God Save the Sugekoma-kun! Volume 1, Chapter 12: "Invincible Murata" Original story Copyright (C) 1992 Nagano Noriko/Kodansha English translation from Goddess Studio: Translation by Hiroshi Haga (hh0u+@andrew.cmu.edu) Proofreading by Iain Sinclair (axolotl@socs.uts.edu.au) ============================================================================ (A luxuriant apartment high in some metropolis. "Boss", a tall, glamorous woman wearing a seductive dress, addresses her suited flunkey, Murata.) Boss: I'm a woman, and yet I've come this far. It won't be long before Fujieda-gumi controls the entire country... Boss: Murata! Murata: Yes, boss! Boss: It's all because you've worked for me with every ounce of your strength. (Murata hastily hands "Boss" an ashtray.) Murata: S.. surely not, boss! ---------------- p.61 Murata: I'm so grateful just to be able to serve you, boss... ("Boss" reclines on an opulent sofa.) Boss: Murata... Boss: My foot is feeling chilly... Murata: Wh.. wha-! Murata: Please, allow me to warm it up for you! (Murata takes off his coat, revealing his scarred chest and prosthetic arm. He tenderly hold's his "boss"'s leg.) Boss: Ah, that's lovely. That's nice and warm, Murata. Murata: I-it's so kind of you to say so! (B-Boss-s-s, Aa-aaah...) ---------------- p.62 Murata: (My boss!) (Murata's vision dissipates. Back to reality, he is sitting in class, tossing and turning on a desk. A classmate comes up to him. She bears a vague resemblance to the "boss" of his fantasy.) Junko: Excuse me, Murata! Junko: Would you get off my desk? Murata: Oh, boss! I'm terribly sorry. Someone like me lying down on your desk... Murata: Here, please sit down, Boss. ---------------- p.63 (Another vision of "boss" appears) Junko: ....will you please stop calling me "boss"!? My name is Fujieda, Junko Fujieda, okay!? Murata: No, no way, I can't!! Murata: I'm your disciple... I'll only be worthy to call you by your name after I've trained for 1 million years. Eheheh. (He meekly slaps himself on the head. Junko, enraged, is poised to strike him.) Junko: When did I make you my disciple!? (Murata cringes as Junko prepares to belt him) Murata: Junko: What are you cowering like that for?! Students: Hm, is she bullying someone? Murata: W-well, you're gonna do it, aren't you? That dreadful... ---------------- p.64 ("Boss" reappears, GAAN!!) Murata: **Special Exploding punishment!!** Boss: You, dickhead! There's no alternative, but to discipline your body directly! Murata: -----she punches me, Murata: then delivers a lightning-fast kick to the solar plexus, Murata: then beats me up mercilessly....and finally... Murata: she tramples me, who she can't stand anymore, underfoot - laughing loudly, her triumph complete. (Back to reality again) Junko: How in hell's name am I going to do something like that! Don't be ridiculous, you damn fucking idiot!! ---------------- p.65 Murata: Thank you very much... Murata: Those generous scolding words from my boss- I, Murata, swear that I'll live by them! Murata: Erm... "Don't be ridiculous, you damn fucking idiot". Junko: Don't write it down! What crazy plans are you making, you scumbag!! Murata: .... Mmmm.. "you scumbag!". ---------------- p.66 (Junko grabs Murata) Junko: You bastard! I'll kill you!! Murata: A-ah, my boss! Junko: (Murata goes flying out the window) Matsuzawa: (Later, Junko is walking home with her friend.) Junko: God, I wish he'd cut it out. Junko: That Murata, he makes false charges against me all the time, eh, Tomo-chan? Tomoko: Y-yes. Tomoko: M-Murata-kun, he likes violence, I mean... sometimes he gets suspended from school for fighting, right? Tomoko: So, what do you call it, "familiarity"? 'cause you hit men indifferently... (A bandaged Murata is hiding behing a telephone pole, listening in) Junko: What do you mean, Tomo-chan, are you saying because I'm strange... strange people are attracted to me!? Tomoko: I-I didn't mean that... Well, maybe you're right. ---------------- p.67 Junko: I-I just get scared when I see some abnormal perverted guy, and I get angry, and then my hand moves on its own.... Tomoko: Sugekoma: (You're such a troublesome girl, really.) Junko: (I-I....I...) Junko: (...just like a normal and decent men!) (Junko is in her room, watching athletics on TV.) Junko: (Oh, don't be disheartened, Mr. Ikeya!) (There is Barcelona, yet!) (Junko's mum comes flying in, bashing Junko to the ground. She is a formidable-looking woman in a kimono.) Mother: There'll be none of this "Hang in there". ---------------- p.68 Junko: Mom!! Mother: What's this, Jun-chan? Your room is filthy. Mother: Clean your room before I get back from the bar, okay? Junko: Mother: What do you mean "Whaaat!"? Junko: Okay, mum. Mother: And put Ken to bed before 9pm. Make sure he goes to the toilet and brushes his teeth. Also, clean the kitchen and wash some rice... don't forget, okay? Ken: Ken: Junko: Look, Ken, why don't you brush your teeth now? Ken: ---------------- p.69 Murata: "Fuck you, bitch, you're so selfish." Murata: Don't you agree, boss? (Murata comes in through the window) Junko: M-Murata...kun! Murata: Wow, I like your place, it's so wild. Junko: What do you want! Hey, don't come into my place! Murata: Well, I, as your disciple, just... Murata: ...couldn't stand here and watch... Murata: ...your distress silently. Junko: You mean you've been watching me from the window 'till now? Murata: Please, boss, let me.. ---------------- p.70 Murata: ...be a man! I only want to help you. Murata: Please, boss, let me clean the room for you! Junko: Junko: (Oh, well, I don't know what's going on...) Junko: Alright, make it snappy. Murata: Yes, boss! Murata: Here goes! It's an order from my boss! ---------------- p.71 (GAGON! Murata appears in an athlete's costume) Junko: No! Why do you have to take off your clothes!! Murata: Just getting ready, cheering myself up!! Murata: Here, boss... even though this TV is small and cheap, why don't you watch it? Junko: I'm sorry it's small and cheap! Murata: Here, kid, hop on. Junko: Stop! Ken!! ---------------- p.72 (Murata is washing the dishes) Junko: Having fun? Murata: Yep. Junko: (Hmmm, maybe I should offer him a cup of tea or something.) Murata: But, anyway,... Murata: Even though you're a feisty woman and a "hinoeuma"... [NB: girls who are born in the year of Hinoeuma are supposed to be headstrong and wild. They're also supposed to eventually murder their husband.] Junko: (Who's the "Hinoeuma", huh?) [The last year of Hinoeuma was in 1967.] Murata: ...you can't do anything about a grown-up man's strength, can you? Junko: What!? ---------------- p.73 Murata: Boss... you might not believe it, but I work out with a Bullworker. Junko: I can see that easily enough. (Murata grabs Junko's arm and throws her to the floor) Junko: Ah! Murata: Here! Junko: Arrrgh!? Junko: (B-bastard,) Junko: (He's trying to get revenge for me throwing him from the 3rd floor...!?) ---------------- p.74 Murata: Hmm? Here, how do you like it? Junko: Murata: Hmm? (Something clicks inside Junko. She kicks Murata into the wall, and then beats the shit out of him.) Junko: What's this "Hmm?" ! Junko: You, fucking pervert, you're becoming impudent, do you want to die!? ---------------- p.75 (Crash, smash, etc.) Junko: Don't think you can do as you please, pervert! You bastard, Murata. Die! Take this! Junko: Ha! Murata: Ah! (Murata does something with his hand...) Junko: Oh, no! I can't believe it!! What's wrong with this guy!! This must be some kind of joke, right!! ---------------- p.76 Junko: Those guys like you!! (Junko kicks him out of her window. He lies battered and broken on the garbage cans below) Murata: (A-ah,..boss,....I...I sure am one lucky guy!) (Meanwhile, Junko's mum has returned, wielding a knife...) Mother: Gosh, what's this, Jun!? Do you want to die!? Junko: (At school the next day) Matsuzawa: So, Miss Fujieda and Mr. Murata are absent, because of injury. Tomoko: (I wonder if they had a fight or something.)