Shatter the Darkness with Thunder...

"The spider cocoons..." Shinomiya Kaguya's gaze sharpened. "Are they human?"

Amamiya Natsuki's expression turned grave.

"Besides the spider cocoons, there's nothing else here. Most likely, they're all inside them."

Hearing this, the junior high school girl raised both hands and covered her mouth in alarm.

Spiders usually spun cocoons to feed. In other words, had everyone become food for the spiders?

Watching helplessly as their bodies lost control, step by step walking into the gym before being wrapped up in cocoons as food... It was hard to imagine how utterly despairing that must have been.

Shinomiya Kaguya's pretty face tensed. She took a deep breath and said, "Let's go in and see if we can save the people inside."

"..."

Amamiya Natsuki led the two girls around to the back of the gym, then took out a grappling hook and helped Young Lady and the junior high school student up to the second floor.

They climbed through a window into the gym. The vast first floor was already covered in all kinds of white spider silk, and dozens of spider cocoons, large and small, filled the center of the gym. There were so many that they made one's scalp crawl.

The cocoons were enormous. Some even had the clear outline of a human body, making it easy to guess what was wrapped inside.

"Be careful not to touch the webs."

After warning them, Amamiya Natsuki led the two girls down to the first floor and stopped in front of the nearest cocoon.

"Let's try the knife first."

Amamiya Natsuki took out a weapon and tried to cut the spider silk, but it was so tough that he couldn't slice through it.

"Let's use fire instead." Shinomiya Kaguya lit a match and held it toward the cocoon.

Fire was the natural