The Witch Trial Begins with the OO Buckethead Zombie

It's a cry for help.

'Help me.'

Anyone is fine.

Even if it was once considered true.

evil.

"Gah—"

The villains have appeared.

The eyes, which had been closed instinctively because they didn't want to see, suddenly opened.

Through the gaps in the crowd, she saw the students who had been thrown back and crashed into several others before falling. She felt the air around her suddenly become deathly still, and she heard the heartbeats of those who had been laughing wildly just moments before, now holding their breath.

wrong.

This is the sound of her own heartbeat.

It made a banging sound.

It's so noisy it makes it impossible for people to have peace and quiet.

Violence is wrong, beating up classmates is wrong, and Hoshino Utsunomiya is evil.

Nikaido Hiro gripped his arm tightly, head down, biting his lower lip, leaning against the wall, desperately trying to control his emotions.

Violence is a last resort, and beating up the bullies is the right way to stop bullying. Hoshino Utsunomiya is someone you can trust.

...If it were him.

Can I entrust Xiaoxue to him with peace of mind?

His wild thoughts suppressed his pounding heart. Of course, Nikaido Hiro knew very well that it was abnormal to think about such things at this time.

But instead of stopping her, she began to seriously try to consider the issue from the perspective of trusting Hoshino Utsunomiya.

After all, she couldn't protect Yukishiro forever.

Let alone forever, she might not even be able to hold on until the end this year.

because.

Hiro Nikaido will be studying abroad after this year ends.

It wasn't sudden or unexpected; it was something that had been decided long ago.

Although it is only a short-term study abroad program, it does not mean that you will spend your whole life abroad after studying abroad. However, studying abroad is studying abroad. It involves a huge distance between seas, and it is not easy to come back and forth. In a real sense, there will be a huge gap.

She couldn't help Yuki Tsukishiro erase the malicious words on the blackboard before class, she couldn't help Yuki Tsukishiro change into clean and tidy new clothes after class, and she couldn't stand up for Yuki Tsukishiro decisively when she was bullied.

Distance is the biggest constraint.

So Nikaido Hiro had long considered who to entrust with the task of protecting Tsukishiro Yuki.

Someone she can trust, someone she can rely on, someone who can protect her well.

Originally, this person was supposed to be Emma Sakuraba.

Emma is a bad kid.

But Emma is a good girl too.

Putting aside pointless jealousy, until today, Nikaido Hiro still felt that Emma was the only person he could entrust his life to.

She is Yuki's friend, and Yuki trusts her completely. Unlike herself, Yuki wouldn't resist Emma's protection.

She is my friend, a friend I've known since childhood, with a familiar face and a habitual personality. I can trust her with my life.

and so.

—Let's leave Yuki in the care of Hoshino Utsunomiya.

Sometimes trust comes very easily.

The moment the misunderstanding is resolved, the original doubts and suspicions will infinitely elevate the trust that should not have become so high.

Although this pattern generally varies from person to person.

At least for now, Nikaido Hiro has come to trust Utsunomiya Hoshino completely.

......

The lost and found diary of helping others was in her hands, and her slender, fair fingers gripped the small notebook tightly.

Carefully and meticulously, he flipped through each page again, making sure the diary in his hands hadn't been damaged by that incredibly cruel act.

The girl gently closed the diary with a tender movement, and then carefully put it back into the pocket of her sleeve.

I carefully made sure it was placed properly and securely, and checked that it hadn't been accidentally pulled out due to my movements.

then.

Hiro Nikaido.

Several days later, he boarded a plane bound for a foreign country.

Chapter 22 Is it necessary to flee the country on the spot?

Hoshino Utsunomiya overheard Nikaido Hiro's decision to study abroad a few days later.

Well, although I did stand up for her that day, I did act a little irrationally.

However, for Hoshino Utsunomiya, as expected, only the witch is the most important.

These girls, who are not witches, are secondary.

After confirming that the help diary had indeed been returned to the person via the same route, he stopped paying attention to Nikaido Hiro's affairs.

Hearing this news now, he felt somewhat conflicted.

Sister, are you really that bad at handling things?

So what if someone found her embarrassing history notebook and was reading it aloud and mocking her?! Was it really necessary to run away from Japan on the spot and study abroad?!

"..."

...It seems somewhat necessary.

At least for junior high school students, face is still very important. They have an exceptionally strong sense of shame and a very strong sense of self.

If the dark history I wrote down were recited in poetry in public...

It seems like crying on the spot is the least of your worries; someone more serious might turn around and jump.

Thinking about it that way, it's actually a good thing that she was able to escape by studying abroad.

If a family's financial situation prevents them from easily transferring their child to another school for study abroad, then that child would probably be surrounded by nicknames like "Miss Justice," "Messenger of Justice," "Sister Who Sweeps Away Evil," or "Sister Clean" every day at school, and would be subjected to a form of bullying.

Alas, Japanese deserters.

However, for Hoshino Utsunomiya, this was actually good news.

Because the person who would be most likely to stop him from bullying Tsukishiro Yuki, and the person who would be most likely to protect Tsukishiro Yuki and make things more difficult for him.

They've already left.

Other things will cause trouble...

The nameless random students would no longer have room to cause trouble. He felt that his elbow strike was memorable enough. In fact, after that "good" response, Tsukishiro Yuki was indeed not harassed or bullied by anyone else.

The teachers at this school should have been the most troublesome group, since adults have overwhelming power in the world of minors, and teachers even more so. If a way cannot be found to deal with the teachers, let alone bullying, even getting too close to them might be used as a case of puppy love and made an example of it.

Oh right, this is Japan, teachers don't catch students dating too early.

However, the teachers, who should have been the most troublesome group, surprisingly didn't seem to be a problem at all.

On the day he transferred schools, Hoshino Utsunomiya dragged Yuki Tsukishiro out of school early. At the time, he felt that he was about to die, so school and such were unimportant, and he did not care at all about the possible consequences of leaving early.

On his second day back at school after things had calmed down a bit, he was actually a little worried about being pulled aside for a talk. It wasn't that he was afraid of the talk, but the feeling of having to bow his head and act like a middle school student while being lectured by a teacher was just too humiliating. He was afraid that he would lose his composure and submit to the teacher's authority.

Forget about talking to him, the teacher didn't even look at him properly, and the classmate who had beaten him yesterday started bullying Tsukishiro Yuki again as if nothing had happened.

A strange, seemingly random, fixed NPC.

However, the students' reactions when they were hit and their emotions when facing the iron fist did not seem fake. Moreover, considering that they actually stopped bullying Yuki Tsukishiro in the following days, they seem to be able to communicate and are not bots.

Hoshino Utsunomiya was beaten and lost his memory on their first day.

Fortunately, they didn't lose their memory when they were beaten the next day, otherwise they might have had to grab the people they hadn't beaten before and beat them again.

Returning to the teacher, after learning a little bit about him, Hoshino Utsunomiya discovered the key.

Moonlit Snow.

These teachers would pretend not to see anything related to Yuki Tsukishiro.

It's not that they can't see it, they're just pretending not to see it, assuming that such a thing doesn't exist.

Therefore, along with Hoshino Utsunomiya, they will also be selectively ignored.

It was probably the witch's doing. Although it's unclear whether it was a passive effect or she deliberately set up some kind of spell, it was obviously very advantageous for Utsunomiya Hoshino.

This would allow him to pretend to be a normal junior high school student without actually attending classes at school.

Aside from these, the only remaining issue that can be described as troublesome is...

There's probably only one person left.

Sakura Emma.

With short, silver-white hair and pink highlights, she likes to use the somewhat masculine self-reference 'boku,' exudes a clumsy and silly vibe, and is a puppy-like girl with a very clumsy and effeminate aura.

She is Yuki Tsukishiro's friend, and also Hiro Nikaido's friend.

After Nikaido Hiro left, Yuki Tsukishiro only had her as a friend.

One can imagine how much trouble Yue Daixue would cause when he tried to bully her.

Fortunately, she was rather clumsy, so it didn't affect her much.

So, what truly troubled Hoshino Utsunomiya was...

As expected, it's still his witch.

......