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

"Hehehe... That's how it is, Hiro-chan. Hiro-chan, you're such a naughty girl for sneaking away... But I won't scold Hiro-chan anymore now~" Seeing the surprised expression on her best friend's face, Emma smiled happily, her little tiger teeth peeking out from the corners of her mouth, making her look especially cute, yet also carrying a hint of cunning.

"Hey Hiro-chan... Chang Rong-jun was completely captivated by my leg bracelet and couldn't take his eyes off it. Does Hiro-chan have that kind of allure~?"

“Sakuraba… Emma—!”

Faced with Emma's provocation, Heero finally responded with the formulaic sound effect.

"You too! The last time could be explained by the atmosphere, but what's wrong this time? Did you get seduced by that evil pink-haired dog again?!" Hiro, annoyed by Emma's slap, quickly turned to question Chang Rong.

However, before Chang Rong could respond, Kurobe Nanoha Kaori, who was standing next to him, suddenly coughed a few times.

“Ahem… I need to correct you, Hero. It’s not just Emma, ​​Arisa and I are among them too.”

"……what?"

Nanoha Kurobe blushed as she added her explanation, while Hiro blinked, looking blank, momentarily confused as to what was going on.

"I...I will try my best to take responsibility...Although I am not yet capable of being a good wife, I will continue to work hard..."

Arisa Shito also blushed, but she pulled her hood up to cover her face and responded softly and shyly.

"You idiot rabbit—" "Waaaaah, calm down, Hiro!?"

Hiro instantly bristled. Although she had told Chang Rong that she didn't mind his future actions, as long as she could become the 'champion' this time, she even called Coco, who also had multiple timeline memories, over that night because she couldn't handle it alone, to share the damage with Ai Cao.

But just because I don't mind doesn't mean you, you perverted rabbit, can actually go around carving everywhere like a rabbit! It's only been less than a week since I and Zedo Coco, and you've already carved up Maghanna, Emma, ​​Rissan, and Yeka? And even Noah!

Moreover, speaking of Noah and An'an's conversation, it seems that An'an also suffered a terrible fate... No, judging from An'an's posture, which is just as difficult as Noah's, she was definitely taken by Chang Rong!

"How can you expect me to stay calm—"

"Hmm? It seems that Heero is the least aware of herself! But I, the beautiful detective, am completely different! I've already unraveled the clues about what Watson has been up to! Hehehe!"

"Huh!?" Hiro's eyes widened. Judging from Sherry's reaction, it seemed that this malfunctioning blue character had also... met with a terrible fate?

There's no way around it; after all, she was the S2 champion, so it was only a matter of time before she went to the track... But in any case, at least Leia, being a comedian, and Meruru, the mastermind behind it all, shouldn't be within Chang Rong's hunting range, right?

"As expected of Lord Changrong... He accomplished something most people wouldn't even dare to dream of! Ah, Lord Changrong, no one knows how great you are, no one knows how powerful your core strength is—"

"Uh... what's going on? Although I know I'm unlikely to be the only 'idol,' after all, I had Miss Alice and Meruru by my side back then, but looking at it now, it seems like I've become a completely unremarkable, common experience...?"

Hiro looked at Leia and Meruru, only to find in despair that Leia had a helpless expression as if she were experiencing inflation, while Meruru was kneeling on the ground with a flushed face, marveling at Chang Rong's greatness. Needless to say, she had already been physically conquered by Chang Rong.

"You even dared to harm Rhea and Meruru—do you even have any survivors left who haven't fallen victim to your clutches?!"

"Waaaaaah!?"

Nikaido Hiro's forehead was covered in veins as she grabbed Chang Rong's collar and shook her violently, demanding answers.

"Of course there are...! For example... that... big sister?"

"——" "——"

Chang Rong finally managed to come up with a name after a long pause, and even Xi Luo was stunned when he heard this unexpected name.

"Hiss hiss hiss!!!"

The guard with the hairband, who had been chained to the side by the warden, finally lost his temper after hearing these words and roared as he lunged at Chang Rong.

"Waaaaah, calm down, big sister! You really are going to disappear!!"

"What the hell?! You're not even going to leave the wreckage behind?!"

"Hey, Changrong-kun... I guess it's better for you to be with me than with that correct but boring Hiro-chan, right...?"

"Hey Watson, since Watson's already been sentenced to death, why don't we run away together and form a fugitive detective agency?!"

"You two are trying to sneak away again!! Seriously, what happened to our promise to eat together on the same day, month, and year!? Although, although we never actually said that, desuwa..."

"Xiao Rong... has completely become a promiscuous bad girl... Since things have come to this, I can only... I can only personally teach Xiao Rong what true filial piety is... I, the old man, will feed the tiger with my own body—" "Is there really no normal family relationship on this witch island!? Well, it really has to be my pure love with Onii-chan that matters, meow!"

"Big sister, you should go and calm down a bit more. You won't be able to win Chang Rong's heart like I do if you do this—wailing, big sister!?" "Hiss hiss hiss!!!"

"No, no, no... It's just a flat bean sprout, what's there to brag about!" "Damn it... I shouldn't have reminded you, you ungrateful wretch, you colorful palette...!"

"Ah, Lady Changrong... even the way she struggles when she's been tackled is so beautiful and pure...!"

"Um... speaking of which, weren't we originally supposed to come here to discuss the specifics of the [Witch Resurrection Ritual]...? Why did it turn out like this?"

In the chaotic reception room, where demons were dancing wildly, Arisa Fujito asked in a low voice while pulling at her hood.

"【The Great Witch has been completely treated like a roadside figure, cluck cluck cluck...】"

The warden shook his head helplessly. These aspiring witches, who had initially clamored to go home, seemed to have completely forgotten their original intentions without realizing it.

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Thanks to Chenguang for the generous donation of salted fish! Seriously accepting today's corn hot dog sausage.

Thank you for the feeding, Eternal Love Illya.

Volume 1: 281. Fine, if you become a witch, I'll become a witch too!

"In short, the current problem is more serious than we imagined."

Inside the reception room, Chang Rong stood where Hiro had originally been. He looked at the group of prospective witches before him and spoke earnestly and seriously.

Although Chang Rong tried his best to create a serious and strict attitude, the sign around his neck that read "I am a scumbag, a sadistic, perverted rabbit-head pile driver" and his messy posture, as if he had just been robbed by more than a dozen people plus 1 wreckage, made it difficult for people to take him seriously no matter how he disguised it.

Incidentally, after sacrificing more than ten mass-produced, low-tier wardens, the group finally managed to temporarily regain control of the headband guards with the help of Rhea's crowd control and Hannah's levitation magic.

The evil witches have once again thwarted the wreckage's small wish to use its remaining sanity to redeem itself—truly despicable!

"When you say 'serious,' do you mean that if I leave you alone for a few days, you can sneak out and sleep with everyone?"

Nikaido Hiro asked coldly, her veins bulging. Although she had a smile on her lips, no one would doubt that Chang Rong was going to Tokyo Bay to participate in a diving competition without oxygen tanks within a week.

"No, that's not it...! And, didn't you say, Hiro, that I should get on good terms with Mag? I did manage to complete the mission successfully, right?" Chang Rong retorted, her face flushed. Although collecting all the CGs was something to be proud of to some extent, being tortured like this in public still sounded a bit strange.

"Building a good relationship doesn't mean you have to sleep with her! And even if you're having sex outside the bedroom, why does it have to involve Hannah and Noah too?!"

"It was just... something I did on the spur of the moment..." Chang Rong guiltily turned her head away. She couldn't very well say that she disliked playing solo and that if she wanted to play, she should play ten.

“Oh dear~ I need to correct you a little. Chang Rong and I are more than just ‘good friends,’ we’re already talking about marriage~” Bao Sheng Ma Ge reminded him with a smile and a lazy yet flirtatious tone.

"Chang Rong—" "Waaaaah, don't add fuel to the fire at a time like this!!"

Margot was clearly resistant and even hostile towards this before, so why did he suddenly become so happy after actually tasting the forbidden fruit? Could it be that you are just a super difficult guy to win over on the surface, but actually just a nobody sitting at the same table as Coco?

Chang Rong really had no way to deal with Mag, but then again, after the battlefield shifted from the bed back to Witch Island, Chang Rong had no way to deal with even a lot of prepared witches.

"Hehe, Hiro is really cute. With such a righteous and incorruptible personality, she seems perfect as a bridesmaid to protect us on our honeymoon—"

"Alright, Marge, stop talking...!"

Chang Rong, covered in cold sweat, hurriedly covered Bao Sheng Mag's mouth. Although Mag and the other prospective witches who had suffered at Chang Rong's hands had received temporary treatment from Meruru, because Meruru's magic had not fully recovered, and because Chang Rong had not been gentle, Mag was still unable to put up an effective resistance. She could only obediently smile as Chang Rong covered her mouth.

But Hero is different. As the S3 champion who exists in name only and no one cares, Hero at this moment has a completely crazy and mysterious look, like a firecracker woman who could turn into a prison and clear the map at any time.

"...Ha, well, I should have known this day would come. Besides, I can't really use death rewind to start a new game and then use my astonishing wisdom from three rewinds to completely turn you, this idiot rabbit, into my personal property—"

"Don't suddenly look thoughtful halfway through your story, Hiro!? Besides, even if you go back in time, there's still Coco-chan as the observer!" Seeing that Hiro was seriously considering the possibility of this plan, Chang Rong could only quickly persuade the mysterious woman who had gone back in time to calm down.

"...Tsk, I was just joking." Hiro clicked his tongue heavily, and his regretful expression didn't look like he was joking at all.

"In short... if we follow Lady Changrong's instructions, does the Great Witch's resurrection ritual require all 13 prospective witches to be transformed into witches?"

Sister Jellyfish raised her hand cautiously and asked, since it seemed there was no chance for Lord Chang Rong to make up for her ticket in reality for the time being, she might as well focus her attention back on the Great Witch, who had long been forgotten and ignored.

“That’s right. If the ancient book itself isn’t fake, then turning everyone into a witch is another necessary condition.”

"Witch transformation... Ugh... Is this kind of ritual really that perverse...?" Zedou Coco frowned upon hearing the familiar words. Unlike Hiro, who was clueless about everything and left work in a flash, the junior anchor (who had already graduated) had witnessed firsthand the tragedies of many aspiring witches committing cruel acts due to witch transformation. She herself had even experienced the despair, terror, and overwhelming brutality of witch transformation.

"We knew it! The Great Witch is indeed a wicked villain who simply enjoys feeding on the suffering of others and fears nothing more than peace and chaos!" An An waved her overly loose sleeves and said with an indignant expression.

"The Great Witch is not like that...! The Great Witch, um, what was she again...?"

Meruru instinctively reacted and immediately retorted, but she froze halfway through her rebuttal, and could only furrow her brows and desperately search her brain for documents about the Great Witch.

It's clear that as a jellyfish that hasn't read for a century, Meruru's brain capacity is relatively limited. She packed up all the original content about the Great Witch and threw it into the recycle bin, just to make room for Lord Changrong.

“…Xiaoxue is definitely not that kind of person. The ‘Sato Yuki’ that I know, and the ‘Tsukishiro Yuki’ that you know, Emma, ​​although she has many flaws and is sometimes incredibly willful, she has never been the kind of person who would take pleasure in the suffering of others, right?”

Chang Rong sighed and said softly, while looking at the pink and white puppy beside her.

"Hmm...! Although I didn't know what Xiaoxue was carrying back then, but... but Xiaoxue was definitely not a bad child!"

Emma nodded vigorously and answered seriously, then secretly glanced at Hero beside her.

"But... it seems like Hiro-chan has always had some misunderstandings about Yuki and me..."

“Sakuraba—well, it was definitely my fault in this matter…”

Hiro noticed that Emma was trying to seduce Chang Rong again, so she instinctively wanted to breathe on her. However, when she thought about how it was indeed her own unwarranted cold violence that caused Emma to be bullied for nearly two years in junior high school, even the strong-willed Hiro could only lower her head and admit her mistake with an expression as if she had swallowed a fly.

"Hehehe, I've never blamed Hiro-chan! Because Hiro-chan has always been my best friend~!" Emma then revealed a bright and sunny smile, just like a dog that had found its owner again.

"Look, Gorilla Girl, this is what a good best friend should be like, not someone who betrays you and cheats on you with a man at the drop of a hat, understand!" Hannah, seeing this scene of sisterly affection, took out a handkerchief to wipe her eyes while lecturing Tachibana Sherry to watch and learn from it.

But the next second—

"So, since we're good friends, could Hiro-chan just find some excuse to leave Changrong-kun and make up for my lost youth...?"

Emma still wore a smile, but for some reason, that smile instantly sent chills down one's spine. She moved closer to Heero, her voice still soft and obedient, yet it sent shivers down one's spine.

“…Emma!”

"Mmm, so this is how good best friends should get along! I've learned it!" "Don't try this!!"

Sherry Tachibana nodded with a look of sudden realization, while Hannah Tono hurriedly waved her hand to retract her previous statement.

It's clear that finding a normal pair of best friends on Witch Island is probably no less difficult than Chang Rong sleeping peacefully and undisturbed in her bedroom until dawn.

"Anyway... Xiaoxue is definitely not a bad child. The 'witch transformation' in the ancient books must have some other purpose, woof..."

After the commotion subsided, Emma slumped down and whispered her conclusion, while a cute little bump appeared on her black beret. The cunning little puppy ultimately couldn't escape the iron fist of her best friend's gangster ways.

"Instead of thinking about what it means, the most urgent thing is how to become a witch, right? Although I am an actress who can easily catch Chang Rong's eye, this kind of role that I have never played before feels very difficult."

Hasumi Ryoga interjected, resting her chin on her hand and asking earnestly.

"Witchhood isn't something you can just fake, meow... It only happens when you're in extreme despair or fear, or when a deep scar in your heart is reopened in some way," said Coco Zetsu, waving her hand.

"Yes, yes... Although the witch factor seems to make the emotions of aspiring witches more unstable, in order to become a witch, the person must be in pain or have strong negative emotions. In most cases, situations that are close to one's own painful experiences are more likely to trigger witch transformation... After becoming a witch, the person's actions will become more extreme and violent, and the effects of magic will also become more powerful."

As a veteran insider, Ice Rider Melulu quietly added a supplementary explanation.

"Huh, was Noah considered a witch back then?" Little Balloon Noah asked curiously. At that time, his mind was indeed filled with negative factors, and his 'Manipulate Paint' magic had also turned into Ultra Instinct Water Element Master.