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

Anyone who sees this scene would probably think that Meruru on the ice is a somewhat introverted, incredibly soft-spoken, but also very gentle and kind person.

Unfortunately, while her gentleness and kindness are real, so are her twisted cruelty.

"Huh...? Um, you're Miss Nikaido Hiro, right? And Miss Coco next to you... Um, I didn't seem to see either of you during the warden's speech in the reception room... Waaaaah... Are you all alright...?"

Meruru noticed Hiro and Coco, and immediately transformed into a jellyfish, crying as she approached them to ask what was wrong.

"Put away your pretense, Meluru on Ice. I know you're the mastermind. I'm going to ask you a few questions, and based on your answers, I'll make my choice—"

"Eh?! Miss Hiro, Coco-san, what are you talking about...? I, I don't know—"

"Stop pretending, you disgusting dog shit cover-up! That face of yours is so repulsive, it's absolutely nauseating!"

Zetsu Coco stuck out her tongue and gave Ice Meluru a disdainful middle finger.

"Waaaaah... Hugs, I'm so sorry. Was my acting really that bad...? I really tried my best..."

The jellyfish looked like it was about to drop another little pearl.

"Don't underestimate my intelligence network. Anyway, the first question—"

Hiro snorted and prepared to confront the darkness, but before she could ask a question, a curious white-haired boy peeked out from behind her.

"Um... the masked lady I met in the hallway earlier kept staring at me around the corner, it was really scary..."

Chang Rong swallowed hard and muttered a complaint about the stalker behavior of the Kurobe sister. It was at this moment that Meru on Ice and the white-haired boy locked eyes.

"—Your Holiness the Holy Son"

After a moment of silence, Meruru on the ice suddenly uttered a name.

"...? Stop with the nonsense, I'm asking you, what exactly are you—"

"Holy, Holy Son! You, you've been resurrected!? I...I...I...Waaah...Are you here to judge my sins? Please, please judge me cruelly, Holy Son! I, I've been waiting for this moment for so long!"

"Who exactly is this person...?"

Seeing Melulu on the ice collapsing in front of Chang Rong, frantically dropping little pearls and begging for judgment, Hiro's originally firm and handsome words vanished without a trace.

Who the hell is this?! Could there be another expert?!

Hiro and Zedo Coco, who thought victory was in their grasp and already knew all the information, were both taken aback by the sudden turn of events and instantly revealed their utterly insignificant expressions.

"^q^ Waaaaaah...!? You, who are you... Miss Meruru? I...I...I must have mistaken you for someone else...!?"

As for Chang Rong, he was so frightened by the way Melulu on the ice kept grabbing at his hands and frantically clapping for him that he couldn't even speak properly.

Is this really the world of Galaga...? Is My Youth Romantic Comedy Is Wrong As Expected...? Uh, isn't something a little off?

Volume 1: Chapter 151. Melancholy of Meruru on Ice

A day at Meruru on the ice begins with devout prayer.

Great Witch... when will you return? Meruru has been working hard today, please take a look at Meruru, please come back to Meruru's side...!

Although even Meruru herself knew very well that such prayers were meaningless, and that the Great Witch would not return to her side because of this, it still became her unwavering routine.

After the prayer, Meluru on Ice will accompany the prospective witches to the restaurant, where they will all face the dreaded food that resembles excrement and look on with dismay.

Although she had initially considered giving herself special treatment, that would have made the process more complicated and increased the chances of being caught. After being caught sneaking noodles in the middle of the night for the third time, Meruru finally chose to honestly eat shit with everyone else, which actually made her feel a little better.

Ugh, this tastes awful... Why did they have to make it so bad...? Do the staff at this prison island even care...? Oh right, I'm one of the staff...

After eating, Meru on Ice will go to the infirmary, where she will organize medicines in a small room, occasionally take care of some injured witches, and at the same time secretly observe the various situations of the prospective witches in order to facilitate the implementation of the subsequent instigation plan.

Sometimes she encounters some aspiring witches who are too weak and passive, and sometimes she encounters some girls who are easily swayed and whose will is not firm. At these times, Meruru will muster up her courage and whisper to them what to do: only kill.

Although she had been caught red-handed and evicted at least seven times while stirring up trouble, Meruru still had to muster the courage to do so because she knew very well that the longer she stayed in the castle, the more painful the final outcome would be.

If a murder occurs, Meruru should guide the discussion during the witch trial to prevent everyone from giving up and arriving at an overly abstract conclusion like, "There are no footprints at the scene, so the culprit is Peter Parker!"

Although sometimes my guidance goes wrong, leading me to inexplicably become the one voted to be executed...

If I had been accidentally stabbed to death, that unlucky guy... Thank goodness, at least I can now hide in the control room and secretly eat some ordinary bread and fried eggs.

After the trial, Meruru had to quickly help the remaining aspiring witches adjust their mindset. There had been a previous witch trial where one witch was hanged and four went mad; the entire Witch Island instantly transformed into a torii gate at the third quarter of the hour of the 11th of the hour, becoming the starting point for the witches' grand finale.

The subsequent damage was so severe that Meruru had to plead and beg for funding for a long, long time before finally receiving approval for repairs. After that, Meruru on the ice became more cautious, determined to prevent more than two witches from simultaneously vying for the Yamato Blade.

When night fell, after having to go to the canteen to eat feces to replenish her energy, Ice Meluru was finally able to return to her cell to rest, but this did not mean that her work was over.

After confirming that all the other witches have returned to their respective cells, Ice Meluru, who lives alone in the innermost single cell, carefully removes the wall and slips out of the cell. She places a dummy on the bed and then uses her magic [Restore] to restore the wall, without considering that the target of this process seems to be herself, the prison warden during the prison break.

After sneaking away from the cell, Meruru will arrive at the underground cryogenic chamber. She needs to confirm whether the remains of the witch executed during the day have been properly contained, and then she will sigh as she faces the jigsaw puzzle of the victim chosen as the witch's target.

Waaaaah... This time it's been divided into 17 pieces... I'll have to spend another whole night piecing it together...

Meluru on the ice could only weep as she painstakingly pieced together the Gundam fragments piece by piece using magic. After comparing them with the photos and confirming that she hadn't put the eyes or limbs back together, she sealed them in an ice coffin and prayed for the departed witch in preparation for her death.

After completing all these procedures, the last thing Melulu does each day is to come to an ice coffin.

The ice coffin contained a white-haired boy. Judging from the thickness and transparency of the ice, he must have just arrived here.

On the ice, Meruru knelt before the frozen boy, her hands clasped together in front of her chest, looking at him with utmost reverence.

"Today... today two more lives have been lost... Am I really right to do this, Holy Son...? If I am wrong, please judge me; if I am right... then, then please call back the Great Witch to my side, Holy Son? She once appeared by my side, but then disappeared... my Holy Son..."

In the dark, cold, nameless tomb of the witch, the girl's prayers were like snowflakes in a storm, faint and inaudible, teetering on the brink of collapse and fleeting.

No matter how devoutly Meluru prayed to the Great Witch and the 'Holy Child', she never received any response—until she welcomed a new generation of prospective witches.

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"What... what's going on here?!" Ze Du Ke Ke stared wide-eyed, looking at the scene before her with disbelief—a scene that was far too abstract and beyond her expectations.

"Ha... To save your life, you'd even utter something like 'Holy Child'? Meluru Ice, you really are evil...!"

Although Nikaido Hiro was also caught off guard by this sudden turn of events, she still chose to respond with her familiar breath-blowing combo.

Before confronting Meluru on Ice, who was the mastermind behind everything, Shiro and Coco considered the various scenarios that might occur during the confrontation.

For example, Meruru suddenly got the urge to kick Ha, and even when faced with irrefutable evidence of the time-traveling box opening, she still stubbornly refused to admit it, saying "Hehe, I want to live!"

For example, Meruru might suddenly say "Kuhee, I've been found~" and then perform a Sichuan opera face-changing act, before instantly abandoning her act and transforming into a witch to start killing.

For example, Meruru started begging for mercy, and then, taking advantage of the two's momentary lapse in vigilance, she suddenly launched a surprise attack with the move "Earthly Dragon Strikes," followed by rambling nonsense and shaking the guards around to surround the two.

However, Meruru doesn't seem to have the intellect to support such a high level of intellectual combat, so the only thing the two need to be wary of is her sudden attack. According to Coco's information, Meruru on the ice isn't the type to just flip the table; she'll act like a textbook villain, first kindly explaining her life ideals and evil ambitions, and then, after the awkward conversation has gone on for a while, she'll take action to send the protagonists to their doom.

This fussy behavior provides the two with an opportunity to retaliate and overturn the table. At that time, they can invite the witch assassin Baosheng Mag, and if nothing unexpected happens, they can settle the matter with two strikes - of course, things should not develop to that point.

After all, putting aside Meruru's malice, the motive of 'finding the Great Witch' is shared by everyone at least for now. If Meruru is given an olive branch, she will most likely accept it directly.

As for the Great Witch... considering the various left-right brain conflicts of the Great Witch Xiaoxue, she is probably no longer the Great Witch in the documentary whose mind was only focused on killing in Bloodseeker City. If she were to be summoned, there would be room for negotiation.

Moreover, we have the strategic nuclear weapon that we won't deploy first—Chang Rong! As long as we send Chang Rong A into battle, all problems will be solved!

...Despite having considered so many possibilities and simulated so many scenarios beforehand, Meluru's behavior on the ice completely baffled Hiroko and even Chang Rong.

The moment you met, you knelt down and begged for mercy, calling him "Holy Child"...? Meluru on Ice, you, writhing and twisting like this just to survive... are ugly!

"Um... Your Highness the Holy Son...? You... you... you've mistaken me for someone else, haven't you?"

Chang Rong, who had just woken up from her coma, was naturally startled when a cute girl dressed in a sacred and ascetic nun's robe suddenly knelt down and pulled down her pants.

"No, there can't be any mistake! You are the one I pray to every day, the one who descended upon me but ultimately vanished without a trace and left in disappointment! Yes, that's right... I, I still have your photo here...!"

As she was talking, Melu Lulu suddenly remembered something. She quickly groped around on her body with her hands, which were covered in long white silk gloves, and soon took out a photograph from her pocket.

In the photo, Chang Rong is sitting with a group of girls, smiling and looking at the camera. Although the girls seem unfamiliar at first glance, Chang Rong's heart suddenly trembles violently, trying to tell her brain that the girls in this photo are all 'treasures' that she should never forget, just like Coco Xiluo.

Among those girls with different expressions and outfits, stood Sister Ice Meluru, who was constantly pulling at her shorts and begging for divine punishment.

"You, you seem to have been to this Witch Island before, but you seem to have temporarily disappeared for some reason. I... I can't remember that memory at all, but, but—just seeing your face makes me feel breathless, like a boulder is pressing on my chest. At the same time, I also feel an inexplicable discomfort, as if I... did something to you that is absolutely unforgivable, something I have absolutely no right to beg for redemption... and, and most importantly... I sense the aura of the Great Witch on you! So... ah, it must be true, you must be the Great Witch who sent you to punish my malicious acts of inaction over the years, to correct me, to judge me, to be resurrected and descend upon this place, Holy Child...!!!"

"...Holy crap, this woman's gone mad."

Zedu Koko was completely driven to despair by the almost manic, long, and difficult sentences uttered by Meru on Ice. This dark force had become completely immersed in the illusions it had constructed, arbitrarily creating history and oblivious to the nature of the world.

"I... wait, so I'm actually a church staff member...? And, moreover, a clergy member who won the resurrection match?"

Am I only here to show off my Mapo Tofu while watching the Holy Grail spew out black mud?

Chang Rong blinked. He had no sense of reality from the words of the nun beside him. However, after learning that he had been 'resurrected,' fragmented memories began to flash uncontrollably through his mind.

Meruru's smiling face on the ice, a girl like a snowflake, a magical imposter, a black gun barrel, a shattered and broken body...

Ugh...! These images, these are...

"Enough, you crazy lunatic! Stay away from my Onii-chan! Get as far away as you can! Hah!"

Chang Rong covered his forehead, showing a pained expression. Seeing this, Ze Du Ke Ke could no longer bear it. She rushed to Chang Rong's side, roughly pushed Ice Meruru away, and activated Spinosaurus form to protect Chang Rong behind her, while frantically breathing on Ice Meruru.

"Don't overthink it, Onii-chan! You're not some saint, and you have absolutely nothing to do with this crazy woman! It's all just wishful thinking on her part! You don't even need to think about a single word of this nonsense!"

While comforting Chang Rong, who was frowning because of flashbacks of certain memories, Ze Du Ke Ke pointed at the ice and cursed loudly.

“But, but… even if you don’t want to believe it, the photo is right here… I, I clearly have no memory, but I cherish this photo so much, which means you definitely came to guide me, but left in despair because I was too useless, and now you have returned once again to guide and judge me, my holy son!”

On the ice, Meruru carefully stroked the photo in her hand and looked at Chang Rong with hopeful eyes.

"This is completely illogical... It has absolutely no validity whatsoever, and it's not even worth refuting... Listen up, Ice Meluru! You idiot rabbit—cough cough, my childhood sweetheart, Chang Rong, he's not some saint, much less the salvation you're seeking! He's just like all the other prospective witches buried and imprisoned here, just one of the victims you've manipulated and tormented at will! Show some self-awareness about your actions, honestly recognize the evil you've done, and honestly admit your perverted and inhuman tastes!"

Hiro couldn't stand Ice Meluru's nonsensical nonsense any longer. She also came to Chang Rong's side and stood with Ze Du Ke Ke, pointing her finger and loudly refuting Ice Meluru's arguments.

"No, that's not it...! I, although I desperately wanted to torment everyone, and constantly tried to think of how to inflict despair and pain on everyone, but, but... this isn't my sadistic hobby, I really wanted to help everyone...! It's just, sob sob, it's just that my words couldn't change anything, and, and... this is also the Great Witch's will, I respect the Great Witch, the Great Witch must have her reasons..."

Faced with Nikaido Hiro's reprimand, Ice Meluru made a face like she was about to drop pearls as she desperately retorted, although her words sounded as nonsensical as ever, a battle between her left and right brains.

"If, if everything is as the Great Witch desires, then I will continue to strive. But if this is not what the Great Witch hopes for, then I... I will gladly accept, and accept your judgment, Holy Son..."

On the ice, Meruru knelt on the ground with her hands in front of her chest, looking at Chang Rong in a devout prayer posture. At first glance, her expression was almost completely unrelated to the 'behind-the-scenes secret'. An uninformed person might think that Hiro and Coco were the local bullies who had abducted the innocent and beautiful girl Meruru and forced her to be Chang Rong's wife, humiliating and taking advantage of her.

"Tsk... I have to say, as expected of the ice girl brought out by the Great Witch, she's just as clueless as that Great Witch. From the very beginning, she's been talking to herself and indulging in self-pity—if you ask me, we should just take this guy out first. In any work, this kind of guy will definitely become a hidden danger and a menace if left unchecked!"

Zedu Coco had one hand on the doll at her waist, where a knife coated with witch killer potion was hidden, while her other hand slowly took out the witch killer potion, waiting for the order to throw it out so that Ice Meluru would commit suicide on the spot.

"Indeed, this guy's way of thinking and behavior is almost a different species from humans... He doesn't seem like someone you can negotiate with normally."

Nikaido Hiro gritted his teeth and agreed with Coco's point of view. The nun in front of him was nothing but a fake in human form. The more sincere and pitiful her words were, the more they highlighted her inhuman abnormality.

And most importantly, her hard-earned dream of living a carefree and stress-free life with Chang Rong (at most, with a cat on the leash) was easily crushed and ruined by this guy, Meru on Ice!

but……

Nikaido Hiro turned to look at Chang Rong, the white-haired boy. Although the person he admired had recovered from the pain of the fragmented memories, his gaze towards Meru on the ice was very complicated and conflicted.