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

Arisa clenched her fist, trying to continue to defend Noah Shirosaki after his failed attempt to make candied fruit, while Chang Rong tilted her head, trying to find the source of this sense of déjà vu.

"Anyway, could you please give me your autograph, Ms. Balloon?" "No, thank you~"

After feeding all the mysterious blue sweet water to the potted plant in the corner, Noah Kinosaki returned to the two of them. When Arisa Wisteria shyly asked him a question, Balloon Teacher almost mercilessly rejected her little wish.

Although Noah still wore that innocent and cute smile when she refused, her decisive and sassy refusal made people wonder if she was simply taking revenge on Arisa.

"He... he actually forbids it...!? But, but... that's what makes Balloon Teacher so unique—it's really, really... Waaaaaah!"

—Was it because the rejection was so decisive and the impact so strong that you finally couldn't deceive yourself this time?

Seeing Arisa Roll's self-deception backfire and her subsequent escape, Chang Rong quickly chased after her.

Arisa returned to her cell in the basement, spread out on the bed, wrapped herself up like a dumpling, and squatted in the corner to grow mushrooms.

"Let me have some peace and quiet. Being disliked by Teacher Balloon like this, I might as well just turn to ashes and disappear..."

"Don't let this kind of thing make you disappear, Arisa!?"

He finally managed to get Arisa to raise her head, only to be instantly killed by Noah's basic attack. What kind of situation is this?

"Oh right...! It must be that Noah doesn't like autographs—"

"Rongrong wants Noah's autograph? No problem!"

Chang Rong's explanation was immediately refuted by the sounds coming from next door, and at the same time, Arisa, who was huddled in the corner, was visibly about to pass away.

—Balloon-sensei, that's some serious malice directed at your own fans!? What did Arisa ever do to you?!

It was just a friendly remark pointing out that there were sleeping pills mixed in the water, wasn't it?

"Anyway, anyway, someone like me..."

"Ugh—Arisa, if you keep acting like this, then I'm going to ignore you and won't accept your confessions anymore!"

Seeing Arisa's increasingly dejected appearance, Chang Rong changed tactics, switching from simply comforting her to 'threating' her.

"...Huh?"

Chang Rong's words successfully stopped Arisa from feeling self-loathing. She raised her head and turned to look at the white-haired boy who was pretending to be angry.

"If you give up after just one setback, how can you be considered a proper fan?! The Arisa I know and remember should be a stronger, more indomitable, and more determined person! That's right, the Arisa who would secretly spy on Balloon-sensei, silently record the number of times she yawned, secretly collect the drawing paper she used, and thoughtfully record her daily route, that's the Arisa I know!"

Although if Heero heard him say this, she would definitely interrogate him while asking, "What kind of nonsense are you teaching Arisa, you idiot rabbit?!" and beat him to death, but this was the only way for him to do it now!

“The familiar…me?” Arisa’s eyes once again held Lu Mingfei.

"That's right, what is this appearance now? It's too ugly and too ridiculous!"

“Ugly, ugly…” Arisa’s body trembled slightly, her cheeks flushed an unnatural red, and her breathing became more rapid without her realizing it.

"Anyway, get your act together, Arisa! You'd better burn brightly like your magic, or else I—I'll continue to scold you harshly and drag you out of the corner by force! Then it won't be a confession, it'll be punishment!"

"Punish, punish—"

"That's right, those who wallow in self-pity must be punished—Pfft!?"

Arisa, who was planting mushrooms in the corner, suddenly got up, lifted the rice dumpling wrapper covering her body, and tackled Chang Rong to the bed in the room.

"Please, please continue to punish me, whip me, Chang Rong...!"

The white-haired hooded girl's scarlet eyes no longer held the hesitant and soft look they once had; instead, they were filled with a burning desire more intense than the flames of Yiling.

"^q^Eh eh eh eh!?"

Chang Rong's brain went blank for a moment because of the sudden change in the balance of power between offense and defense.

What the heck is going on?! It must be that Ice Meruru possessing Arisa Wisteria's body?!

No... Unlike Meruru, who simply desires physical intimacy (18G) to 'atone for her sins,' Arisa seeks the feeling of being restrained, disciplined, and criticized by those in power.

But, but this way of expressing it is too sinister, sister!?

It wasn't until Arisa turned around and pinned her down on the bed that Chang Rong finally understood why Ze Du Ke Ke had described Shi Tou Arisa with such a nagging phrase when telling her about the previous game: "You can't not scold her, but you can't scold her too harshly, or there will be big trouble."

So, choose between becoming a witch or a perverted woman.

If it's Changrong in his second playthrough, the correct thing to do in this situation is to kiss Arisha to unleash her virtues and then unlock the rare hidden Yamato Nadeshiko transformation.

However, Chang Rong did not have this intelligence at the moment, so he could only fight and retreat, caught in a dilemma with no way to escape, and his face turned ashen.

Just as Chang Rong was being blocked by Arisa's fountain and preparing to launch a fierce attack on the rabbit burrow respawn point, Noah Kinosaki came over.

"Well, Noah doesn't think he can completely blame you... so here's his signature—Nonononononono!?"

Noah, who was holding the autograph board, was so startled by what he saw that he made a popping sound like a balloon.

"Hey, Balloon Teacher—!" Arisa also noticed Noah Kinosaki's arrival and instinctively looked up at him.

"...It seems we don't need this."

*Sizzle sizzle—crack!*

Noah Kinosaki, with a dark expression, revealed an innocent and carefree smile, then used spray paint to completely blacken his signature before breaking it in half.

"I'd rather throw your autograph away than give it to you, Arisa Fujiwara"—Noah's meaning was crystal clear.

"Ugh!?"

As the autograph board shattered, Arisa Fujito let out a mournful cry.

but……

"For example, if Chang Rong keeps scolding and disciplining me, then maybe I can just abandon Teacher Balloon...?"

Arisa Wisteria's gaze darted back and forth between Chang Rong and Noah, as if her will was being tested.

—Why do I feel like I've been inexplicably caught in this bizarre love triangle between idols and fans?

As Chang Rong was pinned down on the bed, she mentally ranted, wondering what kind of female relationship this was that she had never experienced before.

Volume 1: Chapter 171. The village children took advantage of my old age and weakness, taking turns committing acts...

The commotion between Arisa and Noah ended with Arisa being knocked unconscious and dragged away by the arriving guards.

The guard with the hairband arrived with practiced ease, listening to Arisa Fujito's curses of "Don't come any closer! I'll kill you, you bastard! Don't play me for a fool!" while gently tapping her slumbering mind with a bang, and dragging her directly to the solitary confinement cell to let her calm down.

In a sense, it can be considered a correction of willpower by fate. According to the information provided by Sawatari Kaho, the incident of "a delinquent girl going crazy and being dragged to the solitary confinement room by the guards" seems to have become a regular occurrence in both the first and second playthroughs.

"Hmm...maybe I should just quit my job as a trainee pastor and retire to my hometown..."

Chang Rong swallowed hard. While Arisa's performance posed no threat to her own life, nor to the other prospective witches, she feared that if the guards had arrived any later, Arisa might have truly slaughtered billions of lives.

Girls with a favorability rating of 80 seem to be more direct, or rather, more 'passionate' about their feelings... at least girls with a favorability rating of 70 are not so straightforward.

Our Noah, at least, knows to use sleeping pills as a precaution; Noah's a good boy! (Confirmed)

As for the two 99s, needless to say, if I hadn't been lucky enough to catch them fighting amongst themselves, I probably would have been beaten to a pulp by Hero the moment I was chiseled out of the ice.

"Rongrong, you can't leave. If you leave, what will Noah draw?" Noah tugged at Chang Rong's clothes, once again putting on that innocent and naive look.

"Hmm...right, I also need to take Noah to see the art studio."

Chang Rong remembered that she had promised Noah to go see the art studio together. Although some minor accidents had occurred along the way, she could still go ahead with it.

"Then let's go now—"

"...We'll join in too."

Just as Chang Rong was about to take Noah Kinosaki to the studio, the fluffy pigeon-like writer Natsume An'an finally crawled out of bed. She still had that half-asleep, sleepwalking expression, but even so, she still struggled to climb out of the seal of the bed.

"Even if An'an doesn't come along, Noah will be fine with it~" Noah smiled and said when he saw Natsume An'an, indicating that she shouldn't get involved.

“…We are coming.” An’an frowned, but instead of backing down, she moved closer to the two of them.

"Huh? You said last night that you definitely wouldn't come, An'an is a liar~"

"Ugh...! I... I was only doing this for your own good, to prevent you from being... from being... by that monstrous monster...!"

Natsume Anan was a little flustered, but with her soft and sweet appearance and weak voice, it was more like she was deliberately being cute than refuting.

"So I'm clearly a victim too, hahaha..."

Chang Rong rubbed her hair helplessly and retorted softly. She was just an ordinary person who was struggling to escape the locked room. At most, she patted An An's butt, nibbled on An An's earlobe, poked An An's lower abdomen, pinched An An's belly, and rubbed the soles of An An's feet. How was that perverted?

"If you dare to do anything strange, we will never forgive you!" After arguing with Noah, Natsume Anan raised her sketchbook, gritted her teeth, and stared at Chang Rong, who was holding it high.

"Don't worry, An'an, I promise I won't do anything!"

“It’s okay to do a little something for Noah, right? Anyway, let’s start with a mint.” Noah complained softly, then took out a small blue pill and handed it to Chang Rong.

"Thanks, Noah!" Chang Rong smiled as she accepted the small blue pill, then casually slipped it into her pocket. She figured she'd save this precious item for later.

If Arisa were still alive, she might be able to tell whether it was a mysterious little pill or a concentrated compressed sleeping pill. But no matter which one it was, the outcome after swallowing it would be the same; the only difference would probably be who would be responsible for lifting her buttocks.

"No..." Noah Shirosaki showed an unhappy expression, as if complaining that it was all Arisa's doing, which made Chang Rong develop the relevant awareness of anti-gank.

—Noah is such a pure and good boy. He was worried that I wouldn't get enough sleep, so he tried to give me sleeping pills in various ways to let me rest well. But I'm in good condition now, so I won't use them for now.

While marveling at Noah's extraordinary filial piety, Chang Rong led Noah and An'an to the second floor.

"Wow, what an interesting combination!"

Upon arriving at the second floor of the castle, Chang Rong and his group encountered a somewhat unexpected figure: the seemingly powerful purple-haired man, Bao Sheng Mag.

—It's Mag, whose stats are almost as low as Meruru's. Although she's a key person to take care of, how exactly do I approach Mag? She'll kiss me on her own initiative, but she doesn't want me to touch her head. She's such a strange person, I can't understand what she's thinking at all.

Upon seeing Baosheng Mag, Chang Rong immediately thought of her own lagging 38 favorability rating.

Unlike the other prospective witches who already had a considerable degree of goodwill towards her, and who seemed to subconsciously know how to get along with them, Chang Rong was literally at a loss when facing Bao Sheng Ma Ge. Bao Sheng Ma Ge's almost watertight and effortless demeanor left Chang Rong unsure of how to proceed.

Speaking of which, Coco seems to have gotten quite close to Mag during the 'first playthrough'. I'll ask her more about Mag later. But I have a feeling that if I really ask, Coco will probably tickle me...

“Rongrong promised to find me an art studio.” Unlike Chang Rong, Noah Shirosaki didn’t have any particular thoughts about Hosho Mag; she directly stated her purpose.

"An art studio? You mean this room? Hehehe, it does seem like a good choice as an art studio. And I did a little testing before you came, and it seems the room itself has lost its magical power; it's just a messy room now."

Baosheng Mag pointed to the 'art studio' next to the corridor and said with a smile, but Chang Rong frowned after hearing this.

“This behavior is ‘incorrect,’ Margaret.”

"Oh my...?" Baosheng Mag raised an eyebrow, somewhat curious about Chang Rong's sudden act of summoning the Great King of Xi.

"It is undoubtedly wrong for one person to explore a potentially risky area. Don't do it alone next time; at least two people should be there to look out for each other."

"[Does having two people make it easier for you, this perverted monster, to do all sorts of filthy and indecent things to the other victim?]"