SHINGU ATSUZEN 25/3/2003

Bzzz .

SWAT!

I slapped the damn stupid mosquito that had landed on my nose.

Bloody insect.

Hakkai handed me a piece of tissue.

"Sanzo!" Atsuzen suddenly burst out. "How could you DO such a THING?!"

I raised an eyebrow, wiping my nose.

What's her problem?

"Do you know that you just killed a MOSQUITO?!" she continued. "You've just reduced the amount of insects in this world! The species of mosquitoes is endangered!"

What crap -?

"Imagine if you kill a mosquito each day! You'd have killed 30 mosquitoes each month! 365 mosquitoes a year!" she dramatically cried. "The ecosystem would be unbalanced! The mosquitoes would reduce in amount since there's so many other people in this world killing mosquitoes! And then . slowly . they're gone . gone . FOREVER!"

That's how I'd like it to be.

"And when there's no more mosquitoes to swat, you'll start killing off the flies! - Then the dragonflies! - and then -" she gasped. "The butterflies!"

Oh, great, I won't have to worry about applying insect repellent the next time I go out.

"But it doesn't matter since I hate butterflies," she sighed.

"Are you done?" I asked.

"Yeah," she finally ended her mosquito crazy talk. "I'm gonna catch grasshoppers and burn them in matchboxes, wanna come?"

"You were just lecturing me about the 'consequences' of killing mosquitoes, and now you're off to kill grasshoppers?" I said. "You're such an idiot."

"It wasn't a LECTURE, excuse me," she retorted. "And if I don't kill the grasshoppers -"

Oh, no . not again .

"- they'll eat up all the grass, leaving less greens in the world! The cows, rabbits, goats, horses and sheep will have less food to eat! The food will soon run out, so they'll starve . and then . DIE!!!"

"No carnivore animals will have a chance to survive because the herbivore animals have starved to death, so they'll be eating one another, reducing the amount of their species as quick as Goku eating five bowls of noodles! And what if the temperature rises and the forests burn down? The oxygen will lessen, thus leaving us with only carbon dioxide to breathe! The North Pole and the South Pole will MELT like the Wicked Witch of the East! All the polar bears and cute penguins will perish!"

What wild imagination this girl has .

"Then us humans will have neither meat nor greens to feed on! We'll starve, and we'll die, too! We'll be EXTINCT just like the dinosaurs! But the only difference is that we didn't die because of a meteor, it's because of -"

"- grasshoppers?" I raised my eyebrow.

"Uh ."

~OWARI~