Bug Calamity

Tokyo.

The traffic lights flashed.

The bustling streets were noisy and prosperous. On both sides of the central shopping district, pedestrians streamed through the intersection like a tide, hurrying toward their respective destinations.

It was already noon, and traffic had begun to pick up again. As the lights changed, vehicles moved through the city in orderly fashion.

Then, at the end of the road, traffic suddenly came to a standstill.

Traffic throughout the entire area was instantly paralyzed.

A figure in green robes walked slowly along the middle of the double yellow lines. She was a woman in her thirties, her wide sleeves hanging naturally to the ground. One grotesque, terrifying poisonous insect after another crawled from her sleeves, dropping onto the asphalt and spreading frantically in every direction.

Wherever she passed, traffic halted, all living beings bowed in worship, and trembled without end.

She was Purity Land's seventh Oracle Envoy, "Bug Calamity."

Poisonous insects crawled from her sleeves like a tide, spreading madly outward with her at the center and searching every corner of the city.

Even now, Yurina Kurotetsu and Yurina Takishiro's whereabouts had yet to be found. Among all seven Oracle Envoys, aside from the second Oracle Envoy, "Heart Calamity," she was the most skilled at tracking down people. But Heart Calamity had died in Osaka some time ago, and Purity Land had been seized by others, making it impossible to recreate Heart Calamity. Thus, the task of finding the Yurina father and son could only fall to her.

"Greetings, Oracle Envoy—!"

"Greetings, Oracle Envoy—!!"

"..."

The pedestrians around her knelt on the ground. As voices rang out one after another, Bug Calamity stared straight ahead, meticulously searching every nearby corner through the poisonous insects she had released.

Bang—!!

Suddenly, a piercing gunshot echoed through the sky.