Epic of Caterpillar

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So after the Realm Core creation and everything, I went back to my Divine Realm at long last, and I was greeted by my family. I ended playing around tickle war with my children for some time, although only the little ones joined…

After that, we decided to celebrate with a big feast, as a large celebration started all around the Nation, or well, all the nations within my immense Divine Realm.

Truly, sometimes I begin to think how far I've gotten and it makes chills run through my spine, I even begin to think "Was I really a caterpillar?", but well, I was, for around a week, I lived as one.

Just recalling one I used the threads I got from eating spider eggs to fish walking fish from the river… oh, and how not to forget my first boss fight, that damn Walking Fish King…

But that one wasn't all, after that we fought against the Emperor when Rimuru was finally summoned.

Oh, Rimuru… She has been at my side for so long, hasn't she? And Wagyu too, who just got here with his pups and his mate, he's eating a big steak over there in the large hall of the royal palace.

The nostalgia is hitting me hard… Damn, alright, let's concentrate on what's ahead of us for now.

No, let's just forget about everything else and enjoy the present for a little bit.

Everyone gathered inside the palace, as the Dragon Maids and the Arachne Maids, led by Goghesdum and Sakura respectively began to serve a lot of food, which continued to come in large quantities, all cooked by our masterful chefs, Chokumotsu and Kaen, who had recently become Demigods of Cooking! So yeah, their cooking is now quite godly.

Large plates with big fillets made of a divine beast of various shapes and sizes, there are so many ingredients inside of my Divine Realm that we can always eat something new every day, the delicious and juicy steaks of Divine Walking Fish are the best, however.

Yeah… Walking Fish still remained, I had not completely made their race go extinct, and what would you know? After I moved the entire Grand Forest, which also included the West River and the Grand Lake, and the West River was their home!

And when all the Grand Forest, which is surrounding the palace, become infused with tons of divine energy, all the natural monsters there began to change a lot. And we ended getting Divine Beast Walking Fishes! So even now that I am about to become a Great Goddess, the lineage of brave walking fishes is supplying me with delicious fish meat.

The large and meaty steak was incredibly tasty, the strong flavor of the divine walking fish was like the most premium of salmons, and it was finely sprinkled with sea salt and other ingredients, giving it an amazing enhancement to its natural flavor.

Alongside that, it came with creamy and flavorful mashed potatoes, made from potatoes farmed in the backyard of the palace, made by the dryads and the dryad empress, it was incredibly tasty, and you could feel the earthy flavor on it merged with the butter made with Divine species of cows.

Aside from this there were the classic burgers, and I had some custom made for me made off the meat of the Gods we killed, there were some gods that were not just fire or rocks, some were well packed with meat- wait, that sounded weirdly lewd.

Anyways, some of them had some nice and tasty meat on them, particularly one that looked like a wolf that Mao killed, and there was another one that resembled a snake or something, that one was also tasty, the meat was just superb, very flavorful, and also smoky, most likely because most of these gods had this thing in common where they all wielded fire magic I guess.

I was eating with everyone around me, Rimuru was enjoying a large piece of grilled meat by herself, mostly dissolving it inside of her already, while eating mashed potatoes.

"Hmm! I never thought that mashed potatoes would taste this good, masta," said Rimuru.

"Eh? Really?" I asked.

"Well, I found it quite plain, but this… it is so creamy and nice!" said Rimuru while smiling.

"Mama, give me more, you're getting it all for yourself!" said Ailine at her side, as Rimuru was actually with a large pot with mashed potatoes for herself…

"Oh my! Sorry about that!" chuckled Rimuru, as she shared the mashed potatoes.

"Seriously, the food today is amazing… there's like, something divine about it," said Zehe.

"Well, now that Chokumotsu and Kaen evolved into demigods, everything they cook is enhanced by their divinity. Even more, as most of their assistants had become living deities as well," I said.

"Oh, that explains it…" said Zehe, eating spaghetti, one of her favorite foods, which she had taken a liking of the soft and tasty noodles, and the delicious tomato sauce with sprinkled parmesan cheese above…

Actually, I also wanted some, so my dear Sakura quickly brought me a plate.

"Here it is, Master, enjoy!" she said while winking.

"Come on dear, don't work anymore, stay with us," I said.

"Oh… Yeah, I guess I shouldn't work as much now that I am your wife…" said Sakura with an apologetic smile, even after becoming my wife she's having a hard time adapting to that privilege and is often just as serviceable to everyone… Well, not that it is a bad thing, it just shows that she is a very goodhearted girl.

Sakura quickly sat at my left side as she also served herself some spaghetti, as Zehe noticed this.

"Oho~? Did you also wanted to delve into the culinary pleasure of spaghetti?" she asked.

"Hehe, they're pretty tasty, I personally like the ones with cheesy white sauce, but tomato sauce is not bad either! The meatballs… which meat is it?" wondered Sakura.

"Oh, that meat comes from my divine realm! That is the tender meat of Divine Poison Hydras. When you extract all the poison, the red meat left is immensely tasty, a delicacy I would say," said Nesiphae.

"Indeed, all the girls had been supplying with ingredients for today's feast, their divine realms are all varied and filled with delicious beasts… I wish I could actually get Skills as easy as before, or I would be getting so many from these beasts…" I sighed.

"That's amazing… Maybe I should donate some of my divine beasts too! There is a particularly tasty group of Pink Blossom Spiders, which might taste like crab or even better if boiled," said Sakura.

"Oh, I am looking forward to those then!" I said.

"Maybe taste these ones from my Divine Realm, Sakura-chan. Look, these beautiful fried legs are from the Golden King Scorpions, delicious divine beasts born in my divine realm. Their legs contain a very tasty white meat!" said Nixephine, offering me and Sakura the fried legs of these giant creatures, which tasted like an incredibly premium shrimp.

Crunch.

We began to snack on the delicious fried legs of the Golden King Scorpion, while also eating the spaghetti. Oh man, so much delicious food, and everything just goes so well together.

"Fufu, it seems that Kireina-sama and Sakura-chan liked it way more than your meatballs!" chuckled Nixephine.

"Eh?! What? Is that so?!" asked Nesiphae, glaring at my eyes with her beautiful irises.

I slowly rubbed one of the scorpion legs over the sweet teriyaki sauce and ate it.

"No, Nesiphae, your spaghetti is also superb, everything is nice!" I said, quickly eating the spaghetti and tasting the delicious meatballs and then sprinkled grated parmesan cheese.

"Both are pretty good," said Sakura.

"See? They like both," said Nesiphae.

"I saw Kireina-sama enjoy my food better though!" said Nixephine, while crossing her arms.

"Huh?!" asked Nesiphae, rather provocatively.

"Mommies, don't fight!" said Scarlet, who was sitting in between the two ferocious giantesses.

"Ah…!"

The two were quickly brought to reality by Scarlet.

"R-Right…" said Nixephine.

"Sorry dearie," sighed Nesiphae.

"Well, there is a certain rivalry that they will never stop having…"

I think Scarlet was conceived because they didn't want the other to be left alone with me, so they ended ganging me… W-Well, it is embarrassing to think of that back then, even more, because we did it in the dungeon and all… Oh my god, that was a very lewd experience. Just how vulgar we were that day?!

And to think that from such a lewd encounter, the cute Scarlet came to be… Geez.

"Hehe, they're quite funny," chuckled Amiphossia.

"Nee-sama, don't laugh!" said Scarlet while pouting, as Amiphossia grabbed her like a doll and sat her down over her coiled lower half.

"Come on, don't get like that, the two were just buzzing it out, no big deal, Scarlet-cha. Right?" asked Amiphossia, as her eyes flashed eerily, she scolded her mother and Nixephine with the mere glare!

"Eeh?! Yeah! Sorry about that," said Nixephine.

"I am sorry my baby, will you forgive your mommy?" asked Nesiphae.

"Hehe, okay! But kiss!" said Scarlet.

"K-Kiss?!" asked Nixephine.

"Aren't you my mommies?" asked Scarlet.

"W-Well, yeah but…" muttered Nixephine.

"That's an easy request, my dearie~," said Nesiphae, quickly grabbing Nixephine's hips and kissing her passionately. Can't deny that it was pretty hot.

"Mwah… W-What are you doing?! Ugh…" sighed Nixephine, getting all red.

"What's wrong? We have to put a good example for our baby, don't we~?" asked Nesiphae.

"Good! Big sis said that with a kiss things are always resolved between parents," said Scarlet.

"I-I think you don't truly understand how you were conceived, right, Scarlet-chan?" sighed Amiphossia.

"Eh? How?" asked Scarlet.

"Well, you see, in the dungeon, some months ago…" said Nixephine.

"We did a-" muttered Nesiphae.

"I don't think it is a good time to go explaining such things to a little girl!" I said.

I quickly grabbed Scarlet with a log tentacle and brought her to me.

"Don't listen to them my dear, you were conceived by love," I said.

"Love!" said Scarlet.

"I guess we were about to say something pretty wild," laughed Nesiphae.

"Yeah…" said Nixephine.

"You two should calm down for once… Especially you, giant bug," sighed Nefertiti, pointing at Nixephine.

"W-Who are you calling giant bug! Scorpions are arachnids!" said Nixephine.

"Yeah, arachnid! Mama, am I an arachnid-like Sakura?" said Scarlet.

"Erm…" muttered Sakura, glancing at Scarlet's various legs…

"Eh, yeah! You sure are, dear," she said, petting the cute Scarlet.

Such interactions were common in my large and chaotic family, each day is like a new adventure, filled with sweetness and perhaps a lot of confusion, as there are way too many people… But, well, this is the people I love and that I wouldn't replace for anyone.

And now… time to eat the pile of Gods everyone got for me, fuehehe…

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