[Genshin Impact + Honkai: Star Rail] I'm a Hunter, and I'm Good at Raising Cats

[Updated diligently every day]

Also known as: "In Teyvat, Playing a Cat-Raising Game"

Qing Lan transmigrated to Teyvat.

A [Cat-Raising Game] appeared in his mind. He couldn't figure out whether this mysterious System counted as his golden finger, but...

The icon for the [Cat-Raising Game] showed an adorable white cat!

White fur + cat = love. Check.

How could anything be wrong with a cat this cute?

Qing Lan let down his guard and prepared to start the [Cat-Raising Game]...

But it wouldn't start.

He'd pressed the start button, but the System panel displayed:

[Game locked. Waiting for the Host to turn twelve before unlocking.]

Qing Lan: ?

Did the [Cat-Raising Game] System have a teen mode too?

It wasn't until Qing Lan turned twelve and got into Sumeru's Akademiya that...

The game finally began.

"I can finally raise a cat!" Qing Lan shouted excitedly in the House of Daena that day.

[Create Character]

Name: __Lan__

[Creation successful. Game started.]

Day one of the game.

His happy cat-raising began. What was this?

Strength stat? Add points!

Weapon? Learn archery!

Day N of the game.

[Congratulations! Your cat character, __Lan__, has evolved! __Lan__ has become the Aeon of the Hunt, "The Hunt."]

Qing Lan, shocked and devastated: No! How did my perfectly good cat character, Lan, end up like this after breaking through?

He'd gone from a little white cat to a centaur Aeon!

No, my cat!

Qing Lan, after taking another look: But he still seems to have white fur? Not bad. Pretty cool.

Okay, I admit it.

Lan the cat is the cutest in the world.

After Lan the cat evolved, the System gained a new feature too:

[Faction Management unlocked]

[Descendants of the Permanence, the Cat-Dragon clan, have applied to join.]

[The Fox-Cat clan is being persecuted by a large pack of Abundance dogs and requests to join the Xianzhou.]

All right, all right, they're all adorable cats.

Join. They can all join!

Qing Lan: Great, there are more cat clans on the Xianzhou now. Check.

Gradually, he accumulated more and more cats: a little white lion cat, a cat-dragon that could spit water, a half-mechanical calico cat...

Outside the game, at the Akademiya.

The white-haired boy Qing Lan held a book of divination in one hand and stared at the crystal ball he'd just used, lost in thought.

Today's divination result: a cat.

And it was a white cat, too.

Qing Lan: ?

Could it be because I like white hair and cats?

He opened his eyes a little wider in puzzlement and studied the result again...

Mm, cute.

A fluffy, adorable little white lion cat.

Very cute, and strangely familiar.

But why could he see the little lion cat general he was raising in the [Cat-Raising Game] in his mind, right there in the divination result?

Meanwhile,

Xianzhou Luofu.

"!" Jing Yuan jolted awake from his doze and looked around in confusion. "Was that a dream? Did I just see the Reignbow Arbiter in the Realm of the Hunt?"

Jing Yuan summoned the Divine Foresight bestowed upon him by the Reignbow Arbiter. His eyes widened, his usual languid air gone in an instant. He sensed...

The Divine Foresight seemed a little stronger than before.

Jing Yuan: !!!

Jing Yuan: He just saw the living Reignbow Arbiter!!!

Then, one day, he suddenly discovered...

Qing Lan: The cats I've been raising are real people?

I might be even stronger than the Heavenly Principles!

Wait!

Am I an Aeon of the Hunt?

Reader's guide:

[Lots of cat-ification and all kinds of adorable cats. Lan is a cat in the early and middle parts of the game, but becomes an Aeon and is no longer a cat later on.]

[OOC, logic optional, and there's a chance HoYoverse will pull the rug out from under me. Don't miss it.]

[My brain's off flying somewhere, so don't bring yours when reading this lore-building.]

[Still building the lore (?).]

Theme: This story is entirely fictional. It's all made-up lore.