Crack, crack.
Hearing that faint cracking sound, Qian did not hesitate in the slightest. He immediately pulled a kunai from his Ninja Tool Pouch, tied an Exploding Tag to it, and threw it over.
However, before the kunai could get close, the unknown thing seemed to sense the danger. With a bang, it smashed through the Bee Queen's abdomen and shot into the sky at incredible speed.
Boom.
The Exploding Tag exploded, but failed to cause it even the slightest harm.
With the exceptional insight granted by the Sharingan, Qian clearly saw the unknown thing's appearance. It was unmistakably Akabachi.
Only, the way he looked now, compared to a human, he resembled a bee far more—and a bee standing upright like a man at that.
His eyes bulged, his body was hunched, his limbs were twisted into bizarre shapes, and a pair of transparent wings at his shoulder blades were trembling slightly.
If not for the fact that he still retained some traces of his human appearance, Qian would have thought he was Bee Queen Number Two.
It was only now that Qian understood why he had previously felt that Akabachi's features resembled a bee's.
Clearly, the secret technique he had used at the end had considerable side effects. Perhaps it would shift a person in the direction of a bee.
In addition, his irritable and easily angered temperament was probably related to this as well.
Otherwise, as a Special Jonin, even if he had an irreconcilable blood feud with the Aburame Clan, he should not have become so foolish after just a few taunts from Qian.
In fact, that was exactly the case.
From the moment the Insect Fusion Technique was created, it had possessed significant flaws.
Although using this technique would allow a person to obtain some of