Help! I changed the gender of the male protagonist in the yandere game.

Chapter 191 Dream Barrier
The ghost skeleton was bound by light spikes, and sixty-four chains were released again, this time connecting the chains with the light spikes.

The corpse of the great demon inside the mountain was gradually bound by snake-like chains, and after the curse-reversal barrier shattered, it seemed to have lost its power to resist.

"Give up, Demon Princess..."

The crimson dragon's golden pupils were flashing with an eerie light, and its head uttered human words.

"You have absolutely no chance of winning against us. Just obediently submit and be sealed inside this precious pearl, shall you?"

The patterns of the sixty-four hexagrams appeared in the pearl held in the dragon's claws. At the same time, the sixty-four chains that emitted light began to tighten, and the light rings rubbed against each other, making a clanging sound.

This is the Dragon Clan's secret technique, "Eighty-Eight Sixty-Four Binding and Sealing Mirror," which originally used chains of light generated by the technique to seal and bind enemies.

The only drawback, like the "Ultimate Breath," is that it consumes too much of the user's demonic energy.

Even a dragon with an unusually high amount of demonic energy cannot unleash its power at will.

'With my current strength, I can only activate it twice more at most, right?'

However, the Demon Princess was nothing but a skeleton, with little remaining power.

According to the master's calculations, the ghost skeleton left behind by the "Heavenly Prison Sin Prison Four Thoughts Reversed Ghost Princess" after her death would only end up being sealed in a precious pearl.

Unfortunately, things weren't that simple.

"what?"

The red dragon roared, and the chains of light shattered once more.

...The distortion occurred.

Everything around them began to change, becoming unreal and surreal. The mountain that should have been blown up by the nuclear fusion breath seemed to have been restored. Countless surrounding substances churned, as if time had reversed, and everything returned to what it was just a few minutes earlier.

The entire snow-capped mountain has returned to its original state.

This is truly unbelievable; it seems as if time has really gone backward.

On the other side, almost no one noticed, but Hyakusuke's figure, who was nearby, also mysteriously disappeared after this distortion occurred.

"...Alas, even this last bit of remnant can distort this space and create a world somewhere between illusion and reality?"

The young man on the red dragon head squinted his eyes.

This was definitely an extraordinary method. Although he knew that the Ghost Princess, one of the five great demon kings, did indeed possess the power to distort illusion and reality.

This is a power that can briefly distort the material world, causing dreams to overflow into reality. This also makes the Demon Princess the most difficult to kill among the five great demon kings.

"Although I feel that even if Oni-hime were at her peak, I could easily defeat her, but taking down this guy would be a bit troublesome..."

As he flipped through the book in his hands, he muttered to himself, "If they're the kind who're good at head-on confrontation, they're easy to deal with. But if this kind of enemy likes to play tricks and is also good at running away, then things get complicated."

Are all young people these days so arrogant?

Suddenly, someone responded to his muttering. It wasn't a hallucination; it was a real voice.

He turned around and saw a young girl appear in the air. She was dressed in a dazzling coat similar to that of an ancient female servant, with two horns on her head, barefoot, looking down at the red dragon and its master with an eerie light in her eyes.

"...Even if I were at my peak, could I win? That's a really presumptuous judgment..."

The girl is likely a spirit or a being; she is not human, but rather a legendary great demon king.

However, this great demon king should have died long ago, and what exists here now is just a fragment of his soul remaining on a skeleton.

“Even the Four Saints of yesteryear,” she chuckled, “would probably not be so arrogant as to utter such a boastful claim of certain victory. Or perhaps, have you truly witnessed my prime?”

The Demon Princess's demeanor was as arrogant as a queen.

It was, after all, a powerful demon king, a formidable being who had once stirred up chaos among humans and demons. Its gaze moved straight toward the young man.

"Who are you?"

From a distance, the Ghost Princess looked on with a curious expression and asked the question with a leisurely air.

"presumptuous."

The red dragon let out a low shout.

"Oni Princess... This is not something you can inquire about."

It imbued its voice with a spell, intending to make the demon princess retreat.

"hehe."

The Ghost Princess chuckled softly and flew slowly forward. Words of power had no effect on her. She moved forward slowly, approaching the location of the Crimson Dragon.

In an instant, the crimson dragon felt a certain pressure. It could keenly perceive that everything around it, whether it was the composition of the atmosphere or physical spacetime, was shrouded by a force that twisted illusion and reality.

Dragon's golden pupils looked at the other, and a cold light surged from the depths of Oni Princess's eyes, her whole body surrounded by emerald green ghost flames.

There were nearly thirty-six will-o'-the-wisps surrounding her. These flames, flickering in the air, seemed to contain something twisting and writhing inside them, some resembling human figures, others like yokai.

In addition, there are dragon-like forms.

'As expected.'

The crimson dragon also felt a certain unease within itself.

'Among those harmed by this creature are also our own kind.'

It is said that the Demon Princess was once extremely fierce. Even powerful demons and exorcists, as well as dragons and fellow demons, were sealed away by her power to capture their minds and enslave their souls in dreams, turning them into nightmare-like clones.

—Thirty-two Ghost God Soldiers.

This is the Nightmare Army that has long protected the Demon Princess. In any case, right now, the Demon Princess is leading a royal army of phosphorescent flames as she flies in—

'Hehehe, little guy, are you scared?'

The Demon Princess looked at the crimson dragon and smiled with a smirk.

Her eyes harbored a powerful demonic aura. Eyes that became "demonic eyes" possessed the power to bewitch people with words and amplify even the slightest doubt to its extreme.

In past legends and stories, anyone who harbored even the slightest suspicion upon hearing the words of the Demon Princess had already fallen into her trap.

Not to mention its ability to weave dreams and bewitch people.

not good!

Although the crimson dragon was somewhat prepared, it still sensed how much the Demon Eye had affected it.

No, it's also possible that past hearings about this great demon king's name and its past actions caused some unease. Having some lingering doubts in their hearts made them susceptible to the demon's eye.

"boring."

Just then, the young man standing at the dragon's head spoke in a calm voice, which contained the power to break through the Demon Eye.

"Don't mess with other people's subordinates. Also, don't try to act tough when you're an old thing whose original body has been destroyed."

The young man sighed and closed the book. He raised his chin and stared intently at the ghost princess.

"The remnants of the old era, no matter how much they struggle, are nothing more than moths drawn to a flame before me."

He wove words together, then shook his head helplessly.

"Of course, dealing with scum like you will be somewhat troublesome, but... for me, it's just a matter of flicking away a spark."

As he said this, he slowly extended his other hand, the one that wasn't holding the book.

A tremendous amount of spiritual power overflowed from his body, causing the surrounding atmosphere to distort and the sky to tremble violently.

Even the ground was affected, with sand and rocks trembling.

Centered on this young man, an excessively strong spiritual energy emanated from the area. Suddenly, the clear sky overhead gradually became overcast, and a howling wind arose, as if the intensity of the spiritual energy could even influence celestial phenomena. ...

"What...what happened?"

Bai Jie's eyes widened.

Suddenly, he found that everything around him was distorted.

Then, the scene changes, just like what happens when you enter a dream, and everything around you changes.

The red dragon that had unexpectedly appeared in the sky vanished without a trace.

The sky also turned pitch black. After observing it, he confirmed that it was sealed off by a layer of pitch-black barrier-like substance.

This was a huge, hemispherical barrier that covered the entire space.

"Forget it, now is not the time to think about these things."

Now that the threat of the red dragon no longer existed, he immediately set off, moving towards the deep pit inside the mountain.

"Saving lives is the priority."

Sensing the aura of the Yue Jialuo sisters, Bai Jie flew in that direction. At that moment, it was as if a bolt of lightning struck down from the sky, sending him flying.

Clang!
In an instant, a deafening roar resounded in all directions.

Bai Jie coughed up blood in mid-air and was struck by a tremendous force, flying diagonally downwards.

He crashed into towering trees and hillsides, landing on a patch of snow.

"Who are you?"

Bai Jie struggled to get up from the ground.

At first, he thought he had been attacked by Zenzang, who had awakened.

Because the other party was also wearing a suit of armor, however, when he saw the other party's appearance and that pitch-black armor, his face froze.

"This... is impossible!"

His face was filled with astonishment, and he felt a clear wavering in the face of this strange yet familiar enemy.

"You... are 'me'?"

It was a pitch-black alien exuding a ferocious aura, with five fingers and giant wings like bat wings growing from its back, and a humanoid form with blood vessel-like bright red patterns flowing on its cold black armor.

This pitch-black alien hovered majestically in mid-air, its entire body covered by an armor-like exoskeleton, and it held a long and large "spear" in its hand.

It was a gigantic spear that exceeded the alien's length, with a pitch-black shaft and a burning black flame at the tip, radiating an evil light.

The next instant, the huge black spear blasted towards his direction, and in an instant, dark light radiated outwards, bursting towards him like a missile.

Damn!

Hyakusuke finally understood the situation he was in.

—This is the dream world.

I was dragged into the alternate dimension of the dream while still in my physical body.

……

Let's rewind the clock a little bit.

Inside the massive mountain where the demon's skeleton resided, the fox spirit Zhu Ling launched a surprise attack.

The Stone Demon Earthworm successfully launched a sneak attack—or rather, Zhu Ling, using her predictions of the future to ensure there were no problems, seized the opportunity to launch her own offensive.

This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity…

Through the power of the yokai "Jian," which can predict the future, she observed multiple future outcomes and confirmed the best time.

The demon princess who remains inside this mountain will not interfere with her actions;

No one else would get in the way, and after confirming more than seventy times, she swiftly launched her sneak attack.

Once Yuejialuo Yeming is swallowed by the Stone Demon Earthworm, its ability to move will be sealed by countless tentacles and paralyzing poison.

Although this little girl has resistance to poison due to her super-level spiritual power, the paralysis effect will render her unable to move.

'We can't kill her directly; she could easily undergo some kind of change when she's on the verge of death...'

Yes or no, she had been reminded.

Although her goal was to kill this little girl, one reason she didn't take proactive action was that she knew very well how difficult Yue Jialuo Yeming was to kill.

'By attacking her, temporarily poisoning and paralyzing her, or by using other methods to gradually weaken her movements, this is the first step in killing her.'

Youye and Wuye told her the steps to kill Yuejialuo Yeming.

She and the stone demon earthworm caught each other, then once again burrowed into the earth and escaped.

"I don't really want to kill her right now, but this girl named Yue Jialuo Yeming is indeed a threat to me."

The other party's "Eye of Heavenly Awareness" has a restraining effect on me, and considering her mission, if possible, it would be best to obtain this little girl's heart or brain so that I can go back and report.

Just then, she felt a slight jolt in her heart and sensed an ominous premonition.

No...that's not right! That's right, the premonition of "the matter" made her feel a life-or-death crisis, and she immediately issued a command, and the earth began to churn.

With a deep, booming sound, the ground was torn open, creating a large hole. At the same time, the Stone Demon Earthworm pulled her out of the earth.

In the next instant, the earthworm's abdomen exploded.

Something pierced through, dragging green, demonic blood, and flew out of it.

"How annoying."

The moonlit night fell to the ground, and a rare rage appeared in her eyes.

"It was slimy, and there were many wriggling creatures that reminded me of earthworms... and there were toxins that could paralyze people. I was really angry this time."

She drew her family's heirloom sword from both hands.

……How can it be?

The fox spirit Zhu Ling was also shocked.

She couldn't understand how Yue Jialuo Yeming had managed to break free from the "shackles" of the earthworm.

'However, it was still very close... If the earthworm had been blown up underground, I would have been trapped deep underground, and there would have been no chance of escaping anytime soon.'

If the Stone Demon Earthworm is severely injured or killed, she will lose her demon powers for a short period of time.

As the most perfect experimental subject in the "artificial monster" project, the fox girl Zhu Ling can combine the powers of multiple monsters, but these monsters have also developed a symbiotic relationship with her.

The earthworm's body was severely damaged, and it could indeed recover through a symbiotic relationship of "life sharing," but that would take time.

"never mind."

Zhu Ling sighed inwardly.

“This little girl is really troublesome, but now is indeed a good opportunity. The opportunity that Ye Wuye mentioned really exists... Moreover, this time I also have the statue of ‘Prince Gui Lu’.”

—The odds of winning are at least there.

As she pondered in secret, her entire body seemed to burn, transforming into the state of "Shiranui".

(End of this chapter)