[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-epic-of-caterpillar":3,"chapter-epic-of-caterpillar-epic-of-caterpillar-chapter-435":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Epic of Caterpillar",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1725999,2205,"Chapter 435: The Fallen Heroes Laments... and Their Hope for a New Life","epic-of-caterpillar-chapter-435",435,"\u003Cp>Our memories… are so dizzy…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What did we use to be?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I remember… I was… someone… I had… a mission.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And I… I had hatred…?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And I… I wanted to live more…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And I… I used to want to protect those dear to me…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And I… betrayed someone… was it someone important? My brother…?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And I… I was so foolish…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And I… I had obsessions…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We do not remember our names… we do not know who we used to be, but we know that we once were someone…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We are together now… it feels… comfortable. So comfortable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We have never felt this comfortable before, this warmness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We will never be alone anymore.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Were we friends? Enemies? Allies? Family?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We do not know… we shall never know…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Our memories… fragmented…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They disperse like the dust through the breeze.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But we remain the sediments of our true selves…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I used to protect people, didn't I?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And… wanted to do the same as well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No, I wanted revenge… but for what?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I reached revenge… and it led me to nothing… yet I still do not remember who I truly was.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You did not have it so bad… I do not remember who I was… but I remember that I was never someone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I was always suffering… in the void of my wicked mind… I am grateful that the memories of what I was are gone, I do not want to remember.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I want to be someone else…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Same… I always wanted to be someone else…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Do not worry, you are not alone anymore.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You will not have to suffer anymore, my friend.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I am your friend?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yes, we are friends.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No, we are more than that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We are family?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yes, we are family… we will take care of each other.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Why does it hurt so much? To try to remember who I was?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Was I… in the wrong?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No, you never were.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I do not remember who I was, but life was always hard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Life is hard when we are alone…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Perhaps we were allies before? But never truly felt like a family.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But we are gathered now, all together…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Are we really a family? Or are we one?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You are not alone anymore, we are not one, but many.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We are many… not alone anymore?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not alone anymore.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I am so glad, thank you, thank you for being so kind to me…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There is no need to thank us, you are our family now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Family protects each other.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We look for each other.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We love each other.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thank you, thank you… I am so happy…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What is this feeling? I never felt it before, even when I browse through my clouded and fragmented mind…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It is a warm feeling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The warmness of our consciousness connected, as a family, together.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I'm so happy… to not be alone anymore…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I think… I did atrocities before… was I a bad person?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No, you are not a bad person.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Really? Can you forgive me?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There is nothing to forgive you about.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But I was so small and so weak… I was so pathetic… and I died… so quick…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Did I have parents? I think I miss them…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Do not worry, we are small and weak alone, but together, we are strong.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Can I really become great and strong?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Together with us, we can.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if you are small, your help is necessary.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Every one of us is necessary.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We are together now, never alone, and never weak.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I… I suffered so much… why have these memories still linger through my mind?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Let me help you.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ah… They are slowly dissipating… how did you do that?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I am with you now, there is no more suffering, we are with you now, there is no more despair.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Together… this happiness… this freedom… did I never had my own freedom?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I was always entangled in my family's rules… never free from the constraints of fate…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I do not remember who I was, but I remember what I went by, my death was horrible, and my life ended that day…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But you are not dead, aren't you?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No, I am not… I was given a second opportunity, with you, all of you, my new family.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I am so glad you don't feel bad anymore, we are so glad you don't suffer anymore.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We are together, let's hug.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I cannot hug.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Me neither.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We do not have bodies… or do we?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I have… we have.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This warmness… we must be together, closer… closer… let's become one, so we can always be together.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yes, let's be one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For now, let us keep sticking together…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Until we wake up…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From this endless dream…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I was once someone, and now, I am someone else…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Me too, we are all, someone else now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Let us try… to be a better person…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Let us try… to see the bright side of life…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Let us try… to be stronger…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Let us try… to be humbler…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Let us try… to love…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This warmness that we feel, what is it?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It is not the warmness from our family, but something else, outside of this dream…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So beautiful… so mystical…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Who could it be?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I feel like we are being guided… to somewhere… by someone great…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Can we really do that?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Can we allow ourselves to once again be happy?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yes… please, at the very least… let us try.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This presence… it feels so similar to the one… to the one who took my life…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Indeed, it is.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It is the same?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I do not know; I don't even remember who we were.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Should we hold grudges?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How can we do so? We do not remember any anger anymore…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And its warmness, this feeling of familiarity…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whatever it was, it did it for a reason, right?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Indeed… let us forget this, and let us be reborn.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Reborn as one? This is exciting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We want to see the world once more, the world of the outside…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The world is filled with colors, sounds, and life…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Let us become a new life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Together… we will not suffer anymore, we will not be weak anymore, we will be happy, at last.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Happiness…?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Can we really attain it?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I once thought that I knew happiness, but it was not the truth…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Me too… below the facades of my fragmented memory life, there was only fear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Did we always live with fear?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yes, we always did…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>None of us can say otherwise… it is an irrebuttable fact.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We once were humans?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I was another thing, not completely a human… an elf? With purple skin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Purple skin? It must have been beautiful.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thanks, you are so nice to me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Do not worry, we are family now, we are all siblings.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I was once connected with nature… my mother was someone close to the forest… I always strived to protect what I loved… but even when I gave up my life, I failed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Do not worry, my sibling, we are all together now. Do not remember such thoughts anymore.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hm? My memories… they are all cleansed… the suffering, is gone?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>See? There is no need to suffer, let us start anew.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Let's try to break out of the shell, we have been resting for too long already…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We cannot wait to see the rest of the world, the colors, and our family outside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There is more family?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yes, there must be… all those life presences… we have a big family outside…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Let us give them a surprise…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yes, let us go.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Crack! Crack!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A ray of bright light hit us in the face, we were currently in one single body. All of our minds inside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Perhaps, our souls had been merged.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We tried to open our eyes, and the light became brighter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Colors… so many colors.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This is beautiful…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the people that meet us, they were so many…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We really have a large family this time…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We can… barely move though…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hm? True, let us check our bodies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Oh?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Feathers…? Of various colors… so many colors…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bird talons instead of feet… and long rainbow hair… pale white skin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A small complexion, we are still a newborn baby.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Is this…? A harpy?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How ironic…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One of us remembers doing atrocities to harpies… although we had suppressed those memories, we still have the memories of knowing that he had them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, we have become a harpy…?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Well, it is not bad, we can already feel our body being strong.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Being reborn as a demi-human might be for the best, isn't it?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yes, we all agree with that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Someone else came to see us, to help us get out of our shell.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was… a beautiful harpy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A dazzling young harpy woman. She had such a beautiful face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And this feeling of familiarity… is she our mother?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One of us remembers her slightly… she was the one who took his life?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But now, she had given it back to us.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It seems that life is full of surprises.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There are no grudges against our mother, we cannot have one, we do not feel any anger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We are filled with gratitude. Even the one whose life was taken by her is grateful to have been given a new life to repent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yes, let us try to have a better life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She gently extended her wings as she carried us gently. The warmness of her chest was so welcoming, her smell, so nice…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Our mother is so beautiful.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We hugged our mother with our wings, it was hard, but we needed to show her how much we loved her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She chirped in happiness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yes, mother, we love you…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Uwah… my children… so you are one now? Will, you ever separate?\" she said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mother is… sad?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She was worried about us, it seems.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since we became one, she might have thought that something bad had happened to us.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There is no need to worry, although we are connected as one soul, we can separate whenever we want.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We all agree in making mother happy, so we decided to divide our bodies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seven people… so we are seven.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We are all kind of different, so colorful, each one has a color.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mother was surprised and filled with happiness; she began to cry.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Do not cry, mother. We are here for you.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We hugged mother, as someone else came.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Who is she?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ah… the one who had guided us?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Indeed… is she our mother as well?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Was she the one who took our lives?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She had given us new lives, a reset.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Let us give our all, to thank her…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"M-My children… I'm so glad you are capable of going back to normal… phew… you don't know how worried your mother was when you merged into one egg\" she said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Could she be our mother as well?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We were born from two mothers… how mysterious.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A miracle?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The miracle of our existence, it seems.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Let us hug them, let us show them how much we love them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yes… We want the warmness of our family.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their embrace… so comforting…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Seven chicks… Oh, gods… And they are so beautiful… My beautiful little children… Vudia, Ailine, Amiphossia, Ryo, Aarae, Valentia, Belle, Nirah, come see your siblings!\" she said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Chupii… my child… my child… I don't think I have enough breast to feed you all…\" said our harpy mother.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Our family was too big, it seems.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So many siblings… some are as little as us, and others are gigantic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We have many big siblings to count in.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We never had such a family before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All of them are hugging us… So nice…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hm, some of us feel sleepy, and we do as well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Time to take a nap, and wake up later…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This new life of ours, it is truly filled with blessings…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-----\u003C\u002Fp>",1967,"2026-06-06T15:50:42.218Z",1,"novelbin.me","e7614a8d1c1186cefbad612e9ef51ef378ab3a1e52ac87c2c388f39050b47d9b","epic-of-caterpillar-chapter-436","epic-of-caterpillar-chapter-434",1000,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fepic-of-caterpillar-cover.jpg"]