Chapter 153: Participation of the Devil ②

Translator Note:

I see everyone has lost their minds after seeing the raw website removing the webnovel. Fret not, the author has just moved to alphapolis. Don’t know the details about it, but someone out there probably knows.

Also, some may know already, but the translator for the Side Story has decided to drop it. I am truly grateful to Options for taking part in translating two chapters and am currently looking for a kind soul who will replace him/her.


“Fufu, it’s that huh. How valliant is the Empire’s hero-sama” (Sofia)

“Those are flashy attacks, but the firepower is also plenty good. It seems the information was correct that he gets quite stronger when night comes. Sofia, don’t underestimate him” (Lancer)

“There’s no way I would underestimate him right? I will think of this as practice for the time I kill the Devil. I am going to be doing this without holding back. That’s only if he is worthy of me doing so, that is” (Sofia)

“The Devil huh. That’s true. With this atmosphere, it wouldn’t be strange for that guy to appear. The current you might not get caught off guard, but no doubt he is still a formidable enemy” (Lancer)

“That’s how it is. Then, let’s do this!” (Sofia)

Sofia unsheathes the sword at her waist.

This is a different sword from the one she used to fight Makoto with.

The tinge and material properties of the sword blade share the same traits, but the great sword has been changed for a one handed sword, and a thin one at that.

Of course, Sofia was holding the sword with both hands.

Those eyes already seized the figure of the hero and his party that were flying around the battlefield faraway on their dragon.

“Good grief” (Lancer)

The superior dragon in the appearance of a boy, Lancer, cracks his fingers.

As if acting in concert to his nonchalant gesture, several shining swords appear in the sky.

It also appeared at the hero’s surroundings, and the movements of the flying dragon grow duller.

Even if it was far away, for Sofia, this is practically the same as saying there’s no distance at all.

A ferocious smile appears on Sofia’s face.

Lifting Lancer with her free hand, the two of them disappear.

“Ara, that kid noticed me” (Sofia)

“… He probably has a tool to search for enemies. I have heard that there’s ancient tools with outstanding perception power. More importantly, this one is still your partner even if provisionally, you know? Stop carrying me as if you were pinching a cat” (Lancer)

Slightly at the front of the flying dragon, the Dragon Slayer combi that appeared above ground were surprised that the Empire’s hero noticed their presence.

It may be sparse, but it is still a place where battle is unfolding.

To notice someone that has suddenly appeared in an instant, isn’t something ordinary.

The two that were able to perceive the hero’s state were also abnormal, but those girls didn’t seem to mind it.

The number of swords surrounding the flying dragon increased in a second.

It goes without saying, it is to confine them.

The confusion of the Empire’s hero, Iwahashi Tomoki, and his party; Sofia didn’t let it slip by.

With a spell that they couldn’t tell just how strong it was or who placed it, their mobility was killed temporarily.

*Ton*

“Good evening, Empire’s hero-sama” (Sofia)

“?! Who are you?!”

Sofia drops onto the back of the flying dragon.

Her movement was done by changing her position with a light sword, but for Tomoki who doesn’t know that power of hers, he could only see her as someone suddenly falling from the sky.

Tomoki is equipped throughout his whole body and, leaving aside his own moving ability, his appearance was one that left no doubts for his high defensive power.

“Sofia. Dragon Slayer Sofia. Have you not heard of me?” (Sofia)

“Dragon Slayer… Dragon Slayer you say?! That Sofia?!” (Tomoki)

“I am happy. For the hero-sama to know my name. You are the Empire’s hero, Iwahashi Tomoki, right?” (Sofia)

“Y-Yeah. What do you need so suddenly? Did you hear about the danger the Empire is facing and came to help me?” (Tomoki)

“This degree cannot be called danger for the Empire, right?” (Sofia)

After Sofia laughed away the words of Tomoki, she returns with a question herself.

“Well, even if Lily is not here, I am. This degree of attack from the demon race won’t defeat us” (Tomoki)

“How valliant. It seems I can expect something from this, maybe” (Sofia)

“But then, just why did you come to the Empire? I have heard that you wander here and there, and even if someone thinks about meeting you, they can’t find you” (Tomoki)

The name of Dragon Slayer Sofia is well known, but since she doesn’t show her face in the guild much, there were many times where people that want to meet Sofia, just can’t.

Not only that, she doesn’t cooperate much with the Guild’s calls, and there’s rumors saying that maybe her relationship with the Guild isn’t that good.

That’s why even the hero Tomoki hasn’t met her before.

A woman, and strong.

She fulfills these two requisites, so for Tomoki, it is a person he would like to meet once and ask for her cooperation.

Of course, that cooperation will be by using his charm powers, but since he possesses a method that makes them unable to betray him, there’s no reason to not use it.

“I was interested in you” (Sofia)

“In me? That… makes me happy. Then I invite you to the castle. Let’s talk plenty” (Tomoki)

“Fufu, I don’t care about your charm or anything like that. What I am interested in is…” (Sofia)

“Tomoki-sama!! Look out!!”

“Wa?!” (Tomoki)

The royal guard Ginebia, who was at the proximity of Tomoki, was paying attention to every action of Sofia, and places herself to the front of Tomoki.

A high-pitched sound of metal clashing reverberated on the back of the flying dragon.

“Quite the reaction there. Tomoki is a minus, but you knight lady, I give you a plus evaluation. That’s right, this scent. You have obtained the power of the dragon, right? The “Sand Wave Sazanami” huh” (Sofia)

“What are you playing here, Sofia? Pointing your sword at the hero Tomoki-sama. I don’t think you are a person that doesn’t understand the meaning of this action” (Ginebia)

Tomoki has his eyes wide open in surprise.

Aside from the two clashing their swords, Ginebia and Sofia, there’s also the dragon summoner, Mora; and the alchemist user Yukinatsu. Both of them had their body stiffened.

Because they have understood that the person that has appeared so close to them is an enemy.

“Of course I understand. Right, I forgot to mention this. Currently, I also have another title. Demon race vice-general Sofia Blue. Nice to meet you, hero-sama party” (Sofia)

“?!”

“Wa?!”

“A demon race!”

“Vice-general?!”

“I heard about hero-sama’s reputation of being strong at night, so I thought I would like you to dance one song with us. How about it? The moon is beautiful this night, you know?” (Sofia)

Sofia jokingly does one bow.

Even though she is in a situation where she is technically surrounded by enemies, she doesn’t show any signs of tension.

“… No matter who you are!!”

Tomoki increases the strength of his charm power.

There’s only few people that this power hasn’t worked on.

On top of that, maybe because he has gotten used to utilizing it, its power has steadily increased.

Not only that.

He has been secretly training it himself for the sake of it working against the Kingdom’s hero and the Priestess. Right now, he would be able to even bring down an unprepared demon race with a glance.

But…

“That’s not good, hero-sama. That doesn’t work on me. If you want to charm me, you have to be able to charm a Superior Dragon in an instant. But you know, hero-sama~, there’s a much simpler way” (Sofia)

“You… you know about the charm eyes?” (Tomoki)

“Such an outside tactic is useless. Hey, try winning against me. If you are able to do that, I will become yours. Even without those eyes, I will offer you my mind and body” (Sofia)

Turning the tables on Tomoki’s charm, Sofia emphasizes her breasts and thighs with a pose, and provokes him.

“Your level is still higher than mine, but I will teach you that a fight isn’t decided only by that!” (Tomoki)

“I am totally of the same opinion. Then first of all, this lizard is in the way” (Sofia)

At the same time as Sofia says this, her sword shines once again.

A scream leaks out from the flying dragon, Nagi, that was staying still in the sky.

“Nagi?! Y-Your wing! You, what have you done?!!” (Mora)

Mora’s words came fast. Nagi’s posture crumbles.

At that instance, the wing at the other side touched the light sword. A burning smell, and also another scream occurred.

The feet of Tomoki’s group was unstable, and yet, Sofia was firmly standing at the back of the dragon that was shaking violently as it drops.

“Well then, I will be waiting at the bottom. It is fine to come with your companions, and it is also fine to come alone. Just that, the moment you point a sword at me, no matter if you are a child, I won’t care. Come with the proper resolve” (Sofia)

Sofia jumps down from the back of Nagi which could only be seen as a suicidal action.

Confirming Lancer’s position with the light sword’s navigation line, she returns to her companion’s side.

“How was it? Was it a man worthy of being serious for?” (Lancer)

“There’s not even the need to use ‘that’. No matter how many come, no, it would be an opponent that would be easier if coming in groups. At that rate, I feel like he would be stronger alone” (Sofia)

“Hoh~ but I heard that he rarely fights alone though” (Lancer)

“That’s just my intuition. Also, that flying dragon, it was a bit good. If possible, I would want to make it mine” (Sofia)

“… It is better to have as much spoils as possible huh. Do as you wish. For a flying dragon, I think the “Crimson Light Akari” would be plenty enough though” (Lancer)

Lancer shows amazement at Sofia’s evaluation of the flying dragon.

At the same time, he mentions the name ‘Crimson Light’ which is a Superior Dragon just like himself, but because of his vagueness, the true meaning of those words were not understandable.

“That has other uses. Ara, they are here. The flying dragon is down huh. It would be troublesome to look for them later then” (Sofia)

While Sofia and Lancer were leisurely talking in the battlefield, Tomoki’s party showed themselves.

Nagi was nowhere to be seen.

‘It is probably resting at the landing point’ is the conclusion Sofia arrived at.

The place spoken of is in no way a safe place. It is in the middle of the battlefield after all.

Of course, the demon race won’t come attacking them.

But in the battlefield, there’s plenty of moments where your own allies make mistakes.

Hyumans and demons are desperate in defeating each other.

Sofia and Lancer were only talking together, but it wasn’t as if they weren’t receiving attacks from any side.

The attacks that were raining down and the attacks that were done by soldiers that have lost their mind, were all dealt with by freely controlling the several abundant light swords of Lancer.

In the midst of that spray of blood, those two were talking worry-free.

“No cares if it’s hyumans or demons? You guys are crazy”

“Ara, they are attacking us after all. That’s why I am just properly responding them. Well then, let’s begin. If you lose, the Kingdom and the Empire will be in a big pinch. Do your best, okay?” (Sofia)

“I am a hero that holds the divine protection of the Goddess. Don’t underestimate me just because you are a Dragon Slayer!” (Tomoki)

“Yeah, I won’t be sealing it. Let me test it, my current power!!” (Sofia)

Sofia approaches with sword in hand at the place Tomoki and Ginebia are preparing themselves in.

That assasin’s blade seizes the hero and the royal guard.

“?”

“You fell for it! Earth Doll’s restrain, Mad Rail!”

With a puzzled face, Sofia looks at the two that were cut down the moment they readied their stance.

As if answering her questions, a voice resounds from afar.

It was the voice of Yukinatsu who is adept in the use of Golems.

The figures of Tomoki, Ginebia, and also the other two that remain, crumbled, and then it coiled around Sofia as if they were tentacles.

“… Heh~ I couldn’t tell the difference. What an impressive spell” (Sofia)

“The consciousness is being sent directly from the person itself. Quite elaborate, right? Let me tell you something, it won’t be good to try getting out of it!” (Yukinatsu)

“Really? Is it made of a strong material or something–?!” (Sofia)

“I was just making noise until it finished transmuting, but it looks like it wasn’t needed” (Yukinatsu)

“It turned hard. Well thought out” (Sofia)

Sofia who confirms that the restrain changed into a black shining mineral, praises Yukinatsu.

“Is that composure? Or could it be, self-conceit? I wonder how long you can protect yourself from concentrated fire in that restraint state. Show her! Tomoki-sama!” (Yukinatsu)

“Well done, Yukinatsu! Ginebia, just in case, maintain defensive stance; Mora, match me. Let’s give some presents to Sofia! At a level that won’t kill her, okay?” (Tomoki)

“How dare you do that to Nagi! Unforgivable!” (Mora)

“It’s okay to not hold back. Come at me full force. That ojo-chan over there as well. You might not be able to meet that flying dragon ever again, so come at me with the intent to kill” (Sofia)

At Tomoki’s orders, the angered Mora shouts for her injured partner.

However, while completely restraint, Sofia, instead of saying hold back, provoked them to not hold back.

“… This woman is getting ahead of herself. In that case, I will do as you wish!” (Tomoki)

“Die!!!” (Mora)

The five types of weapons Tomoki possesses all activate at once.

Strong armaments that don’t depend on the divine protection of the Goddess, weapons that he himself possesses and were suited for him.

Dagger Gladius, Spear Artemis, Thin Sword Rapier, and the Small Arm Hand-Gun.

These are the weapons he currently possesses in his general firepower.

Right now he is treating the God-spear he considered a companion in his fight in Stella Fort, as a sub.

The strongest line-up for firepower.

In his left hand, a gun; at his right hand, the God-spear; the other three weapons were floating in mid-air and were around Tomoki.

This is the reason why he uses these three weapons.

Those three are weapons that can show their highest firepower even without being in one’s hands.

They possess powerful might, and they are able to endow elements in its attacks.

The gun in his hand is something that the Empire is strictly safekeeping in a certain town.

It possesses the light element and was given to Tomoki by the princess.

From its shape, Princess Lily thought that it would be useful for her development in guns, but this magic gun that is specialized in shooting magic power, was not that much useful when developing small arms that use gunpowder.

Because its inner structure couldn’t serve as reference.

Its outside shape was similar, but she judged that it was something different.

But well, as a powerful sacred treasure in the hands of the hero, it was fulfilling its role plenty well.

The five attacks Tomoki fired and the two attacks Mora released, rained onto Sofia.

A thunderous sound and an explosion.

If it were released onto troops, its firepower would easily kill at least a hundred.

Thinking about the after-effects in the military formation and the damage, it can be said that this is quite the strong attack.

And this attack was received at close range, concentrated in a single point.

If Ginebia’s defense wall wasn’t protecting Tomoki’s party, it might have injured them as well.

Even within the Superior Dragon’s, ‘Sand Wave’ is considered as having high defensive power, and it was because it was Ginebia herself who was given this power that made it possible to mitigate this attack.

“Heh… If she is alive, I wouldn’t mind adding her as one of my women” (Tomoki)

“Onii-chan! It is the woman that left Nagi in that state you know?! I am against it!” (Mora)

“Tomoki-sama, I am also against that idea. I felt like that person holds a dangerous ideology” (Ginebia)

“Even if you want to add her, it would be better to consult Lily-sama first” (Yukinatsu)

At Tomoki’s victorious words, his companions unanimously object.

Just Yukinatsu showed an ‘on hold’ mood, but her expression was unpleased.

“Oioi, you guys. Why are you being so carefree? You are fighting against Sofia, you know? Pile up more attacks and shower her” (Lancer)

The boy shows a behavior not fitting his appearance and reproaches the hero’s party.

His voice came from a place where their vision didn’t reach, at a faraway location.

The boy was at the back of Sofia a few moments ago.

Of course, he must have received a direct hit along with Sofia, or somewhere close to it.

There’s no way he would be okay.

At the very least, he wouldn’t be without injuries.

Tomoki looked at the cleared up place with eyes filled of disbelief.

Without obeying the words of ‘Continue piling up attacks’.

“Oioi”

“No way”

“Impossible”

“It was certainly a direct hit”

From each mouth came out a denial of reality.

“That was impressive. See? The restraining magic from just now was destroyed into pieces” (Sofia)

Sofia was standing.

“Also, even when you mixed that many elements, the firepower didn’t mutually intrude each other. What an artistic attack. Your coordination with that ojo-chan was also perfect. I was making fun of your charm, but it seems you are able to perform quite the good coordination” (Sofia)

While cracking her shoulders, she swings her sword.

As if doing warm-up exercises.

“But well, it wasn’t to the level that it would create a lake. I already have experience in that kind of out-of-norm attack. And we both were able to defend perfectly against it” (Sofia)

Sofia was showing those ferocious eyes she showed on the back of the flying dragon for a second.

The movements of the woman that looked as if she were doing stretches, were calm, and she slowly raised her right arm.

The thin sword points at Tomoki.

A smile steadily spreads at her whole face.

Conversely, Tomoki’s face showed slight agitation.

“I ended up reminiscing a bit. I was thinking about caressing you with about 5% of my power, but if you are able to do this much, I think it would be fine to increase it a bit, right?!” (Sofia)

Sofia’s figure disappears.

No, it didn’t disappear.

And as such, Ginebia showed a response.

It is just that an ordinary person wouldn’t be able to follow her moves.

As the strongest shield that protects Tomoki, she fulfilled that role.

“Now, Tomoki! Show me the power of a hero! Don’t finish with just a warm-up!” (Sofia)

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“Well then, I have cleaned up the surroundings. Sofia is… fumu, done huh”

Lancer looks at the surroundings and nods. He confirms the state of Sofia who was rampaging at his front.

It was silent.

There’s already no one there.

It was the deed of Lancer.

At the back of Sofia who had begun seriously fighting the hero, he was killing everyone that entered his line of sight.

Reduce the amount of witnesses, is also one of the reasons he had, but it was mostly because he wanted to confirm his own power.

Being almost killed by Sofia once, his own power was quite weakened.

Even at the time when he was fighting the Devil, with Makoto, he was only able to use about half of his power.

After facing a painful experience because of him, for about half a year, Lancer was finally able to completely recover his power as a Superior Dragon.

‘It has finally returned to this point’, is what Lancer thought as he nods satisfied.

“Sofia! What are you going to do with them? If you kill the hero, you would be able to get the Demon Lord to owe you. I think it would be good to do it” (Lancer)

He talks to Sofia.

Right now she was looking at the 4 defeated ones.

Miraculously, no one was dead.

No, there’s no way something so convenient has occurred.

It is just that Sofia didn’t kill anyone.

“… That means not everyone is as out-of-norm like that guy huh. Lighting up my fire in such a half-baked manner. Hey, you are a hero right?! You have more cards to play right?! Stand up! Fight!” (Sofia)

“Yareyare, he can’t hear you anymore huh” (Lancer)

Without holding back, Sofia slices at Tomoki who can’t even react properly and can only moan.

Without caring that Tomoki was already prostrated on the ground.

His abdomen, chest, arm, leg, neck, head; each time he was cut, he convulses, but there was no other reaction from him bigger than that.

It regenerated immediately and returned to its beautiful state, but it wasn’t a sight to behold.

The Royal Guard Ginebia who is normally the one that should be protecting him, has received a fatal injury and is lying at a place faraway from him.

If there was a miracle or whatever, she would have immediately gone to help Tomoki, but the convulsing self that didn’t care if she is conscious or not, made it harsh for her.

Her wide open eyes had blood flowing out, but she wasn’t blinking.

While her whole body had few wounds, the hole that’s opened at her side was overflowing with blood.

She was in a dangerous state.

Mora and Yukinatsu were in a similar state, no, since they have low defensive power, those girls were in an even more precarious state.

Mora had both her legs severed from her knees, her right hand was chopped into pieces, and was in a crouching position as if doing a dogeza. Yukinatsu was crucified on the ground, her limbs were pierced by light swords and her whole body didn’t show a single movement.

The three of them were still breathing.

Considering the number and ability of healers in the Empire, their wounds were severe, but they were still saveable.

That is, if they are able to escape from this situation.

It’s quite the low chance.

Tomoki, knowing this or maybe not, he screamed several times before shouting and standing.

This is an astonishing action that can be done by Tomoki exactly because of his regeneration abilities limited at night.

Sofia didn’t pursuit and was motionlessly staring at Tomoki who is standing and moving his shoulders up and down.

His expression was filled with exhaustion.

Can’t be helped.

The night provides him with a body that won’t lose; it provides immortality.

But even if that’s the case, it doesn’t mean he won’t get stressed when cut.

It will be carved in his body, so there’s no way it won’t burden him.

The silver boots, that were bestowed by the Goddess, eliminated his exhaustion, but it won’t remove the burden in his heart.

Even Tomoki who doesn’t feel pain anymore, being sliced infinite amount of times by Sofia was something his mind couldn’t take.

A merciless instantaneous regeneration that anyone who sees it would think that it would be better to just die.

Even if his sense of pain is gone, if he were able to maintain a normal state of mind in this situation, he wouldn’t be an ordinary person.

If Tomoki is still sane, his heart would clearly make a change and would have obtained an abnormal level of tenacity.

“Ara, I’m glad. Do you still have something? Hey, Tomoki-kun?” (Sofia)

“You… monstrous lunatic. Against an unmoving opponent, you sliced again and again!” (Tomoki)

A voice that one can feel exhaustion from.

But the will in his eyes was not that different from the time he was on the back of Nagi.

Looking at the glaring Tomoki, Sofia was internally in admiration and opens her mouth.

“It’s because I thought you couldn’t move anymore. Different from those girls there, you were still able to move but were trying to let it pass by not moving, right? ‘Don’t you have something more~?’ is what I thought. Ah and also, to call a woman monster, that’s discourteous, you know?” (Sofia)

“… Even though you are a hyuman, you went and allied with the demon race. I don’t want to hear that from someone like you!” (Tomoki)

Learning that his thoughts were seen through, Tomoki internally clicks his tongue.

If Lily were in a place where she can grasp the situation there, she might have used better moves and would have carried the situation to a more favorable one, is how he thought.

He soon shakes his head to the sides.

Because he thought that she wasn’t an enemy they can defeat in any way.

Because he judged that their current selves wouldn’t be able to defeat her.

That’s why he confirmed the other three were still breathing and intended to let it pass by playing dead.

But Sofia persistently tormented Tomoki.

Knowing that the limit of those three was closing, Tomoki got impatient.

He held an item that let him know the current state of their party members.

That’s why he was waiting until now.

That’s right. Tomoki had a grasp of the state of his three companions.

They were still okay, but as long as their enemy doesn’t give up, the limit will reach in time.

And that critical point was now.

“Tomoki-kun, show me. The power of heroes. You are not in checkmate yet, right? Your eyes are not dead” (Sofia)

“Don’t mess around!!” (Tomoki)

Tomoki shouted abusive language.

Just like how Sofia said, he still had a trump card.

He has one, but it is something he can’t use right now.

That dilemma was making him hesitate even more.

Without preparing a weapon, or setting up a spell…

“Damn it… damn it, damn it!!” (Tomoki)

“… Hmph~ is there some sort of prerequisite? Ah, those girls being here are your shackles, right?” (Sofia)

At the abusive language Tomoki was repeating for unknown reasons, Sofia seems to have comprehended something and nodded.

She was sure her intuition was not wrong and does an inner laugh.

“What… did you say?” (Tomoki)

As if seen through, Tomoki gets surprised.

“It’s fine. So, should I kill those girls first? Or do you want to try saying: “Please save me”?” (Sofia)

Sofia laughs with amusement.

Lancer, who at some point had gotten close to her, sighs at the bad habit of Sofia.

“…  If they die… I won’t show you my trump card even if it kills me. You want to see it right? In that case, bring my companions back to the Empire first. You guys should be able to do that” (Tomoki)

“You are half correct. Right, it would be troublesome if you don’t show it to me. It’s sad that I didn’t hear a ‘Please save me’ but, can I ask you to do it?” (Sofia)

Sofia looks at Lancer.

“… Fine. It’s okay to just bring those close to death fools to the Empire, right?” (Lancer)

“In front of the castle” (Tomoki)

“So many requests. Is being shameless one of the powers of a hero?” (Lancer)

“Say whatever you want” (Tomoki)

When Lancer shows a smile filled with contempt at Tomoki’s maddened eyes, he disappears along with the three severely injured to the Empire, and to the castle gate to top it off.

“I have kept my promise. Now then, show it to me. The seriousness of the Goddess’ divine protection!” (Sofia)

“How regrettable” (Tomoki)

“… What?” (Sofia)

The peaceful voice of Tomoki made Sofia show a stern face for a second.

“What I am going to show you now is not the divine protection of the Goddess. It is a super rare power that only a few who have gone around the world and fulfilled the requirements, are able to use. Even Hibiki can’t use it” (Tomoki)

Tomoki returns the contempt Lancer threw at him, right back at Sofia.

“Hibiki… the Kingdom’s hero huh. Hmph~ I heard the heroes came from a parallel world, but within them there’s rank divisions. That’s surprising. But if it’s that, I don’t really mind. Go on!” (Sofia)

“… It’s fine, taste it. The humiliating light that burned my country in the past. I will reproduce it in this world! This was your own doing so, prepare yourself!” (Tomoki)

“How exaggerated. Are the otherworldlers devils, or are the devils from other worlds? If you are going to confirm it, I don’t really care” (Sofia)

Tomoki pushes both arms to the front.

Connecting an aria that she has never heard before, Sofia was looking at him.

But she had her sword prepared. She already deployed her strongest defense and was waiting for Tomoki’s attack.

In time, a light is born in front of the hands of Tomoki.

It shines dazzlingly, a light so strong that one can’t see it directly.

The expression of Sofia dyes in joy.

Because she is sure she would be able to endure ‘that attack’ that was almost able to kill her in the past.

Tomoki shouts what seems to be the name of the spell.

At that moment…

The ball explodes with them as the centre. Ripping up the night, a dome of light was born.

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In a place slightly further away from the Empire, a giant crater was created.

Moreover, outside the diameter of the blast, a gruesome scenery of destruction was spread out.

It didn’t reach till the Empire.

Tomoki’s attack had created a scar a lot worse than the one attack Makoto did when he created a lake.

What was slightly different was the cast and the conclusion.

At the centre of the explosion, there’s one person who had lost consciousness and fallen to the ground.

And then…

The other one had its sword back at its sheath, and standing with blue light enveloping its body.

“Quite the brutal trump card he had” (Lancer)

“Mitsurugi. Yeah, it was more fiendish than the arrow of the devil at that time. If we received this attack at that time, I would have been dead” (Sofia)

“Hoh~ to make you say all this, as expected of a hero huh” (Lancer)

“Hero… no, I wonder about that. It might have been Tomoki-kun’s own willpower” (Sofia)

“Tomoki-kun, you say. You are completely friendly now. Did you get charmed as well?” (Lancer)

“No way. This spell… well, not sure if it’s actually a spell but, it had quite the powerful fire element” (Sofia)

“Fire huh” (Lancer)

“And it’s a strenuous skill that shaves off some of the life of its user. But you know, the scary part is not that” (Sofia)

“What then?” (Lancer)

“Counting you, everyone that received the attack, the people that luckily survived, and also the people that luckily weren’t around the scope as well; they have been endowed with a special poison or curse” (Sofia)

“?!”

“Fufufu, a power that can’t be scolded. Maybe it is easier to call it a poisonous fire? Come here, I will cure you” (Sofia)

“I have also been endowed with it huh. Sorry, I am counting on you” (Lancer)

When Lancer finds Sofia at the center of the crater, he glances at the fallen hero and begins to talk with Sofia.

And then, after listening to the trump card of Tomoki from Sofia, he headed to where Sofia is while in shock.

An invisible poison, this curse isn’t something that Lancer knew about, but if Sofia says so, it should be believed, is what Lancer thought.

He obediently gets bathed by the blue light.

“Hm, so long. Was it so strong?” (Lancer)

“Yeah. I still haven’t completely removed mine either. When I checked my body just in case, I was already afflicted by it. He really got me there” (Sofia)

“By the looks, I can’t really tell though…” (Lancer)

“But it certainly eats into your life. It distorts the foundations of your body and alters it. A fiendish type. Without caring about allies or enemies. It seems he himself is excluded from this, but it is quite the lovely power. I think he said something like ‘Nuke’” (Sofia)

“No matter if ally or enemy huh. Certainly that’s to your taste huh, that so called ‘Nuke’ spell. And then, Tomoki, it was him huh. Having the flying dragon killed, I thought your mood would be bad, but it seems there was no need to worry about it” (Lancer)

“Flying dragon huh. It is regrettable, but I was able to see something nice so it is fine. Well then, connect the thought transmission that was cut off. Ah, Mitsurugi. Don’t touch the hero-sama that is lying there, okay? That boy seems to be interesting, so I won’t kill him yet” (Sofia)

“Not yet huh. Well, with that composure of yours, it doesn’t seem like it will become an hindrance in the future. This one doesn’t mind” (Lancer)

Sofia stretches widely at the centre of the explosion and closed her eyes as if feeling good.

(Rona, do you hear me?) (Sofia)

(I felt tremendous magic power! The thought transmission got cut off, so there’s no contact from the units. Just what is going on?!) (Rona)

While laughing at the demon general Rona that responded immediately at the thought transmission of Sofia, she explains the situation to Rona.

Of course, halfheartedly.

(I was fighting Tomoki-kun and he used his trump card you see~. Ah, looks like his regeneration ability at night was true. If I had to correct anything, it would be that he is close to immortal. And so, that tremendous magic power was from his attack. He really got me there~. I wasn’t in a position where I could mind the other units you see) (Sofia)

(Trump card?! What was it?) (Rona)

(It seemed to be a quite vast scope fire element magic. It had a wide area and high power. The range and power were standing at the same height, so it was difficult to deal with) (Sofia)

(A spell’s standard notion doesn’t matter to heroes. How irrational. And so, what happened to the hero? Did you finish him?) (Rona)

Rona asks the hero’s state to Sofia.

Sofia lowers her gaze and looks at Tomoki who is still unconscious.

His chest was systematically going up and down. It can be seen that his life is safe.

(It’s regrettable but, he escaped. Sorry) (Sofia)

(… I see. If you even brought out his trump card, it is enough. Good work) (Rona)

(About the details of the scope, you can just check the crater later. The outside has also received quite the damage, so you can probably estimate the effective range to a certain extent) (Sofia)

(Thanks. I will soon send subordinates there. Can you two return to Stella once?) (Rona)

(Yeah. We are quite tired. Can you please let us rest—) (Sofia)

(Sofia?) (Rona)

The thought transmission of Sofia suddenly stops.

It wasn’t jamming.

It felt like she just lost her words.

Thinking that it was strange, Rona calls Sofia, but there was no response.

“Mitsurugi, you saw that, right?” (Sofia)

(Mitsurugi, you saw that, right?) (Sofia)

After a while, Sofia’s thought transmission and words overlap.

Normally, she would have cut off the thought transmission before saying anything.

It was a rare mistake for someone like her.

Rona was about to respond to her voice, but refrained from doing so.

Because she noticed that she began talking while forgetting to cut off the thought transmission.

Concealing her breath, she waits for the next words of Sofia.

“Yeah, I saw it. Certainly… it’s that fellow” (Lancer)

Lancer looks at the same direction Sofia is looking at and mutters.

It wasn’t exactly the same as last time, but a moment ago, a light pillar shone and descended to Limia.

A bitter memory is recalled in both of their minds.

“Yeah, no doubt. If it’s in this current situation, it is definitely in the Limia capital. Your powers have already returned, so you should be able to fly right, Mitsurugi?” (Sofia)

(Yeah, no doubt. If it’s in this current situation, it is definitely in the Limia capital. Your powers have already returned, so you should be able to fly right, Mitsurugi?) (Sofia)

“Yeah, if it’s to Limia, it won’t even take 30 minutes. But it appeared again at the crisis of hyumans huh. As expected, he is actually the protector of hyumans?” (Lancer)

“Well, who knows. But… we will kill him, this is our longstanding desire. Isn’t this an unparalleled chance?” (Sofia)

(Well, who knows. But… we will kill him, this is our longstanding desire. Isn’t this an unparalleled chance?) (Sofia)

Just what are they talking about?

Rona still couldn’t understand the particulars.

The only thing she understood is that an uncalculated factor has occurred at the Limia capital.

“That’s right. Sofia, let’s go. We are bringing him down” (Lancer)

“Just you wait, Devil. Right now I am coming to eliminate you, to kill you” (Sofia)

(Just you wait, Devil. Right now I am coming to eliminate you, to kill you) (Sofia)

Rona was close to lifting her voice, but desperately held it back. She silently cut off the thought transmission.

What a dilemma.

To think that the greatest insecure factor would not appear in Rotsgard or the Empire, but in the Kingdom’s capital where they want to succeed the most.

There’s still no reports from the capital yet.

The thought transmission has already been restored.

The detailed information should soon be relayed.

Rona bites somethinh while waiting for that moment.

“If even those two monsters are going to fight the Devil, Hibiki should die without doubt. Also, I should soon be receiving contact from Io’s unit, that’s why…” (Rona)

Even if Io is weak at thought transmission, it doesn’t mean that no one in his unit can use it.

After not much lag of a time, she should be able to understand the situation at the capital.

(Rona-sama)

It’s here.

With the highest concentration she has had as of today, Rona receives the transmission.

(Report) (Rona)

(Yes!! We are currently at the capital. The strategy of bringing down the hero is in progress. The battle between Io-sama and Hibiki has begun. Confirmed that we are in the advantage)

(…)

A good report.

If they are already in battle, Io won’t make mistakes, is what Rona thought.

She silently listens to the continuation of the report.

(While our losses are big, we are also fighting against the forces of the capital. But…)

The words of the subordinate stagnate.

(Continue) (Rona)

(Yes. We have confirmed a mysterious light piercing the royal castle. Based on the report of a close-aide of Io-sama, an intruder appeared after arriving from a golden light or a ball of darkness!)

(The numbers? Name? Is the standing indicated?) (Rona)

(A Lich with extraordinary magic power and a pure white humanoid being; two people. Anything else is completely unknown, is what the report said)

(A humanoid being? Not a hyuman?) (Rona)

Hearing the word Lich, she had a connection in mind, but more importantly, Rona was irritated by the vague report of a humanoid being.

If the words of Sofia were true, that is the Devil. The chances of it being the insecure factor is incredibly high, so it couldn’t helped.

(We don’t know. It would be good if we were able to assist as well, but the opposition is intense and we can’t break the balance)

(Kuh. Okay, good work. Please continue by supporting general Io) (Rona)

(Yes. I will be fulfilling my task with my life on the line!)

The thought transmission ends.

A Lich and a white humanoid being.

Is it the Devil or another person, no, more importantly, is it an enemy or an ally?

Rona stands up.

A face that says this is not the time to be fortifying Stella.

Giving orders to the small remaining troops, they finished the attack to the Empire. Rona, who was going to wait and see how the events at Io’s side would turn out, repeatedly teleports, the destination was the Kingdom’s capital.

This is not the time to be worrying about the fatigue of another rally.

For her, no, for the demon race, this is an incredibly important strategy.

Its failure and success are hanging on the line.

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0 thoughts on “Chapter 153: Participation of the Devil ②

    1. “Such an outside tactic is useless. Hey, try winning against me. If you are able to do that, I will become yours. Even without those eyes, I will offer you my mind and body” (Sofia)

      If she said that wouldn’t it mean that she would fall in love with Makoto if he would be able to defeat her this time? Signs are already shown that she was obsessed with Makoto

      1. She sound obsessed with power and fight
        “Tomoki-sama, I am also against that idea. I felt like that person holds a dangerous ideology” (Ginebia)

        In other words she will betray his former if she found someone more stronger after. I doubt Makoto wants to acept her even if he wins against her for this reason.

      2. she’s just like Mio but with a battle freak on her vocabulary compared to Mio. I wished they confront each other to see who’s the most perverted of all. You cant see how perverted Mio is, now that she is happily doing her hobbies now.

    2. “From its shape, Princess Lily thought that it would be useful for her development in guns, but this magic gun that is specialized in shooting magic power, was not that much useful when developing small arms that use gunpowder.”

      Imagine Makoto using this…. no…. what if Makoto confiscate this then Tomoe and Mio being interested on such a weapon similar to Makoto’s world insisted to study it then develop a weapon much powerful than the former…. IT WOULD BECOME THE GOD-SLAYING BEAM GUN!! IF MAKOTO USE IT OFCOURSE!!

  1. Damn it, I came here before reading and even so, I didn’t arrive between the five firsts. Oh well, I’ll go read the chapter now.

    1. I was in such a hurry that I didn’t logged in (〜 ̄▽ ̄)〜. Thanks for the chapter Reigo-sama! Can I give it a try to translate the side chapter? If no one wants to, that is. English is not my main language, so I think I would need someone to edit it a bit if I do.

    1. well if “Bug” keep her end of her deal and makoto do’s not go to war agents the humans then they will never see each other but she can use lope holds to teleport him veva “other god’s”.

  2. …Does he even understand how nukes work!? What an idiot. Well, but it’s also shocking that Sofia can, one, survive it, and two, cure radiation poisoning.

    Also, I do believe that Rona is about to learn an important lesson about dealing in good faith… 😛

    Thanks for the chapter! 😀

    1. You know, I’m actually kind of curious. If you nuked Tomoki, would he survive under a full moon? What if someone blasted enough magic at him to vaporize every molecule of his being?

      1. With simple healing factor based regeneration … unlikely … with Time Reversal/Event Negation effect … yes (even with attacks that involve subatomic destruction … possibly also allows to – to a certain degree – recover from attacks that destroy the soul or target one’s existence), most likely. With conceptual effects like Existence Preservation effects and/or Existence Restoration effects … most certainly. Doesn’t necessarily mean that his healing factor is going to save him from nasty stuff like curses, transmutation (into trees, to stone, ecetera) or toxic susbstances, though.

    2. I knew that she wont die before her showdow with makoto but as you said it is impressive that she can detect and cure radiation poisoning…..that trashmoki showed more willpower than expected,….I wonder how he will fell when he finds out that sofia survived his “nuke” spell

      1. well giveing how she made makoto fear for his life “tho at the time was in a panic state of mind” so it will not be surprising if she strong enough to survive a nuke tho she did stated that it might of killed her if she did not had a lake making lev attack lunched at her…still she wants to go and fight makoto once more? boy she will be in for a shock just how different a “panicking makoto with nube lev magic control ” from a “not panicking makoto with some magic control training” will be.

    3. Well, tough he said nucke, It’s obvious that the power of the spell is faaaar lower that the real thing. So the fact that she survived isn’t that surprising. But the fact that she can heal radiation poisoning is amusing.

      1. well she do’s not know about radiation all she knows that attack was a fire type with poison mix with it and she stated she cant get all of it…..i bet if you show her the long term effect of high radiation poisoning she try to heal all of it. (Symptoms are the following: Hair loss, Stomach upset, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, leucopenia, Red and itchy skin, oral mucositis, fatigue, weight loss, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, sweating, fever, headache with bleeding and complications affecting the digestive system, nervous system, heart, and lungs, Central nervous system diseases, Kidney, liver, or gastrointestinal problems, Poor growth in children, Skin conditions, Pericarditis, Lung infections or conditions, respiratory failure, Vision problems, including cataracts, Problems with the reproductive organs, Heart disease and many more) trust me it not something you want to see.

    4. Read a novel a couple of years ago where a nuke was used against creatures with regenerative capabilities (They were an army of angels actually). Those who managed to survive quickly wished they didn’t, regenerative capabilities plus radiation mutating your body was not a pretty sight to see.

        1. Salvation War. Not something for easily butt-hurt religious people. It was set a few years in an alternate 2008 version of our world after “The Message”, basically the judeo-christian god says the gates of heaven is closed and that all remaining humans on earth should lie down and die. Satan then starts sending demons to collect, but humans started fighting back. Their bronze age technology and weird powers versus human ingenuity and science. After a short and brutal war dubbed as the “Curbstomp War”, humans then turn their attention to the ones that closed the gates of heaven.

          The science was pretty spot-on, specially concerning the military stuff since the author was a consultant for them IIRC but the novel was cancelled because some religious nut-job leaked the books at torrent sites, killing any chance that any publisher would pick it up. Yeah…

    5. The moment he wakes up, he might actually already be afflicted with deadly radiation poisoning (or whatever that “hero(lol)” used to stimulate the effects), Which is why no one usually nukes any place close to ones country (to avoid bad … side effects) and especially avoides any place next to the one firing the attack in the first place.

    6. Yep, Tomoki really is an idiot through and through. He couldn’t even replicate a proper gun, so don’t expect me to believe in his knowledge in nukes also. Heck maybe his knowledge of this things came from games and movies alone.

    7. What really surprises me is not the fact that would achieve replicate the explosion, but also replicate the side effects of a nuclear explosion.

      Come on!! You’re using magic to activate the magic you must recite his magic equation (aria), so would not it be possible to extract the radiation factor from the equation? Or do not include it at all?

    8. It sounds like it wasn’t an actual nuke, but instead a spell mimicking the effects. I doubt Trashmoki has the intelligence to pull off an actual atomic explosion.

  3. Thanks for the chapter. There were two phrases repeated. Or do you mean for one of the names to change to Lance in both cases?

    “Well, who knows. But… we will kill him, this is our longstanding desire. Isn’t this an unparalleled chance?” (Sofia)
    “(Well, who knows. But… we will kill him, this is our longstanding desire. Isn’t this an unparalleled chance?) (Sofia)”

    and
    “Just you wait, Devil. Right now I am coming to eliminate you, to kill you” (Sofia)
    “(Just you wait, Devil. Right now I am coming to eliminate you, to kill you) (Sofia)”

  4. Get Rekt, Trashmoki!

    Ah, that felt good!

    Instant Regeneration is a bitch when your opponent is in another level, huh.

    Shame Sofia didn’t kill him. Brings to mind a cat playing with a mouse.

    So, Guess Makoto is the “Wild Card” in this war huh. Who he sides with will greatly tip the scales in their favor.

    (Assuming he sides with anyone at all)

    And I’m guessing why Mio was in such a frenzied state last chapter is because her wish got delayed(from winning the variant hunt against Shiki). So she’s taking out her frustration towards the demons.

    I pity them.

    Also, less than 100 warriors from Asora giving 2,000 demon soldiers a hard time.

    Seems Legit.

    1. While Mio does want her wish granted (probably Makoto’s v-card in all likelihood, which was promised to her by Tomoe when the contract was made with Makoto unconscious), she (and Tomoe, plus Asora residents) is in a “high” state because this is the first time she has been ordered by Makoto to fulfill a desire of his that he purely wants. It is his first “selfish” desire (seizing Kaleneon) that they have been asked to give to him, and since they care so deeply for him, they are pretty much on cloud 9 with being super happy and excited. This was elaborated when Tomoe and Mio were discussing what Makoto just asked of them, before they set out to do it with the Orcs and Lizards.

    2. well their force have high stats (thanks to the food that produce in Asora) and also their daily War-training and dont forget most of the Asorian are the race that live in the Wasteland of the world that make them have high durability.
      The Asorian also equip with the highest grade of weapons and armor of the Elder Dwarf so you also could said they fight using Quality against Quality.
      For General unit, they have 1 Superior Dragon and 1 Calamity Spider that can go rampage and destroy cities even without their help but their General also want to share the glory with them so no wonder their Morale also really high

    3. well i did stated this on the last chapter that just living in Asora will make you crazy strong for the air,water even the food that grows there are super charge with magic and are super nutritionist to the point ware if you plant a Asora apple seed any ware but Asora it will kill off the plant life around it by sucking up all of the nutrition and mana of the area as staded in a past chapter.

  5. Thanks for the chapter~!

    Well, nuclear radiation can be classified as a poison…

    And Makoto and Shiki in disguise eh? Neat. How long will Io last against Shiki I wonder…

  6. Waaaaaa…… I should have stack the chapters before reading I regret having to feel this cliffhanger T_T

    Thanks for the chapter Reigokai-san nice chapter

          1. If I’m not mistaken, Hibiki was the student council president and famous top beauty. I’m pretty sure Makoto knew about her.

            The problem lie within wether Hibiki knew about Makoto or not.

          2. Lol? I though she was the kendo club captain and top beauty. Well, hibiki might know about Makoto as there was a rumor of him being like cupid. And if she was the president, Makoto should also know her.

          3. Lol? I though she was the kendo club captain and top beauty. Well she might know about Makoto as there was a rumor of him being like cupid. And if she was the president, Makoto should also know about her.

      1. “shrug” hay we have to what and see when they meat tho she might have thought he’ll be super hansom do to how much mio is in love with him but she might of hurd how he look’s but i can say that she might ask of mio is with him when she meats him.

        1. Though I’m sure their meeting will not be soon, as I think Makoto will hide his name and appearence. But maybe we’ll find out with one of his monologes.

      2. I think that in her character’s presentation when she was summoned, the author said that in her whole life she didn’t care about anyone an had no “real” friend since anybody treated her as a princesse only for her appereance without minding her feelings…but she cared for only one person from a different club that she could think as a friend…also Tsukuyomi-sama said that Makoto knew one of the two heroes…but since Tomoshit was bullied at school and what I just said about Hibiki…I think Makoto and Hibiki knew each others

        1. Oh, I don’t remember if that was something mentioned in the earlier chapters too, and I forgot that it was said that Makoto knew one of them. But if that’s what the autor said the they might know each other, but it’s also provable that the one he knows is Tomoshit. I hope it is Hibiki though.

    1. We don’t actually know if Hibiki’s the hero that’s previously connected to Makoto. We assume it’s Hibiki because of the harem trappings and it probably is, but the author’s been pretty vague about the whole affair.

      Unless I’m missing something, there’s everything we know about the otherworlders’ relationships, pre-transportation:
      – Two people were taken along with Makoto, and one of them was an acquaintance of Makoto. (Prologue 3)
      – Makoto was headed for a love triangle between the intro girls, but there were others interested in him. (Tsuki POV)
      – Makoto was in the archery club. (Chapter 1)
      – Makoto was mostly known for being the “normal” guy in one of the most popular cliques in school, and he was respected by that clique. (Extra Chapter 1)
      – Hibiki was in the kendo club. (Chapter 30)
      – Hibiki was the school president. (Chapter 30)
      – Hibiki had no real friends. She thought a fellow student was interesting, but nothing beyond that. (Chapter 30)
      – Hibiki was extremely proficient in anything she attempted (Chapter 30), and had never been defeated. (Chapter 64)
      – Hibiki had enough cooking experience to identify ingredients in the wild. (Chapter 89)
      – Tomoki “came right out of a shoujo manga,” was a bit weak, and was bullied enough that he was skipping classes. (Chapter 31)
      – Hibiki and Tomoki did not know each other beforehand. (Chapter 68)

      Note that the only confirmed student of Makoto’s school was Makoto, so Tomoki could just as easily be the forgotten friend. More so when you consider how little the people in the extra chapters cared about a missing school president. While it could be explained as a relationship distance thing, since the characters involved were archery club people dealing with the loss of their vice captain, you’d think there would be at least one throwaway line about it. Personally, I’d think it’d make a better story, what with the whole dark reflection motif I keep trying to inject between Tomoki and Makoto. It could provide some good character development for both of them, to realize they started in a similar place but went in vastly different directions. It’d probably give Tomoki more of a personal grudge in their inevitable showdown. “You have no idea how hard I had it with the bullies! I finally escape them, only to have to fight for my life! You? You were never seriously bullied, and you followed me to this world to become a demigod? How dare you presume to judge me!”

      Paging Spoiler-san to disprove this post. Spoiler-san to the reply section.

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        1. Thanks! Be the way, can you take a look at my original story? It just that I see you, ohmariow, meat bun and dark jackel everywhere. And the three of them read it, and if you and your nepus aren’t there, I feel something’s missing (〜 ̄▽ ̄)〜.

  8. Thanks for this chapter,really good but i hope sometimes this demons have a nightmare on their own,to this moment they haved ever the initiative and the power and seems unstopable, especially Sofia with lancer…..please Makoto.give right retribution to all!!!!!

    1. Would it be fun if Shiki volunteer to fight them because he doesn’t want to be left behind by the 2 gaining reputation points towards Makoto.

      1. …..who? O wait, the demon general, I forgot……It won’t matter though since beating the ones who injured their waka have more points than defeating another general. They too would defeat one or two generals.

      2. it will be funny if Sofia with lancer will start sweetening bluets when thy see how much stronger Makoto had become and not in a panic with help from Shiki. i can see Sofia screaming “HAY THAT NOT FARE!!! YOU POWER UP AND HAVE HELP NOW!!! YOU CHEATER!!!” and a calm Makoto or Shiki reply “that rich coming from you two who keep on attacking some one who didn’t want to fight just to leave from the area whom after the bug…er goddess cursed and teleported to that battle field with the goal of kill him there so tell me how is that fare?”

    1. Uhh….yes? I’m actually rather impressed he managed to do that. It’s not something someone from who wasn’t from earth would be able to make.

      I doubt anyone else would be able to replicate it, and Tomoki doesn’t seem too trigger happy about it.

      ….actually, Sophia might be able to replicate it. Hyumanity-no, the world would be f*cked then.

      1. That’s the problem. Tomoki might not be trigger happy, but look at how easy it was for everyone and their mothers to get ahold of that shit in our world. It’s nearly impossible to keep that kind of thing secret, and Tomoki has never struck me as the type to keep a lid on things like this. Nobody in that world understands how atoms and nuclear fission works. They’ll steal the spell, and then release it as they please, without ever realizing what they’re doing. Add to that the demons are angry and looking to hurt the hyumans in any way possible, and hyumans have almost no sense of self control, the destruction will only spread faster.And the fact that Sofia of all people was the first one to see it makes it worse. Tomoki just, quite literally, opened Pandora’s Box in the worst way possible.

        1. I won’t deny that Tomoki might spread nuclear magic around like a dumbass, but I wonder if anyone can, A, have the magic power to use that kind of magic normally and B, know how radiation works enough to recreate the spell.

          Maybe some Wise at Lorel might know, but I assume most of THOSE people wouldn’t be dumb enough to make it a common thing.

          Basically, the way I see it, the people that are capable of it would most likely be unwilling to unless in dire circumstances. Assuming they aren’t shallow people that don’t think like Tomoki I guess.

      2. I doubt that they will replicate that, first because a big explosion is not sofia’s style so the only witness of the magic wont pay much attention to it, and second because they dont know how it works, remember that they think its just a poisonous big fire spell they don’t know anything about atoms

        1. 🤔…Perhaps. But that’s putting a lot of hope on those two things. I’m a firm believer that introducing an advanced alien technology to an obviously primitive world is a bad idea for a lot of reasons. If Tomoki truly doesn’t intend to release the secrets of nuclear physics to anyone, plans to take the secrets to use this spell to the grave, and only uses it to protect himself like this, then I wouldn’t like it, but I could live with it. But remember, he tells Lily everything. And we already know that she’s crazy enough to make replicating it a priority, and will use it if she can. Whether or not Sofia will try to use it, well, she and Lancer both said that it attacking enemies and allies indiscriminately appeals to her nature, so it’s up in the air whether or not she’ll try it.

      3. … I wonder if Tomoki has any idea how radiation (and nuclear fusion and nuclear fission as well as “nuclear weapons”) works in the first pla´ce or if his attack simply boils down to be a weak ripoff based on otaku knowledge (in that case, well … at least he figured that it might be helpful to give that attack a “curse” effect).

        It’s still too unusable if it actually lacks the range of strategic nukes (or at least tactical nukes) as immense heat (as well as the radiation involved in general) are quite difficult to deal with even if one actually manages to fend of the shockwave … even if they manage to find people capable of actually using it despite potentially huge MP drain and complexity requirments.

    2. So Tomoki brought over both of the inventions that ruined our world…or at least found a record of some “Wise” that made that spell before…

      On a lighter note, how dangerous would that magic handgun be if it had as a core one of Makoto’s rings?

    3. well leaving aside that he created it being just short area attack i cannot take it as an inhuman weapon. the problem and insanity of nukes its that 1 simple finger can destroy an insane ammount of areas and keep killing over time. since his one its short i think its more inhuman a poison myst spell than his nuke, since the nuke would oblitare instantly and if the change still alive there its poison but a simple poison mist kill sloooowly

      anyway i heard il be hating trashmoki more on this chapters from spoiler san but on contrary made it rate go up for me and sofia went down so bad. i just hope she hopeless loose againts makoto cuz if the author make a close fight against them makoto rating would be on ground again

    4. “What I am going to show you now is not the divine protection of the Goddess. It is a super rare power that only a few who have gone around the world and fulfilled the requirements, are able to use. Even Hibiki can’t use it”
      He could nt be more idiot and this for sure he look for knowing that his inmortality will save him even if that means a lot of people will die for the radioactive poison.
      Even hibiki will not use this for sure but what he says about gone around the world means he look for uranium maybe?

    5. Not insane, just immature and stupid. If he knew enough to recreate a nuclear explosion (fission), he should have used fusion instead at least or a neutron detonation. Even with his immortality at night radiation has a nasty way of hanging around for a while. Hell, even a focused Gamma ray (or maybe X ray) would have been better than a pony nuke attempt. This is what happens when you only pay attention to half of science class.

      Only bright side is that Sophia, Lancer, and Rona couldn’t possibly recreate that spell without having a basic knowledge of atomic theory.Then again, they don’t need it since they have regular magic + teleportation. That’s a combo that’s hard to beat unless your name happens to be Makoto.

      1. ….Can you explain the difference for me? ^^”

        Even though I have enough common sense to stay away from radiation magic, I don’t think I listened in science class enough get what you’re saying.

      2. @Psychronia …

        To sum it up in simple words … neutron & gamma are effective at penetrating stuff (including tanks and other stuff that’s usually used to protect against enemy attacks) to kill living things but doesn’t stay around that long (and doesn’t stick to dust, particles, obne’s clothes and skin, ecetera) or are otherwise rendered harmless without exerting excessive efforts … other types of radiation are more troublesome to deal with on the long term (even if they don’t necessarily kill one at first by quickly causing lethal cell damage, they might still end up with cancer and other healt issues that develope over time … as ´the radiation stays and accumulates in the body until removed naturally or by other means and, during that time, keeps wrecking havoc … Alpha and Beta radiation gets much more troublesome once it has been absorbed by the body as usually, their penetrative power isn’t so high that it reaches deep parts of the body or, in case of Alpha radiation, has trouble to even penetrate the skin) … fusion is considerable cleaner than some rough fission method, so less troublesome radiation to deal with when compared to the (much higher) firepower.

      3. ya but seeing that he gave them the knowledge of how to make modern weapons shows that he have ZERO understanding that was a vary bad move for not only do’s that destroy the rule of knowledge with progress *the understanding of the dangers of what you are making now how dangerous it will be down the line* but if the demons or any one that wants to hurt some one will try to steel it like say….. you made a unstoppable weapon but some one stole it how do you stop them?

  9. Two things. First off, thank you Reigo-senpai for the translation. Secondly, if possible could you help Spoiler-san find the new link to the raws when it’s availble? Spoiler-san has yet to read a few of them that were released in the past few months.

    Time for true comment. Spoiler-san said you would enjoy Trashmoki’s fate, and Spoiler-san is sure that he’s right. Anywho, Hibiki shows up next chapter, but Spoiler-san forgot if Makato shows up too or comes in the chapter after. But Spoiler-san can guarantee that this arc will do all but disappoint. Especially since no one can recognize Makoto due to a 90’s kids’ show reference. Trust Spoiler-san, this arc is the best to come for a while.

    1. wait 90s? white humane being? just please dont tell me he has a bike and a red mantle please?
      mm nvm maybe i am wrong the one i though i guess its from 80s or less

      1. Maybe… they are wearing those suits of different colors? I don’t remember the name lf the show, but there were five suits of red, yellow, blue, pink and black color… if it is that, I would prefer for them to have the bike an the red mantle please o(-`д´- 。).

      2. (A Lich with extraordinary magic power and a pure white humanoid being; two people. Anything else is completely unknown, is what the report said)
        Maybe makoto cover himself with great magic power.
        Check google tsukiga michibiku “Image” i think is that white fellow in the cover of the novel. 8.5
        I was waiting it will be a new servant it is a shame

    2. Makoto will shows-up as masked rider when Hibiki’s party on danger. It’s like sentai/tokusatsu which they will appear when the situation is on pinch. xD

      But well, I suspect it’ll be Sofia vs Makoto and Lancer vs Shiki later on.

    3. Ok guessing the reference of what the goddess change his look to. Just say if I am close.

      Doraemon, Dorami-chan, Power ranger, Kimba the white lion, Ultraman, Chibi Maruko-chan, Hello Kitty,

    4. You’re getting me hyped for the next chapters.

      damn, reading how trashmoki got trashed is satisfying, hopefully there will be a lot more scenes like that in the future. He fuckin nuke the whole place and now the area is highly contaminated with nuclear radiations.

  10. Wow. Tomoki kinda shone in this chapter. Where to begin…
    I’m not sure whether to be impressed with Tomoki or consider him even more trash for training his charm eyes. Since he’s working himself hard and putting in the effort for the cheat the Goddess gave him instead of just relying on it the whole time, I guess I’ll count it as a pass.

    His attacks were pretty badass though. First was a fake out with a setting like :”But it’s not on the level of creating a lake.” No lake, no dice with Sophia. And as there are often no lake-creating attacks, people are often without dice.

    But no, turns out Tomoki actually created(found? It sounds like an original magic which makes it even more impressive) nuclear magic, with fallout radiation poisoning and all. I am actually very impressed with him. He built it up appropriately as a trump card referencing the Hiroshima tragedy and he actually managed to deliver with firepower greater than Makoto’s “harassment” (there goes all our Makoto launching nuke jokes…).

    Actually, like Sophia said….aren’t his party members kinda holding him back? I was wondering what she meant at first but…

    1. what bothers me is that he just unleashed absurd amounts of radiation in the capital city of the empire. that city is dead…

      and nobody really cares that the flying dragon is dead now. he served well as a medieval airplane!

      1. How close were they to the capital city? I was under the impression it was a ways away. Not that the radiation isn’t going to f*ck the populace up in slightly less incinerative ways.

        The way Sophia described radiation was actually pretty spot on too. A poisonous fire that distorts your body from within.

        Is Naga actually dead? I thought the little dragon summoning loli could store them in little Pokeballs, and Sophia just assumed they left it behind. Even if not, it’s a shame, but I didn’t really know that dragon very well. I felt more sad at Ilumgand’s death than the trashy hero’s team mascot’s.

      2. Its a dead city alright, a city, specially a capital city cannot thrive when close to a wasteland, soon the poison, will spread to earth, and water and the zone near the blast will all but die…. hell, you could have radioactive winds with enough concentration, and thus be spread by hundread of miles. the most destructive aspect of this type of blast is the fallout effect, meaning the particles in suspension will all but spread the danger/radioactive zone.

        So it will not only kill any hope of future for the whole region, it will spread and poison to the life-blood of the city (water and food ), thus people will die by poisoning, and mutations might/will happen. It really not possible for a capital city to prosper in such circumstances, unless they can all but seal off the radiation zone, and if lancer could not detect the “poison”, i dont think people will notice till much later, until its too late, when its already spread.

        do you seriously think that tomoki will take preventive measures and endeavor to seal the area ?, warn people and make a move to contain the zone before its too late ?. Even if he did, they dont have a complete knowledge of radiation and advanced materials needed to create appropriate measures.

        In a more real-life world, this would be the end of the empire. The difference here is how will the magic affect the radiation, then, if sofia can heal it, i guess its possible to cleanse it, so i would guess the damage will vary on when or where they realize the danger and whatever they have the means. In the end, makoto will have to appear and do damage control since i doubt he can ignore it.

    2. You are right that he showed some guts in this fight. I just wish this feeling that he just did something divinely stupid would go away so I can enjoy it.

      1. The feeling didn’t really disappear for me. What he did was undoubtedly stupid.

        But for reasons like, “We already confirmed Tomoki to be really stupid”, “Makoto has the power to fix it somehow if radiation gets out of check,”, and “It’s that Bug’s world anyway, so why should we have to worry about it as a whole?” helps me accept it.

      2. I can see Makoto giving Tomoki a punch in the face and yells at him after he discover what Tomoki use and over head you hear the goddess sounding like she will spit up blood from saying that Makoto is right. for crying out loud using a nuke around those you want to save? even a 3 grader knows that the most stupid thing to do.

    3. Honestly I can’t give To-moronic any credit in this chapter. I can respect the Lust-Driven self improvement a least,(want only what you can’t have and all that) but that’s about the only thing.
      I mean, some of his exploits should have been really awesome…..but they’re all thoroughly undermined.

      ->Why was he caught off guard by someone ignoring his mind-control when he’s seen it happen once before? I understand being surprised, but letting yourself be almost beheaded? On a battlefield no less?!
      ->Bringing your whole party, specifically the members trained to trade their life for yours, into a fight when you can’t even lose that life in the first place is super cruel.
      ->Somehow I missed/forgot that he had a Golem user in his party. Why in Waka’s name is the mage who makes extra soldiers on the front lines?
      ->In fact, as he’s essentially an unstoppable, immortal, man-shaped UFO raining destruction in his shadow, why is he dragging his party into danger at all?
      ->The Golem Trap was clever, but that was clearly more the Alchemist than him.
      ->The big Multi-laser combo sounded awesome, but that came from the weapons Lily provided him.
      ->Standing up after getting torn to pieces to save his party should have had me misty-eyed, but he had intentionally let them get torn up in the first place just to skip past a fight he couldn’t win, and only stood up because the rest couldn’t cling to deaths door for much longer.
      ->Finally, we come to the “Nuke”. I bet it was even a legitimate nuclear explosion too. Coming up with and making that work would require a Great and Terrible Cunning……unless of course you’re in a magical world and you’ve got an entire nations collection of researchers, resources, and magicians at your disposal. Oh, and a Co-pilot(Lilly again) who’s absolutely obsessed with developing powers that don’t require the Godess’. At that point you don’t really need more than a vague understanding of atomic weaponry to get a usable spell made.

      Of course, Captain Arrogance himself wouldn’t have even been on the battlefield at all if not for his freebie immortality. Which he’s apparently been so shamelessly abusing that his enemies have already caught on to it. Way to give away your trump card kiddo.

      Honestly, to me the only thing he seems to do is leech off everything around him.

      1. “shrug” he is a high school-er and well he have a title “HERO” witch can make some one head swell or makes them want to be as strong as posabel and to ruffaly quote from “konjiki no wordmaster” (you thought that every thing will be easy and you can do anything do to being hero’s? the world not that forgiven for that train of thought and not as black and wight as you hope it is) in short he maybe a hero but he probably want’s to do in a easy way by having strong party that can pull most of the weight off of him so he can “save the world” with as little hardship as posabel tho he still will try to get as strong as he can so he not on his ass all day.

  11. And now we have The Devil’s Hype. AW YEAH.

    Sophia and Lancer are reading to throw down and are headed there for Round 2.
    Rona is going to shit herself at Makoto’s intentional interference his time. She somewhat suspects Larva, but that just makes the impending destruction even better.
    Poor Stella Fort is passed over for reinforcements. Demon side is going to be blindsided by Asora in almost every possible way. Possibly actually being blinded too.

    Are the repeated dialogue lines in the end of the chapter meant to be Sophia’s transmission echo?

    1. About the repeated dialogue lines, think of it as leaving the mic on.

      Sophia talks to Lancer, the mic picks it up and transmits it to Rona. Rona can’t hear Lancer ’cause the thought transmission is between her and Sophia only.

  12. Makoto came to whoop some asses xD
    I somehow expected the report would end with
    “Oh my GoD! What`s happening!?” Rona heard the hysterical voice
    “What going on!?”(Rona)
    “A blue streak of ..of light just came out of nowhere and disintegrated Ios head like it was a water melon! Even more streaks are coming completly detroying hiM!? OH MY GOD! We are dying! We are dying like the fly-”
    Suddenly the thought transmission was cut off.

    1. They still haven’t realized that the lake was just a parting shot, just a bit of harassment while he leaves. They think, it sounds like, that it was an ultimate attack, or finisher.

      1. and don’t forget that attack was at when he have a newbie lev on control of his powers just think of the scope of the attack from him now with the knowledge of how to control his power’s beater and with the full atent to shot her….scary.

      2. technically, it was an ultime attack. he put everything he had to make the strongest attack he could, and ended up being strong enough to create a lake

  13. Gracias por la traduccion
    Woooooow por qué siempre en lo más intesante, no puedo esperar, siempre sacas capitulos cada 3 días?
    No puedo creer que ese … usó una explosión nuclear.
    A esperar el próximo con ansias…

  14. Is the Empire still alive after a getting a nuclear blast in close range? And I bet Makoto and Shiki is in the curse of censorship lol white lights

    1. I don’t think ot was as powerfull as the real thing. I dont think the radiation reashes the casttle, sinse he specifically asked for his companions (sex slaves) to be send there.

      1. I don’t think that Highschool Students are able to do complex assesments of how big nuclear fallout is actually ending up at if even modern supercomputers managed by actual scientists have quite a bit of trouble in that regard … correctly estimating the actual scale of the radiation as well as how far the shockwave and heat goes without at least either excessive testing (which someone should’ve noticed) or complex simulations (which, again, I don’t think highschool students are capable of) isn’t exactly going to be easy, either.

        So most likely, Tomoki had no idea of what he was actually doing.

        1. I think so too, I couldn’t have said it better. There’s no way he could create an actual nuclear magic. He probably came up with something somewhat or barely similar based on what he could have hear or watched in TV, and named it nuccke.

      2. I agree with Schattenbach here, there is no way a kid such a tomoki has a chance of understanding or calculating anything.

        Also, I dont think there is any risk of nuclear technology or knowledge to the be transmitted, its a spell thus, spells do not rely on physics, at least not on traditional physics only, however, they can be used to create a physics phenomenon such as magnetism or gravity, as such, many wizards and most people within fantasy worlds can cause extraordinary phenomenon but they seldom understand the physics behind it.

        To my eyes, tomoki is simply wielding a spell with high dificulty or special requeriments (such as having a piece of uranium-magic stone or something like this), which produces a nuke, with no understanding whatsoever about the physics behind it. I mean, nuclear explosions would be a hell of a lot easier if you used teleport magic or dimensional magic to do an atom splitting process instead of the traditional method, even more the use of uranium in the 80’s and other radioactive materials would not be nessesary if you could simply use non excitable materials, imagine, if you actually used magic to fission divide a pebble in the ground.

  15. as much as I don’t like Tomoki, he is done quite a good job ,I know that charm magic is morally not good but still it’s a right choice to train that eyes and he still cares abot his comrades, which is surprising I thought he is going to just use this nuclear magic and escaape alone.

  16. Makoto’s still #1 against Sophia, if for no other reason than the parts “my attack was most likely pestering” compared to “trump card attack”!!!!!

    1. well Makoto “pestering attack” maybe stronger then a nuke but at least it do’s not leave fallout witch it take’s day years even for it to clear up depending the half life of the radiation from the nuke spell….tho how much do you want to bet he made that spell to use on a certain sword woman who can use mist magic that beat him with out even trying.

  17. ofc an ‘out of nowhere’ new disguise spell/trick/wutever…
    author is really pulling out all kinda of lame shit to keep the so called mystery behind makoto’s identity… its getting lame

  18. Ah, these are the chapters I wanted to read the most. I read them on the original site and they were pretty complicated so I couldnt make much sense of them. Its a shame that it will still be another chapter until the one I have the MOST desire to read, though… anyway, thanks for translating them!

  19. Thanks for the chapter. What a shitty trump card considering he needs to be alone to properly use it and it seems like its centered on him, and well the likelihood he can only use it at night or he dies too. I really did hope sofia tortured him just a biiiiiiiit more and hopefully she destroyed or confiscated most of his legendary artifact to make him more useless.

    1. let just hope he do’s not become twisted to woman for he bin beaten by not one but two woman’s who are sword’s man tho one was a dragon but she still a female but watch as it turns out he meat mio and some what says this”oh grate another one what are you going to do? cut me? use magic one me? say that im week? i just want to know why am i always losing to girls all the time?” or something in those lines.

  20. Lancer must be rather fast if he can get there in 30 minutes, but that’s probably still 20 minutes too late. By the time they get there, Makoto and Shiki will be just about done cleaning up the area.

    I’m also hoping Trashmoki will assume he killed Sofia, and will feel very proud of himself, only to find out soon after that he didn’t even scratch her (radiation poisoning notwithstanding), and that she got done in by the Devil instead.

  21. Thanks for the update

    So Trash-kun have made nuclear explosion huh…Now I’m fully expect The Devil to create some black hole or antimatter know

  22. “I see everyone has lost their minds after seeing the raw website removing the webnovel. Fret not, the author has just moved to alphapolis. Don’t know the details about it, but someone out there probably knows.”
    LOL i was really scared that the WN will stop like other ones after i check the raw WEB XD

  23. Sophia comparing the trash (lake) move from makoto with the trump card (nuke) from trashmoki?
    How laughable

    Anyway thank you rei san

    1. Well, “Nuke” IS objectively the more powerful move. The duo commented that they wouldn’t have survived if Makoto used that move instead of his “Lake Maker”.

      Of course, an important distinction is that Makoto did it as “harassment” and Tomoki did it as a “trump card”.

  24. hoho~~ this is such a cliff-hang that i couldnt stop imagining the one sided trampling of the devil and his subordinate. Also, since the last chaps said, makoto already surpassed the supreme dragon by a huge margin then come the second battle with the perverted battle freak.

    I imagined that she might say “OMG! you’re such an OP that i might cum battling you!!” LOL!!

    I wonder if the two perverted women(Mio, Sofia) battled in some place. Wonder what might happen lolz.
    Never once they confronted each other.

    Wished Makoto played around the drsgon slayer like sniping her 200km away from her with his sure shot attacks then teleport to a different location if she’s gonna come at him and his new skill that destroyed the thought jamming. That skill of his are like those airplane arcade games, which shoots homing laser missiles which is cool used on Sofia. Man, I wanna see that one sided playing around thay bitch gettig played once, i wished.

    1. Judging by the reactions of Tomoe and Mio, if Makoto did that then Shiki would get addicted to playing video games. He’d do all the research needed to play real life version of Missile Command.

    2. I can see a high spirited Sofia proudly saying to makoto like “there you are that lake making attack witch is no doute your strongest attack well not only we lived though it but also prepared something for it so now we will defiantly beat you HAHAHA!!” but makoto say “WHAT!? but that was only mean to pestered you two and you telling me it made a lake!? there no way!” witch might drop Sofia spirit like a led weight.

  25. Thank u always for ur great work…
    ^^…

    So, that’s what Princess Lily aim huh, make gun and nuke. But Sofia is quite a monster too to withstand nuke blast and radiation even cure it…
    @.@…

  26. Goddammit these cliffs made me read the goddamn raw. I say even though it’s still quite a few chapters ahead, the battles are seriously satisfying. Especially when Makoto… welp, too bad I’m not gonna spoil anything.
    Nevertheless, thank you very much for translating!

    1. Alphapolis has a new set of rules regarding the respective Web novels of the Light novels they are publishing. Because of this all people who had WN’s on syosetu had to take them down and transfer them to their website by august 30th.

    1. Well lancer might act like shiki back when he was a litch “are you talling me all you did was dump mana?” wile sophia might shiver at the prospect of a fight with makoto when he wants to fight.

  27. Wished Makoto thought of capturing Sofia then trained her into a Masochist.
    I bet she looked good with a fucked face on her being how perverted she is.

  28. Thanks for the chapter !

    My 2 cents on it: i think its lame that tomoki can use something like “nuke” , nukes arent easy to understand, and it should be impossible for him to understand how it works and turn it into a spell. Plus making it so perfect at the point of it doing more damage than our Waka-sama spell , its really dissapointing :/
    How can she detect radiation? x.x isent the author just giving them too much credit? And not having the hero and any of his friend’s die…its cringy 🙁

    Again, Thanks for the chapter, i’m really looking foward for the third part.

    1. dont worry our waka sama shot that arrow with no major tough behind it, like kicking a stone out of the way, while that nuke was tomokis ace card/ last resort, and also waka sama is way stronger right now then before. btw i think she detects radiation as some kind of the buff i think

      1. 🙁 still i’m quite dissapointed in this chapter, something like a nuke is impossible for anyone to recreate without knowing what its all about, he has to be a super genious and have studied alot before performing something like that, the way he went from weak to OPNUKE is just too unreal, even i’m not sure how Nukes are made, but i’m guessing its something on the molecular level or some shit, not something someone can just poop like that without any back story. Plus, the way Deus Ex Machina on the heros Party is just not done nicelly, why should sofia and the supreme dragon give 2 shts about his party, they were supposed to die, so that he could have some character development, i would like to see how he would live after his team get’s killed, and the only one left is his princess ( it could go good or very bad for him )

        Imagine when she noticed he didnt use his “trump card” cuz his friends were arround, so he tells her to spare them and he would use it, but instead she kills them, making him go nuts ( hes not even supposed to be calm after being killed over and over again, so she could trigger him easilly instead of going on that route)

  29. First off, thank you for the translation~ :3

    I laughed so hard from the sudden transition of “Battle Sta-END!!”, Trashmoki’s party got wrecked, but it was trash to begin with. Heavily focused on him as the damage dealer with the aid of the bug’s gifts, the team composition consisting mostly for a high-powered, long distance attackers, maneuverability, defensive buffs and golem CC. Practically no one but Trashmoki was geared to the possibility of close combat and now look at them, the shielder is full of holes, dragon loli lost her legs and hand and the golemancer was crucified. I wouldn’t even be surprised if they fell in the first 10secs of the fight, while Sofia chops up Trashmoki at her leisure.

    Now it’s obvious Makoto ain’t gonna show till probably the end of next chapter, story needs to give Hibiki her time to shine before she needs saving but I’m going to enjoy the after effects of this crisis on both the hyuman and demon sides. Hyumans got blindsided, the Empire’s countryside was devastated by the demon forces, then ruined by the radioactive fallout of Trashmoki’s ult, their prized experimental super soldiers are all dead and the hero’s party are in critical condition, it’s even possible that the village manufacturing the guns got wiped out in the blast wave but we’ll see later. Now we know that life’s a bitch and that some actions in this story comes up again later, it’d be funny, considering Kaleneon was one of the border lands near the fort, if that the force of 2000 demons guarding the area were actually reinforcements on standby. Faced with a severely crippled force in Gritonia, the lose of Kaleneon and the impending death of another demon general and troops in Limia once Makoto starts to move, I’d say the demons gonna be forced into another cycle of playing defensive like the hyumans.

    Or both holds the idiot ball and choose a final all out battle later. :T

    1. specking of Trashmoki’s party do’s any one nodes that most of his party members are girls around his age? it will not be shocking if it turns out he wanted them not only for the fighting ability but for….”other” reasons.

  30. Thanks for the chapter!

    Sh*ts about to get real! I hope Makoto meets Hibiki and after he destroys Stella fort and saves the heroes, he would become more badass like no other. The bug is making my blood boil from just reading it.

  31. Oh man, makoto’s not gonna hold back anymore right? since the deal with the goddess and the main purpose of hiding his magic was to avoid the goddess. Like damn. Looking forward to the next chapter! Thank you very much!!!

    Pure obliteration to the demons!

  32. I am more keen on makoto reaction when sofia call him “devil”.

    It will be funny to see makoto panic, again, over a different reason. Haha

    And, what happen after makoto defeated here.

    God damn hyped by the current arc.

    Really want to see the nxt chapt

  33. I’m disappoint. I was expecting a longer torture scene and tomoki’s capture and torment. Also, I was expecting our dragonslayer to win decisively then say “wow you’re much weaker than ‘him.’

    Tomoki’s single strike is apparently STRONGER than several rings of Makoto’s bursting with his overflowing power.

    Tomoki can literally NUKE a small area. What she was curing was obviously radiation poisoning.

    Actually I’d argue under moonlight tomoki is probably stronger than makoto… He can’t be killed and regenerates super-fast, his enslavement eye is nothing to scoff at, and I’ve already pointed out his nuke. Makoto needs to rely on Shiki or Mio to heal him, is only better in raw magic and physical force.

    Hibiki now seems like the weakest hero to me…

    1. um…the ring bursting is just a suden relese of magic and the “lake attack” was not even what he call’s an attack more like flicking a plebe at them so Makoto is WAYYYY STRONGER then tomoki but in turms on using there power tomoki have a leg up on “past Makoto” for there is no telling how good Makoto had gotten in controlling his powers.

  34. Thanks 4 the chapter!

    The Trash nukem. I wonder though what atom did he split? Iron? Oxygen? Carbon? No way he have some heavy elements ready.

  35. The imagination is a weapon. (goblin slayer manga) Which you should consider mostly as chanting and imagining showing more power, but….

    Trash is REALLY IMMATURE as just Nuke them with explosion mixture of fire-type, but the used of MODERN KNOWLEDGE of war and gun is consider bit weak as power only to 70%.

    Makoto have really strong imagination as well as knowledge to adaption on the world like fusing, increase fundamental training, and develop new life-style of dreaming.

    If TRASH was train in martial arts style and learning Qi-energy (Level 0 Aikido = novel) ; it would consider Better than Zero-attribute modern weapon and short war knowledge. Anyway it only consider Trashmoki as good & bad at the same time which NOT WORTH to take NOTE of EFFORT on him.

    1. Technically the principal problem of nuke is the radioactivity left after its used, the hero used this 50km next the capital of the empire, their is a risk for contamination of all the empire. Furthermore they speak of a curse or poison they don’t understand the concept behind, that will create more problem so I don’t think nuke is 70% less efficient than magic…
      From the beginning trash is specialized in fight from the rear and don’t fight on the front-line, he doesn’t want to risk his live so he searches in priority magic or weapon which can be used from the rear and nuke is one of the major weapon from the 20th centuries which can be used from long distance with a high impact and Sofia wouldn’t have meet Makoto before she said that she would be dead so it’s not a small attack…
      The problem is that we don’t know the type of nuke it is (fusion, fission) o_O

  36. Tomoki is irradiated and probably has cancer now, has immortal healing and went insane from being tortured… I REALLY hate to say it, but…. Tomoki is now Deadpool.

  37. You know, for the first time ever… I have to call bullshit on this series. There is no way a middle school student could know enough physics to replicate a nuclear splotion. furthermore, Its impossible that him or the empire would beable to find or even identify enough fissionable material for the catalyst.

    1. Actually you learn the basics of nuclear fission and fusion in your first year of high school, it takes energy to create elements(Endothermic Reaction) while breaking elements down creates energy(Exothermic Reaction), simple, that’s the reason why splitting an atom is so catastrophic. Magic has long been refuted as that which bisects reality(in fiction), supposedly just being able to have an idea completes 3/4 of the work, now is just implementation. Pulling the hydrogen atoms from the air in rough quantities and then splitting them. Done and done, if you’re a smart and advanced student like Tomoki, then atom bombs in a world full of magic should easy enough, just gotta separate the hydrogen from other elements and then rip open it’s nucleus with how ever much mana is needed, at least logistically speaking. The actual math and science behind it is completely circumvented by magic. Not to call you out or anything, just being informative, and also calling the bullshit of the this one scene of this series as well, but it’s allowed that much, since magic.

  38. Oi… Bug! You damn Bug! You’re giving a nuke to a ‘hero’? A nuke? Unlike the modoki hero, the nuke is destroying your own world! The lives of the Hyumans that you love so much will be over by radiation poisoning if not by explosion and yet all is forgiven and Makoto is the target of your hate? The heck? You even stole 2 people anyway! Like, were you planning on giving 2 girls to modoki?

    [Generating cooling agent… Resetting… Restarting… Booting up…]

    … Where was I? Well, whatever. I wonder how many people will die in the Empire if the nuke reached almost all the way to the Empire itself… Even more so, that plot of crater-land is now inaccessible for the next few generations if they don’t want radiation poisoning…

    1. You made one fundamental mistake there darling. I highly doubt that bug gives a shit about Hyumanity, she only cares about the fact they’re beautiful. Hell, she went to get her “beauty” sleep for 20 years without caring about hyumanity at all…

      Well, that nuke ruined a lot of my interest, but translator~sama is good and the story is getting interesting, so i’ll let it slide. Mio won’t allow new women!

  39. Thanks for the chapter kai-senpai,
    The previous chapter I read with happiness when vizualizava the people of Asora in cry of war the tears were not enough to show happiness (ू˃̣̣̣̣̣̣︿˂̣̣̣̣̣̣ ू) , this chapter was more light , I think that sofia see makoto had been frustrated again out, now will be a full 2×2 .
    Obrigado pela tradução!!!!\(>o<)ノ

  40. Thnx for the chap😘

    1- Sofia is going to fight Makoto but before she said to Tomoshit:

    [new harem member flag raised!!!]

    2-apart from the fact that Tomoshit was able to replicate nuclear-bomb like effect with magic….but the side-effect of the esplosion aren’t too much lower out the norm? Even if we dont considered the surrounding, even if Sofia istant-cured herself Lancer was left uncured for some minute at least, he should have convulsed in pain for the radiation…I am wrong???

    3-[this one is for Makoto to read] Whyyyyyyyyy the white-ranger??? The leader is the red ranger and also the white-one is normally the outsider of the team and in some season he even die!!!! Makoto are you planning to rise a death-flag?!?!?!?!?

    1. nah, radiation doesn’t work that fast. Even with the most extreme Sievert it should take at least couple of minutes or half an hour to see the effects but it’s only working that fast if the radiation is really really extreme.

    2. And you forget Lancer is a high dragon so if he died from radiation in one minute, there will be a need to create a magic which send gamma-ray (invisible and you can kill anyone with it) XD

      P.S : I speak of gamma-ray because we don’t know the type of nuke used

    3. that is because it suits him well the hero that was sent to the hyumans wasn’t makoto but TomoShit and HibiNoob. Makoto was like an extra that happened to be dragged down in that world thanks to BUGdess in other words Makoto is an outside unknown factor that doesn’t relate in the war between hyumans and demon race

  41. So ya the author removed the novel… the author did state that was the last update post when i read it, well it was google translate so yeah i may be wrong… ohh and 1st post in this website thx for the chapter..

    1. oh! now that you mentioned it, I hoped theres a little bit of changed(Good feature please and not make him look more ugly) in Makotos appearance like being taller a bit i hope.

  42. Sofia and Lancer here again for another beating! Because- this time, Makoto has Shiki with him… Makoto just need remove ALL his limiters and here will be HELL to PAY!!!!! MWAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!

    1. excuse me, could you link me the raw link to this chapter, i cant find the same title of this chapter in japanese, so i’m confused, thank you

    1. No he doesn’t, he can only use a little portion of his mana even after he removes his limiters due to the lack of knowledge, but currently it’s a different story 🙂

  43. What I dont really get is people’s power lvls at the moment I mean.
    Lvls are explained as being a direct translation of someone’s strenght (though technique’s, skill’s etc etc are not included) kinda like how a lvl 50 = being 5 times stronger, hardier and have more magic power then a normal human being as an example.

    In this case Sofia being lvl 900-1000ish should be weaker then for instance Mio who is lvl 1500ish. The only thing right now is that we haven’t really been shown how strong Mio or Tomoe really are while Makoto is atleast hinted at being several times stronger then either of them but he’s like a child with a gun that dont even know how to either load it or turn of the safety and instead bashes people in the head with the gun.

    Still in this chapter Sofia is shown as easily beating up the empire hero with what? 5-10% of her full strenght and then surviving a nuclear blast and healing the after effects like nothing while appearntly not having used up any signifigant amount of power, to then head on to fight against Makoto.

    Kinda lost my topic here but what I wanted to say is what’s the point of having a lvl system and point out how it works if the characters left and right can just ignore it and go super saiyan whenever they want.

    1. the lvl system counts lvl 1 as that individual’s base power and not the average of normal people. reaching lvl 2 and higher requires them to push their limits. as such, someone with higher potential can toy around with those of lesser potential.

      in Makoto’s case, he will only gain lvls from fighting the goddess unless he decides to destroy the entire world. Tomoe was most likely practicing her control to an extent that allowed herself to finally reach lvl 1500.

      the heroes are just ordinary humans with weak divine protection shoved down their throats. Sofia on the other hand is an unparalleled hyuman. the difference in talent is enough to prevent Tomoki from overcoming it with sheer power. it’s like an overly ripped bodybuilder trying to hit a ninja, but can’t because his muscles are in the way.

    2. If you want to use dbz logic power levels are irrelevant and that is the case here too. I think that was established since the earliest chapters and the student ark confirmed it again. The level of an adventurer says nothing about combat strength.

  44. Thank you for the chapter!

    My gods, that f@#$ TRASH gets dumber by the chapter! A NUKE?! Seriously?! People have found medications against radiation around 2011 only! Well, there seems to be some convenient magic in this world, but still…

    It’s interesting how both ppl mention that charm power right in front of Trashmoki’s party… I wonder if they’ll give it some thought later on?

    And that Knight has a dragon’s blessing, huh? I wonder if we’ll see this Izanami guy later.

    …and Sofia being Sofia :3 Hehehe, she definitely improved greatly, but so did Makoto… she is in for a big suprisse! I can’t wait! XD

    1. well after Sofia had that lake making attack lunch at her she probably trained so she can fight “the demon” and take that lev of attack but like you say she will be surprise when she discover that the power of that attack was not something Makoto will call a attacking lev more like just kicking this rock around lev.

  45. So, tomoki managed to make a “magic nuke”. he said “It is a super rare power that only a few who have gone around the world and fulfilled the requirements, are able to use. Even Hibiki can’t use it”, does that mean he searched for a lost ancient spell? I don’t think he should have enough knowledge to make it himself, or enough mana to cast it, and the “gone around the world and fulfilled the requirements” sound like he had to make many preparations for it and not just make the spell with his theoric knowledge. Maybe it’s the power of the godess’s favorite/hyuman strongest that root talked about, his magic element that even the goddess don’t have would be linked to radioativity, and maybe the “gone around the world” would be to make contract with spirits to have enough power to cast it? it is just pure speculation tho, zero proof of that…

    though that is impressive that he managed to surpasse the damages caused by makoto’s lake arrow. I think sofia said a hyuman shouldn’t have that much magic power when makoto casted his arrow, so tomoki’s nuke is probably not his entierely his own power, and he’s backed up by someone or something and maybe not only the goddess.

    most of the comments are “trashmoki is so dumb to use nuke, what a shit!”, but if it was makoto that used it more than half of those comments would be “god mokoto, you are so cool, so badass! show them at those trash that you have the biggest dick!”

    1. maybe the nuke was a good thing for it shall bring acid rains, mutant superheroes, and messed up appearances. perhaps the mutations will even cause the hyumans to evolve into humans!

      poor buggess. all she will have to her name are teenage mutant ninja turtles and x-men. maybe a giant blob here and there.

    2. lol, I just read all the comments
      people are so mad that makoto haven’t the monopoly of “nuke attack”
      they are mad because tomoki wasn’t tortured enough, letting them with their insatisfied sadistic feeling of low bully

      let’s settle this, makot called his lake nuke a “pestering” attack not because he didn’t put power in it, but because it was inconceivable that only one attack would have enough power to impact the battle. he put everything he could in one arrow, and add 7(?) fully charged mana-ring. it was his strongest attack and it was far stronger that he immagined.

      yes makoto is stronger than tomoki, but please, stop being a butthurt.
      stop nitpicking all tomoki’s action like a 3rd wave feminist, I think I saw something like tomoki is a trash bacause it not fair he had mortal allies when he is himself immortal
      stop glorifying makoto like I saw many time thing like “tomoki’s nuke may be stronger than the lake nuke, but it was only a pebble trown makoto wasn’t serious!”

      1. My problem with the nuke is more based on the lack of knowledge tomoki has, yet he did something that scientists have trouble doing in super computors.
        I think Tomoki sufferd enough, find it strange he didnt snap or have a mental breakdown after diyng so much.
        His allies survived :/ we missed some character development here.( aka. they should have died )
        Sofia character changed way to much, she went from someone who just wants to end her job, to a sadistic bitch ( it can be a trauma thanks to the devil ).

        🙁 i hope it gets better in the next chapter 🙁

      2. well i know makoto pestering attack is way stronger then tomoki’s nuke im just saying tomoki is a bloody moron for nuke mean’s radiation witch a low amount can rilly make you sick wile a high amount…. is something you never want for one example your organs will slowly rot’s away and that part of reason why the nick name for those who have a high lev of radiation poisoning is “walking dead” and he use it next to the kingdom he defending and his party whom mind you are in critical condition? so ya tomoki is a moron of moron’s at least in makoto case he did know that attack had enough power to make a lake and he knows to hold back.

  46. It’s only natural that Tomoki’s nuke was stronger than Makoto’s arrow because unlike Makoto that intended it to be nothing but a petty attack and not at his 100% back then Tomoki released his full power in the night with the intent of using his last resort

  47. Little Sophia knows that the current Makoto is multiple times stronger than they last met he is comparable to BUGdess personal nymph capable of resisting gods . Although the current her might be able to defeat the confused makoto back then

  48. Can tomoki use magic? (I don’t want to re-read, someone else do it for me) I thought we was like a “knight-class” with the immortality thing, charm eyes and magic tools. So I assumed the “Nuke” was like the guns, part tech, part magic. (still not believable cause I don’t think they could find a proper catalyst)

    1. i mean, if he could use magic, i could believe that he could make a quasi nuclear boom, but its the radiation sickness without any radioactive material present that makes no sense to me.

      1. Radiation = the emission of energy as electromagnetic waves or as moving subatomic particles, especially high-energy particles that cause ionization.

        Since Trashmoki can use lightning and perhaps somehow understood the principle of electromagnetic waves perhaps he release a strong energy of electromagnetic wave which released radiation

    2. The deal was that any human from earth would have incredible physical ability and magic compared to people from other worlds.
      So yeah, Tomoki should be able to use magic if he tries to learn it, he just usually takes the path of least resistance relying on blessings and sacred artifacts to do the work for him.

  49. lol I just thot of something, the empire is gunna get labeled as “The country full of ugly people” since he just set off a nuke in the empire everyone is going to mutate and Mokoto wont be the ugliest Hyuman in the world anymore.

    1. its not really a matter of what I would like them to mutate into, but more of what is most likely they ARE going to mutate into…but… I’m thinking Fallout. 😉
      Tomoki is going to be the Hero of the ghoul hyumans! with his now Ghoul harem flying his Death Claw fire dragon.

  50. Can someone clairify something for me? Did Tomoki get his nuke spell from the goddess?
    Because I’m seeing comments that say Tomoki shouldn’t have the knowledge to make a nuke spell, and others calling the goddess a dumbass for giving him the spell and poisoning her world.

    1. “What I am going to show you now is not the divine protection of the Goddess. It is a super rare power that only a few who have gone around the world and fulfilled the requirements, are able to use. Even Hibiki can’t use it” (Tomoki)
      Don’t know if it’s a spirit or dragon blessing but it’s clearly not the Bug.

    2. Hmm, at first I thought so too but Tomoki mentioned: “What I am going to show you now is not the divine protection of the Goddess. It is a super rare power that only a few who have gone around the world and fulfilled the requirements, are able to use.” So it can’t be a power the Goddess granted right? But I also don’t think he build it himself because of obvious lack of skill and if you look at how he “casted” the attack he didn’t pull out any material like a giant steel ball or something, it’s just a ball of light that appeared from his hands so I think it has to be some sort of magic. That means the only conclusion is that it has to be some sort of ancient weapon created by a previous other worldler.

      1. Yeah that part about having gone around the world seems like the key to me. I’m not buying that this selfish brat who always took the path of least resistance could have not only understood nuclear physics but also raised his magic knowledge high enough to come up with an original magic to replicate it, when Makoto is still studying to understand Shiki’s books til now.

        I’m betting one of those genius otherworlders Root talked about who were experimenting with mixing science and magic in order to return to earth, was the one who invented this magic and left the knowledge behind somewhere for Tomoki to stumble over. The requirement he met was probably having enough science knowledge to understand what the spell was supposed to do, and having enough magic power to use the spell. So Tomoki talks about it like it makes him special for being able to use it.
        That’s the only explanation I can think of.

      2. Your theory can be true. But when Tomoe read Lily’s mind, she found a lot of things about guns development and if I am not misteken nukes too. If thats is correct maybe he has stored that so caled nuke like the gun or his swords.

      3. From what I remember, it just said that Tomeo saw that Lily knew about the existence of guns and possibly WMDs from Tomoki and was trying to develop them. But this chapter also said tomoki is using a failed prototype that looks like a gun but just shoot light magic, so they obviously didn’t get detailed info of how it worked. And if he can’t give them a detailed explanation of the recipe for gunpowder and the physics of firearms, how’s he going to managed nuclear fission?
        Seems more to me Tomoki has some general knowledge of how they work from school, media and the internet, but not on the level of a scientist.

  51. Using a nuke huh…He should’ve gone for a hydrogen bomb, it’s a lot more destructive and has no radiation. Though it might destroy the kingdom as the range is larger :/

  52. So the trash hero made a nuke spell with the nuclear fallout. That comes of as to me as an extremely bad idea. Still thats rather impressive that he made it and stuff.

    Anyway this leaves room for Makoto and Shiki to to create some RadAway and sell as a merchant

  53. There are two main differences between Makoto and the heros:
    1- Makoto has Sekai.
    2- Makoto can disperse his conscience and recosntruct again,like Tomoe said that multiply his magic power.

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