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

“Yes, that’s right. As for the way to communicate? Essentially, it’s about maintaining confidence and gentleness, neither lowering your stance nor showing arrogance, keeping a delicate social distance, and responding with stable emotions. That’s enough,” Hiro replied with a smile.

"Well, so... Hiro-chan, actually—actually, I still prefer the Hiro-chan who keeps whispering in her dreams to be strong, Changrong-kun, the one who holds nothing back...?"

"Eek!?" Chang Rong, who was still watching the drama unfold, suddenly made a sound effect of being hit.

"What—I, I didn't say such embarrassing things in my sleep...! Sakura... Emma—!" Shiro instantly felt a surge of killing intent.

"Waaah, calm down, calm down, Ms. Shiro!" Hannah quickly tried to put out the fire, reminding Shiro to maintain her ladylike manners.

“This must be a misunderstanding… Emma, ​​you must have misheard. Everyone can see how hard Hiro works. How could Hiro, who works so hard for everyone, have such vulgar thoughts? Right, Hiro?” Chang Rong quickly tried to smooth things over, smiling at Nikaido Hiro.

"Still trying to seduce me, you idiot rabbit, I'll fuck you to death—" "Eeeeeeeee!?"

"Waaaah, social distancing! Distance!!" Hannah and Emma quickly stopped Heero to prevent her murderous intent from materializing.

Finally, because Professor Heero made textbook-level mistakes in the practical exercise, Hannah had to start to doubt whether the content she had taught before was also a bit 'watered down'.

Regardless, Hannah still recorded the experience taught by Nikaido Hiro on her phone.

"Ugh... I feel like I've been dragged into some incredibly complicated interpersonal relationships..." Hannah complained helplessly.

"Haha... Heero and Emma must have just been joking around. This is just another way they get along, right?"

"..." Tono Hannah looked at Chang Rong with disbelief. The situation had been so straightforward just now, yet this guy could still deceive her with a 'joke'. Could it be that he wouldn't realize it wasn't a joke until he was inside and squeezed out?

Ok?

While contemplating whether to exploit Chang Rong's personality to lure him to the bed in the dark basement room, Tono Hannah noticed Shito Arisa sitting in the living room, fiddling with something.

"It's Arisa... Hmm, I think we should skip Arisa."

As is customary, she should now approach Arisa and ask her opinion on 'feminine power' and 'young lady', but Tono Hannah thinks that if it's that Fujiwara Arisa, it wouldn't be a problem to not ask.

After all, Arisa Fujito exudes a delinquent girl vibe that is completely opposite to the so-called rich girl, and has nothing to do with the so-called feminine strength.

"Chang Rong? Tono's here too... Hmm, are you alright?"

Before Hannah could even pretend nothing had happened and walk past with Chang Rong, Arisa noticed the two of them first. Arisa rose from the sofa, walked up to Chang Rong, and asked him shyly in a low voice.

"It's alright, don't worry, Arisa, it won't happen again." Chang Rong quickly responded with a reassuring smile.

"If you feel unwell anywhere... I... I'll try my best to help." Arisa Fujito lowered her head and tugged at her hood, her tone incredibly shy and gentle.

"Oh, right...! If you don't mind... these are flower petals that I learned from Bing Shang, which can be used to calm the nerves. I dried them a little with magic, so it will be much easier to make flower tea... although, they might not look as pretty as before."

Arisa handed Chang Rong a glass bottle containing dried flower petals, it seemed she had been carefully drying these petals all along.

“But, Arisa, you need these more, don’t you? After all, didn’t you say before that you’ve been using sleeping pills and other medications to fall asleep?” Chang Rong looked at the can of herbal tea in front of her and felt that Arisa herself needed them more.

“Um… no, it’s not necessary anymore. I don’t know why, but whenever I think of you in bed at night, I feel… at ease. So if possible, I hope you can also get a good night’s sleep.”

Arisa held up the glass jar and spoke softly to Chang Rong. Although her face was covered by a mask, anyone who saw Arisa at that moment could easily imagine the lovely and gentle smile beneath the mask.

"Then I'll accept it, Arisa. Thank you, but I don't quite know how to reciprocate yet—"

"As for return gifts... as long as you, Chang Rong, are safe and happy, that's the best gift for me," said Arisa Wisteria softly, her head bowed.

"Waaaa... Arisa..." Chang Rong was so overwhelmed by Arisa's seamless combo that she didn't know how to respond. She could only blush and reach out to gently stroke Arisa's cheek.

Just as Chang Rong was about to remove the mask from Arisa, who had shed her hedgehog-like appearance and switched to a soft and gentle mode—

"Wait—who are you!?"

Hannah Tono, who was standing to the side, finally couldn't help but ask a soul-searching question.

Where's my fiery little delinquent? Where's my tsundere queen? Where did you hide the Arisa I know?! You damned mirror demon, give Arisa's body back to me!

After Tono Hannah lost her temper and suspected that Shito Arisa had been possessed, Chang Rong had no choice but to explain the situation between the two of them to Hannah. Arisa, standing to the side, awkwardly clasped her hands together, her head turned away shyly, which confirmed the correctness of Chang Rong's words.

"This is incredible... such a surprise—well, thinking about it, it's not so surprising after all?"

Having learned the whole story, Tono Hannah's eyes widened in astonishment, but she also felt that she had seen Arisa in this state before? In... in what situation again?

After explaining to Hannah how Arisa activated her soft and sweet mode, Chang Rong also told Arisa about what he and Hannah were currently doing.

"Young lady? Women's power? I don't know anything about these things... Anyway, I'm just a delinquent...!" Arisa Fujito waved her hand, believing that she knew nothing about these things and was completely contrary to the image of "young lady" and "women's power".

"However... every time I take the medication, I feel like I've become a pampered young lady who can do anything. But because I'm too domineering and tyrannical, I get punished and disciplined, whipped into a spinning top. That feeling is really... really great...!"

Arisa Shito recalled the blissful feeling she had after the OD and relayed it to the two of them as a reference.

"You really have absolutely no self-awareness in any sense..." Tono Hannah looked at Shito Arisa and muttered helplessly.

"Well, how should I put it... I feel like Arisa's needs don't seem so strange anymore!" Chang Rong smiled and gave a thumbs up.

"Don't use that guy on the ice as a benchmark!" Hannah quickly complained.

It's clear that various places on Witch Island are experiencing numerical inflation. What would have been incredibly troublesome for Chang Rong—Wisteria Arisa's 'quirks'—seems like a lighthearted romantic pastime between the couple compared to Meruru on Ice.

In the timeline of Meruru's survival on Ice, the person who benefited the most was actually Arisa Fujito. Is that reasonable?

After leaving the reception room, Chang Rong and Tono Hannah arrived near the entrance.

"I feel like things aren't going very smoothly... What do you think, Hannah?"

Chang Rong rubbed his eyebrows. He had thought that Witch Island was full of talented people and that he could quickly master it by combining the strengths of various schools of thought. However, in reality, this place was indeed full of extraordinary people.

"Hmm...it does seem a bit strange, desuwa."

Hannah Tono looked at the memo on her phone with a very subtle expression.

How to become a qualified, capable young lady:

[Can cook] [Has some involvement in the underworld] [Breathes on her best friend] [Makes a kissing declaration to someone she likes] [Goes to great lengths to get what she wants] [Proficient in using various drugs]

"...This isn't right, is it?"

After gathering the insights and lessons learned from everyone, Tono Hannah looked at the string of keywords and, no matter how hard she tried to fill in the blanks in her mind, she still couldn't picture the image of the heroine of a shoujo manga that matched her ideal.

"I wonder how things are going with Sherry... Hmm, I didn't expect this to be so much more difficult than I anticipated."

Chang Rong rubbed her hair, then looked at the towering, isolating wall in the distance with a somewhat absent-minded expression.

"..." Tono Hannah noticed Chang Rong's abnormality. Rather, Chang Rong had been in this 'dazed' state many times along the way.

Although he was genuinely troubled by his problems and tried very hard to ask others for help, Hannah could still sense Chang Rong's inner turmoil and hesitation during the intervals between their conversations.

"...Go and help that real 'young lady'."

"Huh?"

Hearing Tono Hannah's calm voice, Chang Rong looked at the blonde twin-tailed girl beside him.

“Everyone has now been ‘redeemed.’ Although we can’t completely leave this witch’s island yet, and we can’t change the suffering we’ve endured… at least everyone can still smile during this time. But in this situation—that young lady with the broken bones is still being tortured. Isn’t that incredibly unfair?”

"But I promised everyone I would help first—"

"I must have already found my own salvation long ago...!"

Chang Rong's words were interrupted by Tono Hannah, who reached out and gently cupped Chang Rong's cheeks with her hands, smiling and stroking them tenderly.

"Becoming a real young lady, having enviable feminine strength... these are things that I shouldn't have been able to ask for in the first place."

“I am a ‘sinner’ who was abandoned by my family and then abandoned them in return. I am also a hypocritical heiress. But even so… I am not troubled by these identities. Rather, I have accepted them. Why is that? It must be because… there was a knight who had already slain and banished all those desperate and negative things for me.”

Hannah Tono floated gently, her arms wrapped around the boy in front of her.

“I know very well how a clumsy and sensitive person like me could reconcile with the past so easily. It must be because in the future, I found my own knight. And if it is my most beloved knight, then... he would not be so selfish. He would be greedy and proud to save everyone.”

Tono Hannah smiled at Chang Rong. In that instant, she truly seemed like a young lady, a princess, incredibly proud and confident, showing everyone her most loyal, silly knight.

"Of course... I'm definitely the most favored one! That's the only thing I will never back down from, Desuwa!"

Hannah Tono's cheeks flushed crimson as she smiled at Chang Rong, her floating body leaning slightly forward, gradually moving closer to the boy.

Just as the princess and knight's vow kiss was about to leave its mark—

"A——A——O——!!"

Pfft! !

Suddenly, a mysterious blue-haired character appeared out of nowhere, grabbed Chang Rong, and tackled her to the ground. Then, without hesitation or a moment's delay, she kissed him with unparalleled grace and decisiveness.

"Ugh—" "Eh eh eh eh!!???"

Chang Rong wanted to say something, but was physically silenced by Tachibana Sherry, leaving only Tono Hannah, who was confused about what had happened in that instant, to let out a sharp, piercing wail.

If we're going to have a meal together, then let's have a meal together, why all the nonsense!

This incredibly explicit scene lasted for five seconds before Shirley Tachibana, who had practically sucked all the air out of Chang Rong's body, finally stood up, revealing an expression of immense joy and satisfaction.

"This is the ultimate answer I've arrived at after all this reasoning—that's right, female power is just a direct kiss! Hannah, Hannah, did you see that~~~!"

"I only saw cows—!!!" Hannah Tohno roared in rebuttal. What kind of logical reasoning is this?! Is there even the slightest bit of logic in it?!

"Waaaaah ^q^..." As for Chang Rong, who was almost drained dry, she was still in a dazed state of brain hypoxia.

He wasn't even prepared to face Hannah's almost confessional words, and then Sherry Tachibana, who appeared out of nowhere, stole the peach, which was doubly shocking.

"and……"

Shirley Tachibana turned her gaze to Chang Rong again, her amber eyes revealing a complex and nostalgic emotion, a rare occurrence other than 'Foolish Joy'.

"And Moriarty and all that, it's really a bit strange... Chang Rong, you're no match for me, and I'll never be your enemy... We should have a closer relationship, right? Competing with Chang Rong? I don't want to, absolutely not, never! Chang Rong, you won't be my 'enemy,' you should be... my most indispensable assistant, a companion who can always be by my side, you—you should be my 'Watson'!"

Shirley Tachibana hugged the white-haired boy tightly and blurted out the 'strange feeling' she had ever had since seeing Chang Rong.

"Watson—"

Chang Rong's pupils suddenly contracted, as if a broken puzzle had finally found its forgotten piece. The moment he heard Tachibana Sherry use that name, Chang Rong immediately accepted this 'setting'.

That's right, compared to Moriarty or anything like that, 'Watson' is more suitable for her. After all, only 'Watson' could grab her the moment this malfunctioning blue robot went off the rails.

"Waaaaah... What, what is this! Fine, since you kissed me, I'll kiss you too!"

"Huh? Wait, wait a minute, Miss—Pfft!"

Before Chang Rong could sort out the fragments of memories about Tachibana Sherry and the past, Tono Hannah, who had been thoroughly exasperated, finally couldn't take it anymore.

The prospective witch, who possessed the ability of [levitation], did not use her magic but instead pounced directly on Chang Rong.

In an instant, the entrance hall of the castle transformed into the starting point of a magnificent battle. This was the first time Chang Rong had faced attacks from two great witches simultaneously.

"【Coo coo coo... My feathers are wet and messy again, I'll have to trouble Mr. Chang Rong again, otherwise—goo-goo!?】"

"Where did this bird come from!" "Don't bother us at a time like this!"

The passing warden, a comb in his mouth, seemed to be looking for Chang Rong to ask for his daily feather grooming. However, unfortunately, what awaited him was not a gentle touch, but a rock capable of breaking through the atmosphere.