Epic of Caterpillar

Chapter 2459: A Parallel World



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I walked upstairs towards my room after having dinner with my father, or well, this world's version of my father. A man that was once a terrifying villain for Frank, someone that aimed at him, and still does, but at a much lesser rate.

I don't know where to even begin with this, but indeed, I've been given a rather privileged life in this world the moment I was assimilated. While my wives had much simpler families, mine in specific seemed to be the most out of place of them all.

I would have never hoped to be the daughter of this man, which at the same time, ended softening this villain, and making him someone... less bad than before.

Well, technically we're still a huge family of literal supernatural mafia, apparently the history of the Chaos Gate Clan goes several hundreds of years back.

It has been a prevalent family for over three hundred years in Japan, and it has been rapidly amassing power and troops since its appearance, when Japan was at its weakest point regarding the Underworld.

What's the Underworld in this world's context? It's the "supernatural side" of the world, which is hidden at plain sight to most people. Some even call it "Mystery" which is the essence of all supernatural and non-normal things.

To balance the order of the world and the age of men, it seems that this world itself, called Gaia by many, has a consciousness, a will, that controls what's shown or not.

Gaia protects humanity and most life in the planet from the supernatural by creating what's widely known as Domains, special areas that most supernatural people can create easily.

These Domains create empty areas, perfect copies of the real world where normal people aren't present. And they are like some sort of "underside" to the real world in a sort of bizarre way.

I can, as well, create these strange Domains easily, just with a thought now. It came with the "memory pack" of my "life" in this world.

Honestly, this man is quite the quirky father, and I have yet to detect his love for me being false, if anything, I guess I feel a bit bad that deep down I feel like I still am not his daughter.

It would've been nice though...n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

To have a family of my own, a mom, a dad...

That I was raised, just like these memories make me believe.

Though the "mom" of this world seems to have died when I was born.

I guess what diverges the most this world from the original one it copied from, is that this man, the Clan Head of the Chaos Gate, fell in love with a woman.

A purple-haired, red-eyed woman of a mysterious origin, something that never happened in the original timeline.

This ended in her being pregnant with his daughter, and then her dying after giving birth, due to... perhaps her own daughter's powers.

Which make me feel kind of like shit too.

But... much like Frank might be doing right now, I've also begun to question many things about this world.

Although I'm going to continue offering him great challenges to help him grow and regain his memories there seems to be a greater power at play in here.

And above all else, I've already more or less discovered this entire world, this dimensional dungeon, is not an illusion, or a dream.

It's a literal, physical recreation of this world Frank lived on, of this city, Tokyo. It even comes with the recreation of his enemies, of every single living person here.

And even of the physics and laws of such a world, instead of just illusions or dreams, it is more like... a perfect copy, a cloned fragment of the world he came from at a specific timeline, which seems to be situated much earlier than what the current Frank is at.

Probably several years in the past, and maybe Frank is being used as well, this entire Dimensional Dungeon wasn't something he wanted to make either.

It is something he was used to create, he was placed in here, and someone had used his powers, powers that even go beyond what he believed possible, and created a dimension...

No, more like a dungeon with multiple layers, each one being a dimension on top of one another.

Something of this scale is simply... unprecedented, I had never seen something like this before.

But panicking or trying to forcefully unravel things won't work. Right now, this entire dungeon is part of a big game, or a plan, by several beings.

Perhaps Constellations are playing in here as well, but my largest suspects are the Demon King from Grand Terra that had disappeared with his demon castle somewhere else, that spider bitch with space-altering powers doing sneaky things in the background, and perhaps the Outer Gods.

I bet these guys, plus somebody else, are into this... I wouldn't say that even that Primordial Spirit Queen from the Spiritual Plane is into this, somewhere, doing something sketchy.

I have to adapt to this world, use the strengths of my background, and then find out a solution. To find the key is perhaps to "end" this scenario, whatever that means.

There are three keys that need to be obtained to reach the Moon, and also that castle where Skadi and Lazuli are, and perhaps a couple more of my family members as well which must be

there.

The rest, are most likely within this dungeon, lost somewhere, or maybe assimilated

already...

At the very least, I've already analyzed Elfina's party, and they're all healthy. Their memory hasn't been wiped either, they were sealed deep within their hearts.

I think I could be able to reawaken their memories after I quickly begin to see the limits of this world and play around with this character background and her original power and

authorities.

But for now, Elfina is safe, and so her entire party... However, the other problem arises.

Where are my children?

I was very sure that we felt the presences of Ryo and Amiphossia here, and also of Amiphossia's husband, Evan, the Hero of Shining Skies and my adopted son-in-law.

Their child is safe and sound inside my Divine Realm, the beautiful golden egg is rapidly incubating inside the castle, and it might even be born soon.

So I need to find its parents so they can see their baby!

Right now, I can feel their presences somewhere, so I'll need to start searching rapidly, while multitasking by taking care of Frank.

Hah, working in the backgrounds as some mysterious villainess is sure exhausting!

Knock, knock!

I suddenly heard the door of my room being gently knocked; I felt the presence of a powerful member of the Chaos Gate Clan.

I quickly calmed down and acted as usual.

"Yes? Who is it?" I asked. "I'm doing my homework right now so I would appreciate no

disturbances."

"Ah, it's me, Young lady," said a gentle female voice. "I've brought you some snacks and a drink for the night. I heard that you were doing homework and studying a lot..."

That voice...

"Ah, it's you, sure, come in."

The door slowly opened, revealing a person quite familiar to me, but that seemed to no

longer remember me.

"Is the homework too hard, young lady?"

"Ismena..."