Awakening the Rat Nature: I’m Really Cowardly Living While Raising Cats

A covert, calculating, money-grubbing, lustful coward—an exceptionally timid superpowered person whose mouse nature has awakened.

A black cat bites to pieces a rat’s head right in front of Li Xiu, crunching with a crisp snap. Then Li Xiu awakens psychic abilities, at the cost of inheriting one-third of a rat’s nature: greedy for money and women, timid, and vengeful.

His abilities can devour souls to level up, let him overhear and spy, and grant photographic memory.

But he shrinks back from everything, calculating over and over until he gives up.

In the basement of a shantytown, a nest of rats has become monsters, organized with clear divisions of labor, and the Rat King has intelligence comparable to a military strategist.

The 249 Bureau comes to him: “Help us out, scout the way?”

Li Xiu lowers his head and looks at the black cat by his feet: “Fine. I’ll use my mouth, it’ll use its claws.”

A protagonist whose power grows but who becomes more and more timid, an arrogant black cat with explosive combat power, and one underground ruin after another.

While others cultivate immortality, I cultivate air-conditioning; while others fight monsters, I pick up the leftovers.