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Godou walked towards it steadily, even as it readied itself for another charge. He uncoiled the whip such that it trailed behind him. He might not know how to use a whip, but he certainly knew how to use a rope.
The Battle Boar charged. Godou timed his dodge perfectly, mimicking the exact conditions as before. When the boar braked to a stop behind him to go for the kick, he had already turned and he dove forward some more, rolling in such a way that he was facing the boar face-to-face when its hind legs were in the air.
Its breath stank, but that was the least of Godou's concerns because he only had moments to enact his plan. The monster was still in a sort-of handstand, it head tilted towards the ground and its feet in the air. Godou's hands reached out, dodging the pigs snapping mouth, and pressed down on its cranium, using it as a springboard to leap frog over its head an landing on its body. That wasn't all he had done though.
Its hind legs slammed into the ground as the pig recoiled, now fully aware that it had a human being sitting on top of its back.
"MY GOODNESS! OUR BRAVE CHALLENGER HAS MOUNTED THE MONSTER!" Ganesha sounded absolutely stunned.
It was something Godou had learnt while he was practicing with the Authority of the Boar. While he couldn't fully control the Divine Beast yet, he had figured out that if he sat on the Boar as it charged towards its target, Godou could sort of influence its direction and even force it to stop if he yanked on its fur hard enough.
He doubted the same applied to the Battle Boar, but thanks to all that training, Godou was pretty adept at sitting on monsters and not falling off. He swiveled on the spot, so that he was now facing in the same direction of the boar, taking gentle care to not drop either ends of the whip he held in both hands.
The furious pig buckled, throwing its body in every direction possible. It jumped. It accelerated and decelerated. It swung its body left and right. Every attempt to shake Godou off, Godou responded by yanking the whip in his arms.
"IS HE HOLDING ON TO A PAIR OF REINS? YES IT IS! LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, OUR CHALLENGER HAS MADE A BRIDLE AND REINS USING THE WHIP! WHAT AN INGENIOUS IDEA!"
The whip was now looped across the boar's neck, and Godou poured every ounce of strength he had into pulling it, cutting of the monster's air supply in order to weaken it. He'd never thought the horseback riding lessons Liliana had forced him to go through to come in useful like this. He'd dragged the whip across the boar's chin and across its neck when he'd jumped over it, and now all Godou needed was a proper saddle to feel like a real cowboy on a rodeo.
The Battle Boar continued to fight, and Godou used his legs to act as clamps, pinching the monster's body so he wouldn't fall off, all while continuing to yank on the rope. Actually sitting on the boar, Godou could feel its lungs struggling, and every labored breath it took seemed to drain the boar more and more.
Yes! The plan was working! Now he just needed to hang on for a little longer and-
His world suddenly tilted sideways. In horror, Godou realized the boar was going to roll over, trying to squash him with its body weight. Godou hadn't anticipated this. He couldn't readjust to another position to escape it; the boar would kick or bite him in the process. The ground was almost right next to him when he came up with his next great idea.
Just when he was about to be crushed, he slid off, slamming into the boar with all his might in the opposite direction of its roll to interrupt it. The boar came to a halt belly up, its legs uselessly running on air. He had to act fast; it wouldn't stay like that for more than a few moments.
His heart racing, Godou jumped into action, throwing the whip across its body and then pulling it back once it had gone over the legs the side opposite of him. Then he tightened the loop, ensnaring all four of its legs in a tiny loop. When the boar tried to roll back in the opposite direction, a strong tug of the rope caused its stuck legs to act as a lever, where its body was the pivot, locking the boar in place. With its legs bound, the boar could only roll, relying on the shifting of its body weight to disturb its balance to move. With control over its legs, Godou now controlled its balance.
He could feel the monsters' legs trying to break free of its restraints as he began to tie the first of several dead knots. He'd once read somewhere that while a crocodile's snapping jaws could break bones effortlessly, duct tape was more than enough to seal its mouth shut. He hoped the same applied to the boar's legs.
Lady Luck offered him a rare smile when it seemed that was exactly the case. No matter how hard the boar tried, it couldn't break the first knot. In a matter of seconds, the trap was complete, and Godou had beside him a Battle Boar stuck on its side, its legs completely tied up.
Panting, Godou wiped the sweat that had pooled on its forehead. Behind him, the boar snarled ferociously, but with no way of getting on its feet, it could only rely on short, jerky movements to try to reach biting distance of Godou, by which then he'd relocated.
"Does that count?" he asked Shakti as she walked up to him.
She had on her face a look of complete disbelief. She raised a shaking hand. "You...captured it."
"Yeah," Godou felt his lips dipping. "I guess that doesn't really count as taming it, huh."
"It takes three Level Twos ten minutes to catch one, and you did it by yourself in five."
Godou blinked. The arena was silent. Even Ganesha had his mouth hanging open.
"Godou, that was amazing!" Syr's high pitch voice rang out somewhere above, and he saw the green-clad girl rise to her feet and begin to clap her hands wildly.
Looking at each other, the rest of the audience slowly stood up, and a scattering of applause evolved into a discord of cheers, whistles and claps.
It was deafening, and standing next to Shakti, Godou realized that from the audience's perspective, they had just watched an untrained civilian capture a Level Two monster. Their standing ovation was justified.
He felt his face warming up from all the attention. "I wasn't expecting this."
"I don't think anybody was," Shakti said with a smile. She shook her head. "I can't believe you pulled it off. I was tempted so many times to jump in, but you looked like you were having so much fun and
knew what you were doing, I couldn't bring myself to."
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