The Witch Trial Begins with the OO Buckethead Zombie

It was as if simply wearing this outfit, standing in front of him, and repeatedly saying meaningless things like "I am Tsukishiro Yuki" would grant her all his love.

“I have people I love, I have many, many people I love, I can’t let them go, and I will never let them go.” Hoshino Utsunomiya looked at Yuki Tsukishiro like this: “Even if she really comes back to life, that won’t change.”

Whose love is more noble than anyone else's?

"But, but..." Tsukishiro Yuki was a little anxious again.

She stomped her feet lightly, clenched her small hands, and had an urge to spin around in place.

Why not? Shouldn't it be that Hoshino finally understands who I am, then happily hugs me and marries me?

People I like, and so on. There are so many people I like.

"But didn't those people only start liking me because I asked them to?"

She couldn't understand it.

It was me who asked you to like it, it was me who made you like it, this should be my task. Since it was me who instructed you to do it, why are you turning around and hindering me?

Since it's for the sake of the girls I like, shouldn't they make way for me when I need them?

"And then?" Hoshino Utsunomiya asked rhetorically.

"Because you asked me to like them, so should I withdraw my liking for them now that you've asked me to?"

This is ridiculous!

“…I didn’t say that…” Tsukishiro Yuki shrank back and muttered softly.

She actually wanted to say that, but judging from Hoshino Utsunomiya's tone, she seemed to understand that saying it would only make Hoshino more dissatisfied.

That's why she doesn't say it that way.

“…We’ve gone a bit off-topic.” Hoshino Utsunomiya sighed.

For some reason, he seemed to genuinely be discussing the issue with her as if she were Yuki Tsukishiro.

But the premise is wrong.

How can a discussion be valid if the premises are flawed?

"Let's talk about what you like about me, witch," Hoshino Utsunomiya said quietly.

He decided to steer the conversation back on track.

It's pointless to discuss whether she is actually Yuki Tsukishiro.

If she is Tsukishiro Yuki, even if she really is Tsukishiro Yuki...

I......

Hoshino Utsunomiya suppressed his thoughts.

"Witches and such..."

I was initially happy to hear the first part of Yuki Tsukishiro's sentence, but when Hoshino asked me what I liked about him, did it mean that he wanted to believe that I was who I was?

But upon hearing the second half of the sentence, she knew she had misunderstood.

He called me a witch again.

He would only call me a witch.

"Could you please stop calling me a witch..." Tsukishiro Yuki once again showed a very aggrieved expression: "I don't want to hear you call me a witch..."

Hoshino Utsunomiya always felt that the witch's dilemma was very strange.

She always seems to get caught up in all sorts of inexplicable things.

It's not that I'm agonizing over whether or not to forget Tsukishiro Yuki, it's just that I'm agonizing over this kind of naming issue.

She doesn't care about anything serious.

"Then what should I call you?" Hoshino Utsunomiya decided to try to go along with her mood a little.

Otherwise, if they start crying and making a fuss...

He really couldn't handle it.

Tsukishiro Yuki exclaimed in a powerful voice, "Yuki!"

There is only one answer, and even the surname is not required.

Ultimately, that wasn't actually her surname.

If I had to say, she only has this one name.

snow.

'Is that your name? You're letting me call it that?'

Before those words could even reach his throat, Hoshino Utsunomiya swallowed them back down.

Because he could already foresee what Yuki Tsukishiro's attitude would be the moment he said it.

“What I mean is, your own name, the name that belongs to you, what the other witches call you?” Slightly adjusting her tone and adopting a gentler attitude, Hoshino Utsunomiya tried to communicate with Yuki Tsukishiro as if she were treating a child.

“My name is Yuki, and the other witches…” Tsukishiro Yuki tilted her head, “…‘Great Witch’?”

Meruru would call her that.

"Then I'll call you Great Witch."

"But I don't want you to call me a witch."

Once again, we've come full circle.

Hoshino Utsunomiya is almost at the red temperature.

Other witches can call you Great Witch, but I can't?

Does it really matter what I call you?

“…Then I won’t shout.” Hoshino Utsunomiya took a deep breath and decided not to shout anything: “Anyway, there’s no one else around, so using ‘you’ is the most appropriate way to address me.”

"Eh eh—"

"If you say that again, I'll call you a witch."

Yuki Tsukishiro seemed to have some objections, but under Hoshino Utsunomiya's rather unforgiving words, she obediently shut her mouth.

However, the moment she closed her mouth, she was interrupted by Utsunomiya Hoshino's next words.

He opened his mouth wide.

“Tell me what you like about me, and I can change it,” he said.

I can change for you.

If only it weren't for rejecting one's own feelings.

He was so resolute.

Show no mercy whatsoever.

I don't want to believe at all that I am who I am.

They don't want my affection at all.

Yuki Tsukishiro opened her mouth, but for a moment she didn't know what to say.

I can't keep talking nonsense.

The more you say, the more mistakes you make; she has probably already said a great many wrong things.

What I need to say at this time...

That's how it should be said.

"I... I like the part about you that you don't like about me...?" Tsukishiro Yuki tried to be clever: "Could you change that?"

If you're willing to change it... hehehe.

"..." Hoshino Utsunomiya said expressionlessly, "You think this will work?"

Tsukishiro Yuki shrugged: "You mean, maybe?"

She just wanted to give it a try.

"—Phew." Looking at Yukishiro's magnificent face, he realized that he had actually been staring at it for a very, very long time, even without the magic that guided his gaze.

Seeing her pleading expression, seeing her utterly wronged, seeing her conflicted state, her face changing expressions.

Hoshino Utsunomiya couldn't help but sigh.

She is so beautiful.

But such communication is indeed very tiring.

Since the witch really wants this identity so much...

That.

“How about this,” Hoshino Utsunomiya suggested, “I’ll assume you’re her for now.”

......

"I have so much to say to her, and you probably have so much to say to me from her perspective..."

Hoshino Utsunomiya pondered for a moment.

"In terms you're familiar with... it's a question-and-answer exchange."

We continued our question-and-answer exchange, you asked yours, and I asked mine.

"But this time you shouldn't need to use a kiss to resolve the problem, right?"

Although he didn't think the witch was that hopeless.

But it's still good to ask in advance.

"..." Tsukishiro Yuki secretly glanced at Utsunomiya Hoshino's lips, and a feeling from a long time ago resurfaced in her mind.

She didn't actually kiss him enough.

but......

We can't accept it.