This was a rollercoaster of emotions. I was kind of hoping it'd be a weird bird of some kind, but a deer is fine too. Also, Noko-tan is now a teen mother.
Man, I thought it was going to be a dragon or something, but whatever. I wonder if Toshizō's going to end up as a human-deer like Nokotan or if he's just going to be a regular deer. If it's the former, then that would give us some great insight on the Nokotonian lifecycle and ecology...