Eyeshield 21 261

One would expect the average quality of ES21 chapters to be dropping, after such a string of awesome chapters. And yet it doesn't. At all. It's still increasing. Damn it, I love this manga :darn

Anyway, this time I'd like to give a big thanks to Sai for scanning the chapter at such an early hour :shakefist Thanks a lot big guy~

Credits, int. translations, scanlations, thank you posts, and mint ice cream are welcome. And glory to leeks. Enjoy the chapter~

Eyeshield 21 chapter 261

Page 01

Top : We are... praying ! For him to come back as soon as possible !! We vow! We will win even without him!!

261st Down : The ones with blind faith

Page 02

Everyone : Breaking

Right : A shocking suggestion!!!
Taki : Through

Monta : The

Kurita : Middle

Komusubi : past

Someone : that

Page 03

Someone : Gaou!?

Juumonji : .... He’s saying that outrageous thing
Juumonji : Without even shaking...

Sena : I-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-it’s impossible, I guess??
Someone : He was shaking!
Someone : His eyes are moving at 4.2 seconds light speed!

Kuroki : Haaaa, is your head disturbed, Sena, you bastard!!?
Toganou : Either way, isn’t that fatty shrimp already worn-out?

Toganou : It’s impossible, right?
Toganou : Breaking through the center, past that Gaou, with Sena......

Sena : That’s right... It’s impossible.
Sena : We definitely have no reason to do this
Sena : It’s definitely impossible
Sena : That kind of play

Page 04

Sena : That’s why we’ll do it.

Sena : Hiruma-san always
Sena : did the same thing

Sena : Choosing
Sena : to do plays that the opponent thinks impossible.

Page 05

Sena : Well, it’s just what I think
Sena : I-i-i-is it a good idea, breaking through the center...??
Sena : Well, then
Sena : Let’s vote.

Monta : Support MAX!
Kuroki : I’m saying you guys are just not thinking at all.
Toganou : The brain of idiots sure has a happy life during debates...

Musashi : I’m against that.

Musashi : It’s a kamikaze attack without any basis.
Musashi : Completely different from Hiruma’s clever schemes.

Musashi : I will never approve of a play
Musashi : for which you might get badly injured, no matter what.

Musashi : But you know, sena
Musashi : Right now, Deimon’s control tower isn’t Hiruma
Musashi : It’s you.

Musashi : This is not about approving or disapproving.
Musashi : Sena
Musashi : If that’s what you decided...

Page 06

Monta : Then all of us
Juumonji : Will believe in you and thrust forward......!!

Komusubi : Fa...
Komusubi : Faith!!

Kurita : Sena-kun
Kurita : Komusubi-kun.......!

Page 07

Marco : Hm......?
Marco : Isn’t the atmosphere a bit different ?
Marco : Are they setting something up.....?

Gaou : Nice eyes.
Gaou : Even though his situation is hopeless
Gaou : He’s still directing his hostility towards me...

Page 08

:bow

Page 09

VS, top right : Sena & Komusubi
VS, bottom right : Super low flying Devilbat Dive
VS, left : Gaou

Narration : At that time

Narration : Something quietly started speaking
Narration : Inside Kurita’s body
Narration : For five years... For longer than anyone else standing on this field
Narration : The instinct of a man who kept fighting harsh battles in the line.

Narration : Facing Gaou
Narration : This plan where Sena and Komusubi put their lives at risk
Narration : The conclusion of this fight would be...

Page 10

Kurita : There will be
Kurita : Absolutely nothing of them left.

Kurita : Right there
Kurita : The two of them will be destroyed.

Kurita : I can’t
Kurita : I can’t do that
Kurita : Once again...

Kurita : But
Kurita : If I don’t protect them

Kurita : At the same time
Kurita : Their bodies will be...
Kurita : AAAAAAAH

Page 11

Komusubi : Master will
Komusubi : Definitely recover!
Komusubi : Until then
Komusubi : I will protect them myself...!!
Kurita : You believed in me
Kurita : Komusubi-kun

Kurita : You believed that I would protect
Kurita : Sena-kun, who stands as a quarterback

Kurita : I’ll protect you
Kurita : This time for sure

Kurita : From the one
Kurita : Who broke down Hiruma
Kurita : This time he’s planning
Kurita : To break down Komusubi-kun and Sena-kun

Kurita : I will protect
Kurita : The two of them!

Kurita : In that way

Kurita : Just
Kurita : this once...!!

Page 12-13

Kurita : I’ll defeat him
Kurita : Right now, right there
Kurita : I will destroy Gaou-kun!

Kurita : There is no
Kurita : other way.......!
Kurita : OOOOOOOH

Sena : Kurita
Sena : -san....!

Gaou : These
Gaou : eyes.......!!!

Page 14

Gaou : Kurita
Gaou : There’s one reason
Gaou : Why you can’t be a match for me.

Gaou : What the gentle giant never possessed
Gaou : “Killing intent”.

Kurita : It’s good even if I’m defeated in the end...

Gaou : At that time you were giving in already
Gaou : This wasn’t American football.

Gaou : Crush the opponent!
Gaou : Break him down!
Gaou : With your power

Gaou : Men who don’t possess that killing intent
Gaou : Can’t win against men who possess it.
Gaou : That is
Gaou : American football..........!!

Page 15

Marco : Gaou is always
Marco : Keeping up breaking down everyone
Marco : Because he’s wishing for a strong guy
Marco : To come at him with killing intent, for revenge.

Marco : But you know, Maria
Marco : That kind of guy doesn’t exist.
Marco : Which is a good thing, as far as I’m concerned.

Marco : Everyone, in front of Gaou’s absolute power
Marco : just stays there, the head dropping
Marco : Just broken.

Gaou : Kurita Ryoukan
Gaou : A man that awoke a strength I don’t have
Gaou : He is not coming with the spirit of revenge
Gaou : But with an intent to kill for the sake of protecting.

Gaou : I’ve been waiting for 16 years
Gaou : For a man that would be the opposite of me
Gaou : For a man like you......!!

Page 16-17

*squeal*

Page 18

*squeal MAX*

Page 19

Someone : He stopped him... It’s the first time
Someone : Someone is on par with Gaou
Someone : In a power contest...!

Onihei : Alright, at this rate Sena will dive down!
Onihei : Securing a 3 yards progress[...]
Takami : No!
Takami : This...

Sena : I don’t feel like diving down at all
Sena : Because right after Kurita stood up to face Gaou
Sena : I believed he’d stop him...

Tengu : That he was trusting the fatty to that extent
Tengu : even though he was completely broken...

Announcer : Eyeshield 21!!
Announcer : Breaks through the center with his explosive run!!!
Left : He believed in his awakening... That thought gave birth to this fierce run!!