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

Chapter 210 The Key to Victory
When Hyakusuke woke up again, he found himself sitting in a chair.

To his surprise, he found that he was neither bound nor bound by magic; it seemed that the person who had captured him had simply thrown him onto this ordinary Western-style chair.

"Are you OK?"

Suddenly, a voice rang in my ears.

Bai Jie turned his head and noticed a foreigner dressed in black standing next to him.

"Who are you?"

Bai Jie became alert. He suddenly stood up and grabbed the foreigner by the neck.

He began to exert force with his palm, and the tall foreigner was lifted into the air, letting out a painful groan.

The spiritual energy is enhanced in the hands, making the grip strength comparable to that of pliers.

If Hyakusuke were to get serious, he could easily crush someone's neck.

"Please stop."

Then, another voice rang out.

"He is someone who can help us."

Bai Jie turned around and saw that it was Yue Jialuo Yeming, who was still wearing the same dress as before.

"This is Mr. Hank, he is not a bad person."

Yeming told him, "Although he has been working for the pirates on the island, he has only been coerced."

Does such a person exist?

Hyakusuke doesn't remember such a character in the game, and Yoru's statement is also problematic. He's always been working for pirates, so he can't be considered a good person.

However, he still let go.

"Ouch, that hurts."

After he let go, Hank nearly fell to the ground, clutching his neck with one hand and tears welling in his eyes.

"However, there is a mistake in what you said. I am not working for pirates, I am working for the devil on the island."

He sighed: "Please let me explain first."

—That's even worse!
However, Hyakusuke patiently listened to the other party's explanation.

Hank wasn't lying; he told his story directly.

"In other words, someone summoned a great demon on this island in the past."

After listening, Bai Jie pondered in his mind and asked in return, "This demon controls the pirates on the island and is secretly conducting various experiments. After you were captured by the demon, you could only be coerced into doing things for the demon."

"Yes."

Hank nodded.

"If I don't agree, the consequences might be dire... However, in my hometown, there's a saying: 'If you agree to the devil's demands and do his bidding, you'll die an even more horrible death.'"

He coughed lightly: "From my perspective, I may not be qualified to say such things... but I hope you can help me defeat this demon."

"Does this great demon have a name?"

Hyakusuke asked this question.

"Mephisto."

Hank said the name.

"It said that its name was Mephistopheles."

Upon hearing this title, Hyakusuke let out a sigh of relief and turned to Yoru, saying, "It's hopeless. We need to leave this island immediately."

Do you really think he's a fool?
That's a legendary, powerful demon!!
Bai Jie knows the origin of demons and that these beings are information life forms living in another dimension.

They are neither born nor die, and are the most evil of all intelligent life forms... Also, the true form of "Demon Fate Evil Fallen Heaven," one of the five great demon kings of the island nation, is a fragment of Mephistopheles' spirit.

This great demon had descended once before, two hundred years ago, and together with the other four demon kings, nearly destroyed the Yamato court.

Are you kidding me? You want us to deal with something like this? This is something our current main characters can't handle at all. We'll need to gather the Twelve Guardians of Kyoto...

"and many more……"

To prevent Hyakusuke from leaving, Hank quickly reached out and grabbed his sleeve.

"It's not the real Great Demon Mephisto. That thing is incomplete; it should only be a fragment... no, it can't even be called a fragment. It's just a small copy of information that has been copied multiple times."

The man was almost in tears.

“Everyone on the island is dead, including the pirates. Now we’ve even run out of experimental subjects. That guy’s plan should be about to succeed… If he’s no longer of any use, I’ll be next.”

Hank put on a pitiful look.

"The only people I can count on now are you all."

Then, he turned his gaze to Ye Ming, who smiled wryly and scratched her face.

She recounted her experience: after landing on the island, she and Ayaka and the others separated from Renjo Senjuro and the others, and mistakenly entered the cave.

With the help of the Shell Serpent Clan, she ventured deep into the cave and encountered an unprecedentedly powerful enemy.

"That guy... is very strong. He defeated me in less than three moves."

Ye Ming sighed heavily again.

In the end, although she was not seriously injured, she was forced into a trap by that powerful enemy and trapped in the "Heartbreak Barrier".

Because that barrier affected her spirit, she suffered greatly within it, constantly being misled by the various illusions conjured by her own inner demons.

"However, no one was injured."

She let out a soft breath.

"I'm so sorry to have made you worry."

"They're alright. How are Miss Ayaka and Elder Tsukian?"

Bai Jie quickly asked a question.

"Everyone is fine."

Hank quickly explained, "I've deliberately adjusted the effects of the Heart-Breaking Barrier; it won't actually harm your body or mind. At most, you'll just be trapped in an illusion..."

He coughed lightly again: "In addition, the lady who was captured with you, Mr. Hyakusuke, and her familiar were also unharmed."

"I knocked Shijou unconscious, and Mr. Hank temporarily used magic to put her into a deep sleep."

Ye Ming also showed a surprised expression.

"To be honest... I didn't expect her to come here?"

"Yoru, do you know why Miss Jujou came here?"

Hyakusuke countered with a question.

Ye Ming shook her head; she knew nothing about it.

Hyakusuke had no choice but to grit his teeth and explain the intentions of the Ten-Fold Mai-Hana.

"Is...is there really such a thing?"

Ye Ming gave an awkward smile.

"I...I understand. I'll explain to Wuhua later. She's not a bad person. I think everything will be fine once the misunderstanding is cleared up."

I don't think so.

Hyakusuke still had a bad feeling about this.

Because Jujou Maika's actions in the original work were quite extreme, he didn't know if Yoake's explanation would be effective, or it might even make the situation worse.

"Oh, right, there's one more thing..." Hyakusuke remembered that Renjo Senjuro, Hiiragi Hiruko, and the others were still outside preparing to enter the depths of the Ghostly Spore Forest to find a way out.

"They retreated."

Hank said calmly, "You could say I let them go."

He set traps along the routes of the other two groups, causing earthquakes and collapses, and deliberately left two entrances open so that the other two groups could leave the underground cavern, thus avoiding exhaustion and casualties.

“This underground cavern has many secret passages leading to the outside world,” Hank explained.

"These passages are man-made, but they are quite hidden. Only those who have the authority to control the underground caves can open them at any time."

The Ghostly Forest is an underground dungeon that is man-made and quite complex.

Fortunately, Hank obtained a lot of information from the monster and secretly gained some control over this underground space.

"Wait a moment."

Bai Jiecai would not easily trust this man.

“I have one more question for you… You said you didn’t want to work for the devil, so why didn’t you run away?”

He questioned them.

"Not to mention that the 'monster' won't let me escape from this island easily, even if I do escape, he will catch me and kill me."

Hank sighed: "Besides, I've also been cursed."

He pulled open his shirt, revealing a pattern on one side of his collarbone—a strange symbol, some kind of pagan symbol, shaped like a spiral.

"I will die the moment I leave the island."

The man sighed deeply.

"The only way is to stop this monster and defeat it completely... only then will I have a chance to survive."

"In other words," Bai Jie paused, then asked, "in order for you to live, we exorcists have to defeat a being that is suspected to be at the level of a demon king. What kind of logic is that?"

"No no no."

Hank shook his head and quickly explained, "I'm not trying to morally blackmail you. This is just as important to you... In fact, once the monster completes its plan, its power will return."

He hesitated for a moment, then lowered his voice: "Think about it carefully. Once this powerful dark entity obtains a complete body, its next destination will definitely be the nearest one, which is your country."

Hank pointed in a direction.

"The closest country to here is the one just across from this island, I think it's called Dewa in the Hokuriku region? What would happen if it landed there?"

He continued, "And another thing, isn't a rare calamity also occurring in your kingdom? There must be a fallen god from another land moving south along the north. With a great demon and a fallen god, what will happen in the future is unimaginable..."

His words also silenced Hyakusuke and Yoru.

What Hank said was not false. The great demon Mephistopheles had some kind of potential connection with the island nation. Whether it would go to the island nation again after being put into flesh was completely unpredictable.

If the malevolent god Kotancoro Kamui and the Great Demon, these two moving "catastrophes," were to descend upon the island nation at the same time, it would surely generate terrifyingly huge waves, creating an unprecedented catastrophe.

"...It's like a recurrence of the chaos between humans and demons from 150 years ago."

Ye Ming imagined that outcome and muttered to himself.

Hyakusuke didn't say anything either; he too realized the seriousness of the situation.

Demons, or extradimensional information life forms, are divided into nine ranks by the Holy Church in Europe, from the lowest rank of the ninth rank, the Temptator (Tentatores Maligenii), to the highest rank of the first rank, the False God (Pseudothei).

The differences in rank and power between demons, as well as the catastrophic and destructive power they contain, are vastly different.

The infamous demon lord Beelzebub is a ninth-order false god, whose mere presence on the world would cause a major catastrophe.

This kind of being is far stronger than ordinary earth gods and divine beings. Gods like Yukiyasha-hime are no match for them. Only the chief gods and war gods born in a few civilizations and regions can rival them.

Furthermore, a false god-level demon king is generally unable to descend into the mortal realm in a physical form, because the environment of the mortal world can hardly withstand the total amount of information contained in a demon king.

As for Mephistopheles, he is a third-order Vasa Iniquitatis. When he was born two hundred years ago, he was a great demon king-level monster who wreaked havoc on the island nation as the Great Tengu, and almost no one could control him.

'Europe is teeming with talented individuals, with many top-tier warriors emerging one after another. Coupled with the support of the One God and the power of Heaven, they are able to contend with the forces of Hell. All of this is based on the premise that the Great Demons have not personally entered the front lines…'

Bai Jie could only bite his lip, lost in confusion and indecision.

At this point, Hank, realizing that his words had been effective, quickly added further explanation.

"Fortunately, we still have ways to remedy the situation."

The former monk, now an alchemist, quickly began to explain.

"First of all, 'monsters' are just informational entities. I guess that 150 years ago, during the Yamato court's war against demons, someone intercepted some information from flesh-bearing demons, translated it, and created informational remnants."

Hank provided an explanation and clarification.

The being he called a "monster" was merely a translator of information that had been crudely copied. Simply put, it was a copy of the remaining information of the "fallen gods" of the past, and possibly a degraded version after multiple copies.

As explained before, the essence of a demon is "information," and information can naturally be copied. In fact, all demons active in the outside world are "split spirits" of the demon's true form located in the alternate dimension of Hell, which is a copy of the real body.

"As an unstable information body, it descends into the world across dimensions. In order to obtain a physical body that can move freely in reality, it needs to go through the process of 'receiving flesh'."

Hank started gesturing with his hands.

“In the past, those who conducted rituals and experiments on this island must have encountered some kind of mishap during the process of flesh-binding. The monsters could only connect with the bodies in the form of ‘remnants,’ their sense of self became weak, and they remained asleep for a long time. Even when they awoke this time, their consciousness and body had not been fully integrated.”

He said in a deep voice, "Miss Yeming's power is just right to restrain this guy. The blade you swung can sever the connection between the two and completely destroy this incomplete demon. That's why I came to find you."

"But how can we possibly defeat this great demon?"

Bai Jie was speechless.

"Even if it deteriorates further, it is still a copy of the Great Demon's information, and it won't be much weaker. We might be destroyed before we even get close to it."

Furthermore, our side has no information about the so-called "monster," and has no idea what moves it has, what abilities it possesses, or what spells and skills it has... To recklessly challenge such a powerful enemy is undoubtedly suicide.

"No... there's a way to weaken this guy."

Hank continued, "I have prepared 'relics' specifically for fighting monsters."

At this point, he produced a rusty iron arrow from somewhere.

"These are things I took with me when I left the church. I originally wanted to sell them for a good price, but I never expected to run into something like this..."

Hyakusuke looked at the iron arrow with considerable surprise.

Indeed, it is. "Relics" are, no... they are also a type of item in the game.

“'William Tell's Arrow'?”

He immediately recognized the origin of the rusty arrow.

This is an arrow that was supposedly shot by a European archer, and it's also an item that can be purchased in the secret shop in the game.

This rusty arrow from overseas has a "guaranteed hit" effect. Theoretically, it can hit the enemy as long as it is shot. If it is a monster like a demon or a tengu, it can greatly weaken its attributes.

"You...you can recognize this?"

Hank was both greatly impressed and puzzled.

He hadn't expected that this unassuming foreign exorcist would recognize the sacred relic treasured by his church with just one glance.

"This is the arrow used by the great hero of my hometown to kill a demon. Don't be fooled by its appearance; it is a sacred artifact blessed by the bishop. If it hits, it can greatly weaken the opponent."

"Far from enough."

Bai Jie shook his head and sighed, "Unless that foreign archery saint comes in person and shoots this arrow, even if it is a sacred relic, its effect will still be limited and insufficient to be a basis for defeating it."

He remembered that the game also described this arrow. Although it could reduce the enemy's attributes and seal some skills, it could not completely overwhelm the enemy and become the key to determining the outcome of the battle.

"besides."

Hank continued, "I can activate the 'Heartbreaker Barrier.' As long as the trap is set and the monster steps into it, it will definitely restrict the opponent's movements. This is the key to victory."

(End of this chapter)