bloodbath butterflies
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Haru is right, because Yuujin can't stop hunger and, eventually, it gets to the point where he can't fight it either. It gets to the point where he's deaf to Haru's screams, and the only reason he knows is because the woman with the top hat comes in at some point afterwards and rubs it in.
'It'll be better now,' she cooes to him. 'So long as you continue devouring your little friend, the drug I gave him will mean you won't need anybody else ever again. You'll be able to go back to school and hide in storage closets or empty rooms for little trysts and as long as nobody opens the door, it'll be a secret for only the two of you.'
'Why..?' Yuujin asks, and it means everything and nothing. She seems to take it as something specific, though.
'Because you've chosen him, haven't you? Just like Yume chose Hasegawa Utsutsu, and after you were so jealous too…' She traces a line on her abdomen. 'That's okay, though. I will bear replacements for the both of you, so you'll be free to love your food if that sort of thing appeals to you.'
And with those final pearls, she's gone. And neither he nor Haru see her again for a long time. Instead, there's only the man named Hotoki who claims to be Maria-sama's attendant, and that's the only reason they know her name at all.