I'm So Ordinary, How Could I Possibly Be the Savior?

Jiang Buci had lost her memory. She was undocumented, penniless, and had nothing to her name.

She was dragged in for a battle-pet awakening and came away with a cat.

In Alliance Year 3214, everyone had the chance to awaken a battle pet. Battle pets could have all sorts of abilities: elemental, physical, spatial, or mental. But Jiang Buci's cat was none of those.

“Your battle pet is a mutant. What can it do?” the person in charge of registration asked her.

Jiang Buci looked down at the cat in her arms. It was meowing.

Jiang Buci hesitated. “It can sleep, eat, and meow.”

“What special abilities does it have?”

“It can meow.”

The person at the registration desk pondered for a moment, then stamped the form: USELESS.

So what if it was useless? Jiang Buci took it in stride. As long as she was alive, that was good enough.

Then the cat in her arms suddenly spoke. “System 1234 greets you.”

They stared at each other. Jiang Buci thought she must have imagined it.

“The world is going to be destroyed, and you're going to die,” said the cat. “Get moving and become a savior.”

Jiang Buci was horrified. “How could I possibly be the savior? I'm just an ordinary person. I can't do anything.”

“Password accepted. Savior System 1234 activated.”

Jiang Buci: ?

In her first battle, Jiang Buci instinctively shot an insect-kin dead with an arrow. She thought her potential had been unleashed.

In her second battle, she accidentally stabbed an insect-kin in a vital spot. She thought she'd just been lucky.

The third time, the fourth time...

Every time, Jiang Buci was convinced she was just an ordinary person.

Then she went to the battlefield and wiped out the insect-kin with a single arrow.

Only then did Jiang Buci realize that she might actually be a little strong.

The people and battle pets she'd beaten up thought to themselves: Is that really all you call a little strong?

[Blurb written May 15, 2023, revised August 10.]

Note 1. The blurb and premise have changed before. I couldn't write the previous version anymore, sob.

2. The cat really has no combat or support abilities. Its ability is to transform into all kinds of breeds: Chinese domestic shorthair, Maine Coon, Ragdoll, silver shaded, golden shaded, British Shorthair, American Shorthair...

3. The cat is ordinary, but the heroine isn't (even though she thinks she's ordinary).

4. The hero is human. I'll mention it in the author's notes when he appears.

Theme: People should be self-reliant and stand on their own feet