So he absolutely could not be allowed to do that!
"Um... then should Broken Tooth go bite them?"
The tiny Swarm Overlord pulled a tiny purple creature out from behind her back.
"?"
Where had she pulled it from?
Kiana Kaslana was very confused.
"?"
Had there been something behind Zerg before?
Talulah blinked.
"?"
Alina felt that she must have seen it wrong.
"..."
When had Broken Tooth come along?
Skadi wondered.
"Gaha!"
The tiny purple creature flapped the wings on its back. It was quite fast, and seemed very excited.
"Broken Tooth says it wants to go bite those bad guys!"
Zerg said so.
Kiana had said they could not eat those bad guys, but Broken Tooth could bite them!
"..."
The owners of the little house—the two elderly Ursus folk—felt that they could no longer keep up with the times.
Where had such a cute child pulled out that... strange creature from?
"Alright, Zerg. Leave this matter to me."
Talulah rubbed the little child's head.
Though the creature called Broken Tooth was strange, judging by its appearance—
How formidable could it really be?
The dragon girl thought.
It was so small that it probably was not very strong.
It likely could not even bite through a piece of wood.
Perhaps it was a pet from another world?
Right, she still did not know where Zerg had come from.
She could ask her when there was time later.
"Leave it to Talulah?"
Zerg tilted her head slightly.
Bad guys were bad guys. Bad guys who wanted to hurt friends were the Swarm's enemies.
And the Swarm's way of dealing with enemies was simple—
Devour them completely.
"..."
The Abyssal Hunter sensed a shift in the atmosphere.
Ishar'mla, who had been talking nonsense all along—
This time, she shut her mouth.
As though she feared the arrival of some apex predator.
"Bang, bang, bang!"
At that moment, the door was pounded heavily.
"Everyone inside, get out here! The Patrol needs to ask you some questions!"
An unfamiliar voice came from outside.
There was no doubt that unwelcome guests had arrived.
Their attitude was exceedingly vile and impatient.
"My lords of the Patrol, I'll just..."
The elderly Ursus man wanted to open the door.
But—
"Bang!"
The door was kicked open without mercy.
A biting cold wind flooded into the house.
A group dressed in some sort of uniform came into view.
It was the Infected Patrol, infamous throughout Ursus. Once they set their sights on someone, there was no way they would not strip them bare.
If one was Infected—
Then the Infected Mine, where death was all but certain, was the only destination.
"I received a report that there are Infected here. All of you, come with me."
The Patrol captain said it as though it were only natural.
"Oh, and everything in this house is suspected of Originium contamination. We'll take it all back for purification."
He glanced at the things in the room.
Even a mosquito's leg was still meat.
"Hey, what gives you the right to say that?"
Hearing his matter-of-fact tone, Kiana Kaslana immediately saw red.
How could people this utterly unreasonable even exist?
"You woman, are you—"
The Patrol captain had intended to berate her, but when he saw a youthful, beautiful girl, his eyes lit up.
Then he said with ill intent—
"I think you're an Infected. You need to be questioned separately."
"Come with me."
The naked malice in those words did not escape the girl.
Her sky-blue pupils faintly showed signs of turning into golden crosses.
How could another world have scum like this?
What kind of hell had Skadi and Talulah been living in?
"Hah... enough!"
Talulah could no longer contain her anger.
She was a fighter, a fighter who fought against injustice.
The temperature inside the house seemed to rise by several degrees.
"You..."
The Infected Patrol captain wanted to say something.
Then a tiny figure ran up before him.
"They're bad guys! Broken Tooth, go! Bite them!"
Hunting Feast
The tiny purple creature vanished from everyone's sight in an instant.
When it appeared again—
It was already beside the Infected Patrol captain's feet.
"Where did this dog come from?"
The Infected Patrol captain said reflexively.
Then his body suddenly collapsed.
"...Where's my leg?"
Something seemed to be missing.
He looked down at his body in confusion.
One of his legs was gone—
Then the agonizing pain arrived belatedly.
The Patrol captain saw the monster.
It was an incomparably ferocious monster: sharp teeth with a section broken off, drool hanging from its enormous body and dripping from its fangs, and—
Flesh being chewed.
"..."
Talulah's anger briefly cooled.
What had just happened?
She looked down and spotted that tiny purple creature.
The creature named Broken Tooth was chewing something with a blankly adorable expression.
"Gulp."
Whatever it was disappeared into its mouth.
But judging from the Infected Patrol captain's missing leg...
"Gaha!"
The tiny Zergling flapped its wings, then vanished from sight again.
"So fast!"
Even the dragon girl could only barely make out its path.
"Crack!"
A crisp sound rang out.
A scream that had yet to leave someone's mouth was forcibly swallowed back, never to be uttered again.
The Zergling directly bit through the unlucky man's neck.
And that unlucky man's eyes... bizarrely turned into two comical "X"s in the girls' eyes.
It looked funny, yet it was utterly absurd.
Broken Tooth looked blankly adorable as it stared at the people still outside.
The Overlord's order had been to bite these enemies of the Swarm to death.
And now, there were still fifteen enemies outside.