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

Sawatari Coco suddenly became very familiar with the layout of her room, and even used it to set up a murder.

An An said something rather abrupt: "When Ming was hypnotizing 'Coco'..."

They found the [Potion 13] under Natsume Anan's bed—it seems that it was actually the potion that Hosho Mag killed the witch assassin on the ice.

However, this potion was also stolen by Baosheng Mag; in fact, only Zedo Koko had ever obtained it using 'Celestial Vision in the first playthrough'.

Piecing these fragments together—

(Ze Du Coco, who was hiding poison, handed over the potion after being hypnotized by An An. For some reason, perhaps to warn herself, she went to the study and found a note in the study that seemed to be a murder warning from An An. What followed was the setting up of the murder trap.)

So... is Sawatari Coco's real motive... to protect me?

A wave of intense dizziness, accompanied by the urge to vomit, overwhelmed Chang Rong.

But that's not enough. It's all just speculation. Zedu Coco could still be a witch... Witches need to be eliminated... I have to get rid of this unrealistic fantasy.

"[False Evidence] I'm sorry, Emma, ​​I've been feeling a bit unwell ever since I drank the tea An'an gave me this morning," Chang Rong suddenly said to Emma beside her.

"Eh... tea?" Sakura Emma looked confused.

"You, you idiot—!?!" Ze Du Ke Ke's pupils shrank suddenly.

Ze Du Ke Ke, who had initially just been hurling insults, showed an expression of even greater terror than if she were about to be disemboweled by a sharp blade after hearing Chang Rong's words.

Chang Rong, noticing Coco's expression, finally realized something.

Zetsu Coco is not a witch.

She was trying to protect herself through murder, while posing as a human being.

Since Zetsu Coco isn't a witch, then I...

As the semi-circular guillotine blade once again slashed Ze Du Ke Ke, Chang Rong took action.

He raised his gun, aimed at the power switch on the corner wall of the courtroom, and pulled the trigger.

"Bang--!!!"

"Ugh!! What's going on—!?" "Waaaaaah!? What, what's happening, Desuwa!?"

The already piercing gunshots were even more deafening in the empty courtroom, and along with the gunshots, the courtroom was plunged into darkness in an instant due to a power outage.

Chang Rong wasn't quite sure what kind of person he was, but he knew at least that he was prone to "acting up" during the witch's trial.

Therefore, before this trial, he obtained some information about the courtroom from Kurobe Nanoha, including the electrical system of this room.

"Rya-sama, may I borrow your longsword?"

"Chang Rong!? Why are you—wait! Don't be impulsive!!!"

While the others were still in a state of confusion and disorientation due to the disappearance of the light source, Chang Rong moved directly toward the coordinates that he had just recorded in his mind.

Arriving at Hasumi Ryoya's side, I borrowed the noble prince's sword for a while.

And then—

boom! ! !

Chang Rong pulled the trigger again, piercing the lower limb of the guard rushing towards him with his hairband.

"——!!!"

The guard swayed and knelt on the ground. Although the punctured area was repairing at a visible speed, it still temporarily restricted his mobility.

—I'm sorry, I know you probably don't mean me any harm, but even so, I can't let you stop me. I'll apologize properly later, including to Nanoha Kaori.

Following the glowing headphones of Ze Du Ke Ke, Chang Rong took out his longsword and cut the binding straps.

"Huh?! What are you doing?! Whoa!!"

Before she could even finish speaking, Zedu Coco was grabbed by Chang Rong and pinned to his back.

"Just consider it as accompanying you in your tantrum! Anyway, hold on tight!"

After confirming that Ze Du Ke Ke on his back was hugging him, Chang Rong got up and prepared to leave the courtroom.

Boom! !

However, before the two could move, the courtroom doors were suddenly flung open. More guards rushed in.

Unlike the 'hairband guards', these guards are much clumsier and unable to perform actions such as cleaning or transporting items, but their ability to slaughter humans is in no way diminished.

"...Tsk!"

Since there's no way to escape from the front, then the only option is...

"Bang!!" "Crack—!!"

The third bullet left the barrel, and the glass window with the eerie flame pattern shattered instantly. Without any hesitation, Chang Rong changed to a position holding Ze Du Ke Ke and jumped directly out of the broken window.

Pfft!

"Ugh...ugh...ugh...my knee suddenly made a really bad sound!"

"What the hell are you doing, you monstrous idiot?! Put me down right now!"

Held in Chang Rong's arms? ?Wo. Jiuqi & I?Ba (six=) "Ze Du Ke Ke really twisted and turned as if possessed by Hakimi.

"So I'll let you go down there and then slice you up?! You're not a witch—Coco-chan, I know... I know, you're definitely not a witch!"

Chang Rong gritted his teeth and carried Ze Du Ke Ke on his back again, heading towards the forest behind the castle in a more convenient way.

Prison Island is actually larger than you might imagine. Nanoha once mentioned that there is a hidden warehouse near the edge of the forest outside the castle.

Although the exact location is unknown, if it can be found, it should be possible to lay low for a while. After all, since Nanoha Kaori can often run around during her confinement period, it means there should be considerable room for maneuver.

"Coo coo coo... Oh dear, please don't suddenly act so arbitrarily, okay? Suddenly interrupting the execution process with violence... It feels like you always manage to come up with something new."

The warden's voice suddenly came from not far away, and Chang Rong could only quickly lead Ze Du Ke Ke into the bushes nearby.

"I should have just killed that idiot first... Are you alright, Coco-chan? Coco-chan?"

Hiding in the gaps in the bushes, Chang Rong, the warden, recounted how he had tortured himself a few minutes earlier, then turned to ask Ze Du Ke Ke about his condition.

"No...nothing's wrong...? How could nothing be wrong...I, I...I killed that guy—and I'm still hiding like this..."

Ze Du Ke Ke's face was ashen. She didn't even care about the wound on her ankle. She just kept biting her nails, cold sweat dripping from her forehead as she responded in a low voice.

"I didn't expect... I still did it, ahahaha... Is this what it feels like to become a witch? Rhea, Hannah, Arisa, even Anan... Is this what it feels like...? Well, there's really no way to resist, how could I possibly hold back— ugh!"

A sudden warmth spread through Ze Du Ke Ke's body, which was so cold it was almost frozen. She blinked, and it took her a long time to realize that she was being held tightly in the arms of the white-haired boy in front of her.

"You did this to protect me, right, Coco?"

Chang Rong embraced the trembling girl and gently confirmed her 'belief'.

"Protect... Don't joke around... Haha, a monster like you would be better off dead... No, that's not right—go get your stomach pumped right now!!"

The terrified Ze Du Ke Ke gradually relaxed, and even the nails that had been growing continuously stopped extending.

But then she suddenly remembered something and said to Chang Rong with a panicked expression.

"Oh, the tea drinking and all that was just a pretense, don't worry about it. As for me, hmph! The main character of this game won't die like that, understand?"

Chang Rong casually waved his hand, indicating that the perjury during the execution could be simply ignored. Although Ze Du Ke Ke didn't quite understand, she breathed a sigh of relief when she saw Chang Rong's smug look.

"What a disgusting idiot... He's just a complete moron... A total sadistic idiot, a bully who only knows how to pick on the weak and fear the strong, a idiot who likes to make up bullshit stories... A disgusting idiot who greets people with the most clichéd and outdated phrases—"

Zedu Coco kept saying bad things about Chang Rong, but the expression on her face became increasingly calm.

"Yes, yes, I won't randomly pin you against the wall anymore, I won't just watch your cat TV, and I won't force you to listen to the new Three Kingdoms story. Next time we meet, I'll use Ciallo～(∠?ω<)⌒★ such a cool and trendy greeting, okay?"

Chang Rong responded helplessly with an expression that said, "I really can't do anything with you."

"And you're not allowed to get into my head again...!"

"Is it okay if I knead it?"

"And... oh right, you also have to go watch a horror movie with me, the kind where you can't watch it with your butt!"

"This, this is a bit..."

"Get me a bigger live stream room!"

"I'll try to persuade Leia-sama to become a regular guest to attract more viewers."

Looking at the boy in front of her, who was either seriously thinking, looking troubled, or exclaiming, "Hey! I have an idea!", Ze Du Ke Ke smiled.

—He seems...really 'different'.

She is truly different from those witches, and even different from 'Emma'—she is a unique being.

He would never become a 'witch'; he would only try to protect everyone through idiotic and clumsy actions.

But this warmth stung Zedu Coco.

"...I'm telling you, aren't you really not angry? I...killed An'an, that bean sprout."

Zedu Coco's voice trembled slightly. Only now, nestled in the arms of the white-haired boy in the woods, did Zedu Coco finally realize what she had done. She had killed someone with her own hands, and there was no room for explanation.

As for Chang Rong, when he looked into the girl's orange cat-like eyes, on the verge of collapse, and when he realized that Ze Du Ke Ke was also like a kite floating in the air, its string about to break, he—

"【False evidence】You did nothing wrong, Coco-chan."

Chang Rong ruffled Ze Du Ke Ke's hair and responded with a smile.

Ze Du Ke Ke was wrong, of course. She was terribly wrong, utterly wrong.

Natsume Anan never intended to kill Chang Rong, that girl who always had a gloomy appearance and didn't like to talk. Her biggest 'evil thought' was just to film the embarrassing video of herself being hypnotized.

If I could talk to Zedu Keke a little more and put her at ease...

If the mechanism created by Sawatari Coco can be destroyed by Tachibana Sherry and Tono Hannah.

If An An hadn't happened to be holding the script and revealed her location...

If the crossbow isn't aimed correctly, it might accidentally miss.

If only Sawatari Coco had paid more attention to Natsume Anan's transformation...

in case……

Despite the numerous coincidences and possibilities that highlight the 'crudeness' of Sawatari Coco's ridiculous murder plan, Sawatari Coco still managed to kill Natsume Anan.

Her 'belief' is both the reason why Zetsu Coco was able to carry out this murder, and also... an irony of her utterly wrong actions.

However—anyone can question, ridicule, curse, and refute Ze Du Ke Ke, but Chang Rong is the only one who cannot.