[Lighthearted] [Strong Female Lead] [Delusions of Grandeur] [Feel-Good Power Trip]
Banyu is a psychiatric patient.
Her main symptom is believing she's an octopus who cultivated for a full thousand years before taking human form.
Her attending physician's response: "At least that's better than the patients over there who think they're mushrooms, electric fans, or excrement."
Unfortunately, this isn't a good era. After finally crawling ashore and infiltrating human society, all she can do is pick up odd jobs at the very bottom of the ladder.
Even work is full of trouble. She keeps running into perverts, petty thieves, and even quite a few serious criminals. The Federation's leadership is garbage!
So she stuffs the creep who was stalking her coworker into a sack.
Coworker: She definitely helped me! She's such a good person.
She helps the heiress of a prominent family, forced into an arranged marriage, run away from home.
Heiress: I never thought you'd go this far for me... Here's some money. Take it!
She eats every contaminant that keeps bothering her.
Her enemy, watching from the shadows, is stunned: This woman's power is truly terrifying!
Banyu insists, "I'm just a kind octopus. Don't read too much into it."
*
Among the people of the Federation, there is one woman they both love and hate.
Ten years ago, she led her team to three consecutive victories, beating the contaminants into hiding and reclaiming vast stretches of abandoned territory. Her military record was outstanding.
But she was also reckless and brazen, violating seven or eight Federation bans. So the moment the war ended, she was stripped of her position.
One day, a famous reporter suddenly broke the news: the woman had vanished during a hospital explosion.
Only then did the public learn that she had been locked away in a psychiatric hospital all along!
Some thought her achievements were so great that she didn't deserve such a fate.
Others believed she was extremely dangerous and had to be captured.
Public anger boiled over, protests broke out one after another, and the members of parliament were so overwhelmed that they had no choice but to order a search for her.
Her former colleagues all said, "...You'll never catch her."
Only they knew that sending her to a psychiatric hospital wasn't persecution. It was for the sake of her condition!
After going through countless hardships, one of her former underlings finally found her.
Banyu, who had become a "legend of the night" in the slums: "Huh? My crab neighbor can turn into a human too?"
Underling: ...
Reader's Notes:
1. The heroine hasn't lost her memory. She's just ill ()
2. The heroine is the strongest. The male lead barely gets a look-in. This is a feel-good power fantasy, guaranteed to satisfy!
Theme: You have to be strong yourself to forge iron.
