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

“Please let go.”

Hiiragi Hiruko shook her head.

“There's no need to save me anymore.”

She was consumed by regret, tormented by remorse, and weighed down by painful repentance.

“If I die, it will be better for everyone.”

The thought only intensified her guilt.

“Really?”

Hyakusuke asked calmly, “Are you serious? I was commissioned by Mahoraba to save you. Is this idea that ‘it will be better for everyone’ your own?”

“Wh-what?”

Hiiragi Hiruko stared blankly into the air, her eyes wide.

Her black and white eyes revealed no emotion, only a startling emptiness.

“...I...”

She couldn't speak.

She only emitted sounds like a broken doll.

Taking advantage of her dazed state, Hyakusuke exerted his strength and pulled her up from the cliff.

“You shouldn't have saved me.”

The girl lowered her head, tears welling up.

“My current body is hard to kill. That was the best chance to ‘kill me’.”

It's over… everything is over.

Hyakusuke saw the expression on her face and sighed inwardly, not expecting that he would have to do ideological work for this shrine maiden.

“And you don't really want to die, otherwise you could have taken out your heart… but, Miss Hiruko, you didn't do that, and you don't want to die, do you?”

“I?”

Hiiragi Hiruko blankly looked at her hands, and the next moment, she sobbed in confusion, large tears rolling down her cheeks.

Her hands kept wiping away the tears.

“N-no… I shouldn't have lived. This was all my fault. How many people were hurt because of me…”

The girl's voice gradually mixed with sobs as she shook her head while crying.

She truly loathed herself, and was utterly disappointed in herself.

“But, if Miss Hiruko is determined to die, that's just ‘escaping responsibility’.”

Hyakusuke half-squatted down.

“B-but… I can't face everyone anymore. How can I bear the so-called responsibility?”

She lowered her head in frustration, covering her face with her hands.

With each word, the overflowing tears increased.

“Then please ask others for help.”

Hyakusuke said calmly, “When Miss Hiruko feels stressed, just ask others to help you. This world is not a place where you can survive alone, and you are not alone.”

He told her calmly.

“Try it. When you can't do it, ask others for help… Mahoraba, or others, as long as you ask for help, someone will help you.”

“I, can I do that?”

She wiped the tears from her face haphazardly, sniffed hard, and looked over like a helpless child.

“Of course.”

Hyakusuke nodded.

“There are more people willing to help you than you think…”

He reached out his right hand.

“Soon, the sun will rise… Miss Hiruko, if you want everything to return to normal, start drinking my blood now.”

“Wh-what do you mean?”

She was a little puzzled.

“This is also what Tenjin Sakura Mahoraba said. You have absorbed the power of Akaten Tora. After its soul was shattered, you devoured most of it. The power of the sun and the curse of blood are in a state of balance.”

Hyakusuke continued, “But if this balance is broken, Akaten Tora will make a comeback, using the fragments of its soul to be reborn. To prevent this from happening, you need to maintain your own power as a True Ancestor vampire.”

He added.

“From now on, you must regularly drink blood, maintaining the minimum level of vampire power… Of course, you can no longer use purification powers to ‘save people’ casually. You used to drink blood to save people, but now you must do it to maintain your own balance.”

Hyakusuke also reminded her.

Vampires mainly feed on human blood. The blood of wild animals can only barely sustain them. The best way is to drink blood at regular intervals, at least the 'amount' of an adult's entire body of blood per month.

“You can drink my blood now.”

“B-but.”

Hiiragi Hiruko stammered.

“Really, do I have to drink blood?”

There were still tears in the corners of her eyes, and she trembled slightly.

In the past, she had always done “blood drinking”, but that was only to treat patients or those suffering from curses.

Hiiragi Hiruko resisted the act of drinking blood from the bottom of her heart. Every time she recalled being forced to save people in this way, a strong bitterness rose in her mouth.

“There's nothing to worry about.”

Hyakusuke rolled up his sleeve, revealing his right arm.

“Although True Ancestor-level vampires have a very low need for human blood, it is also very difficult to completely overcome the urge to drink blood… Miss Hiruko doesn't need to think too seriously about the problem. This is itself ‘treating’ you, and you are also very thirsty, right?”

At that moment, hearing the words “very thirsty,” Hiiragi Hiruko felt something awaken in her body.

She looked at the man's arm, swallowing saliva in large gulps.

Vampires have difficulty overcoming their innate flaws, which is the thirst for blood.

The man's physique was strong, and his complexion was healthy. His right arm was covered with muscles, and she could faintly see the blue veins—

She seemed to be able to smell a sweet fragrance, which was the aura emanating from a strong life force.

Hiiragi Hiruko couldn't control her movements. She opened her fangs and bit into the arm, sucking the blood.

There was no uncomfortable feeling.

Oh my god, the taste of this blood is so wonderful!

Gradually, she narrowed her eyes in intoxication. Unlike the blood she had drunk in the past, there was no unpleasant astringency. This blood had an intoxicating, obsessive, sweet bloody taste.

The moment it entered her throat, she seemed to be injected with an anesthetic, her mouth filled with a sweet taste, numbing all her senses.

The taste of blood lingered in her mouth like an aftertaste. This was a deliciousness that she truly felt and couldn't resist.

…

Glug, glug.

Hyakusuke could feel the sensation of blood loss in an instant. Hiiragi Hiruko was frantically sucking his blood.

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He felt dizzy from the blood loss.

However, it didn't matter. Although this feeling was uncomfortable, he could still bear it.

Moreover, Hyakusuke knew that he wouldn't die even if he lost too much blood. The regeneration mechanism of mermaid flesh was also playing a role in his body.

“That is, while losing blood, the body is also frantically producing blood.”

Suddenly, Hiiragi Hiruko stopped and coughed a few times.

“Are you okay… Miss Hiruko, did you choke?”

“N-no, I'm fine.”

She lightly bit her lower lip, concealing her vampire fangs.

“I'm sorry… for making you do this for me. I, I still don't know your name.”

“Name?”

Hyakusuke thought about his original name and shook his head.

“I'm just a servant of the Kurohimeyama family. Miss Hiruko can just call me Hyakusuke.”

“Thank you.”

She showed a smile like a small flower by the roadside.

…

The winter sun rose.

The next day, Tenjin Sakura finally returned to normal.

After the space locked by the “Tokiuta Barrier” was lifted, Kudzu coldly looked at the huge cherry tree in the distance.

The divine cherry tree bloomed with beautiful cherry blossoms, and powerful divine energy was released from these cherry blossoms.

“That gloomy woman… really did some good things!”

Kudzu was very angry, but she also knew that she couldn't do anything to that woman now.

The battle between the two in the barrier ultimately ended in a draw.

However, considering that Ohagi was simultaneously maintaining the “Tokiuta Barrier,” and also multitasking, controlling clones while fighting herself, her upper limit of strength should be stronger than she had estimated.

“Also, she didn't force out the new demon swords with lower numerical rankings in her hands… the eighth-ranked ‘Akegarasu,’ the tenth-ranked ‘Shirohige’… the eleventh-ranked ‘Shura Yagamaru,’ all have the power to make people feel chills.”

Kudzu thought, as for the thirteenth-ranked “Bandō Dokugumo,” the fifteenth-ranked “Arashi Ikazuchi,” and even the demon swords ranked higher, they could no longer be considered within the category of swords.

In contrast, although she tried her best to modify her body, she could only barely draw with that woman.

“What a disgusting woman.”

Kudzu touched her neck, her fingertips stroking the smooth skin.

“She cut my neck seven times again… it seems I have to revise my plan.”

The girl thought, through this “incident” in Kasumi City, she reaffirmed one thing: Kurohimeyama Ohagi is her enemy.

…No, she will also become her beloved man's enemy.

The reason is simple: what she wants to do, the goal she wants to fulfill, will ultimately cause this woman to stand on the opposite side of “him”—

Just as light and darkness are clearly distinct, they will always be opposed.

That person cannot accept what she does, even if it is under the guise of being beneficial to him.

He will not forgive this kind of thing. When he knows, he will reject everything and regard this woman's behavior as “evil”—from this, it can be seen that Kurohimeyama Ohagi has become an “obstacle.”

She must replace “him,” help “him,” and get rid of this woman.

If he is unwilling to get his hands dirty, then she will do it for him.

“I will definitely kill you.”

She bit her lip, her whole body filled with faint killing intent.

…

The Kasumi City incident was considered “resolved.”

No, it can't really be called a resolution.

Hyakusuke did not participate in the subsequent events.

He only “heard” that—the culprit who caused all this was a retainer of the lord of the castle, Suō, named “Akamatsu Mitsusuke.”

This person committed treason, secretly imprisoned the lord of the castle, kidnapped the lord's young son, Tsuruchiyo-kun, poisoned the well water in the castle, and created the infectious disease called “Filth Plague.”

Akamatsu Mitsusuke also secretly murdered the high priestess of the Kami Sakura headquarters, spread rumors unfavorable to this shrine maiden, and was also in league with the villains of the “Hapfuku Association.” Together, they spread curses on Tenjin Sakura Mahoraba, destroyed the divine cherry tree's barrier, and caused very tragic effects.

Well, this is all “embellished” information, or rather, a propaganda campaign.

At least the information circulating among the people is roughly like this, and the truth is only known to a few people.

Hyakusuke didn't worry too much about the aftermath. He was, after all, a servant of Kurohimeyama. Even if he made a contribution this time, it didn't mean that he needed to handle these problems.

Now, his worries are in some other things—

“Now that things have come to this, there's nothing to hide… I love you!!!”

—Well, that's really troublesome.

Being secretly invited to a secluded grove and then confessed to like this is, for the current Hyakusuke, a truly headache-inducing crisis.