Fate Weaver’s Legacy

I was so glad that past me had left random cut marks on trees to mark my path. It made returning to the egg cave a whole lot easier. It also didn’t feel like it took anywhere as long to get back, probably because I actually had a clear destination in mind this time.
I’d passed several life ooze lakes on my way, and now that I wasn’t in a rush to find food, I couldn’t help but wonder where these had come from. Had something or someone created them? Were they natural? If so, how had they come to be? I could attest to the fact that the stuff
rain from the sky during rainfall, so… what gives?
Maybe that was just the result of centuries of still lakes of water mixing with ambient Ether or something? It wouldn’t be the weirdest thing, honestly. Although, just how long had that taken…?
“Oh! We’re here, chat!” I exclaimed as I finally came close to the familiar small cave. “Man, it feels like it’s been forever since I’ve been here.”



“No idea. Let’s see…”
I climbed into the cave and sure enough, the half-cracked egg was still there, exactly as I’d left it. Granted, I didn’t quite remember the exact positions of all the smaller egg shards on the ground, but I had stream history now. I could easily check.


I opened stream history and rewound all the way to the point where I’d left the egg last time to explore. Sure enough, everything looked more or less identical. I idly put a bookmark there, naming it ‘Leaving spawn #2’, and closed it again.
“Yup, I don’t think anyone else has been here. Unless the phoenix is mega sneaky.” I frowned at the egg for a moment. Then I shrugged, took off my backpack, opened it as much as I could, and approached the egg with it, intending to stuff the egg inside.
“Damn, I can’t believe I used to fit inside this… It’s so small now,” I murmured, once again realizing just how much I’d physically grown because of the blessing.
I stopped in front of the empty eggshell and gently placed my hand on it, feeling a strange pang of… nostalgia? Sentimentality?
It was really weird, considering I’d left it behind pretty much immediately after hatching. I hadn’t been nearly enough to get attached to it… But then again, I had no idea just how long I’d been inside that egg. Well, stream history went all the way to a few hours before hatching, but when I opened it up again to see what was there, I was pretty disappointed. Most of that time was just darkness and some muted rumbling sounds–
“Hold on…” I stopped in my tracks and frowned as I rewound a few seconds and strained my ears to listen better. “Is that… Is that someone talking…?”



The voice was somewhat androgynous. Maybe leaning on the female side. It was honestly really hard to tell.
I kept rewinding the few seconds, but I just couldn’t make anything out, even after maxing out the volume on the thing.



My expression warped at that. There was something so incredibly
about that. Sure, I
like a kid and sure, I
hatched from the egg that the phoenix supposedly made, but…“Yeah, probably just smugly telling me I’m gonna have a bad time or something.”
But then again, even if I couldn’t tell what they were saying, their tone didn’t sound antagonistic.


“Okay…? Oh, are you gonna use your audio editing software magic?” I guessed while I sat down and went back to petting the eggshell.

“Alright! Thanks, Ranger!”
I sat back and while I waited for Ranger to come back with some results, I finally stopped rubbing the egg and awkwardly managed to stuff it into my backpack before picking up the pieces and taking them as well.
Then I sat back, found a relatively smooth part of the wall where I could lean, and looked out of the cave.
“I wonder what it’s gonna be…” I mumbled, as people in chat speculated.
Thinking about it, this could very well be my first lead to… well, everything. I still had no clue
I was in this world, or why I’d been reincarnated by a phoenix. But if we made out what they were saying, we might be able to glean some answers…
But then again, maybe the phoenix had anticipated that I would look back through stream history and there wouldn’t be anything useful.
But that was assuming the phoenix had known that I would get the Streamer racial skill. Which would mean that they had to have manipulated the system itself. Or at least predicted which racial skill I would get.
The system
said ‘calibrating’ before it had given me that skill, so I had to assume that there was a variety of different racial skills I could have gotten.
Or all of this theorizing was pointless because the phoenix
the one who had set everything up, including all the red herrings.

I groaned and rubbed my forehead.
“Of course, it’s not in English… Dammit. I guess it’s still something…? The phoenix is likely a woman and… was sad to reincarnate me? Probably why ‘I’m sorry’, I’m guessing…”
I deflated with a sigh.


“Hey, Foux… We just found out that there was someone talking to me while I was in the egg… But it’s hard to hear and it’s not even English. Can anyone figure out what language it is?”


I froze.
“Oh my god! Of course! The subtitles! I’m so dumb!”
As an odd feeling of hope began to well up inside me, I quickly went to my menu, turned the subtitles on again, changed them to English, and rewound the stream history to the very beginning.
Then I sat back and listened.
The moment I heard the first signs of a muffled voice, the subtitles appeared in my vision, and I couldn’t help but breathe in in anticipation.
‘
Oh shit. The phoenix knew my name. Or rather, knew my Vcuber name and decided to call me that? Why…?
There was a long pause but I patiently waited as the supposed Phoenix found her words.
‘
’
Hold on, what? My position? What was
supposed to mean?
I stared at the words as several different emotions boiling inside my gut.
Was this implying that someone had done the exact thing to
? The whole forcibly reincarnated in another world?
‘
’
Oh god. That was
what she was implying here. What the hell?!
‘
’
I clenched my teeth but didn’t dare to tear my attention away from the subtitles in front of me.
‘
’
A chill went down my spine.
I’d subconsciously known that something would force me to do the limit break sooner or later, but if even my kidnapper talked about them like that, I couldn’t help but feel dread.
And she was implying that I definitely
have to do not just one of them, but
of them?
My hands tightened into fists.
‘
’
What the hell? Had the phoenix been
into this whole scheme then? Why would it be necessary? Who was ‘
’?
‘
’ The sentence cut off and there was silence for a while again.
The Fate Weaver.
Was ‘
Who was the Fate Weaver anyway? Were they who I thought they were, or was it all a coincidence, after all?
The silence continued and I was about to speak up, thinking it was over, when the muffled voice came back, and with it, more subtitles.
‘
’
I could tell that much…
‘
’
Hold on, what? How could she possibly know that I would be able to understand eventually? Had she known about the Streamer skill, after all?
‘
’
There was a muted swooshing sound and then silence.
I waited a good few minutes after that just to see if the subtitles would pick up anything else, but that seemed to be the end of it.
I closed my eyes, and took a shuddering breath, before opening them again.
“...Well! I guess I have another reason to avoid the limit break for now,” I said with a forced cheer. My trembling voice probably didn’t convince anyone.







I deflated, failing to retain my cheer, and sat there in stunned silence for a moment, thinking about everything I’d just heard.
“...Chat, I don’t know what to think. I feel like everything just got way more complicated. I got
answers but even more questions now.”


“Inheritance?” I mumbled, still feeling a bit shell shocked.



I cringed.
“What. You think that when I’m done with… whatever I’m supposed to be doing, I’ll be coerced to kidnap someone from Earth and reincarnate them here? And then
would go through everything and kidnap someone, and then they would kidnap someone, and so on?”



“That’s messed up… I don’t even know why I’m doing this. The
didn’t know why she was doing this. Just that ‘
’, whoever the heck that was, said it was necessary.”



“Yeah, that’s what I’m assuming as well… Eh, nice that you believe in me, Mike, but I wouldn’t be so sure…”


“I mean, I guess? But that’s assuming there even
a cycle to begin with.” I shook my head with a sigh. “Either way, if there’s one thing that I took away from this, it’s that the Fate Weaver cannot be trusted. She’s said that the Fate Weaver had been tricking her all along, so…”

“...And that Limit Breaks are really bad. Especially the second one, apparently.” I shuddered as I thought back on what the Phoenix had said. “I don’t know about you guys, but losing sanity doesn’t sound very appealing to me.”



“Not doing it right now, Trelip. It didn’t win the poll.” I huffed. “No idea. And I’m not going to theorize about it. I don’t even know what exactly they are
.”
But obviously, I would have to do it eventually. Everything just beautifully pointed in the direction of doing the Limit Break. So much so that I was suspicious whether it was a plot by the Fate Weaver as well…
Ugh, I was becoming a conspiracy theorist.
“Okay!” I clapped my hands. “So in summary: The Phoenix needs a slap in the face for dragging me into this and then all the hugs for whatever poop she had to go through, and the Fate Weaver – if that’s who ‘
’ is – needs a good butt kicking and cannot be trusted.”




I pursed my lips and frowned.
“Good point, Mike. She might be… like a conscript. Unwilling, but still an enemy. Or something like that?”

“Right…” I sighed. “Well, on
cheerful note, I guess it’s time to get going again.”
I took one last look around the cave, remembering the first time I’d woken up in this world, then got up and walked outside.
“Sooo… Which way should I go? If I remember correctly, the spaceship is that way–” I pointed in one direction. “–and the water park is that way.” I pointed in the opposite direction.
I looked up and squinted at the sky, trying to remember where the sun set.

I hummed.
“Yeah. I guess there’s two more directions left to explore then… Let’s poll it! You decide, chat! Do I go north or do I go south?!”
I quickly set up the poll and then sat down. As I waited for people to get their vote in, my mind wandered back to what I’d read the Phoenix say.
.
Hah. Apparently, I had crappy parents even for my reincarnation. How ironic. Well, at least the Phoenix was somewhat apologetic, unlike…
“Alright! What do we have? Hmm… Huh, looks like north is winning by quite a bit. Well, north it is then! Let’s go, chat!”
I stood up, turned north, and began walking.