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

"If you dare to desert your post, I'll punish you severely and kick your ass!"

"You want to punish me—you really want to punish me... Well, in that case I'll have to..."

"Listen up, Wisteria! Life, well, it's all about—having rabbits!!"

"Pfft!?"

Just as Arisa Wisteria was about to be elevated to paradise, she suddenly lost her support and fell back to reality.

She quickly got up and shook her head, only to see a white-haired boy fighting with a wild rabbit in the bushes not far away, just as if all his promises to her were less important than the wild rabbit.

"You, you...you're asking for a beating...I'll kill you!!"

"Hmm? Suddenly I feel something warm on my back—whoa!!?"

Chang Rong, who was in a hurry to fight each other while crouching in the grass, was suddenly blasted apart by the giant snake-like creature behind him.

Sigrún has taught at the Iceland University of the Arts as a part-time lecturer since and was Dean of the Department of Fine Art from -. In – she held a research position at Reykjavík Art Museum focusing on the role of women in Icelandic art. She studied fine art at the Icelandic College of Arts and Crafts and at Pratt Institute, New York, and holds BA and MA degrees in art history and philosophy from the University of Iceland. Sigrún lives and works in Iceland.

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"【False Evidence+】Seven: This is the rabbit we caught in the courtyard of the castle. The Seven Great Mountain family can have an extra meal tonight. This is all thanks to Zifang."

Inside the restaurant, Chang Rong, covered in soot, carried two rabbits, their fur stripped off by the fire, and proudly announced this to everyone, pulling Zifang Arisa along with him.

"Really, Arisa-chan! As expected of Arisa-chan, she's amazing...!" Emma Sakuraba's eyes lit up instantly.

"Yay, this is great! Finally, we can eat some real meat! I really underestimated you!" Tono Hannah exclaimed excitedly.

"The courtyard...? Never mind, this appropriate improvement in food helps boost morale. You did a good job, Arisa, that's undoubtedly the right thing to do." Nikaido Hiro frowned, but didn't ask anything in front of everyone, instead praising Fujiwara Arisa as well.

"Wow! As expected of Arisa, you are definitely the perfect choice for the role of 'Broken Blade Swordsman' in my stage play!" Hasumi Rhea stood up and clapped.

"Little Sasa...so amazing...Only I'm getting more and more mediocre...But I'm still proud of Little Sasa!" Saeki Miria had a complicated expression, but she still smiled and applauded for Arisa Fujito.

"I...I didn't do anything...I'm really that great...Am I really that great...?"

Surrounded by the crowd, Arisa Fujito huddled inside her hood, her whole body trembling with excitement because she had never experienced being surrounded and applauded by so many people before.

"Well then, in that case, I'll roast the rabbit for everyone..."

"...Huh?"

Chang Rong, who was smiling and clapping to the side, let out a short gasp of surprise upon hearing Zifang Arisa's words.

I remember the last time Arisa heated up food herself, she turned the black bread into a charcoal stick?

Oh ho...

The next second, as Chang Rong reached out to stop Zifang Arisa with an expression as if he had just eaten watermelon ice, Arisa activated her magic.

Amidst the applause, encouragement, and praise of the crowd, Arisa's power surged, exploded, and intensified! Damn it, what can withstand this? What can stop her?!

Then, the rabbit in her hand turned red rapidly, a bright, dazzling red, and the next moment—

BOOOOM!!

A violent explosion, along with flying sparks and black smoke, instantly engulfed the restaurant.

Why...why is this happening?

After the riot, the girl kneeling on the ground stared blankly at the hell before her.

"My rabbit meat... crunch...!"

The white-haired boy beside him used his last bit of strength to utter his unwilling last words, and in the end, he also died in the Northwest.

After that day, two more notice boards appeared in the cafeteria:

【1】Please do not heat up the food yourself, Arisa Shito.

[2] You can praise and compliment Arisa Fujito, but only up to two people at a time.

However, the sacrifice of these rabbits was not entirely in vain. At least Chang Rong obtained a crucial piece of information—the intensity of Zifang Arisa's magical firepower was positively correlated with the intensity of praise from others.

In other words, as long as there are two or more people constantly praising Arisa, Arisa, holding the copper wire, seems to be able to withstand the extreme cold of the underground freezer.

Chang Rong never imagined in his life that the exploration of underground cold storage would proceed in this way.

Just as he returned to his bedroom, looking disheveled and ashen-faced from the cafeteria, intending to sleep and research how to make the 'heating tool' the next day, he opened the door and saw the 'frequent refresh probability' prospective witch—Kurobe Nanoha Kaori.

"Chang Rong, I... I have something I want to talk to you about—about my sister."

Nanoha Kurobe looked somewhat confused, but even so, she still spoke to the white-haired boy.

"Also...did you recently find a secret passage and start stealing your blankets back from me?"

"……what?"

Faced with Kurobe Nanoha's overly casual questioning, Chang Rong suddenly began to doubt that he was the one who had brazenly taken advantage of his blanket.

Volume 1: Chapter 105. My Brother-in-Law is Too Charming

"Why don't you... listen to what you're saying for yourself and see if it's true, Kurobe-kun?"

Under the overly assertive and self-righteous questioning of Kurobe Nanoha, Chang Rong even momentarily doubted that he was the one who had made a mistake in the fight. However, he quickly came to his senses and retorted that the blanket was clearly his own property.

"?"

Nanoha Kurobe tilted her head, her expression not one of doubting whether she was wrong, but rather questioning what Chang Rong was saying.

It's obvious this guy has been completely blinded by the reality he's created...

"How about I just deliver it to you next time? That way, you won't have to go through all that trouble with Kurobe-kun crawling around in those secret passages that nobody knows about, right?"

Chang Rong asked with a smile, trying to use this sharp and sarcastic tone to interrogate Kurobe Nanoha Kaori for her outrageous act of usurping someone else's place.

"Hmm... that would be a great help, Chang Rong. Considering I'm usually not around after noon, you can just deliver it in the morning."

"What the hell! This is sarcasm, Kurobe-kun. Stop acting like a slut and constantly picking at other people's bedding!"

"Ugh—!?"

Unexpectedly, Kurobe Nanoha Kaori actually started thinking seriously about the sarcasm and even arranged a delivery time for herself. You're really a nice person... what a joke!

It seems this guy doesn't understand roundabout language at all. Chang Rong was forced to choose a straightforward attack.

The effect was quite remarkable. After being reprimanded, Kurobe Nanoha was stunned for a moment, and then immediately showed an embarrassed and shy expression, as if she had finally realized that she was in a prison escape on an isolated island, and not a pure girl in a strange 18X eroge world.

He trained himself to be as skilled as a special forces soldier in order to save his family and defeat the dark forces, not to steal the white-haired boy's personal belongings to keep himself warm.

Every time Chang Rong thinks about how Kurobe Nanoha Kaori seems to be older than him, he feels that the Japanese chickens are probably really doomed.

"Yes, I'm sorry, Chang Rong, it's all my fault..."

"It's still that sentence you said, 'I'm sorry, but what's the use of mixing it with other things!' The essence of this is loyalty (and sincerity), sincerity, oh sincerity, do you understand!"

Seeing that Kurobe Nanoka had been tortured into a soft, helpless, and delicious state, Chang Rong immediately seized the opportunity, moved closer to Kurobe Nanoka, put one hand on Kurobe's shoulder, and held out the other hand in front of her as if counting money.

"Okay... um, these are the pancakes I baked earlier."

"The offering has been accepted, your sins have been completely wiped away. Hold your head high and be proud, child."

Nanaka Kurobe took out a dessert from her pouch, and in an instant, the bedroom was filled with the alluring sweet aroma of butter, eggs, and flour baked together. This aroma also instantly smoothed out all the wrinkles on the white-haired boy's forehead.

Chang Rong snatched the pancake and instantly performed a Sichuan opera face-changing act. He carefully stuffed the pancake into the inside pocket of his clothes, then placed one hand on Kurobe Nanoha Kaori's cycling helmet and rubbed it, while pretending to make a hand seal in front of his chest with the other hand, thus absolving the black-haired twin-tailed girl of all sins of lust.

In a sense, Chang Rong is a fairly cost-effective priest on Prison Island. Although the process of requesting atonement is not free, on the other hand, if you can get him food that far surpasses the quality of the Prison Island canteen, even if you humiliate the priest in front of Kami, he will only show off the food while saying that he will be careful not to do it again next time.

"Think about this carefully. You're still so young, what are you talking about? If you ever need anything, just tell me! If you give me some other snacks, I'll even give you my pillow!"

Xiaoliuyi took a bite, but it still turned out big. Chang Rong, while licking her lips, seemed to be patting her chest and telling Heihei Naoya that blankets, sheets, pillows and the like are just external things, born to be exchanged for ice cream.

"Are five pancakes enough for one quilt...? Then maybe ten cookies could get you another set. If that's the case, is it possible to abduct Chang Rong herself...?"

Hearing Chang Rong's words, Kurobe Nanoha Kaori not only didn't take it as him talking nonsense after he had taken too much, but instead frowned, put a finger on her chin, and seriously calculated how much white flour would be needed to package and transport Chang Rong's body over.

"Hmph, what? Thinking about me, Kurobe-kun? Too bad, people grow up! I'm not the same as before! The cafeteria food has been gradually improving lately, and my interest in desserts is slowly fading (in other words: my tolerance is building up), so I'll have to spend at least—1 pound! 1 pound of cookies... that'll only last me one day, hehehehe...!"

"I'll pay 30 jin (15 catties) for a month."

"……what?"

The number from Kurobe Nanoha made Chang Rong pause for a moment, but he was instantly immersed in the wonderful, heavenly illusion of being surrounded by endless desserts and no longer having to go to the cafeteria to compete with Indian cuisine. His eyes were vacant as he stared upwards, drooling at the corners of his mouth.

“One, one month... one month of Chang Rong... umm.”

On the other side, Nanoha Kurobe was equally captivated. After submitting her offer, she too was immersed in her own blissful illusion. For a whole month, she wouldn't need to pick locks or engage in petty theft to avoid being seen. Every day, she would diligently roam the wilderness, gather intelligence, and when she got home, she would turn on the lights, take off her clothes, and the next second a white-haired boy would jump out to massage her shoulders, rub her head, kiss and hug her, and thoughtfully relieve her even deeper stress...

"Hehe, endless desserts, hehe..." Lost in his fantasy, the male scumbag even forgot that he was holding a real pancake in his hand.

"Hmm, Chang Rong just messing around, ugh..." The female slut, lost in her fantasy, even forgot that there was a real Chang Rong acting alone right in front of her.

"—No, no, wait, Kurobe-kun, weren't you here to talk about serious business?"

In the illusion, Chang Rong bit his tongue, and the pain shattered the illusion, bringing him back to reality.

"Uh...yes, that's right...!!"

Under the white-haired boy's scolding, Kurobe Nanoha Kaori quickly shook her head, wiped the drool from the corner of her mouth, and looked at Chang Rong with a serious and earnest expression.

"I need to talk to you about something, Chang Rong. It's about the images I've been seeing."

Kurobe Nanoha and Chang Rong sat side by side on the sofa. The black-haired girl with twin tails took a few deep breaths to adjust her breathing, and then revealed her true purpose for coming here.

“Chang Rong, when you were recuperating in the infirmary, I actually had two visions of you on the hospital bed. The first was you taking my temperature by pressing your forehead against mine, like this…”

"No, no, no, I already know about your hallucinations, I understand your explanation, so there's no need for me to demonstrate it myself! Besides, didn't you already demonstrate it once before?"

"...Hmm"

As Kurobe Nanoha was talking, she tried to lean in and demonstrate, but Chang Rong quickly raised her hand to touch her forehead and interrupted her.

"And isn't this the opposite? It was clearly Kurobe who took my temperature back then, using such an inappropriate gesture." Chang Rong asked, frowning.

"That's...that's because I hallucinated Chang Rong's actions, so I tried to do it like that..." Kurobe Nanoha explained somewhat awkwardly that she was just imitating others blindly, but the result wasn't very good.

"I'm not stupid, I'd definitely use a thermometer to measure my temperature!"

"Uh, well... but you didn't use a thermometer during your hallucinations... Anyway, there was another hallucination, another one— um..."

Nanoha Kurobe didn't know how to explain it, so she could only skip the first vision in a flustered manner. However, when she thought of the second vision, the black-haired twin-tailed girl's cheeks suddenly turned red and warm.

If the scene of 'taking temperatures' could be explained as 'a close act between friends,' then the second scene has absolutely nothing to do with the word 'friends.'

Even a somewhat eccentric girl like Nanoha Kurobe knows that a friend wouldn't lure someone to bed while saying "Bro, you smell so good," and then pin them down and start undressing them...