The Speedrun Manual of Miss Witch - Chapter 170

The countdown ended, and the new 【Future Days】 simulation time refreshed.

Luck, this time, finally seemed to be on Ciel’s side.

【Future Days: 3 Days (Holy Year 741, July 7th, 12:07) (Cost: 10 Fate Points)】

When this interface appeared before Ciel, Ciel let out a long sigh of relief.

Today was July 4th… arguably Ciel’s most unlucky day.

Just sixteen days ago, Ciel had performed a Future Days simulation sixteen days later—that is, today.

In that simulation, Ciel experienced an unprecedented sense of oppression, and it was also the first time she felt a somewhat baffling despairing event—the great outbreak of dehydration.

At that time, Ciel did not have many trump cards. She almost exhausted all her strength to uncover the final truth. For this, she even detonated siege explosive barrels in the square in front of the Church of the Savior Goddess, blowing up the dense crowd.

But after so many days, the future had been completely changed by Ciel. And due to the issue of “Uniqueness,” the future world line was disturbed again, and crises that had not appeared before occurred.

That was the Society of Merriment, which became active because of “Uniqueness.”

Ciel felt it was a miracle she had survived until now.

However, the Ciel of today was very different from the Ciel of sixteen days ago. The most obvious difference was that she truly possessed the ability to fight against crises. Moreover, she was becoming more skilled in the use of Future Days simulation.

It was just that her spirit had been in a state of overwork and tension for too long, which made Ciel slightly troubled, as well as the issue of spiritual contamination.

Ciel did not take out the “Endless Manual of Instant Forgetfulness” from the inventory. She just placed a blank notepad in front of her.

She wrote the word “Hello” on it in Ansu language, then stood the pen upright.

The future plan and what needed to be done, Ciel had already thoroughly memorized. The deliberate slowing down of her pace for rest had also allowed her spirit to recover considerably.

At this moment, she just needed to act.

The more times the simulated Keyman died, the higher the success rate of Ciel’s plan.

Before the dip pen in front of her fell, Ciel slowly spoke in her heart.

“Future Days.”

“No. 1”

Silver light burst forth in Ciel’s eyes, covering her entire vision.

…

【Future Days】

【Holy Year 741, July 7th, 12:07】

【Countdown – 23:59:59】

“Ciel, are you ready?”

“Ciel?”

“Hurry up, you’ll be late later…”

The silver light gradually faded from Ciel’s eyes. She quickly regained her perception of her surroundings. The colors before her eyes were telling her where she was at this moment.

This is… Avena’s room’s dressing room.

At this moment, Ciel looked at herself in the mirror. In the mirror, tentacles seemed to writhe deep within her pink pupils. A little starlight seemed to flow deep within her eyes.

Did her simulated self make an excuse to send Avena away? Just before she was about to arrive?

Looking at the notepad placed not far away, Ciel instantly understood the situation at the moment.

“Coming soon~” Ciel said with a smile.

The “Instigator” path was still the easiest to use.

Swish—

Ciel shook the maid outfit before her, directly took off her own clothes and put on the maid outfit. Then she reached out and picked up the notepad, quickly flipping through it.

Oh?

Upon reading the entry about Manor No. 5, Ciel’s eyes showed a hint of interest.

Did her simulated self actually contact Lucy directly without relying on any transcendent save file?

And even obtained Lucy’s help?

Ciel quickly read through what happened that day, understanding how her simulated self managed to do this.

She had a debate about gambling with Lucy and gave Lucy some remarkable ideas for improving the casino at Deton Manor.

One of them made Ciel shake her head with a smile.

Having people who owed huge amounts of high-interest loans play death games in the casino, allowing nobles and transcendents to gamble outside?

What a Gambling Apocalypse, a Squid Game.

People are gambling their lives inside, and people are gambling money outside… You can even throw some “Gamblers” in there to complete their Reconstitution Rituals.

Lucy was astonished when she heard this. This was simply a tailor-made gambling model for Deton Group, enough to make Deton Group’s slowing growth rate multiply several times over.

Lucy didn’t think this would cause Deton Group to lose money, even if someone actually survived and won money.

She firmly believed in one principle—gambling is for winning. If someone is gambling with the illusion of luck just to repay high-interest loans, it means that “Gambler” has already fallen into a bottomless abyss they cannot climb out of.

Whether it’s transcendents or ordinary people, this “law” can be applied.

Ciel closed the notepad, slightly lowering the smile at the corner of her mouth.

To be honest, if it were actually made, she really wanted to disguise herself and go play—it would definitely be very interesting!

However, right now, there were more important things to do.

Her simulated self had already paved the way for Ciel. Lucy had agreed to assist in killing the Keyman, but the condition was that she wanted everything from the Keyman’s body, whether it was flesh and blood, transcendent items, or extracted potions.

The news Lucy received was that a “Subverter” would assist her in the killing. This news had already made Lucy excited.

These days, the “unexpected” she had been waiting for had finally arrived.

Now, Lucy was even considering whether the gains from the “Keyman” would be the gains predicted by the Tarot cards.

As expected, if there were benefits, Lucy would be very cooperative and happy to get rid of people from the Society of Merriment. Moreover, Ciel had 【Nemesis】 in hand. Lucy had shown respect towards her simulated self the entire time.

This was the second organized transcendent Ciel directly contacted and exposed her abilities to in reality, besides Tara.

Although not as easy to control as Tara, she was also not as difficult to kill as the Keyman. It was within Ciel’s acceptable range.

But Ciel wouldn’t necessarily contact Lucy in reality. Contacting her in the simulation was just a compromise option, and also to ensure she could reliably kill the Keyman again.

Click—

Ciel twisted the doorknob and walked out of the dressing room with her eyes lowered, standing before Avena.

Under the disguise of the “Subverter’s” ability, Ciel’s appearance, whether it was her pupils or aura in Avena’s eyes, was no different from before. If Avena hadn’t been warned in advance, she wouldn’t have been able to detect the “Subverter’s” influence at all.

And Avena was basically unlikely to actively guard against Ciel using the “Subverter’s” ability.

—Who would have thought that an ordinary young girl could directly advance to a Tier 3 “Subverter” in the short time it took to change clothes?

This kind of change was beyond the realm of common sense.

“What took you so long?” At this moment, Avena, who hadn’t noticed anything unusual, handed over the potion bottle in her hand and asked, “Do you need me to dye it for you?”

“Yes.” Ciel lowered her head. Her long red hair cascaded down, waiting for Avena to change her hair color.

At this moment, she didn’t want to wait a single moment. Her mind had already flown to Manor No. 5.

Seeing the Keyman again, she had to thank her for helping her complete the “Subverter” Reconstitution Ritual in one day… And also ask how the Keyman’s digestion was going.

Her expression would definitely be fun ^^