Monster no Goshujin-sama

[sasuke706]

Spoiler for :

-Takahiro, bleeding, gets kicked into Dora who came over to help, and Mikihiko takes Mana hostage and flees with her, using his Aerial Knight ability to stall them.
-Takahiro comes to the conclusion, thanks to Saliva, that this place is created from a magic tool of some sort. Reason being that Saliva tested her theory, that being that the reason she can't use her magic is due to mutual interference of the same type of magic, which turns out to be correct.
-Sharing this to Kudo and Dora, he concludes that this place is a kind of different world.

-Mikihiko immediately meets up with Ottomer's henchmen and Edgarl, killing monsters along the way that turn into mist upon death.
-It implies that Mikihiko is working with them because his own priorities, namely suggesting that his love interest is in jeopardy.
-Ottomer is also clearly not the ringleader (no one thought he was).
-Switching POV, Gordon also tells Shiran that this world is one made of magic.
-He also explains that the monster variety, namely them all being the same types as Takahiro's minions, is a reflection of the anxiety of the people of the empire.
-He explains that's it an ancient device strictly guarded by the church so that few people even know of it, called the World Cornerstone, which was the same thing Salvia had used to put a mist barrier over the dragon forest.
-The one Ottomer reports to is Harrison, leader of the first templar brigade, and is explained as the one who planned everything.

-Yuuna pulls her shit together and decides to face them despite her wounded leg.
-Jinguuji tells him they're going to withdraw since they won't be able to beat her when she's serious, adding that if they try to he'll also join in stopping them. So the plan is to deal with her later.
-He informs her one last thing that the area Takahiro is in has been blocked off, so he won't be getting any help.
-It cuts back to a scene from a few months prior of Mikihiko's love interest being held captive and practically broken knowing that she's being used as a tool to convince Mikihiko to cooperate, trying to convince him to forget about her.
-Mikihiko delivers Mana to a nearby knight lady to tie her up and watch her while the other knights of the First Templars look at him in disgust despite knowing his circumstances.
-Edgarl shows up to seemingly just mess with Mikihiko, persisting on seeing Mana for no real reason to the point where Mikihiko forcefully prevents Edgarl from 'snatching his achievement' from him.
-Edgarl seems to take a liking to him because of that and informs him that they've been ordered to actually kill Takahiro this time.

-Mana wakes up, curls into a ball shaking out of fear, and repeats 'Senpai, Rose' over and over in a panic attack.
-Mikihiko shows up and is a little stunned to see Mana's state, but informs the knight he's off to go fight Takahiro.
-Mana, who didn't have the composure to even listen to their conversation until then, does her best to ask him to stop, which he refuses and leaves.
-Rose cleaned and dressed Yuna's wound and carries her on her back. Lobivia is also a lot more open with Yuna.
-Yuna didn't know the girl among the attackers, but when Rose asks her about another one that talked (since her voice is all they have to judge), Yuna pauses to think for a moment when Lily and Spider show up.
-While they're exchanging information, Yuna recalls that the voice of the other guy belonged to one of the 'Fake Heroes she had run into before.
-Spider encourages Yuna and thanks her, who is pretty shocked over the church officially becoming enemies.
-However, Lily thinks something doesn't add up with the information Yuna gave them.

-Berta is, to say the least, extremely surprised at having run into Kudo.
-She informs Kudo that she barely managed to make it past a closing wall before it shut behind her, having followed Mikihiko's scent to find them.
-Ayame, hearing Takahiro is wounded, runs off to him while Berta introduced Kudo to Yui AKA Fairy Ring girl.
-Kudo surmises the initial plan was to rub Okazaki's crime off on Yui, but finds it odd considering Mikihiko clearly considered them having no method of escape.
-Meaning that Yui was lured by someone who wasn't an enemy, leaving her confused.
-Lily points out to Yuna that the cloaked man that had stated to her face that he was stalling for time was probably not part of the enemy, as in the event he didn't stall for time, Yuna might have very well just reached her destination.
-Both groups reach the conclusion that this third party helper may have helped in other ways as well.
-It leaves off with Mana being in a stupor of Mikhiko telling her to just wait here and believe in him (not Mikihiko).

-Narrator has a little monologue about how Mikhiko considers himself knight wannabe who couldn't protect a single person that has no value of living, and that he would never betray Takahiro.
-Mikihiko couldn't refuse the plan to target his friend, but he could interfere with it from the inside.
-He notes that his biggest failure was that he didn't actually plan to stab Takahiro, even if the Mana kidnapping was intended, not expecting his friend to be so unguarded around a way too well timed appearance.
-Mikihiko considers himself heading off to the final fight with Takahiro, with absolutely no doubt that Takahiro will win.

So Mikihiko plans to basically die in a fight to hopefully prevent them from doing anything to the hostages it seems.
After having done a ton of interfering with their plan. It never outright said he was the cloaked guy who talked to Yuna twice, but he probably is.

Kudo and his minions really don't have some sort of distance bond like Takahiro does either, it seems. Considering how surprised both Kudo and Berta were at each other.

Never really explained how they planned to deal with the political climate after they dispose of Takahiro.
At the very least, upon their escape, the Expeditionary Force will probably actually do something for once.

These chapters have just been plot and intrigue everywhere, including double-double crosses.

7 chapter update, jesus.

Also, volume 12 cover and some rough designs for the leader of the Expedition Force, Nakajima, and Okazaki.
Also volume 2 manga cover.
Takahiro is handsome as fucc.

[mickbis]

Thank for the update

[Kisama]

7 chapters of awesomeness. Tnx dude!

[DBAV]

The last chapter was epic, read it before some troll spoils it.

[sasuke706]

As mentioned above, if you can read the latest chapters yourself you probably should.
If not, here's some rough summaries for like...the past 10-ish chapters? It's been quite the ride. Easily the climax for the volume.

Spoiler for :

-Takahiro fights Mikihiko and wins.
-Mikihiko's ability is described as an end-game carry type and has developed significantly, albeit not at its complete form yet. He pushes himself past his limit to control 1,000 weapons at once. It's mentioned that given enough time he probably could have reached that height without pushing himself past his limit, too. Probably a reference to heroes being worth 1,000 soldiers.
-Kudo gives up on his rule and has Berta show her true form but after Mikihiko loses, Edgarl runs off. Mikihiko says that Edgarl, while a confusing bastard, probably isn't actually an enemy despite his thing of wanting to prove Zoltaan (his dead emotion-reading friend) 'wrong' about Takahiro being a real hero, seeing as he sort of helped with Mana's custody problems.
-Some back-up templars show up to finish the job but get insta-gibbed by Dora who had been waiting for it.
-Shiran contacts Mikihiko, somehow managing to save his love interest/the knight commander. Turns out Mikihiko was behind basically all the abnormalities in an attempt to thwart the templars, like Yui and Yuna also being teleported with everyone else.

-Harrison had been preparing to collapse the ceiling during the fight just in case and proceeds to do so, but comes to standstill when Takahiro is able to hijack the World Keystone used to control the dungeon and prevent it with his improved mist magic (the only thing left in his inner world at this point is the image of the school he used to go to, much to Salvia's dismay), as well as see into the control room.
-However, Harrison slowly begins to force back control by brute forcing it with his insane amount of mana, with him apparently being regarded as the only Templar in history to surpass the original hero whose powers his own stem from.
-The knight woman who had been helping Mikihiko gets cut down by Ottomer at Harrison's order, with her just accepting it.
-Mana, also present in the control room and just barely holding it together mentally due to her trauma, finally comes to a conclusion about her 'wishes' which had been contradicting each other, preventing any power from manifesting.
-Kato Mana 'wants to be a monster,' so she loses her reason and form as a human, becoming the monster she desired to be, leaving behind only the intention to protect Takahiro from his enemies. She's described as a tree-like black slime subspecies growing countless branch-like tentacles where she immediately kills 60% of the templar knights in the room, fatally wounds another 30%, with the remaining 10% getting off with wounds. As there was around 60 templars, that means about 6 survived with wounds. Ottomer, the angel doll guy, is one of them but Harrison's fate is left ambiguous (he's totally alive).
-The narration describes her as the world's strongest monster, and due to her wish constantly growing, fermenting and gnawing at her without manifesting all this time, she also seems to gain the most pure mana capacity out of all the isekai'd students.

-Takahiro peeks into the control room and is befuddled about there suddenly being a monster there with templar corpses all around where Kudo chimes in and suggests that the monster is likely Mana.
-Takahiro uses one of the pair teleport stones—using one breaks it and teleports you to the other one—to teleport to the Mana Monster, who had a stone slipped under clothes by Mikihiko after he had kidnapped in order to save her later. The Mana Monster shows no hostility toward Takahiro and even waddles? wades? toward him like a puppy.
-There, he claims that Mana may appear to be a monster but is actually human, so she's not a valid target for his ability. Similar to the werewolf student and the dragon student. But Salvia, having the ability to read wishes to a degree as shown with her introductory arc, convinces him to shut up and form a bond with her anyway.
-It gets explains that the isekai'd kids' abilities are influenced by many things, including subconscious thought and even misunderstandings. Takahiro being able to tame monsters is a result of his original wish and not the wish itself, that original wish being the desire to have someone he can believe in to always be with him despite having lost trust in all humans. So while his ability later grew to specialize in monsters due to this subconscious misunderstanding of his own wish, he can technically also tame humans albeit with extremely increased difficulty.
-So in short, despite having essentially handicapped in own ability toward humans, he is able to connect with her due to all the time and feelings nurtured between them. Basically, don't expect him to tame another human because Mana is the sole exception.

-After connecting with Mana, he finds himself in her inner world. Ironically ALSO being the goddamn fucking school. Do these schools brainwash them or some shit? There's gotta be better places.
-He finds Mana in her classroom and learns her true feelings, about her misconception of Takahiro not being interested in her because she isn't a monster, that no matter how much she's jealous of the other monster heroines she can't join them. (The author cites foreshadowing for this stuff like back in volume 2.)
-So they have a confession-off and embrace each other.

So Mana's become the world's strongest creature on top of being a smart girl and good strategist. The tactical weapon tactician.
Takahiro has been slowly paying bit-by-bit to improve his abilities, but Mana paid everything in full from the start (aside from leaving behind the intention to save Takahiro) including her physical form and any cognitive thought. It's noted that Takahiro has paid everything except for his reason and last bit of memory at this point.
It's just Takahiro's ability can negate all the negatives of her wish, leaving only the positives. Meaning that, assuming some bullshit doesn't happen that removes the bonuses of her wish, Mana is probably the strongest character in the series now with no downsides. Unlike the other specialized heroes like herself (in contract to the generic all-purpose "warriors"), she also knows magic to some degree. A cheat among the cheats. Takahiro even notes that her monster form could probably take on the Expedition students.
On top of it all, her having the most mana of all the creatures means that through Takahiro's telepathy, the overflow of mana from her to him should be that much greater and be very helpful to him too. Easy power-up.

Harrison is definitely still alive. We know he has mana on par or greater than the average hero/student but we never learned what exactly his ability was. Nor do we know why he decided to dispose of Takahiro despite it being a horrible political move since the political situation isn't a joke, either. So plot armor is still in effect for him.
There's also the masked students who sided with the templars to kill Takahiro and his minions that are still around somewhere.

Kudo's also casually becoming an ally. Like very casually.

[wuhugm]

^What? Mana became a monster?

[mickbis]

Originally Posted by sasuke706

As mentioned above, if you can read the latest chapters yourself you probably should.
If not, here's some rough summaries for like...the past 10-ish chapters? It's been quite the ride. Easily the climax for the volume.

Spoiler for :

-Takahiro fights Mikihiko and wins.
-Mikihiko's ability is described as an end-game carry type and has developed significantly, albeit not at its complete form yet. He pushes himself past his limit to control 1,000 weapons at once. It's mentioned that given enough time he probably could have reached that height without pushing himself past his limit, too. Probably a reference to heroes being worth 1,000 soldiers.
-Kudo gives up on his rule and has Berta show her true form but after Mikihiko loses, Edgarl runs off. Mikihiko says that Edgarl, while a confusing bastard, probably isn't actually an enemy despite his thing of wanting to prove Zoltaan (his dead emotion-reading friend) 'wrong' about Takahiro being a real hero, seeing as he sort of helped with Mana's custody problems.
-Some back-up templars show up to finish the job but get insta-gibbed by Dora who had been waiting for it.
-Shiran contacts Mikihiko, somehow managing to save his love interest/the knight commander. Turns out Mikihiko was behind basically all the abnormalities in an attempt to thwart the templars, like Yui and Yuna also being teleported with everyone else.

-Harrison had been preparing to collapse the ceiling during the fight just in case and proceeds to do so, but comes to standstill when Takahiro is able to hijack the World Keystone used to control the dungeon and prevent it with his improved mist magic (the only thing left in his inner world at this point is the image of the school he used to go to, much to Salvia's dismay), as well as see into the control room.
-However, Harrison slowly begins to force back control by brute forcing it with his insane amount of mana, with him apparently being regarded as the only Templar in history to surpass the original hero whose powers his own stem from.
-The knight woman who had been helping Mikihiko gets cut down by Ottomer at Harrison's order, with her just accepting it.
-Mana, also present in the control room and just barely holding it together mentally due to her trauma, finally comes to a conclusion about her 'wishes' which had been contradicting each other, preventing any power from manifesting.
-Kato Mana 'wants to be a monster,' so she loses her reason and form as a human, becoming the monster she desired to be, leaving behind only the intention to protect Takahiro from his enemies. She's described as a tree-like black slime subspecies growing countless branch-like tentacles where she immediately kills 60% of the templar knights in the room, fatally wounds another 30%, with the remaining 10% getting off with wounds. As there was around 60 templars, that means about 6 survived with wounds. Ottomer, the angel doll guy, is one of them but Harrison's fate is left ambiguous (he's totally alive).
-The narration describes her as the world's strongest monster, and due to her wish constantly growing, fermenting and gnawing at her without manifesting all this time, she also seems to gain the most pure mana capacity out of all the isekai'd students.

-Takahiro peeks into the control room and is befuddled about there suddenly being a monster there with templar corpses all around where Kudo chimes in and suggests that the monster is likely Mana.
-Takahiro uses one of the pair teleport stones—using one breaks it and teleports you to the other one—to teleport to the Mana Monster, who had a stone slipped under clothes by Mikihiko after he had kidnapped in order to save her later. The Mana Monster shows no hostility toward Takahiro and even waddles? wades? toward him like a puppy.
-There, he claims that Mana may appear to be a monster but is actually human, so she's not a valid target for his ability. Similar to the werewolf student and the dragon student. But Salvia, having the ability to read wishes to a degree as shown with her introductory arc, convinces him to shut up and form a bond with her anyway.
-It gets explains that the isekai'd kids' abilities are influenced by many things, including subconscious thought and even misunderstandings. Takahiro being able to tame monsters is a result of his original wish and not the wish itself, that original wish being the desire to have someone he can believe in to always be with him despite having lost trust in all humans. So while his ability later grew to specialize in monsters due to this subconscious misunderstanding of his own wish, he can technically also tame humans albeit with extremely increased difficulty.
-So in short, despite having essentially handicapped in own ability toward humans, he is able to connect with her due to all the time and feelings nurtured between them. Basically, don't expect him to tame another human because Mana is the sole exception.

-After connecting with Mana, he finds himself in her inner world. Ironically ALSO being the goddamn fucking school. Do these schools brainwash them or some shit? There's gotta be better places.
-He finds Mana in her classroom and learns her true feelings, about her misconception of Takahiro not being interested in her because she isn't a monster, that no matter how much she's jealous of the other monster heroines she can't join them. (The author cites foreshadowing for this stuff like back in volume 2.)
-So they have a confession-off and embrace each other.

So Mana's become the world's strongest creature on top of being a smart girl and good strategist. The tactical weapon tactician.
Takahiro has been slowly paying bit-by-bit to improve his abilities, but Mana paid everything in full from the start (aside from leaving behind the intention to save Takahiro) including her physical form and any cognitive thought. It's noted that Takahiro has paid everything except for his reason and last bit of memory at this point.
It's just Takahiro's ability can negate all the negatives of her wish, leaving only the positives. Meaning that, assuming some bullshit doesn't happen that removes the bonuses of her wish, Mana is probably the strongest character in the series now with no downsides. Unlike the other specialized heroes like herself (in contract to the generic all-purpose "warriors"), she also knows magic to some degree. A cheat among the cheats. Takahiro even notes that her monster form could probably take on the Expedition students.
On top of it all, her having the most mana of all the creatures means that through Takahiro's telepathy, the overflow of mana from her to him should be that much greater and be very helpful to him too. Easy power-up.

Harrison is definitely still alive. We know he has mana on par or greater than the average hero/student but we never learned what exactly his ability was. Nor do we know why he decided to dispose of Takahiro despite it being a horrible political move since the political situation isn't a joke, either. So plot armor is still in effect for him.
There's also the masked students who sided with the templars to kill Takahiro and his minions that are still around somewhere.

Kudo's also casually becoming an ally. Like very casually.

Wow that really interesting alright thank for the summary !
I will consider marathon entire this with google translate if I have time

[Darkwolf907]

Originally Posted by sasuke706

As mentioned above, if you can read the latest chapters yourself you probably should.
If not, here's some rough summaries for like...the past 10-ish chapters? It's been quite the ride. Easily the climax for the volume.

Spoiler for :

-Takahiro fights Mikihiko and wins.
-Mikihiko's ability is described as an end-game carry type and has developed significantly, albeit not at its complete form yet. He pushes himself past his limit to control 1,000 weapons at once. It's mentioned that given enough time he probably could have reached that height without pushing himself past his limit, too. Probably a reference to heroes being worth 1,000 soldiers.
-Kudo gives up on his rule and has Berta show her true form but after Mikihiko loses, Edgarl runs off. Mikihiko says that Edgarl, while a confusing bastard, probably isn't actually an enemy despite his thing of wanting to prove Zoltaan (his dead emotion-reading friend) 'wrong' about Takahiro being a real hero, seeing as he sort of helped with Mana's custody problems.
-Some back-up templars show up to finish the job but get insta-gibbed by Dora who had been waiting for it.
-Shiran contacts Mikihiko, somehow managing to save his love interest/the knight commander. Turns out Mikihiko was behind basically all the abnormalities in an attempt to thwart the templars, like Yui and Yuna also being teleported with everyone else.

-Harrison had been preparing to collapse the ceiling during the fight just in case and proceeds to do so, but comes to standstill when Takahiro is able to hijack the World Keystone used to control the dungeon and prevent it with his improved mist magic (the only thing left in his inner world at this point is the image of the school he used to go to, much to Salvia's dismay), as well as see into the control room.
-However, Harrison slowly begins to force back control by brute forcing it with his insane amount of mana, with him apparently being regarded as the only Templar in history to surpass the original hero whose powers his own stem from.
-The knight woman who had been helping Mikihiko gets cut down by Ottomer at Harrison's order, with her just accepting it.
-Mana, also present in the control room and just barely holding it together mentally due to her trauma, finally comes to a conclusion about her 'wishes' which had been contradicting each other, preventing any power from manifesting.
-Kato Mana 'wants to be a monster,' so she loses her reason and form as a human, becoming the monster she desired to be, leaving behind only the intention to protect Takahiro from his enemies. She's described as a tree-like black slime subspecies growing countless branch-like tentacles where she immediately kills 60% of the templar knights in the room, fatally wounds another 30%, with the remaining 10% getting off with wounds. As there was around 60 templars, that means about 6 survived with wounds. Ottomer, the angel doll guy, is one of them but Harrison's fate is left ambiguous (he's totally alive).
-The narration describes her as the world's strongest monster, and due to her wish constantly growing, fermenting and gnawing at her without manifesting all this time, she also seems to gain the most pure mana capacity out of all the isekai'd students.

-Takahiro peeks into the control room and is befuddled about there suddenly being a monster there with templar corpses all around where Kudo chimes in and suggests that the monster is likely Mana.
-Takahiro uses one of the pair teleport stones—using one breaks it and teleports you to the other one—to teleport to the Mana Monster, who had a stone slipped under clothes by Mikihiko after he had kidnapped in order to save her later. The Mana Monster shows no hostility toward Takahiro and even waddles? wades? toward him like a puppy.
-There, he claims that Mana may appear to be a monster but is actually human, so she's not a valid target for his ability. Similar to the werewolf student and the dragon student. But Salvia, having the ability to read wishes to a degree as shown with her introductory arc, convinces him to shut up and form a bond with her anyway.
-It gets explains that the isekai'd kids' abilities are influenced by many things, including subconscious thought and even misunderstandings. Takahiro being able to tame monsters is a result of his original wish and not the wish itself, that original wish being the desire to have someone he can believe in to always be with him despite having lost trust in all humans. So while his ability later grew to specialize in monsters due to this subconscious misunderstanding of his own wish, he can technically also tame humans albeit with extremely increased difficulty.
-So in short, despite having essentially handicapped in own ability toward humans, he is able to connect with her due to all the time and feelings nurtured between them. Basically, don't expect him to tame another human because Mana is the sole exception.

-After connecting with Mana, he finds himself in her inner world. Ironically ALSO being the goddamn fucking school. Do these schools brainwash them or some shit? There's gotta be better places.
-He finds Mana in her classroom and learns her true feelings, about her misconception of Takahiro not being interested in her because she isn't a monster, that no matter how much she's jealous of the other monster heroines she can't join them. (The author cites foreshadowing for this stuff like back in volume 2.)
-So they have a confession-off and embrace each other.

So Mana's become the world's strongest creature on top of being a smart girl and good strategist. The tactical weapon tactician.
Takahiro has been slowly paying bit-by-bit to improve his abilities, but Mana paid everything in full from the start (aside from leaving behind the intention to save Takahiro) including her physical form and any cognitive thought. It's noted that Takahiro has paid everything except for his reason and last bit of memory at this point.
It's just Takahiro's ability can negate all the negatives of her wish, leaving only the positives. Meaning that, assuming some bullshit doesn't happen that removes the bonuses of her wish, Mana is probably the strongest character in the series now with no downsides. Unlike the other specialized heroes like herself (in contract to the generic all-purpose "warriors"), she also knows magic to some degree. A cheat among the cheats. Takahiro even notes that her monster form could probably take on the Expedition students.
On top of it all, her having the most mana of all the creatures means that through Takahiro's telepathy, the overflow of mana from her to him should be that much greater and be very helpful to him too. Easy power-up.

Harrison is definitely still alive. We know he has mana on par or greater than the average hero/student but we never learned what exactly his ability was. Nor do we know why he decided to dispose of Takahiro despite it being a horrible political move since the political situation isn't a joke, either. So plot armor is still in effect for him.
There's also the masked students who sided with the templars to kill Takahiro and his minions that are still around somewhere.

Kudo's also casually becoming an ally. Like very casually.

Thanks for the summary sasuke

What im waiting in this vol that Mana and Takahiro confessed each other

[Hokoga]

Thanks sasuke

Originally Posted by Darkwolf907

Thanks for the summary sasuke

What im waiting in this vol that Mana and Takahiro confessed each other

Uhm...

Spoiler:

-After connecting with Mana, he finds himself in her inner world. Ironically ALSO being the goddamn fucking school. Do these schools brainwash them or some shit? There's gotta be better places.

-He finds Mana in her classroom and learns her true feelings, about her misconception of Takahiro not being interested in her because she isn't a monster, that no matter how much she's jealous of the other monster heroines she can't join them. (The author cites foreshadowing for this stuff like back in volume 2.)

-So they have a confession-off and embrace each other.

[DBAV]

Senpai noticed!

[Darkwolf907]

^^ is it mean that no confession ?

I checked that chapter and find the confession except i have wrong impression of that chapter

[Hokoga]

Originally Posted by Darkwolf907

^^ is it mean that no confession ?

Spoiler for ___:

sasuke706 kind of worded it in a weird way, but it means that they had a face off, but they confessed to each other, instead of fighting.

[Darkwolf907]

^i see. Glad that confession is really happen

[Kisama]

Such exciting spoilers. Hope they kill those masked brats.
Thanks Sasuke

[DragonXX]

Originally Posted by sasuke706

As mentioned above, if you can read the latest chapters yourself you probably should.
If not, here's some rough summaries for like...the past 10-ish chapters? It's been quite the ride. Easily the climax for the volume.

Spoiler for :

-Takahiro fights Mikihiko and wins.
-Mikihiko's ability is described as an end-game carry type and has developed significantly, albeit not at its complete form yet. He pushes himself past his limit to control 1,000 weapons at once. It's mentioned that given enough time he probably could have reached that height without pushing himself past his limit, too. Probably a reference to heroes being worth 1,000 soldiers.
-Kudo gives up on his rule and has Berta show her true form but after Mikihiko loses, Edgarl runs off. Mikihiko says that Edgarl, while a confusing bastard, probably isn't actually an enemy despite his thing of wanting to prove Zoltaan (his dead emotion-reading friend) 'wrong' about Takahiro being a real hero, seeing as he sort of helped with Mana's custody problems.
-Some back-up templars show up to finish the job but get insta-gibbed by Dora who had been waiting for it.
-Shiran contacts Mikihiko, somehow managing to save his love interest/the knight commander. Turns out Mikihiko was behind basically all the abnormalities in an attempt to thwart the templars, like Yui and Yuna also being teleported with everyone else.

-Harrison had been preparing to collapse the ceiling during the fight just in case and proceeds to do so, but comes to standstill when Takahiro is able to hijack the World Keystone used to control the dungeon and prevent it with his improved mist magic (the only thing left in his inner world at this point is the image of the school he used to go to, much to Salvia's dismay), as well as see into the control room.
-However, Harrison slowly begins to force back control by brute forcing it with his insane amount of mana, with him apparently being regarded as the only Templar in history to surpass the original hero whose powers his own stem from.
-The knight woman who had been helping Mikihiko gets cut down by Ottomer at Harrison's order, with her just accepting it.
-Mana, also present in the control room and just barely holding it together mentally due to her trauma, finally comes to a conclusion about her 'wishes' which had been contradicting each other, preventing any power from manifesting.
-Kato Mana 'wants to be a monster,' so she loses her reason and form as a human, becoming the monster she desired to be, leaving behind only the intention to protect Takahiro from his enemies. She's described as a tree-like black slime subspecies growing countless branch-like tentacles where she immediately kills 60% of the templar knights in the room, fatally wounds another 30%, with the remaining 10% getting off with wounds. As there was around 60 templars, that means about 6 survived with wounds. Ottomer, the angel doll guy, is one of them but Harrison's fate is left ambiguous (he's totally alive).
-The narration describes her as the world's strongest monster, and due to her wish constantly growing, fermenting and gnawing at her without manifesting all this time, she also seems to gain the most pure mana capacity out of all the isekai'd students.

-Takahiro peeks into the control room and is befuddled about there suddenly being a monster there with templar corpses all around where Kudo chimes in and suggests that the monster is likely Mana.
-Takahiro uses one of the pair teleport stones—using one breaks it and teleports you to the other one—to teleport to the Mana Monster, who had a stone slipped under clothes by Mikihiko after he had kidnapped in order to save her later. The Mana Monster shows no hostility toward Takahiro and even waddles? wades? toward him like a puppy.
-There, he claims that Mana may appear to be a monster but is actually human, so she's not a valid target for his ability. Similar to the werewolf student and the dragon student. But Salvia, having the ability to read wishes to a degree as shown with her introductory arc, convinces him to shut up and form a bond with her anyway.
-It gets explains that the isekai'd kids' abilities are influenced by many things, including subconscious thought and even misunderstandings. Takahiro being able to tame monsters is a result of his original wish and not the wish itself, that original wish being the desire to have someone he can believe in to always be with him despite having lost trust in all humans. So while his ability later grew to specialize in monsters due to this subconscious misunderstanding of his own wish, he can technically also tame humans albeit with extremely increased difficulty.
-So in short, despite having essentially handicapped in own ability toward humans, he is able to connect with her due to all the time and feelings nurtured between them. Basically, don't expect him to tame another human because Mana is the sole exception.

-After connecting with Mana, he finds himself in her inner world. Ironically ALSO being the goddamn fucking school. Do these schools brainwash them or some shit? There's gotta be better places.
-He finds Mana in her classroom and learns her true feelings, about her misconception of Takahiro not being interested in her because she isn't a monster, that no matter how much she's jealous of the other monster heroines she can't join them. (The author cites foreshadowing for this stuff like back in volume 2.)
-So they have a confession-off and embrace each other.

So Mana's become the world's strongest creature on top of being a smart girl and good strategist. The tactical weapon tactician.
Takahiro has been slowly paying bit-by-bit to improve his abilities, but Mana paid everything in full from the start (aside from leaving behind the intention to save Takahiro) including her physical form and any cognitive thought. It's noted that Takahiro has paid everything except for his reason and last bit of memory at this point.
It's just Takahiro's ability can negate all the negatives of her wish, leaving only the positives. Meaning that, assuming some bullshit doesn't happen that removes the bonuses of her wish, Mana is probably the strongest character in the series now with no downsides. Unlike the other specialized heroes like herself (in contract to the generic all-purpose "warriors"), she also knows magic to some degree. A cheat among the cheats. Takahiro even notes that her monster form could probably take on the Expedition students.
On top of it all, her having the most mana of all the creatures means that through Takahiro's telepathy, the overflow of mana from her to him should be that much greater and be very helpful to him too. Easy power-up.

Harrison is definitely still alive. We know he has mana on par or greater than the average hero/student but we never learned what exactly his ability was. Nor do we know why he decided to dispose of Takahiro despite it being a horrible political move since the political situation isn't a joke, either. So plot armor is still in effect for him.
There's also the masked students who sided with the templars to kill Takahiro and his minions that are still around somewhere.

Kudo's also casually becoming an ally. Like very casually.

Thank you.

Spoiler for Spoiler:

Does Mana return to Human Form after the bond is made?

[sasuke706]

Originally Posted by DragonXX

Thank you.

Spoiler for Spoiler:

Does Mana return to Human Form after the bond is made?

Spoiler for Answer:

Yes, complete with clothes on and everything. How convenient!

It doesn't actually go too depth into her monster transformation after that due to rapid development of events.
Which also means their relationship doesn't progress an inch after she gets 'tamed' due to the same developments.

She threatens Knight Captain Harrison by deliberately telling him a big bad monster is going to stay in the imperial capital while Takahiro goes off on a pandemic errand, implying she still can go monster mode, but it could also just be her bluffing.
I don't see any reason why she wouldn't be able to freely transform between human and monster mode, so it's more likely a threat than bluff.

[Pierre]

Just to clarify, Mana is Kato right? I was starting to get pretty annoyed by the MC about how he treated her so its good it works out for her.

Can anyone tell on roughly what page of the thread someone mentions the most uptodate harem members? And are all family members eventually harem members , ie do asarian and ayame eventually get human forms?

[sasuke706]

I could do a quick take on the family stuff.

Spoiler for Harem and Family:

First off, not all 'family' members are harem members, or at least not yet.

Family/Minions/Familiars
Lily the Slime (Harem member)
Rose the now Matryoshka Puppet who looks and feels like a human with doll joints (Harem member)
Gerbera the Arachne (Harem Member)
Shiran the "demi-lich" aka Magic Zombie Elf (Harem member)
Asarina the Parasitic Vine-whip
Ayame the Balloon Fox Cub
Salvia the Fog Woman
Lobivia the Tsundere Human-shifting armored dragon loli
Kato Mana the human who can also turn into a Lovecraft slime/tree monster thing or something. Yes she also becomes his minion. (Harem member, unlike the others no 'romantic nights' yet but have confessed and hugged)

??? Status
Miho the human soul that also resides within Lily—and the human form Lily borrows the appearance of—who turned out to not actually be completely dead and sometimes comes out?
She hasn't really had any specific romantic time Takahiro, but she shares a body duo-soul style with Lily so they've technically done the deed, and is also a family member.
She'd be a lot easier to place if she like did anything proactive with Takahiro during her time controlling the body, but she mostly just reads being a bookworm. Clearly has a thing for him.

Berta the Wolf-Scylla
Berta's a sort of lone minion from the other monster tamer in the story who simply has no intention of taking her back. Like at all.
Takahiro pretty much treats her like official family and they get along pretty well, especially having a bond with Ayame. Has a human upper-body that looks like Yuuna's best friend who went missing forever ago,
who earned herself the nickname "Dark Beast" with her still unknown ability. Liked dogs a lot.
Had a chat with Yuuna alone in the recent chapters but we aren't told about what. It can really only be about the Dark Beast girl resemblance, so yeah.

Eventual harem?
Yuuna the speed hero justice amazon. Author's called her a heroine but she really hasn't had much alone time with the MC. Has been around him a lot as of late (as a guard) and is sort of a semi-second protagonist too.
The author has a 'human heroine' tag so with Mana stretching that status a bit (the narration does specifically call her still human,
just one who can turn into a monster instead of the usual vice-versa), so she probably fits the bill the best for it in the truest sense at the moment.
She has a thing for Takahiro, which is obvious to a lot of her friends, but she herself is oblivious to this, instead being tsun toward Takahiro a lot.

Salvia and Lobivia, despite having human forms, are not part of the harem, or at least not yet.
Pretty sure the author has no intention of adding Salvia to it though, since he introduced her as a different kind of family in a meta-comment.

Asarina also gained a human loli form in Takahiro's inner-world, but Takahiro has yet to see/be aware of this.

Really Ayame is the only one who doesn't have a human form of sorts yet.

Shiran also has a younger cousin (or something, I forget) named Kei/Kay that had been traveling with them until just recently.
But she's neither harem member nor family, just like a little sister character, a family member's family, etc.

[wuhugm]

So there's a manga adaption

The art is quite ugly

In this version Katou was not raped it seems?

The guys all still got their pants on

[Pierre]

@Sasuke, thanks for the update, I did see a picture of the elf, Ill be honest he got a raw deal on that one , she was much better looking before she became a lich

dragon loli, yeah its not isekai harem without one of those

So basically Miho is like the Shizu in slime, where she got adsorbed , but her soul still remains, if I am understanding that correctly. That works.