Demon-level [Mosquito Girl]

Saitama first ran home to shut all his doors and windows, then came over to Bai Ye's place to help him close his too.

But just as he was about to close the last window, that god-level mosquito flew back in.

"You dare come back? I won't let you escape this time, you damn mosquito!"

The sight of that familiar mosquito sent Saitama into a rage.

Bai Ye sat on the sofa, quietly drinking tea. As long as that god-level mosquito left him alone, he couldn't be bothered with it.

"What are those things?"

Vaccine Man slowly rose into the air, puzzled as he looked at the enormous swarm of mosquitoes in the distance.

He only knew that he had been born from the will of the Earth and charged with wiping out humanity. He knew almost nothing else.

He might not even have known that he was a monster. After all, "monster" was a term humans had invented.

Vaccine Man recognized the mosquitoes, but he could also make out a slender figure among the distant swarm. That was what puzzled him.

Then Vaccine Man tried summoning an orb of light.

He discovered that his body was finally free of its restrictions.

Ever since Bai Ye had taken control of him, he had been unable to attack humans at all. He couldn't even summon his orbs of light.

That meant the figure surrounded by the distant swarm wasn't human.

"I've built up plenty of frustration lately. Might as well take it out on these damned things..."

Vaccine Man muttered to himself.

But just then, the rapidly approaching swarm suddenly stopped.

"?"

Bai Ye had ordered Vaccine Man not to leave No Man’s Land, and the mosquitoes had yet to enter its boundaries, so he couldn't simply charge over and kill them.

Meanwhile, someone had intercepted the swarm.

The television reports and warnings had proved effective. Everyone in Z City's residential district had either hidden indoors or fled to a shelter, leaving the streets and shops completely deserted.

Actually, there was still one person there, if he counted as one. He was a cyborg.

Beneath the mosquitoes filling the sky stood a blond young man in a short-sleeved shirt and jeans, his body covered in mechanical parts. Even his face had a metallic sheen.

This blond young man was Genos, the [Demon Cyborg], though he had yet to receive that hero name.

Apart from his original brain, Genos's body consisted entirely of mechanical parts. Although his face was metal too, his facial features were his own.

"I see. These mosquitoes follow your orders to suck blood, then transfer it all to you..."

"No wonder they all move together so perfectly. So all I have to do is eliminate you, their master, right?"

Countless mosquitoes instantly surrounded Genos, but with a body made of metal parts, he could completely ignore their bites. He looked up at Mosquito Girl, surrounded by her swarm.

Mosquito Girl was a hybrid of a mosquito and a human woman. Her disaster level was Demon-level, and she was relatively powerful even among monsters of that rank.

She still had the figure of a human girl, but her hands and feet had become mosquito limbs. Her back bore mosquito-like wings and a blood sac, and her head also had mosquito features. Her face, however, retained a human girl's cute features, with her mouthparts-her proboscis-retracted.

According to the official guidebook, Mosquito Girl was actually 2.6 meters tall because her mosquito legs were unusually long. After those legs were severed and Dr. Genus replaced them with human ones, her height became much more normal. Her normal height should have been around 1.6 to 1.7 meters.

"Hah."

Mosquito Girl gave a cold scoff, looking down at Genos with contempt.

"Drain him dry!"

At Mosquito Girl's command, countless mosquitoes immediately enveloped Genos in layer upon layer. An ordinary human would have been sucked into a dried husk a thousand times over.

But as a cyborg, Genos remained completely unharmed. He raised a hand and unleashed a burst of energy, instantly exterminating all the mosquitoes surrounding him.

"?!"

Mosquito Girl's face filled with shock at the sight.

Genos's raised hand was now aimed directly at Mosquito Girl in the air. "Don't move. Just accept your death," he said coldly.

"Heh, you think you can kill me?"

Mosquito Girl laughed coldly, still dismissing Genos as no threat.

"Incineration."

Energy gathered in Genos's palm, the charge completing in an instant before he fired a searing blast at Mosquito Girl.

But Mosquito Girl reacted quickly. Not only did she dodge the blast, she lunged at Genos to kill him.

"!"

Genos's eyes sharpened with vigilance.

Clang!

The next moment, Mosquito Girl's proboscis pierced Genos's left arm and tore it off.

"Hehehe~"

"...Huh?"

While Mosquito Girl was gloating, she realized that her body had somehow grown lighter.

She turned to look and discovered that both her legs were missing below the knees.

She also happened to catch sight of Genos below, casually tossing her legs onto the ground.

Genos continued firing energy blasts at Mosquito Girl, determined to finish her off.

Before he knew it, he had chased her into No Man’s Land.

As Mosquito Girl dodged, her expression finally turned serious.

"That bastard..."

Mosquito Girl knew she couldn't keep this up and decided to use her trump card.

Her resolve hardened, and she spread her hands to summon every mosquito within an area a hundred kilometers across.

Although the humans in the city had taken shelter in time, leaving the swarm with almost no human blood to drink, the animals hadn't been able to hide...

She would have those mosquitoes inject the blood they had collected into her body, allowing her to evolve.

Seeing the swarm in the sky suddenly grow larger and larger, Genos immediately realized something was wrong. He hurriedly gathered energy, hoping to finish Mosquito Girl off as quickly as possible.

Meanwhile, Saitama still couldn't do anything about that god-level mosquito, and at Mosquito Girl's summons, it slipped back out through a gap in the door...

"It's about time."

With a thought, Bai Ye vanished from where he had been sitting and drinking tea.

The teacup settled steadily onto the table, while Bai Ye instantly teleported to Vaccine Man's side using the Flying Thunder God Technique.

He had already left a Flying Thunder God Formula on Vaccine Man's body.

Sure enough, Bai Ye only had to tilt his head slightly to see the swarm nearby.

He could see Mosquito Girl in the process of evolving.

Vaccine Man seemed to have long since grown used to Bai Ye appearing out of nowhere and showed no surprise.

"Aim carefully when you throw that. Don't hit anyone else."

Bai Ye warned Vaccine Man, who was about to fire an orb of light.

He had already sensed Genos over there.

The main problem was that Vaccine Man's orbs were far too powerful. If one accidentally struck somewhere else, it would blow up a whole stretch of buildings.

"What a pain..."

Vaccine Man scratched the back of his head in irritation. "Then I'll just go over and shove it in that thing's face. That'll do, right?"

P.S. Thanks to "Catch a Tail" for gifting five "Update Charms"! (I really couldn't post Mosquito Girl's picture in the comments, so I put it in [Author's Note] instead. There might be a delay before the author's note appears, but you can tap my profile picture and view it under Author's Notes.)