Haha, I'll admit I was definitely going for "cute sidekick" with Bug-Bug. It may have slipped my mind that I was supposed to be writing a hentai fic for, uh, a lot of this. At least I can assure you that Aubrey has absolutely not taken her last tentacle.
That is a good point at the end! I didn't even think about how much I was subverting that trope. Though I did carve out additional safe options, mainly to justify building upon a canon scene coming up in the evening, so they won't be spending a ton of time there. I'm not sure how well "a garden or an area of strong spirit energy is safer from demons" necessarily fits into Inyouchuu lore, but hopefully it's an acceptable way of keeping them temporarily safe for the sake of plot convenience.