Hell Teacher Nube 201

Love is an emotion that is conveyed in many ways, including in the food prepared between two people. But while Hiroshi and Kyouko's love may not be appetizing, a strange food-making youkai may be ready to truly challenge it!

#201: Hamaguri Nyoubou's Love Cooking

144.
Caption: A certain Sunday Morning; Hiroshi's home...
Mr. Tateno: I am~~a guy of Edo, a truck guy~~~
Mr. Tateno: N? Whats that?
Mr. Tateno: It's a huge clam. Right: it spilled out of the baggage that I was delivering to Tsukiji yesterday.
(TN: "Tsukiji" is a district of Chuuou in Tokyo, most notable for the "Tokyo Metropolitan Centra Wholesale Market", or better known as the "Tsukiji" market. This market is one of the biggest wholesale markets on Earth, mostly notable for it's fish and seafood sales)
Hiroshi: Father, good morning--- (Ya--...wn)
Mr. Tateno: Hey, Hiroshi! (to himself) I've gotten my hands on a good snack. Shall I have a drink with it this morning.
(TN: Mr. Tateno's "snack" comment refers to "Tsumami", which is typically a snack that is eaten with alcohol, typically something salty)

145.
Hiroshi: Water...
Mr. Tateno: ah, hey, that's sake...
SFX: Bu---!
Mr. Tateno: Wa---
Mr. Tateno: You dummy--that was filthy. Can't--I eat--it!
SFX: Gan!
Hiroshi: Sorry, father.
Hiroshi: Father, with today the soccer match, I'm going to school.
Mr. Tateno: Oh, do your best Hiroshi!
Mr. Tateno: ---Huh? What happened to my clam from before...? Well, that's fine.
"Clam": Hiroshi...Hiroshi-san...
SFX: Nuru...Nuraa----

146.
SFX: Wa--wa--
SFX: Wa---wa--- | Pipi----

147.
Nube: Well~~Hiroshi, you've done well in taking down your old enemies of Chikakuno Elementary.
(TN: "Chikakuno" translates into "Nearby Old Field")
Hiroshi: Hehe, well then.
Kyouko: Though it was a practice match, it had intensity.
Hiroshi: Ah--I'm hungry...ri...right right, Kyouko, that...
SFX: Chira
Nube: We~~ll, it's getting heated!
Miki: Hiroshi had promised that he would have made and given a bentou by Kyouko.
(TN: "Bentou" is a type of box lunch that is served with various food in it)
Kyouko: Right...This is the first I've made this sort of thing...
Voices: Hyu--hyu--it's hot.
SFX: Kapa!
Hiroshi: Uuh!
SFX: Ooooooh...
Nube: Uwa, youki...!

148.
Hiroshi: He...hey, this is... (to himself) You can't be joking: it's emitting the sound effect of a youkai, hey.
(TN: Yes, Hiroshi does say "the sound effect of a youkai", which is "youkai no koukaon", which generally is the "oooh" sound you hear whenever a certain youkai appears)
Kyouko: It's appearance is a bit crumbed but...it's taste should be good. Yes.
Hiroshi: What do I do?
Nube: Though she's made it with great pains, it has her emotions. What's cruel may just be her watching eyes and. (Whisper whisper whisper)
SFX: Paku
SFX: Hibebu
Miki: Kya---
Nube: Uwaa---that's following watching eyes.
Hiroshi: You aren't gonna be good as a bride in your life making that poison! (Was that trying to kill me)
Kyouko: Wh...what, I made it together with my eagerness and yet! Is it because it doesn't suit your taste a bit...just a bit?

149.
Kyouko: Hmph! In the current era, I don't have to make cuisine and be good as a bride.
SFX: Muka muka muka (surge surge) | Petsu petsu (slobber slobber)
Hiroshi: N~~o, absolutely not. Absolutely not for me.
Kyouko: What? You didnt' have to say it to that point!
Hiroshi: Shut it, today I've come to not have breakfast , unforgivable.
Nube: He~~h
Miki: Quarrel of spouses...
"Girl": Right: you're no good as a bride with poor cooking.
H. Nyoubou: I am called Hamaguri Nyoubou. I'm an incompitent person, but please make me forever suitable for you.
(TN: The name of the youkai this time, "Hamaguri Nyoubou" simply translates into "Clam Wife")

150.
Hiroshi: Ha...Hamaguri Nyoubou!? (is this love?)
Katsuya: Well, Hamaguri
H. Nyoubou: (Yoishoto) Yes...
H. Nyoubou: I've come to become Hiroshi-san's wife (Kya)
Everyone: Ooh---
Kyouko: Ju...just a moment, what are you thinking? That's a name that's like a porno movie! Hiroshi, is she an acquaintance!?
Hiroshi: I...I don't know--this girl.
H. Nyoubou: What are you saying? Didn't you save me when I was being grilled to death this morning? Here...I'm a large shellfish...
Hiroshi: ...It can't be, that clam?
SFX: Koku

151.
H. Nyoubou: Here.
Caption: Actually a mollusk.
Hiroshi: Wa--
People: Kya---
SFX: Unyo~~~
Kyouko: A shellfish monster
H. Nyoubou: I want to become Hiroshi's wife and pay back that favor. I'll use fully my ablities.
Hiroshi: Your abilities?
H. Nyoubou: My alias is Hamagumi Nyoubou, the cooking youkai. Making cuisine is my special---ty. Everyone will be feasting on tasty cuisine (heart)
Hiroshi: Eeh, really!? That's great, my stomach is hungry. (she's a good youkai---)
SFX: Wa----!
Kyouko: ......
Sign: Cooking Lab
H. Nyoubou: Please absolutely no peeking as I'm making it.
SFX: Pisha

152.
SFX: Tonton | Juu~~~|Shakashaka | Gutsu gutsu
Miki: ...She's made it.
Hiroshi: Do...do you have something on it?
Nube: Yes, she said she was Hamaguri Nyoubou.
Nube: In a tale that resembles "The Crane's Repayment", a clam that was saved by a fisherman transformed into a beautiful woman. And then, every morning, she would make extremely tasty miso soup but...
Nube: Whatever she did, he wanted to know what was making this tasty flavor and when the fisherman secretly peeked into the kitchen...
Nube: Somehow she was putting pee into the pot.
(TN: While not as gross, "The Crane's Repayment" or "Tsuru no Ongaeshi" is a similar tale involving a girl/crane who made beautiful cloth in repayment for an old couple using it's feathers)
Hiroshi: ......
Hiroshi: Seriously?
SFX: Gara

153.
SFX: Zugo--! | Gutsu gutsu gutsu gutsu gutsu gutsu gutsu
H. Nyoubou: 11, 12, 13, 14, 15
Package: Miso
*Please do not imitate this.
Hiroshi: Uwa---! Uwa----!!
Nube: It's...it's cooking it's face~~~~!!
H. Nyoubou: Buha--- (Haa haa)
H. Nyoubou: Ara, you've already seen it? If this was like that folklore, this here would be the end. (I don't mind it but)
Kyouko: Wh...what were you doing? Are you stupid?
H. Nyoubou: My entire body is a mass of stock. Well, I made this tasty miso soup.
(TN: "stock" refers to "broth" as in the materials for making soup, in Japanese as "dashi")

154.
Kyouko: It's stock taken from her face?
Hiroshi: But...that's shellfish stock...
SFX: Zuzu...
Nube: N
Hiroshi: Th...this is...
Hiroshi: Tasty~~~!!
Hiroshi: It's the first time I've had this emotional flavor. Is this what's called transmitting love that's put into cooking? What is it called? (Seconds!)
Miki: ...It truly is tasty but...
SFX: Zuzuzu
Kyouko: Hiroshi, this doesn't surpass exaggeration?
H. Nyoubou: It's not exaggeration. The soup that emerges from my body has a power that transmits to a person's tongue the flavor of a person's heart that makes the cooking. Now, my heart is filled with love for Hiroshi-san...therefore, it feels particularly tasty to just Hiroshi.

155.
H. Nyoubou: Cooking is "love"! If you have a heart that loves a partner, then naturally it can be tasty (heart)...cooking that is poor isn't love. That girl can't become your bride!
Hiroshi: Yes, yes
SFX: Muka muka muka
Kyouko: Hmph! Since you're proudly a clam somehow, you can only make miso soup.
H. Nyoubou: Ara, that isn't' so.
H. Nyoubou: Soba. (hot hot hot)
Hiroshi: Tasty~~
Kyouko: Ge...her leg...
H. Nyoubou: Happousai (Hot hot hot)
(TN: Happousai, which literally translates into "eight treasured vegetables", is a Chinese dish akin to chop suey involving a mixture of various materials, including vegetables but also including meat that are slices and mixed together with sauce)
Hiroshi: Ah~~tasty~~tasty~~

156.
H. Nyoubou: Tempura (Gya~~~hot~~~guwa~~~)
SFX: Ju~~~
Caption: Absolutely, absolutely don't imitate this
Kyouko: She...absolutely bets her life for cuisine...
Hiroshi Aah~~~~you can be emotional like this with cooking...she's a girl 100 times more magnificent than any girl anywhere.
Nube: That's good~~Hiroshi~~If this ability was had by even Yukime~~
(TN: Well at least Yukime isn't just making frozen food anymore)
Kyouko: Hiroshi! Don't be decieved by her! It's a youjutsu.
SFX: Fura fura (Stagger stagger)
Hiroshi: Shut up--I'll be having meals made by Hamaguri-chan my entire life~~~
Kyouko: That isn't cooking. You're a fraud! A swindle!
H. Nyoubou: What are you saying; I can't be silent with you speaking ill of my cooking.
Kyouko: If that's a case then we'll have a cooking match! Which of us can truly make tasty cuisine.
H. Nyoubou: As you wish!

157.
Kyouko: The winner is the one whom Hiroshi says is tasty.
H. Nyoubou: Yes, that's fine.
SFX: Zawa zawa
Hiroshi: It's useless to just do that.
SFX: Gan
Voice: Start
SFX: Goto goto goto (chop chop chop)
Voices: Uhyo~~you're~~great~~~Hamaguri-chan

158.
SFX: Bomu!
Kyouko: ...No.
SFX: Karappo
Kyouko: I have no choice: I have the bento I made this morning. I only have an arrangement with this.
H. Nyoubou: Phew.
SFX: Pi
Caption: Sweat
SFX: Pochi
SFX: Pika | Doro
Top Caption: Hamaguri Nyoubou
Bottom Caption: Kyouko

159.
Miki: ...The winner and loser is clearer than looking in fire...huh?
Nube: Yes.
H. Nyoubou: Well, here--it's from me. (heart)
Hiroshi: OK.
Hiroshi: Tasty.
SFX: Paaaa...
Kyouko: Mine?
Hiroshi: N? Can I eat that?
Hiroshi: What is it: that's the barf-gross bento from earlier. She just stir-fried it...
Hiroshi: ...That's...

160.
Hiroshi: Kyouko...While she had feelings for me like that...she had hardships like these and made it for me...
Hiroshi: Tasty!
H. Nyoubou: That's ridiculous.
SFX: Pero
H. Nyoubou: !
H. Nyoubou: A drop of my sweat went into it. My sweat that changes the heart into flavor went in and it became cooking that directly transmitted that girl's heart.

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H. Nyoubou: But...he's pleased that much with merely one drop.
Hiroshi: Tasty~~
H. Nyoubou: Extremely strong feelings were put into that cuisine.
H. Nyoubou: The space of those two can't be penetrated, even with the youjutsu of a youkai. Hiroshi-san...
H. Nyoubou: Understood, I lost...I'll return to the sea...
Nube: That'll be fine.
H. Nyoubou: But please give me train fare.
Nube: Don't have it.
Miki: Is that really tasty...?
Katsuya: Guwa~~it's barfening~~
Makoto: It's tasty to just Hiroshi...

TN: OK...what was with that ending? I mean it felt like it almost worked in some way, but something just feels really, really off. I get they wanted to preserve status quo between Hiroshi and Kyouko...but why the heck did they have to do it like that, particularly hurting the feelings of a female youkai that isn't too bad like her? (even with that...clam form) Hamaguri Nyoubou's sweat isn't just a conveyance of love, but was supposed to be a part of the "flavor" that she herself gives off. Remember: while her cooking allowed for her love to shine through, it is also part of the flavor she herself conveys throughout her entire body. Therefore, if even her sweat, which comes from her glands and thus her body, contains her flavor, she herself enhanced Kyouko's stir-fry...thus she essentially would have won regardless of whichever cooking was the winning one! Therefore, while Hiroshi would have maybe felt some of Kyouko's feelings through the "love" in the cooking, the flavor is still tied to Hamaguri Nyoubou, therefore the clam girl won! But...as I said, one-shot youkai, thus a way to get rid of her to maintain status quo. Aside from the ending (and the fact that without her mutation she would be a giant living clam), it wasn't that bad a chapter. Probably a lot of the emotional conveyances in this chapter, by Hiroshi, Kyouko and Hamaguri Nyoubou, are probably what make this chapter. For some reason whenever a cooking manga is around, emotions seem to take front and center...and it didn't disappoint as such. (says that as he slowly gets himself deeper into Toriko) Though...I still feel a tad sick at the idea of having "pee soup", weirder things have been made into food.