"Though I don't know what happened... Celine, do you not want me to die?"
The speaker was the blonde, purple-eyed girl. Though she was over three hundred years old, she still had the face of a girl in the bloom of youth. And yet, she should have been nearing the end of her lifespan, close to death.
Celine's outstretched right hand froze. She looked at Naya's calm face, unsure what to say.
The girl didn't want to eat her older sisters, nor did she want to spend the rest of her life in miserable solitude afterward.
"I know this is unfair to you, so it's all right if you don't want to."
"Exactly. If you don't want to do it, there's no need." The girl beside Naya spread her hands indifferently.
"Mm... Celine is very cute, so it's all right." A black-haired Insect Girl whose hair covered her eyes said the same.
"That's right. The way we are isn't normal to begin with. The male-and-female reproduction our ancestors created is what counts as normal, right?"
Though this concerned their species' reproduction, the girls didn't seem particularly concerned. If anything, they acted as though it had nothing to do with them.
"So after you're eaten, the youngest member gives birth to the next generation. Doesn't that mean there'll be fewer and fewer of you?"
Zhang Xiu traced circles with a finger on his right hand as he looked at the seven Insect Girls around him, recalling the Supernova Attack they unleashed at the cost of their lives, along with their astonishing physical capabilities.
"Say, don't tell me you eat your mother's corpse after you're born, too?"
The corners of his mouth twitched as the realization dawned on him.
"Yes."
"That explains it." Zhang Xiu blinked and scratched his head, unsure what