The Speedrun Manual of Miss Witch - Chapter 260

Forte, as if gone mad, slammed his forehead against the ground, roaring. It was as if this could help him fight against the confusion and pain brought by this memory infusion.

Red vortex… Pure white armor… Countless deaths…

That red-haired young girl who was sneering at him in different timelines…

It’s you… It’s actually you!!!

It’s that ordinary person lying on the bed!!! How could it be you!!!

An ordinary person played me!!! Played me, Forte!!!

Played me for a fool?!

“I will kill you!!! I will kill you!!!”

One of Forte’s eyeballs had completely weathered away. He tried to stand up, but the moment he stood up, his legs, like rotten wood, directly shattered. His entire body slumped to the ground, dissipating at an extremely rapid speed.

“Kill you… Kill you!!!”

Bloody foam sprayed out with Forte’s words. He fiercely raised his head. His bloodshot eyeballs made his eyes look entirely like bloody eyes.

“Charles! I promise you! I will make your family inherit glory for generations! Go!!! Kill Ciel!!! Kill… Cough cough cough cough…”

“I beg you, go kill Ciel… Kill her… That… girl…”

“Kill…”

Forte’s voice completely disappeared.

Half of his body lay face down on the ground, his body disappearing at an extremely rapid rate.

Charles watched this scene, dumbfounded. At this moment, he was completely in shock, unable to recover for a long time.

A second ago, he was still facing a desperate life-or-death choice.

But the next second, why…

Forte… died himself?

That Ciel he mentioned… Could it be…

The name that immediately came to Charles’s mind was that girl’s name, the red-haired young girl who had come to him, who claimed to be Avena’s “lover.”

What does this have to do with that girl?

Charles’s mind was a mess. To this point, he still hadn’t lowered his guard.

Not until his daughter’s gentle cough from behind did Charles react. He quickly turned around, took a bottle of potion from his waist, and slowly poured it into Avena’s mouth.

He just knelt beside Avena like that, his hand holding the potion bottle hanging down. He reached out, wanting to pick up Avena and leave, but then withdrew his hand. He would occasionally turn back and look at “Forte,” who was left with only one eyeball. For a moment, he didn’t know what to do.

Not until that eyeball completely disappeared did a strange fluctuation finally completely capture Charles’s attention.

That was…

A silver-white chain, biting its head and tail together in mid-air, forming an “∞” symbol, quietly floated in mid-air.

The silver snake head, biting its tail, slowly released its bite. Like a real snake, it quickly slithered and, in an instant, darted upstairs along the staircase, disappearing from sight.

“‘Uniqueness’…”

Its speed was not fast. Charles could easily catch up with that Serpent Chain, but he did not do so. Instead, he directly rushed into an adjacent hotel room that had not been destroyed, took out a quilt, gently wrapped Avena in it, ensuring she would not be injured again, and then carried her and rushed towards the Redemption Society.

…

“Uh…”

Ciel fiercely opened her eyes. After the silver flash that gave her a bit of PTSD disappeared, the world before her eyes seemed to be covered in a layer of white snow.

Her body was still sluggish, but her mind could still think.

She stood up and saw a familiar figure before her.

“Lord Ciel, you’re awake!”

Tara looked at Ciel before her with joy and said, “There are only dozens of seconds left until the agreed time. Your subordinate must take you away.”

“How… did things go?”

A long string of system panels appeared before Ciel. This was Ciel’s simulation settlement page, but at this moment, Ciel had no inclination to check these things at all.

“Avena… where is she?”

Ciel placed her hand on Tara’s shoulder, letting Tara support her, and scanned her surroundings.

But she did not see Avena’s figure.

“Lady Avena went to help you lure Forte away… From the commotion downstairs, it seems Forte has been stalled. It will be ten minutes very soon, Lord Ciel.”

Tara reported the information.

Bad…

Avena…

How dare she go alone to stop Forte…

She doesn’t even know if I succeeded yet…

“Take me… down…”

Ciel walked towards the door. Her steps were unsteady. Tara, without any doubt, directly supported Ciel and walked downstairs.

But just as they crossed the corridor and were about to go down the stairs, the white snow before Ciel’s eyes became increasingly chaotic, making it almost impossible for her to see anything. She could only barely distinguish directions by relying on the all-terrain map formed by 【Precognitive Sight】 in her mind.

But at this moment, in the map formed by 【Precognitive Sight】, a mass of completely pixelated silver-white something was rapidly approaching her.

Before she could react and retreat, that thing had already crossed the fifteen-meter prediction range and was directly before her eyes.

That was a silver-white Serpent Chain… In a world filled with snowflakes, it was so clear.

The silver Serpent Chain coiled around Ciel, seemingly searching for something. But in the end, it stopped before Ciel’s eyes. It seemed to have seen the silver watch face in her right eye through her eyeball.

Hiss——

The Serpent Chain went directly through Ciel’s right eye and burrowed in.

“Lord Ciel!”

Accompanied by Tara’s scream, Ciel completely lost control of her body. Everything before her eyes went dark.

She fainted while conscious.