Kinnikuman 165

After facing every form of reptile fury, Suguru has finally revealed the true appearance of Sneagator! But is there any way he can regain the Gold Mask from...a rampaging dinosaur foot!?

Chapter 165: Gold Mask Arc (6): Sneagator’s True Form!!

135.
Announcer: Kinnikuman has become stuck to the wall from the dinosaur foot which has appeared suddenly from the massive sneaker--!!

136.
Meat: That’s the foot of a Tyrannosaurus, the most ferocious and terrible king of the dinosaurs who went extinct 70 million years ago---!!
Crowd: EEH…
Robin & Wars: Wh…what did he say!!
Sneagator: Kekeke—Indeed, my true form is a tyrannosaurus foot.
Suguru: It’s…no wonder you’re so skilled in changing into reptiles…
Sneagator: Ke…and you were overeager with my Hell Seal!!
(TN: There’s a bit of a pun here: the expression “isamiashi” used here by Sneagator fully stands for “rashness” or “overeager”, but it could also be a combination of the verb “isamu”, or “to encourage” and “ashi”, which is “foot”. Therefore, Kinnikuman was overeager to release the Hell Seal while Sneagator was an “encouraging foot”)

137.
Sneagator: Take this--!!
Announcer: AN AMAZING ATTACK BY SNEAGATOR--!!
Terry, Wars & Brocken: Uwa!
Wars: Lo…look, our Life Support Systems are finally cracking!

138.
Meat: Pr…Prince!
Sneagator: Kukuku……I’ll end this so he won’t be able to get up.
Sneagator: Ke…….This Ki…Kinnikuman is…………
Suguru: I’m worried for those Choujin over there—
Announcer: Kinnikuman has taken Sneagator’s mask from the ceiling----!!

139.
Suguru: Take this—Gator Hell Reversal!!
Announcer: Kinnikuman has wiped the blood off the video projector and swamped Sneagator in light---!!
Announcer: Of course, the chairs are rapidly turning into alligators----!!
Meat: Of course: the chairs hit by the light will become alligators. Clever, Prince---!!
Announcer: The gators are attacking Sneagator--!!
Suguru: Ge!

140.
Sneagator: You’re naïve, Kinnikuman. This Gator Hell I’ve created shouldn’t work on me—
Suguru: S…S**t—
Announcer: Sneagators ri…ripped finger is~~~
Suguru: Gr…growing…………
Suguru: Uoo—

141.
Snegator: Kukuku…my body can regenerate like a lizard.
Announcer: Sneagator is regenerating them one after another!!
Suguru: GE
Suguru: Te…terrible…
Meat: Prince—
Suguru: Of…of course, the Devil Knights stand above the Devil Choujin…………their strength scale can’t be compared to Black Hole or Buffaloman…………
Mayumi: Suguru--!!

142.
Silver Mask: Please listen, Kinnikuman.
Suguru: Ah…Silver Mask.
Silver Mask: Your attacks now are only hitting the dinosaur foot outside. Instead, the devil’s true form is hiding inside. Strike once it appears.
Suguru: The…devil’s true form!!
Sneagator: Let’s end this--!!
Announcer: It’s Sneagator’s Finishing Trample--!!
Suguru: I…I got it!
Announcer: Kinnikuman is taking on the challenge—

143.
Announcer: Kinnikuman put Sneagator into a Bear Hug—
Meat: Good Prince—
Suguru: Hehe…how’s that, painful?
Sneagator: GYAAAAAA
Sneagator: Gyaa—
Meat: Ah!!

144.
Meat: His…His face has appeared on the fingertip--!!
Suguru: You’ve finally shown yourself.

145.
Announcer: Kinnikuman has thrown the devil’s true form to the canvas with a Front Suplex.
Terry: N!?
Terry: Ooh, the liquid inside Sneagator is fixing the Life Support Systems!!

146.
Suguru: Sneagator, you were a terrible enemy!!
Announcer: Kinnikuman has taken down Sneagator, Devil Knight #1----!!
Meat: Prince, the Gold Mask
Suguru: Ooh! Of course, hurry, we have to take this back to everyone.
Mayumi: Wait, Suguru. It’s still too early to celebrate!
Suguru: Aah, dad!
Mayumi: The real Gold Mask is held by one of the Six Devil Knights, the rest are fakes! Therefore, think about if that mask is a fake.
Suguru: How then can I tell!?
Mayumi: The Gold Mask was made to be worn only by a specific person. Even if anyone else wore it, it squarely won’t let them.
Suguru: Wh…who is that specific person!?

147.
Mayumi: It is you, Suguru.
Suguru: What!?
Mayumi: What I mean is the mask you’re wearing now is a mask that covers the same shape as the Gold Mask; since your head was the same shape as the Gold Mask when you were young.
Suguru: Of course, if I slip it on, then we’ll know it’s real.
Suguru: It’s…it’s on!!
Crowd: He did it—
Mayumi: Suguru, you can’t relax though it’s on. Perhaps the devils may have made it in the same shape. Meat, unite it with the Silver Mask. If that mask is real, then it will pull in the Silver Mask.
Meat: Yes, Daioh-sama!

148.
Mayumi: The pull of the Gold Mask and Silver Mask must be the completely same condition as in the Great Kinniku Temple. In short, the position of the Silver Mask in the Great Kinniku Temple is on a slightly lower level right of the Gold Mask. Therefore, that would be the position of the right shoulder on the Prince’s body.
Meat: Aah!!

149.
Meat: It’s…it’s starting to pull!!
Meat: Aah…It’s…a fake—

150.
CHOUJIN DEADLY-TECHNIQUE SERIES
8. Tower Bridge
Robin: This technique is similar to the Argentina Backbreaker, but its destructive power is much different. I had used it as a finishing hold long ago, but recently I’ve been using it to change the flow of the match.

Caption: The Tower Bridge, as first used in the match against Kinnikuman.

Tower Bridge Instructions:
1. First grab your opponent’s neck and legs.
2. Quickly lift them up
3. Bend them like making a bridge
· Don’t do this because it’s dangerous.

TN: Of course the first mask Suguru won wasn't going to be correct...if it was, there would be no arc. Aside from that comment, in some ways I really liked how this battle with Sneagator finally came to it's climax, mostly due to the strategy used to stop the Devil Knight...and just the whole silly idea he's fighting the disembodied foot of a Tyrannosaurus Rex! My only real complaint of the chapter: how convenient was it that suddenly Suguru's mask was modeled after the Gold Mask!? A bit too...but I guess it gives him the usual hero relevance for the arc.