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

——Sakuru Fuyasu. One of the heroines in the game. As you might expect, to be a heroine in this kind of game, she definitely has exceptional qualities; otherwise, she wouldn't be sitting at the same table as the other yandere villainesses.

Unlike the other heroines, Sakuru Fuyasu appears from the start as an 'enemy character,' a villain.

She leads the 'Sugatsuki Party,' an opposing force to the Kurohimeyama clan, and frequently clashes with the protagonist's group in the story.

Sakuru Fuyasu's personality isn't exactly that of a 'pure villain.' She is a half-demon, descended from the ancient mountain hag, the Yamauba clan.

However, in this era, half-demons are heavily discriminated against. In her childhood, Sakuru Fuyasu couldn't hide her half-demon traits and was caught and used as a plaything in a theater troupe, until she was fortunately bought by an ancestor of the Sugatsuki family.

The previous head of the Sugatsuki clan was compassionate and merciful. He arranged for Sakuru Fuyasu to live in the house as a maid.

In fact, the Sugatsuki clan often took in homeless half-demons, allowed them to stay in their territory, and prohibited bullying and discrimination against them.

Sakuru naturally felt deeply grateful to the previous head of the family and vowed to serve the Sugatsuki family to repay their great kindness.

After nearly ninety years, Sakuru continued to serve the clan, until the Sugatsuki clan was destroyed by the court for 'rebellion'… However, this part of the story is quite complex. The Sugatsuki clan's downfall had its own secrets, involving a huge conspiracy, which the game only briefly mentions.

Because of this incident, Sakuru Fuyasu harbored a deep hatred for the Kurohimeyama clan.

In the game, she frequently leads the 'Sugatsuki Party,' the remnants of the Sugatsuki clan, to hinder the protagonist and seek revenge on the Kurohimeyama clan.

Then, in the middle of the game, the Sugatsuki Party suffers heavy losses and is destroyed by the machinations of the Hachifuku Society. Sakuru Fuyasu, unaware of the truth, is deeply traumatized and blames everything on the protagonist.

Originally, her nature wasn't particularly evil, and she didn't commit any major atrocities when she appeared. Even though she was obsessed with revenge, she always focused on the Kurohimeyama clan and didn't harm others.

However, 'Oborozuki no Akira' is a game full of grotesque scenarios. In the middle of the game, after her half-demon companions are killed, she completely turns to the dark side and becomes a 'villain' in the truest sense.

In the later stages of the game, she will stop at nothing to get revenge, resorting to all sorts of insidious, malicious, and cruel acts.

Sakuru Fuyasu finally falls to the lowest level of the demon realm, becoming a truly rotten villain.

To kill the protagonist, she straps bombs to babies, threatens the protagonist to commit suicide with hostages, and later plots to lead monsters to massacre a city to create a blood sacrifice ritual…

In short, Sakuru's story is a typical one: 'Originally a good person with feelings and principles, she is driven down a dead end by the destruction of hope and the pursuit of revenge.'

On the other hand, in Sakuru's personal route as a heroine, her regrettable ending doesn't change much. It simply becomes a love-hate relationship with the protagonist, ending with her giving up revenge and dying peacefully.

‘Why did I have to run into this guy?’

Hyakusuke thought bitterly to himself, contemplating running away.

However, the woman with the parasol exuded a fierce rage and killing intent, along with an immense spiritual energy, pressing down like the water pressure of the deep sea, making it almost impossible for him to move.

‘—Hand over my arm!’

She said coldly.

Arm?

What arm?

Hyakusuke noticed that her right sleeve was empty. This woman had lost an arm.

‘What does she mean? Hand over her arm? When did I steal her arm?’

He pondered while lowering his voice to ask, 'I… don't know what you're talking about?'

‘That gauntlet.’

She closed her umbrella, letting it rest on the ground, and pointed with her slender hand to the Demon-Breaking Gauntlet.

‘It's made from my body. Hand it over, and I might spare you.’

Gauntlet?

Could she be referring to the 'Yamauba skin' used to make the gauntlet?

Oh, dear! So, the Second Young Lady was talking about her skin all along?

Hyakusuke realized.

He should have guessed that Yamauba were hunted to extinction by human exorcists over the long years because their bodies were full of treasures. The Yamauba skin that could be used to make cursed tools and weapons was probably already used up.

‘I understand.’

Hyakusuke had no choice but to pretend to agree to her request.

‘…I'll give it to you, but please spare my life.’

Where is Taiso?

Shouldn't he have noticed that I've been gone for too long?

Hyakusuke wondered inwardly, while considering strategies to stall for time.

‘Is that so?’

Sakuru Fuyasu tilted her head, a cruel smile appearing on her lips.

‘I've changed my mind… I won't kill you, but—’

She took out a wriggling poisonous worm from her sleeve.

‘Eat this.’

A mind-control worm?

Hyakusuke swallowed hard.

He remembered that Sakuru Fuyasu's target of revenge was the Kurohimeyama clan, including the clan's branch families and servants. She usually wouldn't attack ordinary people, but that didn't include lower-ranked ninja like himself.

‘Moreover, I can't betray the Kurohimeyama clan, because the curse seal on the back of my neck will activate if I do anything against the clan's interests…’

Besides, swallowing the mind-control worm would be worse than death, because this kind of strange worm would parasitize the human brain, feeding on it. A person parasitized by the mind-control worm would be completely ruined.

Hyakusuke bit his lip and struggled to take a step back.

‘What… you still want to run?’

Sakuru Fuyasu smirked coldly, ‘Let me explain first, the barrier here has been destroyed by me. No one can get here in a short time…’

Before she could finish speaking, Hyakusuke drew his ninja sword and threw it out with a ‘shwip’.

‘How boring.’

Sakuru waved her hand and deflected the ninja sword.

However, at the moment Hyakusuke threw the sword, his toes tapped the ground, and a pebble shot out.

This was naturally the Gun Saint's tactic.

The pebble was injected with spiritual power and shot out, nearly hitting her right eye.

‘Petty tricks.’

Sakuru slapped backhand and shattered the stone.

Swish!

Hyakusuke jumped backward, and the ninja sword flew back as well. The spider silk wrapped around the hilt allowed the sword to be retrieved at any time.

He had no intention of fighting and turned to run.

‘Want to escape?’

Sakuru pushed off the ground and jumped directly into the air, swinging her fist down from directly above.

At that moment, the red-clothed woman's fist—even though it didn't hit the ground, at the instant the fist moved, the ground instantly disintegrated, as if it had been subjected to an invisible blow, turning into countless grains of sand.

‘Crap!’

Hyakusuke stopped and twisted his body. He knew what that attack was—'Mountain Echo Power'.

Mountain Echo is a strange phenomenon of mountains rumbling. Sakuru, who inherited the Yamauba bloodline, can emit an invisible 'wave' from her body. When attacking the opponent, it is like surging heat, which can distort the atmosphere.

Boom!

An attack like a shock wave struck, and Hyakusuke stretched out his hand.

On this hand, he wore the Demon-Breaking Gauntlet.

The shock wave shattered at that moment, and the curse-reversal barrier on the gauntlet worked—Mountain Echo Power is also a kind of spell. Even if Hyakusuke couldn't create a barrier covering his whole body, as long as the shock wave hit the curse-reversal barrier, it would be bounced away by the power of the barrier. The block of power would naturally fall apart.

‘A curse-reversal barrier?’

Sakuru dropped her umbrella and jumped up. She appeared in front of Hyakusuke in an instant, reaching out to grab him.

Her five fingers, with their black and curved nails, were extremely sharp and about to tear his face apart.

Hyakusuke withdrew his left hand wearing the gauntlet, and swung the ninja sword in his other hand, the blade slashing at the claw like lightning.

She snorted coldly, and at the moment the blade struck, she reached out her fingers and pinched the blade, snapping it with a ‘pop’.

‘Damn it, the gap is too big… Can't I even buy some time?’

At the moment the sword broke, Hyakusuke gritted his teeth and could only jump backward.

However, at that moment, his shoulder felt a tearing pain.

So painful!

At the moment of landing, Hyakusuke noticed that his shoulder was torn open by the claws, and blood splattered in the air.

‘Hehe… is it over?’

The woman laughed coldly like a demon. This claw almost tore the flesh off the opponent's shoulder.

‘Too weak.’

Sakuru Fuyasu licked her fingers stained with blood.

The moment her tongue touched the blood, her face stiffened.

‘This… how is this possible…’

Her face trembled palely, with strong doubts and incomprehension written on it.

‘Blood… why is it?’

For some reason, her hand trembled slightly, and her face was very pale.

Hyakusuke didn't have time to pay attention to this, he covered his wound and took a few steps back.

Suddenly, Sakuru Fuyasu raised her head, her eyes filled with confusion and doubt, and her forehead was covered with sticky sweat.

‘You… who exactly are you?’

Her figure suddenly moved, and just as she was about to grab Hyakusuke, the shadow under his feet twisted strangely—

With a ‘shwip’, a knife stabbed out from the shadow, nearly piercing her thigh.

What?

Sakuru Fuyasu reacted quickly, and she flew backward. At this time, the shadow also began to expand, chasing after her like a winding black snake.

Shwip!

The tip of the knife became longer, stabbing at her neck.

The hand holding the hilt, and the girl wearing a white kimono, also emerged from the shadows at this moment.

‘…You?’

Sakuru Fuyasu only uttered one word, and her body was torn to pieces in the air.

However, the red-clothed woman, killed by a strike so fast that it couldn't be seen, left behind not bloody pieces of flesh on the ground, but broken wood.

‘…Wood Charm Technique?’

The beautiful Kurohimeyama clan's eldest princess quietly closed her eyes.

‘Is she controlling this puppet from a very far distance…?’

She slowly put the knife back into its sheath and looked at Hyakusuke, who was stark naked and awkwardly covering his lower body.

‘You're called 'Hyakusuke', right… I remember you. Are you okay?’

‘I'm very sorry.’

Hyakusuke knelt on one knee and bowed his head.

‘I troubled you, Lady Ohagi.’

What to do!? It seems I accidentally let this eldest princess see something she shouldn't have seen?

Although I tried to cover it with my hands, it doesn't seem to be of much use.

In short, everything I could see was seen by her.

‘If Ryukosho finds out about this, won't he make me commit seppuku?’

However, this eldest princess didn't care at all that he was naked.

‘It's okay, it's not a trouble… I happened to be patrolling the territory nearby and came over to take a look when I sensed demonic energy.’

Her tone was very calm. She took out a men's yukata from the shadows and threw it to him casually.

‘Put on some clothes first…’

‘Thank you very much.’

Hyakusuke was so moved that he was about to cry.

He quickly put on the clothes and found that the yukata fit him quite well.

‘These are your belongings, right?’

Kurohimeyama Ohagi also handed him the waist bag, amulets, and other items he carried with him.

‘When I came, I also ran into Chunin Taiso. Knowing that there was an enemy invasion, I ordered him to stay in place and wait for support, and came alone to take a look. I also ordered a shikigami to collect your personal belongings…’

She indicated that Hyakusuke could check if anything was missing.

‘I'm really very apprehensive.’

Hyakusuke really felt that she was very considerate from the bottom of his heart.

—However, one thing he found strange was, where did his original clothes go?

‘Too dirty… I didn't pick them up and just threw them away.’

She replied blankly with no expression.