The Speedrun Manual of Miss Witch - Chapter 267

She turned her face down to look at her left shoulder. On the softest part, where her shoulder and arm connected, there was a row of neat teeth marks. The wound had already scabbed over.

This was a wound caused by Avena biting her in resistance when Ciel kissed where she shouldn’t have last night. Ciel was careless and didn’t dodge, taking the bite squarely.

Before, when she was injured by Avena’s struggles, Ciel had resolved that next time she would definitely tie her hands. But now it seemed… just tying her hands wasn’t enough.

Avena also seemed to notice Ciel looking at the wound. She let out a faint snort and turned her face away, no longer looking at Ciel.

But after a while, she still put down her hand that was tidying her clothes, took out a bottle of potion, walked to Ciel’s side, and ordered expressionlessly, “Raise your hand.”

Ciel slowly raised her left hand, letting Avena apply the potion for her. Avena was still muttering things like “That’s what you get for bullying me.”

But Ciel didn’t intend to bother Avena any further… She was already like this, so she would just let her win for a little while during the day.

Anyway, it was just a psychological victory.

“I plan to go out today. Do you have any plans?”

Looking at Avena, who was now fully dressed, Ciel asked.

“No,”

Avena gently shook her head. While applying the potion to Ciel’s wound, she asked, “What do you want to do?”

“Go and let Adele and the others know we’re safe,”

Ciel said, “They must be quite worried after all these days.”

“Indeed.”

Avena nodded. “I’ll go with you.”

“Alright.”

Avena waited for Ciel to get dressed. After they had a simple breakfast, they got into a carriage together and headed towards Adele’s house.

Soon, the carriage, driven by Nia, carrying Ciel, Avena, and Tara, stopped in front of the house where Adele was staying.

A maid who was up early was cleaning the entrance. When Avena and the others got out of the carriage, she seemed to recognize Avena. After quickly stepping forward to greet Avena, she directly led them into the mansion.

“Miss Adele is not awake yet. She seems to have stayed in her study all night and hasn’t come out…”

After the maid led Ciel and the others to the living room, she said while pouring them tea, “I will go wake Miss Adele now.”

“If you can’t wake her up, then let it be,”

Ciel said with a smile to the maid, “We can visit later.”

Ciel felt now that it was very necessary for her to find something that could block her line of sight but could be quickly removed to use “Nemesis,” whether it was glasses or something else.

After all, constantly smiling to avoid accidentally harming others with “Nemesis” was quite tiring, and Ciel wasn’t someone who particularly liked to smile.

After waiting for a while, the maid did not come down from upstairs. Instead, there was a somewhat hurried sound of footsteps.

Thump-thump-thump——

The sound of bare feet on the carpet could be heard. Avena and Ciel followed the sound and looked towards the stairs. They saw the tall, silver-haired young lady holding onto the stair railing, leaning forward to look at them.

“Ciel!!!”

Adele directly tumbled down the stairs, almost throwing herself at Ciel in a flying leap, but she stopped abruptly as she approached Avena and Ciel.

She pouted and blinked at Ciel. After a while, she said, “Where did you go? And Avena… Why did both of you disappear after the gas explosion at the hotel…?”

Adele’s nostrils subtly twitched beneath her high bridge of a nose. It seemed she was confirming the scent that made her stop abruptly just now.

It was the smell of medicine.

“Did you have an intense fight? Are your injuries serious?”

Adele’s gaze nervously darted back and forth between Avena and Ciel. She pressed, “Do you need me to help you with your injuries?”

She simply thought that Avena and Ciel were just injured from a fight. Since she didn’t know exactly where the injuries were, to avoid causing secondary injury, she held back from throwing herself onto Ciel.

“Uh… it’s nothing…”

Ciel glanced at Avena, then looked at Adele and said somewhat awkwardly, “It’s just a little scratch. It’s not a big deal.”

“That’s good…”

Adele let out a sigh of relief. She sniffled, feeling her eyes sting a little. “Professor Ashford was almost killed in the bombing, then the hotel exploded the next day, and then you disappeared… I…”

It was clear that Adele was very worried about them.

“I apologize… Due to some special reasons, we could only temporarily find a place to hide,”

Ciel reached out and pulled Adele over, having her sit between herself and Avena. She said comfortingly, “But it’s alright now. Everything is over.”

“Over?”

Adele looked at Ciel on her left, then at Avena on her right, and asked with some surprise, “Really?”

“Yes, really.”

Avena nodded, echoing Ciel’s words.

“Then… if it’s over, can the antidote research continue?”

Adele’s mood seemed somewhat uplifted upon hearing that things were over. “Can the famine in North Ansu be resolved?”

North Ansu famine…

Ciel’s heart sank slightly.

Adele didn’t know much about Forte. Her understanding of the crisis was still limited to the transcendent who was causing the famine in North Ansu to complete a reconstitution ritual…

Adele’s words, however, reminded Ciel.

Their original purpose in coming to Ansu was, first, to seek refuge, and second, to investigate the runaway assistant. And Professor Ashford had directly taken on all the pressure and attention, which led to the Royal Medical Association bombing incident on the 16th, orchestrated by Forte himself.

Although Forte had been dealt with, the transcendent whom he had tacitly allowed to slaughter North Ansu was still hiding in the shadows. Ciel knew that Forte and that mysterious transcendent did not have direct cooperation or contact. Forte was merely using the other party to eliminate the anti-unification forces in North Ansu.

But it was hard to say whether Forte’s death would cause a change in policy towards North Ansu, and whether these changes would cause that transcendent in North Ansu to make some “changes.”

Thinking of the system that was still upgrading, Ciel’s anxiety slowly rose again.

Avena was the first to notice the subtle change in Ciel’s emotions. She looked at Adele and said, “The research is not urgent. We can discuss it after Professor Ashford has recovered a little. For now, we can help the people of North Ansu through other means.”

“After the new cabinet is formed in the next few days, and the new Prime Minister takes office, there should be some changes addressing these issues…”

Avena’s information was basically all obtained from the conversation last night.

Charles and William had briefly discussed the matters concerning the resolution of the North Ansu problem. They had two general solutions.

One was to arrange for a large number of North Ansu refugees to seek refuge in other countries.

The second was to repeal the 《Corn Laws》 and resolve the famine in North Ansu by importing large quantities of grain from abroad.

However, both of these solutions made Ciel, who was present at the time, frown deeply.