I mean I'll count it.

(I'm trying to pump the numbers up to better benefit my narrative)

How many random ass shapeshifter tribes are there?
So far we've got:
wolves
tigers
whales
dragons (but I don't know if they're different because they're base form is the animal form and they can turn human, while the rest of them seem to have humanoid base forms that turn into animal forms)
Am I missing any? I feel like I've got to be missing one.
Edit: were the mermaids fish men? or were they just permanently mermaids? I'm pretty sure they could also shape shift.

I've never this anxiously wanted a character to stop and eat food good God, juice isn't food! put the soylent down! God damn engineering students...

I think that basically every third chapter of this series because they jump around to so many people so often, I don't really know where anything is, I'm not sure why anyone's doing anything they're doing - they probably told me - but f*** if I could remember with all these God damn characters. And it feels like I'm watching overlord but instead of it being from two or three characters point of view it's from a God's point of view and I'm just seeing all of it at random times before occasionally cutting back to the main characters.

I forget about moubu sometimes, he's starting to feel like some kind of special summon, shows up in the middle of the heat to help out and then you just don't see him again for a while.

...... How'd you know about the parts you weren't there for? I don't think he'd explain all of this in a way that leaves him this unflattering... So how did all the Masters gripes with him reach the beggar?

I mean they usually do that too, it's just in manga they also have double duty being one of these other things unless it's like a slice of Life series, and even then if it's an isekai slice of Life series they usually sexualize the f*** out of the elves, or for some reason have elf slaves because even though it's slice of Life slavery seems to be fine. Or they make them relatively reserved but insular which usually manifest as elves as a general rule being a little racist, but then learning to be less racist because of how awesome the main character is. Or some grim dark series where they think elves are extinct and then find a lost or hidden village of elves that they've had the whole time.
They used to just have them show up to be like your standard Tolkien elves, but I guess at some point over there they decided an elf was just the hottest possible thing you could have in a fantasy series and then just so many of them decided the only possible companion for any main character was some big-breasted elf, or dark elf slave or both, and that if elves lived with nature it meant they had to hate literally everyone else that didn't do that.

Did...did he just punch his fucking skeleton out?





(The answer is no but for a moment, for one beautiful moment... I thought it True...)

Man's down here playing assassin's Creed

Bro what the f*** are these comments...?

Excellent, another clown meme for my collection.

He's many things but a liar is not one of them.

"this knife was used by this guy... I bet"
"This statue was maybe possibly probably not but could have been owned by this guy"
"Heard from a friend who heard from a brother who heard from a sister that this sweet ass coat was possibly maybe worn by columbo at some point.... Maybe."

By the nature of the way Powers work in this series though, someone showing up who just has a strong enough power to do something like that is totally acceptable and not outside the realm of possibility at all. As far as timing goes I believe they were just waiting for both twins to be out in the world and then to be easily catchable, but they've suffered a few drawbacks and lost their spy so they're going big and loud now.
And it is still a tactical assault, the first thing he did was destroy their barrier and immediately seek out and attack their strongest personnel as far as he was aware after attempting to ascertain the location of the twin he was seeking. And it's not like the kagemori clan is suddenly incompetent it's just that the people they're fighting have been using demon pairs that they've kept under wraps for generations so they don't really have any easy counters or preparations for their stronger enemies abilities. But most importantly you don't really have to plan that hard when you do have a expressly busted power that you know they have no direct counters for as far as you're aware because your spy has let you know that, odds are they sent this dude specifically because they knew there was no hard counter for him in the clan at least at the moment, otherwise they might have sent a different person who maybe would have done worse or they would have had to send a group like they did last time.

He basically has a free use, instant response hammer of dawn on command alongside a ground based one with free command over the ground they walk on. that's a pretty powerful tsugai. the Kagemori head was strong due to his unheard of quantity of bonds as well as his experience, this dude has wicked busted Tsugai with the only real weakness being to sneak attacks.

This man literally never comes in with a fully formed plan, it's always half of a plan, or a whole plan that he basically bails on halfway through. I'm pretty sure he did not comprehend himself where that speech he was making was going to end when he started. and I wouldn't have him any other way.

https://i.postimg.cc/0yrc0c3H/i.webp

they are gonna have a full coven at the rate this is going...