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

It seems that without realizing it, I have embarked on a dead end with no turning back... How did it come to this?

If it were just one or two, that would be one thing; three or four, while a bit low, could at least be explained. But—"more than ten" is a number that can't be easily dismissed with any excuse!

If things continue at this pace, even if I do find Xiaoxue, I'm afraid I won't be able to successfully return to the original society governed by the rule of law... I'm afraid I'll be taken directly to the execution ground after boarding the plane and given a quick, intense cooking.

But when Chang Rong thought about what Arisa had said to him when he was cosplaying Milia today, he felt another sharp pain in his head. And when he thought about An An's amazing wisdom, he felt that his future was already bleak.

This wasn't just a matter of walking on thin ice; it was like a male lion accidentally falling into a lionesses' den and being chased by a pack of lions to pay his dues.

If it weren't for my special constitution enhanced by the witch factor, I probably would have turned into a group of people nervously fidgeting and sweating, holding a witch trial around my corpse after I had been raped and died, blaming each other!

Thinking of this, Chang Rong rubbed his eyebrows helplessly, and at the same time took out the silver-white bell with snowflake patterns from his pocket and placed it in front of him.

"Xiaoxue... do you think it's possible that I'm still considered a good boy?"

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Lingdang didn't respond at all, but silently used passive-aggressive tactics to refute Chang Rong's ridiculous question.

"Ugh...ugh..."

Milia's sweet words couldn't immediately change Chang Rong's 'simple view of marriage' that he had maintained for several lifetimes. In the end, he was just a hypocrite who talked big but was actually naive. He usually talked all day about becoming a master of marriage, but now that he was really going to have a harem, he was becoming more and more guilty. He didn't know if he really had the qualifications and ability to satisfy the demands of so many aspiring witches.

Even after returning to her bedroom and lying in bed, Chang Rong's mind was still incredibly active. This could be considered one of the 'side effects' of the witch factor. Unlike the aspiring witches who were sore and unable to walk after each CCB, Chang Rong would become abnormally excited due to absorbing extra witch factors. Even if she huddled under the covers and buried her head in the prime number to roast sheep, she still couldn't fall asleep. Her mind was forced to think about all sorts of random and nonsensical things.

Sigh, it's all because of this witch factor! But then again, once everything is over and I'm no longer in this body driven by the witch factor... will I still be able to handle these people?

Chang Rong thought for a moment, then immediately shook her head, covered in cold sweat, refusing to continue thinking, and pressed her head even harder against the pillow.

In short—everything will be alright! Everyone is moving steadily forward, everyone believes in me and supports me, and everything is moving in a better direction. All I need to do is, as Milia said, make myself better, enough to repay everyone's trust and entrustment, and that will be enough!

Chang Rong was somewhat resigned to his fate and planned to use the unfinished story of "the journey will continue" to fool himself into taking a break early. However, due to excessive excitement, he was unable to fall asleep until the early hours of the morning and even had to get up and wander around the flower field a few times to release his excess energy.

If it weren't for Milia's words that allowed Chang Rong to firmly hold the high ground, he probably wouldn't have been able to resist calling Shirokoko, Meruru, and Leia to have a resurrection overtime match in the Flower Field.

Finally, Chang Rong, who managed to get by with something like "Thirty years on Witch Island, I love everyone, and everyone loves me," drifted off into a dream while silently wishing for "tomorrow will be another good day."

however--

"Ugh..."

After an unknown amount of time, Chang Rong was jolted awake from her dream by a complex and indescribable feeling.

His whole body was as cold as ice, as if he had been sent to Siberia to dig potatoes wearing only a thin layer of clothing, as if he had fallen into an ice cellar, and even his blood was about to freeze together.

His body felt like it was filled with lead, as if he had been thrown into a washing machine and spun around for half an hour, utterly exhausted, with even the strength to lift his eyelids almost gone.

His lower abdomen burned like fire, as if he was about to break through in Qi cultivation and condense his true Qi in his dantian, but it was more like he had accidentally swallowed a mouthful of charcoal, which burned down his body.

The overwhelming and unpleasant sensation forced Chang Rong to desperately open his eyes—and the first thing he saw was a pink and white furry dog ​​head wearing a black soft hat pressed against his chest.

With a blink of an eye, Chang Rong saw another white-haired girl, Shito Arisa, wearing a hood, fast asleep against her lower abdomen a little further away.

In an inconspicuous, dark corner of the room, Chang Rong saw a triangular zongzi (sticky rice dumpling). Judging from the black sesame filling peeking out from the center of the zongzi, it was the twin-tailed black hair of a girl named Kurobe Nanoha Kaori. The thick zongzi leaves next to her explained why, even though she had dutifully covered herself with a blanket before going to sleep, she was only wearing a thin layer of clothing when she woke up.

"…What does it mean?"

The brain finally understood that he had been robbed of his bedding by a black-haired man and suppressed under the Five Finger Mountain by two white-haired men on either side, which made Chang Rong ask in confusion.

"【Coo coo coo... Good morning, no, I should say good morning, Mr. Chang Rong.】"

"Warden? Good morning—you don't happen to know exactly what's going on here, do you?"

Chang Rong turned to look at the owl perched on the window beside her, pecking at its own feathers, and asked it with some hope.

"【Hmm—Mr. Chang Rong, you're unusually sleeping in today. But the prospective witches all think you've been working very hard lately, so they didn't bother waking you up. It seems the prospective witches who came to keep you company have all accidentally fallen asleep as well.】"

"Why are so many people here to accompany her...?"

"[This is probably a mistake made when you're young—who knows, guh~]" The warden tilted his head, offering no concrete or useful explanation for Chang Rong's current predicament.

"Ha... So—Warden, what are you doing here?"

While carefully lifting Emma's head and pulling out the pillow behind her head to rest her head on the pink and white furry puppy's chin to prevent her from continuing to have intimate contact and using her magic to drain her into a cripple, Chang Rong asked the warden next to her.

"[Lady Meruru asked me to tell Mr. Changrong that there's no need to worry about being exposed to the international organizations for now, but this can only buy us about a month at most. After that, the human side will still come to Witch Island to investigate, and then there won't be any way to delay them any longer. Lady Meruru is extremely troubled by this matter.]"

"You've really worked hard, Warden. But there's no need to worry about Meruru. A month is more than enough time for us to decipher the ritual and find the Great Witch. As long as the ritual is performed correctly, the rest should be fine. Rather, the real issue now is—"

Chang Rong glanced again at the three girls sleeping soundly in her bedroom.

Sisters, your sleeping postures are so cute! Emma's squinting eyes and slightly drooling face, is she dreaming of enjoying a KFC family bucket of chicken? No wonder she's such a gluttonous little silly dog.

Arisa's limp and relaxed posture, with her chest rising and falling slightly, was just like a little hedgehog with taut nerves finally finding a safe haven to rest in. Her pitiful yet adorable appearance made one want to reach out and gently stroke her.

Naoya Kaori wrapped in the blanket looking like a caterpillar is so cute, especially that little face peeking out from the gap, it's the perfect finishing touch, I wish I could take a picture of it and save it carefully to appreciate it again and again.

The only problem is—isn't this my locked bedroom? How did you guys get in? Or is my bedroom actually a public toilet? Anyone can just walk in?

There's never been a case of three people being refreshed at once before! Although all the stats on Witch Island are inflating, has the number of thieves kicking down doors at night started doubling?!

"【Coo coo coo... This has nothing to do with me. Rather, it feels like they're about to wake up. Although I enjoy watching a show, I don't have the bloodthirsty hobby of risking my life for it. Coo coo coo... It feels like this is about to turn into a super troublesome and difficult situation. I'll have to retire and go home. Mr. Chang Rong, you can keep going.】"

The warden shook his head, indicating that the current chaos was none of his business, and then flapped his wings, intending to fly away through the ventilation duct and escape.

"Wait, wait a minute! I've always been so accommodating and protective of you, at least help me out—"

"【Coo coo coo... I've already done the biggest favor by not having Lady Meruru create a human model specifically for you... Please have some self-awareness, Mr. Chang Rong, this is a story you started yourself.】"

The heartless, treacherous warden chose to flee just before the storm was about to break.

"Ah, this..."

Chang Rong could only watch helplessly as the warden left him, while at the same time, Emma, ​​who was nestled against his chest, made cute, sleepy little noises.

"Mmm... Ah, Chang Rong-jun? Good morning—"

"Hoo-hoo! She actually fell asleep... Anyway, I caught her, Sakura!"

"Kiang!?"

Emma Sakura rubbed her eyes and greeted Chang Rong with a smile, but before she could finish speaking, Arisa Fujito, who was leaning against Chang Rong's lower abdomen, also woke up. Arisa rubbed her eyes and shook her head while pointing sharply at Emma, ​​sounding like she had caught the pink-haired cheating dog in the act.

"Huh? No, that's not how it is, Arisa-chan—wait, I'm here to arrest Nanoha-chan! You're under arrest for trespassing, woof!"

Emma was startled by Arisa's identification, but the pink and white puppy immediately changed the subject, and she suddenly looked at Kurobe Nanoha, who was still huddled in the corner.

“Zzzz…Ugh…Hmm?”

Nanoha Kaori seemed to still be fast asleep, only waking up groggily when Emma pointed her out. She shook her head slightly, like a caterpillar about to transform into a butterfly.

"Ugh—Kurobe!? What, when did he get there...!?"

"Eh!? Arisa-chan didn't see it before!?"

"Hmm... Wow, so many people...?"

The three girls, who shouldn't have been in the room, stared at each other awkwardly, creating an extremely strange atmosphere.

"Um—anyway, could you please give me back my blanket...?"

Chang Rong shivered and quietly broke the eerie silence.

"Ah—I'm so sorry...it was just my instinct..."

Nanoha Kurobe finally came to her senses. She quickly returned the blankets wrapped around her to Chang Rong as if she were shedding her skin. However, she first carefully and quickly sniffed them with her nose to make sure there was nothing wrong before stuffing them back into Chang Rong's arms.

“Thank you so much, but—could you get off me first, Emma? If I hadn’t woken up earlier, I feel like I would have slept forever…”

"Woof!? Oh, I'm sorry, Chang Rong-jun...! I, I thought that as long as it wasn't face-to-face, it wouldn't be a big problem...!"

Emma quickly shrank her head and got up from Chang Rong's body, handing the pillow back to the white-haired rabbit with both hands. Her adorable, embarrassed look made people want to tease her a little more.

Emma definitely knows about the Demon Slayer physique problem; she's just getting revenge on me for not cooking properly yesterday...!

Chang Rong smiled with lingering fear and gently rubbed Emma's head. This child would definitely be the most terrifying existence in the future. If she couldn't feed this pink-haired puppy well, she would be completely devoured and wouldn't even be able to spit out a bone...

"Also—Arisa, if you don't mind, could we move around a bit? Can you smell anything strange?"

"The smell...? Sniff—" "Ah, it smells like roasted rabbit!"

Arisa sniffed, but before she could reach a conclusion, Emma answered first.

"That's right, it's barbecue—because it's almost cooked! (M78 accent)"

"Ugh—I'm sorry...!"

Arisa, finally realizing she was slowly roasting Changrong at a low temperature, quickly raised her head away from the increasingly delicious Changrong, and shyly pulled on her hood to try to hide herself.

After the commotion subsided, Chang Rong finally managed to protect her pillow, blanket, and stomach. From the three people's heated argument, Chang Rong finally understood the whole story.

The first person to arrive at her room was, unsurprisingly, Nanoha Kaori.

Although Kurobe Nanoha tried to explain with an embarrassed look and a cold sweat, saying that "the lock was already broken when we arrived," this excuse was naturally useless to Chang Rong, who had now regained his memories.

It seems that Naoya Kaori sneaked into the bedroom and broke in just as dawn was breaking. As always, she showed her talent for messing things up. Finding that Chang Rong had no intention of getting up, she simply picked up the blanket and curled up in the corner to sleep.

Not long after, Emma also sneaked into the bedroom. She seemed to have initially planned to fake a 'chance encounter' in some way, but she found that the bedroom door was already open. After carefully entering, she quickly caught up with Nanoha Kaori, who was hiding in the corner cosplaying as a caterpillar.

Emma originally intended to catch them in the act, but while waiting for Nanoha and Chang Rong to wake up, she couldn't resist and fell asleep with Chang Rong's body pillow under her head.

Arisa was the last to arrive. She went to check on Chang Rong because she was worried that he had overslept. When she arrived, she didn't notice Nanoha in the corner, but only saw Emma lying on top of Chang Rong. Arisa first strongly criticized Emma's behavior, then lied to herself that she was there to help look after him, and sent a text message to everyone to tell them that nothing had happened to Chang Rong.

With Milia's help, who was suffering from leg cramps from a cold, no one pursued the matter further. Arisa, on the other hand, intended to condemn Emma's opportunistic behavior, but before she knew it, she had fallen asleep herself, lying on Chang Rong's lower abdomen like a sous-vide barbecue grill. She didn't even notice Naoya Kaori, who was wrapped up like a caterpillar in the corner until the very end.

"You guys are really... can't you use a normal way to wake me up?"

After learning the whole story, Chang Rong sighed and complained to the three of them.

"I'm sorry, I just wanted to fix the door lock to prevent the Dark Master from doing anything to you—no, that's right."

"When Naoya Kaori lies, she unconsciously glances to the left~"

"Sakura, you have no right to criticize the Kurobe...! Sorry, Changrong, I... I didn't intend to sleep on you like this..."

Unfortunately, apart from Arisa, the other two did not seem to think there was anything wrong with what they did.

Chang Rong's bedroom? What's the difference between that and the living room? Oh right, sometimes the living room is off-limits because her older sister is cleaning, but Chang Rong can just walk in whenever she wants!

“…Never mind, don’t worry about it, Arisa.”

Seeing that everyone had stopped acting altogether, Chang Rong could only force herself to let go by playing a song about Guan Yu.

"So—what brings you all here to see me?"

After having to admit that her bedroom was a public toilet, Chang Rong asked the three prospective witches in front of her what they wanted to do with her so early in the morning.

"Um... Chang Rong, didn't you say you wanted to bake with me?... I think today is a good day..."