The Witch Trial Begins with the OO Buckethead Zombie

Hoshino Utsunomiya also made things clear at the same time.

“Let’s go back to the beginning.” Hoshino Utsunomiya looked at Nanoha Kurobe: “Nanoha asked me why I’m so obsessed with dating.”

Nanoha Kurobe nodded: "Mm."

“Because of the witch.” Hoshino Utsunomiya sighed. “It’s impossible to be sure if the witch who was transformed into a witch and became a wrecked creature is the same kind of being, but in any case, she is called a witch and has incredible power. She should be considered the true mastermind behind the scenes.”

"There is such a witch."

With a sigh, a hint of helplessness, and a touch of melancholy, Utsunomiya Hoshino said, "She..."

"She's taken a liking to me."

"I still feel a little embarrassed to say this," Hoshino Utsunomiya shook his head. "However, I've been targeted by a witch."

"Maybe she and I have a grudge, maybe it's not because she likes me, maybe, maybe..."

"I'm really having a headache," Hoshino Utsunomiya sighed again.

"If I die, the witch will rewind time; if I don't die, the witch might still rewind time."

In short, this time period must be traced back.

It sounds like someone has a hard life.

"Although everyone was supposed to be captured, they were probably conscripted by the witch."

“Each time she rewinds, the witch changes some things, such as the people chosen, the rules, and the guards and warden who have disappeared.”

It reminds me of the time the witch impersonated Hero.

An empty prison.

"It just so happened, just once, only once." With her hands clasped together involuntarily, there was a hint of resentment in her expression, as if she were saying, 'It was just an accident.'

Say.

"The witch kicked the person I liked out of prison."

Emma, ​​and Heero.

“...Um, what does 'kicked out' mean...?” Saeki Miria couldn’t help but raise her hand to ask.

“Kick them out, hide them. I haven’t seen them since that time travel,” said Hoshino Utsunomiya. “The witch told me that she would hide all the people I like and kick them out one by one.”

"Until I come to like everyone."

The explanations ended there, and seeing Utsunomiya Hoshino pause, the girls finally spoke one after another.

"So, you actually tried to like each and every one of them...?" A strange light flickered in Baosheng Mag's eyes.

"...You're not going to like me, are you?" Arisa Fujito asked, a little flustered.

【? 】

Natsume Anan didn't even need to write anything; she just needed to turn the page again.

“Hey, that witch is really, really bad,” Saeki Miria said.

Everyone was sharing their thoughts, except for Tachibana Sherry.

She frowned and pondered for a moment.

"Does this witch have a cuckold fetish?" she said.

It's out loud now.

Listening to Hoshino Utsunomiya's description, it's not that no one had thought of this, but only Sherry Tachibana dared to say it out loud.

"Think about it, normally you should try your best to make the person you like like you back, right?"

"But instead of doing that, they let the person they like like other people more, which is obviously cuckoldry, right?"

"That's perfectly natural," Tachibana Sherry said matter-of-factly.

"...It doesn't matter if a witch has quirks." Kurobe Nanoha interrupted the conversation, preventing it from continuing on meaningless topics.

Although it was only Tachibana Sherry talking to herself.

"Hoshino." She looked directly at Utsunomiya Hoshino: "Don't fall in love with me."

Then he started saying things that sounded particularly overconfident on their own.

"I can't leave."

She can't leave, she can't be kicked out, she can't leave this place.

She had come here by some means, all to investigate the truth, try to save her sister, or perhaps launch a magnificent revenge against the mastermind behind it all.

If he was kicked out by the witch because he was liked by Utsunomiya Hoshino...

"Rejected! Was he rejected beforehand?!" Tachibana Sherry was overjoyed, and in her excitement, she couldn't help but say to Utsunomiya Hoshino:

"It's okay, it's okay, you can like me, okay? This is Tachibana Sherry, and I said you can like me."

Sherry Tachibana has a very generous heart; she allows you to like me!

"And don't fall for me either." Raising her hand, Baosheng Mag concealed her expression with her sleeve: "If any girls you've fallen for have disappeared, they're really unlucky."

What could be heard was an extremely sarcastic tone.

"Why?" Shirley Tachibana asked, blinking her eyes like a curious child.

"A witch who repeatedly rewinds time to cling to a man, who, when faced with a woman the man she loves falls for, a true rival, or even a woman she deems a philanderer, simply kicks her out?" With a cold laugh, Baosheng Mag shook his head.

"You think you can use a witch's jealousy to get her to kick someone out, or even let them go back into society? That's wishful thinking."

"Which do you think is more likely, kicking someone out of prison or hiding in a basement?"

"It seems that the women that Mr. Utsunomiya liked were all imprisoned by the witch in a small, dark basement, chained up, fed at fixed times every day, and living a life worse than death."

"If I were to go any further, what kind of treatment, what kind of torment, would I receive from the jealous witch, even..."

Baosheng Mag didn't say her final words, but everyone knew what she wanted to say.

dead.

The worst, the most extreme, the thing people least want to think about.

They will be killed.

Although no one knows who the witch is, what she looks like, what her name is, or why she is called a witch, or what the difference is between a witch and those who are trainee witches.

But for now, let's assume that everyone still considers witches to be 'human'.

Special humans, humans with magic, mysterious witches.

This is an understanding built upon more than a decade of past experiences that cannot be changed until one sees the remains of such inhuman creatures with one's own eyes.

We live in a civilized society, and the idea of ​​murder...

Utsunomiya Hoshino: "..."

In fact, he had considered what Baosheng Mag said.

I'll definitely consider it.

After all, he didn't understand witches or know their character. Although he had encountered them many times, their behavior was still very inexplicable to him.

Even so, the feeling will still be that she won't do that.

Call it intuition or illusion.

That's how I feel.

But feelings alone are definitely not enough. You might be able to convince yourself, but convincing others is much harder.

We also need to present more convincing arguments.

“It won’t happen,” Hoshino Utsunomiya denied. “Even if it’s just used to threaten me, that kind of thing won’t happen.”

Killing them would mean completely breaking off relations.

"Really? You have absolutely no way of confirming their situation, do you? How do you know they're not dead?" Baosheng Mag's eyes were unreadable.

Hoshino Utsunomiya couldn't deny that statement.

He truly had no means to ascertain the girls' fate from the witch.

If you really want to say something, the witch never said she wouldn't kill.

Witches kill people; they killed him and Meruru.

“See, you can’t answer this question either.” Baosheng Mag spread his hands and shook his head: “So, to be loved by you is to be killed by a witch.”

"I do not want it."

The slightly disdainful words are here.

“No.” But Hoshino Utsunomiya still insisted on denying it: “If the witch wanted to kill someone, she would have done it already.”

"She can take action at any time."

After a brief pause, Hoshino Utsunomiya said:

"I may not have made myself clear, but in the past few time travels, the witch has done things like impersonating someone to infiltrate the process."

"She has dressed up as Tachibana Sherry and Natsume Anan."

My gaze moved over the two girls one after the other.

"Hey, hey, is there anything else about me?!" Tachibana Sherry pointed at herself.

Natsume Anan turned back to that page once again.

【? 】

"Could it be that last time too..." Kurobe Nanoka asked with some doubt.

Although she still harbored a reasonable degree of skepticism towards the witch that Hoshino Utsunomiya spoke of.

But she had basically come to believe his story.

It's not that the details Hoshino Utsunomiya gave were particularly accurate or comprehensive.

But... that lingering bitterness is something that can't be faked.

She also believed that the information she saw through her visions was real and corresponded to what he said.