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

Upon realizing this, Chang Rong broke out in a cold sweat. He quickly got up, pushed open the door of the infirmary, and prepared to find 'Chang Rong' so that he could switch bodies back before she accidentally saw the film.

However, just as Chang Rong opened the door to the infirmary, another uninvited guest suddenly appeared in front of the infirmary—Arisa Shito, who had taken off her mask and was gradually beginning to show her true face.

"Saeki, are you... alright?"

Arisa tugged at her hood, lowered her head, and asked Chang Rong in a slightly embarrassed tone.

"I—ah, sir, I'm alright!"

Chang Rong was just about to reveal his true identity when he suddenly realized that he was now in the infirmary alone, in Milia's body, and the bed next to him looked messy, as if he had just rolled around in it.

If he were to honestly admit it in this situation... no matter how well-behaved and kind Arisa is, she'd probably still look at him like he's a cockroach, this scumbag and despicable bastard...

Thinking of this, Chang Rong could only grit her teeth and continue pretending to be Milia, asking Arisa what she wanted while frantically begging the uncle to hurry up and use his invincible swapping magic to turn the two of them back.

"Um... I'm sorry, this matter is really troubling me. After thinking about it for a long time, I feel that only you, Saeki, can help me, so I came to bother you..."

Chang Rong, who was trying to escape, noticed Arisa's conflicted and troubled expression and had no choice but to stop.

"Why don't you ask Xiao Rong?" Chang Rong asked with a smile, while inwardly complaining and grumbling.

The confessional room that I asked Meruru to build is still under restriction! But Arisa completely ignores it and comes to see Miria instead, how jealous...!

"Because the thing I'm struggling with is related to Chang Rong..." Arisa said softly, her cheeks slightly flushed.

"Oh? Is that so... So, Xiaosha, what's bothering you?"

Although he felt somewhat sorry for Arisa, the human instinct to gossip is ultimately irresistible. Seeing Arisa mention him with such a conflicted yet earnest expression naturally piqued Chang Rong's curiosity.

"I...I'm thinking...whether I should take advantage of this 'winner's reward to...confess my feelings to Chang Rong—"

"Pfft, cough cough...! Huh? A confession?"

Arisa mustered her courage and spoke her troubles in a weak voice, while Chang Rong almost couldn't keep up her act and revealed her true colors.

“I know this is strange… After all, Chang Rong and I haven’t actually been through anything together… Although Nikaido said that we did go through a lot together in the past, I still can’t remember. If I could, I really wish I could find my past memories.”

Arisa lowered her head and huddled under her hood. At first, she sounded incredibly shy, but as she spoke, she began to sound somewhat disappointed.

"To retrieve memories...?"

Seeing Arisa's incredibly conflicted state, Chang Rong became even more determined to help everyone regain their memories.

"Ahem—well, isn't Xiao Sha already close enough to Xiao Rong? Is there really any need for her to confess?"

After making up his mind, Chang Rong coughed twice, trying to persuade Arisa to turn back from the wrong path.

"That's true... but... Chang Rong and I aren't really in that kind of relationship... rather, this ambiguous status is completely contrary to the virtues I should uphold as a woman... but confessing means I've decided to give him my whole heart, soul, and future, and I don't know if I'm truly ready..."

Arisa lowered her head, her face flushed, and muttered to herself.

"No... I think I've prepared myself, but I'm afraid Chang Rong might not be able to take on such a heavy responsibility. But I know very well that Chang Rong isn't the kind of gentle person who can bring himself to completely sever ties. So if I really confess, wouldn't it just become an unbearable burden for Chang Rong...?"

—Are you thinking too seriously, too meticulously, and too complicatedly, Arisa!

Listening to the rambling of the white-haired hooded girl in front of him, Chang Rong still wore a kind and friendly smile on his face, but in his heart he had completely exploded and started to complain wildly.

Although he knew that Arisa was a very traditional girl, he thought that such ideas were a bit too traditional and innocent... Rather, after hearing these ramblings, he really had no idea how to handle her confession!

Realizing this, Chang Rong could only force a couple of awkward laughs.

"Well, um... Xiaosha, you don't need to be so serious about it, right? By the way—how about we treat it like a confession during our school days? Like the kind of confession that's featured in many works, the kind that's exclusive to young boys and girls in their youth?"

Chang Rong tried to persuade Arisa not to take it too seriously and that it would be better to relax.

"Well, we can't treat age as a joke...! At the very least, we need to be prepared to be a full-time wife!"

—You've gone too far, Arisa!

Looking at the blushing, stammering girl in front of him, Chang Rong suddenly realized what it meant to be ignorant and happy. After realizing Arisa's serious and old-fashioned views on marriage, Chang Rong could no longer use his old methods to laugh it off.

"Um... Xiao Sha, do you really like Chang Rong that much?"

Wearing the Milia suit, Chang Rong felt somewhat helpless and could only smile as she tried to change the subject by asking Arisa.

"Yes... because... Chang Rong is very kind, but he doesn't spoil me unconditionally. He tries to help me with many of my problems in his own way. And it was he who taught me that a lot of 'love' doesn't necessarily have to be accompanied by scolding. As long as I'm with him, I feel... very, very happy."

"Oh dear... it's not as good as you say..." Chang Rong blushed as he listened to Arisa's earnest praise.

However, Chang Rong was still wearing Milia's costume at this moment, so his 'abnormal' appearance made Arisa tilt her head.

"Saeki, why is your face so red?"

"Ah...! This, this is because—" Chang Rong then realized his current identity. He tried to quickly find an excuse to get by, but Arisa showed a look of sudden realization first.

"really……"

—If I self-destruct in this situation, will it cause Arisa to self-destruct as well (physically)? ^q^

Chang Rong closed his eyes in despair, waiting for Arisa to break down and then fly away in a fit of rage.

however--

"As expected, Saeki, you really are just like Tono said, a bit like Changrong's mother."

“…Hmm?” Chang Rong blinked, making a confused sound.

"Blushing at the praise of Chang Rong is something only a mother would do, right?" Arisa said with certainty.

"Ah...is that so? It seems so..."

Chang Rong blinked awkwardly, then nodded in agreement.

Did I actually get a mom after calling her "Mom" so often...?

I wonder what kind of expression Milia will have when she finds out she's gained a son after the exchange magic ends...

Although the process was somewhat delicate, it was managed to get by. Afterwards, Chang Rong used the same old rhetoric as, "In short, let's not think about things that far ahead. Let's think about how to achieve our 'wish' first!" to barely manage to get rid of Zifang Arisa, who had originally planned to confess to him.

Chang Rong now understood that if Arisa could regain her memories from her second timeline, she would probably confess her feelings to him without hesitation. Moreover, she would be the kind of person who is prepared to become a wife, raise children, and take care of them as they grow up, devoting all her energy to this, even if she doesn't become the main wife—a super classic, hardcore kind of resolve.

It seems that once everyone regains their memories, I'll have to be extremely careful about confessing my feelings to Arisa...

In short, we can't delay any longer! We've already gone through enough experiments with the magic of exchanging memories. To prevent myself from becoming a bastard and to prevent Milia from watching porn, I need to switch back as soon as possible—

"Pfft!"

Chang Rong pushed open the door to the infirmary again, but this time she still couldn't take a step to leave and bumped into another girl who had appeared in the system.

"Seriously... Is it because your breasts are too big that you can't see where you're going? You stupid big-breasted woman... It hurts so much..."

The pigeon-like novelist rubbed his nose and glared at 'Milia' with displeasure, complaining.

"Sorry, Xiao An, but I have something to take care of—"

"Don't go...! I need to discuss something with you... no, it's nothing important, but I still need your help..."

Natsume Anan stopped Chang Rong, who was about to run away. She buried half of her head behind her sketchbook, her cheeks slightly flushed and hot.

I feel like I just saw this scene a few minutes ago?

Sure enough, the gloomy bean sprout in front of him shook its head from side to side, and after confirming that no one else was around, it coughed lightly twice and opened its slender little mouth:

"We...we are currently experiencing the same problem that every great writer experiences. That's right...we are currently troubled by love, and this damned emotion is indefinitely delaying the masterpiece we originally planned to create. This won't do...we must work harder, so...cough cough...could you offer us some relevant advice?"

—You're not useless, Milia. You've completely stolen my 'confessional priest' niche!

Looking at the fluffy pigeon spirit staring at her with an expectant yet incredibly shy expression, Chang Rong mentally and loudly complained.

Why do all these people want to talk to Milia about their relationship problems? Can't they just talk to me directly?

Oh, really not, that would most likely turn into a fan-made game.

Thanks to Chenguang Moxin for the salty fish~~ Going to buy potato chips now!

Thank you Ice Assault·Dream Saki Kira·Mo Momo for the food.

4 words extra today

I'll get my biological clock back on track in April. I'm so sorry for the terrible update schedule these past two days...! I'm bowing deeply in apology (bowing deeply).

?244. Chong Ma Ni Zi

In front of the infirmary, Chang Rong, disguised as Saeki Miria, was listening with an embarrassed expression to the rambling of a girl with fluffy hair and an overly loose robe-like dress.

"Seriously... Noah seems to be looking to go solo lately, he barely pays attention to my texts anymore. If this continues, won't the artist duo fall apart soon? And that idiot has been spacing out for no reason lately, and he just ignores what I say. Instead of studying how to paint, he's just fumbling with sleeping pills all day... It's unbearable to watch, he's so decadent!"

"Hahaha...Is that so?"

"And another thing, that wretched, super-strong gorilla woman has also set her sights on me... I initially thought she was just making a joke during Battle Royale, but who knew that she would actually start pestering me to write some kind of meaningless work like 'Holmes's Great Adventure with Watson'... I'm not an AI creator like Noah, how could I possibly write something like that?!"

"Even putting AI aside, An'an, you don't seem to have written any serious works, do you? —Ahem, what I want to say is that Xiao Li was indeed wrong in this matter. Great works are often born from a flash of inspiration. This kind of forced growth will not produce a true masterpiece, right?"

"No...that's right! That's what I think too! Next time I meet that gorilla woman, I'll just tell her that directly!"

"Don't go, she could turn you into a ball..."

Chang Rong quickly stopped the smug Natsume An'an. It was one thing to brag in private, but if she really went to confront the club president offline, wouldn't she be folded in half nine times in a second?

But then again, how did this 'ill-fated relationship' between An An and Shirley come about?

While pretending to be Milia to comfort An'an, Chang Rong pondered how these two, who originally had little interaction, had become such a strange ecological relationship as 'the one who urges for updates and the one who procrastinates'.

However, before Chang Rong could analyze the whole story, An An immediately came over again, this time sounding even more aggrieved and unhappy.

"And then there's... that idiot monster...! I don't know what's wrong with that guy lately, he's always acting all high and mighty, and he's inexplicably bloated up, like he's some kind of hero who saved a lost girl... Most importantly, the way that idiot looks at me is starting to look at me like I'm a child! This won't do!"

While recalling her recent interactions with Chang Rong, Natsume Anan waved her long sleeves and pouted, complaining unhappily.

"I was planning to use this [Word of Power] to completely transform that stupid monster into a terrifying hypnotic queen who is my loyal hound, but if things continue like this, won't he just treat me like an ignorant child? That won't do. I have to find a way to teach him a lesson, like tricking him out and then hypnotizing him, ordering him to strip naked and lick my toes... Hmm, is that a bit too much of a prank...? Well then, how about licking my fingers? Or rubbing against me—hey, you idiot, are you even listening to me?!"

An An muttered to herself, then looked at Chang Rong with an unhappy expression, questioning whether he was even listening to her criminal declaration.

"Haha, of course I'm listening, Uncle... With toes and fingers involved, putting aside the moral and legal issues, the hygiene standards are questionable, aren't they?" Chang Rong could only manage an awkward laugh. Although he knew that An An's motives were sometimes impure, he really hadn't expected this pigeon-spirited girl to go to such lengths behind the scenes.

"Hmph... Of course, I'll wash my feet properly first!"

"No, no, no, that's not the problem—never mind, Xiao An, please don't mess around, or you might upset that 'idiot monster.' What if you get ganged up on by the idiot monster and the gorilla girl?"

"Waaah...! I, I don't want to... I'll think about it carefully..."

Chang Rong isn't some kind of congee, bro, you're just going to shove it into my mouth. As a Sigma man, he's rather wary of this kind of thing. After bringing up mixed doubles as a threat, An An was indeed frightened, showing a hesitant and scared expression. It seems that the 'hypnotizing Chang Rong into a dog' operation plan has to be temporarily shelved because the risk of failure is too high to bear.

"Anyway, Xiao An, you don't need to be too nervous. In fact, being treated like a 'child' is an advantage, right? As long as you can show a mature demeanor that is different from your usual childish appearance, you will naturally get Xiao Rong's praise because of the contrast, and then you will naturally increase your favorability by a lot, right?"

"I see... There's actually such a way? I've learned something new... Mmmm..."

An'an seemed to have been fooled. She nestled in Chang Rong's arms, nodding and purring comfortably as her fur was stroked.