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

"Xiaoxue, what...what is this...?"

"Hmm? It's just about figuring out how to fulfill one's duties after getting used to the absence of magic."

Xiaoxue tilted her head, looking at Chang Rong with a confused expression, as if Chang Rong were the strange one.

"Being responsible? What do you mean by being responsible... Anyway, that's not how you wash dishes."

Xiaoxue would often throw in a few words that Chang Rong had never heard before, but he was already used to it.

Therefore, Chang Rong did not dwell on those strange words. Instead, he stood behind Xiao Xue, held Xiao Xue's hands in a hugging manner, and personally taught this helpless person the steps and usage of the plate, sponge, towel and cleaning agent.

"Hmm... yes, sometimes not having magic isn't all bad, is it?"

Feeling the warmth from the white-haired boy behind her, and the bubbles created by their intertwined palms, Xiaoxue blushed and whispered.

"—"

From the corner where Kurobe Nanoha was, she silently watched the two people washing dishes, her eyebrows almost furrowed together.

Xiaoxue was previously playing a younger sister role, and was almost becoming a pet role, but after waking up today, it's like she's summoned Faker, and suddenly she's been climbing the ranks like crazy?

Since I lack shared life experiences with Chang Rong, it seems that simply mimicking the sentimental behavior of characters in romance anime won't suffice if I want to repay her kindness. I need to think of something else…

Well, watch and learn carefully, my silly little sister! Love is like a battlefield; when it's time to take a risk, you absolutely cannot hesitate...!

After much deliberation, in order to better protect the white-haired boy, Kurobe Nanoha came up with a plan.

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"Ugh... I feel really bad for Ice Girl... although I'm more curious about how you managed to cut seven fingers while washing dishes under my supervision, Yuki..."

"...That's a problem with the plate, it has nothing to do with this witch."

Xiaoxue turned her head away and responded softly, while looking at her own hands, which were too slender and had almost never held a book or a teacup.

During the era of the Great Witch who possessed countless spells, any physical labor was unnecessary. Omnipotent magic could solve ten thousand problems, and even if real magic was inconvenient to handle, familiars could be used to do the work.

Later, he raised a 'human pet', which was so dutiful that it became even more useful than a familiar.

Therefore, the great witch 'Snow' almost never actually did any housework.

Humans are indeed a despicable, lowly, and weak race. They can do something that only takes a few seconds by manipulating water elements, but they have to risk bleeding to death by washing dishes by hand.

However... if all of this was really done using water elements, perhaps we'll never know his feelings and emotions as he stood in front of the pool every morning and evening.

It's unbelievable. We've had more intimate moments, like showering together, but it was that insignificant, incredibly inefficient manual labor that made me feel more excited and happy.

Is it because coldness is gradually approaching Erhe Er? I want to understand Chang Rong better, not as a 'flawless person,' but as an ordinary human being, and everything he has experienced and encountered.

I think... I've finally found a way to get closer to his heart.

The Great Witch smiled. She had never thought of getting involved in the daily routines of 'humans' before. Those seemingly complicated, redundant, and insignificant matters were perhaps the very foundation upon which their memories were built.

Humans, this inferior species, are exceptionally good at only two things: 'creating memories' and 'recording memories'...

Wait, wait... Speaking of the videotape from before...!

Xiaoxue's smile suddenly vanished. She hurriedly set off to the recreation room to retrieve the videotape she had just started playing. However, because she took too big a step, she aggravated her inner thigh.

"Well……!"

"Are you alright, Xiaoxue? The way you walk today seems a bit like a penguin, quack!!!"

Chang Rong's genuine concern only earned him a headbutt.

"Idiot, moron! Moron! It's all because of you! Rude, beast, animal! I clearly said no, but you still... idiot!"

"...???"

I thought Xiaoxue had inexplicably begun to understand human nature, but it turns out she's still that strange girl who gets inexplicably angry.

In the end, all we could do was watch the white-haired girl leave in a strange, angry manner.

Even if you chase after them at this point, you'll only get a headbutt or a side kick. Maybe you should do something else... huh?

As Chang Rong passed by the storage room, she noticed that the clutter, which had been arranged in a somewhat orderly manner, was now all overturned and crooked, and inside the clutter was a large door.

crunch--

"Hehe, Little Rose, you must be very thirsty, right? It's alright, I'll feed you your favorite Supreme Dew right now. This was personally fed to you by the young lady of the Gaoyuan family. You must kneel down and worship three times with gratitude, and then drink it with a grateful heart. Who told you to be a nobody like Hua Hua? A nobody, a nobody—"

"what--"

Through the dilapidated wooden door, Chang Rong arrived at a sunroom surrounded by glass. The room itself was quite beautiful, but unfortunately, almost all the flowers that should have been used for decoration had withered.

Several pots of flowers were still in bloom, and among them, the most beautiful rose was standing next to the blonde, twin-tailed young lady in a gorgeous floral dress, holding a parasol.

"Huh—?"

The young lady, who was speaking strange, childlike words to the flowers with her head down, blinked, seemingly also finding the white-haired boy who had suddenly appeared from behind her strange.

The two looked at each other, and after 3 seconds—

"Die, you commoners!!"

"Guwa!?"

The young lady swung her parasol at Chang Rong with a Kasaya Slash, but Chang Rong instantly knelt down and leaned back to disarm her, barely managing to block the young lady's ambush.

The white-haired boy was just casually strolling around when the rich young lady broke both his legs. This is another aspect of the Magic Cheese Prison Island...

"Sorry, I didn't know this place was full..."

Chang Rong, her hair disheveled, stood in the corner of the sunroom and whispered an apology to the young lady, Gao Yuanlihua.

"If I hadn't been unable to contact my family yet, a lowly commoner like you who saw my secret would have already been dragged to Tokyo Bay to feed the fish..."

The young lady glanced at Chang Rong out of the corner of her eye and snorted coldly.

"However, considering your life-risking advice to me back then, as a commoner, keeping you as a pet isn't necessarily a bad thing..."

The young lady twirled the parasol in her hand and murmured to herself.

"It's called a secret, but it's really just someone talking nonsense to plants while holding up a parasol in the house, right? That's not a secret, it's just pure chuunibyou—Goo-wah!!?"

"Yesterday's witch trial should have just voted you out... Ha... Ha...!"

The repeated vertical slashes made the young lady's breathing heavy, and she glared fiercely at the walking white-haired troublemaker in front of her.

"In any case, there's no point in hiding it now that you've seen it—[Bloom], that's my magic."

The young lady pointed to a flowerpot beside her. She removed the withered flowers, planted a seed, and placed her palm on top of it. Before long, a bright green seedling sprouted from the soil.

"Wow... Wow... It's really the magic of the elegant and beautiful young lady, it suits her so well." Qun Changrong opened her eyes wide, genuinely surprised by this romantic magic.

"Hmph... Although he's just a commoner with no brains, he does know a bit about refined things."

"So the parasol and the little devil's lines were just the young lady's personal chuunibyou hobbies after all, right? — Guwa!!!"

"Slaughter the common people!"

The second part of the storyline, which should have been progressing, was abruptly nipped in the bud by Chang Rong's disastrous dialogue options. It seems we can only wait for the next daily episode to advance it.

However, since the young lady has found the same interest as Crazy Dave, Chang Rong is not too worried about her mental state for the time being. Having something to do is much better than being idle and thinking aimlessly.

After being kicked out of the sunroom by the young lady, Chang Rong saw Xiao Xue again.

"Hmm? You've finished getting angry so quickly, Xiaoxue?"

Based on previous experience, Chang Rong originally thought that Xiao Xue would torment the unlucky child Alice until the evening, but she didn't expect that Xiao Xue would calm down so quickly this time.

"—Rong, wait for me at the infirmary at 8:30 tonight."

"Huh? What? The infirmary—"

"...???"

Before I could ask what happened, Xiaoxue ran off again after saying that.

However, her running posture has finally returned to normal. Did she just go to see Meruru for treatment?

Filled with various questions, Chang Rong arrived at the infirmary at the appointed time that night.

"Is something the matter, Xiaoxue? Are you feeling unwell anywhere—hmm?"

Although they arrived at the infirmary, the room was empty.

Just as Chang Rong was confused, the door behind her was pushed open again.

"Kurobe-kun?"

"Ah, good evening, Chang Rong."

Nanoha Kurobe nodded to the white-haired boy, then fiddled with the lock for a while before hanging the key on the collar around her neck.

"Kurobe-kun, what's going on here...? Oh right, were you also summoned by Yuki?"

"Xiaoxue? She seems to be with Meruru and Alice. Anyway—"

thump!

"Huh!?"

For no apparent reason, Kurobe Nanoka tackled Chang Rong to the hospital bed. The infirmary was dark and without candles or lights; the only light source was the messy moonlight streaming in from the balcony.

The black-haired girl with pigtails looked at the white-haired boy and swallowed hard.

"I've thought about this for a long time. For the sake of future team stability and to better protect you, the most 'special' among the witches, we need to strengthen the disguise of our identity as 'lovers'."

"Wait...wait? What? Reinforcement...?"

Chang Rong, who was pinned against the bed, was completely bewildered. She had summoned Kurosaki Ichigo, and all she could think was, "What is this guy saying...?"

However, Kurobe Nanoka completely ignored Chang Rong's confusion and embarrassment. She took off her cycling helmet, untied the fanny pack around her waist, and took off her black coat, revealing only her black and gray plaid shirt.

The woman in black stockings straddled Chang Rong in a duck-sitting position, the long gun on her back giving off a terrifying sense of 'those who dare to resist will be executed on the spot'.

"Chang Rong, didn't you admit it yourself? We're a couple—"

"No, no, no, it wasn't simply because the situation was urgent—!"

Chang Rong finally understood what it meant to be grateful for a small favor but resentful of a large one. He realized that in order to revive the nearly collapsing Kurobe Nanoha, he had been forced to give false testimony in accordance with her lies.

In fact, his words did indeed cheer up Nanoha Kurobe.

But... is this how you treat your benefactor? Is this how you repay a debt of gratitude?!

Chang Rong, who was cornered on his hospital bed by Kurobe Nanoha, never imagined that he would suffer such retribution for his usual lack of good deeds and his constant false testimony.