Forced to Sell Myself to the Female Lead After Killing the Male Lead

Enmm,

After looking at Depier, whom she had slapped to death, and then at the utterly mangled corpse, Miss Yumo stared at her own hands with a conflicted expression.

It seemed...

She had still overestimated the physical durability of sixth-tier humans.

She had actually slapped his head clean off in one strike.

Looks like in the future, she would need to control her strength better and stop treating humans with the same force she used against Abyss Demons. These creatures were simply too fragile.

The black-haired girl silently came to that conclusion in her heart.

Afterward,

Miss Yumo slowly turned around and looked toward the pink-haired girl lying nearby, already hovering on the brink of death.

Honestly,

Every year, countless fools barged into the Great Winter Forest seeking death and ended up dying here. Most of the time, Yumo could not even be bothered to care.

She usually just left them to fend for themselves.

In a sense, Yumo had long since become numb to this sort of thing.

The reason she intervened this time was partly because her hands had been itching. She wanted to personally test the strength of fifth- and sixth-tier humans, as well as the capabilities of her new body.

The other reason...

Was this girl.

Slowly crouching down, Yumo quietly observed the dying girl before her. Threads of Shadow of Silence Power used for perception gradually flowed out from Yumo’s body and gently wrapped around the girl.

After sensing her condition for a moment,

Yumo revealed a smile that said exactly as expected.

“So it really is a Body of Holy Light.”

The Body of Holy Light—

A rare constitution possessing extremely high affinity with holy mana.

The Asumos Church had long searched across the continent for people with this physique. Nearly every known individual possessing a Body of Holy Light had eventually become a powerful combatant of the Church. One of them had even become a Heavenly Apostle.

And now, the younger generation across the continent was becoming weaker and weaker.

Miss Yumo, who was deeply anxious about this phenomenon, naturally could not bear to let such talent die here.

That was why she had appeared.

She originally intended to forcefully save the girl, then someday package her up and send her to the Asumos Church.

Who knew?

Maybe in the future, she would become a powerful ally capable of defeating Yumo herself~

Only...

“What a pity~”

After fully examining the girl’s injuries, Yumo helplessly shook her head.

The pink-haired girl’s spine had already been shattered by the bullet. Her internal organs had suffered catastrophic damage as well. Even worse, the lingering force of the bullet had damaged the girl’s Origin Core—the vital organ responsible for controlling and circulating mana.

Clearly, the girl’s injuries were severe.

Her life force and soul power were continuously leaking away at an alarming speed. Barring a miracle, she would be completely dead within minutes.

Looking at the girl’s pale face, Yumo let out a sigh full of regret.

Afterward, Yumo slowly rose from the ground, preparing to leave.

“Sigh... She’s injured this badly. There’s basically no saving her...”

At least,

Not through conventional methods.

However,

Just as Yumo was about to leave, a faint voice filled with desperate pleading slowly escaped the girl’s lips.

“S-save... sa-save... me...”

The voice was so weak it was nearly nonexistent, but it still could not escape Yumo’s sharp senses.

Hearing those words, Yumo could not help but reveal a trace of surprise. She glanced sideways at the pitiful girl lying in the snow, barely alive.

Oh?

Such a strong will to survive?

And in this condition, she still had consciousness? She could still speak?

Looks like her willpower and soul strength are quite impressive.

Enmm, not bad~

Yumo slightly raised her brow.

A playful expression gradually appeared on the beautiful girl’s face.

“Now that I think about it... what would happen if I fused Shadow of Silence Power into a Body of Holy Light? I’m a little curious.”

This girl...

Should be worth testing.

Thus,

On a sudden whim, Miss Yumo turned around again and crouched before the pink-haired girl once more. Gently stroking the girl’s blood-covered face, she softly spoke:

“I can save you. But whether or not you survive in the end will depend entirely on yourself. It’ll be extremely painful. Painful enough to make you wish you were dead. And even if you survive, you’ll pay a very terrible price~ Are you willing?”

As Yumo’s words entered the pink-haired girl’s ears,

The lifeless blue eyes gradually regained focus, and a faint glimmer of light appeared within them once more.

Yumo’s words were undoubtedly a sliver of hope.

And in order to seize that hope, the girl exhausted every last ounce of strength to force out her final response.

“A-as long... as I can survive... I-I’m willing...”

The pink-haired girl’s voice became weaker and weaker.

Without question, her body had already reached its limit. Death itself was standing on the opposite shore of the River of Three Paths, beckoning toward her.

“Mm, if you’re willing, then alright.”

Yumo smiled slightly.

“I’ll try saving you.”

Afterward, the black-haired girl slowly raised her hand. A terrifying crimson glow abruptly emerged around her body before condensing into a blade of energy.

The next moment—

Flash!

The crimson blade sliced across Yumo’s fingertip.

A droplet of scarlet blood slowly seeped out.

This was no ordinary blood.

It was a condensed manifestation of Yumo’s Origin Power itself, utterly incomparable to the crystals Yumo had previously created. If those crystals were meant to cultivate little bosses, then the purpose of this Origin Blood...

Was to cultivate a true boss.

In other words—

A Demon King-tier Abyss Demon.

At this stage,

Only an overwhelming concentration of Shadow of Silence Power could save the pink-haired girl from her mortal injuries. However, with her current state—her own power completely exhausted—the moment she came into contact with Shadow of Silence Power, she would inevitably transform into a mindless Abyss Demon.

Even if she survived,

She would no longer truly be alive.

Therefore,

If she wished to preserve her consciousness, the girl would need to break through on her own and ascend to Demon King tier. After all, only Abyss Demons of that level possessed rationality and could retain most of their original personality.

Only then could she truly be considered alive.

As for whether or not she could successfully break through...

And what her Body of Holy Light would become afterward...

Yumo had no idea.

After all, she merely wanted to try it on a whim.

“Whether you succeed or not depends on you.”

The next moment,

The scarlet blood slowly dripped down directly into the pink-haired girl’s mouth.

As Yumo’s Origin Blood entered her body, waves of strange crimson Shadow of Silence Power gradually rippled around the girl. At that moment, the pink-haired girl’s consciousness completely sank into endless darkness.

As the power surged,

The surrounding space began to twist and distort.

Under Yumo’s control, crimson light scattered outward before gradually crystallizing into scarlet crystal formations, enveloping the girl entirely.

In the end,

She transformed into a crimson cocoon overflowing with dense power.

Within this cocoon, the pink-haired girl would absorb Yumo’s power and be reborn.

Of course, as for what kind of rebirth awaited her...

That depended entirely on her own fate.

Would she become an ordinary irrational Abyss Demon?

Or would she ascend into a legendary Demon King-tier existence?

“Your fate is in your own hands.”

Yumo smiled softly.

Then she casually °• N 𝑜 v 𝑒 l i g h t •° raised her hand and snapped her fingers.

“Ga~ ga~~”

Accompanied by several strange cries, an enormous vulture-like monster bird shrouded in black mist suddenly descended from the sky and landed beside Yumo.

At Yumo’s signal, the massive Abyss Demon grabbed the crimson cocoon in its beak before flying toward the distant depths of the mountains and forest.

After watching the vulture disappear into the distance,

Yumo slowly turned her head toward the snowy ground nearby.

The next instant,

An Abyss Demon wrapped in black mist and resembling a mole suddenly burst out from underground before respectfully crawling to Yumo’s side.

This Abyss Demon was precisely the creature Yumo had sent earlier to investigate the outside situation.

Slowly raising her hand, Yumo gently stroked the Abyss Demon’s head.

The sights the fifth-tier Abyss Demon had just witnessed flowed into Miss Yumo’s mind through the movement of Shadow of Silence Power.

In an instant,

A playful look appeared in the black-haired girl’s eyes as she thoughtfully gazed toward the south.

Oh ho?

A slave caravan and a knight order fighting in a place like this?

Hm?

That insignia on their clothes...

The Asumos Church...