Editing Mushi Uta:Volume 4th Episode 13 (section)

=== Part 4 ===

While Arisu and Harukiyo glared at each other, an unpleasant soprano voice reached their ears.

"Shit, they dare disturb me just when it got exciting. What're the Central Headquarters doing, letting small fry like that escape? …Wait, I'm also Central Headquarters. Heeey, Spear-type, are you alive?"

It was Kasuou. Shrouded in her Mushi which was like mist, she was calmly heading toward them with hands in pockets. The fleas were blocked by the mist, unable to even touch her.

"…Uh."

Arisu grimaced and turned around.

For an instant Kasuou widened her eyes, then wore an warm smile.

"Well what do have here, doesn't that seem fun? Much more fun than those fleas. Hey, lemme join too."

While she stared at Harukiyo, the mist around her coagulated and formed sharp claws.

"W-wait, Kasuou! Fighting here might also harm unrelated people!"

"You again? Why are you always interrupting just when it starts getting good?"

Shrouded in flames, Harukiyo took a light step away from Arisu. He was apparently going to leave just like that.

"Hey hey, are you running away again? Try to be manlier and take me head-on."

"I don't mind fighting, but I prefer to choose the time and place. Also, I'm sorry to say that I don't give a damn about you."

"…I'll fucking kill you."

Kasuou spat with a freezing-cold voice.

It was quite the explosive situation, but suddenly something incredulous happened.

As if drawing a wave, all of the fleas occupying the floor started moving. All of them without exception headed toward the stairs.

"Seems like the flea owner's fighting against something. Well, I can guess who."

At Harukiyo's words, Arisu looked to the direction the fleas were going to.

''Daisuke—''

She started worrying about Daisuke and Ena who were in the same department store. Were they safe?

Also, that announcement just now…

Arisu could clearly hear the agony in the voice of the girl belonging to the SEPB.

Did Daisuke, who was also in the SEPB, also thought of the same things as the fleas' host?

Did he hate Mushitsuki fighting against each other and wanted to be treated the same as a normal person?

Arisu's deliberation was cut off by Harukiyo's low but powerful voice.

"I'd also like for you to stop meddling with me until I finished investigating everything. If I end up killing Hanashiro Mari's Mushi by accident it'd be bad. See ya, Ichinokuro Arisu."

With Harukiyo leaving an uncouth smile, the flames around him burst. Kasuou and Arisu immediately leapt back.

When the flames were gone, the boy's figure also vanished. There weren't even scorching marks on the floor.

"Tch, that annoying bastard."

Listening to Kasuou's tongue-clicking, Arisu looked at where Harukiyo was gone.

''—Did you fuse with the morpho butterfly?''

Harukiyo's words interested her as much as Daisuke's situation.

While she stood there absentminded, the morpho butterfly alighted down her shoulder.