The Speedrun Manual of Miss Witch - Chapter 261

In the dream, a silver-white Serpent Chain, biting its head and tail together in a completely dark space, was continuously wriggling in mid-air.

After who knows how long this scene lasted, the surrounding darkness gradually faded. A familiar pocket watch appeared before her eyes. That Serpent Chain loosened its bite on its tail and slowly drifted towards the pocket watch.

On the originally empty iron ring above the pocket watch, the silver chain directly burrowed in. Like a snake that had finally found its nest, it coiled its tail together again, firmly fixing itself onto the pocket watch.

The surrounding darkness was instantly dispersed by a silver flash. Not until the silver-white light enveloped everything did Ciel gradually feel some control over her body.

By the time she could truly control herself to open her eyes, she felt as if she had been reborn in another era.

This feeling of being conscious while unconscious and dreaming made Ciel completely lose track of time. She didn’t know how many days or how many years she had spent inside… possibly even decades, or hundreds of years.

She could feel everything was changing, but she herself hadn’t completely changed. Moreover, there were no images to refer to. This feeling of absence and confusion almost made her lose herself.

Fortunately, she finally woke up.

Ciel, after waking up, took a long time to stand up. She walked off the bed barefoot. After getting used to walking a little, she walked to the window and only then noticed the system panel that had been open before her.

【Reality】

【Holy Year 741, July 20th, 8:05 AM】

【Evaluation: (Content has been re-edited ^^)】

【You are finally awake!!! Look at all the good things you’ve done!】

【You actually successfully secured one of these main bodies! The most fun episode!】

【Come! This thing has been gathering dust for too long with ** things that don’t know how to use it. Let me teach you how to use it! But before that, you need to get used to it for a while longer…】

【Receive it. This is well-deserved based on your performance.】

【Reward: Fate Points × 6, 【Kiss of Time Corrosion】】

【Fate Points: 392】

【Kiss of Time Corrosion: A silver chain formed by 33 snake bones biting together, one of the main bodies of the Silver-White Time-Binder, possessing the ability to truly distort time and space.】

6 points?

And this “Kiss of Time Corrosion”… is that the name of the “Uniqueness”?

They cut off other rewards and just gave her this “Uniqueness”?

It wasn’t that Ciel was complaining that the “Uniqueness” was bad. It was that this was something Ciel could have obtained herself anyway. When she obtained the Overlimit Gear, it wasn’t withheld from other rewards by the system as if it were a reward.

【Host, don’t make awkward accusations. Without me, the Serpent Chain would have been taken by others long ago ^^_】

【And this system also assembled it for you, and provides teaching service! This isn’t free!】

Just as Ciel was about to open the system interface to check her pocket watch abilities and see what new abilities the Serpent Chain had added to her, a scene abruptly appeared in Ciel’s mind.

In a dark forest full of mist, a figure whose body was completely pixelated, whose gender couldn’t even be distinguished, slowly raised its right hand.

The item held in its hand wasn’t “pixelated.” It was a pocket watch. A silver Serpent Chain was wrapped around the figure’s wrist.

The figure’s left hand was seen slowly picking up a dagger. After directly throwing the dagger, it pressed the pocket watch in its right hand.

Click——

The figure and the thrown dagger became phantom-like, as if frozen.

Time seemed to be switched at this instant. Within the same second, the surrounding ancient trees continuously trembled and grew, then were cut down in an instant. Simple mud huts appeared out of nowhere and collapsed. Countless figures flashed by. A giant church rose out of nowhere. The surrounding buildings also continuously prospered after experiencing war and reconstruction.

Then, space-time froze. A statue of Ciel with “Target” written on her face appeared around the dagger. The flow of time instantly resumed.

Click——

Between the buildings, the statue cracked, broken in half.

A dagger appeared in the middle of the statue—as if it had existed here since ancient times.

The scene in Ciel’s mind instantly dissolved. And at this moment, she finally noticed some sound beside her.

She pulled open the curtains. Dazzling sunlight shone in. For Ciel, this sunlight was a little too intense, making her have to raise her hand to shield her eyes.

She squinted towards the bedside and saw that familiar figure.

“Tara…”

Ciel slowly spoke. At this moment, through the sunlight, she also noticed the place she was currently in.

This is… Tara’s hiding place in Ansu City, a small detached house.

“How long… did I sleep?”

Ciel slowly lowered her right hand and asked Tara before her.

At this moment, the vision she had just seen was still echoing in her mind.

Was that the Serpent Chain’s ability… or one of them?

When she opened the system panel, however, it displayed the words “Upgrading,” and she couldn’t even use the inventory… Fortunately, Ciel could still use the skills she had already obtained.

“How long will the upgrade take?”

Ciel asked the system in her mind.

【Please wait patiently, Host… This is also for the Host’s good ^^】

Although she really wanted to continue researching the Serpent Chain’s abilities, it seemed she would have to wait until the system finished upgrading.

“Today is the third day, Lord Ciel,”

Tara said, “Today is July 20th.”

Three days then…

What about Avena? Are the others okay? Forte is dead, right?

Ciel had thought of many questions while she was unconscious. At this moment, she wished she could ask them all out in one go.

However, seeing that Tara was still safely in Ansu City with her, it was likely that Forte no longer existed.

“What is that…?”

Ciel looked at the steaming wooden tub behind Tara and asked.

“Ah… That was originally water for you to wash up. I… I’ll bring it over for you to see.”

Tara slowly shifted her gaze. “Do you… do you need to wash up?”

“Thank you.”

Ciel nodded. She subconsciously turned her face and went to smell her shoulder.

Has it been three days…? I haven’t bathed for three days. No wonder I feel a little uncomfortable…

“Ah, I didn’t mean that, Lord Ciel.”

Tara looked at Ciel’s actions. Afraid that Ciel would think she was being disgusted by her, she quickly explained, “I smelled you every day and made sure you were fragrant.”

Ciel: “?”

What were you doing every day?

Ciel’s gaze gradually became a little suspicious. Tara before her was already sweating profusely.

Oh dear!

Now Lord Mother Goddess will definitely mistake me for a pervert!