Anonymous asked: Hello, I hope this message will not bother you if you already have tons of them ^^ I was just wondering if you intended to continue your translation of World Trigger. Also I wanted to thank you for your "accurate" translations for all this time (I think I discovered you like 2-3 years ago by chance ... I don't even remember how). Thank you again. A French World Trigger fan.

Short answer…yes >.> Long answer, the past month or so have been a busy one (I was on holiday for a chunk of it etc.) hence why I haven’t posted these earlier, but you guys aren’t here for excuses. I’m glad you like my translations! And trust me, compliments are never a burden XD This goes out for all the other nice messages I received as well, thank you so much everyone for taking time out to write such nice messages <3

Also, congratulations to the World Trigger anime for getting a continuation! So far there hasn’t been much official information about it, though the key poster having Hus in the Tamakoma Second uniform is pretty suggestive, I thought. But they’re getting a stage at AnimeJapan 2020 on 23rd March, so hopefully we learn more then.

Now on to the translation!

World Trigger Ch188 ‘Hus 9’, Ch189 ‘Amatori Chika 8′ & Ch190 ‘Yuba Squad 3′ Translation

For this post I have all the chapters that have come out until now:

Panel 1

*wind howling*

Panel 2

Osamu: Chika! Kuga!

*clatter clatter*

Yuuma: We’re fine

Panel 3

Yuuma: Chika protected us with Shield

Panel 4

Osamu: I see…!

Osamu: Alright…first, let’s move!

Panel 1

Osamu: Why did Meteora explode?

Osamu: Did you see anything?

Panel 2

*tap*

Chika: The cube was shot

Chika: From the back…

Panel 3

Osamu: The back…which means from the south…

Osamu: Were we seen by Yuba squad’s sniper…!

Panel 4

Chika: I’m sorry

Chika: I…

Osamu: I was the one who gave those instructions

Osamu: It’s my mistake

Panel 1

Osamu: But thanks to you, Chika, the two of you finished up with no injuries

Osamu: We’re seeing the result of your training

Panel 2

Chika: …

Panel 3

Fujimaru: Well done, Tono!

Fujimaru: Your quick wit worked, didn’t it!

Tonooka: No, I didn’t finish her off, can’t really say that…

Panel 4

Tonooka: I’ll keep following Tamakoma

Tonooka: Watch for a chance and try one more time

Panel 5

Osamu: Kuga

Osamu: Can you go take down the sniper in the south?

Panel 1

Yuuma: If the sniper shoots one more time for us

Yuuma: I don’t know where he is right now

Panel 2

Osamu: That’s true…

Osamu: Yuba squad’s sniper…Tonooka-sempai

Osamu: Gave the impression of being quite a cautious person

Panel 3

Osamu: If I send Kuga to search for Tonooka-sempai

Osamu: But he stays hidden during all of it

Osamu: Kuga won’t be able to fight during that time

Panel 4

Osamu: …alright

Panel 5

Osamu: Let’s aim towards where Hus is together with the three of us!

Osamu: If there’s a place where the line of sight from the south is cut off

Osamu: Kuga will split from us there and hurry to save Hus!

Panel 1

Osamu: Me and Chika will hide ourselves first

Osamu: And then set up at a spot where Chika can support you with her sniping!

Panel 2

Osamu: And take care not to have Ninomiya-san’s group catch up to us!

Panel 3

Yuuma: Roger

Chika: …roger!

Panel 4

Osamu: It’ll take time, but we don’t have any other choice…!

Osamu: Hus…!

Panel 5

*crash*

Panel 1

Mizukami: What was that big one jus’ now?

*wind howling*

Oki: Looks like Amatori-chan exploded

Minamisawa: Seriously!?

Mizukami: But she ain’t dead

Panel 2

Usami: Meteora was shot by Tonooka-kun’s sniping

Usami: But with Chika-chan’s Shield, those three are okay!

Hus: I see…

Hus: Understood

Panel 3

Hus: It’s predictable that Chika would be marked

Hus: Was my judgement too optimistic

Panel 4

Hus: Shiori

Hus: Give me a detailed map of these surroundings

Usami: Roger!

Panel 1

Ouji: I said a bit about this earlier

Ouji: But with this kind of melee

Ouji: The more you’re on the ‘inside’ the more of a disadvantage you have

Panel 2

Ouji: Because no matter how skilled

Ouji: It’s hard to be on guard for 360°

Panel 3

Ouji: But on the flip side

Ouji: Surviving this far makes Huston a badass

Ouji: You could say as well…

Panel 4

Kurauchi: …losing a leg

Kurauchi: Makes the situation a fair amount more difficult

Panel 5

Kurauchi: Since he has to stop moving and concentrate trion on defending

Kurauchi: There’s no opportunity for him to demonstrate his inherently high attack power

Panel 1

Sakurako: So you mean that he has his hands full with defence

Sakurako: And no chance to counterattack…!

Panel 2

Konami: Though there is still a chance for him to take advantage, more or less…

Konami: Since those surrounding him are all ‘enemies’ as well

Panel 3

Sakurako: …!

Sakurako: …by which you mean…!?

Panel 4

Konami: If Hus goes down like this

Konami: Ikoma squad has the advantage with numbers and location, right

Konami: Yuba squad’s gonna do their best to not let that happen

Panel 5

Konami: And on the other hand, Inukai-sempai

Konami: Is okay with the current situation continuing until NInomiya-san’s group arrives…

Panel 1

Konami: The ones doing the surrounding all have different opinions too

Konami: Hus should know that too

Sakurako: I see…!

Panel 2

Kurauchi: The more damage Agent Hus takes

Kurauchi: The more the surrounding side

Kurauchi: Is conscious of ‘after Agent Hus is taken down’…

Kurauchi: I agree that has merit

Panel 3

Sakurako: Which means, taking advantage of that psychology

Sakurako: There’s a chance Agent Hus could survive…!?

Panel 4

Ouji: No

Ouji: Now that’s not going to happen

Panel 1

Ouji: Even if they’re calculating the pros and cons at the back of their heads

Ouji: The upper B-ranks are not so soft that

Ouji: They would let Huston escape

Panel 2

*machine whirr*

Panel 3

*bang bang bang bang bang bang*

Panel 4

*machine whirr*

Panel 1

*bang*

*light light light light*

Panel 2

*impact impact impact impact impact*

Panel 3

*impact impact impact impact impact*

Panel 4

*bang bang bang bang bang bang*

*dash*

Panel 1

Minamisawa: Hus-chan went that way!

Panel 2

Mizukami: OK, Ah see him

Panel 3

Inukai: You can’t get away with that foot

Panel 4

*impact impact impact impact*

*impact impact impact*

Panel 5

Sakurako: Agent Hus begins his attempt to break through

Sakurako: The mid-range group tightly keeps him in place!

Panel 1

Sakurako: Agent Hus is surrounded once more!

Sakurako: Is the difference in mobility having an effect!?

Konami: …ah jeez, it’s making me anxious…!

Panel 2

Konami: Don’t put on airs

*mumble mumble*

Konami: Hurry up and use your ‘secret weapon’…!

Panel 3

Kurauchi & Ouji: ‘Secret weapon’…?

Panel 4

Sakurako: By ‘secret weapon’

Sakurako: You mean something like a trump card…!?

Konami: I don’t know, I’m not saying, I won’t tell you!

Konami: Because it’s a ‘secret weapon’!

Karasuma: …

Panel 5

Kitora: Karasuma-sempai

Kitora: By ‘secret weapon’, she means…?

Karasuma: It’s about Viper

Panel 1

Kitora: …!

Kitora: Making everyone think the bullet he has is Asteroid, but actually…

Kitora: Viper…!

Panel 2

Karasuma: Hus is pretty skilled

Karasuma: Not as much as Nasu-san

Karasuma: But he can draw the trajectory properly every time

Panel 3

Karasuma: No matter the opponent, he should able to get them the first time

Panel 4

Kitora: It’s true…with that trion amount

Kitora: It’ll be a fatal wound for anyone…!

Kitora: …but

Kitora: In that case, then why…

Panel 5

Inukai: I wonder why he’s not using his ‘secret weapon’?

Inukai: Hus-kun

*wind howling*

Inukai: You’ve got something up your sleeve, right?

Panel 1

Inukai: There’s no need to be reluctant in the final battle, right

*wind howling*

Inukai: Keep going like this and it’s gonna end without it being used?

Panel 2

*bang bang bang*

*impact impact*

*light light light light*

Panel 3

*clang clang clang clang clang*

*whoosh*

Panel 4

Karasuma: Yuba squad is

Karasuma: Moving as if they’re splitting the work of taking on Ninomiya-san’s Fullattack strategy between the two of them

Karasuma: Thanks to their countermeasures against Ninomiya-san, they’re somehow getting through this

Panel 1

Karasuma: Ikoma squad is…

Panel 2

Karasuma: While the attacker presses forward

Panel 3

Karasuma: Mizukami-sempai supports him, the same as usual

Panel 4

Karasuma: And then…

Panel 5

*rustle*

Ikoma: Senkuu…

Panel 1

Hus: Escudo

*machine whirr*

Panel 2

*bang*

Panel 3

*bang bang bang bang*

Ikoma: !

*thump*

Panel 4

*wind howling*

Sakurako: Escudo as a catapult!?

Sakurako: Captain Ikoma is tossed into the air!

Panel 1

Kurauchi: So he can even activate Escudo with his foot

Panel 2

Konami: A chance!

Panel 3

Ouji: Take down Iko-san

Ouji: Or aim for withdrawal

Panel 4

*bang*

Hus: Slip through this boxing in!

Panel 5

Ikoma: …kogetsu

Panel 6

*fwoosh*

Panel 1

*turn*

Panel 3

*slice*

Hus: !

Panel 1

Satori: Acrobatic Ikoma Senkuu!

Arashiyama: He can hit a mark like that

Panel 2

*bang*

*impact impact impact impact*

Sakurako: The breakout with Escudo Catapult is halted by Captain Ikoma!

Panel 3

Sakurako: And furthermore, Agent Hus loses his right foot too!

Panel 4

Karasuma: …I see

Karasuma: So that’s how it is

Panel 1

Inukai: The angle of the Escudo used for that big jump just now…

Panel 2

Inukai: At the end of his jump would be…

Panel 3

Ouji: It seems that Huston

Ouji: Wanted to use his ‘secret weapon’ on Ninomiya-san

Panel 4

Ouji: In fact, in the first place

Ouji: ‘Huston will defeat Ninomiya-san’

Ouji: Was that Tamakoma’s scenario, I wonder?

Panel 1

Yuba: Obishimaa!

*wind howling*

Yuba: When Hus falls, the 2nd round is gonna start immediately!

*rustle*

Panel 2

Obishima: Roger!

*wind howling*

Obishima: I’ll move to make sure I’m not surrounded

Obishima: While trying to create an opening in Ikoma squad!

Panel 3

Mizukami: Hus shoulda lost quite a lot of trion by now, but

Mizukami: Don’t let ya guard down

*wind howling*

Panel 4

Ikoma: Not an opponent ya can let ya guard down with even if he’s on the verge of death anyway

Minamisawa: True!

*wind howling*

Panel 1

Inukai: Even if Hus-kun was to fight Ninomiya-san

Inukai: Ninomiya-san will probably win, but…

Panel 2

Inukai: …risk

*wind howling*

Inukai: Need to be eliminated as much as possible

Panel 3

Computer: Warning

Computer: Serious trion leakage

*wind howling*

*crack*

-

Panel 1

*wind howling*

Panel 2

Sakurako: There are cracks in Agent Hus’s combat body…!

Ouji: It’s finally reached this point

Panel 3

Kurauchi: The amount of trion Agent Hus can use in a counterattack

Kurauchi: Is running low too

Panel 4

Ouji: If Huston is taken down

Ouji: The match might move all at once

Panel 1

Inukai: Hus-kun acted as if he’s aiming for Ninomiya-san’s group

Panel 2

Inukai: There’s the chance that those 3 from Tamakoma are heading your way

Inukai: So please be careful at least

Panel 3

Hiyami: The one who went after Tamakoma just now should’ve been Tonooka-kun

Hiyami: So it might be better to move in secret right about now

Panel 4

Ninomiya: …understood

*shoom*

Tsuji: Roger

Panel 1

Hosoi: Ninomiya-san and Tsuji-kun jus’ disappeared!

Panel 2

*wind howling*

Mizukami: Can’t take it easy anymore, Ah see

Panel 3

Sakurako: The enveloping formation slowly pressing in!

Sakurako: Which team will bring down Agent Hus!

Panel 4

Ouji: Probably Ikoma squad

Ouji: Yuba squad should be letting Ikoma squad take Huston

Ouji: And taking advantage of that opening

Panel 1

Konami: Will Yuba-chan use such an indirect move?

Panel 2

Ouji: It’s not Yuba-san’s way

Ouji: It’s Kandata’s way

Panel 3

Obishima: I will make Hus-sempai move and put him in Ikoma squad’s crosshairs!

*rustle*

Panel 4

Yuba: Don’t press in too deeply!

*bang*

Panel 5

*wind howling*

*impact impact impact*

Panel 1

*machine whirr*

Panel 2

Obishima: Escudo!

Obishima: Under my feet!?

Panel 3

*bang*

Obishima: !?

Panel 4

*impact impact*

*crash*

Panel 1

Yuba: That car with Escudo…

*rustle*

*ka-wham*

Yuba: Obishimaa!

Panel 2

*rattle rattle*

Obishima: …I’m fine!

Panel 3

Inukai: Yuba squad’s co-op has broken down

Inukai: In that case

Panel 4

*ratatatatata*

*impact impact impact*

Inukai: I’ll have to put on the pressure, won’t I

Panel 5

*machine whirr*

*impact impact impact impact impact*

Panel 1

*light*

*wind howling*

*rustle*

Panel 2

Ikoma: Senkuu Kogetsu

Panel 3

Sakurako: Once again, Ikoma Senkuu!

Panel 4

*shine*

Panel 2

*machine whirr*

Panel 3

Satori: Fullguard!?

Panel 4

Arashiyama: The Senkuu was a fakeout!

Panel 5

Konami: …here!!

Panel 1

*turn*

*light*

Panel 2

*bang bang bang bang*

Panel 3

Ikoma: …!

Panel 1

Sakurako: !?

Konami: Viper!

Panel 2

Computer: Combat body active limit reached

*crack*

Ikoma: Kai!

Panel 3

Minamisawa: Yes, yes!

*reveal*

Panel 4

*wind howling*

Minamisawa: !?

*turn*

Panel 5

Minamisawa: Are you Nasu-san!

*rustle*

Panel 1

*machine whirr*

Panel 2

Minamisawa: !

*impact impact impact impact*

Panel 4

*wind howling*

Mizukami: Finally

Panel 5

Mizukami: Checkmate

Panel 1

*impact impact impact impact*

*bang*

Panel 2

Computer: Combat body active limit reached

*crack crack*

Computer: Bailout

Panel 1

*bang*

*bam*

*wind howling*

Sakurako: Captain Ikoma and Agent Hus

Sakurako: Bails out one after the other!

Panel 2

*whoosh*

Panel 3

*machine whirr*

*impact impact impact impact*

Panel 4

Mizukami: If Obishima-chan’s there, then that means…

Panel 1

*turn*

Mizukami: Yuba-san’s over here

*rustle*

Panel 2

*wind howling*

Panel 3

Mizukami: Oh my…

Mizukami: This’s no good

Panel 4

*bam bam bam bam bam *

*impact impact impact impact*

Panel 1

*wind howling*

*bam*

Sakurako: Agent Mizukami, stuck between Captain Yuba and Agent Inukai

Sakurako: Also bails out here!

Panel 2

Sakurako: This is Yuba squad’s point!

Sakurako: Captain Yuba’s quick draw wrested away the point!

Panel 3

Sakurako: Tamakoma Second, Ikoma squad, and Yuba squad

Sakurako: Have all earned 1 point!

Panel 4

Sakurako: So Agent Hus’s ‘secret weapon’

Sakurako: Was Viper!

Konami: That’s right

Konami: Though I was so nervous when it looked like he was going to go down without using it

Panel 1

Inukai: Hus-kun’s ‘secret weapon’ was more or less what I expected

Inukai: Though the keenness of his proficiency was above what I had thought

Panel 2

*smoking*

Inukai: Now I need to

Inukai: Make sure not to die before meeting up

Panel 3

*sigh*

Panel 4

Hus: Stopped at 1 point, huh…

Hus: But

Hus: I did the minimum that needed to be done

Panel 5

Hus: No…

Hus: There’s one more thing to do

Panel 1

Osamu: Hus was taken down…

Yuuma: Well, can’t be helped

Panel 2

Chika: Hus-kun was…

*badump badump*

Chika: Hus-kun was taken down…

Panel 3

Chika: The same as that time

Panel 4

Chika: Because I couldn’t do it well…

Chika: Ah

Panel 1

Hus: Chika

Hus: It’s Hus

Panel 2

Chika: !

Hus: My bad I couldn’t let you shoot like we practiced

Panel 3

Hus: I died

Panel 4

*twitch*

Hus: On the actual battlefield

Hus: If Chika doesn’t shoot the enemy

Hus: There’s a chance Yuuma or Osamu could die

Panel 5

Chika: Again, it’s my…

*tighten*

Chika: My fault…

Hus: That’s why, Chika

Panel 1

Hus: I leave Yuuma and Osamu in your care

Hus: In my place

Panel 2

Chika: …!

Panel 3

Izumi: Hmmm…

Izumi: Now hasn’t this turned into an intense development

Izumi: Tamkoma Second

Fight. And prove yourselves.

Panel 1

Izumi: Yo, Kyousuke

Panel 2

Izumi: Didn’t this turn out interesting

Karasuma: Izumi-sempai

Panel 3

Karasuma: You’re not in the upper seats today

Izumi: It’s the special final match after all

Panel 4

Izumi: So

Izumi: How is it, your ‘disciple’

Izumi: Isn’t he troubled with his big game piece taken down

Panel 1

Karasuma: I wonder

Karasuma: He’d been thinking of various strategies

Karasuma: So I think he’ll be alright though

Panel 2

Karasuma: If I have to say, the one I’m worried about is…

Panel 4

*impact impact impact impact*

*bang bang bang bang*

Panel 1

*bam bam bam*

*whoosh*

Panel 2

Minamisawa: Uwah, not good, not good!

Panel 3

Sakurako: With 2 people taken down all at once, Ikoma squad has sudden reversed into a crisis!

Sakurako: Will it develop into the 2 from Yuba squad chasing after Agent Minamisawa

Panel 4

Ouji: They would want to take down Kai-kun in this scene

Ouji: But they wouldn’t want to let Sumi-kun get away either

Panel 1

Yuba: Wanna turn Minamisawa into a point here

Yuba: But if we let Inukai go, Ninomiya squad’s gonna fucking complete the set unscathed

Panel 2

Ouji: Times like this

Ouji: If Kandata was here

Ouji: Is what you start thinking…

Panel 3

Obishima: …Yuba-san!

Panel 4

Obishima: I’ll defeat Minamisawa-sempai!

Obishima: Please chase after Inukai-sempai!

Panel 1

Yuba: …aalriight

Yuba: Go, Obishimaa!

*rustle*

Yuba: Don’t forget the advantage of range!

Obishima: Roger!

Panel 2

Sakurako: Yuba squad splits into two here!

Sakurako: Can it be said that they’ve made a slightly momentous choice!?

Panel 3

Kurauchi: I believe these movements have been seen by the 3 from Tamakoma

Kurauchi: But on Yuba squad’s side, Agent Tonooka is still marking Tamakoma

Panel 4

Kurauchi: Depending on who Tamakoma makes a move on

Panel 5

Kurauchi: The flow of the match will change, it seems

Panel 1

*rumbling*

Panel 3

*ratatatatata*

Panel 4

*impact impact impact impact*

Fujimaru: Distance 20!

Panel 1

*bam bam bam*

Panel 2

*impact impact impact*

*bang*

*fwoosh*

Panel 3

Sakurako: Captain Yuba’s bullets have caught Agent Inukai in their grasp!

Konami: Yuba-chan’s faster in close range

Panel 4

Inukai: A shootout’s bothersome, as expected

Inukai: Let’s devote ourselves to running

*wind howling*

Panel 1

Sakurako: Agent Inukai shows movements that aim to outrun by using obstacles!

Sakurako: …on the other hand, is Tamakoma joining in from the opposite side!?

Panel 2

Osamu: We’ll aim for Minamisawa-sempai’s group

Panel 3

Osamu: Because there’s the risk of an induced explosion like before

Osamu: This time you can’t use Meteora

Osamu: Instead, our move will be using Hound to unbalance the opponent

Osamu: And me and Kuga taking them out

Panel 4

Chika: …right, got it!

*machine whirr*

Panel 5

Tonooka: She’s alone now

Panel 1

Tonooka: Tamakoma’s gone towards Obishima

Tonooka: I’ll aim from the back

Fujimaru: Roger!

Obishima: Roger!

Panel 2

Chika: Hound!

*machine whirr*

Panel 3

Tonooka: Now this isn’t gonna be Meteora, right

Tonooka: But this time…

Panel 4

Tonooka: I can aim for the main body

*bang*

*light*

Panel 1

*clang*

Panel 2

Tonooka: !

Panel 4

Yuuma: He took the bait

Panel 5

*wind howling*

Chika: …found him!

Usami: Changing to Sighted Guidance

Panel 1

*light*

Tonooka: Uwa, they got me

Panel 2

Tonooka: Her left hand side was open

Tonooka: Because she wanted to narrow down the direction she’d be sniped from, huh

Panel 3

*bang bang bang bang*

Panel 4

*bang*

Panel 1

*whoosh*

Tonooka: !

Panel 2

*crack*

Tonooka: Oh my…

Panel 3

*bam*

Panel 1

Sakurako: Agent Tonooka bails out!

Sakurako: The one who nabbed him was Ikoma squad’s Agent Oki!

Panel 2

*rumble*

*badump*

Panel 3

Yuuma: Oh?

Yuuma: Did Chika’s ones hit?

Panel 4

Osamu: …no

Osamu: It was Ikoma squad’s point

*phew*

Panel 5

*gasp*

Panel 6

*shake shake*

Chika: Wrong, wrong…!

Panel 1

Chika: Next time

*step*

Chika: I’ll hit the mark…!

Panel 2

Konami: That Okky really hid himself well…

Kurauchi: An ambush that put Agent Tonooka to shame

Panel 3

Ouji: I wonder if he had been marking Tono-kun since the Big Meteora Explosion?

Panel 4

Ouji: Because it gets scary later on if you lose Tono-kun

Ouji: So I understand how he feels

Panel 5

Mizukami: Oki-kun?

Mizukami: Ya couldn’t use those skills ta save us?

Oki: Well, it seemed snipin’ was bein’ guarded agains’ on that side

Panel 1

Oki: Kai

*wind howling*

Oki: If ya run that way, Kuga-kun’s probably there

Panel 2

Minamisawa: Uwah, then

Minamisawa: Would a one-on-one with Obishima-chan be better?

Panel 3

Minamisawa: I’ve only got one arm so it’s pretty tough though!

Oki: Brin’ her this way

Oki: Ah’m on my way too

Panel 4

*light*

*wind howling*

Panel 1

Oki: !

*machine whirr*

Oki: Hound!?

Panel 2

Oki: I’ll lead it on then in the opposite direction…

*light*

Panel 3

*turn*

Oki: !?

Panel 4

Oki: Wrong, these’re

*zoom*

Oki: Composite bullets

Panel 1

*impact impact impact impact impact impact*

Panel 2

*bang bang bang*

Panel 3

Oki: I can’t, I can’t, seriously I can’t

*rustle*

Oki: Ninomiya-san’s

Panel 4

*bang*

Panel 2

Oki: Eh, no way

Computer: Combat body active limit reached

Panel 3

Sakurako: Ahhh!?

*bang*

Sakurako: Agent Tsuji had gone on ahead!?

Panel 1

Sakurako: A flash of Kogetsu!

Sakurako: This has become Ninomiya squad’s first point earned!

Panel 2

Kurauchi: This has…

Kurauchi: Really taken me by surprise, speaking personally

Panel 3

Kurauchi: When Captain Ninomiya shoots Composite Bullets, he always

Kurauchi: Had either one to guard him, was my impression, so…

Panel 4

Ouji: Okky probably thought the same

Ouji: He sure is composed

Panel 5

Sakurako: …!

Sakurako: And on the opposite side!

Sakurako: This is…

Konami: Yuuma!

Panel 1

*machine whirr*

Panel 2

Sakurako: Tamakoma Second’s other ace!

*wind howling*

*rustle*

Sakurako: Agent Yuuma encounters these two!

Panel 3

Obishima: Kuga-sempai…!

Panel 4

Minamisawa: …ahhh ahhh

Panel 1

Minamisawa: Kuga-chan showing himself means…

Minamisawa: It’s that pattern with Mikumo-chan in hiding?

Obishima: …!

Panel 2

Obishima: That’s true…if that’s so

Obishima: It’s 2 vs. 1 vs. 1…!

Panel 3

*whirl*

Panel 4

Sakurako: Tamakoma Second, who wants 3 more points for a sole no.2 seat!

*rustle*

Panel 5

Sakurako: Swoops down on Agent Obishima and Minamisawa!

*machine whirr*

Panel 1

*bang*

*light*

Minamisawa: Ugh!?

Panel 3

Minamisawa: Eh~…

*crack crack*

Minamisawa: Just now

Minamisawa: Didn’t it feel a bit like it’s gonna be us two working together…

Panel 4

Obishima: Sorry!

Obishima: I want points!

Panel 1

Sakurako: Oh!?

Sakurako: Agent Obishima’s Blind Shot has taken out Agent Minamisawa!

*bang*

Panel 2

Konami: Ngh…

Ouji: A good judgement, Obi-nyan

Panel 3

Sakurako: Now then, two teams who both want points!

*wind howling*

Sakurako: Will this become a clash that breaks up the future to come!?

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1. Any other manga (and I do still do this with World Trigger sometimes), I would have thought this starting placement means Tamakoma 2nd will definitely join the expedition as a team because otherwise we won’t get to see them work together. But this IS World Trigger, famous for so many instances of ‘oh I kind of wanted to show this but I lost my chance oh well’ :/ And Ashihara has said before that he sets up chara positions on the map so he can get the match result he wants without compromising the characters’ abilities, so it could very well be that he deliberately surrounded Hus with enemies because he wants him to go down before Tamakoma 2nd can fight as a team and eliminate their chance to go on the expedition as 'Tamakoma 2nd’…

2. I always forget Minamisawa and Hus are the same age and then we get something like 'Hus-chan’ ._.

3. Apropos of nothing, I think Ouji’s face hearing Konami spoil Hus’s 'secret weapon’ is hilarious

4. In conclusion, one thing I always love about World Trigger fights is how everyone is always learning new things, or changing up their tactics. It’s never just our protags learning about their opponents, thinking up countermeasures and maybe having the opponents counter with countermeasures of their own. So often, World Trigger opponents will do something different right out the gate because the situation calls for it and it makes the fights so exciting.

Coming up next, volume 21 extras! Let’s see how many I can churn out before more chapters drop next week.