Editing Mushi Uta:Volume 15 Chapter 3 (section)

== 3.08 Daisuke Part 6 ==

The moment the lone flake of snow touched Super Class Rank 1 C—a change occurred.

The sphere protecting C lost its brilliance, and even the connections connecting the bed and the surface vanished.

Genius’s corpse scattered along with a white light.

The fairies and C-butterflies filling the city’s center all vanished without a trace immediately. All the Revived collapsed one after another like puppets with cut strings.

And that wasn’t all.

All the neon lights illuminating the city turned off one after another.

All lights in GARDEN vanished from the center and to the outer circumference like a receding wave—

“—!”

While falling to the surface, Arisu swung her silver lance.

Gushing scales wrapped all the Mushitsuki on verge of Maturation.

Including Kasuou and Terasu, they all stopped their movements. They all gritted their teeth with desperate expressions to suppress their Mushi—and now that the ability of Arisu’s scales affected them, they just barely retrieved their previous shapes.

The moment before they fell to the ground, the four Rank 1s were wrapped by an orange glow.

Shiohara Shachito probably helped them from somewhere. Becoming lighter, Daisuke and the rest landed on the debris noiselessly.

“…”

Falling spreadeagled on the ground, he looked at the scenery visible in the sky.

The young Mushitsuki called Super Class Rank 1.

Her last moments were incredibly silent.

The moment the snow touched her, C’s body double lost its light.

Its golden brilliance absorbed by a single flake, it become a black statue.

And—along with a small light afterimage, it broke to smithereens and scattered.

“C…”

He could hear Shiika’s mumble.

Even the sphere of light protecting C returned being powerless debris. It crumbled down and rained down on the surface so noiselessly it felt lonely.

At the same time—the rectangular object also fell to the surface.

The bed where C’s main body slumbered.

Within the bed stabbed into the top of the pagoda’s debris, C faintly opened her eyelids.

However, there was no life in them.

A mere Fallen that lost her Mushi was there.

This was the Mushitsuki who tried making all people in the world into Mushitsuki and then Undying to grant an eternal calm to the entire humankind.

This girl had tried absorbing even the Original Three, and held much more power than any other Mushitsuki.

She wished for a new generation of Mushitsuki so much that she threw her original personality of Horiuchi Erii away—

It was the instant she ended within this boxed garden called GARDEN.

“…”

No one said anything.

Tottering, Daisuke rose up to his legs.

On the surface where the moonlight alone illuminated them, all other Mushitsuki also rose to their legs one after another.

“…What’s going to happen now?”

Acting as a representative of all surviving Mushitsuki, Kasuou mumbled.

Only about a dozen people or so still remained standing in GARDEN.

They had no idea how many of the Mushitsuki who collapsed in this city could recover. Even if they started treating them right now, it was probably too late for many of them.

It was certain they fought and survived.

But at the same time, they also felt as if they remained alone in this spacious world—it was this kind of loneliness.

They managed to prevent a future where everyone in the world became Mushitsuki.

However, it also meant that in this world, the Mushitsuki were the only ones left behind.

“You mean… to the world? Or to us…?”

Even Terasu’s voice muttering this felt somewhat lonely.

“I dunno.”

Daisuke spoke.

“I dunno how things turn out—but there’s still something we have to do.”

While everyone looked confused, only the girl Daisuke was looking at seemed to understand.

Anmoto Shiika.

Only the girl who held the same dream as him smiled while looking at him.

“—Do you still have power left to fight?”

Daisuke said, looking around all Mushitsuki on the ruins of the battlefield.

Everyone was so injured that his words sounded like a bad joke.

Even Daisuke himself was smeared with blood and went past the limits of fatigue. Even just standing there took everything he had. And everyone there was the same.

However, even so the Mushitsuki all laughed.

“Easy peasy.”

Harukiyo represented their feelings.

Daisuke smiled as well.

He had no idea what the world would become now.

He didn’t know what would happen to the Mushitsuki survivors, either.

However—it was way too early to think about that sort of stuff.

“…Leave Fuyuhotaru and me alone and get back.”

Saying this, Daisuke faced Shiika.