"Puppet Snake? How do you know? Who told you?" Negris asked in astonishment.
Ange was with everyone every day, always playing with his own things whenever he had free time. Now he was engrossed in the Space-Time Chessboard, and hardly had time to pay attention to outside information. How could he know things that nobody else did?
"There is one, mine," Ange said.
"???" A huge question mark popped up in everyone's mind. What does 'there's one of yours' mean?
After asking for a while, they finally figured it out: "Pooh, you mean your bug burrowed into one of the Puppet Snake's eggs, ate it, and then parasitized its body, becoming one of the Puppet Snakes?"
Ange nodded, then shook his head: "Not an egg, a seed."
"A seed was parasitized by a bug? Isn't that unreasonable?" Negris muttered.
Ursman said: "Reasonable, it's reasonable. Don't fungal parasites also exist on bugs or ants? Cross-species parasitism is not impossible."
