Houshin Engi
by Fujisaki Ryuu, adapted from the novel by Ano Tsutomu
published by JUMP Comics; Shueisha, Inc. 
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106. Middle Boss Battle 8
     -Fall of the Noble-
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[163]
Bukichi: Ack---!!
What is this cold wind!?

Youzen: It should get even colder soon!
Bukichi, find shelter, quickly!!

Venus: Ah! It's freezing!
Queen: Venus, hurry and hide underneath Madonna!!

Youzen: Let us hide too!
Venus: Oh! Good-looking guy!

[164]
ChouKoumei: Ha~haha~~!!
Is this Taikoubou's doing!?

ChouKoumei: Is he trying to freeze me using the North Wind!?
It's useless! This little coldness doesn't affect me...

ChouKoumei: ......eh..!?

Taikoubou: No matter what kind of plant they are...
Under sub-zero temperatures, they will become as brittle as 
glass.

[165]
Taikoubou: Chou Koumei's true form will be finished!

106. Middle Boss Battle 8
     -Fall of the Noble-

[166]
Taiitsu: I see!

Taiitsu: Taikoubou has absorbed the freezing air from between
the stratosphere and mesosphere and blew it down here!!

(map)
Space
Thermosphere
Mesosphere
Stratosphere
Troposphere
Surface

[167]
Taiitsu: It's freezing!! Let's go back!!
KouTenka: Gonna die~~!!

Genshi: Wait!!
Taiitsu: !

Taiitsu: Ahh!! Master Genshi Tenson!!

Genshi: The battle's been going on for so long, I've come to 
see how the ending is!
After this battle, Taikoubou will become more...!!

Taiitsu: Give me your jacket!
Genshi: Let go, stop fooling around!!

[168]
Queen: Madonna is quite something!

Youzen: Thank goodness for that thick layer of fat...

Bukichi: Ah! Master!!

[169]
Taikoubou: Looks like...

Taikoubou: There's no need for further attacks...

[170]
Taikoubou: ......!

[171]
Taikoubou: Chou Koumei...

[172]
ChouKoumei: Taikoubou...

ChouKoumei: Thank you for a glorious battle...
You are an opponent most worthy of me...

Taikoubou: !?

Bukichi: Ah... angels!

ChouKoumei: Goodbye, everybody...

[173]
ChouKoumei: The angels of heaven have come to welcome me...
I have to depart for the Houshin Dai...

[174]
Taikoubou: Why is it that this guy gets such a flamboyant sealing?

ChouKoumei: Taikoubou! I will leave my sisters in your care!!
Taikoubou: Wha...what!?

ChouKoumei: Farewell.... Farewell....
Taikoubou: Wai...wait!! You're not going to die without leaving 
behind some bombastic speech, are you----!

Taikoubou: This is great...

[175]
Youzen: All right, Taikoubou-shishu, it's time you explained 
everything, right!?

Youzen: How DID you manage to survive Chou Koumei's Kinkousen 
attack?

Taikoubou: .................Because Younin helped me...

Youzen: Younin!?
That guy on the first floor of Chou Koumei's ship...!?

[176]
At the time...

I couldn't see very clearly,
But I couldn't have been mistaken with that hairstyle.

Younin: Taikoubou...
You can't die in a place like this...

Younin: Paopei "Kami no Miezaru Te" Maximum Power!!

Younin: Destroy OUR enemies!!
Taikoubou: His eyes are on his hands!?

[177]
Taikoubou: ---After that, I don't remember anything.
When I woke up, I was already in Chou Koumei's jungle.
Youzen: ......I see, that soul back then was Younin's...

Sipuxiang: ................

Venus: Brother...
What a tragedy...

Venus: But to die in battle... that was Brother's wish as 
well...

[178]
Venus: -----------!?
Madonna!?

Venus: Wait, you can't eat that!!

Venus: This flower was left behind by Brother...
We should let it grow...

Venus: We must look after it carefully, maybe in a few 
thousand years, it'll grow into a great warrior like 
Brother...

Queen: Venus, what will become of us now?!
There's nowhere for us to go now!

[179]
Venus: No! Didn't Brother say so?!
Taikoubou will look after us!!

Taikoubou: All right! All that's left is Bunchuu, Dakki, the 
Juttenkun and Tsuuten Kyoushu!!

Sipuxiang: And don't forget Shinkouhyou...
Taikoubou: Hm.... but I wonder if he intends to fight us...

Taikoubou: Eh? What's wrong...!?

[180]
Taikoubou: Why have your eyes turned red...?
Sipuxiang: Ah... we've reached the one hour limit...

Sipuxiang: I'm transforming back to my original form...
Taikoubou: WHAT----!?

Sipuxiang: ..............?
?

[181]
Sipuxiang: Where's Chou Koumei?
(Youzen: We...we're falling off...)
Taikoubou: ...Sipu, you don't remember anything at all?

Genshi: Ahhh--- Taikoubou---!!
Taiitsu: That's great---!!

Taikoubou: Everyone...

And so, Taikoubou and his allies defeated the powerful Chou 
Koumei.
But, nobody would have expected that, the two sides of the 
Sennin World are about to begin a great war...



Vol.12 - Battle with Chou Koumei, part 3 (End)


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