Honkai: Star Rail: Reborn as a Giant Beast, Bought Home by Kafka

Lin Xing stayed up all night pulling cards and died suddenly. When he opened his eyes again, he had become a Godzilla hatchling no bigger than a palm. He had just bonded with the Devouring System and had not even had the chance to destroy the world before a black-market dealer shoved him in a cage and sold him as a rare exotic pet.

The one who bought him was Kafka. Holding the cage in one hand and a skewer of barbecue in the other, she grinned at Silver Wolf and asked, “Steamed or grilled?”

Luckily, Lin Xing can evolve at a wild pace by devouring things: eat ore to grow armored scales, gnaw on a Stellaron to breathe atomic fire. Blade takes charge of feeding him, Silver Wolf fights for a chance to rub his tail, and Kafka studies recipes for baby beasts every day. Everyone treats him like the group’s darling. Only Lin Xing is convinced he’s a future calamity.

That is, until the Antimatter Legion surrounds the base. The little beast in Kafka’s arms suddenly opens its golden, slit-pupiled eyes and swallows the Stellaron just before it explodes. Then, on Elio’s script, a sentence that had never appeared before slowly emerges…