. (Ha ha ha, worthless—)
Miki: No, there is. A probably place for Mandragora…
Stone: Hatamonba Ruins

59.
Miki: Here is an execution ground of the Edo Period. It’s a place where thousands of criminals were executed. Near this hill was the place of execution.
Miki: ?
SFX: Pa pa
Mami: When salt is sprinkled on a Mandragora, it emits light.
SFX: Pa pa
Mami: !!
SFX: Bou…
Miki: There it is!
Mami: Th…that’s a Mandragora…

60.
SFX: Boko
SFX: Shupon
Miki: It…it ran……
Mami: The Mandragora runs quickly since it’s alive.

61.
Miki: Isn’t there a way we can catch it?
Mami: There’s just one.
Miki: Huh!?
SFX: Jyo---…
Hiroshi: What are you doing collecting our pee.
SFX: Shobo shobo shobo
Miki: Mandragora become stiff when sprinkled with pee. So we’ll catch it at that moment.
Kaneda: What’s a Mandragora?
Miki: Turn that way.
Miki: Ho ho ho: please watch this. (Gahaha) With this, all of you will be my servants.
(TN: I had to use “servants” here for “dorei” because of my usage earlier of “toriko” as “slave”)
Hiroshi: She’s an increasingly strange person, Miki…

62.
Miki: Well, come out, Mandragora.
Mami: It’s a match now!
Miki: There!
SFX: Pisha | Shabo
Mami: Ha
SFX: Shapo
Mami: Nununu
Mandragora: Kekeke
Mami & Miki: Taa Teya Tou No
SFX: Picha picha picha
Miki: Uwa!
SFX: Bisha
Mami: Bu

63.
Miki: Funga—
Mami: Gya—su!!
SFX: Picha picha picha picha picha
Miki & Mami: !
SFX: Basha
SFX: Piki—n…

64.
Miki: We’ve done it—we’ve caught the Mandragora—
Mami: We did—
Miki: What’s left is to just pull it out. Somehow without hearing it’s shriek.
SFX: Pero
Voice: Eh!?
Nube: Miki collected your urine!?
Kyouko: What exactly is she thinking?
Hiroshi: Ah—by all means.
Hiroshi: Is there anything wrong with her man(censored)
(TN: OK, this bit took a bit to play around with, but basically Hiroshi is screwing up “mandragora” by saying another Japanese word: “manko”, a slang word for “vagina”. Since no other word really works at all for the context, I sort of had Hiroshi start saying “manko” (or maybe the slang “man in the boat”, which works for “vagina”) before he’s cut off)
SFX: Baki!
Katsuya: At any rate, she said she was catching something at Hatamonba.
Nube: What!?
Nube: Damn it…right, at Hatamonba…she can’t. Miki’s in danger!

65.
SFX: Janjaka | Don don | Pa para | Pi—
Mami: Are you really alright with this alone?
Miki: Eh? What, I’m fine. This is my trump card at this crucial moment. Teacher, go far away just when ready!
Miki: Well then, I’ll pull it out~~
Miki: Hmph! Hmph! Hm—ph!
SFX: Gui gui | Zuzuzu
SFX: Katsu!

66.
Mandragora: Gyaaaa
SFX: Bashi
Miki: !! Damn i…

67.
Miki: Aaaah
Nube: Miki!?
Mami: Ah, Nueno-sensei.
Mami: If it’s for Miki-chan, she’s pulling the Mandragora alone…
Nube: What!?
Nube: Why would she do that alone!!
Mami: But Miki-chan is…
Nube: Mi…

68.
Nube: ?
Miki: Phew~~That was surprising~~
Caption:
Note: Miki can stretch just the erethral body of her neck due to an imperfect erethral-body separation.
Nube: Right: you ended up not hearing the sound due to you consciously moving your head when you stretched the neck of your erethral body; you’ve thought of that, Miki!
Kyouko: What are you do—ing praising her?
SFX: Shuru shuru shuru
Miki: I did it!

69.
Miki: Ya—y, ya—y, with this I can make a drug that will make men into slaves!
Nube: Wait, Miki, I don’t forgive of that!
SFX: Dodododododo
Caption: Cooking Lab
Mami: When they drink this, the men will worship you like a queen. In other words, you’ll transform into this era’s sexy woman.
SFX: Gutsu gutsu gutsu
Mami: What left is tail of newt and mosquito eyeball.
Miki: OK, we’ll search for it.
SFX: Gutsu gutsu gutsu
SFX: Tatata… | Gutsu gutsu

70.
Principal: N? What is that smelly stench?
Principal: They failed in their cooking practice. Nothing—they can do on it. N? Is that carrot tasty?
Miki: Ah~~
Miki: …Wa, my ambition~~what’s with this hardship?
Nube: That’s good, that’s good.

TN: First of all, a massive apology for those who got confused by the last several Nube scripts I had put up slightly out of order and out of whack. I really should have just done it in order but I just needed to get a certain chapter out of the way so I wouldn't go crazy...like last time I had a chapter of that sort of fame on deck. From here on out, I will just stick with Nube in order like it's supposed to be.

With that said...I almost feared this chapter at first with how it seemed to start in a way that didn't feel like it was going to go very well. For the most part, whenever Miki pulls something bizarre , it either could turn into a good chapter or a rather cliched one at this point. But somehow once it shook off that intro sequence (with a bunch of girls we'll never meet and thus never know why they're better mates), it actually turned out to be a fun chapter that was rather breezy, despite a slightly cartoonish ending. (it was funny seeing the Principal dump the mandragora formula in the rabbit pen...but the super-sexy bunny just felt strange being that it was a rabbit and not a human mutated into a rabbit...but I digress) In a way, the combination of Miki and Mami-sensei turned out to be a real fun one, with both matching each other's obsessive nature and spiritual knowledge and abilities to accomplish what they wanted regardless of the consequences. Sometimes I sort of wish Mami-sensei got a bit more in the series like this where she actually was used in a manner as such (and somehow I sort of wish she used the Mandragora idea for her own schemes of winning Nube over...she did seem mostly there along for the ride because Miki wanted her help instead of doing it for any real purpose of her own), but I did like her in this chapter and she seemed in some ways to being a better mentor type than most of those Miki worked with (like...Nube or Izuna) Likewise, I did like how the climax involved Miki somehow experimenting thinking she could handle the Mandragora on her own but ultimately relying (and reminding herself) on her Rokurokubi ability in order to survive the Mandragora scream. So ultimately, I guess that my worst fears really didn't come true and a good time was had by all...well more by Nube than by Miki since the whole formula went to waste...but hey, Mandragora aren't normal so of course no one knew what to do with it when they don't have the experience.