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

And that's why—the mysterious female jungler, Kurobe Nanoha, is currently next to the newly built kiln at the warehouse entrance, seemingly baking new desserts.

Although Kurobe Nanoka's expression seemed preoccupied at the moment, the image of the girl in the cycling hat leaning against the kiln did indeed possess a unique and adorable charm at first glance.

"Nanoha Kaori? Is she baking bread...? Is she the target you decided to visit, Chang Rong?" Tono Hanna blinked. She wasn't particularly familiar with Nanoha Kaori, and seeing this side of her was quite surprising.

"No... I was just attracted by the smell... Okay, I really want to take a bite, just one bite, Kurobe-nee, give me a bite..."

"Don't even cosplay Sherlock Holmes's drug withdrawal symptoms!" Tono Hannah shouted at Chang Rong, who was starting to drool.

"Hannah Tono? And... um, Chang Rong...?"

Originally in a daze, Kurobe Nanoha followed the sound and saw the strange duo. After seeing Chang Rong, she seemed to have thought of something, and her expression became slightly awkward.

"...What are you here for?" Kurobe Nanoka asked coolly.

"Um, about Mag, it's actually a misunderstanding, Naoka, it's not what you think..." Chang Rong saw Naoka's slightly yawning appearance and immediately explained that her answer that she 'cared most about Hosho Mag' did not mean that she wanted to date Mag.

"Is it... a misunderstanding...? Hmm, it must be a misunderstanding." Nanoha Kaori blinked, paused for a moment, and then immediately nodded to indicate that Chang Rong was right, it must be a misunderstanding.

Despite being incredibly conflicted about this matter, Kurobe Nanoha Kaori's attitude completely changed after hearing just one sentence from Chang Rong. She immediately chose to trust Chang Rong, believing that he definitely didn't say those things just to sleep with Mag.

"I don't know what you two are talking about, but Nanoha Kaori, you're too easy to fool! At least ask me one question so I can hear some gossip too!"

"Ugh...!?"

Tono Hannah was completely bewildered by Kurobe Nanoha's lightning-fast change of expression. She had thought she could get some gossip, but it turned out that these two were just like Hironoa before, showing off their nonsensical affection in front of her.

What is this? A dying wish before the physical body breaks through the stratosphere?

"Hahaha...that's not the point. Anyway, Hannah and I are actually here to do some research! By the way, could I...could I break off a piece of bread for you, Nanoha-neechan? Just one bite..."

Chang Rong quickly changed the subject to defuse the situation, but as she spoke, her gaze involuntarily drifted to the 99.99% pure butter bread next to her.

"Sorry, it's not ready yet. Also, I baked this batch to distract myself after hearing about Baosheng Mag, so the dosage might be a bit too high... It might not be suitable for direct oral consumption; it needs to be diluted."

—Are you guys really talking about bread?

Hannah Tono was completely bewildered. While she was still dreaming of fairytale princess stories, it turned out that someone had already started filming Deadly Chef.

"Oh, I see... cough cough, Hannah and I actually wanted to ask everyone how to have more 'feminine charm' and the feeling of being a 'young lady'. I wonder if Nanoha Kaori has any suggestions?" Chang Rong helplessly wiped away his drool and asked about the important matter at hand.

"Well...maybe, a girl who can pick locks is more feminine...?" Nanoha Kaori blinked, pondered for a moment, and then asked uncertainly in a low voice.

—Could it be that Chang Rong wasn't just being modest, and that I actually do have a lot of feminine charm?

Hearing Nanoha Kurobe's answer, Hannah Tohno suddenly felt a sense of relief. It seemed she didn't need to worry about her severely lacking "young lady" aura at all; rather, it seemed that looking across the entire Witch Island, there were very few people qualified to compete with her for this spot?

"Hiss hiss hiss—"

Just as Tono Hannah was lost in thought, her older sister suddenly appeared. Her mask stared at Chang Rong for several seconds, and then without saying a word, she reached out and tried to pounce on Chang Rong.

"Don't greet me like that every time we meet, big sister! You'll disappear!?"

Chang Rong quickly spread out the huge amount of butter to prevent it from evaporating if she baked it any longer.

"Hiss..."

"Huh...really?"

After absorbing Chang Rong's energy, the headband guard approached Nanoha Kaori and the two seemed to chat about something in the NewType chat room, which made Nanoha Kaori blink in surprise.

“My elder sister said that if we are looking for the ‘young lady,’ she actually knows someone she used to know who might be able to help, provided that… Chang Rong agrees.”

"Huh? A veteran?!" Tono Hannah was startled. Don't bully me, veteran.

“'Young Miss'…”

Unlike Hannah, upon hearing the term "young lady" from the veterans, Chang Rong felt a sudden pang in her heart, as if a thorn that had been ignored had already taken root within her.

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Only one update today, I need to adjust my biological clock. My apologies.

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Thanks to Chenguang Moxin for the sudden, albeit seemingly insignificant, gesture; I'm now seriously accepting my daily dose of meat buns and black rice porridge.

Thank you so much for the soap from Baiyinshan Shangwuchi! Many thanks!

Thanks to Professor Admirer Cole, 1+2=?, Yinshan Shepherd, tsa4561, the intellectual Yog Bubble, Seele_Fleur, and Chunyuan Yangping for their contributions.

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198. I am still the world's number one heiress.

When Chang Rong heard what Nanoha Kaori had relayed from her older sister, she felt very strange.

Even though the term "young lady" is so common that it's practically everywhere, and there's even someone in her own life who calls herself that, Chang Rong still remembered a girl who truly fit that description.

Although I can't remember her face, tone of voice, clothes, or even our shared experiences, I can still vaguely recall that 'young lady'—proud and even somewhat domineering, desperately trying to maintain her elegance despite her resentment. And... she ultimately succumbed to despair and did something unforgivable.

It's somewhat like how I felt about Meruru on Ice back then. A subconscious part of my body was resisting her, but my reason was telling me that those tragedies were definitely not her fault. On this witch's island, no one should really bear anyone's original sin.

"Well……"

Chang Rong rubbed his forehead. The past he couldn't recall, the tangled emotions of anger and nostalgia, all surged up at the same time, making it difficult for him to process, and he couldn't process, any of it.

"What do you mean by 'young lady,' sister? Could it be... that young lady is still alive?"

Even though she already knew in her mind that her final fate would definitely not be perfect, Chang Rong still shook her head and asked the masked guard with a headband next to her.

"Hiss... hiss—"

"Honestly, am I the only one who finds this scene creepy...? It even looks like something out of a horror movie..."

Hannah Tono, standing to the side, watched as Nanoha Kurobe and the headband guarded the scene, making "uh-huh, what? uh-huh" noises. She felt a sense of divine power that was even more divine than the sacred.

"Why is it that only Nanoha Kaori can communicate with Onee-sama? I'm curious too..." Chang Rong also found this scene unbelievable, but she didn't pry into it, because—the power of love is infinite!

And if you go over to ask, your older sister will pounce on you and do all sorts of things.

"Hmm... I'm sorry, it doesn't seem to be like that. I don't know the specifics either, but what my older sister meant was that the 'young lady' is in a similar state to her, both of them are in the form of 'wreckage'. However, the young lady may not have the same consciousness as my older sister. She is just wandering around aimlessly, and the location is—near the lake where the water monkey senior seems to be."

Nanoha Kurobe relayed the information she had heard from her older sister, while the headband guard kept his head down, looking somewhat conflicted.

Perhaps like Chang Rong, Kurobe Nanoha, also a 'veteran', harbors complex feelings towards that 'young lady'. Is she worth saving? Is there still a chance for her to be saved? Even the older sister herself cannot know these things.

Even so, after a brief moment of thought, the older sister still told Chang Rong about it—she couldn't believe that the young lady had become a wreck, but she believed in Chang Rong, believed that this seemingly weak white-haired boy in front of her could create a miracle once again, just like he had always done.

"By the lake... No wonder my sister's reaction was so strange back then." Chang Rong recalled the strange behavior of the guard with the hairband during the previous mine-clearing operation.

"Wait a minute, doesn't this mean there's a hostile, uncommunicative 'guard' wandering aimlessly outside the castle? This is a serious problem, isn't it, Desuwa!"

"Hiss..."

“My older sister said… the castle is absolutely safe because… well, because for ‘her,’ the castle was the site of her original sin, and she would never come near here under any circumstances…” Kurobe Nanoha relayed the words of the guard with the hairband, then turned to look at her older sister behind her.

"So, my dear sister, you mean you want us to give that 'young lady' who's been lingering here until now a release? Although the remains are immortal, Zedo Coco possesses the [Witch Slayer Potion], which can kill witches and witch remains. Even the remains are something we can kill—hmm?"

"hiss--"

The headband-wearing guard interrupted her by patting Kurobe Nanoha's cycling hat with his tentacle-like, twisted arms.

Then the guard with the headband pointed to the somewhat eerie-looking 'weapon fragments' embedded in his body on his head, and then took out something similar to those fragments from under his loose robe and handed it to everyone.

"Huh... this, is it... is it supposed to be stuck in that wrecked head...?" Tohno Hannah asked incredulously in a low voice, her face ashen. This 'shard' was much sharper and more pointed than it appeared from the outside. Just thinking about 'Nanoha Kaori-neechan's' head having this thing stuck in it made Tohno Hannah feel nauseous.

However, the headband guard didn't seem to feel any 'pain'. She nodded in agreement with Tono Hannah's statement, and then the mask looked at Chang Rong, waiting for the boy's response.

That 'young lady' was once everyone's partner, but under the influence of the witch factor, she eventually became a bomb that detonated everything. She took away Chang Rong's most important companions, and not just one of them.

Even so... she shouldn't suffer such torment. Should we let it continue to wander? Should we grant her the release called death? Or... try to redeem her, so that she can regain her uncorrupted consciousness?

Although no one spoke, everyone looked at Chang Rong with unspoken understanding; he was the undisputed figure who held the power of decision.

"Let me... think about it some more."

After a moment of silence, Chang Rong gently shook his head and did not take the controller (obtained from Meruru by exploding gold coins) from the headband guard's hand.

"My main task today is to help Miss Hannah find the missing 'Miss's Attributes' and 'Feminine Power'. Rescuing or freeing the wandering guards is a separate task, and I can't be in two places at once, so let's take it one step at a time, right?"

"..." The guard with the headband looked at the boy who was smiling at him, nodded slightly, and put the controller back into his robe.

"Chang Rong—"

"Speaking of which, does Nanoha Kaori or her older sister have any other suggestions? Since we're already here, please give us your guidance!"

Tono Hannah looked at the boy beside her. Although she wanted to say something, she was immediately interrupted by Chang Rong's words. Chang Rong looked at the Kurobe sisters with some anticipation, hoping that they could share some of their experiences.

"Hiss hiss hiss—!"

"My older sister says that girls who are willing to take the initiative and stop at nothing are very feminine."

"Huh...?" Tono Hannah blinked, looking at the 'hairband guard' beside her with some disbelief. Could it be that the information was distorted during transmission? However, the hairband guard gave Tono Hannah a thumbs-up for her cool demeanor, and then looked at Chang Rong, seemingly planning the next way to take the initiative.

“As for me… well, a girl who can bake should be very feminine, right? After all, when it comes to young ladies, everyone thinks of someone drinking tea and eating desserts, right?” Kurobe Nanoha replied thoughtfully.

“Desserts…that certainly is!” Tono Hannah nodded in agreement, finding Nanoha Kaori’s words quite reasonable.

Putting aside whether you know how to bake, you should at least learn the correct way to eat desserts... The time I ate an egg tart, I hesitated for a long time before finally scooping out the filling with a spoon and then eating the crust, which made me the subject of a lot of stares from everyone...

"The way to a person's heart is through their stomach. Also—if you can't quite get them through their stomach yet, adding a few extra additives is fine. Just be very careful with the procedure; the order in which the ingredients are released and the temperature are crucial. Adding too much or too early will cause premature crystallization, affecting the taste and hindering absorption. Adding it too late, however, will make the effects too rapid, potentially leading to an unexpectedly strong effect—"

—Is this really something I can hear...? Am I going to be killed and silenced in a minute...?

Nanoha Kaori got more and more excited as she talked, pulling Tono Hannah along to tell her all sorts of secrets about the cooking industry, while Tono Hannah responded with a smile but was covered in cold sweat.

Fun fact: they were just talking about how to make bread.

Finally, a strange burnt smell interrupted Naiye Xiang's baking class. She tilted her head at the smell, pondered for a few seconds, and then rushed to the oven in a panic, exclaiming "Oh no!" She then tearfully rescued several pieces of charcoal that were almost brand new from inside.

Knowing that she had ruined Nanoha's plans and affected her supply, Tono Hannah could only drag Chang Rong away as quickly as possible.

"Um... Chang Rong, are you sure you don't need to go help? It's really not a serious matter here, so it's fine if I just leave it alone."

After leaving the drug manufacturing den (?), Tono Hannah recorded her insights on her phone while asking Chang Rong questions.

"Hmm... I need to think about it. After all, this matter involves the 'remains,' and Hiro said that the remains are actually very dangerous and terrifying, and difficult to fight under normal circumstances. Even 'Big Sister,' in the timeline that Hiro and Coco-chan experienced, was not as innocent as she is now."