==43-01== {Title} Evil Dragon ==43-02== =1========== >I'm back! >Welcome back! >Glad you made it! ==43-04== =1========== >Go faster, Gen-han! >Yes! But, there's only so much I can do on a road such as... >Quit complaining and step on it!!! =2========== >I got you now!!! >Oh, that's a recoilless rifle. >Please watch out behind yUGH ==43-05== =4========== >Tch! He dodged!! >No, that was good! Now he will... ==43-06&07== =3========== >NO WAAAAAYY!!! =4========== {Spread panel} >Running! He's running!! >Runing on the water surface!! >I can't believe he never showed us that, not even at our "Bonenkai hidden talents contest"!! >You guys had a Bonenkai!!? ==43-08== =1========== >Like a plumed basilisk lizard... >Ultrafine hairs, super-oscillation... {bubble, upper circle} Assume 200kg {Bubble, lower circle} surface tension {Handwritten, right} Assume about 80km/h {Handwritten, left} the contact area interacting with surface tension... >Or maybe a pond skater... >No, it's impossible! Absolutely impossible!! >Preposterous! Unbelievable! =2========== >Or maybe I'm looking at this from the wrong angle!? >There's also another animal I'm forgetting. >Dolphins can do something that looks just as unnatural, "tail-walking" on water... Can't hit him!! >Two Dokkaku soldiers with enhanced dynamic visual acuity, >And we still can't hit him!! =2========== >Although I can follow him with my eyes, >It's like my aim can't do the same!! =3========== >He's using Van der Waals force to kill his inertia. >Making his footwork unpredictable!! ==43-11== =1========== >Wait!! A few shots are hitting him!! >At least we're wearing him down!! =2========== >It's different from Andira's bullet-dodging ability! =3========== >And yet... >This guy is even stranger than he was!! =4========== >There's something off about him!! ==43-12== =1========== >That's it!! =2========== >It's because he acts without any fear!! >His thoughts are always clear. =3========== >The fear of death and pain are natural to any living organism. >But that was thoroughly stripped away from him!!! ==43-13== =1========== >He only defends himself >when it will preserve his functionality. >Did the Avatar Effect do this to him!? >Or was he like this before!? =2========== >Just what are you!? ==43-17== >He's targeting >Hijikata!? ==43-18== =3========== >Wha-! ==43-22== =4========== >Mi-Mikado! >Are you ok!? ==43-23== =1========== >Ow ow ow >Shit! I'm such an idiot!! =2========== >Hijikata came to us with that "I'm here to help you" talk, >But he's been using us as a shield all along!! =3========== >Looks like our welcoming party arrived just in time! ==Translation Notes== End-year party, bōnenkai (忘年会, literally "forget the year gathering") is a Japanese drinking party that takes place at the end of the year, and is generally held among groups of co-workers or friends. The purpose of the party, as its name implies, is to forget the woes and troubles of the past year, and hopefully look to the new year, usually by consumption of large amounts of alcohol. A bōnenkai does not take place on any specific day, but they are usually held in December.