Chapter 141 Subjugation Operation Begins
Edited by: Kanaa-senpai
Leaving the main group behind, I headed over to Sogahara-senpai (the Student Council Vice President), where the Demiurge crowd (led by Moriya, the massive Number Two) had already assembled.
Sogahara-senpai’s team consisted of three people: Katsura-kun (the first-year vanguard student), Saegusa-senpai (the third-year vanguard student), and himself. Demiurge brought four: their massive Number Two (Moriya, Kibakura’s second-in-command), the younger Magara brother (Sumiya, a second-year human in Demiurge), and Iwakura (the second-year rugby club member with the Corpse Dragon Battle Axe).
Sogahara’s group seemed to prioritize mobility; none of them wore armor except for Saegusa-senpai, who wore a leather breastplate. The Demiurge members, however, were geared for a slog. Number Two (Moriya) and the elder Magara (Kiyotaka, Sumiya’s older brother) wore mismatched suits of full plate, while the younger Sumiya wore leather. Number Two also lugged a massive tower shield—if I recalled correctly, that was the one with the +2 correction¹.
Iwakura, carrying a heavy battle-axe on his back, was equipped with a metal breastplate and gauntlets. He stood with his arms folded, glaring at me, but he clicked his tongue and looked away the moment our eyes met. Even if we were fighting on the same side today, we weren’t going to be friends. I had my own history with this guy. (As long as he doesn’t stab me in the back, that’s enough.)
Sogahara-senpai (the Vice President) spoke up once the groups merged.
”Looks like everyone’s here. This is going to be a close-quarters scrap with the Beast. Since we don’t have time to work out any high-level coordination, let’s just establish some basic ground rules.”
”Basically, each group just does their own thing, right?”
Number Two (Moriya) asked the question while sizing us up with a judgmental look.
”(That’s Moriya-senpai,)” Hiromi (the leader of the four-girl squad in the MC’s class) whispered in my ear, noticing I couldn’t place his name.
”Exactly,” Sogahara replied. “The groups will flank the Beast from three directions. Just make sure you don’t wander into the line of fire from the magic artillery squad. If you’re going to unleash a big move that might catch the rest of us in the blast, give us a heads-up first. For my part, I can fire off slashing waves. They aren’t ‘ultimate’ moves, and as long as we keep our triangular formation, I shouldn’t hit you, but stay sharp regardless.”
The Demiurge guys scowled at Sogahara’s disclosure. Having him as an ally was reassuring, but they were originally enemies; hearing that he was strong enough to fire off projectile slashes probably left a bitter taste in their mouths. I figured I should lay my cards on the table, too.
”I use lightning-based magic arts². If you’re in melee range, you’ll get fried, so I’ll call it out before I trigger them.”
Moriya and his crew nodded silently. Their reaction was muted—likely because I’d already used those moves when I fought Iwakura. The intel had clearly been shared.
Then, Moriya and the others shifted their gaze to Iwakura, who was standing slightly apart. Iwakura had his own powerful magic arts, though I hadn’t quite grasped their nature during our last encounter.
Feeling the weight of their stares, Iwakura spoke up reluctantly.
”My axe rots whatever it touches. My magic arts boost both the rot’s potency and its range. I’ll give a warning.”
(That’s a nasty ability. I couldn’t believe the bastard had tried to use something like that on me.)
With Iwakura’s skills out in the open, the elder Magara (Kiyotaka) raised a massive war hammer for us to see.
”My hammer makes anything it hits physically heavier. Even an Ogre will start dragging after three or four swings. Then again, if I hit anything that many times, they usually stop moving anyway.”
(He definitely could have skipped that last part…)
”Our priority is making sure Kiyotaka’s hits land,” Moriya said, jerking a thumb toward the elder Magara.
It made sense. My team and Sogahara’s would provide the high-speed damage, while Demiurge stacked the heavy debuffs. It was a solid plan. Specifically, Magara’s ability was a perfect counter—it shouldn’t be affected by the Beast’s regeneration. Even if the fight turned into a war of attrition, the odds wouldn’t be entirely against us.
My phone buzzed with a message from the command center. At that exact moment, Higurashi’s (the operation commander and the MC’s girlfriend) voice boomed across the area.
”Listen up! The mop-up squad has cleared the perimeter! Subjugation teams, move to your designated zones and stay on high alert. We’re moving to the luring phase!”
The tension in the First Wave hit its peak. Higurashi approached me, accompanied by a few other students.
”Tsuchimiya-senpai, your team needs to head out and prepare to break the seal. On your way, escort the magic users to the junction so they can seal off the side-passages.”
”Understood.”
Higurashi had already walked me through the protocol. There were side-paths in the corridors that led directly to the Safe Zone without passing through our kill-room. We had to use magic to wall those off so the Beast wouldn’t wander toward the civilians.
A tall girl leading a trio of magic users stepped forward and offered me a hand. She was a bronzed, bleached-blonde girl, and if I remembered correctly, she was one of Togamine’s squad members (Osaka Miki, the vanguard with curly blonde hair). She looked like a real brawler, radiating a confident, intense energy. Most of the heavy infantry classes in the First Wave were under Togamine’s command, serving as shields for the rearguard.
”I’m Osako Miki (the vanguard of Togamine’s party). Let’s get to work, Tsuchimiya.”
”Yeah. Good to have you, Osako-san.”
I shook her hand, bracing for a bone-crushing grip, but she kept it professional. Then, leading the group, I headed toward the spot where Valeria (the Elder Undine allied with Tsuchimiya’s group) had established the barrier.
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”Ready when you are,” Valeria said, raising her hands before the wall of water.
My Auto-Map (a magical tool for tracking movements) showed a single, stationary blue dot in the room beyond the flooded passage, lurking right against the wall. It was exactly where the scouts (reconnaissance team) had reported it. They’d been rotating students with reconnaissance magic every few hours to keep tabs on the target.
”Higurashi, we’re breaking the seal.”
”Copy that. We’re green on this end,” Higurashi replied through the speaker.
”Alright, Valeria. Do it.”
At my command, the water level plummeted. With a roar of rushing currents, the water was sucked into multiple whirlpools and vanished in seconds. Then, the blue dot on my map began to drift slowly toward the now-open passage.
”It’s moving! Alright, move out!”
Valeria coiled around Hiromi’s (the leader of the MC’s party) arm, shifting back into her snake-bracelet form, and we bolted back down the corridor.
”(Master! The Beast is picking up speed!)” Tina (Takeru’s spirit companion) warned.
”Dropping the Sand Viper!” I yelled, tossing the corpse of a snake monster just before a bend in the path. “Now the Wolf Eater!”
Once we rounded the corner, I dumped the legless torso of a massive spider monster. Of the four of us, I was the slowest since I wasn’t an Evold (a high-speed class). But as soon as we hit a long straightaway, I triggered my Blast skill (a high-speed movement ability) to accelerate. Simultaneously, I used the wind spirits to lift myself slightly, skimming the ground like a hovercraft.
Previously, I could only manage this for a few meters, but now I could glide over long distances. It was a trick I’d only mastered after training my core and learning spirit magic.
”(The Beast is accelerating! It’s ignoring the bait! It’s faster than us!)”
As we cleared the straight and ducked into a shorter passage, the distance between us shrank. I could hear a guttural, bestial howling echoing behind us. At this rate, it was going to run us down.
”Drop the Wild Boar meat!”
”(Oh! It stopped!)”
”What, is it a gourmet?!”
It actually stopped for the high-end stuff. That bought us the breathing room we needed.
”It really fell for it?” Fujisaki (a Level 20 fighter from another academy) asked, matching my pace.
”Yeah! Wait—no, it’s moving again!”
”(It’s slower now, though! I think it’s… eating on the run?)”
”Seriously? No table manners at all.”
”Takeru-kun! The junction is coming up!” Hiromi shouted.
The straight path ahead forked to the left—a direct route to the Safe Zone that bypassed our trap. We couldn’t let it take that turn. The magic users had already sealed it with earth-walls, but those were beginner-level constructions; the Beast could smash through them if it felt like it. We were counting on the bait to lead it into the kill-room, but the luring was proving unreliable. I couldn’t tell if the monster was hunting us or just looking for the quickest way to more humans.
We hit another long straight, so I went back to the hover-blast combo. This let me pull ahead of even Hiromi. As we blew past the sealed junction, I dropped more Wild Boar meat.
”We’ve cleared the junction! I left the boar meat on our side of the wall! The Beast is way faster than we anticipated—if it ignores this batch, it’s going to be on top of us!”
”Understood!” Higurashi replied over the comms. “Tsuchimiya-senpai and Maekawa-senpai (Hiromi), get inside! Asagiri-san (Himeno) and Fujisaki-senpai, hold the mouth of the corridor and act as the final decoys! Pull back the second you have eyes on the target!”
”Got it!”
”Copy that!”
Himeno (Takeru’s first girlfriend) and Fujisaki had the speed to stay safe. If anything, Hiromi and I were the ones at risk of being caught. The thought of using them as bait had crossed my mind, but I’d hesitated. Higurashi didn’t. She made the hard calls instantly. (I need to learn from that.)
We left Himeno and Fujisaki at the threshold and sprinted into the main room. Watching the Auto-Map, I saw the Beast reach the far end of the corridor where the girls were waiting. It was dim in the tunnels, but Himeno’s eyes (enhanced by her abilities) could cut through the dark. To draw it in, I heard them start shouting. The sound was muffled by the dungeon’s acoustics, but it sounded like the rhythmic chants of a sports team. Then, a thunderous roar tore through the air. The girls turned and bolted, and the Beast’s speed spiked.
”Higurashi! It’s past the junction!”
”Good! Get back here, now!”
The Beast must have stopped to snag the boar meat, because its speed dropped again. (Now!) Before the final straightaway, I dropped the Killer Parrot corpse.
”Hiromi!”
”Ta-Takeru-kun?!”
As we slowed for the final turn, I scooped Hiromi up. With the hover-blast combo, I skated through the straightaway in a blur. Even at this speed, the fact that Himeno and the others were gaining on me was terrifying. We hit the room just as they caught up. The Beast had stopped at the Killer Parrot! I’d saved that for last because it was a big meal—I didn’t want it getting full and losing interest, but I needed it to stall one last time.
”We’re in! It’s occupied with the Parrot!”
”Perfect! The lure team is clear! Artillery squad, prep for volley!” Higurashi was shouting now, her voice clear even without the phone. We dove into the safety of the room.
A dozen magic users were lined up, staves leveled toward the entrance. A boy in the center held his staff high, a massive fireball nearly a meter wide roiling and crackling at its tip.
”Hold! Give me one more person’s worth of mana!” he barked. A girl behind him channeled her energy into the sphere, and it swelled even further. We scrambled past them and joined the others. Tomoko (Nishina, a shy girl in Maekawa’s group), Kanon (Watarase, the magician girl in Takeru’s party), and Hoshikawa-san (a member of the magic artillery squad) were already waiting.
The Beast was lumbering down the passage.
”Almost there… thirty meters! …Twenty!” I called out, eyes glued to the map. I pulled Hiromi’s spear and Fujisaki’s broadsword from Storage (Takeru’s inventory ability) and tossed them to the girls. Fujisaki’s sword was a heavy broadsword with a +2 correction—pure stopping power. She kept her usual rapier at her hip as a backup.
”Ten meters! …NOW!”
The moment that massive silhouette rounded the corner, the artillery squad let loose.
”SUPER FIREBALL!”
The massive sphere of flame roared down the hall, followed by a barrage of elemental spells. I saw arcs of Lightning Bolt (mid-tier magic) and several other high-level spells I didn’t even recognize. The Academy definitely had some hidden veterans in its ranks.
Explosions rocked the floor, and the Beast was instantly swallowed by a wall of fire and smoke. A normal Ogre would have been vaporized. But then, a towering shape, venting steam and smoke, began to slowly emerge from the inferno. The bastard had grown again.
It was a mountain of a demon, clad in thick, reddish-black skin that looked like organic plate armor. Its jaw unhinged, dropping the charred remains of the Killer Parrot with a sickening thud.
”GRAAAAAAAH!”
Its roar of pure fury made the very air vibrate, freezing the artillery squad in their tracks.
”Hii…!”
someone let out a strangled whimper of terror.
The King of Beasts. Looking at that malevolent, suffocating presence—that aura that signaled the end of the world—the name of the monster prophesied in the Bible flashed through my mind.
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Summary:
The subjugation team, comprising Takeru’s group, Sogahara’s group, and Demiurge, coordinate their abilities to lure the Beast into a trap. After a high-speed chase using monster corpses as bait, the Beast is hit by a massive magic artillery strike. However, the Beast survives, appearing even larger and more menacing than before.
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Trivia:
- Iwakura’s battle-axe has a rotting ability that Takeru recalls being used against him.
- Takeru uses spirit magic combined with ‘Blast’ to achieve a hovercraft-like movement.
- The Beast is distracted by ‘Wild Boar’ meat, showing a preference for high-quality food.
- Magara’s hammer debuff is notable because it bypasses regeneration abilities.
- Osako Miki is a ‘white-gal’ (gyaru style) fighter under Togamine
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Character Insight:
Takeru shows tactical growth, using varied monster loot to control the Beast’s speed. He also notes and respects Higurashi’s cold, quick decision-making, realizing he needs to be more decisive himself.
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Lore And Worldbuilding Context:
The author leans heavily into ‘isekai’ tropes by mixing game-like terminology (+2 correction) with high-fantasy biblical dread at the chapter’s climax.
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Glossary:
Notes:
• Sogahara-senpai – Student Council Vice President
• Sogahara – A tall sharp-eyed student council vice president, a senpai who leads a skilled team, calls himself Boku and fires slashing waves.
• Moriya – Demiurge Number 2 is a massive, hulking executive who wields a towering shield marked +2 correction. After Kibakura‑kun’s retreat, he may rally the troops, embodying the faction’s second‑in‑command presence.
• Saegusa-senpai – Third-year vanguard student in Sogahara-senpai’s party
• Katsura-kun – First-year vanguard student in Sogahara-senpai’s party
• Kibakura – Leader of Demiurge. Described as huge, with a monster’s clawed hand and sharpened nose, midway through transforming into a King Ogre. A physical match would be like a half-ogre version of **Ryūji Goda (Yakuza)** in early monster mutation form.
• Iwakura – Second‑year student of Class 2‑G and Demiurge officer, he’s a rugby club member who wields the Corpse Dragon Battle Axe — a weapon that rots anything it cuts. Cocky and aggressive, he bears a grudge against Tsuchimiya‑kun.
• Magara – Elder brother Magara Kiyotaka, a third‑year human in Demiurge, wields a war hammer that physically increases the weight of targets hit; appears in the Academy cafeteria negotiating the hunt for monsterized Kibakura, where Sogahara exposes his concealed knife as Amahara presides and Fumioka fronts Demiurge, meets Tsuchimiya; brother of Sumiya, subordinate to Fumioka, peer of Moriya and Shiraishi; straight‑laced knife‑carrier.
• Sumiya – A second-year human in Demiurge and Kiyotaka’s younger brother, he first appears at the Academy cafeteria negotiation. In that meeting (direct: share intel and ally; underlying: protect the Academy), he tries a swap-positions Gift to seize Amahara; Fumioka leads Demiurge, Amahara presides; he meets Tsuchimiya; relationships: brother to Kiyotaka, subordinate to Fumioka, peer of Moriya/Shiraishi; trait: swap Gift.
• Kiyotaka – A third-year human in Demiurge and Sumiya’s older brother, he first appears at the Academy cafeteria negotiation to coordinate the hunt for monsterized Kibakura (direct: alliance talks; underlying: protect the Academy), where Sogahara exposes his concealed knife while Amahara presides and Fumioka fronts Demiurge. He meets Tsuchimiya; relationships: brother to Sumiya, subordinate to Fumioka, peer of Moriya and Shiraishi; trait: straight-laced knife-carrier.
• Hiromi – She leads the four‑girl squad in the MC’s class, a confident spear‑wielder known as Takeru’s companion, with striking silver hair, sharp eyes, and a poised stance that marks her as the group’s charismatic leader.
• Higurashi – Asuka Higurashi, a pale, frail girl battling an incurable disease, serves as the operation commander at headquarters and is the girlfriend of the main character.
• Osaka Miki – Class 2-C. Tall with curly blonde hair, looks like a white gyaru. Quick-tempered. Vanguard of Togamine’s party.
• Togamine – Togamine Hatsune. The girl who like the student council but hate the MC.
• Osako Miki – Class 2-C student, tall with curly blonde hair and a white‑gal look, quick‑tempered, serves as the vanguard of Togamine’s squad and is part of the combat faction.
• Valeria – An Elder Undine and part of the Water Spirit King Varniora, she first appears at a feast Hano opens and Maekawa toasts before Higurashi’s joint dungeon dive (direct: student demo; underlying: training). She allies with Tsuchimiya’s group, serves Varniora, outranks Njorn, coils as Maekawa’s glass-snake bracelet, and uses storage magic and water materialization.
• Takeru – The protagonist and narrator. Uses ‘Ore’ and leads the luring team using ‘Blast’ and spirit magic.
• Fujisaki – A black‑haired Level 20 fighter from Akatoriba Academy, known for her bikini armor, ample bust, and villainous “akunin‑zura” face, she debuted in Chapter 56 as an assassin from another school who once battled the MC on the dungeon’s abandoned floor. Cynical and hardened by past trauma and bad luck, she recently defected to Takeru’s group, calmly accepting the label of “sex slave” in order to transfer to Seito Academy, where she now seeks a new place under his faction.
• Himeno – MC’s first girlfriend
• Watarase – Watarase Kanon: The magician girl. Party with the MC.
• Nishina – Nishina Tomoko. Shy girl. Looks like an upper elementary school kid despite being in high school. Childhood friends with Satou Akari.
• Tomoko – Nishina Tomoko. Shy girl. Looks like an upper elementary school kid despite being in high school. Childhood friends with Satou Akari. One of the Maekawa group
• Kanon – Watarase Kanon: The magician girl. Party with the MC.
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Edited by Kanaa-senpai.
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