Aburame Tetsumaru had once watched a particularly memorable short film. The rough plot was that Earth was attacked by alien insects during an immense fog, and the male lead fought desperately to survive with his entire family.
The ending of the short film was tragic. The male lead drove his wife, children, and father out of town, but the car ran out of gas in the fog. Then enormous footsteps and the terrifying shrieks of insects echoed through the mist.
In that atmosphere of despair, the male lead's father took out a revolver and handed the weapon, which could not penetrate the insects' shells, to him.
To spare his loved ones the agony of being gnawed apart by insects, the male lead shot and killed every member of his family. But the final round he had saved for himself was a dud, so he opened the car door, stepped out, and calmly embraced his fate.
But!
But what charged out of the gradually dispersing fog was not hideous insects, but American soldiers.
Then, through the thinning mist, the male lead saw an insect as tall as a skyscraper have its legs blown off by missiles launched from F-22s. When it crashed down, it unleashed a tremendous shockwave and shriek—the very same sounds he had just heard.
It turned out humanity had already wiped out the insects. This town was the final cleanup site.
The male lead let out a heart-rending wail.
A tragedy beyond measure.
Aburame Tetsumaru felt that he understood that man especially well, because he was digging up the Mother Hive he had personally buried.
Since he had planned to leave the Land of Rain for several months, Aburame Tetsumaru had been forced to painfully poison his first Mother Hive to prevent an insect disaster.
Who would have