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

Chapter 41 Tempting
the next day.

After learning that Tsukigara Yamei was unwell, the old man Matsudaira Inomaru, a retainer of the Tsukigara clan, decided to go alone to look for the "Sword Saint" Kibune Kyōunsai.

"Miss Ming, you need to have a good rest."

Old man Matsudaira discussed with Hyakusuke.

"Let's just take a day off today."

Bai Jie thought it was a good opportunity. He could take advantage of this day to deal with the items he brought from the treasure house.

"This thing is the unseasonable fragrant fruit. Honestly, it really looks like a rotten orange."

Baijie found a secluded spot in the nearby woods and took out the "treasures" he had obtained from the treasure house of the lake owner, Snow Yashahime.

The so-called "out-of-season fragrant fruit" is like a shriveled, shrunken orange, only the size of a thumb.

“…and it smells foul.”

Bai Jie couldn't help but feel disgusted and wanted to put the Fei Shi Xiang fruit away. However, after thinking it over, he opened his mouth and ate the Fei Shi Xiang fruit.

Click.

He crushed the rotten orange with his teeth and swallowed it.

The Fei Shi Xiang fruit melted in the mouth and turned into a liquid-like substance. Bai Jie drank it whole as a warm liquid that slid down his throat.

Suddenly, he felt as if his brain was hit hard by a huge hammer, and his mind was blank.

There was a moment of blankness, and Baijie lost consciousness briefly. The next second, he felt in a trance that the skin all over his body turned red and began to heat up.

In an instant, a terrifying stream of extremely hot and dry heat burst out from his heart.

boom!
From the depths of my heart, there seemed to be a huge current of heat spreading to my limbs and bones, filling my whole body with strength and overflowing to the extreme, making me so uncomfortable that I couldn't make a sound.

"Well……"

Baijie let out a low groan, sweat beads appeared on his forehead, his body was trembling, the veins on the backs of his hands were exposed, his palms were clenched tightly, and his muscles were tensed to the limit.

After a while, he gradually calmed down, reached out his hand and touched his heart.

"The spirit core... should have been generated."

——Deep in the heart, there is a crystallization of spiritual power, called the "Spirit Core".

The spirit core is the second spiritual power core generated in the body of a very small number of strong people in this game world who have undergone various trainings and participated in various life-and-death battles.

Psychics with the bloodline of exorcists are born with the ability to refine life energy into spiritual power from their dantian area.

In other words, the Dantian of the human body is the first spiritual power core, which can naturally generate spiritual power and does not require a second spiritual power core.

However, some extremely powerful people have achieved a level of control over their spiritual power that is so meticulous that they can collect the spiritual power that they unconsciously emit in daily life and regenerate a second spiritual power core somewhere in their body.

In this world, psychics constantly radiate spiritual energy from their bodies, just like body temperature, which gradually dissipates. This means that spiritual energy is generally consumed continuously.

However, after opening the Spirit Core, the spiritual energy that is naturally lost on a daily basis will be collected and stored in the Spirit Core. In battle, strong individuals can also release their Spirit Core to enhance their combat power, exerting spiritual power far exceeding two to three times the normal level.

"With this spiritual core, I can not only better control my own spiritual power, but also naturally absorb the spiritual power that is normally consumed into the spiritual core... In times of crisis, I can also burst out with double spiritual power."

Baijie muttered to himself.

After opening the spiritual core in the heart, my strength has also improved.

Of course, he still couldn't compare to the powerful exorcists in this world. In a special effects drama, he would be upgraded from an ordinary monster soldier to a higher-level soldier.

"But there are also special effects soldiers that can be upgraded to cadres. The more powerful soldiers can even become unit monsters. I just don't know if I can 'evolve' to that level."

Baijie shook his head and checked the Shukuchi Amulet he had obtained.

This is a life-saving artifact in the early stages of the game.

"Shrinking the Earth" is an advanced space spell in the game. The simplest use is to shrink the earth into an inch and speed up movement.

However, in the hands of a true practitioner like an Onmyoji who is proficient in the art of shrinking the earth, the uses of shrinking the earth can be said to be ever-changing.

Among the Yamato court's "Twelve Guardians of the Holy Land," that is, the court's twelve most powerful exorcists, there was a powerful one who was proficient in the art of shrinking the earth.

In her hands, she can teleport an entire team of soldiers to a location dozens of miles away in an instant, throw a powerful enemy in battle into the sky to kill him, or teleport him to deep water or the depths of a volcano.

"But this is just a Shukuchi Amulet."

Baijie sighed.

Fortunately, this amulet can also help him make short-distance space jumps.

Of course, the "shrinking the earth" activated by the amulet, that is, space jumping, has a cooling time and will consume more spiritual power.

But just think about it and you will know how powerful this thing will be in battle.

"Next is the 'Dream Tapir Egg'. It takes seven days to hatch. I need to continuously feed it with blood and spiritual energy. It will take three days at the fastest, and seven days at the slowest..."

It takes at least three days to hatch a stone egg, so let’s not talk about its function for now.

"And then, there's this thing, the mermaid's flesh."

Bai Jie took out the small silver-studded lacquer box, which looked like it was used to store cosmetics. There was a talisman written on white paper and cinnabar on the box.

"Eating it grants powerful regenerative abilities... For a weakling like me, it's the ultimate guarantee. No wonder the lake owner called it a 'special bonus.'"

He lifted the talisman and opened the silver box. Inside was not what he had imagined, fish or something like that, but a wriggling severed finger - this finger was obviously not that of a human, with black, slightly curved nails.

A closer look revealed traces of blood on the broken surface of the finger. "...Can you still move?"

Bai Jie had a bitter look on his face. He touched it a few times with his finger, and the broken finger bent slightly, as if it still had the will it had before it died.

"But, I just had to eat it."

He reached out, took out the severed finger, and put it in his mouth.

……

"Wuwuwuwu~~ It hurts so much..."

In the ox cart, Yue Jialuo Yeming curled up with tears in her eyes. On the one hand, she still felt extremely ashamed for what happened yesterday. On the other hand, she felt so uncomfortable because of the physical pain in her abdomen that she wanted to roll around.

"It's menstrual cramps."

Her step-sister Ayaka sighed and said, "Brother, I've made some medicine. You should feel better after drinking it."

"No~~I don't want to drink anything bitter."

She shook her head.

"Don't be so willful."

Ayaka pouted unhappily, her hands on her hips.

"If you don't take your medicine honestly, you'll continue to suffer..."

"Then how long will I be in pain?"

"Generally, it will ease within a day, but some people may take two to three days. The specific duration is also affected by personal constitution and the cause of dysmenorrhea."

"Wow... Why is it so hard to be a woman?"

Yue Jialuo Yeming groaned.

"Brother, you finally understand~~Being a woman is not a good thing. It's just menstruation now, which is not a big deal. If you give birth to a child, someone might die."

Ayaka sighed, "Ayaka doesn't mean to scare you, but you should find a way to break this 'curse' as soon as possible."

"Yes, yes."

Ye Ming answered in a wilted tone, her voice sounding weak.

"Brother."

Ayaka knelt down and held Ye Ming's face in her hands.

"Don't forget the responsibilities you bear... You are the eldest son of the Yuejia Luo family and the next head of the family."

"Of course I know."

Ye Ming puffed up her cheeks cutely.

"But it's not my fault that it turned out like this."

"Really? Ayaka doesn't intend to blame you for this."

Ayaka sighed tiredly.

"But...what's going on between my brother and that guy named Baijie?"

"Huh? What do you mean?"

Ye Ming tilted his head in confusion.

"...Brother really doesn't know, or he's deliberately pretending to be stupid."

Ayaka glared at her.

"Last night in the middle of the night...why did Lord Baijie bring you back? What is your relationship?"

"No... um... actually——"

She was stunned by the question, her eyes rolling around, and she seemed to be in a panic.

"No, nothing, I just happened to run into you."

"We happened to meet outside in the middle of the night?"

Ayaka's eyes grew gloomy.

"A man and a woman alone, two of them running to the strictly forbidden lake in the middle of the night... Brother, are you really not having a secret meeting with that man?"

"P-Private meeting... no, no?"

Ye Ming shook his head desperately.

Ayaka became more and more suspicious, and she felt that Yue Jialuo Yeming was wavering.

"Brother...are you attracted to that person?"

"Move, move your heart!"

Her cheeks instantly turned red as if she had a fever, and her eyes became uncertain.

(End of this chapter)