

In _Shinsekai Yori_ ( _From the New World_ ), the Robber Fly colony uses the
Akki (Fiend) to disarm the Giant Hornet soldiers.

However, in the 18th episode of the anime, it is also revealed that the Giant
Hornet soldiers were reduced to nothing but lumps of flesh.

How is that possible? I understand that the Akki is immune to the death
feedback when considering humans, but the Akki couldn't have possibly done
that to the Giant Hornets, the Akki could have at most disarmed the soldiers.

That being said, how did the Giant Hornets die? Or is this something that is
lost in translation? (I was watching the Japanese version with English
subtitles).


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How were the Giant Hornets actually defeated?


I don't think it was ever stated how exactly they were wiped out, but we do
know that it wasn't a WMD (no damage to the surrounding land), it wasn't the
fiend that killed them (death feedback), and that the fiend stopped their
arrows and disarmed them. It's also possible the fiend prevented the Giant
Hornet soldiers from attacking any of the Robber Fly and that's why none of
them were killed. Being unable to fight back, all the Robber Fly soldiers had
to do was slaughter them all.

That could also be the reason Kiroumaru was the sole survivor of the battle,
in order to bring suspicion onto him from the humans. The Robber Fly could
have purposely let him live.


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It’s not explained. But the most lore friendly explanation I think is that
Squealer recruited a human sympathizer. He’s done it before. Twice even.

And both times it was Satoru. Come to think of it, wasn’t he the one who
reported the results of the battle?


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