Inside the ancient ruins, a black-haired boy supported himself against the stone wall, holding a magic wand in his right hand, limping toward the exit.
The blue light at the tip of his staff flickered in the darkness, barely illuminating the path ahead.
Not long ago, he had fallen from the first floor of the ruins.
At the moment of landing, he suddenly recalled memories of his past life on Blue Star, realizing that he was now inside a game he had played in that previous life.
According to his past life memories, he was in a story-driven yuri game.
The plot was the classic tale of the hero and the demon lord—the destined heroine leveled up, defeated monsters, and effortlessly seduced a bunch of beautiful girls along the way.
As a veteran player who had completed countless playthroughs, he knew every plot point and mechanic like the back of his hand.
So, now that he knew the script, surely he could escape from the monsters alive, right?
Wrong!
He was Xi Ya, a nameless cannon fodder male who died in the prologue, so weak he had no presence.
In the game, he only appeared for a short scene in the first chapter.
After being tempted by the demon god sealed in the ruins, he tried to ambush the heroine but was discovered instead, fell into a trap, and died in the ruins.
And after that, he would transform into a monster, escape the ruins, and deliver some experience points to the heroine—a total XP pack.
But you ask why Xi Ya was still alive?
That brings us to what happened at the bottom of the ruins.
In the deepest cave, Xi Ya found a sword stuck in a crack.
Before he could recall which sword this was in the game, he was surrounded by monsters.
In desperation, he pulled out the sword to fight the monsters.
As a result, he turned into a girl, and a lot of swordsmanship knowledge suddenly appeared in his head.
After slaughtering his way up, Xi Ya remembered that this very sword had sealed the demon god.
But the expected scene of being possessed by the demon god did not happen, which left him very puzzled.
Logically, since he pulled out the sword and broke the demon god’s seal, shouldn’t he have been possessed directly?
But instead of being possessed and losing consciousness, he turned into a girl.
Was that right?
Even stranger, when fighting those monsters, he wielded the sword with ease, as if he were a skilled swordsman from the start.
The monsters that should have been deadly to him were easily dispatched with a few casual swings, like slicing vegetables.
Compared to his current crippled constitution that depleted all mana after just two spells, ‘she’ had completely outclassed this body in both stamina and magic.
Was this the kind of cheat from those novels where you transform into a beautiful girl and massacre everyone?
He got to experience it himself today.
Luckily, he could change back, otherwise he wouldn’t know what to do.
Anyway, he had survived for now.
After walking for who knows how long, Xi Ya could already see sunlight shining in from the exit ahead.
“Cough, cough…”
His lungs stung, and he couldn’t help coughing twice.
Although he had escaped from the monsters, his physical condition was still terrible.
Mana depleted, stamina exhausted, covered in wounds.
He worried if he could make it to the exit.
If any monster showed up now, he would be finished here.
Almost there…
“Hiss—hiss—”
The sound came from deep within the cave, like something dragging across the ground.
Xi Ya’s heart leaped.
‘Damn, speak of the devil.’
He didn’t dare look back; his steps involuntarily quickened.
It was said the monsters here were created by dark magic and feared sunlight.
If he could just reach that place…
Just as he was about to step into the light, a ball of purple liquid came whizzing from the darkness.
Xi Ya immediately pushed off the wall, dodging sideways just in time, but his legs lost balance and he fell heavily to the ground.
A sizzling corrosion sound came from in front.
He looked up and saw a large chunk of the wall had been eaten away where it was hit, the charred edges still smoking.
Cold sweat instantly soaked his back.
If he had been hit by that, he would probably have been reduced to a pile of bones on the spot.
“Hiss~~”
The sound was right next to him.
Xi Ya turned his head stiffly.
A giant demon snake was coiled behind him.
Its body was as thick as the stone pillars in the ruins, its jet-black scales gleaming with a cold light in the dim cave.
Its huge mouth was already open, and purple liquid dripped from two sharp fangs.
‘Can’t escape.’
Xi Ya lowered his head and closed his eyes tightly.
‘It’s over.’
[Sword Technique: Gale]
A wind blade passed over Xi Ya’s head, striking the demon snake’s neck precisely.
The snake’s head was sliced off by the wind blade.
The headless body fell instantly and dissipated into black smoke along with the head.
Xi Ya opened his eyes and found the demon snake gone.
“You really kept me waiting, Xi Ya.”
A crisp female voice came from the entrance.
Xi Ya quickly turned around.
At the entrance of the ruins, a young girl was leaning against a stone pillar.
The girl held a sword in one hand and the other on her hip.
Her amber eyes were fixed on him with a hint of surprise.
She wore a deep red school uniform dress with silver trim, her right leg slightly bent, the toe of her short boot lightly touching the ground, and white thigh-high socks creased at the knee.
Under the setting sun, her elongated shadow made her figure appear even more slender.
Her pink hair was tinged with rosy light, and the ahoge on her head curved into a crescent shape.
“Feili?”
Xi Ya immediately recognized the pink-haired girl.
She was Feili Granwell, the heroine controlled by the player in the game.
The light was dim, so he couldn’t see her face clearly, but that signature ahoge on her head was unmistakable.
And those flat little mounds on her chest—they might be considered normal size on Blue Star in his past life, but in this game, very few female characters were that small.
Feili was at most a flat board.
A smile played on Feili’s lips.
She let go of her left hand from her waist and walked slowly toward Xi Ya, sword in hand.
“What do you want?”
Xi Ya pressed his hand on the wound on his leg that had split open again, staring at Feili warily.
Although Feili had killed the demon snake, Xi Ya didn’t think she was here to save him.
From his understanding of Feili as the game’s protagonist, Feili always repaid grudges.
Anyone she considered an enemy would eventually be dealt with by her.
Just this morning, he had been tempted by the demon god and set her up.
From that moment, Feili had regarded him as an enemy.
Now Feili definitely wanted to kill him herself.
“Xi Ya, whose magic barely passed the passing line and almost couldn’t defeat a low-level golem in the entrance exam—how did he manage to come up from the depths of the ruins all by himself…”
Feili stopped mid-sentence, the smile fading from her lips.
“Oh no, I misspoke~ I should call you Blood Demon God Meiluodi, right?”
Blood Demon God?
How did she know about the Blood Demon God now?
According to the game’s plot, Feili wouldn’t know about the Blood Demon God until at least the second chapter, and learning that the Blood Demon God had escaped from these ruins came in even later chapters.
And now it was only the first chapter.
Not to mention the Blood Demon God, Feili shouldn’t even know that he had been tempted by the demon god.
She probably thought he was framed by some noble.
So why did she know…
Xi Ya thought it was impossible no matter how he considered it, but with his past life memories, he thought of one possibility—Feili had been reborn.
Then didn’t that mean Feili knew that in the script he would turn into a monster in the ruins and attack the town, and she came here early to eliminate this threat?
If that was the case, no matter how he explained, Feili would treat him as the demon god deliberately disguised and would not show any mercy.
“Demon god? What ‘lodi’?”
Xi Ya wanted to struggle a bit.
He clearly hadn’t been possessed by the Blood Demon God, and he didn’t want to die here unjustly.
“Feili, what are you talking about?
Don’t mock my entrance exam results.
I need treatment now…”
“Heh, stop pretending.”
Feili’s voice suddenly changed, becoming eerie and frightening.
She raised her sword.
Golden holy light blazed along the blade—it was Holy Magic, the blessing of the Supreme Goddess Venus, capable of dealing fatal damage to demons and even demon gods.
The golden light illuminated the stone wall and half of her face.
Any trace of warmth had vanished from her expression.
“Do you think you can fool me like this?”
She tilted her head, her voice becoming very soft, as if talking to herself.
“Don’t worry, Xi Ya… I will avenge you properly.”
A gust of wind passed through the ruins, lifting her pink hair.
It was a gentle breeze, but it sent a chill down Xi Ya’s spine.
“Feili, don’t, I’m not…”
“Goodbye, demon god.”
The sword swung down.
“Feili, don’t!”
From outside the ruins, a shout stopped her.