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

He didn't really know what to do next. If the male lead didn't appear in the plot, how would the first chapter of the main storyline be resolved?

"Alright... Saizo, I'm just complaining to you here. Don't spread these words around. You can really die for talking nonsense in the main family."

The gossip-loving crow muttered a few more words, then reluctantly flew up from Saizo's shoulder, circled in the air, and flew away into the distance.

"Hmm~ Seriously, I really don't like this kind of topic. This woman really likes to talk about these things..."

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Saizo was riding a black horse. He glanced at Hyakusuke, who was carrying a gun and leading his horse, and said with a smile, "This road is all mud. It's tiring for the horse to walk, and tiring for people too... but we're almost there. Inamori Village is just ahead."

The slovenly uncle, no, today Saizo was wearing clean clothes, and his messy hair was neatly groomed. He was unusually not walking, but riding a horse, and he called out to the group of lower ninja behind him, "Everyone, hold on a little longer. After another mountain road, we'll reach the village, and then we can rest."

"Yes, sir."

The lower ninja endured the muddy mountain road and responded. Yesterday it rained, and the mountain road was rugged and full of mud. The group, who had traveled a long distance, really suffered a lot on this road.

"Saizo-sama."

Hyakusuke asked in a low voice, "You seem to be very familiar with this village."

"Yes, I've been here a few times in the past."

Saizo nodded slowly, "I've known the village chief here for a long time. Besides, they took the initiative to come to us for help. As ninja of the Black Princess Mountain, it's hard to refuse."

'Inamori Village, huh?'

Hyakusuke frowned slightly. He remembered that this should be a side quest in the game.

'It shouldn't be too difficult... I hope we can complete it smoothly.'

...

Inamori Village.

This small village is located in the Sendo region in the southern part of Mutsu Province.

This area is a narrow north-south strip of land sandwiched between the Ou Mountains and the Abukuma Highlands.

Mutsu and Dewa regions have always been the eastern mountain road where the imperial court's power could not reach. Because it was too far from the center of the imperial court's rule, and the area was full of local powerful families.

From ancient times, the administrators were mostly people not appointed by the imperial court, but local lords represented by exorcists, and their followers who ruled the area on behalf of the local lords.

In addition, there were many large and small settlement-type villages scattered around, including pioneering villages, and fields occupied by powerful families, local gentry, and landlords.

However, many demons also lived in the northern lands. If exorcists did not regularly clear the surrounding monsters, or help the residents living in the northern lands to manage the ley lines and create barriers to protect the villages, ordinary people would find it difficult to survive...

On the other hand, the number of exorcists, or people who are born with spiritual power, accounts for only a very small portion of the total population of the island country.

And those who are born with spiritual power are the most delicious "meal" for demons.

Monsters can increase their power by eating people with spiritual power.

The ancestors of the exorcists, when they could not form "famous families" and "powerful families" in ancient times, had to live in human villages. At that time, children with spiritual power were often driven out or killed by their parents.

Because spiritual power naturally attracts monsters, after a long period of several centuries, spiritual power users also learned to use their power and learned to form families to keep warm.

Gradually, they also discovered the benefits of this "power" itself, actively participating in and interfering in military and political affairs, thus developing the many exorcist clans that are now spread throughout the island country.

The Black Princess Mountain, an exorcist clan, has grown from weak to strong over hundreds of years, developing the inherited power in their blood to the extreme, and has grown into the most powerful clan in the northern lands.

Although this clan's style of doing things is relatively barbaric, and can sometimes be described as vicious, brutal, and cruel, it is indeed a clan that protects the safety of residents in the area for ordinary people.

"Saizo-sama."

The person who came out to greet the head of the Black Princess Mountain clan's Chunin was an old man wearing luxurious clothes and full of fat.

"It's been many years since we last met. I didn't expect to welcome such a distinguished guest as you again."

The old man was the village chief of Inamori Village, named Kichitei.

"Hahahaha~ Lord Kichitei is too polite."

Saizo laughed.

"I am just a servant and can't be called a distinguished guest... I sent the message yesterday and led the team here overnight... By the way, has something happened in the village?"

"Yes."

The old man nodded.

"My granddaughter is missing... That child is very young, but I don't know how she was kidnapped by a Yamawaro on the other side of the mountain. I hope that the people of the Black Princess Mountain family can help our family find the child."

That's right, there was such a plot.

Old man Kichitei's words awakened the relevant memories in his mind.

'Side Quest - Finding the Abducted Child.'

Hearing this, Hyakusuke's mind gradually recalled the entire plot of this side quest.

--Oh, it turns out that it's the well-known depressing side quest in the game.

Because it's an early-stage quest, for new players who can't correctly understand this game, it's completely pouring ice water on their heads, giving many people a head-on blow in the side plot.

"However, the difficulty of this 'depressing' quest is not high, it should be considered D-level... As long as you are careful, it shouldn't be a problem to pass smoothly."

While thinking this, he reached out and pressed the small bag on his waist that contained miscellaneous items. Inside were the advanced stealth amulet, detoxifying wound medicine, pain relievers, and special pills that could enhance physical strength and the five senses that he "borrowed" from the Second Young Lady.

In addition, there were various miscellaneous items in the small bag, all of which were small items that could play a role in battle.

"The last time the 'Spider Lair' mission was too rushed, and there was almost no advance preparation. I won't make this mistake this time."

...

Inamori Village is a very nice village, surrounded by mountains and with a river passing near the village.

However, in order to prevent the monsters in the surrounding mountains, the villagers voluntarily built simple wooden fence walls.

The village used the power of the local tutelary deity that resides on the local ley lines to set up a pentagram-patterned barrier.

In the five corners of Inamori Village, east, west, south, north, and center, five Fudo Myoo statues are set up - this is the "Five-Colored Fudo Myoo Barrier", which combines the pentagram seal in esoteric Buddhism and Onmyodo to stably combine different techniques.

This is also the barrier arrangement of the Zitsuki family, a famous family that once ruled this area.

In addition, it is worth mentioning that the Zitsuki family was gradually declined and removed from the list in the battle with the Black Princess Mountain clan.

"My granddaughter's name is Wakahae."

Short and fat, round Kichitei sat in the main seat of the mansion, explaining the situation to Chunin Saizo and Hyakusuke, who was serving as the leader of the lower ninja team, in the spacious living room.

"...She is a very lively and clever child."

The old man looks very fat, and his skin feels tight, but the wrinkles around his eyes are quite deep, and the wrinkles between his eyebrows are also tightly furrowed.

"Or rather, she is too smart, so smart that she is a little sensitive... To be honest, I don't know how she was kidnapped by the Yamawaro."

"We have also checked the young lady's bedroom," Kichitei's loyal servant Kozaburo interjected at this time, "There were no traces of Yamawaro or monsters breaking into the bedroom, and, most strangely, there is no problem with the village's barrier..."

"Kozaburo has a little spiritual power. He has the 'demon-seeing' right eye and can see the remnants of demonic aura."

Kichitei quickly introduced this old servant.

"He is very capable, and he is also very clever. He has helped our family a lot."

"Is that so?"

Saizo noticed that Kozaburo's right eye was flashing with fluorescent green light.

Hyakusuke was well aware of this. He knew about the butler Kozaburo, and even how the granddaughter of the Inamori Village chief's family disappeared--

"Is there a possibility..."

He suddenly opened his mouth and said, "That Miss Wakahae was not kidnapped by the Yamawaro, but left the room herself."

Immediately, Kichitei and Kozaburo both showed a "what are you talking about" expression.

"Hyakusuke, why do you say that?"

Saizo asked with a serious expression.

"If there is no problem with the barrier, it proves that no monsters broke in."

Hyakusuke knew that according to the original arrangement of the game, that is, the progress of the game, he had to collect evidence very troublesomely, and then draw a conclusion.

Only by getting the correct conclusion can the subsequent side plot be unfolded.

Okay! But he already knows the answer, why play a reasoning game!?

"Of course, those powerful great demons may be able to find a way to infiltrate the barrier, but a mere group of Yamawaro should not be able to do this."

--Yamawaro are relatively weak monsters. Most of them are considered miscellaneous monsters, however, do not underestimate them.

Hyakusuke knew that Yamawaro in this world are equivalent to goblins in RPG games, and are weak but troublesome monsters.

Moreover, the Yamawaro in this world are essentially mountain spirits. Their inheritance comes from the ancient Chinese monster "Jiaguo", and they also have the names of Mahua and Nanshan Dayue, they look like monkeys and will actively plunder women.