Reborn As A Villainous Cannon Fodder

“You—you’re so shameless!”

Nina pointed her finger, growing angrier by the word.

Yino sighed, feeling helpless: “Actually, Your Majesty should look at it from a different perspective.”

“If I hadn’t helped Your Majesty expose that shopkeeper’s scam, Your Majesty wouldn’t have gotten your pocket money back. Compared to a useless stone, isn’t Your Majesty’s little treasury more valuable?”

Yino began persuading her with a serious face.

The dragon girl sitting on him actually found herself momentarily unable to refute his logic.

“Besides, I was forced to do it!”

Seeing she was listening to reason, Yino continued to play the victim.

“You stole my treasure and claim you were forced to?” Nina raised an eyebrow, feeling the logic becoming more and more questionable.

“But I really needed that Pure Blood Phoenix Crystal!”

“What for?”

“For cultivation! OFC!?”

Yino insisted stubbornly, righteously.

“Who doesn’t need to cultivate?!”

Upon hearing his words, Nina immediately became upset.

The white dragon girl raised her hand as if to slap him, but ultimately formed a small fist and grabbed Yino’s collar again—

“No, no, my cultivation serves a greater purpose!”

Despite this, Yino still explained with a serious expression.

“What greater purpose?”

“With the demonic abyss approaching, I’m about to become a hero, bearing the Holy Maiden’s wishes and the faith of countless citizens of Western Province City, heading to the battlefield to fight against the demon abyss and save Western Province City!”

“You’re going to save Western Province City? Wait, when did you become a hero?”

Nina listened with confusion, feeling that the young man beneath her spoke very sincerely, yet his logic seemed to make enormous leaps.

She was starting to get drawn in, wondering how these two topics had become connected.

Moreover…

“Wait! When did you start carrying the Holy Maiden’s wishes and the citizens’ faith?”

“Why would I lie to you?”

Yino sighed helplessly, his tone making it seem like Nina was the foolish one.

Under Nina’s extremely suspicious gaze, the black-clad young man raised his hand beneath her to summon a sword, and suddenly a black demonic blade carved with crescent moon marks appeared in his hand.

“Look, this holy sword is proof of my status as a hero!”

Yino said with a profound sense of mission.

As soon as he finished speaking, Nina immediately lost her composure and snatched the sword from his hand—

“What nonsense are you spouting?!, isn’t this the holy sword you stole from the church?!”

“Whoa, how do you know that?”

“I followed you for eight streets from the church gates!”

“Whoa, a stalking pervert?”

“What strange things are you saying AGAIN?!”

Nina was nearly driven mad by Yino.

Actually, since their time at the Wuji Sect, Nina had sensed something off about this human boy.

After being deceived three times, Nina became even more convinced of his treacherous nature.

But now, truly straddling Yino and confronting him, Nina deeply felt an extremely difficult-to-describe quality about him.

This was no longer something that could be summarized simply as mentally ill.

Many times, though Nina couldn’t understand what he was saying, somehow she seemed to grasp his hidden meaning.

“No…”

“Since you followed me that long, then you should know I’m truly this sword’s master, right?”

Yino continued to explain tirelessly.

He spoke fluently, his rhetoric coming one after another without preparation, not at all seeming to Nina like someone making up lies on the spot.

“If you were truly the sword’s master, why would Holy Maiden chase you?”

“But if I weren’t the sword’s master, how could I have pulled this holy sword from the church?”

“—?”

As they questioned back and forth, the white dragon girl’s little brain suddenly seemed to crash.

She blinked, eyebrows raised, looking rather doubtfully at the holy sword she had just snatched from Yino.

At the same time, Yino gave a cold laugh:

“Don’t believe me? Try sticking the sword in the ground and see if you can pull it out!”

[Wait! Why are you sticking me in the ground again? I’m a holy sword! Not some broken iron sword!]

In the sea of divine consciousness, a small sword spirit who was sitting down to drink tea and make friends with a little deer suddenly sensed a crisis.

But before the sword spirit could protest, the dragon girl had already ruthlessly thrust the demonic blade into the ground.

At the same time, meeting Yino’s confident gaze, Nina bit her vermilion lips, snorting rather defiantly, then reached out to grasp the blade and tried to pull it out.

“Heave!”

“Heave-nnngh—ah!”

“Huff… huff… huff…”

Silence fell for a long while.

The dragon girl sat on the ground nearby, drenched in sweat. She looked as if she’d seen a ghost, having been conquered by a sword in terms of strength for the first time in her life.

In this world…

Could such a mysterious thing really exist?

Nina felt her worldview crumbling.

But at that moment, the black-clad young man who had just been pinned down and seemingly powerless sat up and effortlessly pulled the black demonic blade from the ground crack—

“See?”

“This is what we call a sword spirit recognizing its master!”

“So think about it carefully: I stole the Pure Blood Phoenix Crystal for cultivation. I cultivate to gain the holy sword’s recognition. And what is gaining the holy sword’s recognition for?”

“Of course, it’s to become a hero and shoulder the mission of saving Western Province City!”

Nina: ???

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“You, you somehow… sound quite reasonable?”

“Are… are you really a hero?”

After a long silence, the little white dragon with question marks above her head still stared wide-eyed in shock, drawing in a sharp breath.

….

“Holy Maiden, what did you just say?”

In the ruins of the church’s backyard, the white-robed woman asked in surprise as she caught up.

Just now, they had ended the search and hunt for the sword thief, and Yunmei had already led many patrollers back to the church headquarters.

Looking at the battle-scarred church backyard, the black-dressed Holy Maiden shook her head with a helpless smile:

“I meant that your junior brother, Yino, is likely the second Chosen One I’ve been waiting for.”

“He’s a Chosen One too?”

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