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

"Tsk... This is really bad!" Hiro clicked her tongue inwardly. She didn't expect that Milia would hold a trial for a perverted woman. If it were a normal trial, she, as a true Yamato Nadeshiko, would definitely not lose, but the current situation was really troublesome.

"So, the second question is—among everyone here, who has had any close contact with Xiaorong in this or that way?"

"Pfft, cough cough cough—how am I supposed to answer this?!" Chang Rong was instantly dumbfounded. Seriously, the purpose of this question was way too obvious!

"This kind of question... of course, I've had it before...!" Hiro instantly raised his right hand to cover his mouth, trying to hide his panicked expression.

At this moment, although Shiro was shy and flustered, she also had a sense of superiority. As the only designated person to lift the trophy in Season 3, she naturally had the closest contact with Chang Rong, even 'close contact'.

Although revealing this would mean my death, if I were to actually brag about it, I'd surely garner everyone's shocked and incredulous gazes, right? Hehehe, the first person to pick up the rabbit head and enjoy the rabbit meat was none other than Student Council President Nikaido Hirobumi!

Ever since she slept with Chang Rong late at night, Xi Luo has become a two-faced person, with only two thought patterns in her mind: "I can't laugh yet, I have to hold back, I have to maintain the status quo and keep things stable" and "I should hurry up and tell everyone that I am the unshakable rightful wife!"

It's like the agonizing, indecisive attitude of a nouveau riche who's won the lottery but doesn't dare to flaunt it.

On the other side, Arisa Fujito also showed a shy expression after hearing the question, and had to pull down her hood to try to shrink into it.

The thought that she had kissed Chang Rong in the courtyard just over ten minutes ago, driven by her own will, made it impossible for Arisa's cheeks to cool down.

"Hmph... Looks like none of you are good kids after all. Well then, hurry up and answer, and then be judged and eliminated by my shikigami—Eh? Nanoha Kaoru-neechan, why aren't you moving? Move, Neechan-sama—Eh? Do I have to be asked too?"

Knowing victory was assured, Milia, having successfully brought the perverted woman to justice, was preparing to have her older sister reap the lives of these witches who had long since fallen into the hell of pleasure. But she suddenly discovered that her 'older sister' was standing in front of her, seemingly intending for her to answer the question as well.

"I didn't... Ugh, no, don't get so close... Okay! Actually, I did have some close contact with Xiao Rong, but it was just watching a movie together in the recreation room... Well, maybe not just watching a movie, I also gave him a little lap pillow—just ruffled his hair—just rubbed his cheek against Xiao Rong's, nothing else! At most, I just let him rub against my chest..."

"Hiss hiss hiss...!!"

"Huh!? Uncle, I'm going to be judged too!?"

Milia's words, which sounded like either a confession or a boast, caused her older sister to let out a frustrated roar.

After all, due to her physical condition, even the slightest touch from Chang Rong would cause her to dissipate like butter and white smoke as the last remnants of her witch factor were absorbed. Therefore, when she heard Milia's almost boastful account of having Chang Rong as her lap pillow, anger naturally rose in her heart, and her jealousy beneath the mask was almost overflowing.

"No, no, no, it's clearly Xiaoxi and Xiaosha who are more suspicious, right? Besides, we have a contract—wailing!?"

As her older sister drew closer, Milia frantically tried to explain, but before she could utter any coherent testimony, her sister pierced through her proud front armor with her dark tentacles.

"How...could this be...like this...? I thought we could...be friends—"

Boom!

Saeki Miria opened her eyes wide, and collapsed in front of everyone with an expression of despair, confusion and resentment.

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Thank you, Akanagi Hanaen, for the Silver Treasure Chest!!!

Thank you for the 130 blades from Yuexiahezhimeng!

Thanks to Gu Xiaodiao for the dog food (a Chinese slang term for witnessing public displays of affection).

Thanks to the 26 blades of Aseram ham.

Thanks to Zhou Shen for the 10 blades.

Thank you Nan Dou Jiu Xing for the 20 blades.

Thanks to Wolf King Rob for the 10 blades.

Thank you so much, everyone!

236. Zedu Coco: Am I a mortal now?

"Milia...!? Hmm, although I don't know what happened, Milia and her shikigami are fighting amongst themselves. Let's take this opportunity to run away!" Chang Rong stared wide-eyed at the scene before her, equally incredulous.

All of this happened so fast that Hiro, Arisa, and Chang Rong didn't have time to react. It was so fast that Milia didn't remember to take out Noah's special blood pack until a few seconds after she was put on the ground, and then she squeezed it open to let the blood-red butterflies soak and flutter freely on her chest.

What constitutes the professional competence of a mature professional? Even if you have a perfect start but are inexplicably betrayed by your allies and completely wiped out, leaving you utterly confused and bewildered, you still have to dutifully complete the final cleanup. This is the professional competence that a qualified middle-aged office worker should possess!

"Hiss hiss hiss—!!"

"Arisa, watch out—!"

After Milia, who had been showing off her copper wire the whole time, the older sister immediately pounced on the remaining people.

Chang Rong quickly pushed Arisa away and at the same time broke the fire extinguisher in the corner. The dry powder that sprayed out instantly covered the room completely and temporarily restricted her older sister's movements.

"Cough cough—Hero, Arisa! Let's take this chance and escape—oh no, have we split up? Damn it... Everyone has to be safe!"

Chang Rong tried to escape from Milia's 'domain' with the two of them, but the series of events just now forced everyone to separate. When they came to their senses, only Chang Rong escaped by himself.

"[Coo coo coo... Transmitting new kill footage—]"

After a disheveled escape from the courtroom of the "Perverted Woman Trial," Chang Rong's phone displayed a new round of kill notifications.

The naive witch Saeki Miria, who believed she could communicate with and even control the 'remains,' never understood where she went wrong until her death. Her naiveté and foolishness resulted in a cold and cruel betrayal; she paid the price with her life—how tragic, how laughable. As for the guard who killed Saeki Miria, he has been temporarily contained and restrained; please rest assured.

"...I feel like maybe I shouldn't confront my older sister about this yet?"

After reading the kill report, Chang Rong muttered to himself.

Chang Rong had originally planned to talk to Nanoha's older sister about the veterans, but her sister turned into Lu Bu out of jealousy simply because she envied Milia for being able to enjoy rubbing Chang Rong. This made Chang Rong start to wonder if she should still be honest with her...

In any case, at least don't tell your older sister what you, Alice, Lady Lihua, and Meruru Leia did in the Outer Lands. Otherwise, she'll probably be prepared to disappear on the spot just to pounce on you and start a game...

Of course, Chang Rong was certain that her older sister hadn't gone berserk. Although the scene just now looked like a prank, her older sister hadn't actually hurt anyone at all. Even the scene where she backstabbed Milia was just her tentacles bypassing the front armor to create the effect of being pierced.

Hmm... we can just cut out the part where my older sister got angry and lifted me up high during the editing.

The incident involving Milia also forced Chang Rong and Shiroarisa to separate, so Chang Rong had to return to the SOLO mode and explore the corridor.

"Speaking of which... there are close-up photos everywhere, Coco is really going all out."

As Chang Rong wandered through the castle corridor, she looked at the close-up photos of Ze Du Ke Ke pasted in various corners and muttered to herself.

It's said that the thing virtual bloggers fear most is having their headshots dancing online, but Coco completely goes against the grain and actively chooses to throw her headshots everywhere.

Of course, Chang Rong knew very well that this was not because Ze Du Ke Ke decided to quit the internet and was opening the box for herself as a performance art piece, but rather that she planned to use these photos to build a CCTV closed-circuit monitoring system that belonged only to her.

Coco's magical 'clairvoyance' allows her to see the perspectives of others observing 'Zedo Coco'. In other words, anyone who can't help but make eye contact with these photos will immediately reveal their location to Coco.

"...It feels so eerie."

While keeping her head down to avoid being spied on by Coco and the others, Chang Rong tried to find the exact location of this intelligence officer. Although she had considered using the same old trick of launching a new Three Kingdoms DDoS attack on Coco again (referring to telling her stories in front of Coco's picture and forcing her to listen), on the one hand, Coco had already experienced it once, and doing it again might make her feel relieved or even addicted; on the other hand, this was ultimately just 'acting,' and there was no need for such a life-or-death struggle.

"Beep beep!"

Just as Chang Rong was pondering how to find the BIGSISTER who was watching her, her phone beeped.

"Hmm? We've arrived at the confessional."

Chang Rong found herself wandering around in circles, ending up in her former bedroom, now a confessional room that she hardly ever uses.

The door that Shirley had violently dismantled has been reinstalled, and judging from the notification sound on the phone, someone should be in the room.

Chang Rong tiptoed and pushed open the room door. The structure of two separate cubicles appeared in front of her. Chang Rong saw it almost immediately. A strange thing was peeking out from the gap in the small cubicle on the left. The strange decoration that looked like bat wings was the mysterious decoration hanging on the back of Coco's skirt.

Seriously, Coco, are you so confident in your all-seeing surveillance system that you couldn't even do such a basic thing like hiding?

Chang Rong sneered, then tiptoed to the door of the small cubicle, took a deep breath, and suddenly yanked the door open.

"FBI! OPEN THE DOOR!!! - Hmm!?"

Chang Rong suddenly yanked open the door to the confessional cubicle, but behind the door was only a bat wing decoration stuck in the crack, and inside the room was just a large picture of Coco.

"how so--"

"Hehehe, I won, Onii-chan!"

While Chang Rong was shocked and surprised, something suddenly nudged his lower back, and at the same time, Ze Du Ke Ke's happy voice came from behind him.

"co, coco... Ughhhhh...!?"

Chang Rong instantly showed the same expression as Tokiomi when he was stabbed in the waist by Mapo Toki. He turned around slowly incredulously and saw the girl with short black hair with orange highlights and cat-ear shaped headphones.

"Hehehe... How about that, Onii-chan! Did I manage to outsmart you? I've grown up too, I'm not the silly girl who only needed Onii-chan to protect and worry about me anymore!"

Zedu Keke stopped poking her kidneys and smiled at Chang Rong with a happy and proud expression.

"Coco-chan, you're amazing! Even I'm impressed... But how did you do that?"

Chang Rong rubbed Hakimi's head with a helpless yet gratified expression, while somewhat unwillingly asking Ze Du Ke Ke how she had completely outmaneuvered her in the realm of intellectual combat.

"Hehe, it's nothing really. I just deliberately pasted the photos all the way here, then threw the phone into the room and deliberately created a loophole. I hid in this cardboard box by the door, waiting for the 'eagle eye' in the room to activate so I could quickly crawl out and backstab them. Simple, right?"

Zedu Coco pointed to a few inconspicuous cardboard boxes at the entrance of the confessional. Chang Rong initially thought they were building material boxes that Meruru had brought to repair the door, so she didn't pay any attention to them.

However, upon closer inspection, it becomes clear that those are not boxes for building materials at all, but rather orange boxes that Xiaoxue used to stand on when she went to the kitchen to learn how to cook. It is strange that they would appear in the hallway.

Does high-level strategic combat really only require the simplest methods...?

Chang Rong felt somewhat insecure because of Coco's overly simple yet remarkably effective strategy.

"But speaking of which, Coco-chan, aren't you scared hiding in such a small box?"

Chang Rong remembered something: Ze Du Ke Ke's taboo used to be "hiding," because it was related to her childhood experience. After experiencing that disaster in which she was the only one who survived because she hid in time, Ze Du Ke Ke developed a taboo against the act of 'hiding'.

"Hmm... I'm gradually getting used to it. After all, you said that everyone has to look forward, right? So I've been working hard and trying my best to overcome these problems."

Ze Du Ke Ke touched the headphones on her head and said somewhat embarrassedly.

"Coco-chan...you're amazing."

"Hehehe... Onii-chan's encouragement is more important."

Chang Rong rubbed Ze Du Ke Ke's hands again and sighed. At the same time, he also noticed that in the timeline of the third cycle, although most people had not yet fully regained their memories, almost everyone was actually moving forward and moving towards a 'better version of themselves'.

Although time and memories were reversed by Hero's Return of Death, Chang Rong was certain that some things were not reversed but passed down. The way everyone is moving forward now is the best proof of that.

"Okay, it seems Coco-chan has the upper hand. I've been taken down—" Chang Rong sighed. Although she was somewhat unwilling to leave the stage like this, Ze Du Coco's growth was indeed worthy of the victory she had achieved by defeating her.

"No, that's not right, Onii-chan! I didn't mean to kill Onii-chan...!" Seeing Chang Rong about to commit suicide, Ze Du Ke Ke quickly waved her hand in protest.

"I thought about it later... While the prize of winning the trophy is certainly tempting, I already have everything I need. Rather than getting the reward for first place, I'd rather create some unique memories with my older brother, like fighting alongside him while everyone else is battling each other. Doesn't that sound amazing? Besides, the rules don't say that we have to fight each other as soon as we meet, right?"

Zedu Coco said excitedly that she hoped to create some wonderful and fun memories with Chang Rong in this 'battle royale'.

However, faced with Ze Du Ke Ke's sincere and hopeful fantasy, Chang Rong's expression became somewhat awkward.

Coco was right, but the biggest problem was that... he did it first.

He had just formed an alliance with Arisa, becoming a 'special ally,' and now Coco Sawatari has joined the fray. If this were in a movie, this plot would be a complete rip-off, and viewers would likely criticize the screenwriter for running out of ideas...

"Onii-chan? Why are you suddenly making such an awkward face... Could it be that you've already found a cheater, Onii-chan?!"

Ze Du Ke Ke noticed Chang Rong's unusual expression, and after a brief moment of thought, Ke Ke immediately offered her guess.

"【False testimony】How could that be? This is a battle royale, not a dating show. I would never do something so nonsensical... haha."