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

[Sakura Emma]: And thinking about it carefully... of everyone, only Coco-chan is qualified to carry out this plan. Because of her—

Why is it that only Sawatari could potentially kill Natsume An'an from a distance?

'The Magic of Sawatari Coco'

'Zawatari Coco's location'

'Coco's Belief'

【Sakura Emma】: Magic 'Clairvoyance'... Zetsu Coco's magic allows her to observe the location of others through clairvoyance, including when An An will arrive at the study door.

[Noah Kinosaki]: Well... Coco's ability can't be activated, right? Her live stream is banned, so even if she does stream, An An definitely won't watch it.

[Sakura Emma]: Coco-chan's magic isn't just about watching live streams; it can be triggered by photos, even 'drawings'... Originally, she couldn't observe An-an, but because of your 'change,' Noah, Coco-chan was able to do it—

How did Coco Sawatari activate her clairvoyance to observe Natsume Anan?

'Sketching Board'

'New Script'

'Chang Rong's Live Stream'

【Sakura Emma】: Noah-chan, does the new script include everyone's character illustrations and portraits?

[Noah Kinosaki]: Hmm, Noah worked hard for a long time, not wanting to disappoint An An, and finally drew it for everyone—look!?

Noah Kinosaki nodded halfway through his sentence, then realized that he seemed to have become an 'accomplice'.

The scripts tucked inside the sketchbook contained everyone's character sketches, including, naturally, those of Sawatari Coco.

[Sakura Emma]: When An'an is reading the script, Coco-chan should be able to trigger Clairvoyance to spot An'an's location, right? Next, just figure out a way to lure An'an out, wait on the balcony of the recreation room, and use Clairvoyance to observe the opportunity—

[Chang Rong]: This assumption is too obvious! Who can be sure that Natsume An'an will definitely read the script? And how exactly will you lure An'an to the study? What if the crossbow bolt misses? Why make it so complicated?

"So long-winded, it's so annoying."

Ze Du Ke Ke's voice interrupted Chang Rong.

"You monstrous rabbit, do you even know that those monsters that stubbornly refuse to die and roll around are the worst kind of filth?"

Coco, you—

"It's disgusting, you and all of you—ah, anyway, that's how it is. But the locked room thing is just a coincidence. I just wanted to kill that shady landmine woman in front of everyone, with an alibi. Then I'd hide her in the house until I dealt with all the other clues."

"That way, even if the body is found later, and no evidence can be found, it definitely won't be pinned on me, right?"

"But you... did you open it? Just because you couldn't find a spool of kite string, just because a kite broke, just because you heard strange noises at night, and you guessed all of this? What an annoying idiot... tsk."

Zetsu Coco glared at Sakura Emma, ​​then waved her hand and announced to everyone, in a tone that said, "I'm already tired of this childish game," that the witch trial was a victory for the "prospective witches."

"【Oh dear, it's already dark. Is this discussion over? Then please press the execution button, so as not to waste everyone's time.】"

As the warden spoke, the disgusting "Execution" button reappeared on the phone screen.

The witch has been captured.

The root of evil, a repulsive existence, a monster that must be destroyed—

They were hoping for the execution they were bestowing.

Volume 1: Chapter 77. The Child I Pushed

When did you decide to get rid of that gloomy bean sprout?

It was probably yesterday afternoon when the narcissistic female gorilla and the middle-aged female uncle gathered in the courtyard, discussing some inexplicably childish kite-flying competition.

I didn't want to deal with these idiots at all, but then I suddenly saw the image of that spray-painted brat and the gloomy bean sprout.

Although I was startled at the time, I immediately realized that it was because of the terrible stage play script they were working on every day that caused the "clairvoyance".

Although Noah's gaze quickly shifted away, Bean Sprout would occasionally glance at the script on the sketchboard, which allowed me to almost always track her location.

What's that saying again—"Idiot, you have a frame, why don't you hit it?"

So I was thinking, how can I use the perfect trap killing technique that only Coco-sama's invincible magic can achieve?

Of course, calling it perfect is really just about planting a manually triggered tripwire mine, only with the fuse replaced by a kite string and the bomb replaced by a crossbow.

Last night, after confirming that 'Miss' had been put to sleep with sleeping pills, I took advantage of a break in the guards' patrol to go to the reception room, retrieve the crossbow bolt that was destroyed by the gorilla woman in 'last playthrough' but was intact in this playthrough, and then went to the courtyard where we'll be flying kites tomorrow.

Tie the kite string to the crossbow bolt and fire it at the bushes in front of the study. Attach one end to the railing and the other end to the trigger of the crossbow hidden in the bushes. The 'mechanism' is thus completed.

Then, the next day, after confirming that the idiot was gone, I slipped an 'automatic door closing device' through the small window in the courtyard behind the door. That way, as long as I can hold off that idiot with white hair, the bean sprout's corpse should be able to sleep soundly in the study for a long time, right?

I don't know why there was a layer of white powder at the entrance, but I'm not going near the room anyway, so it has nothing to do with me.

Just before it was time to fly the kite, I sent a text message to Bean Sprout, telling her, "What you have is a fake. I've been hiding the real one in that idiot's study for a long time (don't forget to delete the message after reading, hehe)." After that, I kept watching her location regularly with my telepathic abilities.

Although the 'young lady's' kite got caught on my string in the middle, thankfully nothing serious happened. Seriously... are you the kind of useless person who can only do housework and is terrible at everything else? www

In any case, the bean sprout arrived at the designated spot. I pulled the kite string that was tied to the balcony, and the crossbow was fired.

That guy just pointed at the bowstring and said "Eh?" before being pierced through by X, conveniently demonstrating the virtue of "closing the door behind him" with his corpse.

Zedu Coco 1-0, securing the kill—that's it.

Thanks to the gorilla woman's antics, everyone's attention was drawn to her, and no one even heard the noise from the study next door.

What a perfect crime! All I had to do was retrieve the kite string and dispose of the crossbow—but then that damn long-sleeved woman with the cool demeanor, who's actually a complete idiot, showed up and ruined my plans.

Not only did Shan fail to retrieve her bow and crossbow, but she also almost lost her kite string, leaving her with no choice but to participate in the witch's trial in a chaotic state.

And then... congratulations, you bastards, you've found the BOSS, now you can all die.

Sigrún has taught at the Iceland University of the Arts as a part-time lecturer since and was Dean of the Department of Fine Art from -. In – she held a research position at Reykjavík Art Museum focusing on the role of women in Icelandic art. She studied fine art at the Icelandic College of Arts and Crafts and at Pratt Institute, New York, and holds BA and MA degrees in art history and philosophy from the University of Iceland. Sigrún lives and works in Iceland.

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As Sawatari Coco recounted her story, the courtroom fell into a deathly silence, with only the rumbling of the disc in the center of the execution platform remaining.

"Then, the execution begins... coo coo coo."

The warden flew to the center of the courtroom and announced the start of the witch's execution performance.

After a tremor like an earthquake, the instruments of execution for the 'witch' appeared before everyone.

Under the control of the guards, Ze Du Ke Ke was taken to a stone table with restraint devices. Her hands and feet were tightly bound with restraint straps, and she could only lie on the table and look up.

Above the table were crescent-shaped knives of varying sizes and shapes, gleaming with a chilling light, like the blades inside a meat grinder.

The blade began to swing rhythmically, like a pendulum, but with each swing it moved closer and closer to Zedu Coco.

"Ugh... Damn it, damn it, damn it—what is this, what is this?! Murderer! Murderers—you are the murderers!! Yes, yes—I know all those self-righteous guys over there, I know them all... Except for me and my push, all of you are bastard murderers!"

Bound to the table—or rather, the 'chopping board'—Zawatari Coco tried to struggle, but the fixed straps left her with no way to escape. All she could do was curse loudly at everything around her with a livid face.

Judging from the blade height, the blades that will first cut into Zedu Cocoa are the limbs located on the upper and lower sides, then the abdomen, and finally the head.

This kind of execution can no longer be called 'grotesque'; it is purely an inhuman act of torture.

"Ugh...!!"

Hannah Tono already knew what was about to happen. She covered her mouth with her hands and crouched on the ground in terror.

"Are you kidding me...?"

Nikaido Hiro's forehead was soaked with cold sweat. She clenched her fists tightly and glared at the absolutely 'incorrect' scene before her.

"Coco-chan...why!? Why did you kill An-an-chan!?"

Emma Sakura is the only girl who still tries to 'talk'. She supports herself with one hand on the edge of the podium, suppressing the urge to vomit and feel dizzy, and questions the 'murderer' who is about to be executed about why he did this. She still wants to pursue the 'truth' that is about to disappear.

“Emma, ​​dear—”

Faced with Emma Sakuraba's questioning, Coco was momentarily dazed, and her almost crazed expression subsided in an instant.

But it only lasted for a moment.

Everyone will become a witch, then be killed, and reduced to remains. Everyone, without exception, including Emma Sakura.

"—I just didn't like her, and since I happened to see her gaze, I killed her! Isn't that normal!? Not just that bean sprout, everyone else except the one I pushed should die! Anyway, that's what witches are like, you disgusting creatures—! Ughhhhh!!"

"Witch...? Coco-chan, I, we're not witches—!"

Emma Sakuraba tried to refute Coco Sawatari, but the latter was in so much pain from the slashed ankle that she had no energy left to respond to Emma Sakuraba.

"Chang Rong-jun...! Something, something must be wrong—"

As the witch was sentenced, the 'Demon of Law' transformed back into the gentle, soft-spoken pink-haired girl.

Emma Sakura couldn't understand the situation before her. She looked at Chang Rong almost pleadingly, but this time the boy didn't respond to her request.

Chang Rong glanced expressionlessly at the Demon of Law, then turned her gaze back to the witch who was about to be executed.

I executed the witch, the real witch.

Sawatari Coco is a witch who killed Natsume Anan and has been consumed by hatred.

An'an... isn't a bad child. Although she does have a bit of a strange temper, she's essentially just a child who wants to stick close to her friends and needs to be taken care of.

Sawatari Coco killed Natsume Anan, therefore Sawatari Coco is a witch, and witches must be—

"Buzz buzz buzz" - ring ring

The phone in her pocket vibrated, and the vibration, along with the ringtone, interrupted Chang Rong's obsessive thoughts.

Chang Rong took out his phone and found that it was a video that Ze Du had sent to him. Because the video file was quite large, it had only just finished receiving it.

Chang Rong looked up at the 'witch' on the execution platform, while Ze Du Ke Ke, in her struggle and tearing, instinctively glanced at the white-haired boy.

In the instant their eyes met, Ze Du Ke Ke made a face at Chang Rong—her face drenched in cold sweat—by sticking out her tongue.

"—"

Is Sawatari Coco really a witch?

That ghostly face, which seemed like a hallucination for a moment, amplified the question that had been lingering in Chang Rong's mind.

Until morning, Zetsu Coco's witch transformation level was still within a safe range, even though she had clearly set a trap last night.

In other words, she planned the entire murder with a 'human' consciousness, rather than being provoked into killing for reasons such as 'witchification and corruption'.

The act of a human taking another human requires the support of a 'belief', but what is the 'belief' that supported Coco Sawatari in doing all these things?

The note that originally read "We originally intended to kill you" was gone from the room. At the time, I thought the guards had cleaned it, but in fact, the guards never entered the room.