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

"I will not forget what happened today, Chang Rong. What has already happened cannot be erased, even if we go back in time."

As Hiro spoke his dashing words, he leaned against the wall and shakily got up.

“Hmm… I’m also looking forward to seeing what kind of expression ‘my past self’ will have after hearing about this,” Chang Rong replied with a smile.

—Could this guy also have a split personality...? This innocent, almost adorable expression, like you want to kill him, is really the same person as that terrifying guy from just now...?

Hiro looked at Chang Rong with some guilt; he was truly a terrifying and unfathomable fellow.

"So...Chang Rong, you really will be with them..."

Hiro glanced at the group of women beside him, who were exhausted due to both their physical strength and witch genes running low, and asked somewhat hesitantly.

“Yes, this is everyone’s choice.” Chang Rong nodded in response, while glancing at the Witch Killer Potion in the corner.

Everyone's awareness is genuine, so... mine must also be free from any hesitation or confusion.

See you this morning.

After saying a final goodbye to the white-haired boy, Nikaido Hiro left the study and strode toward his own battlefield.

She walked slowly through the castle corridors in the quiet night, each step leaving a deep and clear footprint.

It wasn't because Hiro was particularly enlightened or had such heavy feelings of longing; it was mainly because the idiot rabbit hadn't been able to control himself just now.

They slowly made their way to the cell in the basement, where a rope had already been prepared.

It's readily available everywhere, requires no technology or magic, and anyone can quickly buy it – the ultimate sex toy for playing tug-of-war with the roof beams.

"Xiaoxue, I don't know what you're expecting, but... I will rewrite the tragedy caused by you, and then find you and tell you what an idiotic mistake you made."

Nikaido Hiro stepped onto the chair and put the rope around her slender neck.

Find your comrades, avert this tragedy, rewrite the wrong history, and create a future for everyone.

"Waaah... I'm so sorry, I'm sorry I can't heal your injuries all at once...!"

—Meruru, what are you hiding? And what are you hoping for?

"Don't come near me... I hate contact with people..."

—Your pursuit of happiness is innocent, An'an, you just need to find the right way.

"Oh dear, I know exactly what love is!"

—I shouldn't have contradicted your love; I should have guided it, Margot.

"Everyone else is an idiot except me!"

—Now you have another 'push', right, Coco?

"Noah...is Noah a bad child?"

—You are a good boy I am proud of, Noah.

"My stage play will definitely amaze everyone!"

—Let me see just how breathtaking this stage play is, Léa!

"No one can be trusted; everyone will kill each other until only one person remains."

—I trust you, everyone trusts you, Nanoha Kaori.

"Uncle, I...I really don't understand this kind of thing..."

—Your pure kindness is a light that none of us can reach, Milia.

"Yes, I'm sorry, please punish this little lady severely... Oh my god...!"

—Don't be fooled by that idiot rabbit, Arisa! Even if your shoulder-massaging skills are bad, you don't deserve a spanking!

"Foolish knight, I...I'm your master! How dare you disobey me, who possesses the power of levitation... Waaaaaah!? Yes, yes, Buqi...hehehehehe..."

—Is the power of levitation some kind of powerful ability, Hannah Tohno…!

"Watson, you idiot, give the president a little face...! You idiot Watson—waaaaaah!!"

—How could you be so bad at minting, Sherry!

"Woof!? It's...it's really going to end, woof—"

——…

"Why are all my thoughts going back to Yinpa's lines towards the end? Damn it—wait?"

Hiro Nikaido, who was still trying to build up his emotions, was so overwhelmed by the yellowish rubbish that he started breathing on himself.

But precisely because of this, Chang Rong's legs, which were already swollen from being overly stimulated, completely collapsed at this moment.

Why are all I can think of in the end? Damn it—wait, what?

With this dying line that could rival the best exit line from the Commander-in-Chief and Amuro, Nikaido Hiro accidentally slipped and activated his most important magic—Death Rewind—which was unique to him and could prevent all tragedies from happening.

Volume 1: 147. Where did this come from?

"Cough...!!"

The girl suddenly opened her ruby-like eyes from the bed. Her long black hair was spread out and almost covered the bed, and her forehead was covered with beads of sweat.

Is this... going back in time...?

With long black hair and wearing a black and red uniform, the girl, Nikaido Hiro, suddenly got up from the bed.

A sense of unreal emptiness enveloped her body, and an inexplicable feeling of physical exhaustion caused her to break out in a sweat simply by getting up. Her heart pounded wildly in her left chest, as if she had just gone through a desperate, frantic run.

Going back... I really did go back—

The last image that remained in her consciousness was of herself being strangled by a rope, yet she woke up unharmed from her bed. This small change was enough to prove one thing, the result of a gamble that had almost made the black-haired girl breathless—she had indeed traveled back in time.

Although the posture before the time travel was a little embarrassing... and the thoughts in my mind before the time travel were a little less than cool, anyway, I finally succeeded in the time travel...!

The next step is to confirm the backtracking—hmm!?

"Ugh... What... is this...!?"

When consciousness travels back in time and finally catches up with the body that has already awakened and returned, intense pain bursts forth from the body all at once.

The body felt as if it were being simultaneously torn apart, branded, and tormented by electric currents; the mind's thoughts and consciousness were also being subjected to dizzying, nauseating impacts, becoming increasingly blurred and impulsive with each shock—

Nikaido Hiro knew this feeling; it was a sign of becoming a witch.

—Why did I turn into a witch...? At that time, I didn't feel any panic about violating the taboo. Instead, my mind was filled with all sorts of strange thoughts that I could never say out loud... Even so, was I still judged as having triggered the taboo?

Hiro covered her forehead, trying to take a deep breath to temporarily suppress this overly violent impulse, while pondering why she had become a witch. After all, to be honest, her suicide at the last moment... felt more like being fed grass by that idiot rabbit... and it wouldn't even be considered 'suicide'.

"Huh...? Here..."

Emma!

As Hero tried to quell the witch transformation, her gaze fell upon a pink and white puppy whimpering adorably beneath the double bed.

In short, let's first ask Emma if she truly retraced her steps to the morning before the Nanoha Kaori case occurred.

Thinking this, Hiro gritted his teeth and endured the overly sharp thoughts, then turned over and lightly jumped down from the upper bunk.

However, before Hiro could even ask, "Is Nanoha still alive? / Did you get laid by Chang Rong?", Emma Sakura's eyes widened instantly upon seeing Hiro suddenly leap down, and she involuntarily uttered a sound:

"Huh... It's... it's Hiro-chan...? Why is Hiro-chan here...?"

"—!"

The pink-haired girl in front of him looked at Nikaido Hiro cautiously with eyes that were filled with surprise and fear, and whispered incredulously.

The moment he met Emma Sakura's gaze, Hiro Nikaido drew a conclusion from her eyes: he had indeed traveled back in time, but the time he traveled back had a huge error.

She had seen Emma's eyes filled with complex emotions, but mostly with fear, and if she had to pinpoint when she had seen it before...

Hiro instinctively reached into his pocket, and sure enough, a cell phone had been slipped inside beforehand. Turning on the screen, the date displayed in the upper left corner was clearly the day Nikaido Hiro had been captured and brought to this witch's island.

The photo album was empty, the memo app was spotless, and even the friend list in the chat app "Prison Space" was completely blank.

I retraced my steps, but the date I arrived at was not 'that morning', but rather a date that was too far in the past, so far in the past that I had forgotten the 'day I landed on the island' and the feelings I had at that time.

What's going on...? I didn't become a witch because a taboo was violated; instead, it's because I went back too far in time that my body couldn't handle the strain and I had to become a witch...? No, there's no point in thinking about that now. I haven't even considered what I would do if I went back to this point—wait...

Realizing that the backtracking node was too off track, Nikaido Shiro was momentarily confused. She had never considered such a thing before going back in time. But Shiro suddenly remembered what the white-haired boy had said to her before, or rather, the content of the lessons he taught in the "Backtracker's Classroom" that he had created for her.

"Listen up, Hiro! Breaking taboos will worsen your witch transformation, and a worsened witch transformation will amplify or even cause your magical effects to go out of control. For example, when the young lady is a witch, she can change from [levitation] to [flying], Arisa can change from [ignition] to [oh no, oh no], and President Sherry can change from [high damage] to [really high damage]. If you think about it this way, Hiro, if your magic is amplified because of your witch transformation, there might be a situation where you 'go too far back'."

When Chang Rong was telling herself these things, if it weren't for the power of Nikaido Hiro's bloodline as an outstanding student council president, she would most likely have been like Emma, ​​who was listening in at the time, only thinking about how to do a big heist and enjoy eating rabbit meat before she died.

"If you really went too far back in time... then remember to come find me as soon as possible. I have the ability to absorb and suppress witch factors—that being said, you still need to watch your behavior, Heero, don't just pounce on me and bite me like that..."

"Stop talking nonsense, you idiot rabbit, I'll gore you to death—" "That's exactly what I meant, please don't do that!?"

—Damn it, that guy should never be a teacher, he'll make it so I can't listen to anything!

Hiro shook his head vigorously, trying to shake off the image of his 'self in his memories'—the teacher who betrayed him and staged a passionate, immoral act in the classroom.

"If an extreme situation occurs, such as rewinding to a time before I refreshed, then go find Emma. Although the effects of Emma's magic are still unclear, she does have a certain degree of ability to suppress witch factors."

"But if it were earlier... then you'll have to try contacting government agencies, using the Great Witch's information as leverage. That should at least buy you some more time."

Chang Rong's words ended there, which made Xi Luo realize what he should do at this moment, which was to temporarily use Emma, ​​who also had the attribute of a small animal, as a substitute.

"Emma—"

"Hiro-chan...? I, um... I don't know what's going on, but I'm actually very happy to see Hiro-chan... Woof!?"

Emma Sakura looked down, somewhat at a loss, and stammered. At this moment, Emma's memories of Hiro were still stuck on the version where she was bullied by Hiro for some unknown reason until she graduated from junior high school. That's why Emma looked at the black-haired girl in front of her so at a loss and even nervous.

But before she could finish her hesitant words, Nikaido Hiro had already opened his arms and embraced her.

"Hiro-chan... Eh, Hiro-chan...!?" Sakura Emma, ​​suddenly hugged, instantly went blank, completely unsure how to react to this situation, which was no less intense than Hiro Nikaido telling her "I'm going to kill you."

As for Hiro, she remained silent, simply embracing the pink and white-haired girl in her arms, enveloped by the dog scent emanating from Emma as she woke up, while simultaneously sensing the changes in her own body and thoughts.

—Hmm…If I had to say, it does seem to have suppressed some of the witch transformation, but…as expected, it's still far inferior to Chang Rong's effect.

While Emma Sakura did manage to slow down her transformation into a witch to some extent, the method, experience, and effect were worlds apart. To put it another way, Chang Rong was like using a sponge and detergent, carefully rinsing the area with hot water, then applying detergent and wiping it clean and comfortable at the same time.

Emma's experience was more like forcibly scrubbing the oily areas with a file/ball. While it could clean to some extent, it was incredibly painful and caused flaking, making it feel like she was hurting the enemy 800 while injuring herself 350234.

Even so, Nikaido Hiro still did not let go of Sakura Emma's arms.