[Animal World], a live-action survival game streamed from a higher dimension. Its audience is made up of creatures from other worlds, and its players are people on the brink of death. Winners not only get to extend their lives, but also receive gifts from other worlds.
Xiong Yin is one of the chosen players. She can fight and take a beating, and she dares to do whatever it takes. When she entered the game for the first time, she wasn't afraid of a thing, until she discovered one of the game's hidden rules.
Each game has three roles: "animal," "beastfolk," and "ordinary person." Players entering the game are randomly assigned one of them. Ordinary people are the most common, beastfolk are the strongest, and animals... animals are the tastiest [crossed out] cutest.
And Xiong Yin, thanks to her cursed-card buff, draws an animal role card in every game.
Xiong Yin: "..."
Fine.
She opens her slit pupils with an indifferent gaze, flicks her tail coldly, and looks at the players who want to make a snack of her, baring her fangs just a little.
What a joke. You really think that just because I'm an animal, I can't take you out?
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As the games go on, Xiong Yin becomes more and more popular with the audience, and more and more famous among the players. The animals she's been... have also become more and more numerous.
Sometimes she becomes a ferret: small, beautiful, and cute, but with a huge appetite.
A huge appetite and a vicious streak. A born killer, she cuts through zombies more easily than shelling peanuts.
Sometimes she becomes a red panda.
"Oh my god." The dungeon boss standing in front of her clutches their chest, looking as if they're about to melt from cuteness.
Xiong Yin, standing upright with both hands raised: "..."
"Sorry, I'm trying to intimidate you. Could you please show me some respect?"
Now and then, she even becomes a certain incredibly popular, black-and-white, fluffy ball of chub.
Xiong Yin looks at her round body in the mirror, glancing once, then again.
Then she flops right down on the spot and decides to lie flat.
Why bother clearing the game? I'm not doing it! I'm not leaving. I'm staying here and being a giant panda for the rest of my life!
The other players: "...?!"
No, come on, boss, pull yourself together!
If you lie flat, whose coattails are we supposed to ride, boss?!
Blurb dated September 24, 2021, screenshot archived.
Theme: Protecting animals is everyone's responsibility.