Kinnikuman 69

The battle for America has been transformed into a round-robin tag tournament, with the winner getting everything! But with everyone else finding their battle partners, Kinnikuman and WSA may be at a disadvantage...unless HE can join in!

Chapter 69: Search for a Partner

19.
Suguru: Wh..what, I’m the only one without a partner~!?
Top Box: IWAO & BLACK SHADOW (Open Kaijuu Representatitve)
Black Shadow is an idea of Takeshi Eda of Ibaragi
Middle Box: DEVIL MAGICIAN & SKULL BOZU (WSF Representative)
Devil Magician is an idea of “” of Kagawa
Bottom Box: JOHN STEAMBOAT & BEAUTY RHODES (WSC Representative)
Steamboat is an idea of Naoki Hirata of Nagasaki

20.
Caption: New York (Choujin Council Territory): John F. Kennedy Airport
Steamboat: OH--!! VIVA NEW YORK!
Stewardess: Thank you very much.
Steamboat: Thank you, pretty girl.
Harrison: Rhodes, your tag partner is John Steamboat.
Rhodes: John Steamboat…

21.
Caption: Las Vegas (Choujin Federation Territory): Training Center under Choujin Federation
Bozu: If this is it, you’re the only one who can endure my hell sparring…
Bozu: Devil Magician…you are appointed my tag partner!
Magician: Happy to accept…

22.
Kinkotsu: I’ve done it, Iwao. I’ve completed your tag partner!!
Kinkotsu: This Black Shadow is an Ultra Choujin with the power of Beauty Rhodes, the brutality of Ramenman, the techniques of Robin Mask and the brains of Kinkotsuman.
Iwao: I’m worried about the brains of Kinkotsuman…
Caption: St. Louis (Choujin Association Territory): Choujin Association Headquarters
Phreas: Tohoho…the other groups have revealed their tag teams one by one, and yet we’re miserable for not deciding yet…

23.
Phreas: No~~if we don’t find Kinnikuman’s partner in 4 days.
Phreas: I’ll have to make a comeback…
Suguru: Hey hey, I see an old body, and it’s old—
Suguru: Don’t worry. I have the perfect partner!
Phreas: Wh…what!?
Suguru: Now I’m going to meet with that amazing person!
Chabo: Wh……where?
Suguru: Amarillo, Texas!
Meat: Ah…I know!

24-25.
Suguru: I’M GOING TO CALL UP TERRYMAN!!
Suguru: I’ve done it, I’m in Texas!!
Suguru: All this wide open space~~
Meat: What are you doing—
Suguru: Owa…
Suguru: He…hey there--. What’s the Moo-Moo doing challenging it’s standing with a Choujin---!!
Cow: Got you where I want you, dummy.
Suguru: WHAT---!!
Voice: Hey you two!
Meat: Ah…

26.
Suguru: Ooh, Terryman. You’re riding a horse. If you had a guitar, you’d be like Akira Kobayashi…
(TN: Akira Kobayashi is an actor known for his singing as well. As an extra: his nickname was “Maito Gai”…)
Meat: The image is lacking…
Terry: I’ve been hearing of your big actions in Hawaii and America, champion.
Terry: So then, what are you doing today? Well, you look like you’ve got an appetite. How about having a steak at my place?
Suguru: You’ve got it~~!!
Meat: Prince, that’s wrong!!
Suguru: I…I get it, I get it.
Suguru: Actually Terry…

27.
Terry: No! I can’t do it.
Suguru: Wh……what!?
Terry: At a busy time where I’m extremely busy with the ranch, I can’t go out and play.
Suguru: A tag championship is playing!? You’ve quickly forgotten…
Suguru: Have you forgotten your Choujin soul--!!
Suguru: Open your eyes--!!

28.
Suguru: !
Suguru: Te…Terry, you…
Terry: HAIYO---¡!
Suguru: Wait, Terry--¡!
Terry: Haiya

29.
Suguru: ………………
Ranchman: The source of the kid’s leg is from taking part in the Choujin Olympics.
Suguru: Eh!?
Ranchman: He wounded his left leg from an unthinkable accident………
Suguru & Meat: He…wounded his left leg……
Ranchman: In the 3 months since the Olympics, the wound quickly worsened and we had to…amputate his left leg…
Suguru: Thi…this is from that day from the bullet from Kinkotsuman’s rifle…He took that bullet to save my life…

30.
Suguru: UWAA--!!
Meat: So this is all from his leg……
Ranchman: Yet there isn’t a reason he can’t return.
Ranchman: With this……
Suguru: Ge…a chopping murderer~~~
Ranchman: You’re uselessly worrying. It’s an artificial leg.
Ranchman: The happy boy will be able to use even this replacement leg freely. He’ll be able to really run amuck in the ring again!
Ranchman: However, regardless of the boy asking me over and over, I won’t be able to attach it………Perhaps he won’t able to return to the ring again.

31.
Ranchman: Please, Kinnikuman. Get the boy to the ring again, to the ring----!!
Ranchman: That’s not it…Even if he died, it would be too much to die for…
Suguru: I understand old man…
Meat: But will it be alright, Prince? The tag championship is only 3 days away.
Suguru: Wh—at? It will be enough, even three days!

TN: Its' rather sad: everything Terry had been through with his leg from Kinkotsuman's bullet in the Choujin Olympics ends up getting magnified further down the line just because he had to have it amputated. Both of them were jerks but with how Suguru has at least tried to change, Terry just seems to want to live in the past due to his own trauma. At least his ranch hand helping him, he may actually make it back...of course, as he said, it's up to Terry (and maybe Suguru) to determine how easily or hard that is. Meanwhile...is it just me or is John Steamboat a glamor version of Char Aznable? Though at least we get a really cool design for Kinkotsuman's latest minion to assist Iwao's wrestling...even if it has his brains. (yeah, can't wait to see how long that will last)