The Speedrun Manual of Miss Witch - Chapter 257

To kill Forte in the simulation, the Other Side portal must be placed at the location where Forte will rewind—which is the first position to the left of the Queen—before 12:15:05 in the simulation, specifically at 12:15:05.

As for whether the others at the dining table are alive or dead, it has nothing to do with Ciel… The information Ciel got from Duke Charles was that, besides Forte and Duke Charles, there was only one Tier 2 “Law Officer” present, and they would have no impact.

However, to get the Duke’s support in the simulation, besides herself, Avena must also be present to persuade the Duke… This is arguably the only uncertain point.

Because Avena herself definitely resents Charles. To resist the Duke, she even went so far as to drink the uncertain “Listener” potion and left Ansu to run away from home, just to escape Duke Charles’s arrangements.

Avena did not want to be used as a tool.

However, Ciel knew that if she asked, Avena would definitely comply. It was precisely because of this that Ciel felt troubled.

If that’s the case, isn’t she also using Avena as a tool?

However, Ciel was just troubled. To survive, she had to first consider other things. Even if she was not understood by others, she could only do what had to be done first.

Survive first, then talk about it.

Swish swish swish——

Ciel continuously planned the things to do in the simulation on the Endless Manual. She decided to run the simulation 1-2 days later because Ciel wanted Avena in reality to send a letter to Charles.

Ciel wanted to get a secret from Charles that would make Charles believe her whenever she said it out loud, just like Uris did… This would greatly increase the success rate of Ciel’s plan in the simulation.

Ciel could create the Other Side node of the Church of the God of Order by hand, but to be safe, Ciel did not plan to directly summon the pure white knight.

She decided to sacrifice Eleanor to summon the Grim Worm while setting up the Other Side node in the simulation… After all, there was successful experience with the Grim Worm fighting Forte. Using the Grim Worm to kill Forte was the most stable way, and it would almost 100% cause Forte to rewind.

As for the pure white armor, it only needed to wait inside the Other Side node. As soon as the Grim Worm killed Forte, everything else would be up to the pure white armor.

This set of Other Side combination moves would consume a large amount of Ciel’s mental power. Perhaps it could be optimized further to reduce Ciel’s mental strain, but this would take time… And Ciel seemed to not have much time left.

Because a letter was delivered by a “Gambler”… This was a letter from Lucy.

Knock knock knock——

The door was knocked. After Ciel responded, Tara opened the door and walked towards Ciel with a letter in her hand.

“Lord Ciel, this is a letter from Miss Lucy. She said you must take a look…”

Tara recalled the person she had just seen and continued, “I don’t recognize the person who delivered the letter. He said Miss Lucy seemed very anxious.”

Lucy?

Ciel temporarily stopped her plan formulation and took the letter with some confusion.

But Ciel had already experienced all of that future time. The future Lucy had not written any urgent letters to Ciel.

This was an extra branch stemming from this timeline. It belonged solely to this timeline…

And the only variable in this timeline was the increasingly urgent Forte, who had already begun to seal off the Holy See of the Church of the God of Order and the Holy See of the Church of the Savior Goddess…

Ciel had a bad premonition…

She unfolded the letter, looked at the contents, and slightly frowned.

As expected, Ciel’s biggest fear had come true.

Forte was starting to grasp at straws.

In the current timeline, Ciel had not asked Lucy to deal with the “Keyman’s” body because she had successfully made everyone, including those in the Society of Merriment, believe that the dead “Keyman” was just a substitute for the real “Keyman.”

And the real “Keyman” was still alive.

Therefore, in the previous simulations, Forte had not extensively investigated that body. It was only later that Ciel, for the sake of stability, had Lucy secretly dispose of the body.

But now, under the high pressure of impending death, Forte had taken action that went against his usual logic… He had directly gone to the Deton Group to demand the body.

【The group will not offend Forte. They might symbolically take some money and hand the body over to Forte…】

【Miss Ciel, I have a bad premonition. I originally thought my luck was very good today, but the Strong Luck Coins seem to have given me two ill omens… Why would Forte suddenly demand that body? Is something going to go wrong?】

Lucy knew that the body was real, because she had personally seen the Keyman become a corpse before her.

But what she didn’t know was that Ciel, in the simulation, had made the Keyman “live.”

If Forte were to discover that the real Keyman was dead, then he would notice the anomaly and begin to investigate the person who had impersonated the Keyman.

Lucy, who benefited the most from the Keyman’s body and had declared herself as the one who killed the Keyman, would become Forte’s primary target for investigation.

And along with that, people around Lucy might also face Forte’s scrutiny.

Things are not looking good… It seems Ciel doesn’t have much time left.

Forte could investigate Lucy at any moment. Along with that, Ciel and the others are no longer safe at the Deton Member Hotel. And their new residence is also a property under the Deton Group…

“Is Nia outside?”

Ciel looked at Tara and asked.

“Yes, Lord Ciel.”

Tara slightly lowered her head.

Nia being outside meant that Avena had already returned to her room.

Ciel immediately got up, bypassed Tara, and walked directly towards the door of her room. She opened the door and went directly to Avena’s room next door. After nodding slightly to Nia, she directly knocked on Avena’s door.

Before Avena could respond, Ciel directly twisted the doorknob and walked in. Nia also did not stop Ciel. After letting her in, she helped Ciel close the door.

Nia’s duty at the door was to help Avena intercept outsiders. In Nia’s opinion, Ciel was clearly no longer an outsider, so there was no need to intercept her.

“Hmm?”

At this moment, in the dim room with the curtains drawn, Avena was changing clothes, seeming to be preparing to put on her pajamas and take a nap.

But upon seeing Ciel at the door, she slightly stopped what she was doing and asked, looking at Ciel, “What’s wrong? Ciel.”