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

“Miss Ayaka, did you know about this a long time ago?”

Hyakusuke recalled what happened before, and he finally understood why “before,” Ayaka once harbored resentment towards him, consciously preventing contact between himself and Yami.

She must have noticed Yami's feelings from that time, but he was the one who realized it later.

“Yes.”

Ayaka sighed, a sigh tinged with melancholy.

“For her, it means not wanting to give her brother to anyone—”

After all, she also likes her brother. Although it was only a whisper as faint as a mosquito's buzz, Ayaka's words still clearly entered his ears.

Hyakusuke raised his head to look at her.

He could understand Ayaka's words.

He was, after all, a game player, so of course he knew that although Ayaka was Yami's adopted sister, she had always liked her adopted brother since she was a child.

“Of course, that's in the past… Now, brother is no longer a man.”

Ayaka shook her head.

On her small face, a complex expression flickered.

Yes, Ayaka had recently completely accepted the fact that Yami had become a woman. She knew very well that her brother from the past was gone forever—but her feelings were still very complicated.

‘I don't have any expectations… Brother already has a marriage agreement with Miss Kohagi in order to revive the Tsukigahara clan. Even if he doesn't marry this eldest daughter of the Kurohimeyama family, brother will probably marry another woman with power and status as his wife.’

As an adopted daughter of the Tsukigahara family, Ayaka had recognized the reality since she was a child. She didn't ask for anything, just sincerely hoped that Yami could be happy.

“So, Lord Hyakusuke, what are your thoughts?”

Ayaka asked him with a serious expression.

“You, towards her, that is, Yami, what are your thoughts—”

“I.”

Hyakusuke hesitated for a moment before answering.

“Yami-sama, I… probably can't treat her as a lover.”

“Is it because she used to be a man?”

Ayaka asked faintly, her eyes fixed on him.

“That… of course, that's part of it, but,” Hyakusuke smiled wryly, “there's also the fact that our identities aren't suitable. I don't have a noble background, and I'm afraid I can't stand with her.”

“Those words are just excuses you use to avoid it, right?”

Ayaka looked straight at him.

She spoke as if she could see through people's hearts.

“Is that really what you think?”

“This?”

Hyakusuke didn't know what to say, but Ayaka's cold gaze was quite piercing.

“Forget it.”

She suddenly shook her head.

“This is between you two. I, Ayaka, don't plan to interfere too much… However, you should explain things clearly to Yami, my adopted sister.”

Ayaka changed her address for Yami to “adopted sister,” which also showed that she had completely accepted Yami's new identity.

She threw away all the doubts and confusions in her mind and said frankly with a truly sincere tone: “I think it's necessary for you to personally tell her your thoughts.”

Hearing this, Hyakusuke nodded.

He really had no reason to back down from his feelings for Yami.

If the other party really had those feelings, then it was necessary to talk to her face to face.

“The problem is that Yami has been consciously avoiding me.”

“She's just being temperamental, but it's not like there's no way.”

Ayaka said with a smile, “I'll find a way.”

…

Starting from what happened last night, Hiiragi Hiruko's mood has been filled with complex emotions.

Her chest felt hot, and she had difficulty breathing. Indeed, this was a kind of anxiety.

She was upset and confused.

Hyakusuke and Miss Yami, did the two of them have a misunderstanding?

Is it because of me?

—However, the two of them weren't that kind of “relationship.”

She tried to convince herself.

In other words, she wasn't a third party who had intervened.

However, she felt an unconscious pain in her chest.

‘But… what exactly is their relationship?’

They really aren't lovers.

However, the look in Tsukigahara Yami's eyes when she left seemed to be tearful, enduring pain.

Mr. Hyakusuke's appearance was also very strange.

The girl's mood was full of anxiety, but also with a sense of unease.

“I don't understand…”

Hiiragi Hiruko trembled because of the uncontrollable pain in her chest, wondering in distress.

She didn't understand at all why her mood would make her chest hurt so much.

This incredible feeling, as if the unpleasantness produced when encountering sadness and pain, mixed with the feeling of a deer bumping around in her heart every time she was in front of Hyakusuke, was really indescribable.

In fact, Hiiragi Hiruko had previously told Fumi about her inner doubts out of confusion.

“Oh my~~ You've only just realized it?”

Daiguji Fumi looked at the "silly child" with a smile, her eyes narrowed with glee.

“Hiruko, you're in love… You, ah, have really fallen in love with that man named Hyakusuke.”

She directly pointed this out.

In an instant, Hiiragi Hiruko finally understood. She finally clearly understood what her mood was all about.

“But.”

She frowned again.

“I… clearly haven't been in contact with Mr. Hyakusuke for too long. We've only met a few times.”

“Love, falling in love is just like that.”

Fumi's eyes were filled with smiles as she looked at the witch she had raised since she was a child.

“Sometimes it's love at first sight, and sometimes it's affection over time… The feelings between men and women are so complicated, and it doesn't have much to do with the amount of time spent in interpersonal relationships. Liking is liking, and disliking is disliking. It's that simple.”

“…Is, is that so?”

Her answer was a little lacking in confidence.

‘As expected…’

Fumi didn't mind. She knew very well that this child, who had been raised in the inner chambers, was experiencing such feelings for the first time.

She had no confidence in herself, and she couldn't clearly understand the matter of herself falling in love with someone—this child couldn't even understand her own love.

‘As expected… Just reading some stories about love in books isn't enough to help her grow.’

Fumi's mood could be said to be extremely joyful. This kind of youthful love was really something she could enjoy.

As the saying goes, boredom can kill people. Life at the Shin'ou Main Shrine can be said to be extremely boring, and the development of Hiiragi Hiruko's love affair was "very interesting" to her. She was very interested in getting involved.

“However, I did a divination for that Mr. Hyakusuke.”

She continued to say with a smile, “He ah~~ seems to have a woman's misfortune. I also heard people say that there are many women around this person. Hiruko, if you don't work hard, he should be snatched away by someone soon, right?”

“Snatched away?”

“Good men are always targeted first. The people who like him may not only be you. Can you accept the fact that he is snatched away and is with someone else?”

Fumi noticed her confusion, but she wasn't too worried. Instead, she said with a smile, “You ah~~ haven't experienced what jealousy is until now, right?”

“Eh?”

“Hehe~ Maybe you'll understand soon.”

Fumi was full of confidence. She seemed to have expected it and said unhurriedly, “By that time, you will find it difficult to tolerate him being with other women, even if it's just contact, you will find it unbearable.”

Just as Fumi had predicted, Hiiragi Hiruko experienced what jealousy was. She developed a bleak, strong emotion towards the matter between those two people, between him and her.

“Miss Hiruko, are you alright?”

A hoarse male voice sounded.

Hiiragi Hiruko raised her head in surprise and found that it was Renjou Senjuurou.

“The climate in Mutsu Province is relatively extreme. It's colder here than in Dewa Province… Kasumi Castle still has the Heavenly God Sakura to provide shelter. For Miss Hiruko, after leaving Dewa, it should be a little uncomfortable.”

Renjou looked at her with a concerned expression.

“Great Miko are actually not suitable for leaving the land where the guardian deity resides. You actually didn't need to come here.”

“No.”

Hiiragi Hiruko shook her head: “I have this obligation.”

Saying this, she also took out a pendant from her chest. It was a pendant strung on a thin red string, which seemed to be a piece of wood.

“This is a part of Mahora's power. As long as you wear it on your body, it's like being within the borders of Dewa Province and can receive its blessing.”

Hiiragi Hiruko explained.

“Is that so.”

Renjou Senjuurou wasn't too surprised.

“Even so… Are you troubled by something? Otherwise, you wouldn't be sitting here alone.”

Troubled?

“Yes, I'm troubled.”

Hiiragi Hiruko lowered her eyes gloomily, revealing an expression that she didn't usually show. Her profile looked as if she was enduring something, covered in a shadow of unease.

“Is it about something related to that young man, Hyakusuke?”

Renjou asked casually.

The girl paused slightly, looking at him with some surprise.

“Well~ After all, everyone saw what happened last night.”

Renjou also showed a troubled expression.

He thought, what exactly is going on?

He was actually too lazy to care about the matters of that young man named Hyakusuke and the young master of the Tsukigahara family.

However, now this Great Miko, the daughter of that lord, was also involved.

‘I boasted before that I would help Hiruko find a suitable partner. I really didn't expect the situation to develop to this point… How could she fall in love with that brat.’

Renjou Senjuurou felt both helpless and amused.

He knew Hiruko's true identity. That lord was always paying attention to her.

Although the lord had said that she wouldn't be too picky about Hiruko's future husband, even Renjou didn't expect her to make this choice.

However, Renjou couldn't find a reason to stop her.

He sighed in his heart and said calmly: “Maybe I'm being nosy, but… just now Hyakusuke seemed to have gone into the forest. I thought he was preparing to set off, but it seems he went to meet someone.”

As soon as Renjou finished speaking, Hiiragi Hiruko couldn't sit still anymore. A bad premonition stirred deep in her chest.