  We propose a hybrid inflationary scenario based on eight-flavor hidden QCD
with the hidden colored fermions being in part gauged under $U(1)_{B-L}$. This
hidden QCD is almost scale-invariant, so-called walking, and predicts the light
scalar meson (the walking dilaton) associated with the spontaneous scale
breaking, which develops the Coleman-Weinberg (CW) type potential as the
consequence of the nonperturbative scale anomaly, hence plays the role of an
inflaton of the small-field inflation. The $U(1)_{B-L}$ Higgs is coupled to the
walking dilaton inflaton, which is dynamically induced from the so-called
bosonic seesaw mechanism. We explore the hybrid inflation system involving the
walking dilaton inflaton and the $U(1)_{B-L}$ Higgs as a waterfall field. We
find that observed inflation parameters tightly constrain the $U(1)_{B-L}$
breaking scale as well as the walking dynamical scale to be $\sim 10^9$ GeV and
$\sim 10^{14}$ GeV, respectively, so as to make the waterfall mechanism worked.
The lightest walking pion mass is then predicted to be around 500 GeV.
Phenomenological perspectives including embedding of the dynamical electroweak
scalegenesis and possible impacts on the thermal leptogenesis are also
addressed.
