The Witch Trial Begins with the OO Buckethead Zombie

Is it possible that Hoshino Utsunomiya's magic is indeed resurrection, or at least a resurrection from the dead, if not immortality?

The two deaths did indeed occur.

After it ends, their memories are reset, then different people are appropriately removed and then thrown in to start over.

But... if we think that way, we can't understand the reason for repeatedly resetting and throwing them in.

The original witch trials also included the excuse of imprisoning and supervising prospective witches.

Or is it...?

Is it a parallel world?

After all, if death were to be rewound, time should have reversed at the moment of Hoshino Utsunomiya's death.

Well......

Nanoha Kurobe's head hurts.

She couldn't figure it out, couldn't understand it, and couldn't comprehend it.

But there's only one thing that can be figured out.

She has definitely misunderstood.

I made a mistake.

He committed murder.

Or, it's torture and murder.

Two shots, one to the left and one to the right, he bled to death.

Reason fades, and emotion rises again.

I, I...

However, I felt from the bottom of my heart that Hoshino Utsunomiya might not really die so easily, even though his body was right here.

The sense of despair in Kurobe Nanoha's heart had faded considerably.

But I still feel uncomfortable.

This is murder. Just because he can be resurrected doesn't mean it's not murder. She did shoot innocent people.

My chest hurts a lot, my limbs feel weak, and I feel very nauseous.

Ryota Hasumi's emotions seemed to have become powerless after shouting; she...

He fainted.

Will the warehouse door open?

Oh, right.

Nanoka Kurobe tried to muster her last bit of strength to reach for her phone.

She can contact other people.

but......

Who should I contact?

Meru on Ice? Noah Kinosaki? Hannah Tono? Coco Sawatari?

What would happen if you opened the door and saw Hoshino Utsunomiya's corpse?

Baosheng Mag? Zifang Arisa?

the same.

what......

The hand gripping the phone lost its last bit of strength.

Murderers will be executed by the Witch's Tribunal.

This was information that Kurobe Nanoha had obtained from Vision a very, very long time ago.

...We're going to die together no matter what.

Then let's die together.

He died in this unknown warehouse.

Discontinuity loss.

The moment of reconnecting with the previous consciousness.

Nanoha Kurobe awakens in her cell.

Chapter 171 I have no grudge against the witch, right?

He bled to death.

Died from the pain.

He died by having his throat slit.

Ultimately, the specific and direct cause of death should be excessive blood loss.

I won't be able to collect a hundred ways to die, will I?

As he climbed out of his cell bed, Hoshino Utsunomiya touched the three wounds from before his time travel and couldn't help but think this.

He's died three times.

As expected, it went back in time.

If we calculate it this way, it's the fifth backtracking.

I'm a little tired.

While rewinding through death can reset unhealthy physical conditions, psychological exhaustion is somewhat unavoidable.

Moreover, at this point in time, his health wasn't actually that good.

Was she bedridden for several months?

It will feel a bit stiff to begin with.

The third death was far more egregious than the previous two.

The first two times I begged the witch for them myself, and it's hard to say whether it was decisive or not, and the level of pain was also hard to compare.

But this time...

Ugh.

Naoya Kaori, and Rhea.

"..."

Hoshino Utsunomiya looked up at the old ceiling.

How should I put it...?

It must hurt, of course it hurts. With an open wound on the thigh, there's no way it wouldn't hurt.

Especially with blood constantly flowing, and consciousness gradually fading as strength disappears, that feeling is obviously not pleasant.

But he didn't cry out in pain.

I only just remembered it.

Although he had died several times, each time in excruciating pain, he surprisingly did not cry out in agony.

This must be some kind of adrenaline taking effect.

Or is it that he's gotten used to it?

...It's better not to be used to this kind of thing.

Ok.

If he had to do it all over again, he didn't want to be stabbed to death, nor did he want to be strangled to death, and he certainly didn't want to have two holes shot into his thighs.

I should have known better than to surrender.

Who knew that Naoya Kaori would be so reckless?

Hoshino Utsunomiya did indeed want to die. After all, the witch seemed to be exceptionally patient, and even at that point, she didn't press the rewind button like she did the previous two times. If she wanted to send the girls away, she had no choice but to die.

But he never imagined he would die in this way at the hands of Nanoha and Rhea.

That was really a bit hasty.

He might not feel anything, but what about Nanoha Kaori and Rhea, who caused his death...?

Hoshino Utsunomiya didn't really want to think about it.

Thankfully, it was able to be reverted.

Since we've already reverted to the past, let's pretend nothing happened.

He couldn't say that nothing happened; he did learn something from the two of them.

For example, Rhea's inner demons, or rather, her obsessions.

They want to attract attention, to be even more noticeable.

There were signs before, like the time with 'Tachibana Sherry', when she tried to be extremely active in the courtroom.

The feeling of always wanting to be the first to step forward and take the lead whenever I see Rhea is probably a manifestation of this obsession.

Considering her identity as a stage actress, she probably hopes to stand in the spotlight, wants to be in the center, and craves the feeling of being noticed by everyone.

This led to his unwavering commitment.

Then, with the added push of Nanoha Kurobe's threat theory, it became even more pronounced.

And that's how it turned out.

There's nothing to blame. Hoshino Utsunomiya has never hated anyone. He could even fall in love with Meruru, who had stabbed him in the back, let alone Rhea, who was involved in helping him out of an accident.

Oh, and when the door closed, when everything went dark, Rhea's reaction...

He also seems to have some kind of mental illness; is he afraid of dark places?