Epic of Caterpillar Chapter 2937 2938: We Are Here For You

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"Aaaaagh!"

In torment, Sadness shrieked while slamming into a drifting shard of reality nearby. The collision demolished it instantly, slaying countless billions of souls that she devoured rapidly in a frantic effort to recover.

Anger lashed out without delay, slicing off Kireina's left arm with one scorching cut, then engulfed the detached limb in a burst of fire.

Natural regrowth for that arm eluded Kireina now, though it ceased to matter. She summoned a fresh one crafted from her Reality Domain and brandished a pair of Pillars of Celestial Enlightenment. With a short hesitation, she approved with a nod and amplified the ability—hundreds of limbs burst forth, each one clasping a Pillar of Celestial Enlightenment.

Within this infinite void, her abilities knew no bounds. Restraint served no purpose here, above all with plentiful Reality Essence permeating all she could draw in to fuel her endurance.

Thus…

"Heaven And Earth Defying Soul Heart Style."

"First Form – Crimson Eclipse Bloom + Second Form – Defiance of the Nine Heavens!"

Her initial and following forms merged by Kireina, who recreated and enormously enlarged the eclipse-shrouded petal garden—now fused with nine thousand heavens surging upward together.

Fractures ripped through the pale sky, spewing forth thousands of petals. Nine thousand heavenly tribulations pulsed inside every single one. A gasp escaped Anger as the furious assault consumed her in a flash.

Tatters claimed her dress, fragments her weapons. She bore the full fury: through her heart plunged Kireina, shredding it apart before a brutal kick smashed her face and pounded her downward.

Bright laughter rang from Happiness as she ambushed Kireina from behind, skewering her lungs and ripping them loose. Grasping Kireina's spine next, she strained to yank it free and claim victory.

"Aaaaaggghh!"

Torment ripped a scream from Kireina. Sadness and Anger lay repulsed by her efforts, yet Happiness inflicted a mortal strike. Endless torrents of cosmic blood flooded from her lips as hands clawed toward Happiness. Louder rang the fragment's mocking peals, conjuring myriad luminous hands and blades of vitality to echo the style.

"Kireina!"

All his legacy compacted by The One into a massive, radiant white sword of divine glow. Into Happiness's chest it drove, propelling her rearward alongside him.

BOOOMMM!!!

A cluster of tree-like dimensions exploded under Happiness and The One's impact, reduced to nothingness amid trails of collapsing universes and devastation.

"Haaa… Haaa… Haaa…"

Breaths heaved from Kireina as she greedily inhaled Reality Essence to barely sustain her life. Thorny vines and flowers gradually sprouted, mending her spine and sealing the dire gash.

"Ugh…"

Her endurance shattered at last. Down she crumpled, jaws locked tight while Sadness and Anger closed in leisurely, weapons poised high. The One splintered by Happiness, she hurtled forward, crystalline glass encasing her head wound, grin eternal.

"Well, it looks like this is the end of the road, my dear," Happiness said pleasantly.

"You are tough, I have to admit," Anger nodded.

"But you cannot stand against all three of us. It's impossible… So give up already, will you?" Sadness sighed.

"Never!"

A furious bellow erupted from Kireina as she seized her Pillars of Celestial Enlightenment like blades, eyes blazing at the three while desperately clasping her heart.

All her willpower surged as she barreled ahead.

Laughing, the trio streaked through spacetime to bury her. Black spears by the thousands pierced her flesh, flaming axes sundered her limbs, and Happiness's sword arced toward her neck.

"Nnnggh…! It's not over…! I can still…!"

Resistance flickered in Kireina, yet they siphoned the mounting wounds relentlessly. Her strength ebbed away.

"Ahhhh~ How cute," Happiness chuckled. Her blade inched across Kireina's throat, eliciting raw cries of suffering.

"Gaaaggh…! Nngh…!"

"Fufu, fuahahahaha!" Happiness laughed, drinking the flowing blood. "Drink, sisters! She's finally ours! We finally return to our true form!"

Kireina's mind dimmed as her "sisters" guzzled her essence.

Gently she embraced her inner reality, guarding those sheltered there from the nightmares outside.

That cherished realm she started easing from her cosmic form—down to the fractured glassy surface underfoot.

"I'm sorry… everyone…"

Her eyes sealed shut as a flood of lives paraded through Kireina's thoughts.

Countless proved fleeting and forgettable.

A handful lingered as striking.

None shone brighter than her latest.

No delight filled her in facing death thus, but resistance had been her choice. Hiding ended for good.

"Is this really how you will give up, Master?"

"You're not someone who gives up so easily after all!"

"…!"

Voices swelled from the Reality Kireina aimed to abandon.

Prior to shoving it fully past the glass, a hand of blue galaxies, universes, and realms caught hers and softly thrust it back.

Yet, her Reality fused with her once again.

"…What?"

Kireina's eyes snapped open, bulging wide in utter shock.

A figure positioned itself in front of her, protecting her!

No—not a single one, but two?

Her sisters let out groans, spewing cosmic blood while rainbow-hued swords stabbed into their flesh and claw-shaped gashes ripped open bloody wounds on their bodies.

"Why?"

They had materialized from thin air.

"Why?!"

A three-headed wolf in black and red hues alongside a glowing blue maiden.

"Why are you here?!"

Kireina shrieked and sobbed upon witnessing her dearest companions and cherished kin standing firm before her.

"Because we would never leave you alone at a time like this, Master!" Wagyu bellowed.

"I love you more than anything! I would never leave your side, Kireina!" Rimuru sobbed, tears flowing down her cheeks.

"A-Ah…! No…! Run away! Run away! They're going to kill you!!!" Kireina stretched out desperately toward them, attempting to force their return. "I would rather die in agony, torn to shreds and eaten alive, than watch any of you die!!!"

Smiles appeared on Wagyu and Rimuru's faces. Their auras flared up, wrapping around her completely.

Kireina's injuries mended at an incredible speed, sealed now by rainbow crystals and fierce red-and-black infernos.

"H-Huh? Wait—how are you so strong?" she gasped.

"Astraea did something," Rimuru explained with a soft smile. "We've been training for exactly two billion years."

"Each day grew tougher than the one before, yet we endured," Wagyu stated assuredly. "All for you, Master!"

"Wha… Astraea?!" Kireina fought to comprehend as additional voices echoed inside her.

Myriad voices resounded from every part of her existence.

"It's done, Kireina-sama!" Astraea shouted. "Everyone is here to help you!"

"Two billion years of training—let's see where it leads us!" Andromeda proclaimed.

"Kireina, think of us—of all of us!" Zehe implored.

"And our powers will come to you!" Brontes thundered.

"We cannot manifest like Rimuru, Wagyu, or the others, but… even as mere particles, we can help you!" Lilith stated.

"Please, Kireina-sama!" Kekensha bayed. "Trust in our power!"

"We love you!" Charlotte wailed. "Please… please let us help you!"

"Kireinaaaaaaaa!!!"

All the voices chimed together flawlessly inside Kireina's Reality, their souls perfectly aligned with her Heart Essence.

Her aura burst forth explosively. Innumerable colorful particles appeared surrounding her, boosting her strength way past former boundaries.

Every particle represented a loved one—among her wives, offspring, grandchildren, comrades, partners, competitors, followers, even progenitors…

All their voices reached her. Loneliness no longer gripped her.

"E-Everyone…!" Kireina collapsed into tears, the torrent of boundless affection overwhelming her.

Happiness, Anger, and Sadness began regenerating gradually, gazing in stunned amazement at the scene.

This defied all logic!

Only because Kireina had ascended to that realm could she endure here.

Yet how could a Reality Monarch and a simple Multidimensional Paragon even exist here?!

How hadn't the immense pressure of being crushed their forms?

"This makes no sense," Happiness murmured, shaking her head. "She had allies comparable in power?!"

"No—these are lowly worms who cannot even approach our strength… and yet…!" Anger snarled.

"T-They hurt us?" Sadness murmured, her eyes growing wide.

Disbelief—and seething rage—overtook them as they fixed glares on the blue maiden and the three-headed wolf.

"Whatever tricks you pulled, it won't be nearly enough!" Anger thundered. She devoured Reality Flames and quintillions of scorching souls, her butterfly shape warping into a gigantic, hideous insect-like monstrosity—tens of times bigger, stretching across trillions of light-years. "WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU CAN DO AGAINST US, WORMS!"

She lunged ahead, abandoning Happiness and Sadness to recuperate and amass strength for their supreme transformations.

RUMBLE!

The lower realities quaked and fractured while the enormous fiery fiend bore down.

Rimuru and Wagyu grinned and charged ahead.

"Wait!"

Kireina attempted to halt them, yet it proved too late.

Rimuru and Wagyu collided with Anger!

Kireina steeled herself for the nightmare of their dismemberment.

Yet neither yielded.

From her shining glow, Rimuru conjured a lengthy rainbow blade.

"Seven Celestial Rainbows Style – First Form: Nirvana's Light!"

Red-and-black flames ignited Wagyu's triple rows of fangs.

"Abyssal Purgatory Beast Art – First Form: Fangs of Vengeance!"

They both sprang into action.

Anger howled as her massive scythes resembling axes swept down to bisect them.

SLAAASH!

A brilliant rainbow erupted from Rimuru's sword, slicing erratic paths across Anger's whole form.

CRASH! CRASH! CRASH!

At the same instant, Wagyu's fangs ripped massive rents through her being, pulverizing her soul.

"Eh?"

Anger's eyes bulged wide as her form got abruptly diced and mangled.

"EEEEHHHH?!"

Before she could even grasp it, blasts detonated all over her body.

BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM!

"W-WHAT'S HAPPENING?!"

She frantically attempted to mend herself back—yet additional explosions tore her asunder once more.

Then Kireina's eyes expanded in surprise.

Four additional auras materialized from within her Reality.

One exuded profound darkness and wickedness, merging with yet another to set Anger's cosmic blood ablaze.

"Y-You guys?!"

Noah and Chaos grinned in response and gave affirming nods.

"Who else?" Noah inquired.

"Let's finish her quickly!" Chaos exclaimed. "Frank, Veronica, Ervas!"

"Got it!"

"Yes!"

"Alright."

Kireina's eyes grew even wider upon witnessing Frank in his exalted angelic shape—mightier than before—and Veronica and Ervas in their combined form charging at Anger.

Rimuru and Wagyu continued ripping into her as Noah and Chaos triggered nonstop detonations in her cosmic blood.

Endless torment stopped her from healing quicker than the wounds piled up.

Happiness and Sadness detected impending doom and hurried to interfere.

Frank, Veronica, and Ervas unleashed the final strikes against Anger.

Someone needed to restrain the rest so victory could at last be seized!

Kireina stood up.

Her limbs reformed—crafted from dimensions governed by her cherished family, companions, and allies.

She sensed unprecedented power surging through her. Summoning her Pillar of Celestial Enlightenment, she bounded ahead.

"Where do you think you're going?!"

Her blade—formerly slender like a rapier—now shone with glorious splendor, extending tall enough to graze the White Nothingness.

And draw in a piece of it.

FLUOSH!

Enveloped in White Nothingness, Kireina swung at Happiness and Sadness, flinging them away amid bursts of white void.

BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM!

"Ahh?!"

Kireina's jaw dropped as she gazed at her sword and its overwhelming might.

Since when had it become so colossal?

"Is it… because everyone synchronized every dimension inside me?!"

In truth, no fresh power had been added to her arsenal.

This might had always dwelled inside her—yet she'd lacked the moment to comprehend or hone it.

She had hurried here lest her sisters obliterate this Heavenly Dimensional Domain.

Now it clicked: her family and friends had prepared this for her sake.

They had cultivated for two billion years, perfecting every shard of her strength, then arrived to bestow it back.

That enabled their manifestation.

"I see now…"

Kireina beamed, shutting her eyes briefly.

All of them had evolved into her Heart Avatars—reaching Empyrean Throne Realm level.

Abilities she'd never found time to cultivate or unlock now flourished inside her.

She shed her stunned look and let the sorrow dissipate.

A warm glow lit her smile as she pressed onward.

Anger twisted in agony, howling while fires burst forth everywhere.

With her radiant sword now infused with White Nonexistence itself, Kireina surged forward.

She cleared the way to vanquish one of her sisters.

"Goodbye, Anger."

"S-Stop…! STOOOOOP!!!"

Anger's shape warped into a grotesque Outer God-like horror—innumerable limbs, heads, eyes, tentacles, and flames sprawling outward.

"Heaven And Earth Defying Soul Heart Style."

"Sixth Form!"

"Blooming Heart – Radiant Defiance!"

Kireina's heart unfurled. Brilliance erupted from her core.

She defied Fate and Destiny not in solitude.

She stood as one of countless—and their conduit.

SLAAASH!

A scarlet slash ripped through Anger, trailed by dazzling white glow that splintered her into trillions of shards.

Every fragment morphed into tiny universes and galaxies, soaring toward Kireina to integrate into her Reality.

"GUUUAAAGGGHHH!"

As Anger met her end and got devoured, the essence of Anger surged into Kireina. Strands of her hair shifted red; flames cloaked her frame.

"I see… so that's how it is."

Kireina comprehended: she was reclaiming her inherent piece—an essential facet of her being.

Even branded a "Heart Demon," Anger would merge within, letting Kireina emerge as her authentic, whole self.

"How could you kill Anger…! You monsters…!"

"We will kill you no matter what!"

In frantic resolve, Sadness and Happiness united right before Kireina and her comrades.

Fused as one, they formed a colossal fairy giantess—two aspects joined: one cloaked in shadowy Sadness, the other in gleaming light and Happiness.

An Eclipsing Crown floated overhead; their wings melded bottomless darkness and searing sunlight.

Boundless Life's Radiance and infinite Life's Curses squeezed into Life's Chaos, warping the Summit of Existence and fracturing myriad realities.

RUMBLE!

The floor quaked fiercely as the glassy surface cracked apart. Universes and dimensions began crumbling.

"We have to end this quickly!" Kireina bellowed. "Rimuru, Wagyu—to my left and right! Frank, Noah, Chaos, Ervas, Veronica—assist from every other side!"

"OOOHH!"

In unison, their roars echoed as they charged toward the Eclipsing Monstrosity.

Simultaneously, the entity shrieked and cackled. Myriads of hands burst from its body, obstructing their onslaught.

Power from his father surged through Noah. Azathoth—unlike the defeated The One—had split himself ages ago, deeming existence futile before descending into perpetual dormancy.

Yet via his avatar Nyarlathotep, he had experienced fatherhood. He now appeared in full, bestowing upon Noah the might to battle—not only for Kireina, but for the whole cosmos sheltering him and his dear ones.

"Supreme Authority of Destruction – Azathoth's Eyes of Absolute Demise."

A pair of gigantic eyes emerged behind Noah, flooding the amalgamated being's frame with crippling terror.

"It's my turn!"

Fused with his sacred spear and the archangels, Frank lunged ahead. He had soared to unparalleled summits—and stood complete at last.

Across those two billion years, he had merged back with his counterpart—the Supreme of Time, the primordial skeletal deity.

"Are you ready?"

"Yes!"

Plunged into the Timeline River and hurled to the bygone era, Frank had clashed with foes sequentially until claiming the mantle of Genesis' Supreme of Time. His flesh withered to bones across the ages, upheld by the River of Time's essence.

United once more, the pair fused briefly for this clash—only to divide again thereafter.

The Supreme of Time had regained his kin and vigor; the youthful Frank held his alternate Earth, allies, and rewritten destinies through Kireina's influence.

Endless fusion would disrupt both paths irreparably—thus, they opted for this transient bond.

The System from Kireina's Cosmic Realm reconnected with them, blending into Frank's Heart Manifestation. He reshaped it within his Divine Armory, evoking trillions of Multidimensional Paragon-rank artifacts to pummel Happiness-Sadness with thunderous blasts.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

"GUAAAAGGHH…!"

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