David, who was tall and thin like a mantis, with dirty and messy hair and round glasses, was often regarded as a weirdo in school because of his hobby of collecting insects. He was timid and always avoided people’s gaze.

Even the school bully didn’t want to bully someone who always hung out with dirty bugs.

It was late at night, and David returned home in a gloomy mood, wearing a black evening dress.

He still didn’t have the courage to attend the dance and turned back to the school.

Recently, one of his precious insects accidentally escaped from its container and left red marks on his face while he was sleeping.

He couldn’t attend the dance in this state and let the person he was infatuated with see him like this.

In the bright living room.

Smack!

“So this is the reason why you always hide in your room, David?”

Seeing her son come back, David’s mother had an unpleasant expression and threw a stack of photos and several videotapes on the sofa.

Photos of Lana, a classmate, taken from various angles, during the day, at night, on the way home… It was like a pervert took them. The content of the videotapes was the same as the photos.

“You can’t enter my room without my permission!”

David shouted angrily, panicking as he quickly put away his cherished belongings.

“How could you do this? My niece Lana and I are in the same club. My son secretly takes pictures of her all the time. How am I supposed to face her?”

David’s mother became more and more emotional as she spoke, almost crying.

“I can’t let you continue like this.”

She had been too negligent, too respectful of her son’s privacy, and didn’t ask about what he usually did, which led to his current state.

Taking pictures of female classmates, keeping insects in his room all day, becoming more and more gloomy, and avoiding social interactions.

“Tomorrow morning, I will call the Claymore Military Academy.”

She couldn’t imagine what her son would become if this continued.

“No, you can’t! What about my bugs if I leave?”

“You should have changed your strange hobby a long time ago. I will throw away all your bugs tomorrow.” She became even more agitated when she saw her son shouting at her for the bugs.

Bang!

She quickly returned to her room and slammed the door shut.

David looked at the butterflies, beetles, spiders, and other insects collected in the bottles and jars in the room. His expression calmed down, and he spoke with an infatuated tone, as if he were treating a lover.

“You are all so beautiful. No one can hurt you. I will take you to a safe place.”

The soil in the bottles, where the attacking insects lived, emitted a beautiful pale green fluorescence.

It was a meteorite he had discovered at night some time ago. He smashed it and added it to each jar. It emitted fluorescence at night, making it even more beautiful.

He had also given fluorescent butterflies as gifts to his crush.

“I wonder what expression Lana had when she received the gift. Unfortunately, I didn’t capture it.”

After packing up his things, David once again revealed his obsession with insects.

He packed all the bottles and jars in the house into the car, ready to take the insects to the abandoned treehouse from his childhood and release them there.

And he could also hide there and avoid being taken to the military academy.

Click!

“David, where are you going?”

The old car started, and David quickly drove onto the road, ignoring his mother’s shouts behind him. He smirked and headed straight for the treehouse from his childhood.

But not long after driving, just outside the town, the car hit a pothole and shook violently.

Smack!

Due to inertia, the jars containing numerous insects fell to the ground and shattered.

The insects, carrying the powdered meteorite, flew around the cramped car and attacked David, who was driving.

“No, don’t bite me!”

Unable to bear the needle-like pain, David turned the steering wheel and crashed into the bushes on the side of the road.

The insects emitting green light went crazy and bit him.

“Ah, ah…”

David’s screams echoed in the deserted outskirts, gradually fading away as he fell into a coma.

…

In the school auditorium, after a terrifying scare that left everyone weak and trembling.

Everyone was soaked and became drenched chickens. The dance could no longer continue.

Someone called the police, and the town police quickly arrived to investigate. Upon hearing that the children had almost been attacked, the parents of the students rushed to pick up their children.

The silent night was shattered, and at the school gate, the ambulance, police cars, and cars of parents almost blocked the way.

“David, Clark!”

Jonathan and Martha received the news and drove over, but they couldn’t find their two sons among the crowd.

“Chloe, have you seen them?”

Martha asked the little girl who had left a deep impression on her when she visited her farm before.

“I’m not sure, Aunt Martha.”

Sitting on the steps at the school gate, covered in a blanket and accompanied by her father, Chloe replied, “They should be fine.”

“Dad, Mom, we’re here.”

While the couple was searching, Clark shouted.

“Clark, where did you two go?” Chloe asked the question she had been wondering about.

“I… David and I didn’t have dance partners, and we found it boring halfway through the dance, so we went outside to get some fresh air.”

Clark and David walked over, and when they saw Chloe and Pete’s parents present, Clark scratched the back of his head and said.

His lie wasn’t very skillful, and he was a bit nervous.

But no one thought much of it. Many people were scared tonight.

“Are you both okay?”

Jonathan patted Clark’s shoulder after looking at the new clothes he had changed into and asked both sons.

“I’m fine, Father.””To the concerned father,” David smiled, “Clark also said he’s fine.”

Jonathan glanced around, his eyes subtly signaling to his worried wife not to ask too much.

The couple knew that the attacker had suddenly disappeared, and it was likely their eldest son’s doing.

Moreover, both sons had changed into clothes that should have been neatly folded at home, indicating that they must have encountered some incidents.

“Are you Clark Kent and David Kent?”

“Yes, sir.”

“Where were you when the incident happened?”

“We…”

The town police came to take a routine statement, not suspecting Clark and David who had left halfway. According to other witnesses, they looked nothing like the thin figure of the attacker.

Moreover, whether this was an attack or a prank was yet to be determined, so there was no need to make a big deal out of it.

Considering that the person had scared everyone in the room half to death and then suddenly disappeared, it was most likely the latter.

“What a pity, tonight should have been a wonderful night for the children, Jonathan.”

“As long as the children are fine.”

A few parents chatted for a while, and everyone took their children home.

…

“So, it wasn’t a prank after all?”

At home, Jonathan and Martha sat on the sofa, looking at their two sons and asked.

“A person who can emit electricity?”

The couple looked at each other in surprise.