Editing Mushi Uta:Volume 8th Episode 31 (section)

=== Part 4 ===

The Mushitsuki all lying in heaps.

Aki and his comrades killed their own Mushi, leaving their hopes for the ones remaining.

The Librarian, Himeko, and Ayuyu all fought desperately to grasp the string of a counterattack, and collapsed one after another.

The two great rivals, Daisuke and Harukiyo as well—expended their powers.

“Harukiyo… Take Arisu and the others and run off… I’ll buy time—”

Daisuke who was shedding blood from his forehead couldn’t even hold his gun.

“Haha… I’ll pass, it’s finally what I like—isn’t this the worst stage possible now? You’re the unneeded one here… grab the woman and scram…”

On the other hand, the hellfire surrounding Harukiyo’s body became no more than sparks and was burning down.

Complete annihilation—

The Mushitsuki gathered there for the future without any Mushi all yielded to the source of the disaster called Oogui.

“Ah…”

Arisu wailed.

The scene in front of her eyes was nothing but a nightmare.

The people important to her were having their futures closed—

“Nice face, Ichinokuro Arisu.”

Ichiku Kimitaka leered at Arisu with a mouth wide open.

“Drown in your despair—die.”

Die.

Everyone was going to die there.

Endless tears streamed down Arisu’s black eyes.

“Kuh…! Arisu—”

“You fucker… don’t ignore us…”

The two boys grew lively.

However—

The incoming attack by Oogui did not come, however long they waited.

Ichiku Kimitaka erased his smile. Grimacing, he looked up at Oogui floating in the night sky.

“Oogui? You bitch, what are you—”

Daisuke and Harukiyo also gazed overhead, looking surprised.

Oogui was unmoving, a bewitching smile on her face.

“—Arisu-chan?”

She opened her lips drawn with a bright red lipstick.

“There is a delicious smell coming from you, you know?”

“…!”

The men at the sea all changed expressions.

Arisu stood there shocked, just keeping on shedding tears.

“Daisuke…”

She looked at the boys looking at her.

“Harukiyo…”

Were they going to die there, too?

Because they were Mushitsuki?

Just like Mari—

Just like those collapsed on the beach—

Arisu would lose them.

“You can’t, Arisu! Don’t think of anything!”

“Fuck…! This is way beyond being the worst!”

“Oogui, you bitch…! Have you aimed for this from the very beginning and gone easy on—”

While all of them spoke together, Oogui looked down at them with a bewitching sneer.

Daisuke told her not to think of anything.

But seeing this horrible situation, how could she not think anything?

Ichiku told her to despair.

This was the opposite.

Seeing her dreaming friends lying down, she’d never be able to feel despair. She’d never be able to give up.

“Arisu-chan.”

Oogui whispered softly.

“—”

While shedding tears, Arisu thought.

All Arisu did was dream of a future where she lived with those important to her.

What were Mushitsuki—

She didn’t know the answer. She’d probably never find it.

However, there was something she knew for sure.

Right now, the people that Arisu was looking at—were Mushitsuki.

As she saw them fighting, getting hurt and collapsing all for the sake of their dream, she thought of a single wish.

“Will you tell me your dream?”

Oogui asked her.

“I—”

Arisu’s mouth moved on its own.

She couldn’t help but wish for it.

She couldn’t help but speak the small wish engraved into her heart.

“Don’t answer her, Arisu!”

“I won’t accept this, Arisu!”

While smiling at the boys yelling at her, Arisu—

“I want to save Mushitsuki.”

Clearly voiced her dream.