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

Half an hour later—

"I was just teasing you, President."

"Watson, you idiot...! Idiot, idiot...!!"

Chang Rong sat on the sofa, casually munching on a post-coital lollipop and stylishly tossing her hair, while Miss Holmes, sprawled on the bed beside her, wore a rare expression of sorrow, glaring at the pure scumbag in front of her who had started relationships with her, then abandoned her, was promiscuous and womanizing, and yet she herself couldn't win him over.

What's left after you lose your superhuman strength that you were so proud of?

Tachibana Sherry never expected that this question she had pondered before would lead to a conclusion under these circumstances—after her superhuman strength was banned, she was nothing more than a pathetic, incompetent Sherlock Holmes girl who couldn't even deduce what his next move would be, how long his next attack would last, or whether he would agree to her next pleas for mercy. All she could do was whine and complain about being played to death by Watson…

While Tachibana Sulli was reflecting on whether she had relied too much on her super muscles, causing her super brain to miscalculate and resulting in her being rejected by fans, Chang Rong on the other side was also deep in thought.

Although she seems to possess a strange constitution that makes it impossible for any route she tries to take to end up in a sex scene, thankfully, at least these aspiring witch girls are not yet a match for her.

As for what will happen after Xiaoxue is summoned and the witch factor is recovered...

In short, let's leave that kind of thing to Chang Rong in the future and have faith in the wisdom of future generations!

Chang Rong shakily ended her contemplation of her bleak future, deciding to live in the present and let the future be what she would have to worry about!

Sherry Tachibana [100/100]

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Thanks to Chenguang Moxin for the sudden, albeit seemingly insignificant, gesture! I'll solemnly accept today's hot dog.

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259. Historical tragedies always repeat themselves.

"Hey Watson, Watson~ how many girlfriends have you been secretly dating~?"

"Don't ask...please don't ask anymore, President..."

In the corridor of the Witch Island castle, Chang Rong carried Tachibana Sherry, who had difficulty walking due to some reason, on his back. Sherry on his back had returned to her usual carefree and happy expression, while Chang Rong, who was carrying her, was covered in cold sweat. When faced with Tachibana Sherry's questioning (torture), he could only evade the question.

To be fair, although the battle between Watson and Holmes ultimately ended with Watson using his Dragon Strike to knock Holmes, who thought he had the upper hand, into a position where he was unable to get out of bed or walk, from the perspective of intellectual combat, Watson was still completely outmatched by Holmes.

At least Chang Rong's desperate attempts to conceal her one-night stand experience were easily uncovered by Miss Holmes with almost no effort.

"Hmph... Watson is clearly an extremely cruel and evil man who wouldn't even listen to his detective superior's pleas, but he's surprisingly innocent in a place like this. Or is this what they call 'heartless after the act'?"

"No, that's not it! Uh... I don't think so... maybe, perhaps..."

Chang Rong hurriedly retorted that he was not a scumbag, but his rich experiences, which he could hardly count on two fingers, made his rebuttal sound weak and feeble.

From this perspective, it seems I've already surpassed 9% of the genuine Galahad protagonists. After all, those protagonists either take a long time to activate or can only progress along one route, while I've fully activated them in just three playthroughs. Now I even have to consider whether I'll be able to protect the kidneys after everything is over...

Sigh, Xiaoxue, you know me, I really am a pure and good boy, you have to believe me...

"Hehe, since Watson doesn't want to be honest, then this is naturally the time for this detective to step in! Although almost everyone has changed after interacting with Watson, upon closer inspection, these 'changes' seem to vary in degree. Moreover, I am gradually experiencing this feeling of sudden maturity and shedding my burdens (referring to the pressure of not being able to get what I wanted and becoming a loser). Looking at it this way, many of the other people's abnormal behaviors can be explained!"

Light bulbs were popping out of Tachibana Shirley's head as she rode on Chang Rong's back. After a fierce bout of Kuala Lumpur weather, this level of brain-storming reasoning game was just the right way to end the fun.

"Hmm... No matter how you look at it, Emma Arisa and Nanoha Kaori's behavior today is too abnormal, and their changes are also very consistent in timing. In addition, your reaction when we talked about them earlier, Watson, was also very interesting... So there is only one truth—although this truth sounds a bit unbelievable, as the old man said, after eliminating all possibilities, the remaining result, no matter how strange, must be correct—Watson, you had an extraordinary relationship with them all at once!"

Shirley's reasoning exposed Chang Rong's attempt to conceal the four-person group fighting by the lake. However, even Shirley herself found it hard to believe when she came to this conclusion.

"...Hey, my deduction must be wrong, right, Watson? Even if Watson is a monster, he wouldn't be able to do something like three people at once...right?"

Sometimes ignorance is a blessing, and seeking the truth is not necessarily the same as happiness. Shirley Tachibana looked at Chang Rong with trembling eyes, trying to hear a rebuttal from Watson.

However, all she got in return was—

"...No further words, please act quickly."

Chang Rong gritted his teeth and closed his eyes; since things had come to this point, he could only honestly admit it.

"Stupid Watson! You monstrous idiot! You're a brainless idiot with no sense of reasoning, only lust!!"

Unexpectedly, Chang Rong admitted it so directly. Ju Shirley immediately pouted and angrily punched Chang Rong's head with her little fists. If it weren't for the fact that she was still in the weak recovery period after her 'witch factor was drained', the restaurant would probably be able to add a dish of handmade rabbit meatballs tonight.

"Three isn't that many, President. Sometimes it's four or five. You just forgot—"

"0v0...?"

Having already given up and no longer bothering to act in front of Shirley Tachibana, Chang Rong muttered under her breath. Upon hearing these words, even the sickly, blue-haired detective girl, who was practically a modern-day Sherlock Holmes, experienced a momentary brain freeze.

"Seriously... Watson, you're supposed to be a detective's personal assistant, shouldn't you at least have a basic understanding of criminal law? This is downright and utterly FIFA-like behavior!"

After the tapping, Shirley Tachibana slumped against Chang Rong's back, muttering complaints in a weak voice.

"Um... whatever you do, please don't use your assistant to inflate performance figures..."

Knowing she was in the wrong, Chang Rong had no way to refute it and could only awkwardly smile and beg Miss Holmes not to betray Watson for the sake of the detective agency's survival.

"Hmph! If you don't want to be handed over to the relevant authorities by this detective... then, Watson, you'd better stay Watson for the rest of your life, okay?"

Sherry's tone softened considerably. Although she couldn't turn her head to see the girl's face behind her, Chang Rong knew very well that the club president must be wearing that extremely rare gentle smile on her face at this moment.

"If it were an ordinary person, they might scoff at and keep their distance from your monstrous behavior, Watson. But... well, what can I do? I'm a 'malfunctioning machine.' Because my heart is broken, I don't care about these trivial details—hehe, looking at it this way, it's actually not so bad to be a non-human monster sometimes~"

Shirley Tachibana clung tightly to Chang Rong's back, her face filled with happiness.

"Besides... whether I'm human or something twisted... in your eyes, Watson, I'm just a 'girl who's a little strange sometimes,' right?"

Shirley Tachibana fully enjoyed the warmth of the boy who was pressed against her, a feeling she had never experienced before.

"From childhood to adulthood, the only person who has ever truly treated me like an ordinary girl... the only person who has ever been willing to get close to me like this is you, Watson. So... you must promise me that even if we leave Witch Island, even if you, Watson, will no longer play this detective game with me, you must not leave me, okay?"

Shirley Tachibana grasped Chang Rong's arms. With her superhuman strength magic temporarily banned, this was the first time she was able to try so hard to hold onto something without worrying about destroying it.

"Don't worry, Sherry. Once a detective agency, always a passion for deduction!"

"...That sounds so stupid, haha."

Upon hearing the boy's earnest response, Tachibana Sherry burst out laughing.

This brief conversation, which Shirley Tachibana would remember for a lifetime, came to a temporary end as the two returned to their basement bedroom.

"It's unbelievable that we didn't run into anyone else along the way—I'm sorry, President, back pain and leg soreness are normal. Depending on your physical condition, it should take about half a day or a day to recover your normal motor function."

Chang Rong carefully settled Tachibana Sherry on the bed, feeling a pang of emotion.

In the last playthrough, although the blue-haired guy was also instantly killed, at least he wasn't completely unable to walk. But in this playthrough, even Hero, whose physical strength is as strong as a ghost, was almost unable to get out of bed after being attacked. And those with slightly weaker physical strength, such as the small fry Coco-chan, couldn't move at all.

Have I really become more and more of a monster...?

"So, President, is this 'incident' temporarily over?" Chang Rong awkwardly rubbed his hair and asked if the case could be closed, looking at Tachibana Sherry, who was lying on the bed hugging her pillow and staring at him angrily.

"Honestly... Anyway, this 'anomaly' was caused by you, Watson, so if you think it's resolved, then it's resolved. Besides... from the beginning, I just wanted to find some excuse to take you around."

Having successfully eaten her fill and barely kept up with the numerical expansion of the version, Tachibana Sherry no longer had the anxiety that was so hard to hide before. She openly and simply admitted her true purpose.

"But speaking of which, Watson, why did you suddenly come to find me in the first place? Although I was really happy, I always felt that you would never take the initiative to approach me..."

After everything settled down, only one mystery remained unsolved for the famous detective, Tachibana Sherry.

"Well... actually, it's just like what you analyzed, President. I wasn't trapped in the underground elevator last night. Instead, I was with Emma, ​​Arisa, and Hayao by the lake... Anyway, I've been dealing with a lot of things lately, so I wanted to have a heart-to-heart talk with you."

Although in the end they didn't end up falling in love, it just turned into mating...

"Hmm~! It seems I still hold a pretty high place in Watson's heart!" Upon hearing that Chang Rong thought of her first when she was wavering, Shirley, who had been pouting, instantly calmed down and revealed an undisguised happy expression.

"So, it was indeed my impeccable logical thinking and my calm mind that allowed me to think with ease at any time that attracted Watson, huh? I get it, I get it!"

Shirley Tachibana gave Chang Rong a thumbs-up and said happily.

"No... well, actually it's because in the previous timeline, you were my first love—"

"what--"

Chang Rong awkwardly looked away and quietly corrected her, while Tachibana Sherry visibly froze upon hearing this response.

"Eh... hehe, is that so... So I used to be Watson's chief partner... That's not surprising at all! After all, Watson is Holmes' official partner, even a three-year-old knows that, right!"

The blue-haired girl reached out and rubbed her hair, blushing as she responded with a shy smile.

"Although I don't think this kind of erroneous knowledge has yet to harm the children... Anyway, that's how it is, President."

Chang Rong, her cheeks still flushed, nodded to Tachibana Sherry, and the atmosphere between them finally had a hint of the 'pure, innocent, and naive' pure love style that Chang Rong had always longed to pursue.

However, if Zedu Coco were here, she would definitely be breathing on her face while complaining, "What are you pretending to be innocent about right after you've just slept together, meow!!"

"Well—cough cough cough, so have I done a good job of helping you solve your problems, Watson?" Shirley snapped out of her daze and quickly coughed twice to ask Chang Rong if she had fulfilled her duties as a psychologist.

"It has indeed been expelled... but in some ways it has made me even more confused..."

Chang Rong sighed. Although the timeline of the third playthrough was as vibrant and full of life as if a creative mode had been activated, this overly comfortable life forced Chang Rong to be tormented by his own battle record.

In the second playthrough, I could at least convince myself that since we were going to commit suicide together anyway, it wouldn't hurt to have one last game before we died.

However, this time, under Hiro's rewind and Coco's observation, everyone was aiming for a speedrun through Witch Island without taking damage. Under this premise, I still couldn't control my little head. After leaving Witch Island, the real hellish scene will probably begin...

The follow-up events for Emma, ​​Nanoha, and Arisa are still unresolved, but while out for a drive, she accidentally rekindled Sherry's storyline—it was all so casually.

"Hehehe, don't think too much about it, Watson. We're all a bit of a nutcase like everyone else, so we'll be fine! Anyway, what we need to do now is find the Great Witch and get out of here, right?"

Following suit, Shirley reached out and patted Chang Rong's hair, revealing a carefree smile as she spoke.

"Hmm...you're right, President. The things that bother me actually only happen after I leave here. Right now, the most important thing to deal with is finding the Great Witch and getting out of here."

Emma, ​​who is most likely to turn into a villain and end up with a cleaver, is essentially a kind little dog who doesn't guard her food and just has a few minor flaws. Chang Rong doesn't think that there will be another witch trial and battle royale due to unequal distribution of spoils in the future.

Everyone is a good child who is pure and kind at heart. No matter what kind of future I promised them, at least, at the very least, the first step is to free everyone, not just the juniors, but also the seniors, from this witch island and from the curse of the witch factor.

Come to think of it, I think I wanted to find Mag yesterday to find out about the witch summoning ritual, but after all that, apart from getting 4 blood, I haven't made any progress on the important matter at all.

Chang Rong frowned and thought about it seriously. Subjectively, he really didn't have any idea of ​​'collecting all the CGs before speedrunning through Witch Island', but judging from his experience over this period of time, he really was busy collecting the special CGs of the prospective witches...?

Judging from the current situation, I'm afraid I'll inevitably have to fight Hannah and the kids in the future—no, no, Noah is a good girl!

Chang Rong quickly shook his head in denial, while also tacitly acknowledging that he was destined to continue collecting CGs for the poor young lady Hannah.

But since he's already pushed Alice away, he might as well just admit that he's a devilish father... Anyway, he's already taken down the mother of his child, so it's not a problem to let Noah know what filial piety is, right? In fact, this is the normal family structure on Witch Island!

No, no, that's not right! Don't let that little head control you, Chang Rong! You're a Sigma man! And even if Noah keeps trying to feed you sleeping pills and boil you in water, with Noah and An An's bodies that are even more pathetic than Coco Sauce, are they really okay?!

Subjectively speaking, Chang Rong felt that although he had already gone far beyond his bounds, he should still have some bottom line. At the very least, he should not, and should not, lay a hand on An Annoya.

However, if what Nanoha Kaori 'visioned' back then was correct, she would eventually change her ways with Noah Kōka, and incidentally become the 'perverted monster' in An An's heart.

Let's look at Marge in the distance... According to the president's theory, Marge should be the only one who hasn't been affected by me too much so far, and her psychological aversion to the opposite sex should prevent her from doing anything really extreme to me.

In short, from any perspective, Baosheng Mag will be the most important and crucial person going forward, and I should focus my attention on her.

But this guy is a weakling who uses night raids as his opening move... Is this really okay?