Hell Teacher Nube 207

After finally seeming to stand up and take down the power of Zekki, the little brother Oni has broken free from the trap and is about to unleash his full wrath and fury on Nube...and everyone who stands in his way!!

#207: Doumori Town's Ultimate Decisive Battle!
The 5th: Megiddo Fire

71.
Zekki: How dare you~~~!!
SFX: Gogogogogogogo
Nube: Ah...aah...
Yukime: It...failed...how...
Zekki: Haa~~~~

72.
Zekki: You...worms~~~~!! (Haa---...)

73.
Zekki: I'm killing all of yoooou!! All of yoooou, prepare yourseeeelves
SFX: Dogoooooo
SFX: Biri biri biri
Hayame: Can't be...his power is going to reach critical.
Tamamo: We won't touch him if he gets to that!
Hiroshi & Kyouko: Th...that's~~~!

74.
Yukime: Let's run, teacher...!
Nube: No...there isn't a place I can run. Even if it's just all of you, run.
Yukime: It's...together with you, teacher...
Nube: Quickly, take the students and run!
SFX: Batsu | Don
Yukime: Ah! Teacher
SFX: Dogaa!

75.
SFX: Byu | Gooo~~~~~...
SFX: Goki
Nube: Gebo
SFX: Geshi
SFX: Bun! | Gushaaa

76.
SFX: Domu domu domu domu | Zuga Dooo Gua Dogoo Baki baki
Yukime: Nueno-sensei!!
Hiroshi: Nube!!
SFX: Gogogogogogo
SFX: Piku piku

77.
Yukime: Waaaa~~~
SFX: Byuuuu
SFX: Gashi
Yukime: !!
Zekki: Gobaa

78.
SFX: Gushaa | Boto boto
Hiroshi: Uwaaa, Yukime-san
Kyouko: Nooo~~~
SFX: Zun zun
Zekki: Chi...you're still alive. In spite of being human, you're a stubborn one. You're preventing damage with an aura barrier again. Really, you're one like a cockroach.
SFX: Piku piku
Zekki: But it's over already: you'll break into very tiny pieces with this extra-large Youryoku Wave. I am unreasonably angry.
SFX: Bari bari bari
Hiroshi: Nube!!
Kyouko: No~~~do something~~~

79.
Miki: Tamamo-sensei! Save Nube!
Katsuya: You're the only one who can fight that.
Tamamo: I can't do it in power. Nothing will change in the situation where I go out there and fight. It's an act of suicide. There isn't even a 1 in 10,000 chance.
Miki: Then Nube is going to die!
Kyouko: You'll let him die without helping!? That's...that's...
Hayame: ...
Hiroshi: Tamamo...it's as you said.
Kyouko: Hiroshi...!?
Hiroshi: Well it's how it seems, since there isn't even a 1 in 10,000 chance and they'll just get killed...
Hiroshi: But, Tamamo, if it wasn't 1 in 10,000 and it was a 1 in 100 chance...would you fight?
Tamamo: ...?

80.
Hiroshi: In truth, if you used my skull, you could complete the Human Transformation Jutsu and power up...you said that.
Voice: Hiroshi-kun, that's...
Hiroshi: If I die, then it'll be soon. Take out my skull and power up.
Makoto: Eh...
Hiroshi: I request that.
SFX: Tatsu
Kyouko: Hiroshi!
Hiroshi: Uooo
Kyouko: Hiroshi!
Katsuya: Hey
Makoto: Hiroshi-kun.

81.
Kyouko: Waaa~~~
Miki: We'll save Nube---
Katsuya: We'll continue after Hiroshi----
Tamamo: Give up, you'll just die futily!
SFX: Kuru (turn)
Makoto: Not so: Nube-sensei is always saving us risking his life. Everyone loves Nube-sensei. That's why...that's why I want to save him even if I throw my life away.

82.
Makoto: That is...a human...
Students: Waaaaah
Zekki: What? Depressing.
SFX: Pin
SFX: Fu | Pyuuuu!

83.
SFX: Pe | Doga
Hiroshi: Guaa!
Kyouko: Damn you---!
Miki: You guy---!
Zekki: ~~~~~~
Katsuya: Nube is
Zekki: Quit with that!
SFX: Katsu

84.
SFX: Batsu

85.
SFX: Doguaaaa
SFX: Shuu...
Kyouko: Tamamo...
Zekki: You're...the youko. Since foxes are smart, I thought that you would understand my power once you fought me and not fight ever again but
Tamamo: Hey, mermaid! Have those children take refuge in a safe place without idling. If you're a youkai too, then you'd have on an aura barrier.
Hayame: Ye...yes. This way, everyone.

86.
Tamamo: Hinrou Kyomon Reidai Bungyoku Rentei Bukyoku
SFX: Gasha...
Tamamo: Hagun!
SFX: Ba!
SFX: Gatsu gatsu gatsu
SFX: Gogogogogogo
Zekki: ...Oh, a barrier? What's your pretense with it?
Tamamo: It's so you can't run away...the technique I'm releasing from here I can only use once.
Zekki: !
Zekki: What's that?

87.
Zekki: ...You...Youko should have an existence of bringing calamity to the human world. Why are you an ally to humans? Possess their energy?
Tamamo: That may be. I am researching about "love"--a strong power to protect other people that is possessed by the man called Nueno Meisuke.
Tamamo: But...this power has yet to be understood by me. If I could understand the power...I may have been able to give a good battle to you, but as it's come to now, it's already beyond my power.
Tamamo: But
Tamamo: I now merely want to save these children. I merely don't understand the reason I'm thinking as such. But these children who are protecting their own teacher risking their life
Tamamo: Can't get hurt!
SFX: Katsu

88.
SFX: Oooooooh
Yukime: His...youryoku is rapidly rising...to infinity!? That's...as if the same as Nueno-sensei...
Zekki: Fu, right? It seems you've overlived for a long time in the human world.
Zekki: You've completely have been poisoned by humans. You...already have the scent of a half-human...
SFX: Za
Zekki: Die

89.
SFX: Pikiin
Zekki: What, you again...! You've survived.
Yukime: Hurry! Since he's being suppresed by me...with your power now...you'll win!
SFX: Pishi pishi
Tamamo: Fu, yukionna, you're unnecessarry...but I can do this easier thanks to this.
Tamamo: A great move from ancient times that is released in exchange for your own life that the youko have made a forbidden move...it calls for the greatest power.
(TN: "Forbidden move" refers to the term of "kinjite", which is a forbidden move in sumo)
SFX: Oooooooh...Zekki: Wh...what!? The space is warping...
Tamamo: Adios...Nueno-sensei...!

90.
Tamamo: Megiddo!!
(TN: Though the kanji reading for the move is actually "Megido" and it literally translates from the kanji as "Destructive Spirit's Anger", the term is actually in reference/tied to the hill in Israel known as "Tel Megiddo", notable for it's importance in history, geography and theology tied to many Judeo-Christian belief. Most notable and important of these is that the concept of "Armageddon", which is derived from the Greek word referring to what would be the final battle between the forces of God and Satan around the hill of Megiddo)

91.
Makoto: Kyaa
Hayame: Uwaaa
SFX: Gogogogogo

92.
Katsuya: Did...did he do it...?
Katsuya: Ah!
SFX: Kara...
Nube: Tsu...tsu...I'm...alive...?
SFX: Gara gara gara
Nube: N

93.
Nube: Ah...ah...aah...

94.
TAMAMO KYOUSUKE
Hair - Eyes: Pale Yellow (Weak Yellow); Lemon Yellow (Lemon Colored)
Pupils: Cadmium Red (Red)
Outfit Highlights: Spectrum Green (Bright Green)
Neck-Catcher: Brick Red (Brick Colored)

TN: Ouch...let me just say that this is probably one of the, if not the, most brutal Nube chapter we've had in a while. It really shows that when you make an Oni angry, particularly one as peeved as Zekki, he's really not going to mess around and just kills, kills, and kills some more. Probably while the first part of the chapter, where Zekki mercilessly slaughters around Nube and Yukime, is the most gruesome part of the fight, the main meat of the chapter regards the evolution of Tamamo and the usage and interest of Nube's students in the whole scenario. The conversation that occurs between Tamamo and Hiroshi, and ultimately all of the 5-3 regulars, really highlights the true and greatest aspect of this series: even if the main fighters are Nube, Yukime and Tamamo (and perhaps Izuna...and Hayame...well, she has a reason but I'll get to that later), the students are still the core and the heart behind Nube and everything that he does. Hiroshi choosing to go off and telling Tamamo that he can have his skull if he falls shows the bravery that the kid has, knowing that it is a futile and stupid attempt to fight Zekki (and obviously being crushed really, really easily by the Oni), but that he doesn't care and is willing to do it for his teacher, even if it means dying for him as well. Likewise, Hiroshi literally giving Tamamo the permission for his skull shows the selflessness of his character: if he were to die, he accepted that he would be able to power Tamamo up so that he could have a slight chance of victory, even if that is futile as well. While there's one slight nitpick about this scene, that really doesn't come into play until the next chapter...and I'll explain why when I get to it. As for Tamamo himself, this chapter is more proof of his own continued development and evolution: while it did take him time to realize it in his continued studies, he knew that there was no chance against Zekki...yet when he started to realize his own abilities to protect others, he too began to tap into the infinite potential that Nube himself had and went through with the attempt that essentially was suicide to take Zekki out. Sure he knew he probably wasn't going to succeed, but he is still getting closer to what Nube has and even the Oni boy realized it. Of course, with him and Yukime down and Nube essentially shocked beyond belief...well, the next chapter is going to explode.