Epic of Caterpillar

Chapter 2454: A Talk



After Kireina left and ended ignoring Frank's request, he felt slightly heartbroken.

But at the same time, he seemed to have regained some hope as well, and learned a couple of things.

One of them is that he had to simply "keep living his best life" and continue moving forward with whatever life throws at him.

Kireina definitely knew more about this, but it seemed she was risking her own existence or something if she were to talk about it.

So she ended remaining quite cryptic, although she gave him a few hints at the end.

"Go to the Corrupted Domains, any that appears in this city, you'll unravel the truth as you fight for your life."

It seemed that directly intervening wasn't her way of doing things, and with the

memories/dreams of what he knew about her, Frank could deduce this might be her own way to help him.

Whatever was going on in Tokyo, the Corrupted Domains could be the key for him to learn more about "the truth".

Back then he was surprised she knew this though.

"You know about the Corrupted Domains?! Wait, are you also involved in the Underworld?"

Kireina only smiled back at him, and didn't respond, but it was pretty much her saying "yes, and I know a lot more".

"Do you belong to some organization or...?"

"If I did, wouldn't it be unbeneficial for us to reveal more of this then? I think I've said and implied enough, the rest depends on you, Frank."

"That's... Okay..."

After that, she went back with her friends, and wouldn't even pay attention to him anymore. She was both mysterious, charming, sexy, and at the same time, colder than Harumi.

"Haahh... She's even harder to get through than Harumi," he sighed. "Well, whatever. Hopefully today there won't be any issues."

Harumi and Erika were already at the cafeteria eating and chatting, and without Matsuo around, Frank felt pretty lonely.

"I should bring them something, so they aren't mad at me..."

Frank still felt their reaction was a bit excessive, but the girls wanted his attention, he knew that, so going after another girl kind of annoyed them.

Women were like that, he thought.

He bought himself a cappuccino, while he also purchased three muffins of strawberry flavor, banana chocolate chips flavor, and lastly, white chocolate chips flavor.

"Hey," he sat down near Harumi. "Sorry about leaving for a while, I had some things I needed to ask Kireina."

"Huh, is that so..." said Harumi, giving him a side eye.

"So did you hook up with her or something?" Erika asked teasingly.

"There wasn't any of such things happening, it was a serious conversation, I swear," sighed Frank. "I bough some muffins, do you want some?"

Harumi and Erika's hands rushed towards the muffins, as Harumi took the strawberry one and Erika the banana one.

"I guess you were hungry," he giggled.

"So what did you talk with her that was so important? She literally just came to school yesterday," said Harumi, looking slightly annoyed as she ate the muffin, filling her cheeks like a hamster.

"It was about... Well, something private," said Frank. "I can't really... talk about it. I mean, I could but you won't really understand no matter how hard I try to explain."

"Huh? What?" Erika asked, wondering what the hell did Frank even meant with that. "The hell do you mean with that, Franky?"

"Don't call me Franky..." Frank didn't like that nickname. "It's something that has to do with... well, my perception of reality."

"Huh?"

Harumi and Erika glanced at one another.

They felt like Frank was just joking with them at this point...

"What do you mean?" Harumi wondered. "Your perception of reality?"

"It's strange I know," nodded Frank. "It has to do with strange memories or... dreams I've had. Of the future."

"The future?!" Harumi asked. "Wait, do you have clairvoyance powers or something?"

"I don't know but these memories... or dreams, I can recall them so well, they feel like they were things I already lived," said Frank. "And I think I might have lived them, yeah..." "Okaaay, that sounds interesting," smiled Erika. "Tell us more!"

"Uh..." Frank felt a bit uncomfortable about talking these things. "Fine, but don't laugh at me..."

He ended telling them a couple of these things that would happen in the future, including the attack into his family, the underworld organization that was targeting him, and trying to seek his powers for their own good, and also a few other things.

He also revealed to them the power of his world-traveling system, which was currently "off- line" as he couldn't use it to travel somewhere else.

It was all a hard pill to swallow, and a big one at that, but Harumi quickly believed Frank, although Erika, who had little time to bond with him, was skeptical, she still wanted to believe him mostly because Harumi trusted him a lot... and because he smelled nice according to the werewolf princess.

"That's... quite a lot of things," Harumi said. "But... After what we've gone through yesterday, and after seeing you fight, it was as if you've indeed become a different person entirely from before. You changed a lot Frank. Your fighting style, everything. It is most likely because of these memories you've regained."

"So you believe me," said Frank, sighing in relief. "Thank you Harumi, at least I can trust you with this secret... And Erika?"

"I... Well, I'll keep it a secret, sure, not like telling anybody about this insanity will ever make them believe it," said Erika, shrugging. "It still feels to me like you're bullshitting, but your smell is not telling me you were lying."

"You can detect things like that through smell?!" Frank was shocked.

"Heheh, when people lie their heart rate increases, which makes their body fluids come out rapidly, sometimes they'll even begin sweating a bit, their breathing, everything," said Erika. "It's easy to spot a liar like this. But you're a surprisingly honest person, Frank. A rare thing in the underworld."

"Well, thanks," Frank nodded. "Anyways, that's all... Would you two help me out... find out

more?"

"Sure, why not," Harumi shrugged. "We'll do missions together anyways. My mother already

gave me permission."

"Okay! I'm bored anyways!" said the gyaru werewolf girl, winking at Frank.

Once classes came to an end, Frank made his way back to the Monk Clan to meet Matsuo.