EPIC OF CATERPILLAR

C1: reborn as a ......... caterpillar

It has been a whole week since I got this fever and it is just continuing to get worse. I've been living a pretty normal slow life, working at a mini-market close to home, living with my parents, enjoying video games, and Japanese media.

I can't believe how long this fever has lasted! And if I go to the doctor it will waste all my video game money. Ugh, It's not like I can die if I don't, God I can barely think with this headache let alone play any games… Sigh, I guess I'll just go to sleep, I'm pretty sleepy anyway.

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That night I had a strange dream, I was in a weird place that looked like a big ocean, but the water was still and unmoving. When I checked if I was ok, I was no more than a glowing floating lump. Shortly after a soothing voice called out to me, telling me to come to him, to just keep moving. While I was floating in the direction of the voice, it started to get louder, slowly increasing in volume. Then suddenly I felt incredible pain all over my lump of a body.

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[Day 1]

When I finally woke up, all I could see was black, I couldn't feel my arms or my legs, or even my mouth for that matter.

I can't move? What's going on? I can't feel anything, my arms, my legs, my head even… There's only my mind… my thoughts… Did I... Did I die?

I tried to move with all my might, to move even an inch of my body. Until finally, I felt something move, a limb behind me. I started hearing cracking noises the more I moved as if I was breaking out of something.

I know I can... do it! I must... move! Let's go!

As I broke free I saw light, an immense amount of light, it showered my whole face and I could finally open my eyes. It felt like whatever was holding me was slowly falling apart and shortly after I fell onto the ground.

Aaah, I'm so tired… Where am I? What is this? Giants leaves? What? Massive rocks? Trees the size of skyscrapers… Why is everything so massive in this forest?

And then I realized how fucked up I was… My entire body was divided into sections, long fatty, green-colored skin with small purple patterns. Small, almost transparent hairs covering the top of my body. I don't have any arms, just chunky little legs on the bottom of my body. I couldn't see what I looked like but I could already imagine what I looked like, I was a Caterpillar.

How could this even happen? Why? Is this a dream? Please be a dream… Oh god, but I felt pain when I fell didn't I? That means this is real, doesn't it? Oh god… that means I really am a caterpillar now… Why me? WAIT! Does that really mean I died from a fever? What the hell… There is no way, it was just a fever! Who the hell dies from a fever!… If I really died doesn't that mean I was reincarnated? Is this a case of people being reincarnated into another world but they ran out of heroes so they just tossed my soul into whatever was nearby at the time? Thanks a lot, Mysterious Voice, you ass.

Suddenly I started to feel extremely hungry so I started eating whatever was near me, from leaves to even rocks.

These rocks are so horrible and bitter… Why can I even eat them and still be fine? I can even munch them into dust inside my mouth. This caterpillar is a monster!

After a while, I finally started to feel sated so I started to analyze my surroundings.

Hmm, it would be funny if there was some kind of status screen that showed up when you shouted STATUS! In your mind or something…

[Name: None

[Class: None

[Race: Common Forest Caterpillar