A supporting character in a romance anime? I became a god using a rat talisman.

Unlike Chiba, his ninja soldiers, once scattered or destroyed, would return to the Shadow Kingdom, and once they disappeared, they could not be summoned again.

This means that we can no longer use them as cannon fodder indiscriminately.

Qianyu counted them.

Excluding the two assigned to Valmont, he now only has sixteen ninja soldiers left.

"Even the poor who suddenly become rich still need to be careful with their money."

Chiyu sighed and waved his hand to disperse the ninja soldiers who were still waiting in the corner.

I really should consider having my own group of ninja soldiers.

Although these are disposable items now, the good thing is that they don't require wages or meals, so they're still quite worthwhile for doing manual labor and making some money.

What more could you ask for?

As for Valon, Chiyu wasn't worried at all.

He knew that man too well.

In the original story, Valon is a man of his word; if he says he wants money, he means it, regardless of any charms or masks.

None of those methods work; ultimately, they will only become tools for making money.

Furthermore, just to be on the safe side, Chiba had ninja soldiers monitor him around the clock, and they would notify him if any problems arose.

Having dealt with these matters that required thinking, Chiba's gaze finally fell back on Yukino.

The boy looked rather disheveled, with a patch of dark red blood seeping from the torn part of his shirt around his abdomen.

That's the mark left from when I was punched hard by that thug Mishima Kimi at the school stairwell.

Although Yukino kept holding back at the time.

But Qianyu knew very well that the punch was definitely not light.

He walked over and gently poked his own abdomen.

"hiss--!"

Yukino, wearing the Thousand Feathers shell, gasped and instinctively shrank back.

"Don't touch it, it hurts."

"Pain is normal."

Qianyu skillfully pulled out the readily available first-aid kit; as an orphan living alone, this was a necessity.

"Quick, take it off."

He held the iodine and cotton swabs, speaking without looking up.

"……what?"

Yukino paused for a moment, wondering if she had misheard.

"Take off your shirt, otherwise how can you apply the medicine through your clothes?"

Qianyu raised her head, her beautiful big eyes screaming, "Are you an idiot?"

"I……"

Yukino's face flushed red instantly.

Although he was using a male body, the shame he felt under the gaze of another person, especially one with his own handsome face, not only did not lessen but actually increased.

"Hurry up, or the wound will get infected and fester, and I'll be the one left with a scar."

Qianyu urged impatiently.

"We're all men... oh wait, now I'm a woman and you're a man. Anyway, it's my own body, so what's wrong with me?"

This kind of rogue logic left Yukino speechless. She bit her lip and did something that Chiba would never normally do.

One button at a time, he unbuttoned the shirt, and as the fabric slipped down, the boy's body was exposed to the air.

He wasn't particularly strong, but his physique was smooth and had a clear muscle outline.

Those are the marks left by long-term work and exercise.

Now, however, several shocking bruises have appeared on what was once clean skin.

"Tsk, that bastard really went all out."

Qianyu's eyes darkened, and the look of heartache she wore was completely genuine.

After all, if he were to switch back, he would be the one in pain.

Then he used a cotton swab dipped in disinfectant to gently wipe the wound.

Yukino gasped, her body instinctively shrinking back.

At this moment.

The afternoon sunlight streamed in through the gaps in the curtains, falling directly on Qianyu's profile.

Yukino looked at the face so close to hers.

That was the face she had been looking at in the mirror for eighteen years.

It is aloof, refined, and carries an air of haughtiness that keeps strangers at bay.

But at this moment, the expression in those eyes was something she had never seen before.

tender

"It might hurt a little, just bear with it."

Her thin lips parted slightly, uttering a warning tinged with a hint of doting affection.

The cotton swab gently touched the wound.

The stinging sensation was real, but for a moment, Yukino's brain seemed to short-circuit, completely ignoring the pain.

Her heart began to race.

It was even abnormally fast.

"Thump, thump, thump."

The sound echoed in her chest, making her eardrums tingle.

What happened?

Why do I feel so good-looking at this moment?

No, that's not right.

That wasn't me; it was Kazama Chiba.

But this gentleness, this feeling of being treated with care, and the faint fragrance emanating from the other person, mixed together to create a deadly chemical reaction, stimulating the hormones in Kazama Chiba's body.

Too foul.

That's really unfair.

Why is this person more attractive than she is in this body?

That protective instinct that emanated from his very bones, combined with his originally somewhat indifferent face, created an extremely deadly chemical reaction.

It's like driving a family car that you've had for several years, and you usually think it's just so-so.

Then suddenly a different race car driver takes over, and he does a ditch turn that's so cool you won't even recognize the car logo.

"Could it be..."

A terrible thought surfaced in Yukino's mind.

"Is this guy more suitable to be 'Yukino Yukinoshita' than me?"

This cognitive disorientation and sense of shame rushed to my head, even speeding up my blood circulation.

"What's wrong? Does it hurt a lot?"

Chiyu, who was focused on treating her wound, noticed that something was wrong.

He looked up, puzzled, at his face, which had instantly turned a deep liver color.

"Does he have a fever? Or did he get a concussion just now?"

Qianyu was about to reach out and touch her forehead.

Suddenly, two streams of warm liquid flowed down Yukino's nostrils without warning.

Tick.

"Holy crap?!"

Qianyu was startled, and the cotton swab in her hand almost poked into the wound.

"What's wrong with you?! Your internal injuries have flared up?! Xiao Ke! Put that damn pudding down right now! Call 120! No, call an ambulance!"

He frantically grabbed for tissues, his voice trembling. This was his body! What would happen if he got seriously injured?!

"No... no need!"

Yukino was so ashamed and furious she wanted to die.

So embarrassing.

That's so embarrassing.

As the eldest daughter of the Yukinoshita family, she actually swooned over her own face and even got a nosebleed?

If this gets out, Yukino Yukinoshita might as well just disappear from this earth for the rest of her life.

"It's just... the weather is too dry! I'm not used to this body's constitution!"

What a lame excuse.

Even she herself didn't believe it.

"What do you mean 'not'! It's already leaking like this, so it's not!"

Qianyu was clearly really anxious; it was his body!

What if he/she has some hidden illness?