《Roach》 Book.1 - Prologue Book.1 - Prologue Chapter1 - Boring life. Walking down the road of a very normal town after getting of work, I was thinking about many things, like not been married hahaha, yeah I am currently 27 years old, not marry with a few past relationships that one would actually call successful, like three of them to say the most, a really bad smoking habit, and a liking to alcohol, but mostly the smoking, as a matter of fact I am lighting one up with my cheap lighter, I am not a badass as to stand with one leg leaning against a wall looking down while lighting a cigarrete with my zippo, you know those metal lighters that don¡¯t blow off with a little breeze of wind, resuming I light it and inhale, hold it, pfff exhale yes that comfortable and reassuring feeling, Nothing like a good cigarrete after have eating one of those fast food packages that they sell at the convenience store. So as I am walking and smoking I get a chest pain, a really hard chest pain, what the ###!! What is this? And so I start dying, of a heart attack, just like that, probably due to a really bad habit of junk food, smoking, and personal hygiene yeah yellow teeth and a bit overweight but not noticeable due to being a bit tall according to normal standards, well whatever who knows I don¡¯t, at least I didn¡¯t die full of regrets, hold it!! Hold it right there!!! I do have regrets and a lot of them!!!! And so as my consciousness starts fading due to dying, and not even in an awesome way like rescuing a girl before she is run over by a public bus, or being shot by a criminal after rescuing some beautiful middle age woman (Milf ¨C o yeah I like them too, a lot) and sacrificing myself, no!!! From a heart attack at the age of 27, like seriously what the hell? This is what I¡¯m thinking while dying even my death is boring, me my pitiful self, with a boring ugly face and boring body is dying, now before moving on, I just wish to clarify that this is not self-pithy or low self-esteem is just who I was a plain guy, by the way I did try wearing glasses at some point in my life, you know to look intellectual and interesting, did not work. Wait what am I thinking? I¡äm dying I don¡¯t want to die do I? well not like it matters my eyes are closing now, slowly I feel a burning pain in between my fingers, probably my cigarrete that¡¯s burning me after being burn out and having reach the filter, someone is looking at me while passing by, what? Not even going to stop and take a look and see if I have a chance? O well is not like society today cares a lot about many things I myself would have walk away, unless it was a beautiful girl lying down, yeah I would care then. And so as my eyes are closing, I¡äm waiting for the white light to appear, but nothing and then everything goes black¡­. Unauthorized content usage: if you discover this narrative on Amazon, report the violation. That night, in another world deep within a rather small forest an egg was being crack from the inside. Little by little a something was emerging. ¡§I am almost Out!! Chapter 1 - The forest. Well yeah that something was me, so let¡¯s go back a little after I died, so then after everything went dark, I felt a weird sensation, not sure how to describe it, but it was rather uncomfortable, and then everything was fuzzy for a long time, until now, I regain my awareness and first thing I notice, or rather the first thing that came to my mind was that I wanted to get out I felt enclosure, I would say it was some form of primal instinct, but I wanted out, easier said than done, what was this thing around me, so hard, everything was hard, I was pushing with everything I had, to say the least it was troublesome, not to mentioned the gooey feeling of my immediate surrounding, I felt like I was swimming in oozed, and my arms did not feel like arms, they felt odd, different but, the important thing right now was to get out. I disregard all the odd weird sensations and concentrated on finding my way out and then ¡§Crack¡§ some of the resistance that I felt earlier gave out, and so little by little I was making a crack in this hard shell, later I would find out it was my egg, so as I was making the opening larger in this outer shell container, I was able to see light little by little, I was able to somehow see a bit more clearly, after some minutes of struggling I was able to come free, o yes I close my eyes and starting to enjoying this feeling of freedom, I felt great, finally out. After getting used to this feeling of freedom I got a bit more serious I open my eyes, first things first where was I? Last thing I remember I was dead, or I had died, due to a lame heart attack, or so I recall, so why was I inside a container? I had walk a bit far off from that place where I had surface, so I turn around to face the place from where I emerged, and o man! Did I got a surprise, right there in the middle of some sort of crack within some rocks was a pretty big egg, and on top of the egg was a hole, I was sure I had come from that hole, but from an egg? Questions starting flooding to my mind, why had I come out of an egg? What the hell happen to me? I walk back to the egg just to be certain and came to realize that as a matter of fact I had come out of that egg, but why? I couldn¡¯t understand it, now that I think about it, everything about me felt odd now, different, I raise my hand to my eyes and just stood there shock, my arms weren¡¯t arms, all right they were arms but different, for starters my hands, they look more like claws, five finger like claws were on my hands, and really close together, I try separating my fingers apart and It kind of hurt, but not much, probably due to me being recently coming out of that egg, they weren¡¯t that hard, soft and flexible but one could tell that in the near future this things would have a hardness to them. And my arms were a bit longer than usual, wait one arm was way longer than the other what¡¯s this? And lower than the other one? What? Was I deformed? I calm a bit down after this sudden shock and started to get a feel of both of my arms and then I notice why one was longer than the other, I was stupefied, I had four arms!!!!!!!!!! The longer arm I had been staring at was near my lower ribs, and I had one in each side, I had four arms two lower arms and two normal arms, well normal if you could call them that. I started inspecting my arms, they had spikes all over them, but not long, I could compare them to how scales would look on a dragon, but in the shape of spikes, and small while somehow maintaining the angle of scales, truly fascinating, now as I am saying this, I must say I was not able to control the lower arms that easy, due to them being longer, and well I guess me not having prior experience with this things, I could move them but it was really hard for me, at the moment, so after looking at my claw like hands and spiky hands I took a look at my body, for starters I was short at the moment, my legs were the same as my arms long a bit skinny if I do say so myself and end up in claw like things, while maintaining the shape of a foot somehow the combination was just too surreal, while inspecting my body I found out, I had a armor type thing close to my ribs, layered and somehow cinnamon light color, next I inspected my back, hopefully I didn¡¯t have a tail, emm no, I didn¡¯t have one, good!! Somehow I felt relieve and disappointed at the same time, I kind of wanted a tail, what? I would have found it fun, at least I think so, but wait? What¡¯s this? I felt a light membrane light and flexible thing on my back? I trace that membrane all the way to my lower neck, and they had a decent width, could this be wings??? I check the other side with my other hand and yeah, I had another membrane on that side, I had wings!!! Yes yes yes!!!! I had wings, so before I go any further, I will say this to fly is anyone¡¯s dream, I am sure of it, or humanity¡¯s dream, well whatever who wouldn¡¯t mind flying? I sure wouldn¡¯t mind it, so moving on, I had to inspect my face but I was already making an idea of what I would feel, after verifying everything up until now, a pretty good logical explanation was coming to mind, ok so I calm myself yet again, and send my hands towards my face, I was certainly shaking at this point, let¡¯s see, I touch my face first and well it felt normal to some point, there were some hard protuberances close to my forehead, two of them actually one on each side each one on top of my eyebrows, I had an idea to what they were so I trace them to make sure, and sure thing my guess was correct, I had two antennae, and pretty long ones at that, they would trace back to my short hair, while the hair was a bit short my antennae were a decent length about 10 inches long, and close to my mouth I could feel some other protuberances, I could take a guess as to what they were, but the odd part, is that they were inside my mouth in form of teeth just two of them, like fang, canine tooth, or vampire teeth (they were black by the way but this would be found out later on). so I had two on each side of my mouth, am I a vampire? No that was out of the question, I was certain that I was some kind of insect humanoid thing, and I had just recently hatch? Or born? Well the correct way to put it, would be that I had recently hatch, but I had died, I am positive I had died, as I was processing all the information through my head, the only logical explanation that came to my mind was that I had reincarnated into a insect humanoid species, by the way I had a guess and from the look of it I was a type of cockroach being, this was certain from the way I look and felt, I was sure of this. After processing everything through my mind, and having accepted I had reincarnated I felt devastated, No!!!!! Why????? Why did I reincarnate as a cockroach? I have read several novels, or manga where our main protagonist reincarnates as a rich person born of a nobility family, or with magical powers unrivaled by anyone from that world, or at least a very handsome person, I would not mind being reincarnated as a harem magnet, I was a cockroach, I was sure the gods if they exist must hate me, ¡§hahahahhaa¡§ I started laughing, that was the only logical explanation I would reincarnate as a non-human species, the gods must hate me. In short I am ugly or at least I think I would bring some disturbing glances upon any one that would look at me, by the way I did not had a mirror so I could not measure my ugliness at this point, but by the way I look from being recently hatch I was not liking what I was seeing. I am a humanoid cockroach but where am I? I took a look around my surroundings and it seems I was in a forest, by the way the sky looks like the night was closing in, few traces of the sun, could be seen, so inside a forest? The second question that came to my mind, is this forest in earth? I had no way of knowing this right now, since the woods around me seem to go for quite a long way from where I was, an exploration of my surroundings was needed, usually when one reincarnates one does not reincarnate in the same world, at least this is what was implied in my previous knowledge from when I was a human, but this information was not certain since the source of the information was rather fiction, after thinking this I was planning ahead what I needed to do, first I needed to make sure, if this was earth or not, to do this I needed to explore my surroundings, before exploring my surroundings I needed to get used to my nearest surroundings, I had to do this while avoiding clashing into whatever was the main predator in this forest, because I¡¯m sure this forest had other creatures, and some of them would not mind taking a bite out of me, just thinking about it, made me nervous and wary so I took another look around, ¡§pff just my imagination¡§ I said, it seems I am rather out of trouble for the time being, so I had to explore, and to explore I had to reconnaissance everything around me, next issue was food, what do I eat? I have no idea, while I was a part cockroach I was also part human I guess, so food was not limited, at least for now, I don¡¯t feel hungry, I do feel a bit tired, even though I had just hatch and while cockroaches where nocturnal insects in my world I was previously human, so the normal thing for me to do at this moment was to sleep, I head back to the crack in between the rocks, the space between there seem like a mini cave, nicely done picking this place for my egg? By the way where was my mom? Or dad? I see no sign of them, I wonder if they were like me and lay and egg and I was born, well I will ponder this questions another time, for the time being no one seem to be around and the night was closing in, I better sleep and in the morning start my primary mission, explore and eat, this were my top priorities, survival, I mean I had another chance at life, might as well see what I can do with this right? While processing all of this excitement and a bit of disappointment started to arise again, no point in thinking about this now, I told myself, I lay down and close my eyes. Chapter1 - The Forest part 2 Two weeks have passed since I had reincarnated into this body, I had explore my immediate surroundings in this whole two weeks and also came to the realization that my grow spurt was a bit higher than the normal average human, I was a bit taller now, from when I had hatch, if you ask me I look like a 4 o 5 year old kid in height (102 cm). I had notice a few things, one of them was my wings, that¡¯s right I had prioritize putting attention to my wings because you know I wanted to fly, I had four wing type of things, just like a cockroach, two of them were my outer wings, and I notice this were different from my inner wings, my outer wings I could manipulate them to be hard, or soft, it was rather convenient, I had come to the conclusion that while I had similarities, I also had differences from roaches, this being one of them, at the moment I was using them as an adventure¡äs coat to cover myself in a soft mode, sadly they just cover my back, and in hard mode I could use them for defense, while below them I was hiding my transparent wings, I would take a guess and say that my inner wings were the source of lift force or propulsion for my flight, but at the moment, I was not able to fly, I needed more practice. During this two weeks something I was not expecting happen, while I had put more attention to flight, the most convenient of my current abilities whether it be for hunting, fleeing or just exploring was my speed, this came as a surprise to me, while other people would come to this logical conclusion I was not an insect freak or fan of insects, so my knowledge on them was not that extensive, back to the topic, yeah I was fast, incredibly fast, this had come in handy in the past weeks, in this past two weeks I also focus on my two primary goals, food and exploration, the first one was cover rather quickly, food was easy to find in this forest, I had thought that the forest was small, to my surprise it was rather large, this was a good thing, it provided me with many opportunities for hunting or picking up fruits and stuff of that source, I also notice that my food intake was not necessarily a big issue, my weight was rather light, thus my food intake was not necessarily a large one, I hunted a rabbit in my fifth day and found out I was unable to finish it, by the way I caught it running, yeah like I mentioned before I was that fast, I was also a omnivore no surprise there, as for my second goal exploration ,this one was a bit complicated, up to this point I have being able to cover a few kilometers in my surroundings, that¡¯s when I found out I was fast, I had bump into a panther cat type of beast by accident, and well I made a run for it scare out of my wits, at the end I ended up running a few times from different type of beast in the last few days, I notice a major disadvantage while exploring and running one of them was that while being fast, I was also very vulnerable, I notice this while running from a huge boar that came up to me, it was faster than any previous boar I had seen from a far, and well what can I say I was a fourteen days old, I had to run right? And guess what happen? I trip, yeah, it seems being fast does have it disadvantages, this being one of them, I trip and hurt myself, by the way, it was nothing major, I bump into a rock at the time and got hit in my rib area, fortunately I had my cinnamon armor in that area, I honestly don¡¯t know what its call in insects like I said I was not a insect expert in my previous life much less a cockroach one at that, but I call it armor and this protected me to some extent, so it was nothing major, but it did left a pretty good bruise and experience. While exploring during the last two days of this past two weeks I had ventured a little bit more far, from my usual hiding place, having more trust in my current survival abilities, I came upon a road, this was a dirt road and from the looks of it, it was use for travel, you could see wagon tracks and horse tracks on it. I had stay close to the road for those past two days, and on the second day, a caravan pass by, the caravan was rather small, it had 4 horses each wagon and a total of 4 wagons, they were traveling at a decent pace, and from the looks of it they were heading to a far place from where they had come from, this was implied by the amount of horses on the caravan, the more horses the less a horse gets tired and thus a more decent pace and the longer it could travel I think right? Well I am not too sure about that, but what I pick up from this caravan while observing them was, and this also almost completely confirm my theory was that this was not earth, the people on the caravan were wearing mediaeval type of clothing, adults and kids, and the people protecting the caravan, were wearing armor on them kind of like a knight, but not fully cover, while on their waist I could see iron swords, others had maces and axes on their backs, and a few fellows had daggers on their waist, but the daggers were more common, I think even the women had daggers strap to their waist. The woman had long skirts with shirts on the top and some had hoods or lady like hats, and the men had simple trousers with leather boots, and simple shirts, some wearing a vest on top. The adventures or guards were a bit differently dress, but mainly on their equipment and armor as well as weapons, this difference in clothing made me realize that this was not earth, I was pretty sure no one on earth dress like this anymore, apart from that I also notice a rather strange fellow with in that caravan, it had a staff and a different style of coat and a pointy hat, like the ones magicians wore in anime everything else he wore was pretty much the same to the others with a slight difference but nothing noticeable or distinguishable aside from the hat and coat, his age was around thirty years old, and had this atmosphere of command and weariness to him, this immediately made me assume that this world had magic in it, this would also support my theory that some of the beast in this forest had magic, I had yet to confirm this since I have not seen one use magic , but some creatures in this forest gave me the feeling that they had another type of power not clearly seen by the eye, I was thinking that my current living area was a magical beast forest. 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This is what I was currently doing at the moment, following this caravan while carefully analyzing the party members of it, not going to lie, my attention was mainly focus on the staff bearer for any sudden actions out of the ordinary, I was secretly hoping to see some magic at work to be honest, the reason why I was following the caravan at this point instead of going back to my hiding place and return another day a bit more prepare was for various reasons, one of them was because I wanted to see where this road would lead me to, or how far it went, second reason was because since I had being reincarnated into this world I had yet to see any other intelligent life form, not that I wanted to find any in this forest aside from humans, basically I wanted to interact with humans, I was not the most popular guy back in earth but come on, I was a bit scare being a humanoid roach and in my previously life I at least would see people walking by me, or interact at work, its hard being completely alone in a forest with so many questions, and last but not least, and this I find my most important reason to be following this caravan was, I needed clothes! Yeah, I am currently naked except my back, no surprise there, since well who knows how to make clothes in a forest? Much less with this claw like hands of mine and I was not about to wear a leaf or some other thing in between my thighs, that was a big no no, I mean usually in reincarnation manga¡¯s or novels the reincarnated would be born human or something else, with parents beside him, caring for him or an old teacher guiding him into his or her magical journey while every little need for the most part would be cover by them at the beginning, sure with a few hardships here and there, but not ones about clothing right? So yeah I am following this caravan hoping to get some clothes, kids clothes or some sort of cloth that would at least cover my nether regions, don¡¯t get me wrong I would love showing them to the lady¡äs, but I have a four year old child body size, not to mentioned half roach, and is not the most comfortable being naked in a forest when all your life you were used to wearing clothes. I needed cover and fast, and my plan would be to attack at night, well mainly sneak not much of an attack, I would excel at night, plus with my small child like body I was sure to be able to sneak in, and steal something, don¡¯t get me wrong I don¡¯t like stealing but what options do I have? I could try talking to them, but I wasn¡¯t even sure if they spoke my language or if this worlds language was the same, much less, how words would come out of my mouth I mean I had try speaking before, and found out I was able to, but the way they came out were still a bit weird, I think this has to do with my whole new body internal organs mainly the throat parts, not sure, I should stop worrying and focus, I have already decided I am going to sneak in at night. This was supposed to be my plan, until the person I was focusing on, started screaming something in a language I didn¡¯t recognize, while his staff was emitting a glow, is that magic) I was asking myself while growing excited, and then the bandits attack.