The Speedrun Manual of Miss Witch - Chapter 171

And at this moment, the Keyman, who was standing directly behind Lucy, looking at Lucy lying on the ground with her eyes tightly closed and no longer moving, showed a hint of confusion in her eyes.

Accomplices too?

Never mind. I’ll kill her first.

The Keyman raised her left hand. The ring on her little finger flashed with green light.

A green light flew towards Lucy on the ground, directly cutting her body in half.

Flesh and blood splattered in front of the Keyman. Lucy was dismembered on the spot.

But when Lucy’s blood splattered onto the Keyman’s face, feeling the temperature of the blood, the Keyman’s expression slightly twisted.

Cold?

Tap, tap, tap…

Footsteps sounded in front of her. The Keyman suddenly raised her head, looking towards the exit. But she only saw a maid with a different face…

A maid?

The Keyman raised her right hand, about to dismember the other party directly, but saw the other party reaching for their face.

A leather mask was gently removed by the maid.

“Long time no see… No… See you in three days?”

Starlight swirled in the pink pupils of the blonde maid. She looked at the Keyman like this, saying with a smile, “So happy to see you again, Keyman.”

So happy to see you again… That was the sign she put up! Another “Subverter”?!

“What are you doing? You’re ruining my plan!!!”

The Keyman, suppressing the fear in her heart, roared in anger, “It’s all ruined by you!”

It seemed she was treating the blonde young girl before her as a high-ranking member of the Society of Merriment.

After all, people who could advance to “Subverter” couldn’t possibly have not received an invitation from the Society of Merriment. This was not a potion path that could be completed through reclusive “training.”

“Plan?”

Upon hearing this word, the blonde young girl slightly frowned, her tone slightly raised, “You call this pile of garbage a plan?”

“Tsk…”

A look of impatience began to appear on the blonde young girl’s face.

“As expected. You really can’t talk to boring people for more than three sentences.”

“Die.”

The Keyman seemed to realize something, but it was already too late—because she was looking directly into the young girl’s eyes.

In an instant, the young girl’s pupils in the Keyman’s eyes were completely covered by a silver-white light. Giant silver-white minute and hour hands seemed to tear through flesh, blood, and space, emerging from behind the young girl. Countless parts with twisted tentacles almost instantly filled the Keyman’s entire vision.

Fear continuously grew and swelled in her heart. The buzzing and whispers of the potion almost burst her brain. The Keyman could no longer maintain her disguise. Half of her face was completely twisted into a monstrous appearance.

And, that terrifying half of her face was still rapidly spreading towards her still normal face.

In the silver-white space before her, she seemed to see countless scenes flashing before her eyes. These were scenes she had never seen before, scenes of her plan failing again and again.

“She really is the most useless ‘Subverter’ I’ve ever seen…”

“Fooled you, hehe~”

“Useless.”

“You call this a plan?”

“Scum.”

“…”

Countless voices exploded in her ears. There were the voices of the young girl from just now, and also voices from others in her memory.

Facing the almost endless fear and negative energy, the Keyman almost instinctively raised her hands, wanting to use her ability, wanting to dispel all this as illusions. But when she was about to control her abilities, she encountered unprecedented resistance…

The potion was resisting her, refusing to acknowledge her.

The moment she realized this, the Keyman fell into complete despair. Unable to use her abilities, she had no resistance left. The potion instantly corrupted her mind.

She went insane.

Ciel looked at the rapidly transforming Keyman before her with a look of disgust. Her pink brain had burst through her skull and was rapidly spreading outwards, almost occupying half of her head.

Bone fragments mixed with hair and scalp fell to the ground, rapidly dissolving. The skin beneath the Keyman’s clothes also rapidly shrank and withered, emitting a repulsive and hallucinatory stench.

Ciel put the mask back on, covering her eyes. She lifted her foot and kicked Lucy, who was still lying on the ground pretending to be dead, and said, “Hey, it’s your turn.”

The Lucy the Keyman had just cut in half was just an illusion.

“Subverters” were good at everything except for one thing that was hard to accept—they had no means of killing someone after driving them insane.

The ability to distort reality was a great weapon against creatures with thinking ability, but it wasn’t as effective against lunatics. However, this didn’t affect ordinary “Subverters.”

Because they didn’t think about finishing the job. They were eager for the insane transcendent to cause as much trouble as possible.

Now, Ciel was more interested in seeing what kind of killing method Lucy, a “Fate Holder,” had.

She hadn’t seen Lucy actually use her abilities in combat yet.

“Ahem…”

Lucy, who was lying on the ground, stood up somewhat awkwardly. When she saw the insane figure before her, being corroded by the potion, she felt a sense of shock.

Just now… it hasn’t even been 10 seconds in total, right? The battle is over? The “Subverter” from the Society of Merriment went insane directly?

What kind of divine being is this one who is cooperating with me? Does that Young Mistress Roswell actually have such a bodyguard?

“Don’t worry,”

Lucy’s expression returned to calm. She tidied her clothes and said, “You just step back. I definitely won’t die, but be careful not to get accidentally hurt.”

“I bet she dies. And if I win the bet, she won’t live. Just a mere brain-eater…”

Lucy just drew a delicate dagger from her waist and casually threw it towards the mutated figure.

Swish—

The dagger whistled through the air and stabbed directly towards the monstrous figure’s large head.

But at this moment, a fissure opened in the center of the head, revealing a massive eyeball within, like a pink starry sky. It looked directly towards Lucy.

Nebulae swirled, as if some ability was about to be unleashed.

But the thrown knife was already in front of it. The head could only turn to the side, unable to face Lucy directly. But as it turned, it turned towards Ciel, who was standing nearby.

The moment the thrown knife pierced the eyeball, a pink stream of light also shot out from the eyeball, directly connecting with Ciel’s eyes.