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

The deafening roar ceased abruptly, revealing six vermillion red giant trees standing in a row, with thick steam billowing from their tops. The immense destructive force generated by the dozen or so supergravity spheres was completely absorbed by this so-called "Jade Banquet, Vile Feast, Violent Illumination Gate."

However, Miyuki's attack did not stop there.

Dozens of supergravity cannonballs followed in rapid succession, only to be broken down by the power of the three vermillion torii gates.

"Miyuki's 'Myriad Graves, Thousand Lures Stone' can unleash its combat power most effectively in environments with greater mass, such as on the surface of a planet."

Kurokami Mikado explained to Kohagi via telepathy.

"This is also a major reason why I wanted to drag her into the 'House of the Lost' to suppress her—"

The Myriad Graves, Thousand Lures Stone's special ability allows it to steal gravitational attraction from the earth and massive objects to generate powerful effects.

Mikado was well aware of this, which is why she immediately transferred Miyuki to the alternate dimension of the House of the Lost.

"However, there was also a drawback to dragging her in here."

Her hands continuously shifted through different hand seals.

Near the three torii gates, several more vermillion torii gates materialized one after another, then connected sequentially from right to left, forming a massive ring of twenty-eight vermillion torii gates centered almost entirely around the surrounded Miyuki.

——Twenty-Eight Consecutive · Jade Banquet, Vile Feast, Violent Illumination Gate.

Kurokami Mikado had set up her barrier technique, a special barrier technique consisting of twenty-eight gates capable of absorbing, transferring, and nullifying all magical attacks.

These twenty-eight vermillion torii gates, once summoned, formed a nullification ability far surpassing the Great Youkai's 'Curse Reversal Barrier', capable of directly defending against even powerful supergravity spheres.

"Her gravity techniques, namely the various techniques centered around the 'Myriad Graves, Thousand Lures Stone', are precisely the bane of my alternate dimensional barrier.

In the process, I must expend more energy to maintain the overall mass of this space, preventing the mass from being stolen by her, or the dominion over the space from being taken away."

Mikado relayed information to her granddaughter.

"If you want to defeat her, you must rely on your own strength."

...Liar.

Kohagi thought, Mikado does not intend to directly help her defeat her mother.

This cunning old fox definitely has her own schemes.

However, she wasn't surprised by this.

Mikado did this for two reasons: first, she didn't plan to waste her power on dealing with Miyuki, even though her daughter was far from her own strength.

However, Miyuki's gravity techniques did indeed create a situation of restraint against Mikado's 'space' attribute barrier techniques;

Second, Mikado wanted her to demonstrate her abilities, to prove that her combat power far surpassed that of the current head of the family, Miyuki.

The threat posed by the calamitous god Koutan Koutaro Kamui's descent still required the clan to have a presence capable of maintaining strong combat power.

Kohagi had to prove that she was far more suitable than Miyuki to become the next head of the family.

Otherwise, wouldn't the Kurokami clan be as good as destroying its own Great Wall after losing Miyuki, losing such a combat force before the great battle, which would outweigh the gains.

Conversely, as long as Kohagi defeated Miyuki head-on, she would be qualified to become the head of the clan.

Even if Miyuki, the head of the family, was expelled, it wouldn't be a particularly unacceptable loss for the Kurokami clan.

"...Thirteenth Rank · Savage Blade Poison Bubbles."

Kohagi extended her right hand, she stepped forward and ran, her right hand drawing out an oddly shaped long sword, the hilt resembling the carapace of a crab or arthropod, the blade's hamon heavily layered, the tip of the blade reflecting a dazzling light.

Miyuki waved her sleeves, and dozens of jet-black supergravity spheres appeared around her, attacking at high speed.

Kohagi lightly waved her sword, and countless shimmering, five-colored transparent bubbles floated into the air. The gravity sphere attacks broke through these bubbles, but one after another, they were ensnared by these strange bubbles, their movements gradually coming to a halt.

This was her personally crafted tenth-ranked demon sword, forged using the power of a certain Great Youkai.

This demon blade, when swung, could generate special bubbles, each of which was equivalent to a barrier.

Its effect was extremely similar to the "Jade Banquet, Vile Feast, Violent Illumination Gate," capable of nullifying the effects brought about by magical techniques.

The supergravity spheres were locked down by the glowing bubbles halfway through their trajectory, unable to exert their power.

At the same time, Kohagi once again unleashed the power of Time Weaving, accelerating her own time, she took a step forward, and with this movement, everything around her seemed to slow down, as if the time of the entire world had slowed down.

It wasn't that the world was slowing down, but that her own time was accelerating, so the entire world appeared slow in her eyes.

At this time, Kohagi could see the faint ripples of the air, vibrating with extremely slight amplitudes, just at the instant when a person's eyelids barely moved—in this extreme speed, she closed the distance with her mother Miyuki in a single dash, tearing through that jet-black spiritual energy, and arrived before her.

The longer it dragged on, the more the gravitational effects would double.

Only then did Kohagi understand why her grandmother Mikado had maintained a relative distance from Miyuki from the start of the battle.

That old fox was truly cunning.

'But, it doesn't matter...killing her now will break this curse.'

She looked at her mother.

In the space where time flowed slowly, Miyuki still maintained a smiling expression. Kohagi's left hand drew out another sword, the tenth demon sword called "Dawn Crow."

Her right hand held "Savage Blade Poison Bubbles," and her left hand drew out "Dawn Crow," a blade that was extremely sharp, its body as black as a crow, without a trace of luster.

Whoosh!

The sharp tip of Dawn Crow pierced towards Miyuki's throat—in this almost still time, the opponent had no means of resistance.

It was clear that this glamorous woman's throat was about to be pierced!

However, this strike landed on Miyuki's skin, yet felt as if it had struck a layer of hard armor, making it difficult to penetrate even an inch.

Metallic scales surfaced on Miyuki's skin.

"Useless?"

Kohagi's eyes flickered slightly.

It was the defense of the gravity technique, and Miyuki had also absorbed the power of the 'Demon God' Hydra's blood, using gravity to strengthen her body's density, this strengthening could even change the structure of her cells, every inch of her mother's flesh had become a structure similar to metal.

...Unable to break through her defense?

She immediately retreated at lightning speed after failing to land a hit.

In the next instant, the accelerated time ended.

Just as Kohagi left the realm of time acceleration, she felt the increasingly powerful gravity around her, her movements also stiffened, as if an invisible hand was pressing down from above, her expression painful and twisted.

It must be due to Miyuki's diffused spiritual power, further strengthening the surrounding gravity.

"'Time Weaving Power'...although it's a convenient power, using it also requires paying a huge price."

Miyuki's voice carried a hint of sarcasm.

"Whether it's manipulating time to accelerate yourself, using time reversal to recover from injuries, or creating time-freezing Time Weaving barriers, in addition to consuming a huge amount of power, the price is also extremely high, otherwise, you wouldn't need to make extra demon swords to enhance your combat power."

——That's right.

Kurokami Mikado nodded slightly upon hearing her daughter's words.

The power of Time Weaving can manipulate time, and it wouldn't be an exaggeration to call it the most powerful special ability.

However, Kohagi didn't seem to be powerful to the point of being uncounterable.

——If she could accelerate time, then she should just keep accelerating her own time during the battle;

——If she could use time reversal to recover from injuries, then why would she need to dodge and defend in battle, a fighting style of exchanging injuries would be the most suitable;

——If she could stop the enemy's time, then there wouldn't even be a need to fight, she could just pause the opponent's time.

"Time Weaving Power has natural limitations, on the one hand, it consumes a huge amount of spiritual power."

She spoke expressionlessly, opening her mouth slowly: "On the other hand, what the price to pay is can actually be imagined...such a powerful force cannot be without any restrictions, from researching ancient literature and materials about special abilities similar to Time Weaving, and from the fact that you don't recklessly abuse your Time Weaving Power, I have a deduction."

Miyuki continued to explain.

"The price to pay for Time Weaving Power is your own time, whether it's accelerating time, reversing time, or freezing time, you have to pay the corresponding time or several times that time."

She extended a slender finger.

"Of course, this payment isn't based on the present tense, but rather it extracts time from your future to make the payment, time is also a person's life, in other words, every time you use Time Weaving Power, it's equivalent to paying with your own life."

Soon, the corners of Miyuki's lips raised, creating a state resembling a smile.

"My daughter~~ How much time have you paid now, and how much life do you have left?"

As she spoke with a smile, she further expanded her gravity domain.

Crack, crack.

The ground beneath Kohagi's feet suddenly cracked in a spiderweb pattern, she seemed to be unable to bear the weight, every inch of her body was squeezed by the enormous gravity, her body seemed to be out of control, her hands and feet were as heavy as if they had lead weights attached to them.

"Although, mother's 'Twenty-Eight Consecutive · Jade Banquet, Vile Feast, Violent Illumination Gate' can confine my spiritual power radiation within a certain range, the effective range of my gravity magic has long encompassed everything nearby, don't think you can escape."

Miyuki slowly took steps forward, walking towards her. At the same time, a supergravity sphere was spinning and condensing in her palm.

With each step she took, the gravity on Kohagi's body would increase, her bones groaned, and eventually, her entire body was strongly pressed to the ground, the super-strong gravity pressing her whole body as if it was about to sink into the ground.

"——How is it, do you want to continue? Or are you planning to admit defeat."

Miyuki looked down at her daughter on the ground.

However, Kohagi, suppressed on the ground, already found it difficult to squeeze out words from her throat, clenching her teeth but only able to stare upwards at Miyuki.

Her lips moved slightly, as if she was saying something.

"You...want to say something?"

Miyuki frowned.

She vaguely recognized the other party's lip movements, guessing it was "As expected", what did it mean, what "As expected"?

"Forget it, just go die!"

Miyuki stretched out her hand, and even more powerful gravity squeezed down, Kohagi couldn't even let out a scream, and her entire body exploded into a cloud of blood mist.

"Too bad...my child."

The female head's eyes revealed an iciness that was simply not like that of a human.

She didn't hesitate at all to kill her own daughter.

"Even reviving with power is meaningless."

Miyuki said indifferently: "You've been tainted too much by the spiritual power I've released, now the 'Myriad Graves, Thousand Lures Stone's' technique can be maintained continuously, no matter how many times you revive, you'll only be killed by my gravity technique."

Even if killed, the technique of using time reversal to recover was indeed extraordinary, however, Time Weaving Power itself had a huge weakness.

'Her lifespan should be running out.'

Not relying on special abilities, but only using demon swords, also proved that her daughter had overused that power, consuming too much of her future life.

——She doesn't have much of a future left.

The current head of the Kurokami clan's lips curled up.

Just as she thought she had everything under control.

"As expected."

Suddenly, a dark and cold voice, as if coming from the depths of the earth, was heard. Miyuki felt a chill as if a piece of ice was stuck to her back, and goosebumps rose on her skin.

The woman suddenly realized something, looking around, but couldn't find the source of the voice, it wasn't Mikado's voice, but her own daughter Kohagi's voice.

"Although the outer side is very hard, the inside hasn't been completely transformed."

Miyuki was very surprised, her spiritual power couldn't sense Kohagi hiding there, and the flattened corpse on the ground was also motionless.

'This voice...what exactly is it?'

In the next second, she shifted her gaze to her feet.

"...Shadow?"

On the ground, the enormous shadow wriggled, like a jet-black centipede, with Kohagi's corpse and shadow as the center, moving outwards in a winding manner.

She was so surprised that she couldn't speak, and her body was also restrained by an invisible force, unable to move.

The shadow on the ground, like countless tentacles, stirred like a living thing, wrapping around her body, tearing at her slender body.

"When did this happen?"

Only then did Miyuki realize that she had been tricked.

The shadow, at some unknown time, had invaded her body, controlling her body from the inside, controlling her nervous system.

"That's right."

Behind her, a shadow slowly crawled out.

It was Kohagi's figure.

At some unknown time, the silver-haired girl had invaded Miyuki's shadow.

"You, what exactly did you do?"

Miyuki couldn't understand, she knew she had been defeated.

However, the woman couldn't understand what it was based on.

"I made a 'sacrifice'."

The silver-haired girl leaned close to Miyuki's ear, her voice like a breath.

"Unlike you, my failed mother, I have discarded much. Therefore, I can defeat you."

She said calmly, "But you, you are unwilling to discard anything, unwilling to lose anything. You don't want to give up the position of head of the family, you don't want to give up your desire for power. You want to control everything, seize everything. As a result, your desires have become enlarged and endless, devouring everything and becoming ugly and obese, so large that they cannot be added to. This is also one of the reasons for your failure."

"What exactly are you talking about?"

Miyuki didn't understand what she was trying to express.

"Look over there."

Kohagi pointed to the "self's" corpse on the ground.

It was a mangled corpse.

Her own corpse.

The shadow on the ground began to expand, like black, turbid, and viscous liquid, turning into a lake of shadows.

The lake of shadows devoured the ground, absorbing the silver-haired girl's corpse as if sucking blood.

"And then, these are the other 'me's'..."

She smiled slightly, and Miyuki looked again at the lake formed by shadows, and the faces of women emerged.

Those were smiling faces, each one belonging to Kohagi.

"These are the 'me's' who have died in the cycles so far, my remnants, my ghosts, and the other 'me's'."

The owners of the "faces" struggled, reaching out from the shadows with pale, corpse-like hands.

At this moment, smiles appeared on their faces, and one hand after another grabbed Miyuki's body.

"You?"

Even a woman like Miyuki showed a flicker of unease and fear in her eyes.

"Yes, I discarded time, discarded my self, discarded unnecessary sentiment... and finally obtained power."

The silver-haired girl whispered behind her.

"That's right... Mother, you can't win against me."

Miyuki wanted to struggle, but she couldn't even scream before she was dragged into the dark shadows by countless pale hands and the girls who had become "remnants."

The lake of shadows rippled slightly, and then the expanding shadows began to contract and shrink, gathering at the feet of the silver-haired girl.

"So, what do you think?"

Kohagi's gaze went straight to Kurohimeyama Mikado.

"Mikado-sama... have I met your expectations and can I become the next head of the family?"