Their teeth were incredibly sharp.
When she had been hiding in the hotel earlier, Murata Himeko had seen these little fellows chew through Honkai beasts' carapaces.
She did not think her body, without Valkyrie armor equipped, was tougher than a Honkai beast's hard shell.
"Rumble..."
At that moment, the ground suddenly began shaking again.
"An earthquake?"
Murata Himeko was forced to grab onto something beside her to steady herself.
This was truly... rotten luck.
All around her were those tiny purple creatures, while Honkai beasts lurked in the distance.
Caught between the two, she could only hide among the ruins and barely cling to life.
And now there was an earthquake too.
"!"
One spot on the ground bulged up strangely.
Then—
A creature's head emerged.
It was a creature that looked rather simple and honest.
At that moment, the mouthpart in the center of its head seemed to wriggle, as though it were about to spit something out.
"Blech!"
Aiming upward, the creature spewed a purple stream from its mouth—
It was not liquid, but a torrent made up of densely packed creatures.
They rained down from the sky, scattering throughout the area—
Including Murata Himeko's arms.
"..."
The mature, charming woman looked down at the small figure in her arms.
When he fell from the sky, she had instinctively caught him.
The mature older sister and the tiny child stared at each other.
For a moment, silence filled the air.
"..."
The mature woman and the tiny child stared at each other.
Murata Himeko fell silent.
If she had not seen wrong—
That simple-looking creature that had emerged from the ground had just spat out a huge pile of things.
Yes, they were the little fellows she had seen earlier, mixed in with giant cockroaches and long,