Reborn As A Villainous Cannon Fodder

“Master, be careful!!!”

Liuli’s warning startled Yino greatly.

Honestly, when he looked up, he couldn’t understand what Liuli was warning him about. But in the next second, under Yino’s suspicious gaze, the supposedly dying Jinyue in his arms secretly curved her lips into a smile.

!?—?!

Time seemed to slow as a black-red demon tail pierced through from the side. Yino’s consciousness lagged a step behind, but his body instinctively moved first, dodging to the side.

RUMBLE!!!

The demon tail struck like a sharp drill, smashing into the crimson palace floor and raising clouds of dust.

Simultaneously, Yino retreated several steps, filled wariness as he stared at the Jinyue who was smiling slyly while slowly rising from the smoke.

“Haha… hahahaha…”

Her somewhat twisted laughter gradually echoed.

Under everyone’s watchful eyes, the supposedly dying foxgirl rose from the ground at an eerie angle.

One hand covered her left eye while the other covered the right half of her face. Blood traces from overusing the Abyssal Eye still lingered at the corner of her lips, yet she smiled with demonic allure as if nothing had happened.

“Master, the abyssal energy within her should be on the verge of losing control…”

Liuli quickly stepped forward, raising her hand to summon vines as protection in front of Yino.

Witnessing this scene, Yino couldn’t help but click his tongue in dismay.

Actually, Liuli didn’t need to explain—just hearing the signature laughter of the game’s pleasure witch already gave him goosebumps.

It seemed that saving Jinyue from the curse wouldn’t be as simple as I’d imagined!

When Jinyue was unconscious, Yino could help refine her abyssal energy unnoticed. But now that she was awake, it wouldn’t be so easy to approach her…

“Yino~ Young Master Yino~ Senior Brother Yino~”

“When will you finally have time to play with me?”

Before anyone knew it, the foxgirl had lowered the hand covering her left eye.

Her facial features remained unchanged from usual, but her face was now covered in blood-colored demonic tribal markings. Those once charming and adorable peach blossom eyes now held an evil, sickly gleam.

Jinyue slowly emerged from the dust, staring fixedly at Yino.

“How boring…”

“Yino, you clearly promised me!”

“You clearly promised that you’d properly accompany me during this trip to the Western Region… but what happened? Every day you’re either with that big-breasted airhead woman~ or with that scheming, two-faced old woman from Hundred Spirits Pavilion! Or that silly, pretentious dragon girl, or accompanying this submissive tree demon who only knows how to boringly call you Master…”

“Even after falling into the abyss, Yino, you still won’t play with me, instead turning to flirt with that wild filthy stinking raccoon!”

Halfway through voicing her sullen complaints, Jinyue slowly turned to survey her surroundings.

With contemptuous, disdainful eyes, she swept her gaze over everyone present, including Yuyan and Liuli, before finally focusing all her resentful, dissatisfied attention on Yino.

“But what about me?”

“What about me? What am I in your heart?”

“You sweet-talk me so well! But you’ve never truly made time to accompany me!”

“Since we came to Western Province City, have you spent even one day alone by my side?!”

“Yino, you’re always just brushing me off!!!”

“Every single time, during what should have been our private date time, you’d always find excuses to flirt with others. Don’t you think spending time alone with me is just a waste of time?”

“I know! I’m not stupid, I understand everything!”

“Because I already confessed to you, because I already submitted to you, so there’s no need for you to waste time pleasing me anymore, isn’t that right?!”

“Yino!”

“Haven’t you been treating me as nothing more than a disposable tool from the very beginning?”

After pouring out her grievances in this torrent of words, she bit her teeth, and her originally evil, twisted peach blossom eyes slowly filled with tears.

But her vulnerable moment didn’t last long. As her emotions crumbled again, the abyssal energy from her left eye once more enveloped her body.

In an instant, the entire crimson palace was shrouded in terrifying negative emotions.

In this situation, though Yuyan and Liuli felt quite annoyed at being scolded, their cultivation instincts still made them sense the extremely unstable energy fluctuations within Jinyue’s body.

Now was not the time for romantic jealousy!

“Master, she’s likely been possessed by the heart demons.”

“Now that we’ve destroyed the Condemnation Cult’s Mother Abyss Heart, and with the Pain Heart just refined by Master losing its life signal, it won’t be long before the Pain Executioners stationed outside return to surround us!”

“So Master, we shouldn’t linger here—we can’t waste any more time with Jinyue…”

Liuli calmly analyzed the situation, her bloody vines already poised to strike.

Her suggestion was simple: they should all work together to subdue Jinyue, then tie her up and carry her away from this Condemnation Cult’s Mother Abyss palace.

However… At the crucial moment, Yino shook his head:

“Forget it. Don’t get involved in this—Jinyue’s already in a terrible mood, so you’d better not antagonize her further.”

Yino sighed and waved Liuli away while stepping forward and rolling up his sleeves.

No one in this world understood Jinyue’s personality better than him.

Like Yuyan, she wasn’t a female protagonist to be trifled with. If Yino joined forces with Liuli and Yuyan to attack her now, it would only further provoke Jinyue’s rebellious nature.

And as a genius of illusion techniques, once Jinyue got serious, she would torment people endlessly.

In the game, as the vilianess, she had been scheming and fighting with the main character from the first volume all the way to the late stages of the main storyline.

After battling for seven or eight volumes, Jinyue had never been captured by the righteous Mc.

Yino certainly didn’t believe he currently had the ability to go head-to-head with a darkened Jinyue.

With this thought, Yino softened his expression somewhat, showing a gentle, calm smile:

“Jinyue, however you want to play, I’ll accompany you now.”

“You’re truly willing to follow my rules?”

She seemed surprised that Yino would obediently humor her. She couldn’t help but put her hands behind her back with pleasant surprise, a faint blush coloring her face while her brows carried a playful amusement.

Yino raised an eyebrow and stepped forward again:

“Tell me, I promised to play with you.”

“Great! Yino, you’re finally willing to take my feelings seriously! Actually, the game I want to play is quite simple~”

Jinyue stood with her hands behind her back, smiling wickedly before turning her seductive gaze toward Yuyan—

“Yino, don’t you really like that woman?”

“I’ll use any means necessary to kill her. If you can catch me before she gets hurt, then you win!”

Jinyue spoke calmly, yet the coldness in her brows showed no trace of the old affection.

At these words, not only did Yino raise his eyebrows, but even Yuyan standing behind felt utterly baffled.

Due to the previous battle with the Mother Goddess’s heart, Yuyan was indeed currently in a weakened state.

But a lean camel is still bigger than a horse—Yuyan was at the Divine Transformation stage. She truly couldn’t imagine what gave Jinyue the confidence to use her life as stakes?

And just as Yuyan was puzzled, Yino suddenly nodded without hesitation:

“Fine, I agree. Let’s use Senior Sister’s life as the wager.”

Yuyan: ?_?

Although Yuyan truly didn’t believe she would be in any danger, Yino’s unhesitating agreement to use her as stakes still made her twitch slightly at being treated as a betting chip.

But there was no time left for Yuyan to prepare.

As Yino’s words fell, Jinyue standing in place was stunned for just a few seconds before instantly transforming into a black-red blur—

“Then let the game begin!”

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SLASH—!!!

A demon tail trailing black-red afterimages swept past Yuyan’s side.

This seemingly ordinary strike, after Yuyan’s nimble evasion, inexplicably left a sharp tear in her pure white dress.

As time passed, the torn fabric on Yuyan’s body became more and more tattered.

“…”

After several exchanges, Yuyan felt genuine pressure from the bottom of her heart.

Though she was no longer at peak condition, being toyed with by these illusory phantoms still filled Yuyan with tremendous humiliation.

As a battle-hardened person, she clearly understood that Jinyue had no real intention of killing her—she was deliberately toying with her.

Her daggers and demon tail could clearly leave scars on Yuyan’s body.

But she deliberately avoided drawing blood, instead intentionally tearing Yuyan’s dress.

In a sense, this was Jinyue’s true skill.

If she had actually aimed for Yuyan’s throat, the latter would undoubtedly sense the killing intent beforehand, her heart’s alarm bells ringing as she dodged and counterattacked in her most alert state.

In such circumstances, Yuyan wouldn’t be easily deceived by illusions, and Jinyue would likely be easily repelled by a single strike.

But Jinyue had calculated precisely this point. As long as she didn’t make Yuyan feel mortal danger, without the instinct of life-threatening peril, relying on sight alone made it very difficult to distinguish between Jinyue’s real body and her duplicates!

Looking at it this way, she truly bore no malice and was genuinely just playing a game with Yino.

Only… The cost of this game was that if Yino failed to catch Jinyue within the time limit, Yuyan’s dress would very likely be torn to shreds piece by piece.

When that happened…

Yuyan would truly be completely naked in the demon abyss!

Sigh…!

What a troublesome brat…

Thinking of such a dignity-crushing outcome, Yuyan focused even more intently on discerning Jinyue’s illusions.

But even so, the limits of mortal vision still left Yuyan dizzy and confused by the countless fox demon phantoms.

After all, the current Jinyue was no longer the Foundation Establishment junior sister of before.

Having just awakened her abyssal potential, her cultivation directly approached the Nascent Soul stage—she was no longer inferior to Yuyan by much!

Gradually… Blade light had already cut through the fabric at Yuyan’s chest and waist.

She no longer dared make large movements, only using one hand to cover her heavy chest while desperately trying to avoid Jinyue’s attacks.

“Yino…”

Yuyan was truly being driven to madness.

She had tried activating her second stage, swinging swords at the foxgirl’s phantoms, but ultimately achieved no effect. Instead, her wide-ranging sword techniques and movements exposed even more openings.

In short, Yuyan truly couldn’t see through Jinyue’s illusions!

And Jinyue was extremely clever.

No matter how much Yuyan cursed her, she showed no anger or killing intent, just like boiling a frog in warm water, continuously tearing fabric from Yuyan’s body…

The once-proud white-robed sword immortal beauty was truly being pushed to the brink by Jinyue’s despicable illusion tactics.

If her dress was really torn to shreds, leaving her completely naked, it would be more humiliating than outright killing Yuyan!

“Yino… save me…”

At the critical moment, Yuyan could no longer suppress her inner humiliation and couldn’t help but pitifully call out his name for help.

As her words fell, a voice suddenly echoed in Yuyan’s mind—

[Senior Sister, pretend to predict an attack. Don’t cover your chest with your left hand anymore—give Jinyue a chance to sneak attack your chest area.]

[But, but that’s the last piece of fabric—]

[Don’t worry, I still have several maid dresses in my storage ring as backups for Senior Sister.]

[Huh!? What!?]