"What do you mean we can't hold the Witch Sabbath Ritual?"
"Doesn't that mean we have to stay in this hellhole? Isn't this just getting our hopes up for nothing!"
Inside the second-floor Hall, Sawatari Koko shouted in dissatisfaction.
She had clearly prepared herself to go back and see her grandfather. Having been missing for so long, her grandfather must be worried sick about her!
[This one actually feels that living here is quite nice.]
[We can sleep until we wake up naturally every day, there is delicious food provided by Mr. Suke, and everyone can gather together to hold various activities...]
Natsume An-An raised her sign. Upon hearing the news from Witch Emma that the ritual could not be held for the time being, she did not show the slightest dissatisfaction.
On the contrary, she felt a little secret delight in her heart.
"But if the problem of the Witch Factor isn't resolved, this is ultimately just a slow death."
Hasumi Rhea raised her hand to express her own viewpoint:
"We cannot let down the painstaking efforts of Mr. Suke and the others. Let us all unite together!"
"Tsk, to put it plainly, there's nothing we can do anyway, is there?"
Shito Arisa clicked her tongue.
"Everyone, please quiet down."
"Please rest assured, Mr. Suke and I will definitely find a way to save everyone."
Witch Emma soothed everyone's emotions while paying attention to the messages Suke was sending her via the public channel.
[Conscience Farmer: I got the situation out of her, but it's a bit vague.]
[Conscience Farmer: I don't know if it's because of the Witch-transformation, but that silly child only remembers parts of the content before the [Death Rewind] activated.]
[Conscience Farmer: She said she saw the Emma of their world stab you to death in the middle of the ritual, then kill all of them, and finally committed suicide.]
[Conscience Farmer: What does this mean?]
Witch Emma looked at the messages Suke sent her, feeling somewhat confused.
After all, they were both "herself." Emma always felt that she could somewhat understand the mindset of her self in this world.
The conflict with Hiro had been resolved, and her cherished friends were all by her side.
Reasonably speaking, even if she recalled the Taboo of sitting by and watching Yuki be bullied to death, the Witch-transformation shouldn't go so out of control.
Moreover, even if the self of this world became Witch-transformed, Emma did not think the other party would be a match for her current self.
Assuming what Hiro said was true, there must be some important external factor that she had forgotten.
"Emma!" Just in case, Witch Emma walked towards her own self.
"If you have anything on your mind, you absolutely must not keep it bottled up inside!"
"You must remember, you are already a very good person. No one is qualified to criticize you!"
"Including me!"
"...Eh?"
"I... I understand, the other me!"
Leaving aside whether these words were a bit "narcissistic."
Facing another self who suddenly pulled her over to say these things, Sakuraba Emma's brain didn't process it for a moment.
Was she... being praised by the more perfect "self" she yearned to be?
Looking at that earnest face that could only be seen in a mirror, Sakuraba Emma's pretty face turned slightly red.
Why are you blushing like a boiling teapot!
If Suke were at the scene, he would definitely drag his family's Emma away immediately.
He dared not imagine what kind of scene would occur if two Hypno-shrooms bewitched each other!
It seemed the current "self" was fine.
After confirming that this world's Sakuraba Emma had no abnormalities for the time being, they could only take it one step at a time.
And not long after, under the treatment brought by Suke and Meruru,
The Witch-transformed Nikaido Hiro barely managed to suppress her murderous impulses.
She controlled her emotions, her face pale as a sheet. Supported by Suke and Meruru, she walked out like a patient who had been hospitalized for a long time.
She swept a glance over everyone, her gaze lingering on the two Emmas for a long time, before slowly withdrawing it.
She turned to look at Suke:
"Please, you must accompany us for the holding of this Witch Sabbath Ritual, Mr. Suke."
"I have a premonition that this is very important. It might directly concern whether the ritual can succeed."
Clearly, she had triggered Death Rewind, yet the vague memories in her mind left Nikaido Hiro still unsure where the path forward lay.
At this moment, she could only follow her intuition and try to make the correct choices.
The situation seemed not to encounter any further accidents. Suke agreed to Nikaido Hiro's request, promising not to leave her side during the ritual.
The Witch Sabbath Ritual was held on time, just as it was in Nikaido Hiro's memories.
This time, she specifically kept an eye on the Emma belonging to their world.
[There shouldn't be any more accidents.]
[But... why can I still not recall what Yuki did after she appeared?]
Her head throbbed dully. The Witch-transformed Nikaido Hiro held her forehead.
She closed her eyes:
She always felt that a figure was missing from her memories.
She could even deduce that this missing figure was exactly Tsukishiro Yuki, whom Witch Emma spoke of as the Great Witch.
However, she just couldn't remember what exactly Tsukishiro Yuki did after being summoned by the Sabbath Ritual.
[But it should be fine.]
[Yuki is my friend, and the guy who killed everyone before the [Death Rewind] was indeed Sakuraba Emma.]
[This time, surely no accidents will occur again...]
The Witch Sabbath Ritual proceeded step by step.
Under the gaze of Suke and the young girls, a human silhouette of a young girl wearing a frilled dress and a sun hat, looking like an aristocrat, slowly emerged.
It was Tsukishiro Yuki.
It was her best friend, Tsukishiro Yuki.
According to the plan, what needed to be done next was to cooperate with the other Emma to persuade her, just getting her not to destroy humanity would be enough.
Given her relationship with Emma and Yuki, surely...
"Everyone is here this time."
"Meruru, have you done the things I asked you to do?"
[It is already completed, Lord Great Witch!]
[The loopholes of the world have all been healed by me... This way, Mister cannot leave you!]
"It was truly hard on you."
"For a 'treatment' of this extent, you must have already exhausted your own life force, right?"
[No... Cough, cough! It doesn't matter...]
[For Lord Great Witch, all of this is worth it...]
A familiar, dreamlike sensation welled up from the bottom of her heart.
Nikaido Hiro suddenly saw Hikami Meruru coughing up blood, her spirit withering.
...Hmm?
Something seems...
"Die with peace of mind, Meruru."
"I will reward you, in the distant past."
Tsukishiro Yuki turned around.
She paid not the slightest attention to Hikami Meruru, whose aura grew weak until she swallowed her last breath, but instead looked at all of them.
She landed her gaze upon Suke, who was waiting in full battle array, and lightly parted her vermilion lips:
"My Animus,"
"Could you please close your eyes?"
"I do not wish to spend too much time on the matter of dissolving your hatred... although our time is still very ample."
The instant the Great Witch's words fell, the television screens above the Tribunal, which had never been turned on, suddenly lit up.
The girls saw that news from all over the world was broadcasting disastrous scenes in sync.
That was the omen of human extinction.
Streets and cities ignited with great fires,
People turned into debris amidst agony,
Finally dying together under the dazzling fireworks.
[HUMAN EXTINCTION.]
Four large characters were displayed on all stations, like a proclamation of the coming Final Judgment.
"'The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot entered into Zoar.
Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven;
And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.'"
(Old Testament · Genesis 19:23-25)
"Humans, face the retribution you deserve."
[?!]
[You... What did you do?!]
In the footage played on the television, humanity was perishing rapidly at an exponential rate.
The girls looked in terror at that Great Witch standing indifferently. She clearly possessed a peerlessly beautiful face, yet she made people feel as if they were seeing a demon from hell.
Clang————!
The male figure drew his sword without hesitation and slashed forward, severing the Great Witch's beautiful head from her neck.
But in just the next instant.
The Great Witch's head, which should have flown off, returned to her neck as if frames were skipped. In the blink of an eye, the severed section healed.
"It hurts very much, my Animus."
"Although I have been cut down by you countless times, every time the tip of your sword touches my flesh, this pain is not fake."
[Yuki... Please 'Die'!]
Witch Emma likewise cried out urgently. She manipulated an invisible force to crush down directly upon the Great Witch like a giant boulder.
The male dressed like a farmer coordinated with her attack, intending to seal off all of Tsukishiro Yuki's retreat paths————
"You should have played enough by now."
"Except for my Animus, please, all of you, 'Die'."
Bang, pop————
Red and pink blood and flesh splattered.
Nikaido Hiro saw the heads of all the girls in the judgment seats burst open in unison like popped balloons.
Including her own.
————And thus.
The girl opened her eyes once again.
...
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