I Was Reincarnated as a Nameless Combatant in a Japanese-style Fantasy Depressive Erotic Game, but the Women Around Me Are All Dangerous, and I Have a Bad Feeling about It

talking about? What do you want to say…?'

　Shishimai was bewildered by Tamaki's extraordinary state.
Although her body was still in a fighting stance, her mind was disturbed.
And simultaneously, her sixth sense warned her that Tamaki's intentions concerned a significant matter related to her core.

　'…!!? Why does it matter? I don't care about such things!!!!'

　Doubt, suspicion, confusion – Shishimai shook them off forcibly and shouted.
And then, she unleashed her trump card.

　'ROARRRRRR!!!!'

　Her clothes tore apart.
A roar resounded.
A moment later, Tamaki faced not a girl, not even a half-human, half-beast creature, but a literal beast.
A lion youkai.
A lion monster discharging electricity towards its surroundings.
Shishimai Asami's youkai factor laid bare.

　The balance was once again disrupted by the strengthening caused by youkai transformation.
The deadlock they had before tilted heavily in Shishimai's favor.
Tamaki was gradually pushed back…
but that didn't matter to her.
Tamaki shouted at Shishimai.

　”That's why, it's all meaningless, Shishimai-san!! Don't you remember? Don't you have any memories left? Recall it!! You are…”

　Tamaki momentarily hesitated there, but she mustered her determination and shouted with a painful emotion.

　”Shishimai-san, it's all futile!! Because you…
you are already dead!!”

　And Tamaki shouted, revealing the truth she learned from the servant and Botan.

　'…Huh?'

　At Tamaki's unexpected revelation, Shishimai Asami froze in bewilderment.
She was confused, shaken, and alarmed.
But quickly, she glared at Tamaki.

　'Don't say such nonsense!! I contracted at the brink of death, and I am alive even now!! I have spent a thousand years in this labyrinth!! When I finish my duty, I'll be able to leave!!'

　Yes, it was a contract.
The worst kind of contract.
An act of betraying the human world.
An absurd condition that looked down upon her completely.
Still…
even with that contract, she could avoid death.
Wanting to live, to survive, was only natural.
Compared to losing everything, any miserable situation was better.
She couldn't see him anymore, the one she believed was worth risking her life for.
If that was the case, what was wrong with valuing her own life!?

　”Remember properly!! Remember all your past memories! Touch the depths of your heart, I beg you…!!”

　'Annoying!! Stop confusing me with your nonsense!!'

　Shishimai, with a desperate expression, tried to dismiss Tamaki's actions as a psychological strategy.
However, after a brief reflection on Tamaki's personality, she realized it was impossible.
Once she understood, anxiety and doubt overflowed…

　'Grr…
huh?'

　And then, Shishimai Asami finally became aware of the abnormality.
Come to think of it, she hadn't felt her own heartbeat for a long time.
Despite facing numerous intruders, she couldn't recall feeling her heart pounding.
She had been out of breath at times, but she couldn't remember experiencing the intense palpitations of her heart.
Why was that?

　'Huh…?'

　And she realized something else.
After intense battles, her body never felt hot.
In fact, it was quite the opposite.
When she touched her own body, it was terrifyingly cold, as if she were a corpse.

　'…'

　At some point, the strength to keep clashing with Tamaki had left.
The lion returned to its human form.
The girl stared at Tamaki.
Tamaki tightly closed her mouth, nodding with a tragic expression.
Shishimai Asami, through the tears in her torn clothes, touched her chest where she had felt her heart.
She touched it hesitantly.

　Under her clothes, there was a hole piercing her heart.

　”Ah…”

　Tamaki lowered her head in frustration and sorrow.
And Shishimai Asami remembered.
She remembered that scene.

　Assigned to her room, in the vicious space where intruders could not leave until there was only one left, Shishimai Asami had been continuously used as a gatekeeper and a corpse handler, according to the contract…

　”Ah, ah…”

　How many times, dozens of times, had she fulfilled her role? The end came suddenly.
Among the countless and diverse youkai, beasts, and humans, only two remained.
She immediately recognized the origin of the one dressed in a familiar black clothes.
It was a servant.

　”Aaaah…!”

　Since the last two refused to kill each other no matter how much time passed, her turn came.
She warned them, and then attacked, forcibly reducing the number of survivors to one.

　”Aaaahhhhh!!?”

　And she faced off against the one who had audaciously challenged her to a fight.
Shocked, stunned, astounded.
Her heart was pierced by a vile trap, and she cut off the other party body diagonally from the head to at least take him with her.

　At the same time, the mask her opponent wore was torn away.
As she spat blood, she looked at the detestable face of her opponent and Shishimai Asami opened her eyes wide in despair.

　”AaaAAAaaAAaaAAaaAAaaaAAahhhhhh!!!??”

　In her final moments, the last thing she saw was the female servant who rushed to embrace the lifeless body of the man she had loved, cursing her with all her might…

　Little fifth-grade loli: “Bankai…
Zanka no Tachi, South: Great Burial Ranks of the Ten Trillion Fire Dead'!!”