The Speedrun Manual of Miss Witch - Chapter 258

Avena looked into Ciel’s eyes. After a moment of hesitation, she nodded—even though Ciel’s words would seem completely unbelievable to anyone else.

“I… believe you.”

Avena walked to the desk. She pulled out the drawer, took out some notepaper, a pen, and ink, turned back to look at Ciel, and asked, “What should I write?”

Ciel walked to Avena’s side and told her, word for word, what Avena needed to write.

Avena listened to Ciel’s words and wrote quickly. Finally, she signed her name and sealed it with her wax seal.

“Do you need me to go with you?”

Avena held the envelope, not handing it to Ciel.

The content Ciel had asked her to write just now had Avena completely bewildered.

The content of the letter did not mention any crisis or anything about Adele… Instead, it was just a request to Duke Charles to change the royal luncheon that was supposed to be held at Vitalis Palace tomorrow to Windsor Palace or Cecil Palace, and then allow Ciel to bring some people to Vitalis Palace.

No one would be able to understand Ciel’s intention in doing this. These things seemed just ordinary, not worth mentioning. At least for a Tier 4 transcendent like Duke Charles, they were not difficult problems. They would only cause confusion.

Only Ciel was very clear about the intention behind doing this.

After receiving three rewind hints, Forte had gained too much information. Besides the information, his urgency had also made things very critical.

In reality, just in the time Ciel took to find Charles, the Holy See of the Church of the God of Order and the Holy See of the Church of the Savior Goddess had already been sealed.

That is to say, in this simulation, among the Church of the Savior Goddess, the Church of the God of Order, and Duke Charles’s mansion… Ciel could only choose one place to go.

Before, in the 【Endless Manual of Instant Forgetfulness】, Ciel had already preset what needed to be done in this simulation.

【Find Pope Erigma of the Church of the God of Order herself, have Avena seek Duke Charles’s help, and at the same time have Adele, Amy, and Tara gain Eleanor’s trust.】

Three lines advancing in parallel.

Like in the previous simulation.

Have Adele find Uris, gain Uris’s trust as quickly as possible, and have Uris take them to find Eleanor—this was preparation for summoning the Grim Worm.

Have Avena go find Duke Charles for help—this was to clear out Vitalis Palace so that Ciel could set up the Other Side node in the Vitalis Palace dining room, where Forte would be sitting after rewinding, before 12:15 on the 17th.

And she herself would go find Pope Erigma of the Church of the God of Order—this was to obtain a stable Other Side node that could be placed.

These were all things Ciel had done and succeeded in in the previous simulations.

She was going to merge all her previous simulation and reality experiences at once, giving Forte a completely unavoidable, comprehensive ambush kill.

In reality, if Forte dies, he will rewind to July 17th, 12:15:05 PM, returning to the time Ciel first ended the simulation. That is the starting point.

In the simulation, killing Forte will only rewind to before the simulation started, because the system said that the “authority” of the Serpent Chain “Uniqueness” cannot surpass the system simulation, so reality is not affected.

Only the permanent wound caused by “Uniqueness” will be unaffected by time and space and simulation, directly acting on Forte…

But what if Forte in the simulation dies after July 17th, 12:15:05 PM, and this rewind time is within Ciel’s simulation time coverage?

Forte’s rewind will restart the simulation… but not back to the very beginning of the simulation, but back to 12:15:05 PM…

This way, Ciel would be able to completely erase Forte directly within the simulation.

But actually, Ciel wasn’t entirely sure either.

This was just her inference based on the information revealed by the system. She hadn’t actually tested it yet, and there was a certain paradox involved.

For example—if her future self had truly completely killed Forte, then why didn’t Forte just turn into dust when she simulated the past or was in reality.

If Forte truly died from “Uniqueness” in the future, then the Forte of the past must have also died directly. The damage from the “Uniqueness” Serpent Chain is not limited by time and space. That is to say, Forte could have been “erased” by the Serpent Chain in his infancy or even shortly after birth.

Then would everything Forte had done over the years, the wars he started, and even the daughter he had, cease to exist?

Forte did not turn to dust before her eyes. In fact, in the previous simulation, Ciel even saw Forte on the verge of death… Does this prove that her future self did not kill Forte?

Not exactly.

Because she had killed Forte three times, but the Forte who died the second time did not have the wound of the third death, which was a certainty in the future.

Ciel could only make this kind of inference.

Only what has happened in reality, what she has observed, the “predetermined” events, are real.

And all the Fortes in the simulation are “Schrödinger’s cats.” Before the fact of “predetermined death” occurs, he is in a superimposed state of life and death.

Forte’s actual death in reality will not cause the past to change. Only when the Forte of the past is observed while Ciel is simulating the past will he be instantly killed by the “Uniqueness” Serpent Chain.

In this way, the issue of the space-time paradox can be explained… and it can also indirectly prove that Ciel’s conjecture from just now is correct.

And how to verify it?

Just see if the Forte in this simulation, like the one in reality, receives the “hint” of the third death…