Koichi Haimawari vs. Bee☆Pop

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The Crawler vs. Bee☆Pop
Arc	Final Performance Arc
Place	Naruhata
Combatants
The Crawler
Bee☆Pop
Powers and Abilities
The Crawler Slide and Glide
Bee☆Pop Queen Bee Leap
Duration
Manga	Chapter 73 (Vigilantes)
Battles & Events

Koichi Haimawari vs. Bee☆Pop is the fight between the villain Bee☆Pop, who parasitizes and controls the body of Kazuho Haneyama through the Queen Bee Quirk, and the vigilante The Crawler.

Prologue

After Knuckleduster defeated Kuin Hachisuka, he eliminated the Queen Bee that controlled the body of her daughter Tamao Oguro, as well as most of her swarm. Number 6 rescued the only surviving bee from the confrontation, and for years, he was secretly breeding and feeding the bee until she transformed into a new Queen Bee and formed a new swarm. Now, they only needed a new host.

Number 6 and Bee☆Pop observe the chaos.

At some point, Number 6 became the new manager of the FeatherHATS under the alias Rokuro Nomura, and befriended with Kazuho, who was going through emotional problems with Koichi. Number 6 took advantage of her emotional state to lure Kazuho to an abandoned building, where the Queen Bee parasitized her body, becoming Bee☆Pop.

Because of this, Kazuho has been missing for days, so several of her friends and acquaintances are looking for her all over Naruhata. Koichi himself joins the search, during which he thinks about his relationship with her. While on a rooftop, he receives a call from Miu, who tells him that he must return immediately to Marukane because the police is there asking them questions about Kazuho. While he is preparing to return, five Bomb Bees suddenly appear and explode, seriously damaging the rooftop.

Koichi loses his balance, but manages to stabilize in midair and reach a nearby rooftop unscathed, still surprised by those explosions out of nowhere and wondering what happened. People begin to gather near where the sudden explosions took place, while Number 6 and the new Bee☆Pop observe everything from the top of a building.

Battle

Bee☆Pop enjoys the destruction she causes.

When they have already attracted a sufficient number of bystanders, Number 6 tells Bee☆Pop it's show time. Eager to start her "performance", Bee☆Pop jumps out of the building, releasing several bees to cause more explosions to draw the shocked passersby to her. She also uses her bees to hijack and interfere with the wireless signals to broadcast her attack through all nearby electronic devices and speaker systems, in order to have as many people as possible witness her live show. She advises all of them to pay attention for her imminent performance: the presentation of her remix of the Marukane Department Store: "Inferno".

The music starts playing and Bee☆Pop's rampage becomes more destructive and violent. The witnesses run away from the explosions as Bee☆Pop continues to destroy the city block with her Bomb Bees while dancing and laughing. Inevitably, Kazuho's friends and acquaintances who had been searching for her witness the indiscriminate attack, shocked to see "Kazuho" causing this tragedy and wondering what's wrong with her.

Miu, Yu, and the Little Sisters ascend to the rooftop, hoping to reason with "Kazuho" and steer her away from the explosions. However, "Kazuho" retorts that she revels in the explosions and the havoc she causes because she finds danger "sexy", delights in being feared, and believes her destruction enhances the city's beauty. Both Miu and Yu are stunned by her words. Before they can react, "Kazuho" decides to demonstrate this beauty by sending one of her Bee Bombs to topple a large billboard onto them. Miu finds herself unable to escape in time, but fortunately, Koichi swoops in just in time to rescue her.

Bee☆Pop does not hesitate to attack Koichi.

After getting Miu to safety, Koichi immediately dashes toward Kazuho, using his Slide and Glide Quirk to launch himself into the air. As he soars upward, he shouts, demanding to know what's happened to her and why she's doing all of this. As The Crawler, he can't let her keep hurting people, and reaches out his hand in a desperate attempt to stop her. Bee☆Pop, however, just scoffs, and calls his act pathetic—too little, too late—and mocks him for being so clingy. Without hesitation, she unleashes a swarm of Bomb Bees. They detonate around Koichi mid-air, throwing him off balance and sending him spiraling.

Watching from a nearby rooftop, Number 6 observes the encounter with satisfaction. He declares Koichi has already lost because Kazuho is no longer a little princess, but a queen. As Koichi plummets, he locks eyes with Bee☆Pop for a brief, jarring moment. She sticks out her blackened tongue, revealing the presence of Trigger coursing through her body before coldly telling him that she hates him. Stunned, Koichi continues to fall. Bee☆Pop turns her back, casually announcing that her "performance" is over, and promises the next act will be a surprise. A massive explosion erupts behind her as she disappears into the smoke and flame.

Aftermath

Koichi is unconscious on a pile of garbage.

The next day, the media reports on the bombing carried out by Bee☆Pop, whose level of destruction is compared to the Kaiju attack by Ryuichi Gojiyama three years ago. Since she controls Kazuho's body, she is considered the only one responsible for the attacks, so the authorities register her as a villain through the villain designation registry, so both the police force and the heroes have an order to stop her and arrest her. Kazuho's family and friends are shattered and devastated by this.

After being shot down, Koichi manages to land on a pile of garbage in a dark alleyway. Although he is not seriously injured, he loses consciousness. Soga Kugisaki, who had seen everything, rescues him and takes him to his residence above an automobile store, where together with his friends Rapt Tokage and Moyuru Tochi, they treat his wounds and take care of him until he wakes up.