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Focus on experiments. Experiments made people happy. Think too much about other things, and it was easy to go bald young.

Hayato carried a cube-shaped fish tank from the cabinet beneath the lab bench. It was 0.5 meters on each side and half-filled with water. Inside was only a small fish as thick as a thumb and five or six centimeters long.

Hayato did not know its exact species. It looked like an alligator gar, with a mouth full of sharp teeth, so he would call it an alligator gar for now.

Hayato took twenty Kikaichū from insect tank No. 3 and placed them in the fish tank.

The alligator gar, which had been leisurely swishing its tail like a retired old official, suddenly froze. Bloodlust flashed in its fish eyes, then it moved like a tightly wound spring, swimming madly and swallowing the Kikaichū one by one.

To save their own lives, the Kikaichū that entered the water desperately paddled their tiny legs.

A closer look revealed that their legs had evolved paddle-like webs.

Five minutes later, only four Kikaichū remained alive. The reason they survived was not because the alligator gar was full, but because they swam faster than the predatory fish.

Hayato scooped up the surviving Kikaichū and put in the next batch.

The alligator gar, which had calmed down, went berserk again, madly chasing the newly released Kikaichū until only those it could not catch remained.

After five cycles of experiments, the alligator gar had eaten Kikaichū several times its own volume, while the number of surviving Kikaichū retrieved reached eighteen. Hayato designated them "Poseidon 020" and placed them in an insect tank for breeding.

``` [Experiment Name] Improving Kikaichū combat capability in aquatic environments (Phase Two).

[Date] February 9, Konoha Year 44

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