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

As for the story of Inamori Village, the plot is simple: it's about rescuing Yae, the granddaughter of Village Chief Kichijou.

According to the game's side quest, the game's content is as follows:

Yae, Kichijou's granddaughter, is the most beloved granddaughter of the village chief, but she has always been ostracized by the other children in the village.

Through investigation, the protagonist discovers that Inamori Village is a poor village, and the only wealthy family is that of Village Chief Kichijou.

This disparity has long caused dissatisfaction among the villagers towards the Kichijou family.

This dissatisfaction has also led to the children's dislike of Yae. While it hasn't escalated to bullying, no child wants to play with Yae.

For a little girl who has lost both parents, the only people who can play with her are her nanny and the male servant, Ko Saburo.

One day, feeling bored, she accidentally encounters a Yamawaro (mountain child) from outside the village and is lured by the youkai, who are known to "entice children" and "kidnap people into the deep mountains."

Yae becomes increasingly dissatisfied with the village environment and decides to run away from home.

One of the game's endings:

First, after seven days, there's no way to find Yae. Even if you eventually reach the Yamawaro's lair, you'll only find Yae's corpse in the warehouse, tattered, covered in a whitish fluid, and with a vacant look in her eyes.

Second, within seven days, you are lucky enough to rescue Yae. However, because you killed the Yamawaro's cub in the warehouse, it leads to an argument with Yae, which the protagonist ignores.

After this event is triggered, Yae will run away from home a second time after the protagonist and his group leave.

This time, no one knows where she went...

Third, if you don't kill the Yamawaro cub, the protagonist's group visits Inamori Village again after a few months and learns from the villagers that:

Village Chief Kichijou's family died tragically, a revenge from the Yamawaro. Then there's also a CG image of Yae being brutally violated and killed by the youkai.

The death of this little girl, Yae, serves as a heavy blow, revealing to players new to the game that this is not an ordinary H-game but a depressing game full of landmines.

After all, the game's plot, through collecting information, describes Yae's daily life in detail, depicting this cute and somewhat pitiful little girl from the sidelines.

She is very eager to have playmates of her own age and wants to play with the children in the village, although she tries to make new friends in an almost ingratiating way, she is repeatedly rejected.

The villagers have a complex attitude towards the Kichijou family, a mix of jealousy, envy, and fear of their wealth and power.

No one dares to offend the Kichijou family, but even if Yae wants to play with the children in the village, their parents will politely refuse.

"We can't afford to associate with the village chief's granddaughter..."

"These kids are rolling around in the mud all day long. Please don't play with them, lest you get your clothes dirty."

The children's parents refuse to let their children interact with Yae with this kind of superficially flattering, but secretly indifferent and exclusionary attitude.

Over time, Yae falls into a lonely state, left alone at home, listlessly bouncing a temari ball.

Until one day, she accidentally leaves the village and meets a group of Yamawaro. The unsuspecting child immediately treats these Yamawaro as her best friends.

And thus, the tragedy begins.

'However, there are still many doubts in this plot.'

While recalling this plot, Hyakusuke kicked open the decaying wooden planks that served as a door.

With a snap, the door was kicked open, and several shrill screams could be heard from inside.

Hyakusuke stepped inside, his eyes half-closed.

He could see clearly that it was a spacious warehouse. A little girl was hugging several small Yamawaro in her arms, like a mother hen protecting her chicks.

"It's her."

Just like in the CG, she was wearing brightly colored vermilion clothes, embroidered with hydrangea patterns.

This was not the kind of clothing that ordinary village children could wear. Only the children of wealthy merchants in the capital could dress so flamboyantly.

"You... who are you?"

Because the warehouse was dark, Yae could only vaguely see a human-shaped silhouette walking quietly out of the darkness.

"Someone who's here to save you."

Hyakusuke took out a lighting charm, and pale green fireflies fluttered, making the light more apparent.

"I was sent by your grandfather, Miss Yae."

To put the little girl at ease, he took off his mask.

"Let's leave here together. Your grandfather is very worried about you."

Hyakusuke was somewhat confident in his face, or rather, the appearance of this body. He was generally considered a handsome man, and his smile should have some appeal to women.

However, the lower ninja were required to wear masks during their daily activities and had no opportunity to interact with women.

"You... are you an exorcist?"

The girl bit her lip, her eyes fixed on the ninja sword in Hyakusuke's right hand.

The lower ninja smiled and flicked the blood off the sword.

"Rest assured, the Yamawaro have been eliminated."

He sheathed the sword and extended a hand.

"Let's go together."

"No!"

The girl shook her head, her eyes filled with hostility.

"You... you must have killed everyone!!! They were all my good friends."

--Good friends. That's quite the adorable term.

Hyakusuke frowned. Hearing those words, he couldn't bring himself to smile.

"That's not important, Miss Yae. Your grandfather, Lord Kichijou, is very worried about you."

However, Yae did not waver. Her brow furrowed, radiating even stronger hostility.

"What... what will happen to these children if I go with you?"

The girl hugged the small Yamawaro tightly. They looked like cute monkeys, shivering and huddling in her arms.

"I won't hurt these lesser youkai," Hyakusuke smiled. "They're too weak for me to bother with. I can spare them."

"R-really?"

A relieved smile appeared on Yae's face.

Because she had relaxed, she released her grip on the Yamawaro.

Hyakusuke smiled and grabbed one of them, squeezing its throat.

His fingers dug into its neck, and with a snap, he broke the Yamawaro's spine.

Yae screamed, and another Yamawaro lunged forward, claws and fangs bared, intending to bite.

Hyakusuke nonchalantly swung his left hand, his fist hitting the Yamawaro's face, breaking its nose. This punch, infused with spiritual power, sent the lesser youkai flying backward.

The force of the punch deformed the Yamawaro's face, its nose collapsing, blood flowing, broken teeth and blood falling from its mouth, and its eyeball rupturing.

The Yamawaro, struck in the face, twitched on the ground like a dying insect.

"...Ugh."

Yae covered her mouth with both hands, took a few steps back, and let out a cute whimper.

Hyakusuke completely ignored her. He grabbed the last terrified Yamawaro and smashed the youkai cub's head against the stone wall.

Once, twice, three times... until he crushed its skull, the lower ninja released his grip and threw the rag-like youkai corpse on the ground.

No, that wasn't enough.

Hyakusuke walked to the other side, to the twitching youkai, and stomped on its head with force.

Smash.

He applied pressure to the bottom of his foot, almost completely crushing the head of the child-sized Yamawaro.

It was a gruesome scene, with pus-like liquid, blood, and brain matter splattered on the ground.

"Ahhhhhhhhh!"

Yae's expression gradually twisted. She couldn't accept the tragic death of her "friends," and tears streamed uncontrollably from her eyes as she screamed in a frenzy.

"I'll kill you, I'll kill you, I'll kill you, you bad man!"

The little girl, her face covered in tears and snot, rushed forward and punched Hyakusuke.

"Enough."

Hyakusuke dropped his smile.

"Are your so-called friends things that specialize in eating people, killing people, and harming people?"

"...Shut up, shut up, shut up, it's all your fault."

Yae shrieked.

"The Yamawaro wouldn't, they're my friends, they're much better than those who ignore me, they haven't hurt anyone, and they don't eat people."

"Is that so?"

Hyakusuke smiled coldly, reached out, grabbed the girl by the collar, and lifted her up.

"Then come with me and see what your 'friends' have been doing..."

Without explanation, he led Yae to the adjacent warehouse, revealing the sight of the storage room where the Yamawaro and Yamanba kept their food.

"Ugh, aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!?"

The girl screamed, her voice echoing in the "warehouse," making it seem like it would resound throughout the entire cave.

There were hooks with iron chains in the warehouse, strung with severed hands and feet, roots and all.

Those were the "food" that the Yamawaro had prepared for the winter, the hands and feet of men, women, old people, and children.

However, what kind of fate awaited the owners of these hands and feet, even imagining it would be a waste of effort.

"Yamawaro don't eat people, is that right?"

Hyakusuke's voice was low, with a hint of sarcasm.

"Carnivorous mountain beasts, bears and wolves alike, don't eat people... That's right, their diet generally doesn't include humans, but not eating people and not being able to eat people are two different things--"

The famous man-eating tiger of Champawat didn't eat people from the beginning either.

Although tigers in the natural world are often misunderstood as man-eating beasts, tigers' diets generally don't include "humans" as prey.

However, when an aging, injured tiger with damaged teeth finds that hunting humans is easier than hunting deer, antelopes, or buffalo, these "staples," it will turn to attacking people and eating them, becoming a man-eating tiger.

In recorded incidents of tigers injuring and killing people, many cases show that tigers actively injure and kill people to protect their territory, rather than to hunt.

The same principle applies to youkai. Yamawaro don't eat people, but that never means they won't eat people.

For humans, even youkai that don't eat people are dangerous.

"So, youkai all deserve to die."

Hyakusuke told the girl plainly.

"Humans and youkai can never be friends... In this world, the only good youkai are dead youkai."