The Witch Trial Begins with the OO Buckethead Zombie

......All right.

These are all questions that will keep popping up every day after you've tried them for the first time.

Meruru on Ice is full of exploration and curiosity.

As for the Great Witch and such.

She felt only gratitude.

She had originally planned to ask Hoshino more questions about the Great Witch.

But now you don't have to think about that anymore.

She had so many, many, many questions she wanted to ask.

Actually, she could ask him anytime, and he would always answer her gently.

However, she still didn't dare to ask these questions directly, so she could only take advantage of this time of day to ask him and let him talk about it.

Gurgle.

Swallow.

Wipe your mouth.

Legs crossed.

Press your head down.

Keep your voice down.

The impact on the brain is somewhat beyond imagination.

That's why Meruru on Ice was completely unaware of what was going on.

The question posed by Hoshino Utsunomiya.

"How many years has Meruru been here?"

"How did these aspiring witches get in?"

"Why just imprison and detain them?"

Has anyone ever escaped in the past?

These questions were clearly not very difficult for Melulu on Ice to answer.

If other prospective witches asked her these questions, she might add an extra layer of pretense to her understanding and play the role of prospective witch Meruru on Ice.

But Hoshino Utsunomiya asked her that.

She would simply dismiss it as unnecessary curiosity.

After all, he already knows about the Great Witch, so answering such detailed questions shouldn't be a problem.

"How many years... I haven't counted carefully... but it's been four or five hundred years since I last saw the Great Witch, so it must have been several hundred years...?"

So strictly speaking, Meruru Ice Ride is in love with ○.

Although she did not show any of the composure that one would expect from someone her age.

Some people might be very bothered by the age difference, but thankfully, Hoshino Utsunomiya doesn't mind.

Just by accident.

...So witches can live for hundreds of years?

It seems that witches can live for a very long time as long as they don't hang themselves.

A thought or conjecture that had previously crossed my mind to save face for someone seems to have lost its credibility.

"How do these prospective witches get in? Ugh... This warden wasn't lying, it's just that they were detected with witch genes during the testing, and then they were sent in according to procedure..."

"I don't know exactly how it was done. Maybe they knocked her out overnight and brought her in? Or maybe they discussed it with her parents before bringing her in? Anyway, all they have to do is bring in the trainee witches regularly."

"Ah, but I brought Hoshino in myself through my own efforts."

"Hehehe..."

...There really is a program to detect this.

But it's impossible to discuss it with her parents, at least not with Coco.

Given Coco's relationship with her grandfather, anyone who wants to take Coco away will have to step over her grandfather's corpse.

However, this sounds as if once someone is brought in, they can be ignored.

At the very beginning, it was said that the prospective witch was very dangerous.

But it doesn't seem like how threats should be handled at all.

As for the claim that he was brought in by Meruru...

Hoshino Utsunomiya didn't seem to care much.

He's always been pretty insignificant.

"Imprisonment... Waaah... This... Because, because..." When asked this question, Meluru on Ice finally seemed on the verge of tears:

"...Because if we keep them locked up until the end, everyone will turn into a witch, and everyone will die killing each other."

"So it's fine to just keep them locked up here..."

"Those who haven't died, I want... I want them..."

Meruru's lower abdomen involuntarily twitched on the ice.

Overwhelmed by anxiety and self-blame, tears streamed down her face.

She could have stayed out of it. If she had just said that everyone would eventually kill each other, she would still be the gentle, kind, and innocent Meruru on Ice who had never done anything bad.

But she still told Hoshino Utsunomiya, admitted it, and cried.

Is she genuinely remorseful for her past sins, or is she trying to use this opportunity to show vulnerability in front of him, or perhaps she didn't think too much about it at all and just happened to answer that question, causing her body to instinctively react?

I don't know.

However, Meruru looked very unwell on the ice.

Her tears streamed down her face, and her lower abdomen throbbed slightly. Utsunomiya Hoshino couldn't help but hug her and let her rest her head on his lap.

After transforming into a witch, her killing intent will increase.

To be honest, he has never actually witnessed the process of a young girl turning into a witch, nor has he ever experienced the feeling of direct killing intent.

However, that was only because he restarted it too quickly.

At least for now, he can almost sense that at least two of the girls are showing signs of becoming witches.

I hope they will kill me first, but I don't want them to kill me too.

They didn't want to see their hands stained with other people's blood, even if it was because of their witch transformation.

I don't want to see them kill me because they've become witches, thus fulfilling my initial wish, and I'm unable to save them from the witches.

It's a bit of a double bind.

Fortunately, although the witch was gone, no matter how many girls were scanned, no trace of her could be found, so she probably really didn't enter.

But she's definitely watching.

There's no need to worry too much about things not being able to be reversed.

There's no need to hope that death can solve the problem anymore.

As for the matter of Meluru on Ice personally burying the last prospective witch...

He should care a lot.

It's right to care; it's not that we don't want to see the girl stained with blood actually having blood on her hands long ago.

There will be a sense of betrayal.

Love and betrayal will clash, and feelings of liking and disgust will be mixed together.

This is something that makes it clear that Meruru Ice is a 'witch' as ​​her name suggests.

They would cry and weep, heartbroken, yet obediently plunge a knife into their chest.

That's the real Merlu on Ice.

Didn't you already know that? Hoshino Utsunomiya.

You can't say that just because she killed you, you shouldn't take it seriously.

...but you still like her.

You've already done so much for her.

"If we escape... no, no, no."

"Never."

No one has ever escaped from this prison.

This is a supplementary answer. When Meruru said that she would personally send the survivors away, we should have known that there would be no survivors.

This would simply put the matter to rest.

You can only hope that the witch will send them away herself.

"Hoshino, Hoshino, Hoshino Hoshino Hoshino..." Meru would hug his waist, bury her face in his stomach, and whisper, repeatedly, calling his name:

"I'm so sorry, so sorry, so sorry, so sorry."

It was only at the beginning that we were completely unaware.

While Melulu on Ice may be a bit slow-witted, she's not completely stupid.

As soon as she said it, she realized what she was saying.

Will Hoshino be unhappy? Will Hoshino be sad? Will Hoshino blame me?

Before these problems, what rises to the surface is a twisted sense of self-blame that has been weighing on the body.

Maybe the ice-cold Meruru ice cream has actually been broken for a long time.

As a witch, a witch transformed from a human, a timid and cowardly girl who possesses healing magic.