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

Chapter 15 Celebration Banquet and Forced Smile
To celebrate Cai Zang and his crew for rescuing his granddaughter, the village chief Ji Ding generously took out food for the winter and bought wild boar, rabbit and venison from hunters, and stewed them in a big iron pot until they were fragrant.

The farmhands and maids also came to help. When night fell, Cai Zang and Ji Ding drank and chatted in the living room, and Kozaburo sat with them.

The others were eating and drinking in the yard. For the ninjas, this was a rare break - multi-grain porridge was also cooked in the pot prepared for the Genin.

It also comes with miso soup made with tofu and green onions, and local delicacies such as stewed radish and stewed shiitake mushrooms.

Side dishes also include taro, chestnuts, yam, boiled rice cakes, fish cakes, and dried persimmons for dessert.

For a village in the north, this "celebration banquet" was quite lavish. The vast majority of Genin were from poor peasants or tenant farmers, forced to do this "life-shortening" work because of the indentures they signed.

On the other hand, given their family financial situation, they rarely have any oil or water on a daily basis, so such food is a rare feast for them.

Genin are people who are born with spiritual power, and their appetite is much more abundant than that of ordinary people. On weekdays, the meals at Kurohimeyama are three meals a day (common civilians usually have two meals a day).

Although I could eat enough rice to fill myself up, every day I had porridge mixed with brown rice and mixed rice, as well as pickled vegetables and kimchi.

From the perspective of modern people, it is completely a "vital sign maintenance meal" and is even worse than the South Korean army canteen.

After all, the South Korean soldiers have their own canteen, so the Genin can only hope to catch some game occasionally...

On the other hand, the meals provided to the Genin also showed that the village chief's family had extraordinary financial resources.

Although he is now the village chief of a poor village, Ji Ding seems to have been a medicinal herb merchant in the past. Ye Ya's father also died of illness while traveling around as a businessman. Even now, the family is quite wealthy.

"It's really lively."

Baijie sighed and did not participate in the banquet.

After all, he still has very important things to do.

Baijie walked out of the yard, found a place near the corner, and took out the used ninja sword from his belt. With the help of the bright moonlight in the night sky, he carefully examined the sword in his hand.

These ninja swords are all cheap products, and they will have various problems after being used for a long time, including rust and pitting, blade edge collapse, cutting edge breakage, and blade bending.

"Fortunately, the blade isn't crooked or curled, so it should still be usable for a while."

After a large impact, the blade is bent out of a straight line, and tools are needed to straighten and level the blade.

If the blade gets bent, it will be even more troublesome.

He took out the deerskin and wiped the blade, thinking that he would have to sharpen it again when he got back.

After doing all this, Baijie checked the spear he brought with him. This spear was a "straight spear" with a simple shape and a blade like a Xiao leaf, and was called a Sasho spear.

The shaft of this spear is not made of bamboo, but has a very hard wooden core. This wood core is taken from the sacred tree of the shrine, and its toughness can be guaranteed.

Bai Jie mainly checked whether the connection between the gun barrel and the gun head was firm. If the gun head broke during combat, it would be fatal.

Suddenly, a timid voice sounded in his ears.

"Um... I came to bring you some food..."

Baijie turned his head and was surprised to find that it was the village chief's granddaughter Ye Ya. She was a petite girl with long hair in a princess style, who looked like a Japanese doll. Although she was very young, she was already a beauty.

"This... is meatballs made with venison and wild vegetables."

She carefully handed over a plate.

"Thank you, Miss Ye Ya."

Baijie took the plate and was surprised that this girl appeared in front of him.

"Also, I want to apologize for what happened before."

Ye Ya lowered his head.

"It was clearly because of me that I said such harsh words to you... I only now realize how worried everyone was about what I did. Even Grandfather was worried, and he didn't even say anything harsh to me..."

When she met her grandfather again, she burst into tears.

After that, something strange about the girl disappeared all of a sudden.

Bai Jie was deeply surprised. From his perspective, the sense of disharmony that had been lingering around the girl was like a haze that had been swept away.

Perhaps, for other people, it should be that the girl finally woke up after experiencing what happened today.

However, Baijie had a different opinion. "Hypnosis, or suggestion... it should be interference on the mental level."

His eyes also became deep.

It can now be confirmed that in the Inamori Village incident in the game, there are indeed inside stories that players don’t know about.

"And yet, I still can't let it go. I...now, I can finally confirm that those mountain children were deceiving me. Monsters can lie. Why...why did I believe those monsters?"

Big tears rolled down her drooping face.

"I must have been so stupid. I just thought you were a bad person. I'm so sorry... In a village like this, no one wants to be my friend. I can only deceive myself and make myself believe that the mountain children are friendly... Even now, I still wonder if this is just an illusion, and all this is fake—"

"is it?"

Baijie had a blank expression on his face, he didn't care about these things.

"So, Miss Ye Ya, will you run away from home again?"

"Will not."

The girl shook her head and wiped her tears: "I won't do this kind of thing again, and I won't cause trouble to everyone again..."

She whispered to herself, "Grandfather said he'd send me to the city so I could learn how to run a medicinal herb business like my father did. I probably won't stay in the village anymore... Although no one blames me, I don't want to be a child forever."

"Alright."

Baijie finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"Well, thank you again. By the way... could you tell me your name?"

She composed herself and bowed deeply to him.

"Baijie."

He gave this false name.

"Next time we meet, I will definitely try my best to repay Mr. Baijie."

The girl clutched her clothes at her chest.

"I will be a good boy and won't let you down."

It seems that the girl has made her own decision.

Baijie sighed secretly.

This way, she shouldn't suffer a second bad ending.

"So--"

Next, it’s your own battle.

……

Late at night.

Just when Baijie made the decision to completely put an end to the incident in Inamori Village, in the secluded mansion on Kurohimeyama, Tsuki Kara Yamei was sitting face to face with his fiancée.

She was in a complicated and mixed mood, feeling very nervous and at ease as she was led into a luxurious Japanese-style room by a maid holding a lantern.

This room is decorated with golden walls and exquisite screen paintings on all sides, and the background is also golden. If visitors look around, they will find that the walls are covered with wandering dragons, lions, pine trees, plum blossoms, mountains and rivers, and flowing clouds. I don’t know if it’s gold foil, but the background ground and clouds are a light gold color.

"It's been a long time since I last greeted you, Lord Ye Ming."

A silver-haired girl knelt in the middle of the room, her hands on the ground, while the maid who had finished leading the way retreated to the paper-barrier door at the back.

Kurohimeyama Kohagi, his fiancée.

She was kneeling on the tatami, her long silver hair neatly gathered behind her back.

"I'm extremely sorry for what happened earlier... My subordinates' error in judgment nearly cost you your life. I hope you can forgive me."

The more solemn the apology was, the more embarrassed Ye Ming felt, and his expression could only be described as "forced smile".

(End of this chapter)