Chapter 74

〈Chapter 73〉 Section 3. Transformation isn't just for Riders! (9)

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Yumir is the protagonist.

Yumir is the protagonist who has undergone TS.

I did think about it.

No, I just had the thought, but I never seriously considered it could actually be true.

After all, the protagonist in the original work was a notorious troublemaker who expanded his harem to two seats.

He had turned foreign women into his harem to inject the maximum amount of national pride, and then ruled like a king on Sejong Island.

If the original work had been an 18+ novel, the protagonist would have impregnated every heroine he met.

It wasn't a full all-ages, but a 15+ novel, so he must have controlled himself to some extent, but the protagonist was the kind of male lead in a harem story who perfectly embodied the term 'gold sun.'

What if such a person suddenly appeared as a woman?

'Are you crazy?'

I thought there was no reason for it to happen.

Every time I talked to Yumir, I thought, 'The protagonist might have had a setting like this,' but I deliberately avoided thinking that Yumir was the protagonist.

The protagonist was.

The 'assassination target' I had to kill.

I had lived as Neo Dokkaebi for half a year, trying to find a way to kill him.

But if there was no need to kill Yumir.

If the original protagonist had disappeared and Yumir, a woman, was in the protagonist's position.

'This is too good, right?'

It's incredibly convenient for me.

'If Yumir is a woman, I just need to take care of her mentally while supporting her.'

If I can properly take care of Yumir's mental state, I can prevent the future where this world meets its end due to a meteor.

Although it wasn't explicitly mentioned in the original, the protagonist's rampage that caused the meteor to fall was because the women he had turned into his harem were subjected to something similar to an NTR by the final boss dokkaebi.

But what if the protagonist is a woman, not a man?

'If she's a woman, she won't go on a rampage if I take care of her and keep her by my side, right?'

She might get a bit moody once a month, but to prevent the world's destruction, I can just comfort her and take care of her.

'All I need to do is give some appropriate advice and guide her in the right direction.'

As Do Jihwan, I will determine the direction she should take from now on.

As a dokkaebi, I will eliminate all the elements that hinder her.

If I can do that, Yumir won't go on a rampage and cause a meteor to fall.

'Suddenly, the difficulty level seems to have dropped.'

I thought it would be Soul-like difficulty, but it feels more like a dating sim difficulty now.

However, there is one thing I'm worried about: the nature of Yumir's 'TS.'

One possibility is that the male protagonist never existed.

Yumir was born a woman from the start.

Another possibility is that Yumir was originally a man but contracted TS disease for some reason before entering school.

Inside, there's actually a dark man, and the TS female protagonist acts like a man...?

'No way.'

That can't be it.

If it's the latter, I will kill Yumir.

If she's a man inside, pretending to be a woman and acting like a female around me, that's unforgivable.

'If she's a man inside, isn't that just a gay person?'

'Why should I have to deal with a man who has transformed into a woman and maintain a relationship with her?'

If I can overcome that and declare, 'It doesn't matter if you were a man in your past life! You are Yumir! Our relationship hasn't changed!' then it means I like Yumir that much.

Unfortunately, there's already someone in my heart.

In the heart of the dokkaebi.

Conclusion.

Assuming Yumir is the protagonist.

If Yumir is purely a woman, I will maintain a good relationship with her, seduce her, and bring her to the sect.

With the power to destroy the world with a meteor, bringing such a powerful being to the sect would make the leader happy.

But what if she's a TS who is hiding something?

What if she's wagging her tail and showing female behavior to me, even coming to my house to cook pasta?

'If Yumir is fine, I'll kill Gaymir.'

The moment it's confirmed, I will seriously discuss the 'disposal' with the leader.

If I knew she had undergone TS without any connection to me, I might just let it be, but Yumir has already approached me as a woman and formed a relationship.

If a woman who texted and called me for two hours every day turns out to be a man?

Oh.

Such a terrible thing.

Kwaang!!

While I was lost in thought, chaos had already erupted outside.

"Really? You dodged?"

"What are you doing?"

"What am I doing? I'm eliminating witnesses."

"Are you trying to kill me?"

"What's an E-rank talking so much for?!"

Ermina attacked Yumir, and Yumir narrowly avoided her attack, watching the situation carefully.

Yumir hadn't noticed me yet.

Even though I was hiding in a non-ethereal form, I had blocked my mana flow to the maximum, so she didn't sense the dokkaebi nearby.

I knew Yumir was strong as Solar Platinum, but.

'Thinking of her as the protagonist, I'm not worried at all.'

Perceiving her as the world's strongest hero who is hiding her strength, Ermina seemed pitiful.

'If Yumir had come as a man, Ermina wouldn't have tried to kill her like this.'

Ah.

Maybe Yumir came to Sejong Island already transformed into a man from the beginning of the original story.

Perhaps the author intended to reveal, 'Yumir was actually a female character!' and drift into a GL yuri story, but the work failed, leading to the meteor ending, and this plot twist was left unknown.

In other words.

The root of all these problems is that the original author was a complete moron for not properly resolving the world's secrets and leaving.

'No way.'

It can't be that bad.

'How could someone do such a terrible thing?'

Even if that were the case, for a harem story with a male lead to suddenly drift into a lesbian yuri harem would be like the author digging their own grave and asking readers to kick them.

Kwaang!!

Another explosion occurred.

While I was thinking about the correlation between the reader's murderous intent and the author's GL/BL drift, the outside was filled with waves of murderous mana.

"Really trying to kill me? If word gets out that the daughter of Sternfort killed someone, can you really handle it?"

"Since I'm from Sternfort, I can handle it!"

There's no such chaos.

As if the chaos in my mind was nothing, Ermina was trying her best to chase Yumir away from the treasure chest and kill her.

Sarack.

I slipped out through ethereal form and reappeared at a suitable distance from the cave.

Yumir seemed to glance in my direction, but she didn't reveal my identity.

If she had, she would have been surprised by the appearance of a dokkaebi and ignored Ermina.

Or she might have noticed me and shown a different side.

She might have wondered why a dokkaebi was here.

For example.

"I can't play along anymore. I got bored."

"What?"

"It doesn't matter if you take strange drugs or get lost in your own world, but trying to kill me is a different story. You picked the wrong person to mess with."

Yumir took a stance.

She spread her legs, crossed her hands in front of her chest in an X, and tilted her head slightly backward.

"Come here!"

With a powerful cry, Yumir extended her arms to the sides.

At the same time, rainbow-colored orbs emerged from her body, swirling around her, and quickly bombarded Ermina.

Pew pew pew.

"Keh?!"

Ermina was hit by the orbs without a chance to resist and was pinned to the treasure chest.

'She has a good sense. Definitely.'

Before transforming, she used a gimmick to ensure a safe transformation.

Good thinking.

"I'll show you who the real strong person is."

As soon as Yumir said that, the rainbow orbs rapidly circled her, enveloping her entire body.

"Transform!"

Just like I saw in my room before, Yumir's entire body began to sparkle.

But it wasn't the traditional hanbok-themed magical girl I saw before—

[......?]

It was a completely new transformation hero.

The main outfit was still hanbok.

The top was a jeogori, with a soopo inside, and a skirt that slightly covered her knees.

But under the skirt, she wore black stockings, and her shoes were like hiking boots.

The most distinctive feature was the veil on her head.

Like the skirts women wear when they go out in historical dramas, Yumir's skirt fluttered like a 'hood.'

The problem is.

There was a 'yellow dragon' pattern on it.

And she wore a tactical mask with a futuristic SF design on her face.

[Ermina Sternfort.]

Yumir raised one hand high into the sky, the visor on her tactical mask glinting as she tilted her head slightly upward.

[The criminal shall receive the aura.]

She is.

As 'Solar Platinum,' Yumir is.

A magical girl necromancer.

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