Baki Dou 173 translation

Huh, paper raws. Been a while. Though, I wish it were longer. Forever, rather. These are fucking worthless.

Chapter 173: He Just Disappeared

>Kureha: He needed maybe a bathtub's worth of blood transfused.
>K: He had 10 injured areas,
>K: Every injury rather deep.

>K: We actually had to use...
>K: More than one thousand needles to sew him up. That was a first, even for me.
>Tokugawa: A bathtub's worth of blood, and a thousand needles...
>T: Unmistakably Hanayama.
>K: The life of the "strong"...
>K: Is such a bother.
>T: Baki...
>T: Has properly introduced himself.

>K: I can't say that I'm surprised.
>K: And on the rule about weapons...?
>T: It hasn't been decided, but...
>T: He's up against a samurai.
>T: You can't really call him "Miyamoto Musashi" unless he's holding a sword.

>K: He's already proven that he has the strength to beat swordsmen.
>K: And, yet, he's still going to face him with bare hands.
>T: He's not planning to just 'face him'.
>T: He spat out that he'd 'erase him from the world'.

>K: *Baki-san*...
>K: Said that?
>T: He proclaimed it...
>T: Right into the face of Miyamoto Musashi himself.
>K: That...
>K: Is very much unlike him.

>T: Yeah -
>T: If it's a bluff, then it's unlike him.
>K: Is it not just posturing?
>T: Kureha.
>T: There's no such thing as a bluff to Hanma Baki.

>Baki: For how many days...
>B: Have I been skipping out...
>B: On training?

>Random: What is it?
>R2: ...Nothing.
>B: The swordsmaster Musashi...
>B: Isn't spending every day in special training.
>B: He's just living "the ordinary way".

>B: Then, doing this...
>B: Is to stand on equal ground.
>B: Without any special training!

>B: Even so...
>B: I'm getting bigger.
>B: My chest...
>B: My shoulders...
>B: My arms...

>B: My legs...
>B: My feet...
>R2: I've seen him on TV before.
>R: What, really?
>B: My body...
>B: Isn't relieving itself of its defences.

>R2: Wait, look.
>B: For example...
>B: If, suddenly,
>B: I were to be swung at,
>B: Or kicked at,

>B: Or grabbed at.
>B: And that's nothing, compared to being...
>B: Slashed at.

>B: At the moment at which I imagine it,
>B: My body is already reacting.

>R: Wha-!
>R2: Huh!?
>R2: What?
>R: His upper body was gone.
>B: If I were ambushed...
>B: Surrounded, and slashed at...
>R: Whaaat!?

>B: Huh...
>B: I'd move like this...

>R: He just...
>R+R2: Disappeared!
>B: Err...
>B: Of course that's what happens...
>B: What happens, when it's taken to the point of being unseen.

End chapter.

>hanayama didn't die but retsu did
Then what was the point?

Itagaki sez:

With Women's Judo Club Story, I understand. Kobayashi Makoto-san's [something] is still at a black-belt level.

No idea what the something is; I can't read the kanji. Far too small and far too distorted, because it's a paper raw. I mean, we can assume that it's a compliment, but I can't tell what it is that is being complimented. There's a 10% chance that it's "arm"; that's the best that *I've* got.

Bump.

DOPPO BEST BAKI

CHINA NEVER DIES!
yes

so deep

and profound...