Why?

Why did she reveal such an intense expression of hatred whenever she mentioned the “male lead”? What exactly was going on?

Fan Yumo tilted her head in confusion.

However,

just as she was puzzling over it, the silver-haired girl suddenly seemed to remember something. She abruptly slapped her hands together as if struck by realization.

“Right! Speaking of the male and female leads! I suddenly remembered something! I need to add a bit more insurance first!!”

Hearing that, Fan Yumo immediately frowned.

“Huh? Insurance? What insurance?”

“Enmm, well, you’re still a man after all, so I need to make sure you won’t start having improper thoughts about my, uh, about the ‘female lead.’ I need to make a few modifications first!”

As she spoke,

the silver-haired girl narrowed her eyes slightly, and her mischievous gaze slowly drifted toward Fan Yumo’s lower body, instantly sending chills down the latter’s spine. At the same time, strands of silver-white light abruptly gathered around the girl’s slender fingertip.

“M-m-make modifications??”

The moment Fan Yumo noticed where the girl was looking, a horrifying sense of danger exploded inside her mind. She instinctively curled up and retreated backward, staring at the silver-haired girl with extreme vigilance.

Although she had no idea what kind of “modification” the girl was talking about, Fan Yumo’s instincts screamed at her that she absolutely had to stop this!

Otherwise,

she was probably going to lose something extremely important!

After hesitating for a moment, the boy finally couldn’t hold back anymore and shouted,

“Hey!! Can I refuse this?! This seriously doesn’t sound like anything good!!”

However,

Fan Yumo was ultimately just an ordinary high school graduate.

Her resistance meant absolutely nothing.

The silver-haired girl had no intention of answering Fan Yumo’s question at all. Instead, she slowly raised her hand and lightly snapped her fingers.

In an instant, silver-white light rippled throughout the empty void~

And after being bathed in that silver radiance,

Fan Yumo’s entire body suddenly trembled as an overwhelming wave of drowsiness—something she hadn’t felt in an eternity—abruptly crashed into her consciousness. Her awareness rapidly grew blurry, and her entire soul entered an unsteady daze.

“Wh... what’s... happening...??”

No matter how desperately Fan Yumo resisted, she couldn’t fight off the exhaustion.

In the end, the boy slowly closed his eyes and quietly fell asleep, his soul drifting silently within the endless darkness.

Seeing this, the silver-haired girl smiled faintly and slowly floated in front of Fan Yumo. Her consciousness began continuously scanning the boy’s body.

After carefully examining the sleeping youth, the girl nodded in satisfaction.

“Mmm... finding one with compatibility this high is pretty rare. That makes things easier. No need for too many adjustments. As long as I slightly modify the soul wavelength values, fusion with that seed should proceed smoothly.”

It sounded as though she was talking to herself,

yet at the same time, it almost felt like she was remotely communicating with someone else.

Afterward,

the girl slowly narrowed her beautiful eyes, and mysterious golden runes gradually emerged within them.

“But still, sorry about this, little Yumo. Just to be safe, I’ll have to make ‘a few’ modifications to your body.”

Before her words had even fully fallen,

boundless golden energy suddenly erupted from the girl’s body!

The dim world around them was instantly dyed gold as endless streams of power, under the girl’s control, violently surged into Fan Yumo’s body!

Along with that power came the trial missions she had prepared beforehand, as well as the necessary knowledge required to control those abilities.

And as the golden light continuously poured in,

the appearance of Fan Yumo’s soul gradually began undergoing some “subtle” changes.

At that sight,

a playful, wicked grin slowly spread across the girl’s face.

“Well, whatever happens, I hope everything goes smoothly for you~ Oh, and don’t even think about stopping the trials~”

—

After Fan Yumo finally fell asleep for the first time in ages,

an unknown amount of time passed.

Strange bird cries gradually stirred Fan Yumo’s consciousness awake from slumber. Overall, though, she still remained in a thoroughly muddled state, as if a bikini-wearing muscular bodybuilder had hit her with a full-force flying body slam, leaving her brain reduced to soup.

??

Huh?

W-where am I...?

I think I just... fell asleep? Then now...

Right! The deal?! And those so-called modifications?!

Me?

Hm?? Wait?!

That sound—?!

An owl?!

The moment she realized that,

Fan Yumo instantly jolted awake! The haze clouding her mind vanished, and her thoughts became incomparably clear!

The next second, she eagerly opened her eyes!

What entered her view was a brilliant full moon and a sky overflowing with beautiful stars!

Without question,

this was no longer that pitch-black, empty, bizarre space from before!

She had escaped that godforsaken place!

In an instant, overwhelming joy flooded through her endlessly!! Her mood shot into the heavens like an Armstrong Cyclone Jet Armstrong Cannon! She was ecstatic beyond belief!

After being trapped in that dark, isolated hellhole for so long, the exhilaration of finally regaining freedom was something ordinary people could never understand.

Overcome with delight,

Fan Yumo instinctively wanted to leap into the air and cheer wildly, to share the endless joy in her heart with this brand-new world!

‘Hell yeah! I finally got out! ...Hm??’

However,

in the very next moment, Fan Yumo’s mood—which had just soared to unimaginable heights—plummeted like a roller coaster diving straight off a cliff, toward an icy lake waiting below.

From heaven to hell in an instant.

At that moment,

Fan Yumo realized in shock that—

not only could she not make any sound,

she couldn’t even move her body.

No,

strictly speaking,

she didn’t even have a body anymore...

Unsurprisingly, Fan Yumo froze completely in place, blankly examining her brand-new “body.”

wdnmd,

‘What the fuck is this bullshit now?!’

....

....

....

Just like before, every time something lucky happened to Fan Yumo, something disastrous immediately followed afterward.

Meeting that mysterious silver-haired girl and escaping that godforsaken “heavenly prison” had undoubtedly been an incredibly fortunate event.

However,

after getting out, Fan Yumo discovered an extremely serious problem!

You know,

she had read plenty of novels about transmigrating into villain bosses before. If not becoming some overwhelmingly handsome Demon Lord or Monster Emperor with godlike strength and countless beauties in their harem, then at least becoming some boneless skeleton or slime monster.

Or, worst case scenario, becoming some savage demonic beast and slowly evolving step by step into a final boss...

Fan Yumo had imagined all sorts of villain boss scenarios.

But never—

absolutely never—

had she imagined that the bullshit villain boss arranged by that silver-haired girl wouldn’t even qualify as a living creature!

Instead,

she had become some bizarre building sitting in the middle of a creepy giant-tree forest, unable to speak or even move!!

Feeling the deathly silence surrounding her, Fan Yumo’s mentality completely collapsed. If she had hands and feet right now, she probably would’ve already started jumping around in fury.

Fuck!!

Are you sure you made me the villain boss and not the boss’s house?!

What the hell kind of setup is this?!

Filled with rage, Fan Yumo immediately sent the silver-haired girl the most sincere and heartfelt curses imaginable inside her mind.

Unfortunately,

things had already reached this point. No matter how much she cursed, it wouldn’t change anything.

Thus,

she could only silently accept this miserable reality while beginning to sort through the memories and missions the girl had stuffed into her head.

And just like that,

with her eyes open and unable to close,

time flew by.

Five hundred years passed in the blink of an eye.....