A black shadow sprang out of the ground and lunged straight at Eclair. Looking at the shadow before her, Eclair could only...
"Waaah-----!"
Almost at the same time, Mary and Rumiere let out terrified screams and quickly backed away. Okegis, on the other hand, reached out and wrapped the shadow up with threads. Only then did Eclair jerk away as if electrocuted, leaping up beside the shadow.
The reason the girls were so terrified was simple enough. The thing had several pairs of legs, a smooth, curved body, and jet-black skin. It was about the size of a human... a cockroach!
"No, no, no! What is this?"
Mary desperately climbed onto Duanmu Huai and clung tightly to his Jetpack, completely losing the composure of a proper lady that she usually maintained. Even Rumiere had hidden behind Duanmu Huai, and the "dignity" and "elegance" she was always talking about were nowhere to be seen.
"Skreee-----!"
The gigantic cockroach seemed unwilling to surrender, continuing to wave its feelers frantically and emitting a spine-chilling sound. Worse yet, as its shrieks rang out, the ground nearby began to swell. Then one enormous cockroach after another crawled out from beneath it...
"Nooooooo!!!"
The girls' wails pierced the heavens. Even Duanmu Huai had to turn down the volume of his helmet—those screams were almost comparable to Noise Warrior's sonic attacks.
Still, Duanmu Huai had to admit that watching a swarm of human-sized cockroaches crawl out of the ground was genuinely unsettling.
But they were only cockroaches, in the end!
"Watch this!"
Duanmu Huai roared and raised his hammer, bringing it down hard on the ground. The cockroaches crawling everywhere were smashed apart in an instant, countless foul-smelling, sticky white fluids bursting out and splattering across the ground.
"Eek-----!"
What Duanmu Huai hadn't expected was that, after