(The game becomes reality. The heroine is transported into the game as its adorable beginner's guide, and starts from scratch with the beast tamer she raised in the game.)
The night Guan Ling died suddenly, the game Beast Tamer League was still glowing on her screen. More precisely, it was showing a celebration for the kid she'd raised herself, who had just broken through level 90.
When she opened her eyes again, she had more fur, a higher-pitched voice, and a pair of tiny wings on her back that couldn't even flap.
"Shit..." She tried to swear, but only managed a cute, babyish squeak.
To make matters worse, she was locked up in a place so white it hurt her eyes, with not even a mosquito to talk to. Then, one day, a pitch-black door appeared out of nowhere, and a voice with no emotion drifted through her mind: "Do you agree..."
"Yes, yes, yes!" Guan Ling didn't wait for it to finish. She charged straight through. Who cared if the other side of the door was heaven or hell? Anything was better than rotting away here.
Then she found herself looking into a pair of familiar dark blue eyes.
Guan Ling's pupils dilated in shock. Wasn't this the kid she'd raised in the game until they could solo a BOSS? Never mind that they were only level 1, why had they shrunk into a 14- or 15-year-old girl?
Before she could rub her eyes with her paws to make sure, a crack split open overhead with a sharp snap. A black dragon with red eyes burst out like a mad beast, its breath destroying an entire forest in an instant.
Guan Ling instinctively glanced at the edge of her vision. Hey, there was that familiar beginner protection icon, flashing brightly: [Invincible for one minute].
There was the beginner's bonus!
"Kid, get back!" she shouted, then charged straight at the black dragon, relying on her invincibility buff. She pressed the red button at its center with her paw, and a massive beam of light shot toward the dragon, turning it into an egg in an instant.
Unfortunately, this wasn't really a game world, so there were no dungeons to run. She could only watch as the buff vanished in its final second. Guan Ling landed squarely on the egg and instinctively licked her paw. "Done."
The surroundings fell completely silent. The students, who had only just gotten to their feet, stared open-mouthed at the dragon egg, taller than a person, then at the kitten on top of it, wings trembling and looking as if to say, "That's it?" No one dared make a sound for a long time.
Guan Ling licked her paw, then suddenly remembered something. She looked up and wagged her tail at the dazed "kid." "What are you standing there for? Pick up the egg! Your mom used this trick to teach you how to clear thirty dungeons!"
The 15-year-old "kid": "..."
The onlookers: "..."
The black dragon, who had just been beaten back into an egg: "..." (If eggs could talk, it would probably be swearing up a storm.)
Later, people would say that the legend of the greatest beast tamer began with a divine cat.
Only Guan Ling knew that she'd simply gotten an itch to fight that day. After all, who could resist the joy of beating up a BOSS while invincible for one minute?
Theme: Growing together through companionship and healing