Crik!

In the darkness, a sudden sliver of light pierced through as a slight crack appeared. The crack began to spread more and more in the darkness, like glass being broken, until suddenly—

Crish!

Breaking through the shell of a pale, smooth egg, a small creature poked its head out.

With its newborn movements, the creature broke through the remaining part of the eggshell and fell out onto the hay-filled ground.

The new-born baby was covered by a transparent liquid that had flooded out from inside the egg. Struggling, the creature tried to open its eyes and move around.

The liquid clung to the newborn baby like glue, restricting its movements and suffocating it slightly.

But then, from above, another, somewhat larger creature lowered its head towards the little baby.

The larger creature gazed at the struggling newborn with wide eyes.

At that moment, the breath of the larger creature reached the little baby, and feeling it, the newborn turned towards the giant creature, even though its eyes were not yet open.

Suddenly, the larger creature lowered its head further towards the little one, stuck out its tongue, and licked the baby. The liquid that covered the little one was swept away by the lick.

After licking around the body, the larger creature finally licked the head of the little one. As it did, the liquid covering the eyes of the newborn was wiped away.

Opening its eyes for the first time, the little creature saw the giant creature in front of it.

"Mother," a thought appeared in the little creature's mind. At the same time, a flood of memories suddenly rushed into it.

Memories of a human living in another world and the final moments of his life suddenly came to the little creature's mind.

"Did I get reborn into this place as some kind of animal?" the little baby creature thought as it looked at its mother's face. But at that moment.

Gruu!

Its stomach began to rumble, and it felt an extreme hunger.

Sniff! Sniff!

The little baby smelled something tasty. Following the source of the smell, it saw that it was coming from the eggshell it had just broken out of.

At the same time, it also noticed a slightly larger creature sleeping peacefully close to its eggshell.

The little baby creature took a step forward and moved toward its eggshell. Opening its little mouth, it bit into it.

Crunch!

With one bite, a piece of the eggshell got into the little baby's mouth. As it chewed, the baby creature realized that the eggshell was not very hard.

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With the memories in its mind, the creature felt that the eggshell tasted like expired milk—not very appetizing, but enough to ease its hunger.

Crik!

At that moment, it heard a sound. Lifting its head, it saw that a nearby egg was slowly cracking. The little creature watched this phenomenon curiously as the crack in the egg spread wider, and suddenly, a little baby creature like itself broke out of it.

The little newborn creature was also covered in a glue-like liquid that came along with it. While it struggled against it, the mother creature carefully licked them away from it.

Kuu!

Looking at the mother creature, the newborn emitted a cute sound, and after that, it focused on its eggshell.

After looking at the newly born one for a few seconds, he turned back to his own eggshell to continue eating it. But at that moment, he noticed his own reflection from the smoother surface of the eggshell.

"so this is me now."

Even though the creature he had become didn't resemble any of the creatures he remembered from his memory, he realized that he was like a combination of certain two creatures.

His whole body looked very similar to a white snow ferret, but he had gills that resembled an axolotl's.

He once again looked at the other newborn creature still eating its eggshell, and he noticed that the snow-like whites of its skin were not as bright as his.. and it also didn't have any axolotl gills like his.

"Hmm, is this a unique appearance of mine? If so, from now on in this life, my name would be... Blanco."

While naming himself, he once again looked at his reflection in the eggshell. But this time, his eyes saw something else.

Other than his reflection, he saw a beautiful, vibrant environment surrounding him within the reflection of the eggshell.

Blanco hurriedly looked back and saw the world outside from the giant tree den they were in.

The world outside was colorful and beautiful, but the only thing he saw clearly was a certain tree stood amidst the beautiful environment. It was a giant tree with pink leaves covering it entirely, and giant roots running around. It seemed to be the focal point of his vision, towering over every other tree with its height.The trunk of the tree was curved and shaped in a way that looked magical to his eyes.

From the tree trunk, a green liquid flowed down through the grooves, resembling a little river. It nurtured the other trees around, creating a lush and vibrant ecosystem.

Up above the tree, Blanco saw an unbloomed bud at the top. It looked a little gloomy but appeared prepared to bloom in the near future.

Caaaw!

A cry of a strange, unknown creature echoed through the forest, and a swift wind blew through the leaves of the trees, taking some of the beautifully colored leaves with it.

A tree with vibrant cyan leaves, a tree with blue-colored leaves, a tree growing upon another tree—Blanco saw a sight of wonder in the forest, and it was even more colorful to his eyes.

Crik!

At that moment, he heard another eggshell cracking sound. Curious about it, he looked back only to see that the other newborn creature he had previously looked at was already done eating its shell and was now heading toward his eggshell.

Blanco lifted up one of his paws as a warning to the little creature, but the newborn clearly didn't recognize the threat Blanco was showing. Slowly walking toward the eggshell while looking at Blanco with its innocent eyes, the baby creature opened its mouth to take a bite from Blanco's eggshell.

But as soon as it tried to take a bite, Blanco hit its head with his paw quite firmly.

Keww!

The baby creature hurriedly backed away from Blanco and his eggshell.

The mother creature gazed toward the query between the newborns, and even some older newborns showed curiosity toward them.

"Yeah, you better get out of here,"

Blanco looked at the other one running back and hiding behind a still unhatched egg. But at that moment, the egg it hid behind suddenly cracked, and another newborn one came out.

Blanco looked at the newly born one, but at that moment, he felt extremely sleepy. Walking toward his still unfinished eggshell, he ate it hurriedly as the sleepiness worsened. Just as he finished eating the shell, he rolled around himself and lay down on the ground where his shell was, closing his eyes to go to sleep.

The other newborns around him also rolled themselves to find comfort and closed their eyes to sleep after eating their eggshells.

In his sleep, Blanco's white fur began to move in unusual ways, especially around the area of his hand, where it looked like a new kind of hair was growing. After a few seconds, a dark line appeared along with three dots in a circle on the white fur of his hands.

But Blanco was oblivious to the changes happening in his body and slept soundly in his curled-up position. Similarly, all the other newborn creatures sleeping peacefully didn't feel the strange symbols appearing on their bodies.