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

Chapter 246 The Participants
"They've finally found an opportunity to suppress it..."

Adjusting his breathing and posture, Hyakusuke turned around and quickly assumed a defensive stance. He was somewhat confused by the situation just now, until his gaze fell on Rokuroku's figure, at which point he noticed the anomaly.

Rokukai originally had six swords, but after being attacked by Hyakusuke, he lost three swords, leaving only the last three.

However, the skeletal swordsman now wields a bone-white samurai sword in one of his hands—a sword resembling a rare and famous blade, with subtle ripples on its three-foot-seven-inch surface.

"...A fourth, extra greatsword?"

Bai Jie was slightly taken aback, but he quickly suppressed his surprise because he also discovered something else: one of the skeleton monster's six bone arms was missing, leaving only five bone arms.

'Of the three arms on the right side, one has disappeared. Could it be that—'

He realized—that bone-white samurai sword was originally one of the skeleton swordsman's arms.

'It was a bone hand, which it broke off and then transformed into that samurai sword…!'

That's absolutely right. This skeleton warrior, Rokukai, possesses this level of power, or rather, superpower. He transformed one of his bone arms into a bone katana, and it was this katana that caused him the severe injury.

"The knife... that's definitely it. It seems I underestimated this enemy. This guy had such a hidden trick up his sleeve, it's really unexpected."

Bai Jie stared intently at the three-foot-seven-inch samurai sword. The sword, formed from bone, exuded an extremely sharp sword aura. This bone sword far surpassed the three swords that had broken before, and was a weapon of weapon quality close to an A+ grade treasure sword.

For the skeletal swordsman, even ordinary iron becomes a rare and famous sword in his hands. After being enhanced by demonic energy, the power of the sword will increase directly.

The bone sword had just sliced ​​through the armor layer on Hyakusuke's right fist gauntlet, which meant that if this guy wanted to, it wouldn't be impossible to split him in two.

Buzz…!
Just then, the skeletal swordsman lowered his waist, gripped his greatsword in one hand, and assumed a fighting stance. His movements exuded a strong sense of oppression, and intense sword energy and flames of killing intent flickered.

coming soon!
boom!
A deep red, ferocious killing intent.

Hyakusuke's eyes widened in surprise once again.

He sensed something expanding within the skeleton swordsman's body in an instant.

Death struck directly, spreading indiscriminately and mercilessly.

Hundreds of unstoppable blades slashed down, causing his consciousness to become confused.

He died in that instant, as if death had come in this very way.

Death is the bodily fluids spilled out as the residue of life, scattered all over the ground in the form of pieces of flesh, bones, blood, and various other fragments of internal organs.

boom!
He suffered a fatal blow, followed only by an empty collapse.

"Be careful!!"

Suddenly, a familiar voice rang out.

call out!
A long blade blocked the bone-like broadsword.

The blades made a creaking, metallic sound as if they were biting together.

"Are you... alright?"

Ye Ming appeared in front of him, and in that instant, she chased after him, taking the initiative to swing her sword to block the attack for him.

clang!
A clanging sound came from the void, bursting into brilliant sparks, and the blade's strike was deflected.

Although the bone broadsword is a powerful sword, its material quality is still inferior to that of the superior Mizutsu sword.

The skeletal swordsman, who appeared out of nowhere, clashed with Night Sword. Ordinary swords would quickly crack like tofu when they clashed with this skeletal greatsword, shattered by the skeletal swordsman's demonic aura.

However, Ye Ming's Mizuzu Sword successfully blocked the Bone Treasure Blade.

The two forces collided and erupted, even the skeletal swordsman...
"……Great."

Bai Jie quickly thanked her.

"Thank you for saving me again."

"What happened... It's a crucial moment in the battle, yet you're just standing there motionless?"

Ye Ming recounted to him, in a puzzled tone, what had just happened in that brief moment.

"is it?"

Hearing Ye Ming's words, Bai Jie nodded.

"That must be some kind of evil technique from Rokushaku, a sword move similar to sorcery. I was almost completely bewildered."

"We need to be very careful."

Ye Ming stood beside him, raising her sword with both hands and assuming a high stance.

"I'll hold out for a while; you should focus on healing your injuries..."

"I see."

Bai Jie noticed that her right hand had been reattached. He nodded silently and began to cast a healing spell on himself, while simultaneously activating "Mermaid's Grace" to enhance his regenerative power.

'However... it's too much for Yeming to handle this enemy alone. When will the others be able to get here?'

Just then, the girl remained silent. In a flash, footsteps moved—and in the next instant, she appeared beside the skeletal swordsman.

The black-haired girl launched the attack, raising her blade and slashing it out like lightning; her movements combined stillness and speed.

The skeletal swordsman blocked the attack with his left-hand katana; however, this was a misjudgment. In that instant, Yoru adopted the Hyakusuke fighting style, his blade imbued with destructive power.

The katana in Rokukai's hand was cut in half, the blade shattering into pieces.

Several knives in its other hand also thrust out. Yeming reversed the blade to defend nimbly, while Liu Kuai also swiftly swung his knife, aiming for her throat.

Ye Ming also shouted in response, and the two exchanged ten, twenty, thirty, forty moves in one breath... Sparks flew between the two, and the sound of metal clashing rose and fell like a symphony.

Yeming and Liuhai took turns attacking and defending, each using their swords to block the slashes while trying to strike the other with their own blades.

The clanging and clashing of swords against each other was as rhythmic as the timbre of a beautiful musical instrument.

Only the most skilled swordsmen can play this kind of battlefield melody.

'Incredible... Yoru's movements perfectly kept up with Rokukai's sword strikes...'

Hyakusuke's face was filled with surprise.

In the previous battle, Yeming was at a significant disadvantage in his duel with Liu Kuai, and was at a disadvantage when exchanging sword skills.

However, Ye Ming's current strength is enough to confront Liu Kuai head-on, and her sword techniques have completely kept up with his speed.

—At least without using the Limit Break, Yoru's movements will never be slower than Hyakusuke or Rokukai.

A strange light appeared in Hyakusuke's eyes; he realized that Yoru's strength had improved again.

'Unless they reach the limit, the speed of Rokukai's swordplay is not much different from hers; they are evenly matched...'

He was also filled with shock. What did this mean? It meant that the girl was getting closer and closer to the realm of "the end".

'At this stage, neither Rokukai nor I can continue to advance to the limit, because we've already expended a lot of energy. In this state, Yoru has a certain chance of winning.'

He felt a sense of excitement.

Just as Bai Jie had guessed, after several clashes, Liu Kuai judged that such mutual fighting was meaningless. The opponent's strength had increased, while it itself was unable to enter the limit again due to excessive consumption.

In an instant, the cunning skeletal swordsman changed tactics again. It twisted its body, spinning its longsword as it hurled it forward—

Ye Ming drew out the True World King sword with his left hand and deflected it in mid-air. It was just an ordinary sword and shattered instantly.

In that instant, a burning chill ran through Ye Ming's heart. In a fraction of a second, the girl's dark eyes noticed that the broken sword in Rokurokushi's hand had disappeared, and a strong sense of incongruity arose within her.

The next second, Rokukai kicked out sand and dust, mimicking Hyakusuke's move, shoveling up the surrounding sand and sending countless grains of sand flying like bullets.

Bang!
As Ye Ming moved to the right, Bai Jie behind her also moved to the left, dodging countless bullet-like grains of sand.

However, Yoru's movement closely followed Rokukai's figure, rotating clockwise as she slid along an arc while swinging her sword.

In that instant, taking advantage of the chaos, Rokukai swung out his right foot, the blade still attached to the toe.

The skeletal swordsman, Rokukai, used the bones of his left big toe and index toe to grip the hilt of his broken sword and thrust out the blade.

The superb sword technique of using the foot to clamp the knife and swing it upwards is something that ordinary swordsmen would never think of or perform.

Unable to defend himself in that instant, Yoruichi could only retreat along with the momentum of the blade. Rokukai's body was in an upside-down position as he horizontally swung the broken blade on his left foot to attack.

In an instant, a spray of blood mist erupted, and the two figures simultaneously distanced themselves from each other.

"It's really scary."

Ye Ming felt as if she had survived a disaster. There was a bloody mark on her neck, and her clothes were cut off at the chest, from which blood was flowing.

Fortunately, it was just a superficial wound; the skin was cut open, but the muscle was not damaged. However, if she hadn't retreated in time, that cut would have been enough to kill her.

"I'll help too."

Bai Jie also took a deep breath. He wiped the blood from his right hand. His right hand injury had healed, but his body had not fully recovered. He was still weak and exhausted, but his black pupils shone with confidence.

“Unlike before, if we join forces now, our chances of defeating it will be much greater…”

He spoke as he read aloud to Ye Ming.

"Like me, Liu Hai has also expended a lot of energy. It will take some time before he can re-enter the Limitless Realm. Perhaps we can find a way to defeat him in the meantime, but... we also need to be careful, as he still has some trump cards up his sleeve."

'Are you referring to the sorcery that just confused you and prevented you from defending yourself?'

"Pretty much. It's some kind of attack based on sword intent, forming a mental domain. However, as long as you're not within the attack's range or haven't been targeted, you won't be greatly affected."

'So, that's a power similar to the Heart-Breaking Barrier?'

"Yes."

Hyakusuke conjured a spear in his right hand and unleashed a powerful thrusting spear technique from the Flying God's Fang Stream. This was one of his killing moves, "Dragon Spin," where the spear spun in his hand as it thrust out.

Liu Hai swung his left hand out with a blade, the last piece of ordinary iron, which bounced back.

The spear charged again, and in the second and third rounds, sparks flew as the blade shattered once more.

Ye Ming also seized the opportunity to attack. She used that quiet sliding step and moved with lightning speed, slashing down from right to left. Liu Kuai quickly swung out his bone greatsword and blocked it with his backhand.

The two slashes collided like a cross, bursting forth with blazing red sparks.

At the same time, Hyakusuke also lunged forward, launching a second attack with his spear. Rokukai had no choice but to pull out his other arm and quickly transform it into a bone sword. In this way, he held two swords on each side, but the number of bone arms also changed from six to four.

"For this guy, even if he goes from having 'six arms' to having 'four arms,' it's not a particularly big loss."

Ye Ming realized this.

This monster, the Bone Swordsman, has not become weaker. On the contrary, because its bone greatsword is both tough and hard, it is unlikely that our side can destroy it easily.

She had heard Hyakusuke mention the tactic of destroying Rokumei's weapon before. According to him, this seemed to be a common tactic used by heroes throughout history to fight against humanoid demons who could use weapons (in the game "Oborozuki no Akechi", limbs and weapons can be destroyed).

The three warriors, whether spearmen, swordsmen, or skeletal monsters, engaged in a fierce exchange of sword thrusts, spear stabs, and slashes in that instant.

Both Hyakusuke and Yoru felt the pressure as the skeletal swordsman unleashed a storm of power with his two large bone swords.

Suddenly accelerating, accelerating, and accelerating again… it seemed to transform itself into a slashing attack, an offensive and sword technique unlike anything seen before. The skeletal skeleton merged its body with its twin blades into one, flowing, undulating, and unpredictable.

Right, left, right, left, right, left... Both Bai Jie and Ye Ming could see each other's moves clearly, but they had the illusion that they could see them clearly but couldn't grasp the actual speed, and didn't know whether the opponent's sword moves were fast or slow.

'It shouldn't be slow... The attacks from the right and left look like they're striking simultaneously.'

However, in reality, it was a storm of hundreds or even thousands of strikes delivered in the blink of an eye, a deadly attack that kept viewers glued to their screens, making them forget to breathe.

boom!
In that instant, Hyakusuke and Yoru were as if blown away by a violent gust of wind, instinctively retreating backward.

In that instant, Rokukai adopted a strange stance, raising his twin swords to the left and right, assuming a bizarre high-level move.

"Is this...is this the beginning of the final stage?"

Ye Ming asked the question out of doubt.

"No, watch out for its sword attacks!!"

Bai Jie shouted immediately.

The six movements were relentless and showed no signs of stopping.

Instead, it was a force expanding outwards, drawing everything around it in. The overwhelming killing intent and sword energy pulled everything around it inwards.

Both Hyakusuke and Yoruichi froze.

They could all see their shattered future.

This is the "Phantom Sword Technique" that Liu Hai learned from the Sword Saint. It uses sword skills and powerful willpower to create a mental barrier that can cause even martial artists of the same level to fall into confusion.

"not good!"

This was a very dangerous sign. If he had been even half a beat slower, Hyakusuke knew that he and Yoru would have been cut to pieces by Rokurokumo.

call out!
A golden beam of light pierced through the air, disrupting the Six Bones' flawless Illusion Sword Domain. The skeletal swordsman was forced to swing his sword to block the incoming arrow from William Tyrell.

With a clang, the rusty arrow was deflected.

"Don't worry...we're all on our way."

Matsudaira's voice rang out.

(End of this chapter)