Total Adaptation - War & Evolution

'Interesting, let's eat this immediate--'

Aaaaaaarghh--

[Memories are being forced in by instinct. Deemed necessary for survival.]

.... ....

"Thanks for the food, mother."

"No problem son, and now you've been poisoned and need to go kill a slither-x3-type viper from the amazons and extract his blood among a bunch of other ingredients and concoct an antidote within the week, or you're dead."

"What?! How can you do this to me, mom..."

"This is all training son. Hear this Law: The unknown is your worst enemy. In order to deal with it, follow 5 steps. Observation, Analysis, Hypothesis, Experimentation, and Conclusion. If you can't, either destroy it or never approach it again."

.... ....

I see... Yes, I have been careless. I will need to be more careful, and this darkness all around is not helping...

But, I can feel this is a round and soft object, not unlike all the food I've been eating this whole time...

'Uh, was there any...'

[Reaction.]

'Yes! Was there any reaction from the other object?'

[Negative.]

I imagine it must just be bigger food then. This is slightly dangerous, but I have no other means to make sure and my lifespan is running out. This will have to serve as a lesson for the next time something like this happens again.

'Alright, eat!'

[Understood. Beginning...

Error. Object too big to eat with your current size. Please find a solution or abort.]

'What?!'

.... ....

This feeling is... disappointment? Ah, I see.

'However, I feel like I know a way to solve this issue, and it should be a broad term, it's somewhere in my foggy memories... About reactions and objects...'

[Physics.]

'That! Hmmm... I feel like something related to that word can help me eat this object.]

[Term is too broad. Find specifics.]

'Let me think... Physics... I am a liquid. Liquids can...spread...'

'Spread...'

.... ....

'... Surround...'

.... ....

'... yes, so I can... Engulf?'

[Term found. Beginning analysis on the current issue...

Solution: Found! Beginning process.]

[Started eating. Time until completion: 2 h.]

'Yes! Perfect, thanks to you I won't overwork myself and still have the answers I need. Good job... uh... What should I call you anyway?'

[...]

'I'll take it as you giving me...'

[Free choice.]

'Yeah. Alright, you're always helping me so I will call you Minis, from Minister. Although now that I think about it, what does that even mean?'

[...]

Well... it doesn't matter. I now cannot... move because I'm eating... and while eating I also always notice my... thoughts become so... slow.

Let's just eat.

.... ....

.... ....

[Process is over.

This object will now be identified as food and classified under the 'minuscule' size. Many nutrients have been absorbed, and rest is now required.

New stats are being calculated.]

Ahh, I can feel what you mean by rest is needed, I can feel it too.

As much as I don't want to sleep without guaranteed safety, I have no choice...

Let's just sleep.