Summary
In her third year living in this steampunk world, Ciel gained the ability to simulate both the past and the future.
These simulations turned into a game where she could act without restraint, and after countless trials, real life became a replica she could navigate as though speedrunning it.
Churches, potions, mutations, the Old Gods, witches, sealed artifacts… none of these have anything to do with Ciel. She’s just an ordinary girl who wishes for a peaceful life.
She just happens to be particularly skilled at snuffing out danger before it even begins.
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Volume 1
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- 5 Chapter 94 - The "Favored's" Gamble (2/2) 10/04/2025 69
- 5 Chapter 94 - The "Favored's" Gamble (1/2) 10/04/2025 8
- 5 Chapter 93 - High Noon Arrives, Doom Descends (4/4) 10/04/2025 10
- 5 Chapter 93 - High Noon Arrives, Doom Descends (3/4) 10/04/2025 8
- 5 Chapter 93 - High Noon Arrives, Doom Descends (2/4) 10/04/2025 8
- 5 Chapter 93 - High Noon Arrives, Doom Descends (1/4) 10/04/2025 7
- 5 Chapter 92 - Waiting for the Final Moment (2/2) 10/04/2025 8
- 5 Chapter 92 - Waiting for the Final Moment (1/2) 10/04/2025 9
- 5 Chapter 91 - Entering Deton Manor Again and the Frustrated Kitty (3/3) 10/04/2025 7
- 5 Chapter 91 - Entering Deton Manor Again and the Frustrated Kitty (2/3) 10/04/2025 7
- 5 Chapter 91 - Entering Deton Manor Again and the Frustrated Kitty (1/3) 10/04/2025 8
- 5 Chapter 90 - Collapsing Body and Inspecting the Blood Array (2/2) 10/04/2025 13
- 5 Chapter 90 - Collapsing Body and Inspecting the Blood Array (1/2) 10/04/2025 9
- 5 Chapter 89 - The Radiant Edict of the Divine "Bishop" (2/2) 10/04/2025 12
- 5 Chapter 89 - The Radiant Edict of the Divine "Bishop" (1/2) 10/04/2025 9
- 5 Chapter 88 - Instigation, Ritual, and Bloodletting (4/4) 10/04/2025 7
- 5 Chapter 88 - Instigation, Ritual, and Bloodletting (3/4) 10/04/2025 7
- 5 Chapter 88 - Instigation, Ritual, and Bloodletting (2/4) 10/04/2025 9
- 5 Chapter 88 - Instigation, Ritual, and Bloodletting (1/4) 10/04/2025 7
- 5 Chapter 87 - Brand New Spiritual Summoning Method (2/2) 10/04/2025 8
- 5 Chapter 87 - Brand New Spiritual Summoning Method (1/2) 10/04/2025 7
- 5 Chapter 86 - Dismembered "Radiance Bishop" (4/4) 10/04/2025 7
- 5 Chapter 86 - Dismembered "Radiance Bishop" (3/4) 10/04/2025 7
- 5 Chapter 86 - Dismembered "Radiance Bishop" (2/4) 10/04/2025 8
- 5 Chapter 86 - Dismembered "Radiance Bishop" (1/4) 10/04/2025 8
- 5 Chapter 85 - Confronting the Divine Advent Church "Radiance Bishop" Directly 10/04/2025 9
- 5 Chapter 84 - You're More Hardcore Than the Cultists (3/3) 10/04/2025 8
- 5 Chapter 84 - You're More Hardcore Than the Cultists (2/3) 10/04/2025 8
- 5 Chapter 84 - You're More Hardcore Than the Cultists (1/3) 10/04/2025 8
- 5 Chapter 83 - Sacrifice Everyone Present, Summon the Mother Goddess? (3/3) 10/04/2025 7
- 5 Chapter 83 - Sacrifice Everyone Present, Summon the Mother Goddess? (2/3) 10/04/2025 8
- 5 Chapter 83 - Sacrifice Everyone Present, Summon the Mother Goddess? (1/3) 10/04/2025 9
- 5 Chapter 82 - Whispers of "Instigator" Ciel (3/3) 10/04/2025 9
- 5 Chapter 82 - Whispers of "Instigator" Ciel (2/3) 10/04/2025 10
- 5 Chapter 82 - Whispers of "Instigator" Ciel (1/3) 10/04/2025 12
- 5 Chapter 81 - Three in a Bed (3/3) 10/04/2025 7
- 5 Chapter 81 - Three in a Bed (2/3) 10/04/2025 10
- 5 Chapter 81 - Three in a Bed (1/3) 10/04/2025 9
- 5 Chapter 80 - What If I Said I Was "Sadhana"? (3/3) 10/04/2025 12
- 5 Chapter 80 - What If I Said I Was "Sadhana"? (2/3) 10/04/2025 18
- 5 Chapter 80 - What If I Said I Was "Sadhana"? (1/3) 10/04/2025 11
- Free Chapter 79 - Intelligence Network? You Might As Well Run for Pope (2/2) 1 hour ago 41
- Free Chapter 79 - Intelligence Network? You Might As Well Run for Pope (1/2) 1 hour ago 45
- Free Chapter 78 - Tentacles That Only Corrode Clothes and a Lap Pillow (2/2) 1 hour ago 40
- Free Chapter 78 - Tentacles That Only Corrode Clothes and a Lap Pillow (1/2) 13 hours ago 235
- Free Chapter 77 - Wasn't This Supposed to Be a Normal Dungeon? Who Changed It to Epic?! (2/2) 1 day ago 263
- Free Chapter 77 - Wasn't This Supposed to Be a Normal Dungeon? Who Changed It to Epic?! (1/2) 1 day ago 359
- Free Chapter 76 - Large-Scale Raid "The Wrath of Ciel" (2/2) 2 days ago 417
- Free Chapter 76 - Large-Scale Raid "The Wrath of Ciel" (1/2) 3 days ago 493
- Free Chapter 75 - "Judicator" Ciel and Zero-Pound Shopping (2/2) 15/04/2025 364
- Free Chapter 75 - "Judicator" Ciel and Zero-Pound Shopping (1/2) 14/04/2025 478
- Free Chapter 74 - I, Ciel, Your Judge (2/2) 14/04/2025 365
- Free Chapter 74 - I, Ciel, Your Judge (1/2) 13/04/2025 429
- Free Chapter 73 - "What's the Plan?" "Kill Our Way Through." (2/2) 13/04/2025 357
- Free Chapter 73 - "What's the Plan?" "Kill Our Way Through." (1/2) 12/04/2025 463
- Free Chapter 72 - How Did I End Up in Bed? (3/3) 12/04/2025 422
- Free Chapter 72 - How Did I End Up in Bed? (2/3) 11/04/2025 479
- Free Chapter 72 - How Did I End Up in Bed? (1/3) 11/04/2025 567
- Free Chapter 71 - The Real Bishop Has Arrived (2/2) 10/04/2025 431
- Free Chapter 71 - The Real Bishop Has Arrived (1/2) 10/04/2025 445
- Free Chapter 70 - Heretic Judgement and Massacre (3/3) 07/04/2025 813
- Free Chapter 70 - Heretic Judgement and Massacre (2/3) 07/04/2025 449
- Free Chapter 70 - Heretic Judgement and Massacre (1/3) 07/04/2025 580
- Free Chapter 69 - The Mad Bishop (2/2) 01/04/2025 1131
- Free Chapter 69 - The Mad Bishop (1/2) 01/04/2025 701
- Free Chapter 68 - Ciel, the Little Cult Leader (3/3) 30/03/2025 677
- Free Chapter 68 - Ciel, the Little Cult Leader (2/3) 30/03/2025 605
- Free Chapter 68 - Ciel, the Little Cult Leader (1/3) 30/03/2025 638
- Free Chapter 67 - Such a Ruthless Version of Myself 30/03/2025 645
- Free Chapter 66 - Not Sure Who to Kill? Kill Them All! (2/2) 26/03/2025 1099
- Free Chapter 66 - Not Sure Who to Kill? Kill Them All! (1/2) 26/03/2025 768
- Free Chapter 65 - Five Potions and One Set of Materials 25/03/2025 803
- Free Chapter 64 - "Gambler," "Cultist"—Ciel (2/2) 25/03/2025 603
- Free Chapter 64 - "Gambler," "Cultist"—Ciel (1/2) 24/03/2025 738
- Free Chapter 63 - The Abyss of Gambling—Gambling Deity Ciel (3/3) 24/03/2025 600
- Free Chapter 63 - The Abyss of Gambling—Gambling Deity Ciel (2/3) 23/03/2025 679
- Free Chapter 63 - The Abyss of Gambling—Gambling Deity Ciel (1/3) 23/03/2025 708
- Free Chapter 62 - Speedrunning the "Gambler" Path? 22/03/2025 756
- Free Chapter 61 - Bloodthirsty Gamblers (3/3) 22/03/2025 783
- Free Chapter 61 - Bloodthirsty Gamblers (2/3) 21/03/2025 774
- Free Chapter 61 - Bloodthirsty Gamblers (1/3) 21/03/2025 1217
- Free Chapter 60 - Patient Adele? (Part 5) 20/03/2025 1253
- Free Chapter 59 - A Long-Awaited Warmth (Part 4) 20/03/2025 1216
- Free Chapter 58 - The "Instigator" Ritual Is Already Complete? (Part 3) 19/03/2025 1223
- Free Chapter 57 - Can You Stay? (Part 2) 19/03/2025 1193
- Free Chapter 56 - The "Gambler" Path, a Transcendent Casino? (Part 1) 18/03/2025 1250
- Free Chapter 55 - Avena’s Ascension and Deton Manor (Part 5) 18/03/2025 1246
- Free Chapter 54 - Now It's Your Turn (Part 4) 18/03/2025 1197
- Free Chapter 53 - Action in Reality (Part 3) 17/03/2025 1275
- Free Chapter 52 - The Battle Erupts (Part 2) 17/03/2025 1203
- Free Chapter 51 - Deadly Blood Laurel 17/03/2025 1194
- Free Chapter 50 - I Found You (Part 7) 15/03/2025 1275
- Free Chapter 49 - Let Me Help You Complete the "Instigator" Ritual (Part 6) 15/03/2025 1231
- Free Chapter 48 - First Past Simulation and an "Old Friend" (Part 5) 19/02/2025 2450
- Free Chapter 47 - You Should Become an Ascetic (Part 4) 18/02/2025 1573
- Free Chapter 46 - The Radiance Bishop Breaks Down Again (Part 3) 18/02/2025 1558
- Free Chapter 45 - A Vision of the Other Side? (Part 2) 17/02/2025 1599
- Free Chapter 44 - The False Person and Hearing the Divine Oracle (Part 1) 08/01/2025 2439
- Free Chapter 43 - Death Approaches Early and Deep Simulation (Part 3) 08/01/2025 1660
- Free Chapter 42 - Future Simulation, Two Days Later (Part 2) 07/01/2025 1743
- Free Chapter 41 - Contacting Avena in Reality (Part 1) 07/01/2025 1612
- Free Chapter 40 - The Safest Place (Part 4) 07/01/2025 1674
- Free Chapter 39 - The Plaguebearer and the Source of Cholera (Part 3) 07/01/2025 1621
- Free Chapter 38 - Uris’s Sister (Part 2) 07/01/2025 1613
- Free Chapter 37 - Transcendent Ambush (Part 1) 07/01/2025 1656
- Free Chapter 36 - The Abyss of Despair (Part 5) 06/01/2025 1787
- Free Chapter 35 - Simulating 16 Days Later, Investigating Dehydration Syndrome (Part 4) 06/01/2025 1743
- Free Chapter 34 - Meeting the Parents and Lord Hastings (Part 3) 06/01/2025 1714
- Free Chapter 33 - A New Boss and Dehydration Cases (Part 2) 06/01/2025 1690
- Free Chapter 32 - The Headmaster and Running into Avena (Part 1) 05/01/2025 1747
- Free Chapter 31 - Undercurrents in the Calm (Part 5) 05/01/2025 1715
- Free Chapter 30 - Breaking the Fated Death (Part 4) 04/01/2025 1734
- Free Chapter 29 - The Scam Artist System!!! (Part 3) 04/01/2025 1687
- Free Chapter 28 - Girl Bank Caper (Part 2) 04/01/2025 1664
- Free Chapter 27 - Standard Procedure at Charlie Bank (Part 1) 04/01/2025 1663
- Free Chapter 26 - Let’s Hit It Big! 03/01/2025 1777
- Free Chapter 25 - The Remaining Time… Let’s Make Some Money! 03/01/2025 1819
- Free Chapter 24 - A Tool for the Future 03/01/2025 1788
- Free Chapter 23 - The Gossip-Loving Noblewoman 03/01/2025 1713
- Free Chapter 22 - Easily Capturing the Officer, Because I’m a Lady Killer 02/01/2025 1768
- Free Chapter 21 - Police Investigation 02/01/2025 1689
- Free Chapter 20 - Ciel, the Big Shot 02/01/2025 1750
- Free Chapter 19 - Unnatural Death 02/01/2025 1681
- Free Chapter 18 - Then Let’s Speedrun It 01/01/2025 1905
- Free Chapter 17 - Archive—"Ciel the Avenger" 01/01/2025 1902
- Free Chapter 16 - Ciel the Avenger’s… Character Archive? 01/01/2025 1750
- Free Chapter 15 - She’s Not Lying? Seriously? 01/01/2025 1718
- Free Chapter 14 - What If… I Drink the Potion? 31/12/2024 1720
- Free Chapter 13 - A Path to Survival Without Exposure 31/12/2024 1661
- Free Chapter 12 - The "Perverted" High Priestess 31/12/2024 1696
- Free Chapter 11 - Double Your Blessings for the Savior Goddess 31/12/2024 1774
- Free Chapter 10 - Deceit and the Church of the Savior Goddess 30/12/2024 1880
- Free Chapter 9 - Peering Behind the Veil of the Extraordinary 30/12/2024 1747
- Free Chapter 8 - The Night of Boiling Blood 30/12/2024 1710
- Free Chapter 7 - Interrupted Ritual and an Unexpected Intruder 30/12/2024 1701
- Free Chapter 6 - Taking the Initiative! 29/12/2024 1764
- Free Chapter 5 - Reversing Death 29/12/2024 1829
- Free Chapter 4 - The Murder and Vengeance Ritual 28/12/2024 1873
- Free Chapter 3 - Future, Past, and Old Days 28/12/2024 2134
- Free Chapter 2 - The Death of the Future 28/12/2024 2250
- Free Chapter 1 - The Girl Just Wants a Peaceful Life 28/12/2024 3973
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LOTM vibes indeed, whens the next update?
When is the update again? It’s an amazing story! It would be a shame to be abandoned
Was this forgotten about again?
wth am I cursed or something? I pick something up, read to the current chapter, then leave the series alone for two weeks and the translator decides to stop translating just at that moment?
Her writing into the book is a form of changing the present. If you tell the simulated self to die at x time, the simulation cant go past that time. As long as the simulated self knows they are simulated, there is no problem with them killing themselves as mc kills themselves all the time when simulated.
She doesnt need to pay any points to see the time she can simulate. And if present changes simulation time you have your yes or no divination
If you tell the simulated self to die, it only affect the simulation and not the real timeline. This doesn't create a new "Fated Death" (which should be based on what will happen in the real timeline) that would cap how far she can simulate the future. This will simply cut short the current simulation. And the system didn't tell her the simulation would end prematurely this time.
The fated death is a max cap, not a min cap. If your fated death is 16 days away and you write in your book to kill yourself 10 days from now. The simulation will offer 10 days. If you then rip it up and write 5 days, the simulation will say 5 days.
Such a min cap doesn't exist. It has no reason to exist. There's no indication it might exist. The system will offer a date for future simulation, that is not after the esimated "Fated Death" (where Ciel would live her life normally without doing further simulation, nor trying weird shit because she would know she's in a simulation). This is the only factor that the system consider.
If Ciel decide to be excessively reckless in seeking death in the simulation? The system will not precalculate when she would die before running the simulation. She can get the information after she pays up, be dumped at the point of death rather than the designated time of simulation, and do her best to make sure the Fate points aren't wasted (that's what happened here, though of course dying only a bit more than half an hour before the designated time wasn't a huge deal).
Again that isnt true. We know this because in her last attempt, her simulated self tried to do the fake simulation which led to her early death forcing her to simulate earlier. She saw this in her menu that the date was different
This never happened. Stop inventing things.
In chapter 42 she check the menu for the first time, the predicted date is June 20, 7:00PM.
In chapter 43, after she paid for and launched the simulation, she starts the simulation at June 20, 6:25PM because the simulated self just died.
There was never a moment when the date in the menu changed.
Her first one was july 4th. Her actions in present lowered her next one to june 20th. Reason being in part because stuff was moves up but also because her simulated self used the simulation to die
The system can bring you back any time within 24h of your death. Hence why her 7pm and 625pm doesnt matter because it is within the 24h. If you die earlier than 24h, you would be outside your fated death
Her action in reality caused the perpetrator to advance his plan. What she would be doing in the simulation had absolutely no bearing whatsoever on what date the system would offer.
Beside you're under the misconception that the simulation endpoint offered by the system will be close to when she would die. It's not the case. It can't simulate past her death for obvious reason, but before that it can be anything. This is clear in the first arc, where after getting the Avenger archive she was in no actual imminent danger of death, but her next simulation was only one day in the future.
The system has shown that it simulates within 24 hours of death. When she got her avenger, she was still within the 2 day death cycle, that time 1 day later was 6 min away from her death
But at that point she had the power to avoid that death. There might have been unforeseen consequences if she just went blind, but probably none that would see her die immediately.
The system doesnt care if she has the power to avoid death or not, especially that so called power is system power. Until she clears, the system counts it as fated death.
that falls in line of not being able to change the max time
Here's an illustration of Ciel in 3 different paths : Avenger, Pure Mode, and Tempter/Instigator
I hope she learns to use the simulation time to her advantage. Like for example, write a note to her simulated self. Then check the time. Then write a different note and check the time. If her simulated self dies early or later is a hint of impact of her actions.
she can even take it a step further and tell her simulated self to comit suicide on x day if answer is yes, and y day if answer is no. Thus getting answers without wasting points
The simulation only start after she paid. Why would the simulated self dying early result in her not losing the points?
The simulation cant simulate past her lifespan.
If she plans to kill herself at x time, it can only simulate up to a certain time before her death.
We saw this when she simulated a few days later on 2nd try instead of half a month. Because her actions led to an early death
So she can use time of death as a form of yes or no divination without spending points. It isnt perfect because other events can lead to early death but you can do hundreds of tests in an hour and narrow it down
This is such a dumb "loophole" it would be ridiculous to expect the system to let her get away with it.
It considers her actual lifespan as the upper limit, not whatever shenanigans the simulated self might do knowing she's the simulated self.
That isnt true, she simulated on her last attempt precisely because her simulated self died when she tried to simulate within the simulation.
Now if the system will let her get away with it, who knows? The system doesnt seem to care about these kind of things.
And what happened when the simulated self died? She simply started the 24 hours immersive simulation early (starting at the point of death). She still paid the points, she still got the mental fatigue from going through the simulation.
So how is she supposed to make use of that to get information for free?
Yes on first part, but not exactly on 2nd part. Yes, she chose to pay the points but she knew the time of simulation before paying the points.
Let me make it simple for you, let us say she wants to know if tommorrows breakfast will be pancakes or waffles. So she writes in the book, if tommorrows breakfast is pancakes, kill yourself tommorrow. If breakfast is waffles, kill yourself after tommorrow.
Then open up the simulation screen and if simulation time is tommrrow, you know it is pancakes. If it is after tommorrow it is waffles. You know this without paying points just from seeing the simulation time.
Now remove that page from the book and rewrite it in reverse and see if time of simulation changed.
The approach isnt perfect, but it gives you a free yes or no divination.
Except that's not how it happened. She choses the simulation time of June 20, 7pm. Due to the instruction the simulated self, she died before that and the simulation started at 6:25pm. Ciel had no way of knowing this would happen before she launched the simulation.
While yes the future simulation time can't be after a "Fated Death", but Ciel wouldn't commit suicide knowing this is real life and not a simulation, so a scenario based on the simulated self killing herself isn't a "Fated Death" and won't change her upper limit for the simulation time.
There might be a way for it to work, but the prerequisite would be that Ciel no longer can distinguish between being in a simulation or in the real timeline. I think you can agree this would probably not be worth the cost.
The simlation can simulate you any time within 24 hours. So 7pm was her death and taking over at 6:25 is fine, the date is still same june 20th.
Actions in the present change the dates, her fated death time changed from half a month to a few days due to her actions in the present. She cant change the upper limit but she can change the lower limit
It doesnt matter if she distinguishes or not. All that needs to change stuff is a change of the present. Her writing in her book is changing the present.
I think the author is trying to avoid making it like Re:zero (too depressing, brutal deaths, messed-up stuff) because of the regulations in writing novels in China. Doulou…
oh wow, surely this wouldn't cause an existential crisis for the simulated her!
A bit unreasonable for her to quickly lose her fear of death, but damn, that's cold. I guess she's treating the simulation as some sort of game, and her killing herself might be because she might gain some skills from it
oh boy, Oh Boy, OH BOI! Lol what we have here~
That's actually really smart
Quite a unique pfp you got there. Literally the cover for the Vtuber WN. Mine is one of the illustrations of Golden Reaper
Ya since it's my favourite novels of last year. Also you were quite fast in reading this. I was the one who recommended it on NU lol
I had nothing to do at the time, I read 48 chapters in 1 day, I think I read 23-48 in requiemtls. First arc hooked me, and I'm still following the novel. Currently at chapter 148, I'll read the rest later
To add to my previous comment that went into moderation, you want the txt not the online as online chapter numbers are off
I have a feeling this would backfire to mc someday, it wouldn't be weird if someone or some being able to see a glimpse of this simulation that happened to Uris lol.
Oh wow, its so similar to lotm, i dont know if its originally exclusive to lotm or not though,
Damn this goood
She really did "persona!"
The bishop is def suspicious as his offering to exchange sanity for information sounds weird
Let me guess that professor is a traitor
Thats slick
Mmm the floors made out of floor
Mc treat this simulation as video game is a bit disturbing, but also reasonable
I think it's okay, the Mc still hasn't done any morally wrong with people though I doubt robbing a bank is morally wrong.
As long it's only in stimulation, it's nothing wrong!
Is this still being translated?
Is there a reason for sudden stop of updates? I see this for many series. Is it due to lack of free raws?
if so there are 200 raws out on 3rd party sites like:
https://trxs.cc/tongren/9924.html
She should really write tasks for reality and tasks for simulation to draw a psychological line
There is no guarantee a contract cant be broken. The other party can also take steps that they think is good but harms you
The future sure looks promising.