The Witch Trial Begins with the OO Buckethead Zombie

He can indeed interfere with the past.

But this leads to new problems.

For example, the most practical thing is 'lifespan'.

Human life is short, so what's the point of wasting it?

To solve the problem of lifespan, we need to transcend the limits of humankind.

There is only one way.

Not human.

Become a witch.

To be more precise, it's wreckage.

Dismemberment is a manifestation of the witch factor activating to a point where the human body can no longer withstand it.

They will be more easily controlled by witches.

They will be unable to use their vocal organs to speak human language.

Consciousness can be eroded to the point of losing reason, but there are still precedents of people retaining some degree of sanity.

Yes, I'm talking about Honoka Kurobe.

She retained her memories and a certain degree of consciousness. Even if Kurobe Nanoha broke the original rules in the mansion, she would turn a blind eye to her good sister.

More importantly, the wreckage has no lifespan limit.

Because her entire body is practically filled with witch genes, there is naturally no metabolism or even loss of life.

The remains in the mansion are clearly not just those of Honoka Kurobe. Other remains, from much earlier times, whether several years, decades, or even hundreds of years ago, were frozen and preserved underground by Meruru.

But this is obviously not everyone, since it's impossible for every dozen or so people in a witch trial to be transformed into witches and become remains.

There will definitely be those who are killed early on as victims.

Therefore, simply restoring these remains to their original state cannot undo Meruru's sins.

The reason for mentioning them is not to criticize Meruru too much.

Rather, their existence proves that even if they were to be restored to human form from the remains hundreds of years later, there would still be no problem.

They won't die suddenly just because their lifespan has ended.

Is this some kind of special life-extending secret method?

Those who aspire to reach the future might use such methods.

The prerequisite is that the great witch Tsukishiro Yuki, who can control the witch factor, is willing to help.

In other words, if it becomes a wreck, it can not only retain a certain degree of rationality, but also possess a near-frozen state of time.

The cost is small: dehumanization.

Moreover, there is another very special point about the wreckage.

Almost no one has ever shown it, and it's probably hard for anyone to even realize it.

'Wreckage' can be used with 'magic'.

Isn't that incredible?

In other words, Honoka, who had been reduced to wreckage, could have used her 'transformation' magic to hide her wrecked body and transform into human form ahead of time.

But she didn't use it.

Because her consciousness was not clear enough for her to carry out any actions other than commands and instinctive affection for her sister.

But to put it simply, this is just an analogy.

If Hiro is reduced to remains, her magic 'Death Rewind' will be passively triggered even as remains.

Of course, the same goes for Sherry; she will become the remains of the monstrous strength.

Even though the wreckage itself possessed superhuman strength.

But combining superhuman strength with superhuman strength would probably achieve an even more ferocious effect.

In short, the wreckage is capable of being used with magic.

This is a well-known fact.

As is well known, witchification and dismemberment are essentially caused by the excessive intensification of witch factors due to emotional fluctuations, and frequent use of magic can achieve the same effect.

If, if, a large amount of magic were bestowed upon Hoshino Utsunomiya, turning her into a witch and leaving her as a corpse...

And this is further supplemented with some magic, such as forced calmness, which allows him to maintain his rationality even when he is reduced to rubble.

So not only can the issue of lifespan be resolved, but the question of how to better and more flawlessly handle the aftermath for Meruru, while saving more people without changing the existing development trajectory, can also be resolved.

Even if Yukishiro were completely unaware of this, she wouldn't need to go back with her memories and be separated from the person she loved for a full five hundred years.

Everything will be alright.

Those harmed by Meruru will be rescued by a secret trick, and all the sins Meruru has committed will be secretly made up for by him.

When the horrific case that Coco encountered occurred, Hoshino Utsunomiya was able to save Coco's family members who should have died without changing her belief that her entire family had been tragically killed.

On that winter night when Hannah made her mistake, she managed to save her sister while Hannah mistakenly believed that she had killed her.

correct.

You could even say that at the moment Sherry was about to kill someone, she was made to believe that she had killed someone, but in reality she had only broken a watermelon, a real watermelon, a fake murder.

It's not that we should save even evil people, but rather that Shirley shouldn't feel guilty about having blood on her hands.

That kind of person doesn't deserve to be called a 'murderer'.

Either let him do the killing.

Either that person gets the punishment they deserve, or...

For example, a suspended death sentence or something like that.

Leia's critically ill mother can be saved, Margot...

Marge suffered domestic violence.

He secretly helped her heal her injuries so that the beatings she suffered as a child wouldn't leave any lasting effects.

Of course, those who commit domestic violence also need to be punished.

Arisa will regret burning down her house, but that's precisely where her feelings were born; no one was truly harmed by it...

Well, my parents do have less money, but it hasn't reached the point where it affects their lives.

This aspect doesn't require much change.

Noah had no past shadows.

Milia also has no past traumas.

An'an... She was indeed too willful, which affected her parents, but there was nothing that could be undone by going back to the past.

After all of this was done, all these regrets were rectified.

As long as we send 'Utsunomiya Hoshino' back to his original world before the 'system' abducts him, and then bring him back after this ridiculous period ends.

In a sense, the loop is now closed.

There must be loopholes.

There might be problems.

But magic, with its power, can solve everything.

This sounds like a very perfect plan.

However, there is still one problem.

It lies with the executor.

He never seemed to have considered how much impact doing such post-mortem work as a wrecked structure over a long period of time would have on him.

Although the cleanup work only actually needs to be done during the period before the prepared witches die, the waiting period in between cannot be skipped.

unless......

Let the system handle it.

It's not about taking over the cleanup; it might not be able to do a good job.

But if it's just a conditionally triggered alarm clock, waking Utsunomiya Hoshino's consciousness from his wrecked body to deal with the problem...

That should be fine.

...Although I'm still a little worried.

But in the end, the system is just stupid.

It's incredibly stupid.

In the long course of life, there were only brief moments when I could communicate with Hoshino Utsunomiya...

I don't know if this can be considered a punishment.

If this is to be used as a punishment, then the system's actions also need to be restricted.

At least there's the freedom to do things like stealing the rewind button right now, or to actively kidnap Hoshino Utsunomiya.

It definitely cannot be allowed.

Although it is not a system in essence, since it calls itself a system, it should honestly act as a system and bind itself to the system it is bound to.

As long as it cannot use the warden's body, the system can only communicate with Hoshino Utsunomiya and observe the outside world through Hoshino Utsunomiya's eyes.

There's nothing we can do but wait.

When the time came, they woke up Hoshino Utsunomiya and were able to have some conversation with him in the limited time they had.

For humans, this is indeed a considerable form of torture.

After all, humans are creatures that greatly need social interaction.

As for whether it counts as a punishment from the system's perspective...