ox yōkai

飛行士: a pilot (person in charge of the controls of an aircraft)

white lotus

stamping one's feet / making no progress

to stamp one's feet / to make no progress

to make something one's own by scheming

(literary, formal) Modernized form of せしむ (seshimu, verb, lower bigrade); causative of する (suru, “to do”)

結社: association, society

at the bottom of a stack / (figuratively) at the bottom of a hierarchy, unable to shine

(literary) in small amounts