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

Chapter 196 Wen Luo
"It's troublesome."

Snow Demon Princess muttered to herself.

"Even this time, I still can't defeat this guy?"

"What do you mean?"

Bai Jie never expected her to say such a thing.

This being is, after all, a deity; surely it can handle something like this.

"There's no way around it, it's essentially a part of yourself."

Princess Yukiyasha said helplessly, "Especially when 'he' is transferred into your dream, it's like a nightmare."

In the dream, I can easily defeat 'him' with divine power, but this power will also be reflected back onto you..."

"Mirroring?"

Bai Jie looked puzzled.

"You can think of it as some kind of backlash."

Princess Yukiyasha sighed: "It's like a reflection of yourself in a mirror. When I destroy this guy, the mirror will also be destroyed, and you will suffer a heavy blow as a result. It's a wound to the soul, which cannot be healed by the mermaid's grace alone."

"A wound to the soul?"

Hyakusuke also frowned.

"No, that's not the point... The problem now is how to deal with this guy."

"no way."

Snow Demon sighed softly: "For now, we can only seal 'him' for the time being... This whole thing happened because of me, so don't worry, I'll find a way to handle it properly later."

"Is there really a way to solve this?"

He quickly pressed for more information.

"No problem, and you can complain afterwards."

Yukiyasha-hime shrugged, readily admitting her mistake.

"No, I won't complain to the gods..."

Bai Jie could only roll his eyes.

"You're just complaining now, never mind..."

She shook her head helplessly.

"Fortunately, this is a world woven from dreams, or rather, a layer between dreams and reality. If we were in reality, this would be an extremely troublesome situation, but here—"

Princess Yukiyasha waved her hand gently.

"You could say this is my home turf."

Her towering, female body emanated a vast divine aura, along with a misty white current.

—That's a mirage.

Hyakusuke knew very well that Yukiyasha-hime was a dragon, and a superior mirage dragon at that.

She also has the ability to manipulate illusions and dreams, but she tends to manipulate "illusions" rather than "dreams".

However, the power of this deity can be trusted.

'However, she's unreliable sometimes, and besides, I guess she's the reason I got corrupted by ghostly energy and ended up like this?'

A massive fog instantly engulfed everything around them. Yukiyasha-hime had clearly unleashed some kind of power, a power that swallowed the scenery and distorted the ground beneath her feet—

Swish!
It was as if a toggle button had been pressed; the scenery began to distort, and then the fog dissipated as if from a dream. A wind carrying the smell of rust blew in; it was a very rough wind, mixed with a lot of sand and gravel.

As the wind blew against his cheeks, Hyakusuke immediately felt a familiar sensation.

"……No way?"

Could it be that--

"That's right, there's no need to doubt it."

Princess Yukiyasha laughed.

Just as you imagined...

She replied directly, "If this guy is your 'nightmare,' then to fight him, let another dream fight him."

Bai Jie understood what he meant.

He knew this was a dream about the battlefield, and also a dream about the turmoil between humans and demons 150 years ago. The surrounding scenery began to become clearer, and the battlefield, covered with dark brown, dried bloodstains, gradually emerged.

This was a land filled with the stench of blood and rust, littered with the corpses of humans and monsters. The pitch-black alien sensed something in that instant. "He" was exceptionally perceptive, so how could he not sense the killing intent that encompassed this vast land?

call out!
The heavy spear was swung out, a thrust as swift as lightning.

Although the dark alien leaped up to dodge the spearhead aimed at it, it was struck in the heart by the thrown dagger and fell from the sky.

"...Gun Saint?"

Baijie murmured.

He saw the figure of the spear master, clad in armor and wielding a long spear.

The opponent first thrust out with a spear, then simultaneously threw the wakizashi (a type of Japanese sword) from its waist, piercing the heart of the dark alien.

However, this was not a fatal blow to the dark alien, or "he". He fell to the ground and immediately landed on all fours, moving backward like a wild beast.

The spear tip moved again; the first strike missed.

Then came the second and third strikes. The incredibly sharp spear blade moved with lightning speed.

The dark alien only managed to dodge the seventh strike. By the eighth strike, the spear blade struck like a bombardment, sending its head flying.

After losing its head, the dark monster collapsed to its knees.

Black smoke billowed from his entire body, and even the severed part of his head began to regenerate.

"In this dream, rebirth can happen continuously and repeatedly."

Yukiyasha-hime said calmly, "No matter what this guy's true nature is, he can't possibly fight against the Gun Saint or the power of this battlefield here. By taking advantage of the special nature of this continuously occurring Battlefield Dream, we can indeed temporarily seal this guy away."

"temporary?"

“Yes, although Hiiragi Hiruko told you before that a cleansing ritual could solve the problem of ‘him’, I don’t think it’s very likely… Even with Mahora’s help, it’s impossible to get rid of this thing easily.”

Princess Yukiyasha sighed softly: "After all, this trouble is caused by the erosion of demonic energy, and this power has far exceeded my expectations in recent times. It has combined with your body and soul. Has something unusual happened to you? Normally, this phenomenon would not occur in less than ten, twenty, or even longer years—"

She went on to add further explanation.

Princess Yukiyasha knew that demonic energy could corrupt the human body, but it was not a simple matter.

Ordinary people like Hyakusuke, even if they are corrupted by the energy of ghosts and spirits, will not be affected in a short period of time.

"After all, you have the grace of the mermaids. Generally speaking, you won't have any problems no matter how much you mess around for at least ten years."

Yukiyasha-hime added, "It is precisely because I had this judgment in advance that I felt this power was more suitable for you now... because it is very likely that in ten years you will no longer need Omaru, nor will you need this power."

Hyakusuke thought to himself, "That's certainly true."

If the crisis of the "Vortex of the Underworld" can be resolved in seven years, he will no longer need to continue fighting.

Bai Jie doesn't like this kind of life of constant fighting and death. He is the kind of person who is content with the status quo and would choose to live a peaceful life if he could.

"Unless something went wrong, this shouldn't have happened."

Yukiyasha-hime turned her head and glanced at him.

"...Something did happen."

Bai Jie looked hesitant.

He figured it must be the trouble caused by the fox spirit Zhu Ling.

—It must have been some kind of result caused by the pill that was fed to him.

"What exactly is the source of this ghostly aura?"

Hyakusuke hadn't originally planned to ask, but at this moment, he made up his mind and felt it was necessary to find out about this from Yukiyasha-hime.

"That's a good question."

Upon hearing his question, Yukiyasha-hime gave a wry smile.

"However, that is something I cannot fully understand either, because it is originally a power from the outside world... The so-called 'Heavenly Demon Demon God's Karma' is a power that does not belong to this world. There is a saying that it comes from outside the heavens, and the one who brought this power here was Prince Wenluo, who established the Ghost City in the ancient Kibi Kingdom in the past."

"Ghost King... Wen Luo."

Bai Jie had naturally heard of this name.

In the folk tale of Momotaro from the island nation, Momotaro once used mochi peaches to recruit three generals: a white dog, a monkey, and a pheasant. He then led these three animals to Oni Island and defeated the demons who lived there.

However, behind this story lies the legend of Kibitsuhiko's campaign against Prince Onra.

(End of this chapter)