"Whoa, this is new. What's she doing?" Blanco lifted his head and looked around in confusion.

As he looked, he saw the other newborns were already awake and eating the flesh of a mouse-like creature. The father creature stood near the opening of their nest, gazing outside.

"What's all this? This is not the usual time we're all awake,"

"...."

"No way, is this the day?" He hurriedly stood up, ran toward the corpse of the mouse-like creature, and began to eat.

"Of course it has to be today, dammit. I'm usually awake at any slight sound, but because of the training, I'm more worn out and slept like the dead," he thought as he bit into the flesh and swallowed it without even chewing.

Chizzz!

His poison began to spread around the flesh of the creature, and the other newborns around him carefully moved away.

While Blanco was eating, some of the newborns had already eaten their fill and walked toward where their father was, standing in front of him. As time went by, except for a few which includes Blanco, all the others had gone in front of the father creature and stood there.

Swallowing a bit, Blanco also moved toward that place and stared looking outside. After all the others had gathered, the father creature suddenly jumped out from the hole to the outside.

Following him, the first line of newborns that stood beside him ran and jumped out, and the others followed.

Blanco also ran and jumped out from the hole. The shine of the sun fell upon his face. While he was falling, he gazed at the forest, and the lavish foliage bathing in the sunshine gave off a refreshing feeling to him, almost like new energy entering his body. The giant tree that stood in his vision kept getting taller and grander as he fell. At that moment, he looked down and saw a giant tree branch on the way down. The others who had jumped before him were landing on the branch and following the father, running along it.

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Thud!

Blanco landed on the tree branch and ran along it, passing a few of the others running in front of him until he got close enough to see where the father creature was.

After Blanco landed on the tree branch, the little creature and the fatty one, who had followed behind him without his knowing, also landed on the branch and continued to run behind him. As Blanco passed a few others running in front of him, they fell behind him.

Blanco ran alongside the others along the branch, gazing at the father creature running ahead. The father creature was a bit far from him. Suddenly, he saw the father jump from the branch to another branch, and the others followed him, jumping onto it as well.

Getting closer to the new branch, Blanco also jumped onto it and followed the others.

From the branch they landed on, they moved to another tree. Holding onto the tree, they climbed to the top and ran along another branch, then leapt to yet another tree. Running around that tree, the father creature guided the others down the trunk to the ground. After jumping down to the ground, he ran to a giant bush and jumped into it, hiding.

All the others, ten or fifteen in number, also ran inside the bush and hid secretly.

The giant bush is large, and even with all of the creatures inside it, there is more than enough space for them to move freely. However, none of them moved as they watched the father's movements.

"What's he doing?" Blanco observed his father. The father creature is peeking through the leaves in the bush to an area that has a few tree nuts fallen down. As he waited silently for a few minutes, from a tree, a squirrel-like creature moved down and ran toward one of the nuts on the ground.

Even though the creature looks like a squirrel, it has large ears akin to a bunny and fur colour akin to a mud.

"Oh, a prey! Is he going to catch it?" Blanco exclaimed, expecting his father to catch the squirrel-like creature in one bite. The squirrel creature is much smaller than their father's own, so his thought is not wrong. However, the father creature did not act as he expected.

The squirrel creature picked up the nut from the ground and began to eat it. It enjoyed its meal without a care in the world about the other things happening around it.

"Why isn't he attacking it? That's the perfect timing," Blanco said impatiently, looking at the scene.

The squirrel creature ate the whole nut it was eating and grabbed another one, putting it inside its mouth. Then, it quickly ran toward the tree it came down from and climbed up it.

After it disappeared, the father creature still stayed still without a sound. But the newborns around him were getting impatient, and some were trying to leave the bush.

Graa!

The father creature emitted a tiny sound, which quieted down the angry emotions of the newborns and made them behave again. Just then, the squirrel-like creature that had gone up in the tree came down again, and following it, a bunch of similar creatures came down this time. They ran around the ground to grab hold of nuts fallen from the tree and to eat them.