The Beloved Little Glutton Is a Mecha Prodigy

[Coming soon: The Beloved Little Octopus Wants to Cuddle with Its Tentacles. Please add it to your reading list!]

After transmigrating to a garbage planet, He Xingyao only wants to get into military academy.

In his previous life, he reached the pinnacle of martial arts and lived in loneliness. In this new world, mechs are everywhere and talent abounds. To him, it's a brand-new arena.

As for why he's always hungry? He'll just win some food while he's at it.

*

This year's entrance exam for the Federal Military Academy is at an unprecedented level of difficulty, and the competition is fierce.

The heirs of wealthy conglomerates and research prodigies gather, then are dropped into a forest of alien beasts to survive in the wild.

On the forums, arguments over who will rank first among the new students rack up tens of thousands of posts.

But when the scores close, an unknown candidate's ranking skyrockets, putting him in first place by a mile.

[Rank 1: He Xingyao, 888 points]

Everyone: Where did this guy come from? I've never even heard of him.

The livestream camera swings around to reveal a short boy in tattered clothes, busily cutting up meat beside a boiling iron pot.

Aah, stop!

That's an A-rank beast, worth a fortune! How can you just eat it like that!

*

The Federal Military Academy has a new demon king.

Arrogant and reckless, he's also absurdly powerful, knocking out one weakling after another with a single punch. The forums are full of posts about him.

[So-and-so kills beasts without batting an eye, then tears their bodies to pieces.]

He Xingyao says nothing, squatting on the ground and stuffing his face.

[So-and-so is so arrogant. A senior challenges him and even reaches out, but he ignores him completely.]

He Xingyao lowers his head and shovels food into his mouth.

[Breaking! So-and-so has entered the military academy league. Let's see the seniors teach him a lesson.]

Countless lurkers emerge to mock He Xingyao for overestimating himself.

A few days later, the original poster sheepishly returns to close the thread.

[How did he win first place so easily? He's a demon king! Everyone, run for your lives! Someone showed him the posts!]

He Xingyao hugs a pile of rare treasures and looks up in confusion, his cheeks so full that his face has gone round as he chews and chews.

Just who is this demon king they're talking about?

Ah, never mind. What's done is done. Time to eat.

*

After a thousand years of fighting the Zerg, humanity evolved. Those with strong mental power could revert to their ancestral forms and awaken the bloodlines of ancient times.

The Taotie bloodline carries a savage, primordial aura and can devour any form of energy. It is unquestionably a divine bloodline.

Its only drawback is that those who awaken it have difficulty bearing offspring.

Hundreds of years passed without a single cub being born into the clan. After the last young Taotie reached adulthood, the clan members found the world dull and fell into slumber one after another.

Kailuos, the Taotie clan's last leader and a notorious tyrant on the battlefield, was also slowly approaching destruction after enduring a long, lonely existence.

Just as he despaired of his clan's future, a weak, young mental power resonated with his across a vast distance.

Through their resonance, he saw a small face much like his own.

Damn it, who let his precious little Taotie get so malnourished?

His fierce desire to protect the cub reaches the sleeping clan members.

That day, the entire Taotie clan awakens and heads for the Federal Military Academy, fierce and overbearing, blotting out the sky.

The Federal Star activates its highest-level alert. Before the commander can issue a warning, the Taotie clan's deafening roar shakes the air.

“Return our clan's cub!”

Meanwhile, He Xingyao, head down and gnawing on a prominent figure's private spirit-stone mine, sneezes several times.

Who's cursing him?

His food doesn't even taste good anymore.

Reader's Notes:

1. The protagonist is the strongest in the whole story and is doted on by everyone.

2. A coming-of-age story.

3. One-on-one romance, both leads' first love. The sweethearts only love each other. No breaking them up, swapping roles, self-insert fantasies, or anything of the sort.

Coming soon: The Beloved Little Octopus Wants to Cuddle with Its Tentacles

The little octopus Xing Ran accidentally falls into another world.

The country here assigns him a job: raising humans.

It's hard work.

He has to eat a mountain of snacks, because humans get fat when they sneak food.

He needs a whole room full of stuffed toys, because humans get lonely without friends.

He also has to turn into a baby octopus and play with his human often, because people say humans get depressed without a caretaker to keep them company.

After gaining three whole rounds of weight, needing a human to carry him through video games, and lazing in a golden nest under the sun, Octopus Xing Ran sighs--

Humans are so delicate. Humans are so hard to raise.

*

Ning Youting, leader of the Special Abilities Bureau's action unit, is a cat-type mutant.

He is moody, energetic, and possessive, and he keeps the whole team under his thumb.

The team members are utterly miserable.

Then one day, the demon king suddenly changes.

He becomes even-tempered, starts showing up late and leaving early, and always smells like candy, so sweet it's almost cloying.

This is terrifying. The demon king must be possessed by something strange!

The team members carefully prepare a plan to save their leader and are just about to act.

A pink, springy blob of jelly tumbles from the demon king's pocket, hits the ground, and bounces a mile away.

As they stare in shock, Ning Youting rushes over, picks up the tiny creature, cradles it in his palm, and quickly stuffs it back in his pocket.

He turns around. The big cat fixes them with a death glare and warns them: “Mine. You can't look.”

*

After a blissful spell of lying flat and doing nothing, a high-level anomaly appears.

Ning Youting has a major responsibility to shoulder, and his life hangs in the balance.

Before heading out on his mission, he cradles the little octopus in his palm and kisses it.

“Sweetheart, be good and wait for me at home.”

Xing Ran wraps his tentacles around Ning Youting's fingers and, as clingily as ever, says okay. Then he secretly rolls into the man's pocket to sleep.

The mission is difficult. The action unit is stretched thin and surrounded by anomalies.

Everyone despairs as they're about to be swallowed.

But then a blob of pink jelly falls out.

The soft, adorable little octopus who loves to cling and cry whenever someone pokes him stretches out his tiny tentacles.

A few quick whacks, and he knocks the hideous anomaly flying.

“The human I raise is not for you to bully!”

“How dare you disturb my nap?”

“Are you tired of living?!”

The vicious anomalies look as if they've been struck by lightning, shrinking into a miserable little huddle.

“Great king, please stop hitting us! We were wrong, we were wrong!”

“Waaah, my head's about to get a hole in it!”

Ning Youting: ?

Our bureau's mascot, who's great at acting cute and begging for affection, and always shouts about how happy it is to lie flat, is the King of Anomalies? You're telling me that?

*

[W City Special Abilities Bureau: S-Rank Mutant Creature File]

Name: Xing Ran (Meatball)

Appearance: Pink body, eight springy tentacles, looks like jelly.

Special skills: Keeps eight partners on the hook and dishes out sweet talk.

Hobbies: Eating (only expensive food), playing video games (only if the bureau chief carries him), giving humans presents (passing on the anomalies he's been fed to the bureau chief).

Partner: Human.

Note: The little octopus is well-behaved and obedient, but you may encounter him at snack stalls around the city. Please buy him a few snacks and return him to the W City Special Abilities Bureau. The human he raises is waiting in the office for him to return from hunting.

tips:

1. Shou is the strongest. One-on-one romance, with both lovers devoted to each other and only each other.

2. The little octopus is the strongest in the story. He's adorable, but incredibly powerful.

3. The little octopus is doted on by everyone and is the Special Abilities Bureau's mascot.

4. A sweet, everyday-life story.

Theme: If you like someone, say so.