Chapter 72: It's Not Only Riders Who Transform (9)
Yumir was the protagonist.
Yumir was the gender-bent protagonist.
I had thought about it.
No, I didn’t seriously consider it. I just thought about it in passing.
Well, that was because the protagonist in the original was a harem master who expanded his harem to two with this event. To maximize the national euphoria, he turned foreign women into his harem and ruled like a king on Sejong Island.
If the original work was rated 19, the protagonist would have impregnated all the heroines he met.
It wasn’t an all-age novel, but it was a 15-rated novel, so they would have tried to maintain some balance. Still, the protagonist was a carnivorous harem male lead to whom the term ‘Golden Sun’ could be literally applied.
Such a being suddenly appeared as a woman?
‘Are you insane?’
I thought there was no reason for that. Whenever I talked to Yumir, I thought, ‘It seems the protagonist had such a setting,’ but I made sure not to think that Yumir was the protagonist.
The protagonist.
Because he was the ‘assassination target’ that I had to kill.
Because I lived as the Goblin for half a year to kill him in any way possible.
But if there was no need to kill Yumir. If the original protagonist was nowhere to be found and Yumir, who was a woman, was in the protagonist’s position.
‘Isn’t that too sweet?’
It was too easy for me.
‘If Yumir is a woman, all I have to do is take care of her and provide emotional support, right?’
If I could properly provide emotional care for Yumir, who was a woman, I could prevent the future where the world meets a meteor ending and everyone was destroyed.
It wasn’t mentioned explicitly in the original, but the reason why the original protagonist went berserk and blew up the meteor was because the women he added to his harem were NTRed by the final boss, Goblin.
But if the protagonist was not a man but a woman?
‘If she’s a woman, wouldn’t there be no risk of her going berserk if I take care of her and stay by her side?’
Sure, she might become irritable once a month, but to prevent the end of the world, all I needed to do was comfort and care for her.
‘All I need to do is give her some advice and set the direction right.’
As Do Ji-hwan, I needed to define the direction she would take. As the Goblin, I need to remove all the elements that could hinder her.
If we proceeded in this way, there would probably be no instances of Yumir going berserk and dropping a meteor.
‘It feels like the difficulty level suddenly dropped.’
What I expected was the difficulty of a Souls-like game, but it felt more like a visual novel’s difficulty once I looked into it.
But the one thing that worried me was the form in which Yumir’s gender-bend took place.
First, the male protagonist never existed. Yumir was born as a woman from the beginning.
Second, Yumir was originally a man, but for some reason, she was affected by the gender-bend disease before admission. Inside her was a dark-hearted man, and as with other gender-bend female protagonists, she behaved like a man…?
‘No way.’
That wouldn’t be the case.
If it was the latter, I would kill Yumir. Because she, with a dark man inside, came to my house pretending to be a woman and behaved like a female towards Do Ji-hwan.
‘I cannot forgive someone trying to seduce me.’
Even if the appearance is female but the inside is male, wouldn’t that be deceit?
‘In this world, there are so many women. Why should I have to care for and get involved with someone who gender-bent from male to female?’
If there was a situation where I could overcome that and shout, ‘It doesn’t matter if you were a man in your previous life! You are Yumir! The relationship we’ve built so far hasn’t changed!’ then it meant that I liked that Yumir a lot.
Unfortunately, someone else already occupied my heart.
Inside the heart of the Goblin.
In conclusion…
Assuming Yumir was the protagonist.
If Yumir was purely a woman, then I would maintain a good relationship with her, charm her, and take her with determination.
Having the power to destroy the world with a meteor, bringing a being with such immense power to the boss, would surely make her happy.
But what if that being is hiding something because they’re gender-bent?
What if that being had been flirting with me, showing off a feminine side, even coming to my house to cook pasta for me?
‘I can deal with Yumir, but a Manmir dies.’
The moment it was confirmed, I would seriously discuss the ‘disposal’ issue with the boss.
If I knew she was gender-bent with no relation to me, I could let it slide, but Yumir had already approached me as a woman, establishing a relationship with me.
A woman with whom I exchanged text messages and phone calls for two hours a day was actually a man?
Oh boy.
What a horrible thing.
Whooosh!!
While I was lost in thought, the outside was already in chaos.
“Huh? She dodged?”
“What’s happening now?”
“What do you mean, ‘what’? I’m eliminating a witness.”
“So, you’re trying to kill me now?”
“E-grade thralls sure do talk a lot!”
Ermina attacked Yumir, and Yumir was carefully watching the situation, dodging Ermina’s attacks by a hair’s breadth.
Yumir hadn’t noticed me yet.
Although I was hiding and not in spirit form, thanks to blocking the outward flow of magic as much as possible, she had no idea the Goblin was nearby.
I knew Yumir was strong as she was Solar Platina.
‘But since I think of her as the protagonist, I’m not worried at all.’
Recognizing her as the world’s strongest hero hiding her power, it was rather Ermina who seemed pitiful.
‘If Yumir had been a man, Ermina wouldn’t be trying to kill her like this.’
Ah.
Maybe Yumir had been transformed into a man since the beginning of the original work and came to Sejong Island.
Perhaps the author planned to reveal, ‘Actually, Yumir is a female character!’ and start a Yuri GL drift, but the work failed, leading to a meteor ending, and the story ended with an unknown twist that no one knew.
In other words…
All these problems were caused by the original author, a complete fool who didn’t properly reveal the world’s secrets before leaving!
‘Ah.’
But that was probably too far.
‘How could anyone do such a terrible thing.’
Even so, the idea of the male protagonist’s harem story suddenly shifting to a lesbian girls’ love harem drift implied that the author has dug their own grave and asked the readers to bury them.
Kwaang!!
Another explosion occurred.
While I was contemplating the correlation between the reader’s saltiness over an author’s GL/BL drift, the battle outside was teeming with the surging waves of magical energy.
“Are you really trying to kill me? Can you really handle the fallout if word gets out that Sternfert’s daughter has killed someone?”
“I can handle it because I’m a person of House Sternfert!”
It was complete chaos.
As if to dismiss the turmoil in my mind, Ermina was doing her utmost to drive out and kill Yumir near the treasure chest.
Sarak.
I materialized outside through spiritualization and regained my physical form at a safe distance from the cave.
Yumir seemed to glance my way in the middle of it all, but my identity hadn’t been exposed.
If it had, she would have ignored Ermina and been surprised that the Goblin had appeared.
Or she might have noticed me and showed a different reaction.
She could wonder why the Goblin was here?
But she could also have other thoughts.
For instance,
“This won’t do. I’ve tried to play along quietly, but I’m tired of it.”
“What?”
“I don’t care whether you’re on some strange drug or lost in your own world, but trying to kill me is a different story. You messed with the wrong person.”
Yumir readied herself.
She spread her legs and crossed her arms in front of her chest in an ‘X’, slightly tilting her head back.
“Come here, approach!”
With a strong shout, Yumir stretched her arms to either side.
At the same time, rainbow-colored beads poured out from her body and began to whirl around. In an instant, the beads launched a barrage attack on Ermina.
Perberberuk.
“Cough?!”
Ermina was hit by the beads without a chance to resist and was slammed into the treasure chest.
‘She has a sense for this, indeed.’
She used a gimmick to safely transform before shifting. That was a good idea.
“I’ll show you who the truly strong one is.”
As soon as Yumir said those words, the rainbow-colored beads began to spin quickly around her, wrapping around her entire body.
“Transform!”
Yumir’s body started to sparkle, just like I had seen in my room before.
The appearance wasn’t the magical girl with a hanbok concept that I saw before -
[……?]
But a completely new transformed hero.
The main theme was still hanbok.
A jeogori as an outer garment, with a sobok inside and a skirt covering the knees slightly. But under the skirt were black stockings, and the shoes were like military boots, similar to hiking sneakers.
The most unusual point was the jangot, a sort of cloak worn backwards on her head.
Like women in historical dramas who went out with a skirt on their heads, Yumir was wearing a fluttering skirt that looked like a ‘hood.’
The problem was…
The pattern of the ‘Yellow Dragon’ was depicted on it.
And she was wearing a tactical mask with an SF future design on her face.
[Ermina Sternfert.]
Yumir raised one hand high into the sky, slightly lifting her head as the visor above her tactical mask shone.
[Sinners shall receive divine punishment.]
She was Yumir, as ‘Solar Platina’,
The Magical Girl, Golden Priestess.
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