Reincarnated To Evolve My Bee Empire-Chapter 308: No hugs

When she saw the Oracles, Whisper remembered something vital. The memory brought back some of her pain-addled mind.

The hawkmoth's pheromones!

'I threw the pheromones at the hornet, and then she disappeared—no, she didn't disappear!' Whisper froze with wide eyes when she realized *who* was holding her gently but firmly as they hovered in the air.

Whisper didn't even know what to feel! She should've been afraid or angry, but the pheromones' hypnosis didn't let her think that the "giant bee" was someone hostile.

And the hornet herself was clearly as affected by the pheromones as Whisper and everybody else who smelled them. Whisper didn't even want to think what the hornet must've been seeing in her head right now.

The Oracles flew to the group, but didn't get too close, staring at the giant bee with wonder and some fear.

"What a creature… Agent Whisper, we wouldn't even dream of being in your place right now," the younger Oracle said. "The hawkmoth's pheromones worked very well."

"We've already notified Commander Bloodimina about what happened, and sent a message to Hive Supremo. I think Father would like to hear about today… Yes, he almost certainly would," the older Oracle added.

"Wait, but what is happening?!" someone shouted from the crowd.

"That's… Don't panic!" Whisper shouted back, propping herself on the hornet's arm. "With the gift from Father, I have pacified this hornet! Please, disperse, and don't give humans a cause for alarm, too."

The older Oracle sighed in relief.

"Thank you for explaining, Agent Whisper. We aren't so good at it. Got distracted…"

Whisper shook her head, feeling that although she was tired and in pain, she will have to organize things again.

But then again, didn't she want to work instead of laying flat on her bed?

At this moment, Commander Bloodimina appeared with a squadron of Beemarines, all of which had covered their antennae from pheromones.

"Disperse, people! You have your job! Agent Whisper, Sergeant Swipe-49, get away from this creature. You will give me your full reports later!" Bloodimina shouted.

Even without her orders, her soldiers held bolas ready for being thrown at the "giant bee", although she didn't look at all alarmed by that.

"Sisters… help… give us food?" the giant bee asked instead.

"Uh… I don't think I have strength to give up, Commander," Whisper said with a wry smile. "And you, dear 'sister', why won't you pass me to someone else… and I will give you food."

"You talk with it? Aloud?" Bloodimina asked with a grimace.

Whisper nodded.

"I don't know how it works! It's like…"

"We heard about this. The hypnosis just makes you think she speaks things you understand," the younger Oracle piped in. "It might be the things the hornet actually tries to say, or just something you *think* she might say. The Researchers haven't decided yet."

Bloodimina clicked her tongue.

"Useless. Just get away from that creature already, Agent Whisper. Swipe-49, what are you waiting for?"

The Sergeant Beemarine stopped hovering there with wide eyes and flew to help Whisper out, together with a pair of other Beemarines.

Meanwhile, Bloodimina's Beemarines surrounded the "giant bee".

They carried Whisper to the hospital, where Chief Physician nagged at Whisper for flying so far from her room and even fighting with a hornet again while she fixed Whisper's stitches.

Meanwhile, the Beemarines put the hypnotized hornet to a makeshift holding cell, which field Craftsmen were rapidly enhancing with extra wood and iron nails. To keep the prisoner alive, she was given some meat and water from bees' stash.

A few Physicians who had more curiosity than the sense of preservation (which meant almost any of them, in Whisper's opinion) even entered the cell to take the glass shards from the hornet's mouth and explore her physiology.

Until this point, the Physicians only had dead and mangled hornets to study, and they were extremely curious to see a whole evolved hornet's wing. They wanted to know what let them fly silently.

"If we find this out and learn to imitate this ability with technological means, it will be an incredible step forward for the Bee Empire!" the Chief Physician gushed with excitement to other Physicians and any patient in the hospital who couldn't escape and not listen. "We will make history, all of us! This will go down in legends!"

By evening, the Physicians were disappointed when a message from Father had reached the camp.

'It was fortunate that things worked out the way they did. Agent Whisper again has shown herself extremely well! Except when she disobeyed orders of a Physician. Please, don't do that, unless it's a serious matter. As for the hornet, kill her while she sleeps. She's too dangerous to keep imprisoned. You can examine her corpse.'

So this night the presence of a "giant bee" was ended with a quiet stab of a long steel knife.

***

It took ten more days for the temple to finish building. Ten days, in which the Beemarines found several more struggling, barely surviving lone hornets and killed them all—without Whisper's help.

Notably, it was also the day after which the Chief Physician finally let Whisper out of the hospital.

By then, Whisper was so healthy that she could walk and fly without pain, although she had huge scars all over her shoulders and hips and her joints moved more stiffly than before.

Whisper should've been recovering in her own bed for the last week, but because of her fight with the hornet, the Chief Physician just forbade her.

And after Father chided her in his message, Whisper couldn't even disobey her.

So now she was extremely excited to leave the hospital. Not only was she about to see outside again and talk with her human properly, she was going to be a guest of honor at the opening of the finished temple of Dalmanrach!

But as Whisper hurriedly flew to her room and put on her best, cleanest, least patched-up clothing, she heard a commotion.

Voices and thoughts carried over the camp-box, and among them was the name…

'No way,' Whisper thought. 'Could that be… *he* came to see the temple be open, too?!'