Pretending to Be a Spirit Companion to Get Free Food and Drink

Miao Huan is a wild red panda. But after an accident while watching other demons undergo tribulations, she transmigrates to the interstellar era. In this age, humanity has received a gift from the universe: incredibly powerful mental abilities that let people survive in a new environment. But they also suffer from mental instability, violent surges, and collapse. After lying low for several days at the drop site, Eilan Military Academy, Miao Huan finally realizes that the wild beasts she sees everywhere are this place's native mental entities. Looking at the well-fed, muscular beast entities, the little red panda, who has repeatedly failed at hunting, pats her flat belly with a paw and makes a decision that goes against her ancestors: she'll disguise herself as a mental entity and scam people out of food and drink! With her meager spiritual energy, Miao Huan finally zeroes in on the unlucky people who don't have mental entities. Humans whose mental entities have vanished because their mental state is so poor discover that a little critter claiming to be a "ferocious red panda" has latched onto them. "Hello, human! I'm your lost mental entity. I've finally found you, so you're not a wanderer anymore! What? Why am I so small? I got lost when I was little, after all. Don't underestimate me. I'm the ancient ferocious beast known as the red panda. I... I'm really tough!" She can't worry about anything else. One sucker is better than none. Getting a full belly comes first. By chance, Miao Huan runs into a mental outburst. The red panda, who has been struggling to find spiritual energy to cultivate with, discovers she can use mental energy as spiritual energy. So the little red panda stretches out her wicked paws, scamming people for food and drink while secretly siphoning off a bit of her caretakers' mental energy every day. Miao Huan has no idea that, by a twist of fate, her actions are repairing her caretakers' mental abilities. Unfortunately, after Miao Huan spends a while with each caretaker, their original mental entity comes back (in reality, their mental landscape has finished healing). To avoid getting exposed, the little red panda quickly abandons each caretaker. But on the day she finally cultivates herself into human form, she's caught in the firm embrace of a mental entity's enormous tentacle and never manages to escape again. Reader's guide: One-on-one romance, no choosing sides, lighthearted, adored-by-everyone story. The original blurb had been up for too long and I'd lost the inspiration, so I've changed it quite a bit. Romance advance notice: My Ability Is Just to Keep Me From Feeling Uneasy Bu An is an utterly ordinary college student, but she accidentally transmigrates into a high-risk world. Here, might makes right and ability users run rampant. Ordinary people can only pray they don't become collateral damage in their fights. Bu An is extremely uneasy. As a physically weak, fragile college student, even having a stranger walk near her sets off alarm bells in her head. But Bu An is also lucky. She's been here for three months without running into a single ability user! In a world where ability users are everywhere, she boldly guesses that she must have awakened an ability that gives her a lucky bonus. In reality, Bu An did awaken an ability, but it's called [Unease]. Whenever she feels uneasy, her ability activates and heavily nerfs ability users' powers until they're weakened enough to put her at ease. If you aren't harmless enough, then I'll help you become harmless! Ability users discover their powers have stopped working. Victim A, whose ability is [Certain-Kill Sword Formation]: Why has my sword turned into a wooden sword? How am I supposed to catch ghosts? Victim B, whose ability is [Playing the Fool to Catch the Wise]: My ability is conceptual! The more my opponent underestimates me, the stronger my attacks get! Wait, I'm only pretending to be a pig. Why do I actually have to eat pig feed now? Victim C, whose ability is [Wildfire]: Do not disturb. I'm studying how to strike a match. Victim D, whose ability is [Body Enhancement]: Don't take away my three-meter height or my muscles! Wait, you're taking my gender too? Having confiscated the precious abilities of a group of tyrannical ability users, Bu An continues to live an ordinary life, always mindful of danger: "This world is so dangerous. It always makes me feel uneasy." The Victims' Alliance: Aren't we the ones who should really be uneasy? A strange rumor spreads among ability users: If one day you meet a girl who gets scared just by seeing you, you'd better make yourself "harmless." If you make her uneasy, your unease is guaranteed to be greater than hers. Eventually, someone figures out the solution: If you become her teammate and help her fight her other opponents, then even though you're weak, her unease about your strength will make your ability stronger! The victims: Fine, fine, we just have to be her dogs, right? For the sake of my precious ability, give me your orders! Pure romance advance notice: After a Sentinel Second-Differentiates into a Guide Yu Yin is a C-rank Sentinel who's good for nothing but his looks. If he has one special trait, it's that he came from another world. Unlike ordinary people, awakened Sentinels have extraordinary physical abilities and mental powers. With the front lines short on troops, all awakened Sentinels, regardless of rank, are forced to enlist. But what do physically strong Sentinels have to do with Yu Yin? Yu Yin never awakened the part that matters. He's still the fragile college student who collapses after running 800 meters, pants like a fan after climbing six flights of stairs, and gets dizzy when he stands up after sitting too long. Unable to live the laid-back life he wants, Yu Yin is sent to the front lines, where he comes in dead last in every training exercise. Even a banana peel is better at tripping up his opponents, earning him a reputation as the front line's famous pretty-boy Sentinel. While other Sentinels have fearsome beast-type mental entities, Yu Yin's mental entity is a mysterious, neurotic calico cat with an indomitable spirit. From his superior's black panther to his fellow soldier's snow wolf, it gives every one of them an equal-opportunity kitty punch. Unable to earn military merit, Yu Yin gets by on his meager salary and has to clean up after his calico cat. The only way he can make life halfway decent is by clinging to his childhood friend, an S-rank Sentinel. After fainting during training, Yu Yin is taken in for a checkup, where they discover he has Guide genes. "You're awake? Your species has evolved successfully. You've undergone a second differentiation, and you're now an S-rank Guide." S-rank Guides are as precious to the Federation as giant pandas. Their mental powers can regulate and purify Sentinels' mental domains, preventing them from collapsing due to mental instability. After waking up to find himself a first-class protected animal, Yu Yin straightens his back. Ha! Now I can bully those high-ranking Sentinels and step all over them. ᗜ◞ᗜ Yu Yin tells his friend arrogantly, "From now on, you're the one clinging to me." His friend seems stunned, and can only babble things like, "Bro, you smell so good." Later, with a big hand firmly wrapped around his upper thigh, Yu Yin says, "You jerk! That's not the leg I meant!" Theme: Those who don't fit in still deserve to survive.