Whose youth romance story begins with a witch's trial?!

Faced with increasing doubts, Kurobe gradually recalled the lingering sensation of holding a fire axe in his hand, and even began to have 'hallucinations' of himself pulling the trigger of a pistol.

Did I lose my mind because of my witch transformation? Like 'Tanaka Drew' in the recreation room back then, completely blinded by murderous intent, almost killing Meruru, hurting Sakuraba Nana, and killing—

"How could that be! My girlfriend would never be a murderer. I know that better than anyone else!"

"Girlfriend—"

Chang Rong grasped the double shoulder flags of #Kurobe Naiyue Ye Yixiang, and responded with a firm expression and a loud voice, trying to make Kurobe Naiyue Ye Yixiang regain her will, and incidentally consolidate this persona in front of the other prospective witches, which she honestly didn't know why it was attached to her.

When Kurobe Nanoha heard Chang Rong's words, she froze on the spot.

"[False Evidence] Didn't you say you'd introduce me to your sister after we left here?!"

Chang Rong deliberately emphasized the words "sister" in his pronunciation. He knew that Kurobe Nanoha was on the verge of a mental breakdown, so he had to find a way to re-anchor her spirit with the things she cared about and cherished most.

"Introduce her to my sister—"

'Kurobe Nanoha Kaori's' mind began to conjure up non-existent IF scenarios: she was arm in arm with the white-haired boy as they arrived at her house, her cute little sister cheerfully greeted them when the doorbell rang, only to be stunned speechless by what she saw before her.

Faced with her sister's doubts and denials, she simply smiled, took the white-haired boy's arm, and told her that it would be better for her to accept the fact that she was "soon to have a brother-in-law." Afterwards, she remained silent in the face of her sister's questioning, only continuing to kiss the white-haired boy passionately in front of her.

"Waaaaah! How come Anai's eyes are already glazed over and she's vanished into the void?! Has she completely collapsed?! Give up on the healing potion, Anai!!"

"...Frette"

The imagined kiss was interrupted by the reporter girl. Kurobe Nanoha's light gray eyes stared straight at Junfut, who had repeatedly interrupted her good time.

"Great, Anai is back to reality... Waaah, Anai, what's that black aura behind you—Waaaaaah!!?"

Good news, Nanoha Kurobe has regained her senses.

Bad news: Kurobe Nanoka has completely replaced her rationality with murderous intent towards a certain reporter.

"Waaaaah, what did I do wrong...?"

After being scolded again, Rong Fute squatted in the corner, sniffing and fiddling with his camera out of boredom. Seeing this, Chang Rong, who had been overwhelmed with worries, suddenly realized something.

"Oh right, Rongrong!"

"Waaaaah!? Even you, even Ah Rong, are you going to torture me!?"

"No, no, no, I remember your magic is [Mind Writing], right?"

"Yeah, what's up? Do you want me to get you some pictures of you and Anai making out?"

"No, no, of course not." "Give me a few."

Chang Rong and Hei Bu responded at the same time, but their words were completely contradictory.

"...Can't you be a little more aware that you're about to be subjected to a witch's trial, Kurobe-kun?"

"I'm so sorry..."

Faced with Chang Rong's resentful gaze, Kurobe Nanoha, whose mind had been completely controlled by the small head, awkwardly rubbed her cycling helmet.

"In short, can you read or write down what I said?"

"Hmm? Sure!"

Rong Fute raised her camera, revealing a confident smile and her little tiger teeth.

"So—the culprit is Kurobe Nanoha Kaori. She was carrying a fire axe, a pistol, and a rope. She first shot Mizuki Chisa, then severed Sakuraba Nana's arm, and finally used the rope to strangle Hikami Meruru."

"Huh!? Anai isn't the murderer, right? — Ouch!"

"Read and write first, then talk about it."

Chang Rong tapped Fu Te on the head, and the latter could only read the photo aloud with tears in her eyes.

"...Something's definitely not right. If that's the case, it's very difficult to replicate the injury on the back of Kurobe's head no matter how you try to do it."

Chang Rong examined the photos closely. All the images that Rong Fute had read and written in his mind contained logical errors.

"Next, let's change the keywords—the culprit is Ice Meluru, she's holding..."

Chang Rong brought up another hypothesis, and with the appearance of the photo, the other prospective witches also gathered together to resemble the outdated Umbrella Ball.

"Oh...interesting, interesting. So this is what they call 'profiling,' right? Simulating the scene by inputting information. I didn't expect there to be such a trick. You're really amazing, Chang Rong." The girl in the white coat pushed up her glasses and nodded, then picked up a piece of trash packaging paper and carefully examined it to analyze the situation.

"A surveillance video of zero human error... Hehehehe, it seems that if I were to kill someone, you would be my first target, camera girl." The bandaged girl fiddled with a knife, looking at Rong Fut with a wicked smile.

"Eek!? Don't put me on the victim list just because of something like this!!"

"The ice skater's weakness is also obvious. She couldn't have made these moves after being hanged. Next."

"The perpetrator was Chang Rong. He broke into my bedroom, drugged me with sleeping pills, tied me up, and did various things to me while I was unable to resist—"

"Stop messing around, Kurobe-kun! Rongrong, don't actually read or write it! Waaaaah—"

Suddenly, Kurobe Nanoha whispered in Junfut's ear, and at the same time, a series of silver-colored light products were leaked out.

"Chang, Chang Rong, you really are evil... In order to protect my sister, I have no choice but to get rid of you...!"

Holding the photo, Kurobe Nanoha Kaori seriously examined it while staring intently at the white-haired boy, preparing to do the opposite and tie him up and execute him on the spot, in order to protect her innocent younger sister from the cruel hands of this white-haired rabbit.

"You've gone so far as to cry wolf, you're completely speechless... But—sleeping pills?"

Chang Rong was still regretting whether he should have taken the opportunity to say that he was Kurobe Nanoha's girlfriend. This "false evidence" seemed to have really ignited some of Kurobe's incredible fantasies. But he immediately caught the "possibility" in Nanoha's words.

No matter how many times we read and wrote the simulation before, it was very difficult to replicate the situation of 'all four people being wiped out'.

Another point of suspicion is the 'trajectories of the two bullets'. Only one bullet hole could be found at the scene, and there was no trace of the other bullet or crater.

But what if an 'external force' played a role? What if this 'external force' caused a situation that would 'fight' and ultimately everyone would fall unconscious?

The water bottle left in the incinerator was clearly brought in by someone; otherwise, the incinerator's passageway would only connect to the shower room, and no one would drink water while showering.

Even the eccentric Xiaoxue would only blow bubbles, do somersaults, and then fall down while taking a bath.

"It would be great if the liquid left in this bottle could be tested to see if it contained sleeping pills or poison—"

"Tsk tsk tsk, it's sweet, that's right, sleeping pills? I drank it because I was curious about the blue bottle in the infirmary, and it really is a sleeping pill, and it tastes pretty good."

Chang Rong had just raised the bottle and hadn't finished speaking when the girl in the white coat next to her took it and drank the portion meant for raising fish in one gulp.

"Uh, um, Ebe-kun..."

"Hey, hey, hey, are you out of your mind?! You just poured that random liquid you found down your throat?! What if it's poison?! And why would anyone drink that weird blue liquid from the infirmary?!"

—Thank you so much, Miss Vulture! Finally, someone can speak for me!

Chang Rong looked at the bandaged girl with gratitude. Finally, she had another companion with common sense—although this 'common-sense companion' seemed to be a murderer in the outside world.

"However, since it really is a sleeping pill... perhaps now we can [read and write] out the real crime scene!"

—Rongrong is almost at the limit of coldness. Although she has been pretending to be silly and cute, her back is already soaked with sweat. Using mind-writing magic continuously must be quite a burden for her.

This is probably the last chance to read and write. Who could have taken the sleeping pills?

The deceased, Mizuki Chisa, was shot in the abdomen; Sakuraba Nana had her left arm severed and immobilized; Kurobe Nanoha was struck hard on the back of the head; and Hikami Meruru had her head strangled and her fingers twisted.

"Ha, finally it's been taken apart! This [Fix] spell is really interesting. The outer arm and hand shouldn't be targeted by the fixation spell, but the arm is still fixed in the air—it turns out that what's fixed is this bullet stuck in the bone and muscle."

"Miss Vulture...!?"

The voice of the bandaged girl behind him interrupted Chang Rong's thoughts. He saw that the girl, Qi, who was the only one in the group (from the sixth grade), holding a small knife, cut off the 'immobilized arm' that everyone avoided.

Chang Rong wanted to shout to stop her, thinking that Sakuraba Nana's arm could be reattached with magic after Meruru woke up, but what he saw next made him forget to stop the killer.

The clenched fist-shaped left arm actually concealed the bullet hole in her palm. One of the bullets, which could not be found no matter what, had originally pierced through Nana Sakuraba's palm and was now lodged in the bone and muscle of her forearm.

'Vulture' raised one end of its arm and held it upright along the trajectory of the bullet hole. The end of the trajectory in the opposite direction of the bullet hole was exactly where Shui Youqiansha had fallen.

Now that things have come to this, everything is simple and clear.

“Rongrong, read this aloud—the culprit is Sakuraba Nana. She poisoned Mizuki Chisa with a bottle laced with sleeping pills beforehand, used the magic [Entanglement] to control the ropes, and strangled Ice Meluru who came here, but encountered Kurobe Nanoha Kaori along the way and a conflict ensued.”

"When Sakuraba Nana used the blunt side of a fire axe to knock Kurobe Nanoha unconscious with a heavy blow, Mizuki Chisa realized she was poisoned and attacked Sakuraba Nana with her pistol, but failed, only hitting Sakuraba Nana's left arm. Instead, Mizuki Chisa fell into a coma due to the sleeping pills. Sakuraba Nana then used the fire axe to cut off the immobilized arm, shoved the fire axe into Kurobe Nanoha's hand, and snatched Mizuki Chisa's pistol to kill her in return."

—What am I saying...?

Chang Rong felt unfamiliar with the assumptions she was making.

Sakuraba-san…killed her best friend? No, that's unlikely; that guess is probably wrong too.

The results of Rongqi Fute's deletion and writing have appeared. This time, the scene of the fake temple on Nixu Mountain was slightly 'unnatural'. All the developments were extremely natural, and the continuous photos were like screenshots of real on-site video recordings.

"—!"

Everyone knows this is a fake reading, but everyone also knows it is a real 'reality' that actually happened.

"Everyone, how's the investigation going?!"

A pink-haired girl appeared in front of the incinerator room. Her missing left arm was in a sling, and her words and actions were full of soft, cuteness that made people want to protect her.

“Sakuraba-kun, you…”

Chang Rong felt a little short of breath. The "truth" he had personally pursued was like a bullet, easily shattering the "truth" he had originally believed in.

[Coo coo coo... Time's up. Everyone, please come to the courtroom for the witch trial.]

The words he was about to say were interrupted by the warden's voice over the loudspeaker.

No... even without the warden's interference, I probably wouldn't have been able to say it to that girl.

She... was a "witch" that she herself had found.

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The trial proceedings were nothing worth discussing, or rather, it was simply a 'trial' with a predetermined outcome.

The witch's judgment doesn't actually require real 'evidence'. Since even the warden isn't interested in the truth, the only thing that can lead to a life-or-death decision is the 'belief' of the crowd.

And the 7'侕念写魔二法'四, which is similar to the magic of the 7'侕念写魔二法, allows everyone to use the most intuitive way to choose the "truth" they believe in.

Although Sakuraba Nana continued to defend herself in a nearly tearful voice during the trial, the criminal process constructed by the 'Nen-Writing' magic, a criminal process without any questionable or unreasonable aspects, made any of Sakuraba Nana's defenses seem pale and laughable.

"Rong, pull yourself together and look at the original sin that girl has committed."

It wasn't until Xiaoxue's voice came that Chang Rong snapped out of her almost sleepwalking state.

He pressed the "Execution" button, and the witch named Sakuraba Nana was escorted to the execution platform.

The girl's limbs were fixed to twistable machines, and her severed left arm was replaced with a chain.

"Why...!? Why are you executing me!? It's that girl—it's always been that girl! Ever since elementary school, she's treated me like a beast of burden, and to avoid being bullied or shunned by others, I could only smile and continue to be her follower!!"

—Aren't you... best friends?