Editing Mushi Uta:Volume 15 Chapter 1 (section)

== 1.02 The Others ==

Super Class Rank 1, C, perfectly grasped the current situation.

With her ability to control electricity and electric signals, she watched everything through all cameras that existed in the country as well as the footage sent to her by the Revived that she controlled like puppets.

The old generation of Rank 1s.

Lady Bird, Harukiyo, Sleeping Beauty Arisu.

The three Rank 1s and their allies all came from different places, yet all attempted to ride large boats at the same time as if they were coordinated. Their footage escaping out into the sea was brought to C.

They managed to shake off C’s pursuit and escape to sea.

According to C’s simulations, all these Mushitsuki should have already been long since destroyed.

They could be called the failed products of the old generation.

Not only that, but they would definitely try to erase C from this world again.

There were no surveillance cameras that could see where they were going. Although she attempted using satellites to ascertain their location, it was impossible. All these ships had Mushitsuki with camouflage abilities on them.

It was clear where all of them were going to reconvene.

That would become the place of their counterattack.

They were going to rest and challenge C again.

They’d undoubtably come looking for this place, where C’s real body resided—

“…”

C’s main body, or more precisely her flesh and blood body, was in heaven.

It was inside the Ark.

A new world filled only with the Undying Mushitsuki it would carry—the land that would begin it all.

This place, a few square kilometers in width, originally had a different name. However, Miguruma Yaeko, who could also be called the birth mother of Super Class Rank 1 C, renamed it as the Ark.

In the very depths of the Ark, C sat on a large bed.

Her completely nude body was wrapped in a faint golden glow. Her pale body and each and every hair of hers were suffused with the electricity created by her ability. She had neither the capes no crowns that her body doubles wore. She materialized them through using Shinpu’s abilities, but had no need for them in this resting place inside the Ark now.

In the very depths of heaven, C kept running simulations about her enemies.

Where were they going to escape to?

She made a general review of all the entire country’s digitized map information and incidents, and continued her calculations hundreds of thousands, millions of times.

Would C find where the old generation’s Mushitsuki escaped to?

Or would they enemies find C’s location first?

With a probability of more than 90%, C estimated that it would be her victory—

And a result, in fact, came.

“—Aoharima Island.”

C muttered.

It was a small island in the middle of the sea.

Since its very existence was already wiped off from the country’s records, it took her a while to find it.

The one who erased the land of Aoharima Island—was the Special Environmental Preservation Bureau. Erasing the records about the gruesome incident that took place there, they apparently tried hiding even the island itself.

After all, the one who caused the tragedy of Aoharima Island was the Director of the SEPB herself, Miguruma Yaeko.

Once, that place had one of the Original Three, the monster called Sanbikime, and the entire island’s residents were slaughtered in order to defeat it.

Only in the SEPB database remained the few top-secret records. There were even traces of C’s original personality, Horiuchi Erii, having tried to search the same information before.

By managing to calculate the enemy’s estimated destination, C started the next process.

She would send assassins to eliminate these failed products.

Also—

“It is time to unleash the Dove.”

She was now going to move the predetermined process according to plan.

She had obviously also hypothesized about her plans not going according to calculations. She prepared many backup plans in order to wipe the obstinate old world.

C would fulfill her own mission.

Instead of the old generation of Mushitsuki, she would create a world filled with Undying Mushitsuki.

“Then, the Deluge shall purge the earth and create a new world…”

At the Ark, which would become the center of the new world—

The small creator mumbled to herself with a doll-like, expressionless face.