Tsukishiro Yuki stated that the body-swapping magic has a one-day cooldown.
Although he didn't know if her words were true or false, Suke tentatively believed her nonsense. Thinking about it, Tsukishiro Yuki experimenting on Hikami Meruru was also a matter of necessity. She couldn't possibly perform it on herself, could she? With her skeleton-soldier-like physique, those slender limbs and massive fruits (breasts) of Meruru's would probably crush her waist.
Of course, there were still many points to roast, but Suke didn't feel like roasting them anymore.
'Great Witch-sama, please, you absolutely must not do anything strange to my body~!'
'Rest assured, Meruru, I'm just experiencing your life for a bit~'
'But... Wu...'
'Tsukishiro Yuki' looked as if she were about to cry. Shedding tears was an extremely rare occurrence for the body of the Great Witch. In Suke's impression, she would only tear up and roll her eyes back when her feet didn't touch the ground in the latter half of the night, but that didn't seem to be the same thing.
"Miss Meruru, please do not whisper to others during class."
On the Island of Witches, inside a small classroom partitoned off from the main hall, Hosho Margaret was tapping on the blackboard.
Because Tsukishiro Yuki had already extracted the Witch Factor from the bodies of all the girls who had turned into Debris, there were many new faces on the Island of Witches compared to before—girls who had just reverted from Debris to human. As one of the Magical Girls who chose to stay and live on the island, this mysterious purple individual, who was only 15 years old yet extremely mature, voluntarily took up the job of teaching social common sense to the girls who had just returned to humanity.
It had to be said that her scope of knowledge was indeed quite broad. Young as she was, she knew everything from astronomy to geography. Compared to Hikami Meruru, who had lived for hundreds of years yet was still like an illiterate, the difference was like heaven and earth. Therefore, under her suggestion, Hikami Meruru also came to participate in her lectures. This was also a matter approved by the Great Witch.
But right now...
"Miss Meruru, I feel you are much more active today compared to usual~"
Hosho Margaret took off the plain glasses she wore purely to enhance her dignity and stared at the very restless Meruru in the seat below the podium.
"However, not seeing you for just a day, Miss Meruru's changes are indeed great. You even changed into new clothes. How about this: come up and solve this calculus problem. If you solve it, I won't hold it against you for chatting with your parent and zoning out just now."
The current 'Hikami Meruru' had already changed into a much looser new nun's habit. This was freshly modified by Suke using the sewing function provided by the functional wand. Although one didn't have to worry about being uncomfortably constricted by the clothes, anyone with eyes could see that Meruru's figure had changed, let alone Hosho Margaret.
"Eh, calculus? That is..."
'I didn't call you!'
Hikami Meruru, wearing Tsukishiro Yuki's body, nervously wanted to ask something, but Suke, who was sitting in the 'auditing' seat beside her in the classroom, tugged at her arm, signaling her not to reveal any abnormalities.
"Mhm, alright~"
On the other side, 'Hikami Meruru' rose elegantly and calmly walked to the podium. Picking up a marker, she wrote out the answer to the calculus problem Hosho Margaret had written on the blackboard in less than ten seconds.
"A-Amazing! Miss Hikami actually solved it!"
"I thought Teacher Margaret was joking. Calculus is a difficult university-level topic no matter how you look at it, but I didn't expect Meruru to actually...!"
Exclamations came from the other girls below the stage, looking at 'Hikami Meruru' on the stage who couldn't help but raise a finger upward, enjoying everyone's admiring gazes.
"Nanaka, didn't you say this Miss Hikami wasn't very smart?" Below the stage, Kurobe Nanaka's sister, who had just returned from being Debris not long ago, whispered to Kurobe Nanaka, who was sitting in the auditing section as a 'parent'. "But you can't tell at all. You weren't joking with your sister, were you?"
Kurobe Nanaka: ...
The mysterious jungler woman quietly swept a glance at 'Tsukishiro Yuki' in the other auditing section using [Hallucination], her expression turning peculiar.
"?"
A visible question mark surfaced in Hosho Margaret's pupils. She stared at the squinting, smiling 'Hikami Meruru' and looked her up and down for a long time, falling into silence for a moment.
Hosho Margaret vaguely remembered meeting Hikami Meruru a few hours ago, who said she was going to help Tsukishiro Yuki with a magic experiment. Could it be that the Great Witch developed a magic to directly input knowledge into the brain and the experiment was successful? No, that's not right! There's something wrong!
Hosho Margaret turned her head with extreme sharpness, her burning gaze looking toward 'Tsukishiro Yuki' sitting beside Suke in the auditing section below the stage. There is only one truth!
"Well done, Miss Meruru. It seems your understanding of higher mathematics is very deep. Then, I'll entrust the teaching of this subject to you tomorrow. I think the students would also be very happy to have a new teacher instruct them."
Hosho Margaret revealed a meaningful smile at 'Tsukishiro Yuki', then let 'Hikami Meruru' return to her seat without saying more. But only Suke, sitting beside 'Tsukishiro Yuki', could feel that the girl beside him was currently a bit stiff.
Higher mathematics? What is that? Was it those strange symbols the Great Witch-sama wrote on the whiteboard just now? But aren't those magic incantations that only the Great Witch-sama can learn and understand?
'Tsukishiro Yuki' looked at Suke with pleading eyes, but Suke indicated that he had returned things like calculus to his professors as soon as he graduated from university.
Good luck, Meruru. If you have to blame someone, blame yourself for getting stuck with an unreliable mom. As your uncle, I can't help you either.
"Damn it... (Kuyashii)"
"Today's class ends here. Dismissed!"
Accompanied by Hosho Margaret's declaration of the end of today's lesson, the girls in the classroom surrounded Tsukishiro Yuki, who was wearing Hikami Meruru's body, on the podium, chattering away and expressing their admiration for her. They didn't realize anything was wrong; they just felt that Senior Meruru, who usually cried and whimpered, had suddenly become much more cheerful and confident.
"Is this really okay, Mr. Suke?"
Of course, Kurobe Nanaka, who had seen through the truth with magic, would not be deceived. Even though there was no longer any so-called Magical Girl Witch Trial crisis, Kurobe Nanaka still carried her large sniper rifle on her back anytime and anywhere.
"Will no accidents really happen? As far as I know, the government hasn't relaxed its surveillance of our place. If they find out that Miss Great Witch she..." This girl, who was likely the oldest apart from Hikami Meruru and Tsukishiro Yuki, spoke worriedly. She was still that alert and sensitive, perhaps cherishing this hard-won peaceful life, and voiced her concerns.
"Of course not. The Great Witch's magic originates from her soul itself. Even in Meruru's body, it doesn't hinder her output." Suke, who had opened a can of Joja Cola to drink, casually tossed a can to Kurobe Nanaka.
"Besides, isn't there still me? Little Nanaka, you might not know, but like Tsukishiro Yuki, I am also on the government's special list. They dare not provoke us. In short, put your heart at rest and live here happily with your sister. Don't run around carrying that big sniper rifle all day; aren't you tired?"
Downing the Joja Cola in one gulp, Suke comforted this girl who always liked to worry about the sky falling. However, Kurobe Nanaka did remind Suke that the government of this world seemed to have some substance.
One had to know that in the data book Suke obtained from Sawatari Koko previously, it recorded all kinds of anomalies and strange phenomena in this seemingly 'daily life' world. Suke had flipped through it at the time; just the EX-rank world-destroying existences numbered in the double digits. Of course, their ranking as 05 and 06 didn't mean their strength was only fifth and sixth.
The United Government mainly ranked them according to the intelligence they possessed, so it was definitely impossible to be absolutely precise. As for who the EX individuals before and after himself and Tsukishiro Yuki were, the data provided by Sawatari Koko did not say. Thinking about it, the government wouldn't be stupid enough to tell these world-destroying powerhouses of each other's existence, giving them the possibility of conflict or uniting together. That would purely be asking for more trouble.
But this actually aroused some of Suke's curiosity!
"Yuki, how about we call Emma along and go visit Tokyo? I heard from Meruru that the child Hiro hasn't come to the Island of Witches to see everyone for a while, nor has she actively contacted everyone much. Since she won't come, we'll just go find her. I don't believe that the eldest daughter of the Nikaido family is that busy. Could it be that she has a new love and forgot her old favorites?"
Suke made a suggestion to Tsukishiro Yuki and incidentally notified Emma via the public channel. Speaking of which, the original Emma of this world also seemed to have gone back to Tokyo to attend school together with Nikaido Hiro. It was said to be the same high school; he wondered how their new school life was.
"Meruru, do you know which high school Nikaido Hiro and Sakuraba Emma are attending?"
"Hmm? I know. Hiro told me the name of the high school they went to before..."
Because her memory wasn't great, Hikami Meruru was in the habit of recording important information in her phone's memo. Hikami Meruru, wearing Tsukishiro Yuki's body, hurriedly took out her own phone, opened the memos and flipped through them, then read out this name:
"I think it's called something like... Private Hope's Peak Academy?"
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