Chapter 181: Devised Decision, the Desert’s Dream

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“Next time, I am looking forward to the discussion on setting up a stall.”

“I will think about it. I do consider Lily-sama as an important customer after all. Today I don’t see the hero-sama though. Well with this, I will be taking my leave. Thank you for inviting me.”

“I will believe in those words.” (Lily)

I return the greetings of Princess Lily who went through the trouble of seeing me off at the teleport formation, and announce my departure.

From what I have seen, I don’t feel like putting a store in the Empire, but I didn’t voice out my rejection.

After giving the egg of Lancer to Grount who was rampaging and had to calm down, I returned to the capital when evening had come.

I didn’t expect a superior dragon to get angry when touching the topic of age. Because you know, they are dragons that have been living for hundreds to thousands of years, and reincarnating. In essence, they live forever, so I thought they had lost the concept of age already.

Its blaze, roar, tail, and the magic that utilized the advantageous desert terrain; she rampaged quite a lot.

After I incapacitated her, I was finally able to speak with her.

I apologized to Grount-san once again, and when I spoke with her, I learned that she is actually a dragon with an age comparable to that of an adult woman.

When living for long, their personality stops changing at some point in time depending on the person, probably.

If things like Oba-san, or Oba-chan which are related to age are not mentioned, she is actually quite the gentle one.

Regarding my studying of the dragon society Root mentioned, I thought he was referring to the Sand Sea.

Its appearance was a mystifying white desert, and that sand must have drunk quite the amount of blood from people as well, so it is some kind of stage where the history of hyumans and dragons has developed.

The other superior dragons have kindreds or people that serve them, so Root probably intended to show me those kind of things.

I wasn’t the only one who thought that his actions were of bad taste; Grount was also angry at Root.

It is great that nothing serious happened.

By the time I returned to Ruinas it was already dark, but Tomoe and Shiki had finished packing and were waiting for me. And so, we were now returning just as planned.

Tomoe and Shiki who were mimicking me by lowering their heads, lift them up the moment I lift it as well.

Now then, let’s head back.

“When you have any business, please contact Rotsgard. If there’s something our side can prepare for you, we will happily do so.” (Makoto)

“Please do give us a call. Well then, take care in your journey.” (Lily)

I couldn’t see any expectation from Princess Lily’s face.

I think she had some sort of reason when she had me meet the hero, but…Tomoki is not here right now. I just can’t read the actions of Gritonia.

They probably have some sort of complicated objective that isn’t related to defeating the demon race in the war.

When that time comes, it will be made clear.

At the very least, I slightly understand how the Empire views us, so the standing I will be taking has been decided.

In that point, I think it is a high plus for me in coming to the Empire.

Enveloped by the teleportation light, the scenery changes.

Let’s quickly move and leave Robin. If we do that, we can return to Asora without worries.

When we return to Rotsgard, next will be the place of the Demon Lord-sama huh.

I will be going to Kaleneon for a bit and meet with Rona, was it.

Tomoe knows the meeting point.

Talk about Kaleneon will definitely come, so it seems I will have to put that into order as well.

For me, that’s a desirable outcome.

Anyways, it was a tiring visit to the Empire.

I want to quickly go back and sleep.

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“I see. In that case, you don’t know what business Raidou had in going to the Sand Sea, right?”

“Sorry. He traversed through the desert at a baffling speed, so I was unable to follow him…” (Ginebia)

“I don’t think Grount will do anything, but the connections of Falz are really a mystery. To think that he is acquainted with a superior dragon. He told me that he had some business in the Sand Sea, so let Raidou do as he wishes, but for him to take such actions was outside my expectations. I have been one-upped.”

Receiving a report that the Kuzunoha Company had begun their teleportation, Lily called Ginebia to her room and asked about the details of the situation.

Even so, she only added a bit of information on top of what she had already reported when she returned. So the gist of it didn’t change much.

She lost Raidou at the desert and doesn’t know what he did after.

At the long distance, a loud sound rang out but it soon calmed down, and Raidou returned after a few hours.

Just in case, they are already trying to make contact with Grount and confirming her safety.

It was an abnormal situation.

“Tomoe and Shiki; those two followers of his were also lost from sight near the castle. The other party was not Limia or a demon race but a company, and yet, they really played us good.” (Lily)

“… Lily-sama, what do you think of them?” (Ginebia)

“The Kuzunoha Company? Right… they are an unknown factor. A bunch that I can’t tell whether they are allies or enemies. Regarding Raidou, from what Tomoki-sama says, he is a Japanese; in other words, an otherworlder.” (Lily)

“An otherworlder?! T-Then, is that person also a hero like Tomoki-sama?!” (Ginebia)

Ginebia was chanting her disbelief with an expression that didn’t hide her shock.

“It’s not sure. Tomoki-sama and Limia’s hero Hibiki appeared after receiving an oracle from the Goddess. But there have been several number of otherworlders that were not the case as well.” (Lily)

“This is the first I have heard of this. To think that there were people like that.” (Ginebia)

“Lorel has been hiding them from the foreign countries after all. It seems like they have taken in their customs you know? Have you heard about the Wise?” (Lily)

“Wise? If I remember correctly, it is a special rank in Lorel for people that possess special knowledge.” (Ginebia)

“Is how the foreign countries take it. In reality, it is Lorel giving special privileges to the otherworlders. That’s a Wise. Right now there’s not a single one, but there have been descendants from them, and that special knowledge is made as knowledge unique of that country.” (Lily)

“…”

“Anyways, Ginebia, good work today. You can leave now. Get a good rest.” (Lily)

“Understood… Excuse—” (Ginebia)

“Ah, you can’t go to Tomoki-sama’s place today either, got it? Please let him be alone for now.” (Lily)

“?!! U-Understood.” (Ginebia)

Seeing off Ginebia, the smile of Lily’s face was erased.

She was able to call Raidou and central people of the company to the Empire, but the objective they were aiming for was practically a blank.

For her, this is not a pleasant result.

Lily didn’t think that with just this conversation she would be able to take in Kuzunoha Company. But even so, she wanted to get information about them, and if possible, she wanted to attract at least one store from Kuzunoha Company into their Empire.

If she could make them place a store, they would be able to analyze the products, and it would make it easier to make contact with them.

To go to Rotsgard every time there’s business is something not that desirable for Lily. Also, currently the chances are low, but if Raidou closes the store in Rotsgard, they would have to go to Tsige which is an outrageously remote region.

They may pick up when contacting them, but it is certain that it will be inconvenient.

(The most that was accomplished was… Tomoki meeting with Raidou huh. In that point, it resulted just as planned, and the part about Raidou being an otherworlder was unexpected, but a favorable result. Otherworlder. Even so, I don’t feel the power of the Goddess from Raidou. It might be related to why he is not a hero.) (Lily)

In this occasion, Lily learned that Raidou was an otherworlder, a Japanese.

That forced deduction of Tomoki that was almost like a false accusation was easily proved right by Raidou himself.

(An unsightly appearance uncharacteristic of hyumans, and he is not a demi-human. Tomoki probably said this haphazardly with this as basis, and yet… I see, that his close aides were not flustered by this, it is possible that this may be a lie. It is certainly true that there’s few plusses in revealing his own background at that moment. Tomoe and Shiki have quite the sharp minds after all. But…is there a merit in lying about being Japanese? If his relationship with Tomoki is just as I predicted, then it is safe to assume that Raidou has no will to be taken into the Empire.) (Lily)

“Fuh…”

A small breath leaked out from Lily’s mouth.

Walking, she had left her room, and was now heading to the room of Tomoki.

After the talk with Raidou, Tomoki had shut into his room and was alone without even taking his meals.

Because he himself wished to do so, his party members were unable to enter, and Lily also prohibited it.

(First I have to confirm with Tomoki huh. And with that, I will know what Raidou did. I might also be able to tell the depth of his power.) (Lily)

*Knock* *knock*

After a gentle knock, Lily confirmed that there was no reaction.

“… Tomoki-sama, it is Lily. The Kuzunoha Company has left. Please tell me about what happened the other day.” (Lily)

“Lily, right now I can’t meet you. Please let me stay alone for a bit, just a bit more.” (Tomoki)

A weak voice.

“Just what in the world happened? They are guests I invited. If Raidou did something, that is my sin as well. Tomoki-sama, I implore you, please let me into the room.” (Lily)

After that, Lily flattered Tomoki and thoroughly comforted him.

That state of self-depreciation from Tomoki is a state that Lily is familiar in dealing with.

After a while passed, the door that silently opened was proof of her expertise.

“… Please enter, Lily.” (Tomoki)

“Tomoki-sama… just what in the world happened? Being this depressed!” (Lily)

Changing her Noh mask expression into one on the verge of crying, Lily shows Tomoki worry with her whole body.

Entering the room, Lily sits beside Tomoki who is sitting at the bed. She kindly listened to the story between Raidou and Tomoki while giving signs of comprehension.

Being attacked by surprise, he tried to fight back, but being unable to, he received his threats and violence, is what Tomoki said. That he was unable to obtain Tomoe.

(Tomoki says this. In that case, not only did the valkyries not pose any threat, Tomoki himself was completely defeated by Raidou. The attack that made Sofia retreat can’t be used indoors, and his combat equipment was at its minimum at that moment, so it can be one of the reasons. Just that, Raidou himself didn’t seem to have anything resembling a weapon. Maybe he is a magician, or it might be that he has trained as a warrior. From what I hear of Tomoki, it might be reasonable to consider that it can be both of them. A magician with a trained body huh. A troublesome type. Also, even if he wasn’t at his best, to be able to overwhelm Tomoki, he is a more troublesome existence than I originally thought.) (Lily)

Lily analyzes Raidou from the story of Tomoki while chipping off the dramatized parts.

Contrary to her action of holding Tomoki’s hand gently, her mind was cold and composed.

(Adding to that, he has Tomoe, Shiki and Mio. His three close aides have out-of-boundaries strength. If only they had the thought of slaughtering the demon race, it is at a level that I would want to abandon this thing and change it for him. Is it because my patronage is weak? No, that’s not it. I don’t think that Hibiki will move according to my plans at all, and looking at Raidou’s behavior towards demi-humans, my hopes of pulling him in are thin. Doing war is actually the best situation. Because we can go around killing without any hesitation after all.) (Lily)

Lily was thinking about pulling in Hibiki or Raidou, but she soon erased that thought from her mind.

Even if it’s possible, it would still be an hindrance in her own plans.

“Tomoki-sama, Raidou is the owner of frightening power, right? What should we do? Should we try pulling him into being our comrade? If Tomoki-sama so wishes, I…” (Lily)

“That guy Makoto… are you telling me to lower my head to him?” (Tomoki)

“… It is only for your sake, Tomoki-sama. If he turns into an enemy, it might turn everything into a mess. If it is okay, Ginebia, Yukinatsu, Mora, and I can endure a bit of the burden.” (Lily)

She doesn’t know if Raidou wishes for women.

No, since he directly spoke with Tomoki, she understood that the chances of that are low.

If she were to think about it calmly.

“Lily…” (Tomoki)

“Also, if we bring Kuzunoha Company to our side, as a result, Tomoe will be brought to our side as well. It will also grant your wish.” (Lily)

“Tomoe!” (Tomoki)

“Yes. Then, I will quickly send a subordinate to—” (Lily)

“You can’t!!” (Tomoki)

Tomoki shouts at Lily who was about to stand up.

“Tomoki-sama?” (Lily)

(Right. There’s no way you would be able to stomach something like that. As a hero, you wouldn’t be able to stomach the existence of Raidou. If it’s Hibiki, it would be possible to do it with a smile though.) (Lily)

Lily laughs from within.

Tomoki who can’t stomach having someone above him, would never be able to allow Raidou to ‘come’ to the Empire.

Then, what should she do?

That’s Lily’s objective.

Using Raidou, she will lead Tomoki into reaching a decision he once hesitated to take.

For the current Tomoki, this will probably look like the web of a spider suspending in hell, is what Lily imagines.

And that image was not that far from the truth.

“I don’t need someone like that. I am a hero. I will bring down the demons and the Demon Lord; an existence that reigns over the world. It doesn’t matter if he is Japanese as well. Like hell I will rely on that guy.” (Tomoki)

The hero’s duty-or at least that’s the title the Goddess has given to them-was to defeat the demon race, that’s all.

The last part about reigning was something that Lily had taken her time to imprint in Tomoki’s mind.

“… But he is strong. At this rate, he might become an obstacle.” (Lily)

After this, she only needs to slowly lead him into it.

Lily was calmly leading him into a decision.

“Then I just have to get stronger. Right, there’s no need to hesitate huh. That’s all there’s to it.” (Tomoki)

“No way. Tomoki-sama is even using that power that chips away your very life to fight against the demon race. Just what other kind of power are you aiming to have in that body of yours?” (Lily)

The new power that Tomoki obtained.

Lily heard that this is a powerful magic that can defeat in one hit the person considered the peak of this world, the Dragon Slayer.

It has quite a large range, and without any decay in strength, it activates at its highest output; a shining flame. Moreover, if by chance the target survives, it will inflict a special poison. In a war, it is a power that is scarily effective.

It has the price of chipping off Tomoki’s life, so it is something that can’t be abused, but Lily is sure that he would be able to use it without hesitating when in need.

For Lily, this new power of Tomoki gave her incredible joy. But because of this reason, she was troubled by the possibility of Tomoki obtaining a new power. No, accurately speaking, she was scared of the risk that comes from the acquisition of a new power.

He has obtained a spell that shaves off his own life, so she is most likely scared of the possibility of gaining another power that might affect his life.

“Lily, about what you said before leaving to Rotsgard, you can still prepare it, right?” (Tomoki)

“… Tomoki-sama, that’s poisonous to the body. It is something involved with the Empire’s research team that does body modification to go against the demon race. I think that there’s no need for Tomoki-sama now that you have obtained such a splendid power.” (Lily)

“No. In the end, even my charm was useless with Tomoe. But… if it’s not enough, I just need to increase it. She is a dragon. Then if I get a dragon element in me like Mora and make it one with my power, I will be able to obtain a charm power that even she can’t go against! Also, if I obtain the aptitude for more powers, it will also affect my attack power. Any elements that will make me stronger, place them all in me!” (Tomoki)

“Tomoki-sama, you can’t! Even if you defeat the demon race, what would be the point if you don’t have life remaining by the time you will reign? Please take care of your life.” (Lily)

“… I will win. At the war and everything else. If it doesn’t end in my complete win, there’s no point. I don’t want to live by lying to myself anymore. I…will do whatever I wish and live without any regrets! I will crush Raidou and the demon race. I will make Tomoe mine. Like hell I will give up!! Lily, if you are not going to cooperate, I will do that method even if it’s without you. I will definitely reach it!!” (Tomoki)

The eyes of Tomoki were filled with a dangerous light.

“For you to be…this cornered…” (Lily)

Lily faces away and trembles as if overcome with emotion.

“Please. I know it is conceited of me after rejecting it once already, BUT please lend me your strength! I wish for power. This is the first time I have tried so hard. I don’t want to give up!!” (Tomoki)

“…”

“Lily!” (Tomoki)

“Under…stood. Please rest for today. I will do the preparations.” (Lily)

“Thanks! Thanks, Lily!” (Tomoki)

“If you feel anything out of order in your body, definitely tell me please. Okay?” (Lily)

“Got it. I will show you that I can definitely bring victory to the Empire!!” (Tomoki)

“I will be waiting for that day with my whole heart. Well then, please rest Tomoki-sama.” (Lily)

Receiving the words of Tomoki with her back, the princess that had an expression as if resolving herself to a heavy decision, turned around and lowered her head.

A while after she left his room, Lily returns to her own room with her grave expression still plastered on her face as she walks the corridor.

The state of the princess that showed it was not a trivial matter had spread through the castle, and it created several speculations.

And then, when she returned to her own room which she had security increased around, and threw herself to her canopy bed facing up.

Covering her eyes with her right arm, her mouth crooked into a smile.

“Kufufufu… ahahaha!! Just how gullible can he be?! Even if we win the war, Tomoki has already lost his peace and his time for enjoyment. Good job cutting his last remnant of hesitation. Raidou, thank you. If I just bring out your name, the Tomoki from now on will thoroughly desire power. You have done at least this much, ufufu.” (Lily)

The monologue of the laughing princess continued.

More power to Tomoki.

More pain to the demon race.

A big fire will fall upon this time of war.

As if charmed by Tomoki- no- charmed by war, the princess repeats her crazed laughter.

“… Really, an ideal hero. We were really destined to meet each other, Tomoki. It is not Raidou or Hibiki but you who will be the hero that grants my wish. That’s how it is… that’s how it is, right Goddess?” (Lily)

Just once, she whispered coldly with blank eyes as she gazes at the distance.

After that, she continued her loud laughter for a while, and in time, she had gone to sleep.

◇◆◇◆ Makoto’s Dream ◇◆◇◆

<Two Makotos will be showing up. But you are already acquainted with this anyways.>

Uhmm…

A desert huh.

I certainly did go to a desert today.

Returning to Asora with Tomoe and Shiki, I received a report about the Empire’s hyuman body experimentation and its use in war, information about the Valkyries, and also about the research of guns.  

I did ask them to investigate the atmosphere of the city, but the two of them really did get quite the deep information there.

There was one point that was in my mind.

The guns.

Princess Lily who had heard about this concept from Tomoki was zeal in recreating them.

Just that she was unable to solve the problem of spontaneous discharges and its size. In the end, the result was that they were able to recreate a handgun and rifle that Tomoki knows of,  which requires a high amount of magic power. It couldn’t properly shoot a metallic bullet.

If we take it from a different perspective, a somewhat skillful magician would be able to utilize this weapon for self-protection.

The cost doesn’t match its performance and its usage in real scenarios is still low. Or more like, it just turned in a rare weapon.

Tomoe said that there’s practically nothing to expect from its combat performance in the future.

From the victims of the spontaneous discharges, she set her sight on gunpowder and has changed her plan into utilizing them as bombs and its utilization.

In this world they can use magic power to increase its power, but it is a tool that can be used even by normal soldiers and civilians. At the current state, it is actually taking form.

She is truly tenacious.

Explosives and hyumans.

I don’t think that’s a good combination.

If you ask me which one I think is more dangerous between guns and explosives, it’s something I can’t judge yet.

But well, this is just my impression from the report I received about the Empire.

—-

Right now, I am looking at a desert.

It is not the white sand sea.

I was sleeping at Asora after all.

…

I see.

In other words, this is a dream huh.

This time it is a quarter-view huh. How complex.

“Even in this world, the moon of the desert is beautiful. What do you think?”

A voice.

Low and masculine.

It sounded like the voice of a man at the prime of his life.

“Hah… is that something you should say at this moment, Makoto?”

Makoto?

Does that mean, it is me?

?!!!!

Eeeeh?!

When I follow the voice and look, there were two shadows at the desert’s night.

“Is it because it doesn’t compare to the one of the White Desert? It is sad to say but, I haven’t gone to the deserts of Earth. It is certainly true that someone like me shouldn’t be saying this huh.” (Manly Makoto(lol))

… A beard.

My wording of ‘boku’ has turned into ‘ore’, and I have a beard.

This… just who is this Raidou-san?

“Are you an idiot? This is a desert you created yourself. That’s why I am telling you what in the world you are saying.”

“No matter who has created it, a desert is a desert, right? Tomoki.” (Makotwo)

Tomoki.

Ah, certainly.

It is Tomoki.

There’s plenty resemblance.

Yeah.

“You go talking about people being crazy, but you know, you are the one that is the craziest. Would you normally go changing a country into a desert? And with only one hit of a magic spell.” (Tomoki)

“Tomoki, didn’t you also use a spell that copies nuclear bombs? I think that’s also inhumane you know. It is plenty into the madness territory.” (Makotwo)

“Don’t put me in your same level. Mine has a demerit of shaving my own life, and I use it with the objective of instilling fear in my opponents. If they surrender with that one attack, it is possible to avoid needless deaths in the war.” (Tomoki)

“…That’s your way of putting it. That power of yours was unnecessarily accelerated by the madness of Lily. And that…has made it impossible to return everything to how it originally was.” (Makotwo)

Things about nukes and creating deserts, what a dangerous conversation.

It was like that at the last dream where senpai appeared, but these dreams are way too violent.

I…do I have a dangerous ideology?

Maybe I just haven’t noticed it yet. Am I tired?

“Can’t return? Hyumans had to destroy the demon race. Because Hibiki died an early death, the weight of it all came onto Gritonia. If you are wailing about the acceleration of the war, go blaming that incompetent Hibiki.” (Tomoki)

“Senpai huh. That person too, if you or I were to go help her, there was a chance she would have been saved. We could have avoided her dying helplessly against Io.” (Makotwo)

“Stop the ‘if’ talk. At that time, we had to increase the defense of our own country. This was Lily’s decision as well. Also, don’t go assuming things. If I hadn’t picked your dying self from the border of the world, you wouldn’t even be existing right now, you know?” (Tomoki)

“You really bring out quite the old talk. About that case, I am actually grateful you know. Travelling through that desert for more than one week, I who was prepared for death, was given shelter by you guys. Looking back, I might have been happier if I just died at that time though.” (Makotwo)

“Keh. And yet, you did quite the big thing. What’s with this? Is this how you repay your benefactors?!” (Tomoki)

“It’s not like I went against your orders, right? This was Lily’s will. That’s why I haven’t gone against you until now. That’s if you didn’t give me any orders that would bring me harm, that is.” (Makotwo)

“… ‘Obtain Lorel’, is what I told you though?” (Tomoki)

“That’s why, I accomplished such an order that makes one question the sanity of it, and obtained it, right? This is Lorel. Do whatever you want with it. The people, history, knowledge; everything into dust. No, I turned it into sand, but this is without doubt Lorel Union.” (Makotwo)

“What happened to the Valkyries that were with you?” (Tomoki)

“Sadly, they became sacrifices.” (Makotwo)

“So you killed them?” (Tomoki)

“What a bad accusation. They were just dragged into the plan and died, that’s all.” (Makotwo)

I-Incredible.

From their conversation just now, this desert is all Lorel Union?

And this is something I did with some sort of magic spell?

That me in the other dream clearly used Sakai in a different way than me. No, even if I say that the person there was me, it still feels incredibly weird.

“What about Yukinatsu who infiltrated first?” (Tomoki)

“Who knows. If she escaped, she should be somewhere; if she couldn’t escape, she died. In wars, people die. Enemies and allies alike.” (Makotwo)

“Even so, there’s no war where it is fine for allies to shoot the back of allies.” (Tomoki)

“Hoh… These are not the words I expected to hear from the man that killed all the emperor candidates and the parties that supported them, and turned into the next emperor.” (Makotwo)

“The emperor candidates and the ones following them were the minority though!” (Tomoki)

“You had already charmed almost all the other people after all. The people that remained were the loyal retainers that weren’t bewildered by it. That charm of yours won’t make what you did right.” (Makotwo)

“… The citizens, bureaucrats, and the army as well; they were wishing for my enthronement.” (Tomoki)

“That’s also the charm. I don’t know why you made me increase the power of that charm and why you depended on it.” (Makotwo)

“… What did you say?” (Tomoki)

Uh.

What this me just said… I actually think the same way.

Why is this guy so stuck into charm?

This may be a dream, but the Tomoki that I met at the Empire was also dependant on it and seemed to be using it frequently.

“Instilling others to have a good opinion of you. That means you are dyeing others into your own colors.” (Makotwo)

“And what about it? What’s wrong with it? Using one’s own charm as weapon is not really something strange.” (Tomoki)

“This is not charm, you are charming them. To plant your own will into others. Putting it in another way, you are just mass producing people that follow your own image. Forcefully instilling deep affection into the minds of others, you make them your slaves. Someone narcissistic like you probably doesn’t pay it any mind, but from my point of view, this is not mutual understanding but masturbation.” (Makotwo)

“Y-You!!” (Tomoki)

“I won’t say that Hibiki-senpai’s charisma is any different from your charm. If I had to talk about personal relationships, the two are practically the same after all. But you grew too dependant of it. As a result, in the Empire there’s only you and your puppets. It became a country of zombies.” (Makotwo)

“Shut up…If I didn’t do that, people like you and Hibiki would be sprouting everywhere!!” (Tomoki)

“So you don’t need people that go against your will huh. I see. My olden question has been answered.” (Makotwo)

“… Talking all high-and-mighty. Then what about you? Lily, she was also one of my slaves. The first woman I turned into a slave. And you who were attached to her and turned a country into sand, what about you? Try saying something!” (Tomoki)

I-Is this a flow where I am in love with Princess Lily?

No, this me?

What a fantasy-filled development.

“Lily was not caught in your charm at all. Even in her dying breath.” (Makotwo)

“… What?” (Tomoki)

“She was only using your power. In the time of the Goddess’ silence, Lily had lost her mother. Unable to eliminate that sadness, unable to accept that reality, she had lived in the political world just like that. Those warped feelings must have made her view the existence of a hero as amusing. The Goddess that goes silent or saves hyumans at a whim, the Goddess that didn’t save her parents. A hero that was given so late. That’s you, Tomoki. Lily was wringing you, using you to slaughter the demon race, and then was trying to turn a mess of the Empire that let her parents die. No, in essence, it was fulfilled huh.” (Makotwo)

“Wring me out? Lily was? You… Makoto, what in the hell are you saying?” (Tomoki)

“If I had met Lily, if I had met her earlier than you, it might not have led her into such a road of madness and sadness. A stupid decision from indecisiveness that led to her death. I can’t lament it enough.” (Makotwo)

“So you go venting on me huh. In the end, you are just getting chained by the past, and completely ignoring the present and the future it will bring!! If you had such power, you would have been able to finish the war a lot more simply. Something like Lily, if you didn’t mind used goods, I wouldn’t have minded giving her to you if you just grovelled.” (Tomoki)

“… Can’t be helped. The moment I noticed my power was when I killed the Demon Lord after all.” (Makotwo)

“…Ah?” (Tomoki)

!!!

Killed the Demon Lord?!

I don’t think this way.

I don’t hold any affection for the princess, and I don’t have any intentions of killing the Demon Lord.

I am not thinking about any of these at all!!

Princess Lily is indeed an older and beautiful girl, and is slightly to my taste but!

“At that moment, I craved power for the first time. While you were pathetically lying down on the floor. The awakening that resulted from this, was neither a grateful thing nor a good timing at all. Because it was already all too late. Just like what you said, I am venting on you, and while at it, picking a fight on that trash Goddess. That’s the only thing I could think of.” (Makotwo)

“The Demon Lord…was killed by me with that spell…” (Tomoki)

“You only made the Demon Lord get serious. While you were comfortably sleeping, I killed them. The Demon Lord, and the demon race as well. And, I will be killing you now.” (Makotwo)

“What are you saying…” (Tomoki)

“If I do that, the Goddess will also come out. If she doesn’t, I will just have to create one or two more deserts. It is like increasing the size of the World’s Border. I wonder how long will that Goddess stay silent for. Looking forward to seeing that.” (Makotwo)

“This world finally finished its battle you know?! Isn’t it natural to create peace from now on?! You, did you go completely insane?!” (Tomoki)

“Having peace after a war, who decided that? Once war is over, another war will occur. Those kind of cases happen too.” (Makotwo)

“…Seriously, I shouldn’t have saved you at that time. Understood, I will be bringing you to hell here. Let me tell you, your spell won’t work on me. It will be one sided, but don’t complain.” (Tomoki)

“While it is night, right? Your immortality is also a power that the Goddess gave you. I don’t care. I will be killing you until morning. Go to the netherworld as the sun rises.” (Makotwo)

Hey hey hey, is it turning into a fight?

But how will this me be fighting? I have a slight interest in it.

Because he has an attack that can create a desert.

Also, I am interested in the sword he has in his hand.

I don’t have any knowledge in swords. But does this me have? If he does, just what kind of sword style will he swing with?

I want to see.

I want to overwatch this.

The previous dream had ended in the middle but this time…

Eh.

What.

My vision is fading.

The two fighting are growing distant.

A change of vision as if being lifted up.

The desert steadily shows a full picture. Ah…

“… Damn it, as expected, a dream. It is a dream I don’t see at the Empire or at Rotsgard though.” (Makoto)

I silently open my eyes in my sleeping face-up position.

“But I had turned into quite the stern-looking old man. He was even saying ‘ore’. As usual, Tomoe and the others were nowhere in sight.” (Makoto)

Also, I was in the wastelands for more than one week, was it?

If I were to totter that much, I certainly could die.

That time I was thrown into the borders, depending on where I stepped into, I might have ended up that way as well.

My back feels chilly just thinking about it.

“Since making archery a habit in Asora, this happened. I know that this is not a precognitive dream, but it leaves a bad aftertaste.” (Makoto)

I can’t go back to sleep, so while thinking that using the bow might not be a bad idea, I was somehow able to get up but couldn’t get in the mood.

I forcefully wrap myself in my blanket and closed my eyes to the dream funnel.

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486 thoughts on “Chapter 181: Devised Decision, the Desert’s Dream”

  1. i think

    first dream : how about makoto alliance with demon race.
    because this line :
    “Senpai and the young priestess saw this sight as soon as they arrived here, and now they’re glaring at me.
    With eyes full of anger and hatred.
    I can’t blame them, since they just saw one of their companions die right before their eyes.
    But was Ilumgand an ally of Senpai’s known as the black knight? Not only that, but I think the hatred towards me in the eyes of those two is clearly not something that was only just born from this event.
    There’s no signs of surprise or confusion; they started glaring at me with loathing and fury straight away, which means that from the very beginning…” (chapter 176)
    and maybe because he doesn’t destroy the gate in chapter 06 and doesn’t meet shin(tomoe) and meet with demon race instead.

    second dream : how about makoto alliance with empire (at first)

  3. Wasn’t the time that hibiki got a second power like the atomic bomb from tomoki, that “thing” (Idon’t remmember what was it/him/her) explain her that there was a power that creates paralels worlds, I got to look for that chapter again, it was the time shiki caught hibiki in a shield so she couln’t be damaged

    1. The power of Hibiki is like a power UP that use the toughts of the poeple about her
      “A power that is passively activated. To change the concept that people place on her into power, huh. She is a charismatic girl so, I wonder, just how much will this enlarge her? The price was only to decrease her amount of magic power, so it is something she would soon get back anyways”

      1. yeah I know, but don’t you remmember that there was a power that creates parallels univers? hibiki refused it, I was wandering if makoto have that power by accident

        1. Not quite. Hibiki was offered a time traveling “reset” power, which she refused. It would have caused a lot of parallel universes to get created if it was used.

          Makoto sees dreams of these AUs, but he’s still in a place with a set history.

  4. Thanks for the chapter. It makes me wonder if these dreams Makoto is having are dreams that could have been. If he was found and rescued by one of the heroes in the desert when first arrive in that world.

  5. Yes, keep showing him tragic AUs until he realizes how lucky he is and properly kisses his girls.

    Also I think he should forcefully save Lily. He doesn’t take responsibility for the world and his other self’s feelings are not his own, but he should be able to do that much for the sake of what might have been.

    1. I want to take it a step further and show him AUs where he actually does have a relationship with any of his girls(or Shiki, if that Makoto is into that) to make more more overly conscious of them.

      Honestly, yeah. This doesn’t seem to suit a series that’s focused on pragmatism and neutrality, but Makoto starting to shoot for a best end for all parties using these visions(of course still prioritizing Asora) doesn’t sound bad.

  6. I don’t think anyone’s mentioned this, but it is interesting seeing how far Gritonia progressed in their firearms research. I’m pleased to see that Tomoki doesn’t know the exact recipe for gunpowder, otherwise, they wouldn’t have needed to use magic to make up for the deficiencies. Although, I am still concerned about the bombs.

    2. I don’t understand the need to focus on gunpowder specifically. This is a world with magic. Surely, they must have something along the lines of a crystal they can store magic power in, then release it / make it explode by adding a little more, or by shattering it (or whatever other mechanism you can come up with).

      That would be better for them, since magic is something they understand (at least better than what they’re dabbling in), so it would be more reliable. They should just use the concept of the gun and think of how to make it work better through magic instead.

      Also, it shows that Tomoki is not the thinking type. He can only share the pieces of knowledge he picked up, but can’t (or won’t) try to fill in the gaps himself.

      Not to mention making his super power a fission bomb (minus the actual bomb part). If he wanted destructive power, he should have, at the very least, asked for the ability to trigger matter annihilation, like when matter and anti-matter interact.

      Sorry for the rant, but I still can’t get over the fact that he could pick any power at all, and he went with an “Atomic bomb”, because he doesn’t have any imagination himself, and can’t make up something better.

      1. You have a point about the guns. But either this world doesn’t have a way to store magic, or the residents have never found it (which I find hard to believe). But otherwise, the entire purpose of the guns was to make weapons that non magic users can use to slaughter people. While magic is cool, one must never forget that in some cases, science is superior. I’d bet that Lily doesn’t even understand why guns have such superior stopping power, even though she practically has wet dreams over them.

      2. @coatl45

        That’s why I suggested that the stored power could be released by shattering them, probably even by a similar mechanism as our guns trigger the gunpowder.

        And Lily doesn’t know why guns are so good, because Tomoki doesn’t understand it either, which is in line with my earlier rant. I’m guessing all he knows is: bullets have powder that goes boom and makes the bullet fly really fast.

        He’s at least on the right track, that the faster something goes, the harder it hits, he just doesn’t know about stuff like rifling, or what it actually does.

        IIRC, Makoto did consider guns, but found them impractical in the current world, because of magic, and more specifically, that the world’s inhabitants are generally not as squishy as us humans. At least the ones the guns are supposed to be used against aren’t (soldiers, rather than civilians).

        He only considered using the guns as an instrument of war, where it would be used against soldiers, who he probably assumes have enough training in magic to make the non-magic guns useless. Then again, he only considered guns as they are on earth, and probably didn’t give it much thought about adapting the design for this world.

        I don’t blame him for that. He’s not a warmonger, and he finds the stuff that’s already around more than good enough for his needs.

      3. I think Lily was so obsessed with guns because it was a new kind of weapon. As we can see the Empire is heavily invested in researching new weapons and improving their soldiers.
        Lily also likes the idea of guns as they are a weapon which show the same attack power regardless who is using it. The idea is that even weak and untrained soldiers can be turned into a force to be reckoned with.

        The only problem is that this world has magic and the inhabitants are much stronger. Unless they find a way to improve the firepower efficiently to balance this out guns will remain useless in the war against the demons who have even higher base stats than the hyumans.
        Just don’t forget that Lily also plans to wage war against the other hyuman countries after they defeat the demons. Against weaker hyumans the guns could be useful.

        About using crystals and such. Even if they have them they might be too expensive to make it worth using them in guns. Or they are too rare to enable the mass production of guns with it.
        They already have a gun that uses magic. The problem is that it needs a skilled magician to be usable and its too expensive. They want a gun that can be efficiently mass produced and can be used by everybody while still having the needed stopping power.
        If they make something like grenades instead it could be better. In the current situation if the are against strong demons or monsters guns are as usable as shooting with a pistol at a tank. Explosives though can allow even a common foot soldier to blow up a tank.

        Probably they already tried what they could but don’t forget that the hyumans are not that advanced. They all this time relied only on the blessings of the goddess and were too lazy to improve themselves in any significant way. The demons are way ahead of them.

        About Tomoki. I don’t think that an average 15 year old japanese could really come up with something better than a nuclear bomb when he searches for the most destructive power. After all the japanese experienced its power up close and know its terror.
        Tomoki also said that he used it as a deterrent too against the hyumans to make them surrender.

        1. I’m suddenly reminded of Sophia’s claims about the influence of “the individual” compared to the masses.

          Even if Lily manages to pull off mass production of guns, the major damage wouldn’t be against the “boss” types, would it? Granted, making your “majority” better than the others is valuable, and closing the gap towards the individuals even more so, but the value of guns is kinda empty isn’t it?

      4. Makoto did tell Mio about the guns. And she somehow created her own pseudo-magic guns with her own body and black magic. They don’t seem to be effective against that half-dragon general Reft, who had that BS “reflect” ability.

    1. Also, Spoiler-san either didn’t pick up on the parallel world thing or just forgot about it. Don’t forget, Spoiler-san had to read through incoherent clumps of text brought by Google Translate. So Spoiler-san isn’t sure if he picked up on it or if he just forgot like Spoiler-san said earlier.

          1. It wasn’t it was someone else enterely, they post the link in the comment of a couple of chapters back, I guess it was the one where Makoto met Tomoki

          4. Yeah, this is not Spoiler-san’s work. Whomever is doing this is evil. I know about this as I read that far in the raws, but still. Even I abandoned a little project that Spoiler-san wanted to do, which was un-clump the incoherent clumps of text from google translate and post them. But that would be a disrespect for Reigo-senpai and all translators out there. I think that the person responsible is disrespectful, all there is to it.

          5. well every one has free will to do this kind of stuff so lets not mind it. Whats done is done. And people who don’t want spoils should’nt even click that link :v

  8. Wow, Trashmoki is still after Tomoe after all the beating he received? He still wants to “obtain” her like she is a new toy. Just how obsessed is he? He is pathetic beyond salvation…

    Thanks for the chapter 🙂

    1. That’s because she’s the first one he couldn’t actually obtain. He has his charm power, his rank and if necessary, his relatively overwhelming power, so he can get whatever he wants. People like him quickly get bored of the things they get and always look for more stuff. He’s still obsessed with Tomoe, because he wasn’t able to satisfy his desire, and therefore doesn’t have the means of getting over her (getting bored of her).

  16. Thank you Reigokai-san~
    And my wish about Tomoko-bitch sulking chapter is granted >:D but i hope that dream just a mere dream, it’s not fun if this series gonna be Drama with tragic ending T_T

  17. Wow, comment storm! But I understand, this chapter was awesome. Paths not taken, and all that… And the punchline? Emma saved the world. Go Emma! 😆

    Thanks for all your hard work, Reigo-san! 😄

  18. Thank you Kai-senpai.
    Maybe makoto will look bad in this world too? And of all the parallels is the first that says that he fell in love, I’ll be looking forward in this

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  20. I think makotwo’s change trigger is losing his asora family due to some big event that make him lost in desert of nowhere. Umu, and till now I still think this ‘premonition power’ as amaterasu’s present.

    1. It is not exactly premonition as his dreams are not HIS future as Tomoki explicitly mentions a different past. If Makoto wandered in the desert and never met the orcs he would never have met Tomoe and Asora would not be made (Makoto’s Sekai and Tomoe’s illusion world)
      This is clearly a new gift from another God since language was Buggodess and Sekai was from Tsukiyomi) Makotwo or at least the one in this chapter( since the Makoto in the first dream killed Hibiki and this one Io did) was dyed by Lily’s hatred to the Buggodess

  21. Thanks for the chapter!
    This is like splitting road from mushoku tensei, so dark and so badass yet I really hope it didn’t happen to our current MC, in short it’s a good complicated feeling.

  22. Thx for the chapter. Apparently his dreams are about an alternate reality where he didn´t met Tomoe, Mio, Shiki and Co. and was picked up by the Empire instead. But these chapters are really bringing memorys back from when I read the WN of Mushoku Tensei where the Rudeus from the future shows up. God were those chapters intense, especially when Rudeus read his “Mirai Nikki” which was really f%&@§d up. But why the Goddess did they have to exclude the fight against Grount I ask. It was a promising fight after all!!

  23. Well reading through the comments, I’ve gained so much understanding, insight and well, knowledge.
    In the main timeline, Lily advancing her mad cynical plan. Well Motoko knows about to and extent but still, she building up the hero to war……..a lot of interesting things are set for the future and I’m quite looking forward to them.
    On a side note. I’m extremely glad that that second version didn’t happened. Motoko falling for the princess Lily or getting used by her, I really really don’t want that to happen. I just don’t like her character, but I do hope that she can be changed or reformed. That death isn’t the only remedy to ease her suffering and personality. As even if she gets her revenge and her way (I hope she doesn’t get her way), she will still be empty and suffering.
    Do note, I’m not on her side.

    1. Makoto’s dreams are alternate realities. Alternate realities where certain events changed. In the first dream, Makoto is enemy of hyumankind and Hibiki . Obvious events changed include Mio did not kill the mutant knight. (Note: the mutation in the academy city did happen since the knight was a mutant and he regained consciousness. How it actually occurred and what exactly happened doesn’t matter or is mentioned. Just that certain events did or did not happen) In the second dream, Makoto kept wandering, never met Ema and joined Tomoki and had a romance with Lily.(Note: because Makoto never made Asora and joined Tomoki, the goddess never kidnapped him to save Hibiki)
      In Alter Lily’s defense, it is completely possible that she was a changed woman, but by that time it was too late. As Makotwo knew a lot about Lily that she wouldn’t normally reveal and as he mentioned things may have been different if she met him before Tomoki.

  25. Uhmmm, ok I think i get what’s going on here…..
    Parallel World Foresight or some shit like that maybe?
    Ok what if Makoto now has the ability to see the future of a different timeline?
    Something like the butterfly effect, every single decision he makes will cause an effect whether it’s good or bad but the ones he is seeing right now are the disastrous ones.
    I mean sure Makoto has beef with the bug but not to the point of straight up killing her as far as I know…

    1. Hahahaha yhea rightl…..this second dream is when he met lilly and fell in love with her. It seems Lilly is also in love with him since he knows about her past that tomoki does’nt. Lilly hates the Goddess as ever and Makoto was almost dieying at the wasteland, where he was picked up by tomoki or lilly. Some shit happens and Makoto lameted Lilly’s death and plans to kill the godess because of her death. Probably.

  26. I remember those three gods (Athena, Susanoo, and the other scary god) complaining about having to destroy other worlds that were created because of Makoto, so maybe these dreams aren’t dreams but visions of those other worlds, those parallel world where Makoto is much much crueler than he is in this world

    1. I thought it was mentioned somewhere that the root cause of multiple worlds is because of hibiki & tomothrash? The other god wanted to dump the task of destroying those worlds to Mankoto?

    2. The other god that you forgot his name i guess. Is named as the God of destruction Shiva. And i think he is also known as one of the Gods of fortune in jap mythology.

  28. Is there is a possibility that his two other self from alternate timeline come to the come to his timeline since I remember that root say that he can go to past and future ?
    Since it look convincing that they would come in order to kill bug right?

  29. Now everthing is clear like what i said before in the previews chapter the 1st dream if mio dint erase completely the mutant knight makoto will be the one killing it along with Hibiki and priestess-chan with a microwave attack and now this 2nd dream if makoto dint meet ema and save his clan he will become a super villain who wants to kill the Goddess and all beings along with Princess Lily help who also hates the world and the Goddess. Meaning to say this that Makoto has the Power of Choice reminding him if he dint choose the good option destruction and slaugther will be the end result. What a nasty power i say that.!

  31. thanks for the chapter!

    “After that, she continued her loud laughter for a while, and in time, she had gone to sleep.”
    remember kids, 10min of evil laught before going to sleep keep the doctor away! (be warned: may attract cops)

    and another proof that makoto is fucked up

    1. I think its more like that he too has the capability to go to the wrong path not only the other heroes. He just has way more power than them so he can create a lot more desruction.

  32. I’m guessing in the first dream, he sided with Hibiki but never met his current 3 servants(shin, spider and lich), then regretted it and became a psycho killer who hates hyumanity. And in this desert dream, he sided with Tomoki and similar shit happens when he finds out how fucked up the empire is.

    1. Well either he was alone and that made him darker/evil or they died because of the goddess and now Makoto seeks revenge in the first dream.
      I guess that in the second one he either still hates that bug for almost killing him in the wasteland (though it was already many years ago) or she did something stupid again to Makoto to make him want to kill her again.

      1. I think in Makotwo’s case, it was Lily who caused him to pick the fight. He didn’t have any good impressions of her to begin with, but Lily actually hates Bug so much she’s somewhat insane.

        The dream implies Mankoto (lol) was pretty attached to Lily and lamented her death, so he’s trying to fight the Bug since there’s nothing else he can do.

      2. In the second dream it appears that he had fallen in love with Lily who seemed to resent the bug for one reason or another so it’s also possible that Makotwo took on Lily’s revenge as well.

        1. To be honest, I’m not sure I trust master manipulator and functionally insane Lily to actually love someone, even someone like Makoto. It’s actually a nice thought, personally, but I think it’s at least equally likely that Lily was leading Mankoto by the nose too.

          Regarding knowing her past…well, it’s not like it’s a particularly hidden event that Lily’s mother died that way, is it? The dream made Mankoto’s feelings towards her fairly explicit, so I feel like he’d be able to piece the truth together much more easily than Tomoki, who’s too self-centered to even understand people he charms are just pieces of himself.

          1. Well lets just go ride and say she was in love with makoto since makoto was attach to lilly even when he knew her true personality right? Not even the kings knows that part about her.

  33. Awww… now I feel like I want lily to be saved by makoto saying a cool line like:

    “Stop, Lily. I’ve seen how this will end”

    Then throws a memory crystal rolling towards her.

    1. And it turns out to be the wrong memory crystal. He meant to give her the one with memories of her Bad End’s, instead he gave her the one of that one dream where he was just an OP pervert, and the crystal shows Makoto secretly observing Lily while she eats, bathes, sleeps, and how the OP Pervert him secretly steals her underwear and adds it to his collection in Asora.

  34. Makotwo answered a question I had since the Hero summoning : “I won’t say that Hibiki-senpai’s charisma is any different from your charm. If I had to talk about personal relationships, the two are practically the same after all. But you grew too dependant of it.”
    I knew it her charisma is the type that makes a somewhat charismatic person into a protagonist, armor plot more or less.

    1. So that’s why Hoplace guy was good when he was with Hibiki and turned into a douche when he left her side.
      But Hibiki doesn’t know about this power right?

      1. The hoplace guy was drugged by the demons while he was distraught over love. Makoto thought he was planning to do something bad to the girl, so he basically spent all his time unknowingly co*kblocking him. It was kinda sad when everything was revealed. Even though someone in story wondered why he didn’t just send a letter.

      2. Its something similar to Tomoki’s charm but in a different vector, Tomoki enslaves while Hibiki is turning into either Saint or Messiah thanks to her “aura”.”Plot armor” is the best explanation I can think right now, unless she says something outrageous nobody will doubt her.

  35. Thanks for the Chapter!

    Damn, Makotwo is bad-ass!… And insane!

    The good part is that the real Makoto got a huge source of spoilers from his dreams, he now knows Lily’s plan, back-story and Trashmoki’s nuke ability.

  36. regardless the alternate universe that shitty tomoki did not learn anything after the beating. maybe makoto should have leave his injury and make him reflected for a longer time.

  37. Thanks for the chapter!! I don’t know wether somebody have mentioned this or not. But can you change the comment section into disqus? I think it’s more convenient and easy to use imo.
    Anyway i’m just glad that you are back. Wish that money would grow on tree so that i can donate you everyday to make it a daily update lol.

    Also, what will the happen to the side stories? Is there anynews of someone tl it?

    1. I kind of prefer this system though. Discus annoys me for some reason.

      I think it’s that a single comment + replies can cause all other comments to need to load, and it takes way too long to read through them all.

      1. I don’t mind the current system either, though I would have liked it better if you could have more levels of nested comments.

  40. “While it is night, right? Your immortality is also a power that the Goddess gave you. I don’t care. I will be killing you until morning. Go to the netherworld as the sun rises.”

    Did Makoto just obtain intel on Kuso-moki’s powers? Yes! Yes he did!

  42. Here’s my conclusion:
    What makoto sees is a his life’s timeline where everylife of his has a different storyline,just like the first dream,makoto is the one that kills the hero’s,second he was found in the border by the empire and attached to lily.
    I think in some of his timelines he didnt create asora or met Tomoe,Mio and Shiki.In his present time this makoto now,is obtaining a bit of each makoto’s timeline memories….

    1. dream series makes people reread the story as
      Ilum survived because Mio didnt messes with him yet Raidou still powerful enough to save Hibiki party without getting himself cornered by Sophia
      so he came to kill goddess by cook Hibiki with microwave

      2nd dream, Goddess didnt throw him because he were already support a hero team => Hibiki died
      Lily became the first beauty that he met as the only one not controlled by charm so he fell inlove and became her HolyGodFather of All Bomb
      so he decided to HGFoAB Tomoki to die to kill Goddess

      so … even without Asora, Raidou can still raise his power hight enough to kill Sophia at the suprice attack then murder the hero party before kill goddess

      1. Hahaha thanks for the share….
        Sorry its really troublesome to type it down the dream series…..thanks anyway…

        I also think that if he’s present timeline there is Tomoe,Mio and shiki also asora….unlike the others…maybe…

  43. This chapter went real dark within sentences..

    Anyways, would really like to see Tomiki be destroyed again upon learning that Tomoe is on a Contract with Makoto~

    Also, where the heck is the fight scene of Makoto with Grount? I was actually expecting that to show in this chapter.

    Finally, thanks for the chapter

    PS Loved the dream sequence, seeing the theories that it provides a lot of insight into the future(?) or an alternate reality(?)

    2. Well, when you think about it, something like a misunderstanding and tangle with an ok-strong dragon, is not something important to Makoto. He did get the misunderstanding fixed, after all.

  44. i wonder if these possibilities would end up meeting each other. since y’know, “the only way to defeat a monster is use a same kind of monster”

    2. If he reliabls what is happening is a possibility for the future, study and gather information from it( as everything that happened in the dream are all true, the post events) then he can prevent that future from happening.

    1. What do you mean? There is a new side stories? I didn’t see that, I only know side story 1 and 2 and while Lighnovelbastion said he will pick up, he has still not released any.

      Also I excepted Makoto to be forced/accidentally killed the dragon (she was going to suicide) and Makoto would have to raise the 5 dragons (Lancer, Shadow, Fire, Sand and Water) by himself. Plus it would be fun to rise the power of Makoto faction even further. (So now, everybody from Asora has 6 dragon blessings, 2 more than Sofia.)

      4. Spoiler-sans…..

        Well, I read the spanish SS-s with google translate. It seems that the greek gods were using Tsuki-god’s automated system for their office work, and almost rioted when they found out he was MIA. Tsukiyomi is a super-salaryman of the Gods???

      5. All the gods will try to revive Tsukuyomi, Amaterasu approved it to get less work.
        Poseidon gave the idea. (Tsukoyomi is very appreciated by all for his automated systems)
        It seems that Susano and other gods talked with Tsukoyomi in the dream´s world (I think is called Takamagahara).
        That page had many spelling mistakes.
        Even me, who speak spanish, I did not understand much

        1. Se lo que quieres decir, realmente le agradesco por lo que hiso, pero realmente necesita trabajar en sus conjugaciones y buscarse a alguien que le ayude a editar. Pero estoy seguo que solo van a mejorar las traducciones.

    1. I believe that the presents that the other gods gave him, with the prerequisite of meeting the heroes, is that he will have dreams of what will happen if he continues the relationship with says hero, pushing him in the path of Godhood. Please someone correct me if I am wrong.

      1. I don t think so its a diffrent road that would have happened if he made other choices if he didn t ema and still go on walking in desert and was picked up by the hero

      2. He’s having dreams about alternate universes, the ones that have pretty much gone to ruin already.

        Begin dream explaination

        The last one, i dont quite know what the setting for that one was (gotta reread it). But this chapter was him if he was never found by ema and instead tomoki found him and they nursed him back at the empire. He would have became aquaintences with tomoki amping his charm to effect the whole empire, he fell in love with lily. However he did not realize the power of his sekai so he used a sword it seemed.
        Looks like lily and hibiki would have both died in the demon’s two prong attack(instead of him saving everyone) and he went off to fight the demon lord with tomoki.
        The would defeat the demon lord but only after tomoki uses his final explosion ability and makoto awakens to his sekai. After that tomoki would become emporer(with makoto’s help) believing that he killed the demon lord in the explosion. Somewhere along the line makoto starts to blame the goddess for everything that happens and begins to take things out on her world until she appears (desertfying cities) he even planned to kill tomoki there so that she would come out of hiding and he could kill her.

        End of dream explanation

        1. One addendum.
          Makoto and Tomoki are both old here, so Lily and the Demon Lord’s death could be future events from this timeline’s perspective.
          Hibiki probably died at that time though.

      4. Hibiki dead happened much earlier, the read from demon possible the cause since Makoto mentioned Io attack as for Lily dead I doubt about it happened in that two pronged attacks since she didn’t found any need to go to rosgardt to scout talented individuals (cause Makoto never become teacher here) from how Makoto talked it possibility Lily dead going crazy because the experiment or died when they raided Maou castle after all Lily goal at this point only one to take revenge to the world itself who take her mother life away

      5. @mcdex : did you read properly or misunderstand ? susanoo and the other didn’t detroy the alternate world, shiva (oldman god) only say something like ”i hope he can be any help in erasing the alternate world posibility” not exactly say that but alike, because athena also say the world that ruined by god is sad.

        @psychronia : lol it is clearly a future event but not for the current makoto(story with tomoe and company) it is clear an alternate when he was abbandoned in wasteland and picked by tomoki, which is diferent from the current story he is in now.

        1. That comment was when there were a lot chapters for me to read. Thanks for the rectification, but please, enough with the “stoning the ignorant” unwritten policy. Peace.

      6. @kagami73

        “「It’s like a hammer and chisel, isn’t it. If the humans stimulate his potential even a little, Makoto will drive it in and open it. Disposing of the countless parallel worlds expanded by the two humans was truly troublesome. Makoto’s acceleration of the process played no small part in it, either.」(Daikokuten)

        「The cleanup after that disposal work. You told Makoto that you’re giving him a gift but you’re planning to have Makoto to do it, aren’t you, old man? Payback for being made to do such troublesome work?」(Susanoo)”

        Are you sure you aren’t the one who misread/misunderstood? Shiva and Susanoo were clearly talking about removing parallel worlds that popped out due to the two heroes’ actions and interference with the world and with Makoto also playing a part in increasing that load since he’s basically affecting the whole world now. The gift that’s mentioned is likely related to these dreams since Shiva is shown to be holding a grudge and is basically having Makoto do a clean up of the rest of the mess, whatever they may be.

        The part where they’re talking about a world being destroyed due to a god’s interference is not until the very last paragraphs of the chapter and is talking about the world possibly leading to ruin if bug keeps on acting the way she is.

  50. Damn this chapter was really fucking good, brought a bit of respect to lily, trashmoki is still delusional trash and let me see a new alter mako(makotwo) to solidify what could have been. Though i feel pity for these au makotos i still think they are pretty badass.
    ‘I’ll be killing you until morning’
    That line gave me shivers overall good chapt and good job

    P.S a chapt EVERY 3 DAYS, love u reigo-chan for this, dont work too hard though, need u healthy for more chapts 😉

    P.S.S dear god getting to the comment section to write replays on mobile was hard….it was like reading another chapt with all the intersting comments here, love u ppl

    1. I kow how you feel, I spend more time reading the coment that I do reading the chapter, I think that aside for the fast rate of traslation thats what I like more in this page.

          1. Well I always havwe mine open so i just see anew inbox and now that some delicious comment was just post in here.

      1. Well is there are sometimes a difference in a WN and a LN.
        Sometimes the LN is far more…..what’s the word for it…….ahhh “solid” in a meaning.
        It sometimes change the over-all plot of the story. One example of this is the LN of “OVERLORD” which is completly different from the WN where its like a gag-com.
        But sometimes the WN is better but that depends on your own views.

  51. Bacem I think you hit on something important there, and Miracutor I think your prediction is on point, maybe and just maybe the dreams are the posibilties that lays in his choice of partnering up with the powerfull individuals that he meets, giving him a glimpse of wich direction he can grow if he goes to that specific camp, consodilating so far his decision on staying neutral. By the way so far in every posibility the only common point is his williness to figth the Goddes and try to kill her, maybe thats the point to make him realise that what he really wants is that no matter how things migh have turned up.

  52. Awesome chapter, thanks Reigokai!

    Insane princess is really crazy. And ossan Makoto was way too cool compared to original Makoto. He had that world weary resignation and nihilism down pat.

  53. I think the whole dream thing is about what happened in the parallel worlds i.e. Other possibilities. Susanoo mentioned something about parallel worlds he had to destroyed. Also the ability to see what happened in parallel worlds also comes from susanoo’s gift.So my theory is that in all others or most of the parallel worlds Makoti messes up and goes yandere and in the end whole world had to be destroyed

  54. damn i wonder what would happen if Makoto uses all those spells from those parallel universe to fight Bug god and all the information about his enemies,their motives,powers and how manipulating they are currently.for eg. Hibiki,who in his first dream was his enemy.
    plus he can avoid what to do in future for best possible outcome,ofcourse there is a last resort of OPness.
    Quite a Cheat Ability whoever gave him.
    i think in the current world Makoto could defeat Bug goddess even without fighting,by migrating all the races except for Hyumans in Asora which could still enrage the bug goddess and might escalate future tensions.But i think this time if the fight occurs and bug goddess tries to invade Asora then there is a possibility that other Gods might not take part in the current world(while in other parallel world other gods might have taken part to fight makoto) since it is Bug goddess encroaching Asora with the intention of invading Asora so if makoto fights her he might have a justified reason on fight her in previous other world it might be that he tried remove the influence of bug god or tried to destroy her world in the form of Revenge so other gods interferred.ofcourse this is a whim theory of mine.

    1. Btw there are two scenarios which are shown to us.
      1.Makoto didnt kill Illumgand in his first Alternate universe and Mio didnt kill her aswell which resulted in the previous current situation where Makoto loses all his friends and becomes a Sadist insane.However currently Mio Killed Illumgand after she saw him survive.

      2.Makoto is thrown in Desert intead of waste borderland and is found by trashmoki and lily and hence the current situation escalates where even makoto is charmed by Lily and fucks the world which lily wants,which fuking trashmoki,empire,demon race,hibiki and Bug god mainly.

  55. Regokai sensei thanks for the chapter as always, a great one indeed, this dream is an eye opener clearely.
    – (First I have to confirm with Tomoki huh. And with that, I will know what Raidou did. I might also be able to tell the depth of his power.) (Lily) – Fat chance of that hapening LiLy you can’t measure that is wayyyy to big for you.
    – (Tomoki says this. In that case, not only did the valkyries not pose any threat, Tomoki himself was completely defeated by Raidou. The attack that made Sofia retreat can’t be used indoors, and his combat equipment was at its minimum at that moment, so it can be one of the reasons. Just that, Raidou himself didn’t seem to have anything resembling a weapon. Maybe he is a magician, or it might be that he has trained as a warrior. From what I hear of Tomoki, it might be reasonable to consider that it can be both of them. A magician with a trained body huh. A troublesome type. Also, even if he wasn’t at his best, to be able to overwhelm Tomoki, he is a more troublesome existence than I originally thought.) (Lily) – You have no idea girl, thats way more powerful that the walking nuke that you hang out with.

    Now this dream sequences is more clear in the What if? department. Empire Makoto is a hardass, thanks god he didnt end up in the empire, altough he became a swordman, with his physicall specs it would be interesting to see what kind of swordmanship he would have and it seems he didn’t went in the road of a magician in the scenario. Now I have to congratulates in how smothe Lily manipulated Tomoki, its sad for him to fall so easly altough he never had a chance there, but the way it was played was just perfect. This kind of chapter are the one that makes this one of my favorites novels out there.

  56. tnx for the chapter. ^_^
    i think that the dreams of makoto are the side effect of the gods killing off the alternate worlds!!!
    then were lucky that this is the world that were reading!!! makoto has unlimited power and good followers
    bad english hahahah sorry!!!

  59. first of all, i wanna say is…. “pffft!! puahahahaha!! dragon slayer! somebody already defeated one not too long ago!! he’s joking ryt??

    soo~~ whats makoto’s seeing is an alternate future hmmm…. there are things i dont understand and dont like it.

    1. makoto defeated by what?? WTF! no way and dont want that too!

    2. him repaying trashmoki to that extent that would make you think in that alternate world they’d become buddy-buddy.. eewww~ x_X

    3. makoto x lily…. wuuuuutt!! @@ unexpected fck! a docile person x a phsycopath!! really??? i know opposite attracts one another, but thats a weird chemistry. Interesting but weird. Though i like Lily’s looks but the character just turns it off

    All that have happened just gave me one fact. Those happened after the “bug” silence is removed(maybe).Then after the bug did something, it became too scared to come out and dont face makoto’s rampage(maybe)

    1. so i think the loop here about the bug’s restraint is that she cant touch makoto but she can on makoto’s retainers since the dreams showed that they’re dead to me

  61. Tomoki and hibiki too, how can they be such an idiots? “he used an attack that defeated the strongest hyuman warrior” “i repelled the black spider calamity” the fuck are they thinking? both sophia and mio just plaintly ignored them and went to fight agaist the “strongest”, this type of things piss me off, you guys are small fry realize it!

    1. The problem with small fry is that they never understand where they stand in the pecking order. There’s just no reasoning with them, until they get their ass beat like a drum in the most decisive way possible. But it seems that Tomoki still hasn’t gotten the message.

      1. Yeah. You can only see as far as you’ve climbed. You can’t see what’s beyond the top (obviously just another hill to climb). Makoto simply gets to see a bigger picture than the heroes, because he stands much higher than them.

  62. thanks for the chapter
    so this is about an alternate route? where Makoto never met the dragons, and dragon slayer?
    sounds interesting.

  63. Ah.. so one of the powers he got was… to see alternate versions of himself.. question is , is it only one or is it more so far..
    it sounds like two seeprate ones so far..
    the first one he killed hibiki in this one it sounds like she died a different way (because at this point there isn’t ar eason makoto wouldn’t admit to having killed her if he did)

    So.. its kind of a “different versions of makoto who landed in different spots and never met Emi and instead met someone else”

    trying to teach makoto to be a better “god” than the others

  64. My prediction: Makoto will dream about the person he met recently. When he met Hibiki, he dreamed about Hibiki. When he met Tomoki, he dreamed about him. So, the next dream, it might be about Demon King considering that he will meet him soon. It might about a reality if Makoto joined Demon Army.

  65. that was a satisfying chapter. these dreams are probably alternate universes created by the heroes since humans, as said by gods, can create other possibilities and stuff. maybe the power that Makoto received is the power to see through this possibilities and to collect information from them. Or maybe if he makes the power somehow stronger, it would maybe lead to him destroying these alternate universes by actually going to these universes.
    My philosopher side is growing powerful by reading this. Thanks reigokai! 😀

  66. I remember a time when I said Makoto and Lily would hit it off and be compatible with each other if ever they been companions instead. And now, seeing the Author officially confirm Makotwo having fallen for Lily(albeit unrequited), and sleeping beauty here said himself he finds Lily attractive, made me want to see him dream(alt timeline) about his current companions, plus Lily, next. And how Makoto’s(yang) influenced Lily(yin), during their journey with the crew. Would she be healed by him or will she still wallow in her hate. That I would very love to see. It’s seem possible since we have a stopper like Tomoe, Mio and Shiki. Lily could be the Ema outside of Asora.

    (Im aware I have an earlier comment made but, there’s a lot and too lazy to find, so made a new one instead)

  67. Lily is the best! She give our trash a chance to increase his trashy-ness parameter further. And also the dream story is also good. That dream very like ‘what if’ story. Many thing from dream is really happening and Makoto reconfirm his preferred type of girl. Is he really like older girls? Hahaha. Thanks for the chapter! 😊

  68. awesome chapter xD
    And again, the popularity for Lily goes up, while Tomoki goes to an alltime low 😀
    But i would really like to know if it´s actually HIS future, or is it maybe a paralell timelines future, where he never met his followers? They are never mentioned in his dreams and their talk fits with what would have happened if he never saved anyone?

    1. i would really love to read a parallel universe story line about makoto nearly dying at the border of the world, beeing saved by Tomoki adn becoming a apathetic Antihero ready to destroy the world and slaughter all hyumans to get revenge on the goddess 😀

  69. it feels like an alternate timeline where tomoki picked him up from the wasteland and one where he didn’t have archery to boost his magic power massively

    thanks for the chapter

  70. Thanks for the chapter^^
    I wonder if this is an error
    “This is not charm, you are charming them. To plant your own will into others. Putting it in another way, you are just mass producing people that follow your own image. Forcefully instilling deep affection into the minds of others, you make them your slaves. Someone narcissistic like you probably doesn’t pay it any mind, but from my point of view, this is not mutual understanding but masturbation.” (Makotwo)
    Shouldn’t the last word be “manipulation”??

  71. Without you all comments, i didnt that makoto dream was alternate story of If. Maybe his alternate story dream triggering with encounter an influence karakter…
    What if makoto evcounter with demon race instead, hehhe

    Oh may someone kindly to tell me an alternate story line in dreams that makoto join with hibiki? What chapter?

    Anyway thx 4 your hardwork reigokai-sama.

    Poor tomoki . Even when he clashed with sofia it didnt make sofia fainted wiyh his ultimate skill.

    I pitying peoples that cant see makoto mana pool.

  72. Oh you clever gods, this is what you did after killing off the AUs to this story, you gave the memories of the varying pathways and the knowledge gained from them, to him. He gets backstory on every person from any AU where it is mentioned, foreknowledge/hindsight of possible/alternate events, concepts on spells and insights to how to use his sakai, very cheaty.

    At least that’s what I’m guessing.

  73. ty for the chapter^^
    So is like that eh… His dreams are the parallels worlds created by the heroes(?) that the person that give the powers to the heroes… look like that in this worlds he don’t meet his servants… who knows maybe the person that give the powers is makoto himself form an other dimension

  75. This might not be one of the gifts from Susanoo, it could be a special characteristic of Asora that manifested itself from Mokotos power increasing that allowed him to see fail future possibilities(alternate timeline) that were destroyed.

  77. LOL, Manly Makoto. He has a beard, and fall in love with Lily.
    Empire information web is kinda poor right now. They still can’t figure it out that Sofia fought with makoto in Limia.
    Up to this point. I can say that, without his 3 servants, thing would turn bad. They had changed him, leaded him to the fight direction.
    I hope for more dream, the alternate possibilities interested me

      1. You forgot that Hibiki and her party also know that white kamen rider(makoto) was the one that fought Sophia and Larva(Shiki) fought Lancer.

        1. They know that Larva fought someone. They don’t know who he was, just that he was way out of their league. They never saw Sophia, otherwise, they’d have seen Makoto’s disguise get destroyed and know that he’s the Devil.

    2. An alternate dream when he dicided to marrying rinon sisters or rembrandt daughter. It pity he cant make descendants from mio or tomoe… I wanna see what special power if makoto have descendat from tomoe.

  78. Heh? How? How did he learn how to speak human language in this parallel universe? Or was he speaking japanese with Tomoki?
    Well, thanks for the chap, really a good one^^
    That means that the first dream was a parallel universe where Il was not finished by Mio, Huh.
    Quite interesting, to see what the author could have written and the different possibilities for Makoto.
    Thanks again!

  79. Thanks for the chapter.
    So we have the possibility of using sekai as a microwave, as a desertification tool and a possible application with a sword. GOD Tsukyomi did say he would be the one to find out how to use his sekai

  80. Well now. The star of this chapter is definitely Lily.

    Gee, she is really, really good at handling Tomoki(I laughed when she auto-trimmed his embellishments). I can’t help but call her impressive and admire her in the same way I would admire the predators of nature that hunt things bigger than themselves in horrifically brutal ways.

    Actually, after this chapter, I think I can safely declare that most negative feelings towards Tomoki and Lily are gone. They’re still terrible people and definite future enemies, but after seeing a despair-wrought Tomoki get pushed down the cliff of a slippery slope by a Lily who’s showing her own despair-driven insanity for the first time…Yeah, all I feel is a mix of pity and lament.

    Probably helped by Mantoko (lol) apparently being attached to Lily in another timeline and apparently civil terms with Tomoki for a while. And speaking of which, can we just talk about how funny Makoto’s reaction to himself was? He’s even becoming a tsukkomi for himself and starting to worry for his mental stability.

    ….Man, as much as Mantoko(lol) seemed cool, I’m glad this story with its scarily reliable but cute followers and gentle dragon Oba…Onee-sans is the one we got.

    1. Now that you mention it, Lily does seem like a spider. One of the weakest creatures, but also the most powerful. Something to be admired, respected, and feared.

      1. I was more thinking about the larva that bait amphibians into attacking only to dodge and counter by latching onto them and eating them alive.
        Or that one tiny venomous rodent that keeps paralyzed prey alive to keep the food fresh while they eat them alive over the course of several days.

        …but your idea was more poetic. Let’s go with that.

        1. I’ve heard of shrews, because they need to eat some of the most food in comparison to their body weight out of any other mammal, but I’ve never heard of that larva😨. Where the fuck did you hear about something like that?

          1. I think it was from a friend who I talk to about weird things. If I remember right, these were the larva of some sort of predatory beetle in response to my shark liver-eating orcas. To which I countered with cordycepts, to which he told me about a wasp that laid eggs inside tarantulas.

            …I wanna say I lost that conversation, but really, the real losers were the poor saps that were also eating lunch just one table over.

          2. I knew that orcas love playing with sharks by throwing them out of the water and playing catch with one another (dolphins are brutal), and the wasps. I actually think they’d lay eggs in anything unlucky enough to be caught. But, and I know I’m going to regret asking this, but what are cordycepts? The name brings to mind bot flys for some reason.

          3. Oh, and I have seen people like those poor guys. It brings me no joy to admit that I’ve been apart of conversations like that while someone else was trying to eat. Sometimes, conversations just get caught on tangents, and they end up going weird places.

  81. What the heck? The battle with Grount was done off-screen!? WTF was that!? I was looking forward with Makoto’s 2nd dragon battle. Fk Lancer by the way if you guys are counting the Makoto vs Sophia & Lancer battle, that one doesn’t count.

  82. so makoto can se alternate future frome difrent branch of story line.
    cool!!
    before future when makoto join with hibiki.
    this chap when he join with tomoki.
    hahahahahahahahagahagagahagagagahagahaha

  83. thank for the update.

    Everyone kept saying Alter!Makoto is manly and whatnot…But I only see a pained man here. Kinda like Shirou, but more simpler. Seeing what could happen is interesting though, showing that Makoto have enough cabability for such a thing.

  84. Trashmoki still didn’t notice he was dancing at the hand of Lily all along? Damn he’s pitiful.

    Man, I really hate trashmoki. But reading this chapter, I started to feel pity on him too. How sad is that, being pitied by the same person that hates you. How low can trashmoki gets.

    But that dream tho… seems like he is dreaming of things that happens ‘if he did it some other way’, some sort of different ending due to making some wrong choices, paradox endings. Maybe he can learn few things from it and try to prevent doing things that leads to that bad endings. Just my guess.

    Thanks Reigokai. Always FeelsAmzingMan when reading new chapters.

  85. Alternate timelines are so cool… It shows how the character is somewhat the same but may have very different motives and morals.
    I find Lily’s control over Tomoki kinda hilarious.
    Thank goodness they have the current Makoto…

    1. Seems pretty straightforward to me.

      Makoto has a dream where he’s much older and colder. In this dream, instead of meeting Ema, he met up with Tomoki and was taken in by Gritona. Some stuff happened, and some sort of threshold (probably Lily and Hibiki’s death) causes him to pick a fight with the goddess(distinctly more hateful and ruthless than the Makoto we know).

  87. Lol this alternate universe dream, literally tells makoto everything he needs to know. Makoto would probably notice his dreams are all about him destroying it, sooner or later. Maybe this was a key that susanoo put to change this timeline in the butterfly effect. Hmmm….makoto you monster hahahahaahahahaha

    But I like it….

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  89. Hmm..? This timeline doesn’t make sense if it’s the same as the previous dream…

    Ilumgand joins Hibiki’s party after he turns into a mutant due to demon plot. He is then killed by Makoto.

    At the time of the mutation, the demons attack the two capitals. According to this conversation, Hibiki died during that attack (which is expected), but that means Ilumgand could not have joined Hibiki in that case… So these are all separate timelines?

    Dream 1 was Raidou still being in Academy City, splitting point would therefore likely be…. meeting with the merchant Zara, whatever helped him recover in that (I forget) did not occur…

    Dream 2 split point would be the mentioned desert. Considering Tomoki shouldn’t have ever visited the desert in main timeline, something changed to cause that as well as Makoto not meeting Ema.

    1. We actually don’t know if Tomoki never went to the boundaries. It did say that he had traveled the entire world, so it’s possible that Lily had gotten him sent to the boundaries a week after arriving for training.

  93. Makoto meet with Ema in his third day at another world. So, it’s likely the dream is about alternate future if Makoto didn’t meet anyone for ten days when he first come to the another world.

  95. (this chapter is best read while listening to; Pretty Little Psycho.mp3)

    totes to that insight about P.Lily that Makoto will never notice. So this time is ‘if’ he didn’t meet Ema, huh.

    (…Makotwo, i like that.) lmao

    Cheers for the hardwork~

  96. “While it is night, right? Your immortality is also a power that the Goddess gave you. I don’t care. I will be killing you until morning. Go to the netherworld as the sun rises.” (Makotwo)

    Fuck that was so savage i broke out in goosebumps this is one of the rare reads that quality of story goes up along with character development could never put this thing down , as always thanks for the hard work translating

  97. The best part of it is how he gets to know the plans of everyone in advance…
    Heck it’s like going to a party with the delorean. You will be taking videos of every stupid thing that will happen.

  103. 1st alternate universe, Makoto was saved by Hibiki(?) and now,
    2nd alternate universe, Makoto was saved by Tomoki.
    Is the author telling us that he grows up by that parallel dreams?

  105. The future is changing based on makoto’s actions now. And he’s seeing the future in his dreams!!!!! Will he be a emotionless killing machine, or a world destroying revenge character, or something completely different?

    Thanks for the chapter!!

    1. nha, most likely that is a vision of an alternat reality, where he never met his fowlers and was saved by Tomoki and Lily

  109. Just kill Tomoki already -.- or do a Christopher Paolini and make him realise the error of his ways and die of guilt and remorse… *cough* sorry, this series strangely brings out the sadist in me more than that psychopathic hero and yandere bunny series…

    In other words, thankee for the chapter!!!! *smiles innocently* (bloodstained aura)

    1. Hey, the hero(lol) is trying to be stronger and or became a monster with a lot of ambition(lol), let’s wait until he got the power he want so Makoto can crush him physicaly and mentaly from the very top to the very bottom of his cheap pride.

    2. That was a sadistic way of ending it though. I honestly would’ve preferred that Galbatorix had died fighting, but it all started because he went mad from grief, so being shown the grief he created in turn was fitting. Plus, Paolini had made him so powerful, what with his age and the dragon hearts, not to mention discovering the name of magic, it was all but impossible for them to kill him on their own.

  111. Thanks for the chapter!
    So, one of new powers is parallel worlds dreaming.In first one he let mutated Illumgand live. In second one he failed to met Tomoe(Shen) and was saved by Tomoki/Lily and he’s cool and manly in both lol.

  112. I really hate brainwashing the most
    its like you are denying your ownself
    even in H, I only like it when the girl regains her consciousness
    like the Makoto alternative said its like he is just masturbating

  116. Thanks for the chapter, Reigokai-sama!

    NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! D:

    I wanted to see Grount’s descent to despair as her ‘fight’ with Makoto rages on!

    ‘After I incapacitated her, I was finally able to speak with her.’

    Don’t end it with a sentence and a ‘teehee!”.

    Ugh, anyways…

    Look’s like the comments about Lily using Makoto’s meeting with Trashmoki to push him over the edge was true huh.

    Unfortunately for you Trashmoki, while you may get unholy amounts of power and a strong body to house it, you’ll never be able to compete against God Makoto and his way of attaining power.

    He just needs to shoot a few arrows and BAM!!!, more than a godly existence.

    All Makoto has to do in the future is bestow his blessings to his followers and to the residents of Asora.

    Blessings like:

    Immunity to bad status effects like, mind-control, charm and so on.
    Increase to all attributes, abilities, skills and techniques.

    So this second dream is a “What if Makoto got saved by the empire?”, huh?

    Never met Ema, Tomoe, Mio and Shiki. Saved by the Empire. Became a companion of Trashmoki (Ugh *barf*). Grew up to be an old man with a beard.

    (I can’t imagine Makoto with a beard. I just can’t.)

    Fell in love with Lily (Ugh *double barf*), killed the Demon Lord, awakening his power, and turning the Lorel Union into a desert.

    I can’t decide if this dream is worse than the previous one.

    1. I dunno, I kinda liked this dream. I get to fill in the blanks and piece together a whole other story where Makoto is working with another hero in a corrupt empire.

      It was also strangely touching to see him lament over Lily’s presumed death when the general attitude among readers would’ve been to celebrate it. Was Lily playing him too or did Makoto just happen to understand her a little too late? We’ll probably never know, but it’s nice food for imagination.

  117. Thank you so much!!! So it will be every 3 days, huh, SOUNDS GOOD TO ME!!! Much better than the once a week at best while you were gone. You are so nice to us starving bookworms.

  118. thanks for the chapter
    so this is the future without meeting Tomoe and being saved by the empire instead?
    a parallel like universe like i thought
    I don’t like this kind of future good thing he met Tomoe
    but i still want him to make a country to to a wasteland of sand, the empire tho
    as i thought that beating is not enough for trashmoki
    he needs beating when he is at his full power
    I really don’t hate the gritonia princess, she just met the wrong man

    1. Poor lily if that bug didn’t go to sleep at the time of her mother’s death then she wouldn’t be that crazy i guess

    2. More importantly, too little too late. That terrible bug goddess who sent her the wrong man took too long to do even that. I have a feeling that it would’ve been too late even if Makoto and Tomoki swapped places.

      1. i don’t think so… even if it was makoto who summon gritonia to that time is already late, the useless makoto in the begin of the novel just end like that of the dream, maybe the future makoto can do it… i think that even makoto of the current time line hardly can save the lily of the begin of the novel

    3. you guys should give up on trying to make Lily as a “good girl”, i also like her but as a character in the history, as a person she is terrible, she is capable of many crimes and sins in order to further her agenda and desires, tomoki in unrelated to that, he is the unfortunate one of those two

  120. Thanks 4 he chapter!

    Dream of an alternate timeline’s future?
    My guess is in this alternate timeline Makoto was saved on the world’s border by Tomoki and Lily so never met his followers.

  122. Tsukuyomis bro said that makato is destroying alternate universes. I feel like everythime he removes a possible future he has a dream about it. In this future he joined gritonia with lily. I think it’s fair to assume tomoki will not save makato if he finds him, therefore this future is null.

    1. Change. He is seeing parrallell universes that have been ended thorough pass decisions. If he hadn’t come across that orc village and met tomoe, and was instead picked up by gritonia. This is what would have happened. These seem to me to be representations of what would happen if tomoe moo and shiki hadn’t appeared.

  127. Hum, VERY interesting, so these dream are “what if”s where he had been rescued by one the heroes before meeting ema and tomoe, I’m a little sad that the princess could have been saved if she just had met makoto before trashmoki (or maybe still can be saved (hopefully)) despite all that this makoto did I do hope that he have a good fight with the bug of that timeline and at least die happy that he did the best he could

    2. i don’t think that he would able to save lily he is too obtuse and when he understand the things is late. And from the moment that lily meet the hero(lol), it’s most likely too late, because she already is thirsty of revenge

  128. Thanks for the chapter~!

    These dreams…I think they are a result of the gifts Susanoo & Shiva gave him…precognition? Or maybe a form of future-sight that allows him to see alternate futures? Maybe ‘see’ is the wrong way to put it, live it?

    2. That’s definitely not future sight if you’ve read the chapter properly makotwo uses a sword, is in love with lily and his power is several times weaker than current makoto and never in a million years would he get along with trashmoki.

  129. wohoo~~ after F5 for an hour finally a new chapter~ thank you reigo-san !
    btw, trashmoki still yearning for Tomoe and still want to charm her ? pfft ! good luck stupid ! not even in a million year you can compare your power with makoto’s power !

    1. I kinda want to see where this will go though. Imagine, Tomoki finally gets to affect Tomoe with his charm, but it turns out her attachment to Makoto is stronger than anyone but Mio and Shiki realized.

  131. Wait, I just realized I had something to say! XD

    I don’t want to live by lying to myself anymore. <——— I CHOKED ON MY OWN SPIT

    God, he's such a delusional worm.

    Also Makoto, lucky you found comrades.

  132. So memories from one of those parallel worlds that got destroyed?
    Is this a form of omniscience as he continues on the path of godhood?

    3. It’s frustrating at times, but I don’t know. I found this one to be quite amusing.

      It’s like if we set up a fight between Yamcha and a DBZ villain in one episode, and just start the next one with him already dead and the others on their way to wish him back.

  140. What the heck was that? Lol future possibility dream sequence where he had to be saved by tomoki? I call heaping turd droppings.
    So tomoki has a nuke spell which he can use at the cost of his health. One shot killing the dragon slayer doesn’t mean squat against Makoto anyways since Makoto can basically do the same with his regular attacks much less his hyper powered arrow shots.

    1. Not kill, simply weaken. Look back to when he fought Sophia, she seemed mostly fine, and went to fight Nakoto right after

      1. lo escribo en español porque es mas fácil para mi, traducelo con google translate si quieres leerlo:
        en esta linea de tiempo aparte puede que sophia no se enfrentara contra makoto ya que este no fue enviado por la diosa a enfrentarla, ya sabemos que sofia se volvió fuerte absorbiendo a los demás dragones aparte de lancer pero esto lo dijo ella misma y es que se volvió mas fuerte porque quería enfrentar a makoto con todo lo que tenia, puede que en el otro mundo en el sueño esto no pasara y sofia recibiera la explosión nuclear de tomoki solo con el poder de lancer, si esto es así, fácilmente pudo morir.

      2. take in consideration that in that “reality” Sofia probaly never foght againt Raidou in the “lake” battle, so she was weaker then when she fought Tomoki during the killing of Hibiki (which in that reality happended because Raidou discovered her powers way too late

    1. agreed.
      from the conversation this time, it seems that in that timeline Makoto was actually thrown by the goddess into the desert instead of the end of the world, causing him to be stranded without any resources for a week before being found by Tomoki. this could be the reason how he fall in love with Lily and what makes both the encounter with Tomoe and Mio invalid. Seems like he in that timeline his fighting style changed a bit as he found his real power a bit too late.

    2. It’s what Daikokuten said about cleaning up the parallel worlds that the 2 heroes made and leaving some of the work to Makoto.

      2. Then we’ll most probably still have more alternate route killing.
        e.g after this one (joining Tomoki), most probably joining the demon and joining Hibiki. This universe is the neutral one as he is becoming another major power, most probably will make demon and hyuman co-exist and fight against Bug.

    1. Well that was one hell of a mindf*** chapter… Hes seeing alternate realities! Anyway…. can we rename Lily to Lilith? I think that would be more appropriate, agree?

    1. Did that just a normal vision or the power that Susanoo give to him that slowly show to the surface?
      It’s a little interesting how he can end up like that in the dream but a little regret if I didn’t know how the process…
      Btw, that dream really is convenience, he can collect secret information just by dreaming…
      XD…

      1. I like dream makoto more but I think Tomoe and the rest of Asora are dead in that Dream…….
        But still Liking Dream Makoto because of Badass Straight Forward Killing spree :3

      3. BARRY ALLEN what have you done now makoto is starting to get vision which was supposed to be CISCO power..stop messing with the timeline already

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