Ronald summons his shield and charges at the big cockroach, hitting it in the face with his shield and throwing it away.

But the cockroach soon returns and grabs Ronald's arm, who screams in pain.

“Grraaa!!!”

Naiara, in shock, watches the cockroach bite Ronald's arm.

Drilling deeper and deeper, the cockroach bites Ronald's arm while holding him with one of its paws.

One bite, he's in agony;

Two bites, he's in agony;

On the third bite, Ronald raises his shield, which was on his free arm, and unleashes an attack, severely damaging the cockroach's jaw.

Without its jaw, the cockroach throws him to the ground and then lies down on top of him, because now it can only hold Ronald hostage.

“Do something, Naiara!” shouted Ronald. “It'll suffocate me with its smell!”

“I can't!” said Naiara. “I threw up just looking at that thing; I'm feeling sick too!...”

Naiara falls to her knees because she can't cope with the situation; her colleague Ronald is being suffocated by a cockroach the size of an alligator, and all he can do is separate his body from the cockroach using his shield.

Ronald doesn't know how long he can stand it, and despairs: “Go get help, Naiara!”

Just then, Roberta and Jennifer appear on the rooftop.

“We've finished collecting the meat!” said Roberta.

“That's disgusting!” said Jennifer, chortling.

At the same time, Heleno and Luiz remain still, staring at the butcher.

“Luiz, I have no doubt that this guy has been infected by the nitairean virus; however, he still seems to retain a conscience...”

“What do you mean?”

“I mean that he's perhaps being controlled not by an actual virus, but perhaps by a parasite; they're usually lodged in the host's stomach,” said Heleno, ”If we can make him throw up the parasite, he may or may not return to normal!”

“And how do we make him vomit?” asked Luiz.

“Giving him that dubious meat to eat!” said Heleno.

Heleno then rushes past the man, warding off any attacks and grabbing the meat that was on the table behind the butcher.

He throws the meat at Luiz and the two begin to combine forces.

As the man tries to hit Heleno, Luiz throws some objects at him, making him turn around.

Heleno then hits the butcher with his underpants and pushes him, making him fall.

The man tries to get up, but is surprised by Luiz, who shoves the piece of meat down his throat: “Eat it!”

The butcher gets up and walks away, coughing and his eyes watering.

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Heleno and Luiz watch him, he looks like he wants to throw up.

“This is it, Luiz!” said Heleno.

They both move towards the man, Heleno bends down and Luiz takes the lead, kicking the hand that was holding the hammer and restraining the other.

Heleno then gets up and punches the butcher very hard in the stomach, causing him to vomit up the parasitic worm that was controlling him.

Luiz picks up the hammer that the butcher was holding and, without thinking twice, he smashes the worm into the ground, which was still connected to the man by small organic cables coming out of his mouth.

The man groans in pain, but is free of the worm.

Back in the penthouse, the cockroach feels cornered and starts trying to headbutt Roberta, who immediately pulls out her two machine guns.

With the cockroach away from Ronald, Jennifer approaches and picks him up, then hands him over to Naiara: “Get him out of here!”

Naiara's mood soon took a turn for the worse, as she didn't know whether to be sickened by the dirt and smell left on Ronald or by the fact that she was a manager taking orders from an attendant.

Roberta fires shots and shots at the cockroach, but none of them seem very effective, although they do hurt the cockroach's hard shell.

The cockroach then manages to headbutt Roberta, sending her flying into a table.

Roberta is down, and feels her blood boiling.

The cockroach starts trying to attack Jennifer, who runs from one side to the other. Suddenly, Roberta gets up, quite angrily.

“Hold the cockroach!” says Roberta, now with red hair.

Jennifer uses her power and her weapon, which are her chains.

She wraps the cockroach in her chains: “Roll it!” shouts Jennifer. “My chains will weaken the cockroach for just a little while!”

Roberta unleashes her UZI M11 weapons and charges at the cockroach with her bare hands.

With a slap, Roberta makes a hole in the cockroach's stomach, leaving Jennifer dirty.

“AAHHHHHHHH!!!”, Jennifer freaks out. “Look what you've done!”

“You told me to do it, didn't you?” said Roberta.

Jennifer fell to the floor unconscious.

“Ladies, well done!” says Ronald, very happy and proud, but in a lot of pain.

Heleno and Luiz are helping the man up the stairs to find Ronald.

“I hope Ronald has an antidote for this, otherwise you're in big trouble,” said Luiz to the butcher.

They walked slowly, as the man was very weak.

“Don't you want to stop for a while? I've seen people in worse states than yours survive after being separated from the worm,” says Heleno.

The butcher pauses on the stairs: “I think this is the end of me, I'll be arrested and spend the rest of my days in the factory...”

“Relax, you were being controlled!” says Luiz.

The butcher sees a helicopter approaching from afar: “They've come! They're here!”

“Who are they?” ask Heleno and Luiz.

The man, however, says nothing, just grabs Heleno and Luiz and throws them far down the stairs.

As they fall, Heleno and Luiz watch the man on the stairs.

Suddenly, missiles burst into the room and blow up everything below.

Ronald, Naiara, Jennifer and Roberta are in a section of the building above, near the rooftop, and are also hit by the missiles.

The place now gives off a lot of dark smoke and a glow from the flames in the room.

Jennifer had protected the class with a shield in the field.

As she undid the shield, Roberta, still in her red-haired form, held up a piece of concrete that had fallen onto Jennifer's field.

“Is everyone okay?” asked Naiara.

“Looks that way...” said Jennifer.

Downstairs, Heleno and Luiz had protected themselves from the rockets, but they were discouraged to see that the butcher hadn't had the same luck.

The police arrive on the scene and find everything in ruins.

...

The following afternoon, Henrique is in the Burger Killer's kitchen preparing some hamburgers in his orange suit and chef's apron.

“Naiara, these aren't the same burgers we picked up from the butcher yesterday, are they?” asks Henrique, looking out of the service window.

“Of course they are!” says Naiara. “We can't waste them, the burgers are still good for today!”

Henrique objects: “But now everyone knows what happened yesterday; who would pay to eat something like that?”

Naiara giggles: “Henrique, you're out of touch... For a low price, people can buy any trinket!”

In addition, she says: “We've put a formula in the burgers to mask the taste. Now get back to work, we need to liquidate these burgers today, I don't want to get into trouble with the health authorities.”