[...wasn’t a specific choice, but King understands.]

So, yeah, the alligator and the bird becomes friends, but after so long of not eating, the alligator ends up accidentally eating his friend. He manages to...get him out of his stomach, but it’s too late. The bird is already dead. The alligator is so sad that he ends up drowning in his own tears. But those tears end up making a beautiful lake, and the other animals come there to enjoy it, even if they don’t know he died to make it.

It...gives a sort of “Beautiful Tragedy” vibe, if that’s a thing. Giving him a legacy, even if no one really knows it. I kind of like it.

Are you sure you don’t want it?

[He again holds it out for Minato to take it, if he wants it.]