Kuroyukihime's Strange Journey

"Although I don't really like you, I've seen your doujinshi, so let's just leave it at that..."

Leaving behind a trace of his aura, Li Ke chased after Gokou Ruri. He planned to bring her to meet Kirino Kousaka, so the two of them could form a new bond—and he could get Kirino to open up to him more easily.

For now, Gokou Ruri was the most important.

After all, the World Power was inside her.

So, after Gokou Ruri hurried home and made dinner for her two younger sisters, she returned to her room in a daze. Her sisters looked at her, puzzled. Their older sister did strange things all the time, so although they were worried, she clearly didn't want to talk about it. They could only watch anxiously as she left.

Back in her room, Gokou Ruri collapsed onto her bed, staring blankly. She couldn't think of what she should do. After all, these weren't the sort of problems she could solve.

She wasn't the Fallen Angel Black Cat from her fantasies, but an ordinary teenage otaku. No matter how powerful her fantasies were, she wasn't some important person, or even someone from a wealthy family. She was just an ordinary girl who would eventually marry an ordinary man, have children, and build a family.

She wasn't the Queen of the Night. She just wasn't.

In her stories, she was the one who gave people trials like this. But now that she was the one facing one, Gokou Ruri realized she really couldn't take it.

At the thought that she might die, and that no one would be there to look after her sisters, while everyone in her family would be heartbroken, Gokou Ruri couldn't help feeling sorrow well up inside her.

"Wuwu..."

Overwhelmed by the pressure,