Chapter 12 : How to enjoy hardcore mode

I can’t bring myself to continue.

I even doubted whether this reality I was seeing was real. After rubbing my eyes several times, I finally realized that

this was reality.

[Yuri (S)]: You will be able to gain favor-ability from women you meet for the first time. Also, you may be loved and

obsessed with by women who feel favorability towards you. However, be careful, if the obsession crosses the line and

becomes twisted love, it could lead to confinement. Appearance correction is a bonus.

I couldn’t believe it even after seeing it over and over again. It was a trait that made me deny it even though I realized

it was reality. A trait that allows you to gain the favorability of women. Is this really a good thing?

“A trait… No, what is this?”

What’s the point of the random gacha giving me a ridiculous trait called Yuri? And the effect was so spectacular that

it was natural for me to be dumbfounded.

After all, isn’t Yuri about that? Lesbian, isn’t it about women dating each other? If the name of this skill is the same

as the Yuri I know, it’s probably correct. The name and effect of the trait also seemed to be aimed at it.

I covered my face with one hand, looking tired.

“Who is the developer who made this game? They’re making things in the game that they can’t do in reality. If I had

chosen a male character, what were you planning to call it, ‘Gender Reversal’?”

Developer, no matter how much you like it, I wish you wouldn’t mix your personal tastes into the game.

“F**k, who would like this in this kind of game?”

I let out a curse and sighed, running my hand through my hair. What’s the point of gaining favor-ability from women

I meet for the first time? No. It’s not that it’s not good, but in this world, I mean, it’s a completely useless trait when

fighting.

How often will there be fights in this kind of dating sim game? But still, there are skills and enemies are attacking, so

there are many better traits specialized for combat than this trait.

Well, if the opponent is a woman, I guess I can use it to gain favorability and force them to stop fighting.

In short, it’s a completely useless trait unless the opponent is a woman of the same gender. Moreover, it’s not even

necessary for this body right now.

I made a bewildered expression.

“So you’re telling me to seduce a woman with this body now.”

With a woman’s body, not a man’s body. With this body that I’m still not used to, a woman. I lost my words for a

moment, and I let out a sigh mixed with resignation and annoyance, twitching one eyebrow with a bewildered

expression.

“…Seriously, don’t be ridiculous.”

Why did such a trait appear? At least it should be able to be turned ON/OFF as a courtesy. But no matter how much I

pressed the trait with my finger, the ON/OFF function was not visible.

It seems like it can’t be turned ON/OFF. It’s a trait that is always automatically activated like a passive.

A trait that helps a woman who feels favorability to me to fall in love. It’s ridiculous and outrageous. Of course, I’m

also at fault for choosing a female character in this kind of game, but the game also has a problem with giving this

kind of trait.

“I don’t hate same-s*x love… No. Do I hate it? That said, I don’t dislike it, but me doing it is a bit….”

I muttered incomprehensible words with a confused expression, and then I lowered my head.

I hoped for at least a trait that would help me survive. This trait doesn’t help with survival, it makes survival itself

hardcore.

This was a trait that I desperately needed on Earth.

“I might have welcomed it if I were a man.”

I would have welcomed it if it were Ryu Raon, not Charlotte Cyclamen. The fact that this trait appeared when I was a

woman might be a joke.

Besides, favorability turns into love, and love eventually turns into obsession, which can lead to confinement. Isn’t

this genre, as I said before, not an academy romance fantasy, but an R-rated confinement dark fantasy?

It’s truly horror. I glanced at the bathroom where Leticia was washing, and shuddered.

“It’s really going to become a Yuri dating sim game.”

It was the first time that the explanation that appearance correction was a bonus was so resentful.

“Even so, same-s*x love is a bit much, isn’t it?”

I can understand whether a person’s taste is bisexual, homosexual, or heterosexual, but I wasn’t confident in seeing it

in front of me.

I heard a voice saying that Yuri is the best and supreme, but I ignored it. It must be an illusion. More importantly, I

was creeped out by the thought that Leticia was obsessed with me.

My face turned blue as I imagined all sorts of things in my head. It was because I remembered that the end of people

who were obsessed like that was mostly not good.

“I might have a taste for eating, but I don’t have a taste for being eaten.”

Even in the midst of this, I’m making nonsensical remarks. Suddenly, I remember a web novel that flowed similarly

to this.

It was a Yuri novel that was completed, and in that novel, the protagonist is eventually confined by the yandere

female protagonist who loves the protagonist pathologically, and the story ends.

“That was an ending that I couldn’t bring myself to say out loud….”

I closed my mouth, blurring the end of my words.

It’s because I feel like my situation will only become more miserable if I talk about the ending. I think there was also

a massacre ending. Hey, this can’t be the same as that. Leticia is different. At least she won’t say, “If I can’t have you,

I’ll kill you,” and rush at me.

“…Right?”

But I could say this with certainty.

If my identity is revealed, I’m screwed in many ways, as the quest’s misdeeds of trying to lock me up at every

opportunity have shown me.

It’s funny that I’m hiding my identity from the woman I loved.

“I have to hide it to survive.”

It wouldn’t be bad to live a life of being loved while being confined by the person you like, but I was not a person of

this world, no matter what anyone said.

I can’t become one. In that world as well, there is a family, friends, and a life of Ryu Raon that I have cultivated for

20 years, so I can’t just confess the truth and stay in this world.

It’s Ryu Raon that I’ve been with longer, not Damian Radius or Charlotte Cyclamen.

“I can’t just disappear without saying anything, even if my parents don’t know.”

So I’ll go back. For the record, I don’t accept objections.

[Character Status Window]

Name: Charlotte Cyclamen

Gender: Female

Job: Charlotte Cyclamen.

Race: Dhampir

Title: Blood Avenger, Agent of the Primordial

Stat Points: 0

Strength: D(1/10)

Agility: E(0/10)

Mana: D(0/10)

Luck: F(0/10)

Unique Ability: Blood Mana

Traits: Beginner’s Benefit (A), Blood Imprint (S), Yuri (S)

I checked the trait Yuri (S) that was naturally added to the traits, and I shook my head. I pretended to be fine, hiding

my trembling hand, and I clicked to see in detail what the other traits were.

[Beginner’s Benefit (A): It dramatically increases the luck of the player who has just started playing the game. This

includes random gacha, as well as cash shop and quest rewards. However, this trait disappears when the player

surpasses all stats C and escapes the beginner.]

[Blood Imprint (S): The imprint left by Uriciel, the ancestor vampire who is Charlotte Cyclamen’s mother. A curse

and blessing given to Rose Cyclamen because she was a hybrid with superior mana than a pure-blood and was at risk

of running amok. You will be able to control blood more freely and easily. However, you will need to suck more blood

than a normal vampire.]

Not bad.

Beginner’s Benefit was a jackpot that needed no further explanation, and Blood Imprint was a decent trait, although

it had risks, despite its name.

I thought it was a kind of curse because it was called a blood imprint. No. It’s a curse and a blessing, so it’s a curse for

now. It was a curse that seemed to have been placed because Charlotte had run amok in the past because she

couldn’t control her power, although there was no memory of it.

“Vampirism is basic anyway.”

Even if I refuse, saying I don’t want to, I have to suck blood as long as I am Charlotte Cyclamen.

“…It’s humanly disgusting, though.”

I have to do it to survive. I frowned, thinking of the vampires I met on the battlefield, and then I shook my head.

“Well, I can do anything to survive.”

If I make a contract with Leticia, I have to talk about the act of sucking blood. Fortunately, it’s not just human blood,

but also animal blood.

“I’ve checked the traits, so the only things left are skills and the cash shop.”

Personally, I was more curious about what items were in the cash shop than skills. Because there are many

interesting items in the cash shop.

It’s something that all players who play games would be curious about. For me, who prioritized costumes over

equipment, the cash shop was like God’s arrangement.

It’s like the only place of peace of mind.

“Still, skills come first.”

Life is more important than peace of mind. And after closing the status window, I opened the skill window, and I

made a serious mistake.

“Feel the power of the vampire called the king of the night!”

There was no mention that the skill lines would automatically come out of my mouth when I used the skill.

Yeah. It was all good until I met Leticia, who had finished showering and came out with steam, at a good timing.

“……That taste? Certainly, demons are a race with many eccentrics like humans, so I can fully understand.”

That’s more hurtful. Just curse me instead.