As Zouken Matou's soul was annihilated, the insects he had cultivated and summoned fell into uncontrolled chaos.
Without a commander, these instinct-driven insects were no longer a threat.
The insects began to fall into chaos, starting to kill, devour, and flee.
Watching the chaotic swarm, Nyarlathotep asked Chen Yu, "Darling, are these swarms useful to you?"
"No..."
"Then Nyarlathotep will take care of these!"
As Nyarlathotep clapped her hands.
A blue-purple spatiotemporal magnetic field rapidly spread, imprisoning all the frenzied insects within the space.
Then, she spread her hands, and the entire insect chamber instantly became empty.
Only insect blood and feces remained on the ground, mixed together to form a foul odor.
After the tense atmosphere dissipated, Chen Yu noticed how truly dirty this insect chamber was.
Fortunately, the Iron Man Armor Tony gave him had an air filtration system, so Chen Yu didn't need to use a Bubblehead Charm to filter the air.
Nyarlathotep floated a foot off the ground, not wanting to walk, and even suggested leaving the insect chamber as soon as their business was done; she didn't want to stay there for another moment.
"Darling, the smell here is so bad. Let's go outside."
Chen Yu didn't answer Nyarlathotep, but instead tapped the wooden floor of the insect chamber with his toe.
He found that the floorboards were hollow beneath, and faintly, he could still hear the rustling sound of insects crawling.
Seeing Chen Yu's action, Nyarlathotep lowered her head and used her purple pupils to look directly through the floorboards into the scene in the cellar.
Seeing the horrifying scene below, Nyarlathotep hesitated and said, "Darling, there are still many insects below, and among those insects, there's also a small... girl?"
Hearing Nyarlathotep's words, Chen Yu immediately switched the display on his mask to thermal imaging mode. Through the floor, he saw many insects still writhing below.
And in the red and blue image, a small humanoid thermal signature lay motionless in the insect nest, allowing insects to crawl and bite her.
"Tsk, I let that old bug die too easily. I should have known not to kill him directly with the Killing Curse, but to capture him and torment him with the Crucio, letting him know what it means to wish for death!"
Chen Yu said resentfully, stomping heavily on the wooden floor, instantly creating a large hole in the insect chamber.
As a Lumos was cast down, the light- and fire-fearing insects hiding in the shadows instantly retreated deeper.
When watching the anime, perhaps through the screen, he hadn't been too moved by the insects crawling all over Sakura; he just felt that Sakura's childhood was tragic and pitiful.
Now, this horrifying sight was presented directly before him, which brought Chen Yu immense shock.
He wished he could resurrect Zouken Matou and then flay him and remove his bones again, tormenting Zouken Matou with the Crucio until he was utterly broken.
Especially under the bites of the insects, Matou Sakura was like a broken doll, lying motionless, allowing the Crest Worms to gnaw at her. Her numb and despairing eyes were like two lifeless glass marbles, without light, without emotion, only deep emptiness. Even when facing the dazzling light emitted by Lumos, her vacant eyes didn't even blink.
It was as if her inner world was completely shut off, completely unresponsive to the outside.
Chen Yu directly used Accio to summon Matou Sakura and placed her on the ground. Facing the insects in the cellar, Chen Yu directly used magical lightning to crush the remaining insects in the cellar.
Orange-yellow lightning continuously leaped throughout the cellar, and large numbers of Crest Worms instantly turned into charcoal.
After confirming that all the insects in the cellar had been killed, he waved his hand to dispel the lightning and knelt down to check on Sakura's condition.
Looking at Sakura's empty, lifeless eyes and expressionless face, if not for the faint breath at her nostrils, Chen Yu would have thought Sakura had already died.
Chen Yu removed the clothes, torn and eaten by insects, from Sakura, and took out a men's shirt from the Serenite Pot to put on Sakura.
Sakura was like a rag doll, allowing herself to be manipulated.
Perhaps when Sakura was abandoned by her family and thrown into the insect den by Zouken Matou, before someone who could save her appeared, her spirit had already died.
Chen Yu used a Sleeping Charm to put the poor Sakura into a deep sleep and carried Sakura out of the insect chamber.
Perhaps Nyarlathotep also felt the heaviness in Chen Yu's heart, or perhaps she felt that Sakura could not threaten her position, so Nyarlathotep did not stop Chen Yu from carrying Sakura out.
When the two walked out of the insect chamber, Nyarlathotep pointed to the Matou main room and said, "Darling, there are two more people in there, an adult and a child. The adult is completely drunk and has no idea what's happening here. The child looks terrified and is clutching a doll, trembling. Darling, do we need to pay attention to them?"
A drunken adult?
A trembling child?
Nyarlathotep must be referring to Matou Kariya and Matou Shinji.
Although Matou Kariya was nominally the head of the Matou Family, in reality, he was merely a puppet of Zouken Matou, an ordinary person incapable of any magic. Real power remained in Zouken Matou's hands.
Although he spent his days in a drunken stupor, he still followed Zouken Matou's instructions to take care of Matou Sakura's daily life.
As for Shinji, when he was young, Shinji took quite good care of Matou Sakura.
Although Matou Sakura was initially disliked when she first arrived at the Matou Family, seeing that the newly adopted daughter of Matou Kariya was a quiet, ordinary girl, he accepted Matou Sakura as his sister and treated her like a biological sister.
Although it was the pity of a superior looking down, he didn't overly bully Matou Sakura.
Unfortunately, his mistake was that his magic talent was practically zero, while Sakura's magic talent was off the charts.
It wasn't until a few years later when he accidentally discovered the truth: the sole heir of the prestigious Matou Family was actually inferior to an adopted girl, and even his own "grandfather" looked down on him.
This caused Shinji to completely break down and his personality to become twisted.
"Both of them are ordinary people, no need to pay too much attention. Since the old bug has been killed by us, Nyarlathotep, you can remove the mist, but before dispelling the mist, we must clean up the battlefield, otherwise, it will scare the neighbors."
Although the Matou Family lived in a mansion, and a large area around it was woodland, Chen Yu didn't want his war with Zouken Matou to affect ordinary people.
Chen Yu looked at the otherworldly bee swarm still preying on the Crest Worms, recalled Nyarlathotep's spatiotemporal magnetic field skill, and asked Nyarlathotep, "By the way, where did you transfer those insects just now? Please don't transfer them to the city; that would cause fatalities!"
Nyarlathotep patted her chest and said, "Don't worry, Darling. I transferred those insects to the mist space to feed another one of my pets. This is the only 'big' pet I brought with me when I came over. It's covered in scales and whips, has a gentle disposition, loves to wave its whips and play with others, and isn't picky about what it eats. If it weren't for the fact that every creature that sees it undergoes a mental evaluation, I would have wanted to introduce it to Darling, but with Nyarlathotep's protection, Darling should be fine."
"Darling, do you want to meet my pet?"
'Big' pet?
And covered in scales and whips?
Could it be the inherent skill 【Deviation · Summon Twisted Horror】 on the panel?
That thing is in the mist space too?
Chen Yu gazed at the distant, eerie purple mist, recalling the Dimensional Walker's awakening skill, and once again politely declined Nyarlathotep's kind offer.
What if Nyarlathotep's protection wasn't reliable? What if seeing that thing caused a sanity drop?