The Secret of Beehive Manor — Part 2

 is the seventh chapter of Natsumi Mukai's +Anima manga.

Synopsis
It is pouring with rain when Husky, Senri and Nana Alba arrive at Beehive Manor. They enter through the back door to avoid being turned away and to search for Cooro. Husky expresses concern that Cooro may have been eaten by the supposed monstrous +Anima at the manor; Nana scolds him for believing that a +Anima could do such a thing. After drying themselves off, they head further into the manor to look for Cooro. A boy enters the building behind them.

While wandering through the manor, they are discovered by Lady Beena. Husky politely explains why they are there, so Lady Beena takes them to a room and asks them to wait there; she leaves and locks the door. Husky starts to panic and tries to force the door open, and only becomes more panicked when Lady Beena says that she needs to feed Gil. She heads back to the room where she left Cooro, but he has already wandered off.

Cooro walks down a hallway, holding a jar of honey, and unsure where he is heading. He tastes the honey, but soon becomes distracted by a faint buzzing sound. Cooro follows the sound to a barricaded door, removes the barricade, and on the other side finds a giant bee, many times his size. Cooro panics and flies away.

Nana hears Cooro's yells, so Senri breaks down the door. Just on the other side they find puddles of a liquid which Nana thinks is blood, but Senri tastes it and identifies it as water. Husky notices a boy watching them from around a corner and ambushes him. He is interrogating the boy when Cooro flies past, followed by the bee.

Husky orders Nana to stun the bee with her Ultrasonic Screech, but she is immobilized with shock; unwilling to accept that such a monster could be a +Anima like her. Senri grabs hold of the bee but is easily thrown aside and into a rack of staffs. Husky picks up a staff from the floor and hits the bee while it had Cooro pinned against a wall; it has no effect.

Lady Beena enters the room and is annoyed that they had freed the bee. She notices the boy, Milt, there and scolds him for having abandoned his master Gil like the other servants. Milt is unable to get a word in to explain. As Gil's mother, Lady Beena refuses to abandon him.

Nana, still panicking but now able to move, uses her Ultrasonic Screech and stuns everyone in the room. When Lady Beena awakens, her son Gil is there in human form, and the +Anima children have already left. The bee is still lying on the ground, now surrounded by Astarian researchers. Gil explains to her that he had found an egg and left it in Milt's care while he went to find experts to take a look at it. Milt apologizes for letting the situation get out of hand. Lady Beena struggles to accept that the bee was not actually her son.

Outside, Cooro explains that the bee was only eating the honey off of him. He assures Nana that the bee was not actually a +Anima. The others are bewildered that Cooro was able to tell. Answering his friends' final question, Cooro explains that he had taken a jar of honey with him as payment, hoping Lady Beena wouldn't notice. As punishment, Husky hits Cooro with his new staff which he took from the manor.