It opened its eyes on a rainy day. It didn’t have a form or a name—just calling it a shadow would be fitting. When the shadow opened its eyes on a rainy day, it saw its first creature.0

Croak.0

At first, it didn’t understand what the creature was. It didn’t know many things, but it could hear sounds… The sound of rain and croaking was all around it. The rain carried a sweet scent. 0

It instinctively crawled toward the creature in front of it like a snake, although it didn’t even know what a snake was. The creature, which also carried a sweet scent, was unaware that something was approaching. It just looked up at the rain and croaked.0

The shadow opened its mouth and devoured the cute croaking creature.0

Croak! 0

The shadow didn’t have teeth, so the creature wasn’t ripped apart. It just slowly melted in the shadow’s stomach. 0

The rain continued. By the time the creature was mush inside the shadow’s stomach, the shadow realized that it now had front and hind legs. It was stepping on the “ground”, and the area it couldn’t reach was the “sky”. The “rain” connected the sky and the ground. The world became a little clearer in its eyes.0

Feeling alive, it gasped at the sensation of raindrops hitting on its slimy,...0