The Witch Trial Begins with the OO Buckethead Zombie

The girl would open her red lips, take his fingertip into her mouth, and suck and lick it.

It made him deeply aware of his own allure!

Why did you put your hands away? Why did you wipe the rice away from me?

Let me eat! We can't waste food!

"Wipe your eyes yourself." But Hoshino Utsunomiya ignored her gesture and continued, "You were crying like a cat just now."

He sat back down and tidied up the dishes and chopsticks on the table.

Yes, I'm done eating.

While he was getting into the mood and figuring out how to start the conversation, he had already finished eating quickly.

Speaking while chewing will make your speech unclear, and you certainly can't solve Emma's problem so casually by having a heart-to-heart talk.

It's fine to just have casual, intermittent chat.

Unfortunately, although Hoshino Utsunomiya said a lot and spoke at a long time.

I spent a lot of my heart trying to get Emma to understand.

But the result was not ideal.

The other person rejected your conversation and then confessed their feelings to you.

Hoshino Utsunomiya felt no surprise at all.

All I felt was powerlessness.

Being liked or confessed to should be a happy thing.

If it weren't Sakura Emma who confessed, if the confession hadn't come after she had painstakingly rambled on and on.

Even better.

"...I'll clear the dishes now, if you're not planning on having any more rice."

He got up to clear the dishes away for the two girls, then turned and went into the kitchen to wash them. Utsunomiya Hoshino couldn't help but start thinking about where things went wrong.

He doesn't dislike Emma Sakura, and as he said, Emma is indeed a good child.

However, not disliking someone doesn't necessarily mean liking them. As he mentioned before, he couldn't find the kind of attraction that comes with being with someone of the opposite sex in Sakura Emma.

Even if, even if he could try to like Emma the way he did Hero.

Even now, there are still doubts about Emma's expression of affection.

Hoshino Utsunomiya has no doubt that Emma Sakuraba's claim of liking someone is genuine.

There's really nothing to question when it comes to matters of the heart.

Her eyes, her gaze, the tone of her voice—all conveyed the same message to him.

'She's serious.'

Can......

Seriously, I really like him, and he can't live without me.

Yet it can still be interpreted in different ways.

That means Emma Sakura might not understand what it means to like someone.

Ultimately, Emma Sakura's experience was still too limited, and she had too few friends.

The more this happens, the easier it is to lose sight of one's own inner feelings.

Blurred boundaries, difficult-to-define definitions, ambiguous feelings.

She expressed the sense of security she felt when she was with her friends, the comfort she felt when she was with her friends, and the sense of redemption she felt when she was being rescued in times of sadness and distress.

I mistook it for the feeling of liking someone.

That's why he stubbornly insists that it has to be me.

A response is impossible, but a refusal would be too cruel.

Although I had already planned that I could go back in time, that's why I'm being so direct in laying it all out.

But if he really made Emma cry, could he stop comforting and soothing her?

Reassured and comforted... it felt like Sakura Emma needed to pull herself together and keep charging forward.

No matter which option I choose, it just doesn't feel right...

Hoshino Utsunomiya was completely clueless, but the bowls and chopsticks in her hands had unknowingly become clean.

This can't be dragged on any longer.

Ultimately, we still have to face Emma Sakura.

Feeling quite annoyed, Hoshino Utsunomiya returned to his seat.

Emma Sakuraba had already wiped away her tears with her sleeve, but Hiro Nikaido's expression was not good.

The atmosphere in the cafeteria was unexpectedly heavy.

Just as Utsunomiya Hoshino was thinking about how to bring it up.

"Emma, ​​stop fooling around." Nikaido Hiro sighed helplessly. She pressed her hand down towards Emma Sakuraha, closer to her on the table, and gently advised, "Can't you see?"

"Hoshino doesn't have any feelings for you. I've already said it before, because you're a friend, so it can't be you."

These were all things that Hoshino Utsunomiya had said, and Emma Sakuraba should have heard them long ago, but she still wanted to repeat them to remind Emma Sakuraba.

"Your relationship is good enough, and he won't distance himself from you because of it."

Why did you have to confess your feelings at this time?

What good outcome can you expect from confessing your feelings at this point? Even if you do end up as lovers, so what?

You can't become that important person in his heart, you can't become the reason for his continued existence.

If I let go at this time and allow you to date Hoshino, that would be harming you!

Nikaido Hiro didn't want to see the scene of Sakura Emma crying her heart out while holding Utsunomiya Hoshino's body at the end.

Rather than that, it would be better to cut off her hopes from the beginning.

"...?" Faced with Nikaido Hiro's well-intentioned advice, Sakura Emma's eyes widened: "Hoshino doesn't have any feelings for you either."

Didn't he already say that he didn't actually like you?

It wasn't love at first sight, and there was no romantic relationship involved.

What's the difference between you and me?

If we can't become lovers just because we're friends, then I must confess right now, right?

Only a confession could make Hoshino realize that my feelings for him were not just a matter of dependence based on friendship.

I just like it.

"If we can't be friends, I'll confess my feelings. If I succeed, we'll be lovers! Between lovers, we can do anything!"

Good friendship, bad friendship.

If our friendship can keep Hoshino by my side, then our friendship is good.

If our friendship would push Hoshino away from me, then our friendship would be very bad.

Friends are friends, and lovers are lovers.

Emma Sakura no longer cared about the title of 'friend'.

It's useless.

It's also in the way.

Of course, she wouldn't say anything like, "Let's not be friends anymore."

She just wanted to escalate the relationship, not end it.

Uninstalling an app before installing the latest version might get you blocked, but if you're upgrading an older version of an existing app, then you can choose to proceed or revert to the previous method.

This is Emma Sakura's clever idea.

"Besides," taking a deep breath, as if still not satisfied, Emma Sakura continued, "what Hoshino said was just 'wanting to try and see if she could fall in love with someone,' not that it had to be Hiro!"

“I think I can, but Hoshino said we can’t because we’re friends.”

"Well, now I'm going to confess my feelings. If you accept my confession, then everything will be fine!"

"Sakura Emma said in a booming voice."

"If you just want to try to like someone, it's okay if you like me too!"

"If all you need is a trainee girlfriend, I'd be happy to take on even that!"

"I think I'm definitely more likely to win Hoshino's heart than Hiro."

Emma Sakura, charging headlong into things.

"..."

Although Hoshino Utsunomiya isn't the type to believe whoever speaks the loudest, Emma Sakuraba's resounding words at this moment were unexpected...

Very logical.

She doesn't seem to be acting impulsively.

It wasn't a confession made on a whim, nor was it a confession made out of emotional impulse, nor was it a confession chosen only after being provoked.

broken.

Hoshino Utsunomiya really couldn't find a reason to refuse Emma Sakuraba.

Oh no, there's one, there's another one.

"Thank you." Hoshino Utsunomiya hesitated for a moment. "And then, I'm sorry."

The apology that made Emma Sakura's heart skip a beat came from Hoshino Utsunomiya's mouth.

...Even so, will I still be rejected?

...Am I really destined to lose to Hero?