Epic of Caterpillar

Chapter 705 - Ervas and Veronica

Having revealed my name, Ervas and Veronica were quite surprised, Veronica specifically couldn\'t help but find my name Japanese-sounding.

"Kireina… That sounds quite Japanese- Wait, what? You\'re a reincarnated person?!" asked Veronica, realizing what I said after revealing my name.

Indeed, I wanted to reveal them this straight away, I had an itch… that they could be more than I can perceive.

And then, Ervas asks me something strange.

"Are you one of my coworkers? Do you remember dying with a ton of your coworkers inside a restaurant?" asked Ervas.

Wait, coworkers?

Restaurant?

These words…

They are humans?

And not simple humans from your run-of-the-mill medieval parallel world, but actual humans from Earth!

My Earth!

So they are not just some random and friendly aliens, huh?

"Huh? Oh! So you are not aliens? Are you humans too? Well, former humans?! And nope, I don\'t remember anything of that, I used to be a neet, and died out of a cold and fever," I said, admitting that I was a neet because I wasn\'t embarrassed by it.

"Why didn\'t you go to a doctor?!" asked Veronica… Well, yes, that must be the most obvious scenario!

But I was stupid!

So of course I didn\'t go.

"Ah, it was too costly!" I said, masking my stupidity.

"But it was your life! Life is priceless!" said Veronica.

Well, yeah, you are not wrong there… But come on, I can\'t admit it and end up looking like a fool, especially because these two are beginning to admire me a bit…

"Yeah, I used to not think that before, so I didn\'t mind dying, to be honest…" I said.

"A-Anyways, we are also former humans, we used to live in a world name Earth, did you live in one as well?" asked Ervas, revealing the truth of these two identities!

It left me with a bit of dazzle, holy heck.

So they have reincarnated humans too, but sent to another world.

I knew that other worlds existed when Gaia talked to me about them…

But this is still pretty insane, to be honest.

Damn, now I feel this strange feeling of companionship with these two.

"Oh! Sure thing, I did! So you are former earthlings?! My brethren!" I said, I acted a tad bit cringe, but I was very excited, to be honest.

Finally! People from Earth!

Although I was neet and a secluded person, so I guess I never spoke with that many people nor I valued them so much…

But this was different now!

After living in a completely different world, I bean to even miss the random normies in my previous world…

Really, anyone would do at this point!

"T-This is insane, Ervas! An eldritch goddess used to be a neet on earth!?" asked Veronica.

Hey! Who is she calling an Eldritch Goddess?!

I am not eldritch nor a goddess, you know?

And well… Ah, maybe I look like one? Can they see me? I cannot see them clearly, I only see something like a gray-colored specter covered in some weird things.

Wait, is that them?

"After everything we have seen, you shouldn\'t be surprised for something like this…" said Ervas.

"Oh, you might be right…" said Veronica.

Ervas speaks to Veronica and points out that they had already seen a lot of bizarre stuff… I wonder what?

I wish I could go to their world and see what is up there, it would be an amazing experience, a whole different world to explore and all.

Although I have not even explored the entirety of Genesis, there is this feeling of discovery that makes me want to go there.

Sadly, I do not think I can, and even if I were to go, my Origin would not fit and my whole existence would be suppressed, my soul would end up being destroyed by the fabric of reality itself.

Though, now that I think about it, I got something like an itch about these two guys.

"Hmm, I have the itch that our earth, might not be the same…" I said.

Yep, I thought that they might not be… from my exact Earth.

Yeah, I remember the whole talk with \'The One\' about Parallel Worlds, so I began to think… Maybe these guys are not even from MY Earth…

"What do you mean?" asked Veronica, she did not get my question at first.

"Have you ever heard of parallel worlds?" I asked.

And as I ask, Ervas hits me with a bomb.

"Oh, sure thing, we are actually in a parallel world from the previous world already… A mirror world…" said Ervas.

What?!

So they… They had reincarnated twice?

He said a Mirror World of an already previous world.

So they were transported to a world, somehow died there, and then were reincarnated in the parallel world of that world!

Which he calls a \'Mirror World\'.

How intriguing.

So they died? And twice, to boot.

Must have been quite horrible.

"Oh? So you are experts in the field then! Well yeah, to summarize all the babbler, I believe that we come from a parallel earth. But I do not know, this might just be an itch, there is nothing we can do to confirm this," I asked. It was simply an itch of mine, so I couldn\'t really call it a fact unless we were to ask things around and find out.

"Maybe there could be slight differences? Let\'s ask about something important…" said Veronica.

"Hm, like what?" I asked, she had the same idea as me.

"Who was the most recent president of America as of 2018?" asked Ervas… Well, that\'s an obvious answer.

"Hm? Oh, Donald Trump?" I said.

Yep, \'orange man bad\' or whoever the media calls him, that guy… Damn, I remember the insane memes.

"So it is a different earth…" said Ervas.

Huh? So the orange guy didn\'t win?

"Wait, didn\'t Donald won there?" I asked.

"No, Hillary Clinton won here," said Ervas.

What?!

I guess people there did really Pokemon Go to the Pools…

"E-Eh?! Damn, well, not like I care, I didn\'t even live in America…" I said.

To be honest, I was not even into politics, I didn\'t even understand them… American Politics were often laughed at anywhere else.

But I guess the price of the dollar going up and down was a thing to care about.

"Where did you live? Maybe a weird country not on our earth?" asked Veronica, she asks me something interesting.

"In Japan. Does it exist there?" I asked…

I was obviously of Japan, the best country in the world!

…Not really, everything is incredibly pricy, people are way too old-fashioned and more and more.

But I guess there are nice things that make up for it.

"It does, but we are not from Japan," said Ervas.

"Yeah, we were from Canada!" said Veronica.

Canada?!

Damn.

The country with the leaf in their flag, right?

The one that makes maple syrup.

I loved maple syrup.

And that is all that matters.

"Oh my, such names bring a lot of tenderness. Even if they are from a parallel earth, it does feel quite nice to hear them from a fellow reincarnate! Anyways, what do you require my help for?" I asked.

I liked these two, I actually did.

So, I wanted to help them out in anything I could do.

What? Did I change my nature?

Come on, I am whatever I want to be.

And I like to make friends if they are similar to me.

Especially if they are pretty strong and come from a parallel Earth.

But not only that.

Yeah, I am not doing this all out of goodwill, do not get me wrong.

There is also the benefit of creating a connection with another world like this one.

What if one day I will need otherworldly reinforcements?

Or if I have to escape from the whole Genesis?!

Then this is where it becomes useful.

"Ah, nothing much. I do not really want to force you into it. You seem to have connected with us more than we imagined…" said Ervas.

"Yeah, can we talk some more?" asked Veronica.

Oh?

Damn, they are gentler and nicer than I thought…

Maybe my charm got into them?

But I am fairly sure that it is not affecting them, what\'s going on in here?

They\'re just nice, I guess?

Maybe they just want info.

And I do as well, I want some info too.

Alright then.

"Hmm, sure thing! I do not see why not? So tell me more about your world, I think I have changed my mind, I might share a bit of my own as well!" I said.

"Really?" asked Veronica.

"Yeah, yeah! Talk away!" I asked.

"Alright… but it\'s a long story…" said Ervas.

Then, Ervas and Veronica explained to me most of their story up to this point.

And let me tell you, it was wild.

They used to be a single human woman on their Earth, who died with her coworkers in a terrible car accident.

Then, she was transported to a white space, where a strange god which I had never heard of appeared, calling itself something like a God of Reincarnation, and giving them (when they used to be one soul) and their coworkers the \'Samsara System\', a special System which the god wanted them to beta test.

What an asshole, couldn\'t he ask better-prepared people for that?

But he gave everyone insane cheats.

Of course, Veronica and Ervas got a shitty one, Appraisal.

Well, to be honest, Appraisal is amazing!

But yeah, it doesn\'t bring instant powerups nor anything of the sort.

Anyways, after that, they were thrown into the world of Kritias, born not as a human but as the daughter of the Demon King and an Elven Concubine, Anastacia.

Their parents died before she could even see them, so they lived alone for most of their childhood while being raised by cold subordinates.

However, their willpower made them go through all of it, they forged bonds, got as strong as they could, and tried to build up the Demon Kingdom back to its former glory.

Only for a war between the Gods of Kritias to break in while they were doing all of this.

Forced into a war against the Heroes, all of her former coworkers, she was mercilessly murdered.

And then, as if things were not terrible enough, the damned God of Light and Righteousness, Bestellen, decided to cut their souls in half because he thought that it was a fitting end.

Holy shit.

Their Samsara System began to fail, and they really thought that their end was near.

But someone appeared, or something.

It repaired the Samsara System and then, somehow, sent them through space and time towards the Parallel World of Kritias, or Mirror Kritias for short.

One half became a Living Armor (pretty awesome), Veronica.

The other became a Half-Demon, being half-human and half Dagvaarder Demon, a race of Demons that summon otherworldly creatures, Ervas.

Ervas had to live like a toddler for two years and a bit more, and Veronica was kept inside a dungeon for most of that time until she was finally reincarnated as a Living Armor inside that very dungeon.

And since then, she began to fight for her life, until finally reaching the surface!

Through such ordeal, she acquired two new friends, Aqua, a blue slime, and Shade, a Light Attribute Spirit.

Spirits are different in Kritias than in Genesis, they are more mystical and all, and support the entire world structure.

Some can tame them, such as Anastacia who inherited her mother, an Elven Princess, ability to use Spirits for magic, such as Spirit Magic.

So both of them, now separated, summoned their own spirits.

They used to be able to bond with all of them, but now they were locked into a single one.

Veronica got Shade, the spirit of light and darkness, and Ervas got Gaia, the spirit of life.

Quite the opposites, isn\'t it?

It\'s amazing, to be honest.

Afterward, they fought against many things, survived as they could, and even built up a kingdom in the middle of a forest, made entirely out of demi-humans and monsters.

Huh, this reminds me of me.

They even fought against a God who was making whatever he desired with the forest\'s people, they discovered the ability to break souls and devour them through the strange composition of their souls after they were divided.

And after that, they even fought against something else even more terrible, a \'Necromancer\' of sorts. Who was in fact a demi-god-like being made up of the lost fragments of an entity known as the \'Demon God-King\' in Kritias.

And up to this point, they had been fine.

Oh, did I mention how overpowered they have?

Both of them have millions of Mana.

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