Venna, a high school student, went to the grocery store to buy instant noodles because there were no foods left in the refrigerator.
"Ugh, I shouldn't be going outside right now because it's pretty late, but I'm so hungry that my hand is shaking, so I don't have a choice," she thought, tears swathing her face.
While she's on her way to the store, she sees a moth near the lamp post that is struggling to fly.
She pondered, "Hmm? A moth? Did it fall from that lamp?".
Moths are nocturnal insects that use moonlight as a navigation beacon and always fly transversely to it.
But what will happen if they think that a lamp post is the navigation beacon that will help them find their way? They will circle around the light until they die without finding their destination.
Venna approached the moth and put it on her palm. "Oh, poor moth, attracted to the false light that can't help you to find your way." Venna said on her own.
She put the moth far from the lamp post so that it could do whatever it wanted to do.
She then left the moth alone.
The moth is still struggling to fly, but after a few trials, it was able to fly. It flew away from the post.
"If I became a lepidoptera, I would like to become a butterfly instead of a moth, so that there are no other lights that would be my guide except from the sun," she thought while on her way to the grocery store.
Lepidoptera is an order of class insecta that has scaly wings, such as moths and butterflies.
Venna arrived at the grocery store and then went to the noodles section of the store.
"Hmm, should I buy six instant noodles? But I won't have enough money for WTF class," she thought with a thinking face.
*WTF stands for "Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday.".
Venna sighs, "Whatever." She says and puts the six noodles in the basket as if she were being forced to.
"This is why I don't like being a glutton," she said with tears on her face.
She went to the counter and bought the noodles, and then she left.
"Now I only have 100 pesos for my allowance," Venna thought, then sighed.
While on her way home, someone is following her without her knowing.
After a few minutes, she felt that someone was approaching her and then glanced to see if her intuition was correct.
"That guy is suspiciously following me; is it a pervert or what?" she thought while walking fast out of fear.
As she increases her walking speed, the suspicious guy also increases his speed.
After a few distances, Venna glanced again to check, and she saw that the guy who's following her was gone.
"Did I lose him?" she thought.
She continued her walk, and then suddenly she was threatened with a knife by the guy earlier.
Venna's skin turned into ice because of the fear and shock she felt.
"I thought I lost him," she thought while shivering from the fear.
"Give me all you've got!" said by the suspicious guy.
Venna pushed away the suspicious guy and then started dancing budots, using all of the energy she had.
Well, that only happens in her mind, but in reality, she gave all the things she had to the robber, even her 100 pesos and the instant noodles she had, with shaking hands.
"I-, i-, its all the things I have," she said fearfully.
She also said that she wouldn't say anything to anyone about what happened tonight.
The robber put the knife away, and Venna let her guard down.
"Is it done?" Venna thought with her heart pounding like a drum.
While turning her back, she was suddenly stabbed by the robber.
The robber run away.
Venna was stunned silence as she feels the pain of being stabbed by a knife on the back.
She felt that there's some warm slimy thick fluid that's leaking from her back.
She put her hand on the wound and said "It's warm."
Venna feels that it's like a punch, but after a few seconds, the pain started to sink in.
"It hurts," she said while holding the stabbed wound.
A thought came to her mind that she didn't even get her dream job yet but her death is waiting for her already.
"Mom, I'm scared, I don't want to die, I haven't even said thank you for all the things you've done to me," said by Venna with a regretful face while crying.
Venna feels numb with her body and she also feels that there are a thousand small needles are poking her legs.
As she loss some blood, she don't get enough oxygen, each breath is also becoming shorter and shorter. She can't do anything about it.
Venna tries to take a deep breath but it's painful that she wanted to scream.
She noticed that her hearing started to fade as if she was under the water.
There are a lot of blood that it looks like she's swimming out of her blood.
All of her energy is starting to fade and also her consciousness.
Venna lost her consciousness with tears left on her face.
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Inside of the deep forest; where a bunch of eggs are placed on top of the large leaf that is protected with silk.
While regaining consciousness, Venna opened her eyes slowly.
"Ugh, I died didn't I?," wondered by Venna.
She assume that it is one of the things like reincarnation or transmigration.
As she opened her eyes, she saw nothing other than darkness. She felt that she is secluded inside a circle-shaped looking room.
The girl is confused, but something on her mind is telling her that she must munched the room on her out.
After munching her way out, she saw the blinding light.
"Huh? Why I only see black and white? It looks blurry," She said on her mind.
"And also why I can't hear anything!? My body feels strange!," she thought with confused face.
Some hairy worm like larva with two horn approached her. She was startled on what she saw.
"Ahhh!! How did that caterpillar became that big!?,"she said on her mind.
"Wha-, What am I!?," Venna said.
There's something that popped up in front of Venna.
Venna was shocked.
[Analyzing the user's body...]
"What the hell is that!? It looks like it came from from the video game," Venna said with surprised face.
[Analyzing complete.]
[Specie: Paradoxal butterfly (Lv.1)
Gender: Genderless
Phase: Caterpillar (1st Instar)
Description:
Paradoxal butterflies are mysterious species of butterfly, as the name suggest itself, it oppose the common sense that we know of.
Stats:
Strength: 5 Dexterity: 8
Durability: 3 Agility: 4(3)
Intelligence: 12
Active skills:
Omni Lunge(Lv.1), Silk shot(Lv.1)
Passive skills:
(???), Liurnal Agility, Moonlight's Harvest, Seeing Eye]
"What's really haaaappeniiiiingggg!!???," she said on her mind.
-End of Chapter 1-
Paradoxal caterpillars (1st Instar):
7-13cm long and 3 cm wide
Main character is 7cm long
Characteristics:
- caterpillar like structure
- colors may vary
- hairy that it looks fluffy to touch
- have two horns
- 3 true pair of legs
- omnivore
- each individual has a variety if skills except "silk shot"
- may grow into different types