Editing Mushi Uta:Volume 7 Chapter 4 (section)

== 4.02 Youko Part 7 ==
Why was Ogata Akatsuki there?

Why was Haemori Ako there and why was she a Mushitsuki?

Why was Oogui smiling so enjoyably—

She didn't even care about these questions anymore.

''Demon Lord…?''

''I'm the… Demon Lord?''

Ako's camera was pointed at none other than herself, Satou Youko.

She reflexively began to laugh. Being called a Demon Lord due to some sort of misunderstanding was terribly rude. 

The Demon Lord was the woman with the chaining smile, Miguruma Yaeko.

Yaeko controlled the army of darkness of Mushi and was trying to destroy the world.

The only person to know the truth was Youko.

And so Youko resolved to stand against the Demon Lord.

Youko was the Hero.

You could only fight Mushi using Mushi. Thinking this, she used a Mushi-eating Mushi and fought against the armies of darkness.

Hadn't Ako also spoken of this daily?

Hadn't she announced loud and clear about the existence of the Demon Lord and armies of darkness?

Wasn't she talking about Yaeko and the Special Environmental Preservation Bureau?

Youko thought that Ako was one of the very few people who understood her.

But even so—

"Youko-senpai's the Demon Lord…?"

''Don't look at me like that, Akatsuki-kun—''

She entreated in her heart.

Ako was just misunderstanding. She'd just explain everything to her.

Once Youko denied she was the Demon Lord, they'd achieve a mutual understanding.

Intending to clear everything, Youko wore a gentle smile toward Akatsuki.

"I'm…"

''A Hero—''

But just as she was about to reveal her true identity, something suddenly flashed in her mind.

''—Reveal thy true dream in front of me…''

Shinpu said something like that when he'd appeared to come and eat her dream.

''—You don't really feel like a Hero either… actually, it's the complete opposite…''

Even the warrior passing by denied Youko being a Hero.

And there was also Oogui right in front of her.

''—You really like the world as it is now, don't you? You are willing to go so far to protect it, after all.''

Despite Youko naming herself a Hero, Oogui spoke to her like that as if it was natural.

''—But you can achieve something completely different, though.''

Why did anyone and everyone deny Youko?

There was nothing Youko couldn't currently do.

There was no one she couldn't defeat.

The very world itself was like Youko's plaything.

"…"

She held that same power that Miguruma Yaeko—the Demon Lord playing with the miniature garden.

Noticing this fact, she suddenly recalled.

The form of the Demon Lord in her memories once brought fear to young Youko.

But in the end, was that really fear?

Wanting to play with the world as she pleased.

Hadn't she actually felt—admiration for that?

And now the time has come.

She could use Mushi to remake the world.

She had caught up to the awe-inspiring Demon Lord.

Youko obtained her very own miniature garden.

The large miniature garden known as the world.

Playing with that miniature garden was not the fake Demon Lord known as Miguruma Yaeko, but—

"Right—"

Sitting on her suitcase, she spread her long legs. Putting one hand on the suitcase to support her body, she left the other hand calmly on her thighs. Her long bangs held by a pin turned toward her temples, sticking out like horns.

Her deep ocean-like eyes looked at Ako and the rest, and her bewitchingly wet lips moved.

Satou Youko.

This girl, who was once the Hero, now was—

"I'm the Demon Lord."

The true Demon Lord found out her real dream.