The Speedrun Manual of Miss Witch - Chapter 157

“I don’t know how to explain it either?”

Ciel raised her hands, grabbed her hair, and said somewhat irritably, “This knowledge just appears in my mind for no reason. I can’t understand it, can’t articulate it, only operate it practically.”

Knowledge she can’t understand or articulate, that appears in her mind?

The Keyman quickly stood up, walked to Ciel’s front, placed their hands on her shoulders, and looked into Ciel’s eyes, maintaining close eye contact.

“Are you sure?” The Keyman confirmed again.

“I am sure.” Ciel nodded.

Ciel wasn’t lying. She had sealed knowledge in her mind and a system she couldn’t talk about.

And the indescribable, undemonstrable, but practically operable…

The “Instigator’s” favorite 【Spiritual Summoning】

“Demonstrate a…”

The Keyman stopped mid-sentence, immediately saying, “Don’t move first.”

The Keyman stopped what they were originally going to say, and instead ordered the young girl before them not to move.

They were afraid the young girl was telling the truth.

If the young girl really started chanting something on the spot, they would be in trouble.

The Keyman’s brain quickly spun. Soon, they looked at Ciel again and said, “Where is your ‘Dream Thief’ potion?”

“Outside. Merritt is holding it for me.” Ciel muttered softly, “But I don’t want to advance… ‘Instigator’ is quite useful…”

“No need to worry about advancing. I will assist you.”

The Keyman released their hands, their gaze passing over Ciel and directly towards the door.

Meanwhile, outside, Merritt, who was waiting, suddenly heard a voice in her mind.

Her body stiffened slightly. She looked at the canvas bag in her hand.

Inside were the two bottles of potion belonging to the new captain, “Faceless.”

She held the canvas bag, trembling, lowered her head, and walked forward. When she reached the door, she closed her eyes tightly, lowered her head, and pushed open the door.

As soon as she opened the door, Merritt seemed to feel the cold air emanating from inside. She couldn’t help but tremble.

She held out her hands before her. Only when the weight in her hands lessened and the wooden door was closed behind her did Merritt’s heart, which had been in suspense, slowly relax.

She retreated several steps. Only after reaching her original position by feel did Merritt slowly open her eyes, breathing a sigh of relief.

Cold sweat had completely soaked her back. Fortunately, the people inside the room seemed to no longer pay attention to her.

Meanwhile, inside the room.

The Keyman held the canvas bag in their hand. They opened it directly and saw the two potion bottles casually placed together inside.

They truly didn’t care about advancing at all… The Keyman gently shook their head.

Expensive potions were placed so casually, even entrusted to a subordinate for safekeeping… This was the Society of Merriment.

It wasn’t impossible for a subordinate to be unhappy, take the potion, and run off. Lower-ranked members overthrowing higher-ranked ones was simply too common in the Society of Merriment.

Unless this young girl could make all her subordinates more obedient than if they were brainwashed, she would be stabbed one day… If they didn’t think about stabbing someone and causing trouble, they wouldn’t be “Instigators.”

However, this attitude of not caring about advancement was actually beneficial for them to control her.

As long as she could never advance to “Subverter,” they could always hold power over her.

The Keyman took out the bottle of “Dream Thief” potion from the canvas bag. They gently shook it. The dark gray liquid inside began sloshing around. Pink brilliance began to fill the entire bottle.

The vibrant pink light, like starlight in a dream, swirled within the bottle, as if the starry sky was contained inside. However, within this dreamlike beauty, something transparent seemed to be writhing, stirring the clouds inside.

“I will help you advance to ‘Dream Thief’.”

The Keyman held the potion in their hand, looked at Ciel, and said, “In a dream, demonstrate the scene of you instigating them for me.”

The Keyman dared not have Ciel demonstrate in reality, but it was different in a dream.

Moreover, they weren’t worried about Ciel tampering with things in the dream.

Because a “Dream Thief” alone, without the assistance of a “Blood Painter,” cannot construct scenes they have not witnessed.

As long as the Faceless could construct it, it must be something they had seen.

As long as the Faceless could construct it, it proved they hadn’t lied.

And they, as long as they became familiar with the Faceless’s method in the dream, they could abandon the Faceless in reality, handle the matter themselves, and steal the Faceless’s achievement…

“Tsk…”

In the Keyman’s eyes, the Faceless young girl seemed to look at the potion bottle in their hand with a hint of disgust, then asked, “What is the ‘Dream Thief’s’ Reconstitution Ritual?”

“Becoming conscious in a dream and mastering your own dream allows you to meet the minimum requirement for digesting the potion.” The Keyman replied.

This was the fastest method, although digesting the potion this way was very unstable… But they weren’t taking it themselves. They only needed what the young girl before them constructed.

To achieve perfect reconstitution, one had to go through several rounds of dreams, even experience several lifetimes in dreams. This wasn’t something that could be done in a short time.

“Next, I will do one step, and you follow one step.”

The Keyman handed the potion to the young girl, saying, “First, open the potion bottle.”

The Keyman handed the potion to the red-haired young girl, watched the young girl slowly open the potion bottle, then…

In one gulp, she drank it all down.

“What are you doing?!”

The Keyman was both shocked and angry. They abruptly reached out and snatched the empty potion bottle from the young girl’s hand.

Damn it! Is she crazy? Drinking it directly like that?

Although she was a bit crazy, she was an indispensable helper for stabilizing their potion. If this bottle of potion really made her completely insane, finding another “Instigator” with such potential and controllability wouldn’t be easy.

The Keyman could almost foresee the young girl before them being subjected to the potion’s backlash after a brief silence, and then her body collapsing.

But what they didn’t expect was.

The young girl before them, with eyes closed, just licked her lips, slowly took a deep breath with her chest puffed out, then opened her eyes. Starlight flowed in her light pink pupils. Semi-transparent pink tentacles swayed wildly with excitement.

“It has no taste~”

Ciel smiled, looked at the Keyman before her, and asked with a smile.

“Next, how should I construct the dream?”

Want to see dreams? Want to learn 【Spiritual Summoning】?

Very well, then I’ll let you see, let you learn.

Let you help me complete this grand summoning ritual.