【The Rise of the Ugly Monster】 The Rampage of His Brothers and Sisters

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(I-I'm so hungry...)

Now then, a few days later.

He was panting from hunger.

His head was spinning, and he couldn't move his wings or his legs.

That's right, "wings".

Right now, instead of arms, he has wings.

In other words, it seems he is... not human.

It seems he has become a tiny, tiny baby bird.

"N'eh, n'eh"

"N'EEEEEH!"

"N'EEEEEH... N'eh!"

Because right now, he is in a nest made by combining tree branches.

And around him, there are multiple baby birds making strange groans just like him.

Ah, so I've become a bird too, he thought.

It didn't take long for him to realize that.

When he realized it, he panicked again and thrashed about.

Fortunately... this bird's nest built by that "crow-like" presumed mother bird was sturdy despite being just combined twigs, and it wouldn't break just from a chick thrashing about.

Though he did get extremely annoyed looks from his brothers and sisters around him.

By the way, he initially thought that giant bird, presumed to be the mother bird, was a crow, but recently he's started to doubt if that's the truth.

After all, that mother bird is abnormally huge.

It's true that he's become a chick and his sense of size is different from his human days, but... even so, it's huge.

It's probably about the size of a large dog.

Also, the feathers of his brothers and sisters have recently started to grow out... and they are quite colorful, being red or green.

That too might be proof that he, his siblings, and that mother bird are not crows...

Or so.

He was pondering at length to distract himself from his hunger... when it happened.

"N'EEEEEH!"

Suddenly... one of his brothers and sisters, a baby bird with red feathers, breathed a small puff of fire into the air.

"N'EEEEEH!?"

(Hieeeeh!? I-I thought we might not be crows, but we aren't even proper living creatures!? Am I a monster!?)

An unknown phenomenon that occurred suddenly right in front of him without any context!

He opened his mouth wide and let out a scream!

Come to think of it, when he himself hatched from the egg, he was immediately perceiving the outside world with perfect vision.

Normally, baby birds have their eyes closed when they are just born, don't they?

In other words, as expected, it's hard to call them just birds... they are creatures in a monster-like position...

The life he is living right now, or rather, this bird-life, is.

Is it what they commonly call Isekai Reincarnation?

Realizing this fact now, he was dismayed and trembled.

His thoughts were in the midst of confusion.

He couldn't get his thoughts together.

However, the situation around him progressed without waiting for him to calm down!

"N'eh! N'eh!"

"N'EEEEEH!"

To his surprise, the baby birds other than the red one who breathed fire got excited by the flames breathed by the red baby bird... and started to imitate it!

"N'EEEEEH!"

The yellow baby bird started to emit crackling electricity!

"N'EEEEEH!"

The white baby bird shot beams of light from its mouth!

"N'EEEEEH!"

The light blue baby bird started to float water balls around it!

Everyone is going wild!

Receiving the aftermath, their nest is gradually fraying, and the twigs that make it up are starting to fall apart...

(S-Stop ittt!? The nest is going to breakkk!?)

He was frightened by his brothers' and sisters' thoughtless rampage, and trembled violently in the corner of the nest.

All he could do was tremble.

Now, by the way.

Having a physiological disgust for the appearance of crows, and furthermore, having brought his senses from his human days into this life... he just couldn't accept the feeding behavior from the presumed mother bird.

Seeing his brothers and sisters opening their mouths wide while screaming strangely, and having the mush vomited up by their mother poured into them, he felt an inescapable sense of disgust.

That's why, no matter how much the mother bird urged him, he didn't try to eat the food proactively.

...Occasionally, the mother bird would skillfully use her beak to forcibly pry his mouth open and pour the mush in, so he barely managed to not die, though.

That is exactly why his body... was overwhelmingly undeveloped compared to his brothers and sisters.

His feathers still hadn't grown, and his pink skin was visible.

His body was also very small.

Furthermore, due to hunger, he couldn't move satisfactorily.

Therefore, he couldn't possibly stop the barbaric acts of his brothers and sisters... and was left to simply tremble and wait for the fatal "ruin".

"N'EEEEEH!"

The one who pulled the trigger for that ruin was a green-colored... particularly large baby bird.

That guy, imitating the brothers and sisters, let out a cry... and generated a fierce gust of wind centered on itself!

It was the individual that had eaten the most food out of everyone, and it probably had an excess of power.

The gust of wind it whipped up was simply an expression of life energy.

Consideration for anyone else was completely absent from the green baby bird's mind from the start...

""""N'EEEEEH!?""""

As a result, the sturdy dwelling that had continued to protect the baby birds from external enemies until now... was blown away from the inside, and ended up collapsing!

(H-H-H-Helpppp!?)

He screamed while spinning round and round in the air!

Thrown out of the nest built on the branches of a giant tree, he fell helplessly towards the ground...

"N'eh!?"

"N'EEEEEH!"

However, his brothers and sisters were different.

At first, they were screaming, but they quickly braced themselves and started flapping their wings.

What crossed their minds was the majestic figure of the great black bird.

Imitating the flying form of their beloved mother bird, they grasped the wind in the blink of an eye!

"N'EEEEEH!"

"N'EEEEEH!"

"N'EEEEEH!"

While wrapping their entire bodies in fire.

Or, while continuing to emit crackling electricity.

Or, while enveloped in a sacred light...

The baby birds began to flap their wings powerfully!

Towards... their future!

"N'EEEEEEH!?"

Of course, that was the story of the baby birds, excluding him.

Without his feathers fully grown, he gazed dumbfounded at the backs of his brothers and sisters flying away leisurely.

Just, simply.

He fell towards the ground.

【Monster】

In the other world Ardyst, "monsters" are defined as "creatures that bring disadvantages to humans", but the "monster" he refers to generally means "creatures with mysterious abilities or ecology".