He always kept a straight face. She didn't need to see him smirk like Kiba to assume he was smug or something in there though. If it weren't so inconvenient from where she was, he'd get thumped on the shoulder, hidden army of beetles or no.

"I don't think that's the same thing." Everything had its limits, after all. But then, she wasn't the host of those bugs. Even if he was simplifying, he obviously knew more about how the bugs functioned than she did...or ever could.

She glanced off in the direction he'd come from, curious whether she could spot them (and presuming that's the way they were coming from, considering the reason people usually took this street). "To where? You know, most of the shade is already taken up."