The Witch Trial Begins with the OO Buckethead Zombie

For example, the body being held was soaked with blood.

The pungent smell of blood.

And that body that should have been strong, but which has become weak at this moment.

"—Plop."

His grip on her softened, his hands loosened, and his kneeling body slid to the ground.

A sense of disappointment.

Then, Ryota Hasumi let out a sharp cry again.

"Ah ah ah ah ah--"

Because of the light source provided by Nanoka Kurobe, she was able to see clearly.

He lay on the ground, his face pale, blood flowing from his neck, and the ground was covered in a pool of blood from two gunshot wounds.

"Hoshino? Hoshino?" Hasumi Ryoya panicked.

She hurriedly bent down, knelt on the ground and crawled closer, her hands helplessly touching his body.

wrong.

No, no, no.

No, that's not how it should be. She never intended to kill anyone.

I just... I just...

People often say.

Subconscious actions are often the most authentic.

When darkness fell, instead of immediately choosing to protect himself, he crouched down to shield her and hugged her.

It is undoubtedly the most genuine instinct.

But, but, that's just how instinctive it is.

That's the only way that Ryota Hayami can clearly feel how quickly his body temperature is being lost.

We weren't very close before.

They weren't very close.

The relationship wasn't very close.

But right now, at this very moment, Ryota Hasumi's chest was aching terribly.

I was wrong, I was wrong, I was wrong, I was wrong—

"Yes, that's it! Nanoha Kaoru, Nanoha Kaoru!" Unable to stop the bleeding or prevent the loss of body temperature, Hasumi Ryoya suddenly remembered something, raised her head and looked at Kurobe Nanoha Kaoru with hopeful eyes.

As if grasping at a straw, she said:

"Healing, healing, healing! Meruru's magic is healing! Quick, come quickly and help me take Hoshino out to find Meruru."

As Kurobe Nanoha Kaori said, this injury is...this...this injury is...

As long as there is healing magic, there will be no problem.

She said it!

Whether or not there's a mastermind behind it all is irrelevant now; what matters is that he'll die right before his eyes!

The progress of her witch transformation was abruptly halted. With her normal thinking, Hasumi Ryoya would never want to see someone die before her eyes, especially not because of her.

"Light, light, don't turn it off..." Realizing what was happening, Ryota stammered, wanting to say don't turn off the light, but quickly realized that she also had a cell phone, and grabbed it with her blood-stained hands.

The bloodied hand swiped across the screen, but received no response.

She used the fabric of her clothes to wipe, wipe, wipe the screen and her hands, barely managing to unlock the phone, turn on the flashlight, and place it upside down to the side.

Then, I wanted to try dragging Hoshino Utsunomiya's body.

Hoshino Utsunomiya actually lost some weight after the bloodletting.

But it's clear that it's still not something that Hasumi Ryoya could move by herself.

We need the help of Kurobe Nanoka.

After recovering from her shock, Kurobe Nanoka quickly put down her phone.

Her mind was still filled with incomprehension about the current situation.

How could it have turned out like this?

The performance of Hasumi Ryoua, the performance of Utsunomiya Hoshino, and the unexpected incident just now.

Although she didn't understand, she still knew what she had to do.

She couldn't let him die so easily; she hadn't even gotten anything out of him yet!

Then, Kurobe Nanoha took her hand.

It reaches out towards Hoshino Utsunomiya.

An accident, or rather, something that went unnoticed but was destined to happen.

happened.

'Vision'

It was triggered.

The blurry images gradually became clearer in Kurobe Nanoha's mind.

A clear sky, a deep blue sky.

On the green field, Hoshino Utsunomiya and Meruru on Ice share a place.

Hoshino Utsunomiya raised his hand.

And so the flower field bursts into bloom at this moment.

As petals fluttered down from the sky, amidst an extremely romantic scene, he began to speak to Meruru on the ice.

I have a request.

When did this happen? Did it occur in the wilderness when she gave up tracking? Such a grand scene must have demanded even more vile and depraved requests.

Why would you see this?

Nanoka Kurobe's thoughts were in disarray.

I heard his request clearly.

"I want you to kill me."

Sincere, earnest words, a plea for death.

......ha?

No, no, no, that's not right.

That's not how a mastermind operates!

You should investigate all the girls' weaknesses and vulnerabilities beforehand, and then use coercion, deception, and fraud to win their favor, using your lustful hands to do lewd things to them to satisfy yourself.

Night after night of revelry, feelings develop over time, indulging in debauchery and decadence, until finally, when you're tired of them, you ruthlessly discard the girls, leaving them as remains to be used by you!

Why would you beg her to kill you?

How could you refuse Meruru's crying and fussing words, continue to comfort her, continue to explain the reasons, continue to persuade her little by little, to let her really, really take the knife?

I'll stab you in the chest!

How could you die?!

That's not how the mastermind is!

No, no, no, if you had been stabbed to death by Meruru before, what would you be now?!

A humanoid, talking wreck?!

Before Kurobe Nanoha could even complain or pull herself out of the hallucination and back into reality, she was left speechless.

The illusion was triggered twice in a row.

Unintelligible screen transitions.

The courtroom, which had once been explored but found nothing.

Several girls stood in a row around the witness stand.

The two girls I saw in the vision were the familiar Rhea Hasumi and Noah Kinosaki, and there was also a completely unfamiliar blue-haired girl I had never seen before.

Of course, the most important one is Hoshino Utsunomiya.

He is the one who creates the illusion.

Hoshino Utsunomiya took the blue-haired girl's hand and began to chant a long passage that left Nanoha Kurobe's brain completely unable to comprehend for a while.

What exactly is it?

She was calling the other person a witch while begging them to kill her.

It's the same as it was with Meruru.

Having acknowledged her identity as a witch, the girl exerted force with both hands, and Utsunomiya Hoshino's face began to turn pale.

He gradually died.

the second time.

Having experienced two consecutive hallucinations and witnessed Hoshino Utsunomiya's death twice, Nanoha Kurobe's thoughts were completely thrown into disarray.

She couldn't sort out her thoughts, and even subconsciously began to wait for the third trigger of the hallucination.

However, the vision did not trigger, and the vision ended.

She returned to reality.

She saw Hasumi Ryoga, her face streaked with tears, anxiously waiting for her help, and saw her expression change from anxious to desperate.

died.