Main Characters: Arachnid, Caterpillar, Blattodea
The Organization's "Bugs": Recurring, Exclusive to Arachnid, Exclusive to Caterpillar, Exclusive to Blattodea
Other Characters
Related series: Jackals, Choubu no Shinobi, Himenospia
The main characters from Caterpillar, a spinoff-prequel to Arachnid: a delinquent tomboy, a crossdressing boy and Kabutomushi.
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Caterpillar/Imomushi
Caterpillar (イモムシ; Imomushi), alias Miki Inou (井上美樹; Inou Miki)
She makes an extended cameo in Arachnid that is given full context towards the ending of Caterpillar, and also makes appearances in Blattodea afterwards.
- Acquired Poison Immunity: People like Paraponera, Sasori and Gokiburi come to find out that any sort of toxic or sleep-inducing attacks have little effect on Imomushi. Why? Because caterpillars, man. Even in-universe it is noted to not make sense!
- Amazonian Beauty: She's the tallest female in the cast at 1.70m and has a well toned abdomen to both convey her toughness and the way she swings her body back and forth as a means of attack. The occasional half-naked or outright naked brawl in Caterpillar doesn't hurt either... However, only Ifuji Shinsen and Isuka Hakozaki portrayed her properly as this trope. Tokisada Hayami draws her with a more cute and delicate look most of the time except for some artwork like the third volume cover of Blattodea.
- Animal Motifs: Caterpillars. Being the heroine, she gets analogies with various kinds of caterpillars rather than just a single species, like Alice does with spiders.
- Animal-Themed Superbeing: Imomushi was always awfully strong, but the trauma of finding her sister raped to death messed up her head and granted her various caterpillar abilities.
- Badass Adorable: She used to be a delinquent child and beat up even adults who pissed her off.
- Beauty Is Never Tarnished: More than once we are told that Imomushi is Covered with Scars, but we only ever see her bodacious form in pristine condition. Even Ifuji Shinsen didn't depict her with scars in Arachnid.
- Berserk Button: Harm or even badmouth her sister at all and Imomushi, even as a kid, would crush you with everything and the kitchen sink.
- Big Sister Worship: Even if they're not related by blood, Imomushi thinks the world of her older sister Mika and was very protective of her.
- Calling Your Attacks: "Anchor Bolt Caterpillar"... Cannon (Headbutt)/Bullet (Punch)/Tomahawk (Elbow Drop).
- Catchphrase: When explaining her motivations, she tends to finish with "That's the Caterpillar's rule" (not to be confused with "That's what Killing Bites is"). At the end of Caterpillar, while telling Alice to keep working alone, she changes it to "That's this world's rule".
- Chekhov's Lecture: Advices Alice about the solution to any difficulty being within oneself. Alice recalls that throughout her misadventure enough times that she finally ends up dismissing the thought in an almost comical way.
- Combat Pragmatist: Distracts Alice by asking embarrassing questions about her relationship with Kumo and throws a coat at her to block her view. The narration states this makes her the exact opposite of Kumo and Alice.
- Conflict Ball: Every time Imomushi is introduced outside of her own spinoff where she is a fairly sympathetic anti-heroine, it is as an antagonist who's out to murder the local protagonist. In Arachnid, she tries to callously kill Alice for money. In Blattodea she shows up out of nowhere to cause trouble to Chiyuri and Setsuna, with their conflict senselessly escalating until a crowd of zombies forces them to flee together.
- Cynicism Catalyst: Her sister's death turned her very bitter to most people except Hanakamakiri.
- Dark Action Girl: A tough female killer-for-hire.
- Dark and Troubled Past: Back when Imomushi was a teen, she failed to save her sister from being strangled to death and got forcefully recruited into the Organization shortly after.
- Demoted to Extra:
- Despite being hyped in her introduction scene, Imomushi doesn't get to do much in Arachnid and we only find out what became of her in the ending of her spinoff.
- Downplayed in Blattodea, where she's hanging out at a WcDonald's with Kabutomushi and doesn't seem to have much personal stakes on the plot. She reunites with Hanakamakiri in chapter 25 but doesn't travel with him to Hibarigaoka Prison.
- Depending on the Artist: The second artist for the spinoff depicts her differently enough from what she originally looked like that when you compare chapter 94 of Caterpillar to its equivalent in Arachnid, 36, she nearly looks like another character.
- Double Standard Rape: Female on Male: A hideously ugly male rapist attacking a tiny Hanakamakiri is bad and wrong. Hanakamakiri being groomed and raped by the handsome and vile Kinohadakamakiri is horrible but his training is presented as a net positive. Then there's Imomushi, who's presented as a completely positive influence on the boy due to being both female and hot. Hanakamakiri reciprocates her feelings, nobody bats an eye at the age gap, and Alice, the series' overall protagonist, even imagines them getting married.
- The Dreaded: Bullies eventually gave up on assaulting Miki because she could curb stomp them all at once, making her feared across the school. And yet, the orphanage staff was still raping Mika behind her back...
- Dropped a Bridge on Her: While she was busy fighting Dinoponera, Suzumebachi backstabbed Imomushi and left her for dead. She disappears from the plot of Arachnid after this, leaving her own sidestory to catch up and show Hanakamakiri rescuing her.
- Evil Overlooker: In the cover for chapter 34 of her manga, lusting over Hanakamakiri.
- Extreme Omnivore: It is implied she can't get sick thanks to her bug abilities, so in Blattodea she is seen eating expired dog food in the apocalypse.
- Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: The foolish to Mika's responsible.
- Guns Are Worthless:
- Imomushi gets far more mileage out of her headbutts than out of the pistol she regularly carries on her. Her final battle against Paraponera is a particularly exaggerated example. It starts with her casually dodging his minigun, walloping him and holding him at gunpoint. Paraponera then flips like a ninja, beats her down and holds her at gunpoint. And then dies from his injuries.
- Dinoponera easily destroys Imomushi's pistol in both of their encounters so far, but due to suffering from The Worf Effect in Blattodea she also keeps falling victim to Imomushi's Caterpillar Cannon despite blocking it the first time she saw it during the Arachnid Hunt.
- Harmful to Minors: As a child, Imomushi killed a bunch of rapists who had strangled her sister Mika to death, and found it was because of her own behavior that Mika had been coerced into being a sex slave in the first place.
- Hero of Another Story: Is the protagonist of her own spinoff, Caterpillar, which takes place a year before the Arachnid Hunt. She then reappears in Blattodea on Chiyuri's side of the story before reuniting with Hanakamakiri on Alice's side.
- Hyper-Awareness: Can perceive atmospheric pressure, allowing her to avoid attacks similar to how Gokiburi does.
- It's All My Fault: She regrets that it was for her sake that Mika died. On the second time, it was because Imomushi didn't kill Paraponera when she had the chance and he took advantage by killing Mika for good.
- Kick the Dog: Attempting to kill Alice for money in Arachnid is one thing, but in Blattodea she acts irrationally antagonistic to both Setsuna and Chiyuri when they first meet just so the story can make her look bad.
- Let's You and Him Fight:
- Soon after she first appears in the main story, she fights Alice because of curiosity and interest on the prize for Alice's head.
- She comes across Chiyuri and Dinoponera in the apocalypse by coincidence, without even recognizing the latter, and makes both of them hostile when she attacks Chiyuri due to thinking she was a zombie and demands food from Dinoponera while threatening her with a gun.
- Make Sure He's Dead: In Caterpillar, Imomushi seems like the type who doesn't kill unless she's forced to and only beats her opponents unconscious. This comes back to bite Imomushi when a not quite defeated Paraponera kills her sister and nearly executes her, causing the hitwoman to become more ruthless as a result. So in Blattodea, she loudly declares she's going to finish off an unconscious Chiyuri before Setsuna interrupts her.
- Megaton Punch: Her punches have immense strength even when she isn't catapulting herself.
- Metronomic Man Mashing: She swings and bashes Kabutomushi against a wall in a blind rage. By the time Imomushi realizes what happened, the beetle girl is half-buried under rubble.
- Mythology Gag: Imomushi's signature back-and-forth headbutt swings were previously seen once in the manga Jackals from the same author.
- The Nameless: "Miki Inou" is said to be her original name before she joined the Organization.
- Neck Lift: Immobilizes Alice with one at the Arachnid Hunt. During chapter 11 of Blattodea, she lifts Dinoponera by her face instead.
- No-Nonsense Nemesis: Defeats Alice but lets her go, only to shoot her anyway - but Alice isn't fooled. Then when she meets Dinoponera, Imomushi tries to kill her during their conversation but it doesn't work either.
- Now That's Using Your Teeth!: In the prequel, Imomushi breaks Kumo's highly resistant threads by biting them. She later catches a knife thrown by Sasori with her teeth. In the main story she does the same to Alice's Kumoito and to Dinoponera's Dino Spine.
- Odd Friendship: She and Kabutomushi started out hostile to each other and interacted little after their fight was interrupted, but Blattodea shows they ended up living together in a WcDonald's for around a year during the zombie outbreak — like a yuri couple, says Murata
. - One-Woman Army: Especially when the zombie apocalypse happens to Japan and she survives it for a whole year, though it's later revealed she started living with Kabutomushi at some point.
- Only in It for the Money: She has her own business to take care of in the Arachnid Hunt and doesn't like killing people needlessly, but won't pass the chance to kill Alice and earn the prize money.
- Pintsized Powerhouse: Imomushi was already able to punch heads into paste as a child.
- Punch-Clock Villain: Refrains from killing anyone outside of her contracts, including witnesses. She does attempt to kill Alice for money and acts uncharacteristically hostile when first introduced in Blattodea, though, as she engages in deadly combat with Chiyuri and Setsuna from out of a misunderstanding.
- Rape as Backstory: The tragic rape and murder of her sister which resulted in Imomushi being hired by the Organization after killing most of the ones responsible.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: When Alice flips out, all her moves become coldly calculated. When Imomushi flips out, she becomes a blind berserker.
- Shameless Fanservice Girl: Innocent she is not, but Imomushi fights Sasori in the nude without a hint of shame.
- Signature Move: The Anchor Bolt Caterpillar Cannon. She nails herself to the ground and then pulls herself back and forth into a intense headbutt that's useful for both offense and evasion. It helps that enemies often give her a chance to perform the move as a counter or worse, push Imomushi down by themselves.
- Starter Villain: She's more of a neutral character, but becomes the first major antagonist to Chiyuri and Dinoponera when she comes across the two in Blattodea.
- Super-Strength: Enough to overpower even the strongest insect, Kabutomushi. And she was that strong even as a child.
- Trash of the Titans: Her apartment was a sea of trash bags that a shocked Hanakamakiri immediately resolves to help clean up. Naturally, the narration relates this mess to how silkworms devolved and became unable to live on their own from being cultivated by humans to produce silk.
- Tricked-Out Shoes: Her shoes nail themselves to the ground, allowing Imomushi to pull herself forth and back like a roly-poly toy.
- Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: It's understandable that she was a vicious Bully Hunter to anyone who harmed her sister, but this led to tragedy as Mika got blackmailed to become a sex slave so Miki wouldn't be sent to a reformatory.
- Unstoppable Rage: She tries to keep her anger under check as Mika often told her to, resulting in her actual power level being repressed. Kabutomushi and Chiyuri get to feel what's it like when Imomushi snaps.
- Unwitting Pawn: Imomushi as well as everyone who attempted to kill her in the Death Caterpillar incident were disposable pawns meant to lure a bunch of politicians and V.I.P.s into a cruise ship and then sink it.
- Use Your Head: Can peform powerful headbutts in a catapult motion, much like how carnivorous caterpillars of the Eupethecia genus move to catch prey.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: Suzumebachi knocked out Imomushi with a backstab and for a long time that was the last we saw of her. Caterpillar eventually revealed Hanakamakiri got her out safely of the Ouran school.
- The Worf Effect: Imomushi shows she's capable of defeating Alice, but is the first to get beaten up by Dinoponera. Then in Blattodea she turns things around, quickly overwhelming the ant-girl and becoming the first one to ever draw blood from her with a physical blow. In her enraged form Imomushi also deals a ton of damage to Chiyuri, who ends up introducing Ki Attacks into the series to defeat her.
- Would Hurt a Child: Has no problem with trying to kill teen assassins like Oki, Alice and Dinoponera.
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Towards the end of Caterpillar, Kagimushi figures every hitman inside the Ageha ship was seen as disposable by the Organization in their plans to kill hundreds of businessmen and politicians who were a hindrance to their operations. Imomushi ends up taking 19 assassins to safety and gains a grudge against the entire syndicate for what they did to her sister, so Hanakamakiri fears they'll want to dispose of Imomushi at some point. He "betrays" her by following Suzumebachi's request to make Alice Fujii the new Boss in exchange for Imomushi's safety.
- You Killed My Father: The person sending assassins after Imomushi is the woman who killed her sister. During the Arachnid Hunt, Imomushi wants to kill Suzumebachi for never telling her that Mika hadn't actually died back then.
Orchid Mantis/Hanakamakiri
Orchid Mantis (ハナカマキリ; Hanakamakiri), alias Kozue Shiihara
He is still prominent in Blattodea as the one who brings Alice into the Organization to make her the new Boss as part of a deal with Suzumebachi.
- Ambiguous Gender Identity: Generally, the series is adamant about Hanakamakiri being meant to be seen as a male otokonoko. In-universe, he presents as female due to his upbringing and hates when most people try to expose his gender but never discusses this in detail. Amenbo describes him as a "girl in a boy's body", but Imomushi always treats Hanakamakiri as a man in front of everyone. Although irritated at first the mantis is willing to put up with that since he's got a crush on her.
- Animal Motifs: Orchid Mantises, who are able to pretend being flowers to fool both predators and prey. This translates to Hanakamakiri being a crossdresser who uses a lot of feints and sneak attacks.
- Artistic License – Biology: The manga explains his adroginy as a result of the Kinefelter Syndrome, blatantly ignoring that other symptoms include weak muscles, poor body coordination and, to quote, "small, poorly functional genitals". While Hanakamakiri does display other symptoms that make him more feminine, he lacks significant coordination problems and apparently is so well hung he even scares other women.
- Attempted Rape: Gets in danger of being raped every now and then, but is well able to fight the creeps off on his own. Even Imomushi considered molesting him once and later tried to hire a (bug-themed, of course) prostitute to take Hana's virginity instead.
- Badass Adorable: Looks pretty cutesy but is equally dangerous.
- Bait the Dog: He cooks pudding for Alice and promises to keep making more as long as she remains the new Organization Boss. He's pretty much the only person in there who wouldn't be overly malicious to the spider-girl, though he also doesn't mind Karina manipulating her into accepting the job — a contrast to how worried he was when Mika appeared before Imomushi two years earlier. But then, when Alice tries to find the truth behind Hibarigaoka Prison, he just bum-rushes in to drag her back to her room through violence.
- The Bartender: Works as one for the Organization.
- Berserk Button: He often ends up beating or slicing people when a Unsettling Gender-Reveal situation is forced on him.
- Beware the Nice Ones: Despite his traumatic past and in contrast to almost every other assassin in either story, Hanakamakiri seems nice and of sound mind. He's also quite calculated and doesn't shy away from ruthlessly slashing his enemies, to the point of being a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing to Alice in Blattodea.
- Black Comedy Rape:
- Kinohadakamakiri's constant rape of him to make him submissive is played for drama, but some of the other attempts at him are instead played for comedy as the assaulters, some of which are female, have no idea what to do with his massive genitals. In one such case, Kinohadakamakiri and his master attempt to rape Hanakamakiri while he's unconscious, but the boy instinctively spends hours trying to rape them instead while they run in a panic.
- In Blattodea, Imomushi has an Anger Born of Worry moment upon reuniting with Hanakamakiri and rants that he can't complain if she ends up raping him because of him abandoning her in the previous year. Before he consents and confesses his feelings to Imomushi, a nearby Alice is comically confused to see him being threatened with rape because she feels violated by how intimate he was with her while hiding the fact he's a crossdressing boy.
- But Now I Must Go: Feeling guilty over making a deal with Suzumebachi for Imomushi's protection without her knowing, Hanakamakiri leaves to parts unknown at the end of Caterpillar, much like how Alice left Oki. Imomushi, left all alone in the middle of the zombie outbreak, just thinks he's being really stupid and vows to just find and claim his virginity like they had promised to a whole year before.
- Child Soldier: He's 14 during Caterpillar and seems to have been brought in the Organization a couple of years prior to him meeting Imomushi.
- Combat Pragmatist: Often gets enemies to low their guard by feigning weakness or acting like he just wants to talk things out.
- Conflict Ball: He's paranoid that Imomushi is going to get assassinated if he doesn't force Alice to become the new Boss of the Organization, even though we never see Imomushi being threatened by anyone or anything other than the zombies. This leads to Hanakamakiri senselessly beating the snot out of Alice to get her to comply, making the girl even more bitter about life.
- The Consigliere: Under the late Suzumebachi's orders, Hanakamakiri welcomes Alice as the new Boss of the Organization and plays bodyguard and advisor roles while informing her about the plans against the zombie apocalypse. He even dresses up as a maid to serve her pudding.
- Cute and Psycho: Hanakamakiri's cutesy looks He confesses to Kinohadakamakiri he hopes to cut Imomushi's limbs like a literal caterpillar and turn her into a mindless sex slave, only for it to be a lie to distract his sadist teacher.
- Dark and Troubled Past: Already an orphan for 4 years, Hanakamakiri lost his foster family to a robber who wanted to rape him and was forced to kill the scumbag in self-defense when he got home from school. He was then adopted and trained as an assassin by the extremely controlling and abusive Kinohadakamakiri, who frequently raped him anyway.
- Death Glare: By glaring at Nanafushi's general direction he gets her nervous and disables her invisibility.
- Defensive Feint Trap: Sometimes he exploits his cuteness and falls to his knees crying, pretending to be helpless.
- Distaff Counterpart: Acts like one to vanilla Kamakiri from the main story, who died too soon. Obviously the cool mantis theme couldn't be left to waste.
- Dissonant Serenity: Tries to keep a graceful facade at all times. One moment that stands out is him luring some sex offenders away from a disturbed Alice at Hibarigaoka Prison, clearly planning to get rid of them when nobody's looking. He calmly offers to be "body-searched" by them and tells Alice it's always been like this to him.
- Dragon with an Agenda: To keep the Organization running and be in a position he can use to prevent anyone in there from targeting Imomushi, he helps Bekkōbachi deceive and control the new Puppet Queen Alice. When Alice is about to run away to check out what's happening at Hibarigaoka Prison, Hanakamakiri tries to take her back by force.
- Dude Looks Like a Lady: Thanks to Klinefelter syndrome he looks very feminine.
- Elegant Gothic Lolita: Mainly dresses in such a costume and is noted to be very elegant and feminine.
- Feminine Women Can Cook: Being raised to act like a girl involved cooking lessons. Alice is surprised to hear he cooked the pudding he served her instead of it being some expensive store product.
- Foil: Imomushi is a tomboyish delinquent girl who's honest to a fault. Hanakamakiri is a graceful crossdressing boy who's been conditioned to deceive others.
- Gag Penis: Something of a Running Gag in Caterpillar is people not being just surprised by what Hanakama has under his dress, but also scared by it. Bigger Is Better in Bed has its limits, it would seem. As explained in-series, this contradicts the symptoms of Kinefelter Syndrome on genitals because male flower mantises have disproportionately large ones for their size.
- The Ghost: He is only mentioned once in Arachnid and doesn't appear on-panel, so of course the sidestory reveals he was there all along the moment Dinoponera leaves the room Suzumebachi and the knocked-out Imomushi were in.
- Guns Are Worthless: Spends all of Caterpillar without touching a gun, but happens to be the one who shows Alice that the army ant zombies can only be killed by blasting their heads off with heavy firepower.
- Hammerspace: Hanakamakiri's scythes are huge and literally appear from out of thin air in some scenes, including one where he's naked.
- Harmful to Minors: As a little boy he killed a pedophile who murdered his parents and was kidnapped by the Organization, who placed him under the care of another pedophile who turned him into an assassin.
- Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique: To interrogate Nanafushi, he ties her to to a chair and leaves it barely hanging at the edge of a hole in the ship's hull, only supported by a rope tied to Nanafushi's neck.
- Kicking Ass in All Her Finery: Wears a frilly gothloli dress and fights a bunch of people through the story.
- Life-or-Limb Decision: He says he'd have sacrificed his own limbs to escape from Zomushi's grasp if Riokku didn't help him out.
- Likes Older Women: Falls in love with Imomushi, who is around six years older than him.
- Little Miss Badass: A small but deadly gothloli.
- Meido: Kinohadakamakiri had him wear a maid costume and do chores back when Hanakamakiri was his student. He also dresses like this while serving pudding to his boss Alice.
- Must Not Die a Virgin: Imomushi keeps insisting he loses his virginity to anybody before they head out to the Ageha cruise ship, and since he does love her he promises a night of Glad-to-Be-Alive Sex with her once they both make it out alive. However, he ends up breaking the promise and leaving out of shame from making a deal with Suzumebachi to protect her.
- The Nameless: Actually is named Kozue Shiihara, though that sense of self is long gone. In the third version of the character profiles in the Gangan Joker magazine releases, Alice, Chiyuri, Setsuna and Megumi are all called by their given names but he isn't.
- Near-Rape Experience: Played for Laughs in one chapter where Hanakamakiri's abusive master Kinohadakamakiri takes the boy to his own deranged master Chatatemushi and they make him fall unconscious from a drink, with the intent of later making him a sex god via use of aphrodisiac drugs and such. However, what they get is Hanakamakiri running after them in a berserk state, attemping to rape them for six hours straight while still unconscious. Afterwards he never acts like this again.
- No-Nonsense Nemesis: Wins fights by throwing a feint in and then capitalizing on the chance by mercilesly knocking the opponent out with a Spam Attack of scythe stabs before they can react any more. Even Alice wasn't safe from this.
- Only Sane Man: Much more sane and kind than the other bug assassins despite his traumatic backstory, especially among the mantis folks. As such, he's the perfect bodyguard for the new boss Alice other than Kabutomushi, who doesn't want the girl bound to the Organization.
- Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: He puts Alice inside a device that lets her learn a ton of information at once about the ongoing zombie apocalypse to attempt to solve it. She immediately realizes somebody in there erased all information about the largest prison in the country and resolves to visit the place. Hanakamakiri, who did the thing, is somehow surprised that she noticed.
- Raised as the Opposite Gender: Hanakamakiri was born male but was raised as a girl due to having been born with Klinefelter syndrome. He keeps a feminine image and gets mad when outed but gets used to Imomushi, his only genuine friend, treating him like a man.
- Rape as Backstory: His master Kinohadakamakiri used to regularly rape him with a wire, hoping to make the boy fully submissive to him. It is implied this is outright a tradition among mantis-themed people in the Organization, with Kinohada having his own psycho-rapist master in Chatatemushi, who he fully respects.
- Rape Leads to Insanity: Notably averted, considering how frequently this trope appears in the series. Hanakamakiri is shown to have been constantly raped and humiliated by Kinohadakamakiri but after breaking free from him, Hana turns out to be one of the most mentally stable characters in the cast.
- Sinister Scythe: He wields a pair of large mantis-themed scythes. Their design was rather inconsistent and got simplified by the second artist of the spinoff, so they now lack spikes.
- Stealth Expert: Noted to have greatly improved his sneaking skills after fighting Nanafushi, who has a Perception Filter ability.
- Sudden Sequel Heel Syndrome: In Blattodea his goal is to uphold the Organization's plan to eradicate the population of Japan to ensure he'll be in a position to prevent anyone from targeting Imomushi again. This puts him in a villainous role at odds with Alice, who he must use as a pawn, and with Chiyuri and Dinoponera, since he's required to kill the latter to keep her from being used to cure the outbreak.
- Training from Hell: Even beyond all the harsh training for Hanakamakiri to become an assassin and a master of deception, Kinohadakamakiri was extremely controlling and frequently raped the boy with some kind of Gordian worm-esque cord. Unsurprisingly, Hanakama took revenge by stabbing one of his mentor's eyes during his graduation.
- Wholesome Crossdresser: Despite his job and how everyone thinks he's a Villainous Crossdresser, Hanakamakiri isn't a bad person.
Rhinoceros Beetle/Kabutomushi
Rhinoceros Beetle (カブトムシ; Kabutomushi), alias Ran Kabuto
Although Kabutomushi is introduced in Arachnid, Caterpillar is what gives her a little story arc and goes over her backstory. After the Arachnid Hunt, she and Gokiburi travel around Japan to find the missing Alice... but then she gets sidetracked and starts working at a WcDonald's...
- Adult Hater: Downplayed, but its noted that Ran completely lost trust in adults after her mentor turned out to be an insane child killer. It could even be the reason she pretends to be stuck in her teens.
- The Ageless: Much to her annoyance, it is often hinted that Kabutomushi is actually over her mid-twenties despite her 15-years old appearance. Note how she's nearly as tall as Imomushi in Caterpillar but gets shorter in Arachnid. The reasons for this are never explained.
- Animal Motifs:
- Japanese Rhinoceros Beetles. Who says a beetle-themed woman has to be a Ladybug? This rhino beetle girl carries a horn-themed spear and has her heart and arm bones covered in exoskeleton-like armor. Her arm spikes are meant to represent the spikes of female kabutomushis.
- Caterpillar adds a Hercules Beetle motif when she gets the Heracles blade. This also doubles as an Alligator motif because the blade is an imitation of the Alligator owned by Roxy and Nichol in Jackals.
- Attempted Rape: Kabutomushi gets dropped by Sara into her rape zombie basement and is surrounded by the crazy mob of brainwashed students. She is able to fight them offscreen and eventually shows up to save Alice. It's worth noting that as of Blattodea, Kabuto as a major cast member stands out for not having Rape as Backstory and rarely having to deal with any scumbags attempting to assault her.
- Badass Adorable: She has a serious attitude, but enjoys looking cute whenever she can.
- Badass Boast: "Don't (fucking) look down on the strongest" and variants thereof.
- Badass Teacher: To Gokiburi and the Stag Beetle Quartet, plus many other children.
- Berserk Button:
- Being called old, looked down upon or being challenged in feats of strength. She once humiliated an arm wrestling champ just because he was nicknamed "The Strongest" (he did think she actually was pretty rad). Conversely, Kumo expressing sincere respect for Kabuto gets her uncharacteristically flattered.
- It is inferred that Kabutomushi takes her job to protect Alice so seriously (despite arriving late for some reason) that she won't bat an eye at killing anyone who threatens the spider-girl's life. She insists Alice should kill a trapped Dinoponera and later blows the Boss off the school's rooftop even though it was a big deal in the prequel that she doesn't like killing and even spared one antagonist who looks suspiciously similar to Dinoponera.
- BFS: Other than her Kabuto Horn spear, which she uses for fighting mobs, she briefly mentions a Hercules weapon designed for one-on-one combat. Once it finally appears in the prequel, it turns out to be a giant double sword.
- Blade Below the Shoulder: Has three retractable Kabuto Spikes on each arm. She actually injures her arms drawing them out, not that it bothers her.
- Blow You Away: Kabuto can swing her spear with enough force to blow distant people off their feet, especially in cramped spaces.
- Bodyguarding a Badass: Alice reasons Kumo hired Kabuto to protect her from large groups of enemies, against which she would have trouble if fighting on her own, especially now that she's badly hurt. It has, however, been established that Alice can handle mobs with her strings just fine. Also, Kabutomushi sleeps on the job and only meets Alice during the Arachnid Hunt. Then she leaves Alice with Megumi, learns she went missing and ultimately just sits around waiting for her to show up.
- Burger Fool: After the zombie pandemic takes over Japan, Kabutomushi figures the best outfit for the occasion is a WcDonald's essential worker uniform from a restaurant she's broken into to use as a shelter.
- The Bus Came Back: She is the last major recurring character to be reintroduced in Blattodea, on chapter 17, and it happens quite anticlimatically with her casually beating up zombies in a WcDonald's uniform like she forgot about rescuing Alice.
- Calling Your Attacks: Everything she owns or does is a "Kabuto Something".
- Clothing Damage: Her uniform is ruined by Abu's slashes. No fanservice here, as it doesn't expose her body and she does get a messy wound that goes from her chest to her left leg. In Blattodea, the series' third illustrator forgot about this during a scene set right after the Boss' death and at best only sprayed her uniform with blood when volume 2 was published.
- Combat Pragmatist:
- Kabutomushi lies to Oki about being unarmed and takes advantage of any openings she finds as she fights. Good for her, because whenever Kabutomushi becomes overconfident and showboats before her enemies, things go spectacularly wrong for her for a reason or other.
- When the Kabuto Horn is locked to Ookuwagata's mandibles like they're actual beetle appendages, Kabutomushi lets herself get lifted and falls on top of Ooku to choke her unconscious, with it being noted Kabuto is only cheating on a contest of strength because her enemy is that much of a threat.
- Cosplay Otaku Girl: Downplayed, but she sometimes shows up in costumes like a plane stewardess uniform or a frilly gothloli dress seemingly for fun. In Blattodea, she starts living in an abandoned WcDonald's restaurant and makes a pastime of fighting zombies while dressed in their employee uniform.
- Counter-Attack: She can use the Heracles to perform the Killing Bite counter used by Roxy and Nichol in Jackals, though it goes unnamed.
- Crazy-Prepared: She's known to prepare before her fights to exploit her opponents' weaknesses. She also happens to have armored organs and arms to protect herself from lethal attacks.
- Cute and Psycho: Kabutomushi is one of the more reasonable insect assassins, but still does have her Ax-Crazy moments when she's provoked.
- Cute Bruiser: Kabutomushi is much stronger than people like Oki because of her implanted armor and to some extent she behaves like a cute young girl.
- Dark Action Girl: Although we mostly see her in a anti-heroic light, Kabutomushi can be very ruthless and indirectly killed a bunch of children brought to her as pupils by the Organization.
- Dark and Troubled Past: Was abandoned by her parents because they couldn't handle her and later saw her beloved parental-substitute teacher killing her best friend for fun.
- Death Glare: Gives scary stares whenever she drops her friendly facade or is enraged.
- Declaration of Protection: Kabutomushi is a reliable ally when she's around. After she saves Alice from the Boss, Arachnid ends with her determined to uphold her promise to Kumo by looking for the spider-girl who had the bright idea of wandering alone into the zombie apocalypse. However, at some point Kabuto figures Alice can take care of herself and gives up, taking residence in a WcDonald's where she waits for over a year until Alice does come by unharmed... thanks to Hanakamakiri, who had saved her from a horde of zombies in the nick of time.
- Demoted to Extra: In Blattodea, Kabutomushi just hangs out in a WcDonald's and doesn't join Alice and Hanakamakiri at Hibarigaoka Prison. The author has remarked on Twitter that she'll play an active role sooner or later, though.
- Determinator: Can endure a ton of damage and is determined to keep her word to Kumo.
- Deus Exit Machina: Chapter 33 of Blattodea explains the powerful pair of Kabutomushi and Imomushi have been just hanging out in a WcDonald's to prevent the zombies from running over the nearby Hibarigaoka Prison. While Imomushi is available to help Alice and Hanakamakiri, Kabutomushi refuses to go there one way or the other because she considers the prison a lost cause.
- Disney Villain Death: This has been her favorite way of trying to kill people, from her first appearances to the end of Arachnid. Only the Boss actually dies to her, though.
- Dissonant Serenity: Has polite conversations with people while waiting for a chance to strike them.
- Double Weapon: The Hercules, which is hinted at in Arachnid but is only shown in Caterpillar, is a massive double ended blade that can be folded to chop enemies.
- The Dreaded: Oki's first thought upon meeting her at the Arachnid Hunt is to flee. Kabutomushi has quite the reputation as the strongest assassin, so to call Alice, Kabutomushi announces to the entire school that Oki and Yoriko are with her, knowing that few would dare to attack after hearing her name. Obviously, that does happen right after.
- Dual Age Modes: She somehow aged backwards between Caterpillar and Arachnid, such that Gokiburi is disturbed to see her in the latter story.
- Effortless Amazonian Lift: Kabutomushi carries an exhausted Alice over her shoulder for some time while still fighting the student mob. Then she proves that even as wounded as she is, she can casually lift humongous muscle men over her spear and throw them through walls.
- Elegant Gothic Lolita: Her favorite outfit is a frilly red gothloli dress, but it's not actually seen much because she poses as a student in the main story and as a bunnygirl hostess in the prequel.
- Epic Fail: Her failed uses of Kabuto Slide are Played for Laughs.
- Everyone Has Standards:
- Despite working for a network of assassins, Kabuto doesn't like personally killing people unless it is an emergency or to prevent enemies from coming back for revenge. She's also upset to see Gokiburi talking out loud about wanting to rape Alice despite the roach having become Fire-Forged Friends with the spider since they first met.
- Even though Kabutomushi, the Sadist Teacher of an Orphanage of Fear, works to keep the zombies out of Hibarigaoka Prison, she hates how her pupil Megumi and the other scumbags in there run the place as a human experimentation slavery camp. For further irony, even Himekuwagata, who hated Kabutomushi's methods so much, is helping Megumi in that place.
- Eyes Always Shut: If she's talking with closed eyes and a warm smile, watch out.
- Face Death with Dignity: Kabutomushi looked calmly resigned to her fate when Dinoponera almost turned her into a pincushion, only lamenting that she couldn't help Kumo.
- Fiery Redhead: Has red hair and is the most intense of this series' girls.
- Finger Poke of Doom: Gives one to a pervert in the prequel.
- Foreshadowing:
- Several scenes draw odd parallels between Kabutomushi and Yoriko or have Yoriko falling over and being threatened by Kabuto's presence. Turns out Yoriko is ageless, immune to toxins and is killed by being blown off the school's rooftop by Kabutomushi."You won't die. Not from falling from three meters."
- In Arachnid, Kabutomushi fights a samurai with the "Brand Nero" technique used by Isaac in Jackals. In Caterpillar, Gokiburi remarks getting at close range against her is like trying to shove one's hand on an alligator's mouth. Then it is revealed the secret weapon she owns is based on the Alligator owned by Roxy, the assassin who was capable of defeating Isaac with her "Killing Bite" counter.
- Several scenes draw odd parallels between Kabutomushi and Yoriko or have Yoriko falling over and being threatened by Kabuto's presence. Turns out Yoriko is ageless, immune to toxins and is killed by being blown off the school's rooftop by Kabutomushi.
- Given Name Reveal: Kabutomushi's backstory and then Blattodea establish her full name is "Ran Kabuto".
- Glacier Waif: Has the build of an ordinary 15 years-old girl, but is absurdly tough. In terms of speed, Kabutomushi can smash almost anything in her spear's range at lightning speed but isn't a teleporting ninja like most of the cast. As often explained by the narrator, this fits with her japanese rhino beetle motif.
- Grievous Harm with a Body:
- Kabutomushi turns one of Sara's own giant ant soldiers into a makeshift hammer and tries to crush her with him.
- In Caterpillar, when one of the stag beetles is smashing her around, Kabutomushi manages to drop him over one of his partners instead.
- Ground Punch: In one fight she jumps, spins and then destroys the entire room's floor with a punch.
- Hammerspace: Kabutomushi folds her Kabuto Horn in half to hide it under her clothes, but it still looks too big to actually fit comfortably. And in the prequel she just seems to conjure it from nowhere at will.
- Handicapped Badass: Towards the end of the battle against the stag beetle quartet, Hiratakuwagata breaks Kabutomushi's left arm. Kabuto receives the Heracles from Gokiburi and still easily lifts a BFS like that with one hand before taking Hirata down.
- Harmful to Minors: Tiny Kabutomushi was abandoned by her parents and ended up in the care of a child murderer who killed her best friend and that could get rid of her at any time. Upon succeeding Hercules as the Pomario director, Kabutomushi is unable to make any real change in the system and becomes about half as bad as him, to the point she's also got students trying to kill her for the abuse she inflicted on them.
- He's Back!: After suffering The Worf Effect from Dinoponera and getting literally dropped from the story for a long time by Sara and the army ants, Kabutomushi returns to make good on her promise to protect Alice and dramatically saves her from the Organization's Boss.
- Hellish Pupils: She gets the same pupil effect as concentrated Alice when she's glaring at people.
- Herbivores Are Friendly: Dinoponera muses on how kabutomushi beetles are only called the strongest despite being non-lethal herbivores because Japan has been enjoying a period of peace. Meanwhile, Ran the kabutomushi girl is trying to smash her into paste. She most certainly averts this trope.
- Immune to Bullets: She pretends to be heavily injured when shot down, but then stands up with a sneak attack. That infamous implanted armor of hers does, in fact, cover all of her organs.
- Improbable Use of a Weapon: Kabutomushi wields a spear but doesn't stab anyone with it. She smashes and shoves them with the blunt side instead, like a proper rhino beetle. See, she wasn't lying about it being a mop!
- In-Series Nickname: She asks people to call her "Kabu". Only in Blattodea she is called that by Imomushi, which shows they've become good friends.
- Insistent Terminology: Because she's a beetle, Kabutomushi keeps calling her implanted armor an exoskeleton.
- Just Shoot Him: She urges Alice to kill Dinoponera to prevent her from coming back for revenge, but Alice finds it unnecessary and Dinoponera flees while the two are distracted.
- Klingon Promotion: Averted; she kills the Boss and Kirigirisu reports that to the Organiazation but he, Suzumebachi and Hanakamakiri were already plotting to make Alice the new Boss instead. So far it is unknown if Kabutomushi suffered any consequences for what she did. The epilogue for Arachnid showed her going rogue to get Alice out of their clutches, but Blattodea ignores that and makes her just sit on a WcDonald's like nothing happened.
- Legacy Character: Caterpillar shows a previous Kabutomushi who trained this one and that passed down to her a variant of the Alligator blade Roxy and Nichol owned decades before in Jackals. Choubu no Shinobi also features an identical feudal Japan counterpart to Kabuto named Ran Scarab.
- Let's You and Him Fight: Shows up in the prequel with Oki to battle Imomushi.
- Little Miss Badass: Anyone who gets in Kabutomushi's range gets shoved into next tuesday.
- Made of Iron: Literally, as she has armor implanted over her organs and inside her arms. Even after taking a lot of damage from Abu and Dinoponera she can still defeat people twice her size like they're nothing.
- Metronomic Man Mashing: She grabs and swings Dinoponera around much like how Riock attacked Hibiki before, but Dinoponera manages to land on her feet.
- Mini Dress Of Power: Gets a school uniform for herself before sneaking into Alice's school. Goki mocks her for trying to look younger.
- Ms. Fanservice: She wears a Playboy Bunny costume in Caterpillar and looks more mature and curvier than she does from Arachnid onwards. Gratuitous views of her assets as she wrestles Imomushi are aplenty.
- Muscles Are Meaningless: Through the series, this trope is most noticeable in Kabutomushi. Chapter 40 of Caterpillar even has a flashback about a buff arm wrestler being unable to make the little lolita beetle even budge. And then it's shown she was always this strong.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero:
- It's never explained why Kabutomushi took so long to go protect Alice even though she did value keeping her word to Kumo. It doesn't help that the author himself makes fun of this plot hole in one afterword, saying that rhino beetles have nocturnal habits.
- Kabutomushi meddles in Alice's battle against Dinoponera repeatedly to help, but all it does is either make Dinoponera more hostile or keep Alice from talking things out with her, especially when Kabuto demands Alice kills her after the fight ends.
- No-Sell: Jigabachi's nerve gas didn't affect her. According to the narrator, this is somehow due to Kabutomushi being so strong. In the prequel, it takes a sudden one-sided beatdown and crushing Kabutomushi under a ton of debris for Imomushi to even hurt her at all. And even then, she simply wipes the blood off her face and is good as new again.
- The Nose Knows: Kabutomushi is sensitive to smells and is able to find Oki by following the barely visible trail of oil from her Oilpiration ability.
- Not the Fall That Kills You…: Just when she had cornered Sara, the floor below Kabuto is collapsed and she falls to the bottom of Alice's school. She breaks the fall with her spear and isn't hurt, though she has to fight a horde of zombies off. This actually is something of a dark Brick Joke: Dinoponera told her that unlike beetles ants fall gracefully but gets dunked head-first into another rape pit while paralyzed and is infected; Kabutomushi tells Yoriko she won't die from a relatively short fall and then kills her by blowing her off the school's rooftop.
- Offscreen Villainy: Caterpillar establishes that the Training from Hell Kabuto gives at Pomario does kill an untold amount of children from various causes, but other than her being bitchy and enjoying bullying her students, that villainous side of her isn't shown in clear detail and she does have regrets over it.
- Oh, Crap!: Gets a priceless look of surprise when Dinoponera dashes through her seemingly unavoidable Kabuto Slide. A year before that, she tried the Kabuto Slide against a defenseless Imomushi... and flooded the entire corridor around them.
- Older Than She Looks: Implied to be a young adult instead of a 15-years old schoolgirl. And it doesn't help that she does act like an adult and treats youngsters with disdain. Another odd thing about Kabuto is that in Caterpillar she isn't just bustier, she's taller — giving new context for why Goki is bothered to see her pretending to be a schoolgirl one year later in Arachnid.
- One-Woman Army: Not only is she strong as hell, but the Kabuto Horn is also very effective against large groups of enemies.
- Only in It for the Money: Kabutomushi doesn't work for cheap. She even threatened to not protect Alice because Kumo had paid her in advance, and only relented because he acknowledged her strength and trusted she could get the job done.
- Parental Abandonment: Her parents couldn't handle a trouble-making girl who could tear tractors apart with her bare hands.
- Pintsized Powerhouse: Kabutomushi was abnormally strong even as a 7 years-old girl.
- Playboy Bunny: She wears a red bunny outfit in the prequel.
- Production Throwback:
- Her ownership of the Heracles sword confirms Arachnid and Caterpillar are sequels to Jackals, and implies Alice's Kumoito is likewise related to the one Turis owned in that story. Several scenes of her wielding Heracles are framed exactly like ones with either Nichol or Roxy fighting in Jackals, including the "Killing Bite" counter attack.
- The whole heart armor bit can also be traced back to Jackals, but it was more fallible there. The assassin Domino would seemingly ignore having her heart stabbed, only to get killed later when it was found out her trick was to use hallucination drugs to deceive people into thinking they had stabbed her when they hadn't.
- Put on a Bus:
- Sara prevents Kabutomushi from helping Alice by making her fall into an ambush by countless brainwashed students. She can fight them handily, but has been busy offscreen for a dozen chapters. She comes Back for the Finale in Chapter 71, killing Yoriko while Oki rescues Alice. And although Kabuto isn't seen at all during the last chapter, she does appear in the epilogue.
- One suspicious aspect of Blattodea's early chapters. We get confirmation on Dinoponera, Kamadouma and Geji's survival but Kabutomushi goes completely unmentioned. She was last seen looking for Alice with Gokiburi, just for the roach to become the director of Hibarigaoka Prison at some point with Jigabachi and Geji's support. Eventually, Kabutoushi finally shows up... near a WcDonald's in uniform in a hilariously anticlimactic fashion.
- Sadist Teacher: Kabutomushi makes a point of being a better person than her master who killed her best friend, but is still infamous for beating students to such an extent that they learn to fight while knocked out. This is Played for Laughs when shown to the reader, but in a case of Offscreen Villainy most of her students are said to have died during training anyway.
- Say It with Hearts: Often makes hearts in her speech bubbles.
- Serious Business: She's obsessed with the idea of being the strongest to the point of challenging anyone who ever calls themselves that, all because she wants to hold on to her position at Pomario and keep freaks like her former master from just killing the children in there as they please.
- Signature Attack: The "Kabuto Slide", in which she swings her spear very fast to cover a large area around her.
- Smashing Watermelons: One of the Arachnid volume bonuses was a beach-themed poster of her holding a watermelon.
- Smug Super: She's proud of her strength and rightfully so. However, her attitude often leads into her being smacked around by antagonists like Hiratakuwagata and Dinoponera until she's forced to rely on a bloodthristy secret weapon she resents to come out on top.
- Spotlight-Stealing Squad: Kabutomushi has her own scenario in Catepillar that is completely unrelated to Imomushi's quest once their fight is interrupted. Kabuto steals the show as her battle against Himekuwagata and her squad goes on and on and it is at that time that readers are given her backstory and motivations prior to Kumo hiring her to look after Alice.
- Steven Ulysses Perhero: Her family name is "Kabuto" and she's trained to be a kabutomushi-themed hitwoman.
- Super-Speed: Averted. Kabutomushi is one of the few characters who aren't depicted as being able to do any speed and teleportation shenanigans. The most she can do is swing the Kabuto Horn really fast.
- Super-Strength: In physical terms, she's the strongest character in the story.
- Sword Plant: Has stabbed the ground with the Kabuto Horn due to various reasons. In the prequel, she does it with the Heracles as a feint to fold the blade and chop somebody's leg off.
- Thou Shalt Not Kill: In Caterpillar, due to Kabutomushi's deranged master murdering many children including her best friend, she believes strong people shouldn't kill gratuitously and is outright unranked amongst the assassins. Kabuto is then pursued by some of her former students who want to avenge other children who she indirectly killed during training, but spares all of them after winning the duels. This goes out of its way to contradict her more ruthless actions a year later in Arachnid, particularly how she spared Hiratakuwagata but orders Alice to kill Dinoponera in scenes meant to parallel each other. She also gets the honor of killing the Boss to save Alice, while all of the other people she smashed into the ground are stated to have recovered offscreen.
- Training from Hell:
- Ran found herself at an Orphanage of Fear where her master would casually kill any child he thought as weak, so she did her best to stay alive while putting on a friendly facade until he acknowledged her as his successor.
- It is said that one of the first things Kabutomushi does to her students is to repeatedly beat them up so badly that they learn how to fight while unconscious. The prequel shows she was indeed abusive to the children under her care to the point some of them have tried to kill her as revenge.
- Transhuman: She "happens" to have the aforementioned implants inside her body and her true age is unknown.
- Used to Be a Sweet Child: Ran was once a bright and innocent kid, but her parents disowned her after she broke a tractor bare-handed out of curiosity and then the murder of her best friend by her own master served as her complete Cynicism Catalyst.
- Vague Age: She earned her "Kabutomushi" codename when she was actually 14-16 in an undefined but not so distant point in the past. Then she stopped aging for some reason, leading other characters to call her an "old lady" and mock her for wanting to forever look like a highschooler.
- Victory Through Intimidation: If possible, she overwhelms her opponents into submission without killing them.
- Villain Ball: Imomushi's signature attack is swinging back and forth into headbutts and punches. While wrestling her, Kabutomushi herself pushes the catapult caterpillar down while mocking her and gets a massive beatdown for that mistake.
- Weight Woe: A height chart◊ for the series' major characters portrays Kabutomushi with a smudged-out number on her weight stat, implying she's pretty heavy thanks to her steel-plated armor and doesn't want you to know. This gag only comes up once when Megumi has to carry her and run from Hiratakuwagata, but Kabuto brushes it off.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: While Arachnid's epilogue shows Kabutomushi travelling in good spirits with Gokiburi, its open nature does not detail whether she's facing any consequences from killing the Organization's Boss. Furthermore, Gokiburi later gets promoted as the director of Hibarigaoka Prison while Kabuto is nowhere to be seen and after both failed to find Alice. When the trope is finally averted with her reappearance, Kabuto is shown just casually fighting zombies next to a WcDonald's in uniform like nothing bad happened.
- Would Hurt a Child:
- Regarding her students, she ended up perpetuating her teacher's cycle of abuse. It's somewhat Played for Laughs, but plenty of her students hate her for it...
- She crushes Anabachi's head against the floor when he tries to brainwash her. That should show "Auntie" isn't fucking around...
- The Worf Barrage: Her Kabuto Slide is shown to be an incredible One-Hit Kill, but fails hilariously against Dinoponera. In fact, in the prequel it never works and she is eventually forced to use the Heracles instead.
- The Worf Effect: Defeats the wasp duo with ease at the Arachnid Hunt, but then gets killed instantly by Abu's techniques. Except not and she gets to demonstrate her defensive abilities to make short work of him and back up her claims of being the strongest assassin. But then she is one of four who are unable to harm Dinoponera at all. Don't worry, though, she gets to worf the hell out of the Media ants later.
- Worf Had the Flu: Her complete failure to fight Dinoponera in Arachnid is given the excuse that she wasn't wielding the Heracles at the time. Caterpillar reveals it is a huge double sword based on the weapon the protagonist of Jackals owned, so you know it's super strong. Furthermore, it makes Kabutomushi's opponent Himekuwagata a blatant expy of Dinoponera just to drive in that Kabuto suuure would've turned Dino into a quadruple amputee if she just had her cool sword with her.
- World's Best Warrior: She's the self-proclaimed strongest Organization member and is rather obsessed with that title. Most people fear her accordingly, except for those who think Kabutomushi doesn't really know of the world outside of Japan or look down on her because she doesn't enjoy killing.
- Years Too Early: She uses this taunt as something of a Catchphrase in Caterpillar but not later in Arachnid, oddly enough.
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Kabutomushi is an assassin who doesn't actually kill anyone and who's one of the least evil Pomario managers, so it's assumed that's why she was sent to the Death Caterpillar game to die. In Arachnid nothing is said about this, but when she ends up killing the Boss it is reported that it was her and she appeared to go rogue while looking for the disappeared Alice. Then in Blattodea it's largely unknown if she's facing any consequences for what she did ot not, but she's oddly stuck at a WcDonald's instead of working at Pomario.
