Reborn As A Villainous Cannon Fodder

"Let's take this opportunity to discuss a private arrangement."

Yino glanced around, confirming the privacy of their vine-enclosed space before speaking again.

At his words, Yuebai's alluring eyes opened with curiosity, a glimmer of starlight returning to her previously hopeless gaze.

"The arrangement is simple - let's both make this easier. You willingly open your internal boundaries and allow my evil arts to enter your magical core, while also handing over that real thousand-year Soul Origin Pill—"

Yino spoke calmly.

However, before he could even mention his own terms, the fox girl's enchanting eyes widened, staring at Yino with utter shock.

"But... but I already gave the Soul Origin Pill to Liuli..."Nôv(el)B\\jnn

Yuebai whimpered softly, trying to feign ignorance.

But Yino just raised an eyebrow, saying boredly: "What's the act for? That was a hundred-year pill - I want the thousand-year one."

"But... but this lady is only just over 400 years old..."

Yuebai's face went pale, full of innocence.

At some point, Yino clicked his tongue, his patience seemingly exhausted.

He stepped forward, gently pressing his fingertips against her lower abdomen just above her navel, then gradually increased the pressure with both fingers—

"Mmph!"

The foxgirl cried out unexpectedly from the pain.

Due to her fox physique, Yuebai's body was incredibly soft. Yino's fingers could easily press her flesh far deeper than a normal person's.

As Yino applied precise pressure with his strange massaging technique, no matter how Yuebai tried to contain her inner power, that small smooth orb gradually revealed its luster and protrusion in her belly—

"If you won't hand it over, I'll have to cut it out."

Yino said coldly while manipulating the sphere through the fox girl's belly.

Finally, Yuebai yielded.

"It hurts! It hurts! Stop first!"

When Yino withdrew his hand, Yuebai's face was covered in cold sweat.

She took small gasping breaths, and when she looked at Yino again her beautiful eyes no longer faking pitiful innocence, but instead showed unyielding defiance: "If you dare cut it out, I'll absorb it right now!"

"Whatever, if you're willing to become the eternal sinner of the White Fox clan?"

Yino shrugged, completely unconcerned.

For a moment, Yuebai's enchanting eyes showed shock again, her expression shifting from initial hatred to doubt born of astonishment.

"How... how do you know... even about this...?"

"Since you know that I know, then you should also understand that I don't want that Soul Origin Pill for myself."

Yino spoke softly with a gentle tone without malice.

Yuebai's mind raced, and suddenly she realized that if she stopped viewing Yino as an outsider, his seemingly ambiguous words made surprising sense to her.

This Soul Origin Pill was the thousand-year inheritance of the White Fox clan's ancestors.

Never mind Yuebai - even if Yino did cut out the Soul Origin Pill, it would bring him nothing but death.

Selling the Soul Origin Pill meant certain death.

Refining the Soul Origin Pill meant certain death...

This was true for both Yuebai and Yino.

"You only want the Soul Origin Pill to threaten me?"

Yuebai suddenly spoke, no longer treating Yino as an outsider, switching to insider talk.

Meanwhile, Yino snorted: "What else? Without this Soul Origin Pill as insurance, no matter how many evil marks I put on you, I still can't truly trust you, can I?"

"….!"

Having even her most important secret seen through, Yuebai felt angry and embarrassed.

But thinking carefully, Yuebai bit her lip, secretly breaking into a cold sweat as she deeply felt Yino's terrifying nature.

The Celestial Master was right - he was an extremely discordant existence. Even secrets unknown to ordinary members of the White Fox clan were completely clear to this human who should have no connection at all!

No wonder...

The Celestial Master had to kill him!

Thinking this, Yuebai lowered her gaze, gradually developing some respect for Yino.

However. Even though she was at his mercy, Yuebai still managed a composed cold laugh: "But this Soul Origin Pill is sealed by fox clan secret arts. Once the seal is formed, even I don't have the key. Even if I wanted to take it out for you, I can't."

"And conversely, even if I don't resist you cutting out the Soul Origin Pill, as long as it's forcibly separated from my body, my life would immediately end..."

"At that point, with me dead, having the Soul Origin Pill would only bring you death!"

By the end, Yuebai laughed with acceptance.

Yino silently observed her, recalling the original plot, thinking this little white fox was really giving Jinyue a run for her money in acting skills.

If not for the fact that she had taken out the Soul Origin Pill several times to use as a magical tool later in the game, Yino, as an outsider, might have actually believed this nonsense about fox clan secret seals. Thinking of this, Yino again pressed both fingers against the fox girl's belly.

With the experience from his earlier massage, this time Yino's first touch precisely hit that white-gold glowing spherical protrusion in the foxgirl's belly—

"What if I said I have a way for you to take out this Soul Origin Pill painlessly?"

At these words, Yuebai's face went deathly pale, her disbelief and unease so great she forgot even the pain of her pressed belly. But just as they were having this intimate belly-pressed conversation, an angry young man's shout came from beyond the blood-colored vines—

"Yino!"

"Give back my Master--!!!"

Meeting Yino and Yuebai's surprised gazes, that terrifying spiritual energy explosion instantly shattered the prison formed by the blood-colored vines. Yuebai's enchanting eyes widened, seeing the boy finally unleash his potential, and she secretly raised her lips in delight.

But just as she opened her mouth to laugh coldly, Yino beside her reacted quickly, precisely stuffing a black pill directly into Yuebai's mouth.

"Urgh--!!!"

One second Yuebai was opening her mouth to laugh coldly, the next she was suddenly force-fed a pill, instantly gagging and retching instinctively as it stuck in her throat.

Yuebai tried to vomit out the pill stuck in her throat, but Yino directly pressed his fingers against her throat, his fingertips glowing with blood-colored spiritual energy. As Yino's fingers traced from Yuebai's throat down to her belly, that pill stuck in her throat was forcibly pulled into Yuebai's stomach.