The Witch Trial Begins with the OO Buckethead Zombie

Or I could just beg her to kill me.

Even though it was a scene of two people sitting together by the flowers, seemingly enjoying the atmosphere of being together in peace, Utsunomiya Hoshino did have such thoughts in his mind.

Relaxing her body, she let herself fall backward with a soft thud. Looking up at the rainbow above, Utsunomiya Hoshino murmured:

"Speaking of which, has Meruru ever heard of the 'magic that makes flower fields bloom'?"

There are actually many topics that could be used as a starting point: the prison, Emma and Heero, Arisa, the owl, the guard, the witch...

But when Hoshino Utsunomiya opened his lips, this was the sentence that came out.

After hesitating for a moment, looking at Hoshino Utsunomiya lying down, Meruru Hyokami also hesitated before lying down as well.

It was right beside me, so close that it seemed I could touch its nose with it if I turned my head.

Then, without answering, she turned around and looked at Hoshino Utsunomiya, and then asked a new question.

"Hoshino, has Hoshino encountered... any other witches?"

Is that what you care about?

"I think so." Hoshino Utsunomiya thought so: "Probably a witch who controls the magic of foul odors, an evil witch that can't be cleaned no matter how much you wash."

"However, I've never actually seen her use magic, so maybe she's not a witch at all."

"If we don't talk about her, she's already dead."

Hoshino Utsunomiya felt that it wasn't quite right to talk about another witch in front of a witch, or even about a dead person.

Let's take a look at Meruru in front of us.

"—A wicked, evil witch?!"

However, for some reason, Meruru's reaction on the ice was unexpectedly intense.

“I, I think, everyone should actually be, good, good witches…” Her eyes darted away slightly as she spoke words that even she herself seemed unsure of: “Like, like Emma and Hiro, and Arisa, I feel they are all, good children.”

Her additional words made her performance seem less abrupt; her shocked expression appeared to be merely an attempt to protect the image of others.

However, these words have a different flavor to them.

Everyone else is a good kid, and you're the only bad witch, right?

"And you, Meruru?" Hoshino Utsunomiya turned his head, his nose brushing against the girl's delicate nose, and asked softly at such close range, "Are you a good girl?"

Their eyes met, and they breathed softly.

"..."

Melulu on the ice was silent for a moment, then turned her back to him.

"I'm a bad child," she whispered.

A bad kid who borrowed someone else's identity, a bad kid who decided to kill people every day, Meluru on Ice is a bad kid.

She admitted it herself.

With a soft sigh, Hoshino Utsunomiya turned around and looked up at the sky.

“Let’s continue talking about the ‘magic that makes flower fields bloom’.”

He said.

"I've always felt that magic is something that creates miracles, makes the impossible possible, and accomplishes the unreal." Raising his hands as if making a camera lens, aiming at the rainbow, Hoshino Utsunomiya closed one eye and began trying to focus:

"Magic is amazing, magic is powerful, magic is wonderful."

"But if I had to say what kind of magic I'd like to have..."

"Maybe I'll want a magic spell that can make the flower field bloom."

It has no real meaning, it's just pretty.

But magic doesn't necessarily have to have some kind of meaning, does it?

The very idea of ​​making a field of flowers that hasn't yet bloomed into full bloom is unrealistic enough.

【...Does the host want magic?】

Suddenly, before Meruru could respond to his words on the ice, the system spoke.

Utsunomiya Hoshino: "...?"

What does this mean, Hakistan?

Wait, wait, wait for me.

Despite being completely baffled by the system's thought process, Hoshino Utsunomiya decisively changed her tune, saying, "...After thinking about it carefully, the magic monster that makes the flower field bloom is actually useless. If possible, I would still like a magic that can automatically increase my bank account balance."

Although saying this suddenly might seem abrupt and could arouse the witch's suspicion, Utsunomiya Hoshino felt that missing the chance to have the system grant her a magic spell that would make the flower field bloom would be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'll never pretend again. I'll never again act like some unknown artsy youth, saying things like I want magic to make flower fields bloom. Please, give me some magic, I'm not greedy, just give me magic like time stopping, space teleportation, disappearance of existence, or sensory synchronization!

...Well, okay, actually this is already quite greedy.

"...Does Hoshino really want money?"

Ice Meluru was puzzled. Making the numbers on her bank card grow seemed too utilitarian, and it also seemed somewhat incongruous with what Utsunomiya Hoshino had just said about miracles and witches.

"No, I don't really want it that much," Hoshino Utsunomiya said dismissively. "Something more practical might be better."

The moment he blurted it out, he realized that it was useless.

Even if the system gave him a magic spell to increase the number in his bank account, Utsunomiya Hoshino, who was currently in prison, would probably be unable to do anything, let alone spend the money or even check if the number in his bank account had increased.

Either way, he'd be locked up in jail for half his life, so rather than leaving behind this kind of magic that he can't use at all, he might as well just die and go back.

Moreover, Hoshino Utsunomiya felt that the system couldn't cast any decent magic.

If it could be published, it would have been published already!

【Eh...】

[I don't understand, but the system feels that the host's conquest of the witch is progressing very smoothly. They've already held hands, eaten together, and can even lie on the same bed together!]

[Strategy progress is a great success!]

[Congratulations, host! You have successfully defeated the witch in a short time on the prison island that houses her! Reward: 'The Magic That Makes Flower Fields Bloom'!]

[The magic that makes flower fields bloom! It can make the surrounding flower fields bloom anytime, anywhere!]

Eh...

Hoshino Utsunomiya thought that if there were a mirror in front of him right now, his expression would definitely be quite subtle.

Reduplicated words, disgusting.

cough.

Putting aside the reduplicated words, which eye of yours saw my strategy progressing smoothly? What do you mean by giving out rewards just as the strategy is about to be completed? Isn't there something wrong with your criteria for reward distribution?

“Sigh…” Hoshino Utsunomiya sighed softly, propping himself up to sit up again: “However, I probably won’t have the magic to automatically increase my bank account balance.”

"But if we're talking about magic..."

"I might do it a little bit."

"The magic that makes the flower fields bloom."

"Want to see?"

He suddenly asked this question.

Quite out of the blue, I suddenly brought up this kind of magic, rambled on and on, and then turned around and asked this question.

Hoshino Utsunomiya wasn't really sure what she was doing.

He felt like he was working on a strategy.

But it's hard to say.

He just realized that now seemed like the perfect time to use this kind of magic to create the atmosphere he needed most.

It's just unclear whether the atmosphere created in this way is the kind of atmosphere he wants or that suits him.

"...?"

Hoshino Utsunomiya wasn't the only one clueless; Meluru Hikami, who overheard him saying this, was also at a loss.

Although when Hoshino Utsunomiya brought up this kind of magic, she had guessed that Hoshino might have encountered a prospective witch who could cast this magic in the past, or perhaps she had seen this kind of magic somewhere before.

But what she didn't expect was that the topic would ultimately lead to this.

—He knows this magic himself.

Eh...did you really get arrested because you were detected as having witch genes?

Those who have been detected with witch factors exceeding the standard, and who are potential witches with magic, are considered evil and would endanger national security, so they are imprisoned in this jail.

To possess magic is to have witch genes, to be a prospective witch, and to be arrested and imprisoned.

Meruru's mind went blank for a moment on the ice, but she quickly got up and gently nodded:

"Ah."

As soon as he finished speaking, Hoshino Utsunomiya raised his hand.

Just like when I first obtained the superhuman strength, a clear and understandable feeling of using it arose in my hand, simply by calling upon miracles at will.

The flowers are blooming.

Driven by magic, the purple lavender fields burst open, their petals spreading rapidly outwards like ripples, creating waves of wind and rain.

The abundant petals rose rapidly with the naturally swirling wind, then drifted gently downwards.

Purple, purple, there's purple lavender everywhere.

The intense fragrance spreads as the flowers bloom, and vast fields of lavender sway in the wind, yet remain in full bloom.

this is.

The magic that makes the flower field bloom.

It's useless, utterly boring, and completely meaningless.

magic.

The flowers were in full bloom, and the drifting petals created a beautiful scene. On the ice, Meruru slightly parted her lips and offered a soft word of praise for this utterly boring magic.