The Speedrun Manual of Miss Witch - Chapter 281

After seeing Adele off to her home, Ciel sat in the carriage, heading towards her own house.

The conversation with Ashford went exceptionally smoothly. Including the round trip, it only took less than 40 minutes, leaving more than ten minutes before the Future Days simulation refreshed.

During this time, Ciel could plan in advance what she needed to do in the next simulation.

Upon returning home, Ciel went to the study, took out the 【Endless Manual of Instant Forgetfulness】, and placed it before her.

After taking the pen Tara handed her, Ciel pondered for a moment, then raised her hand and began writing on it.

【There are quite a few things to accomplish this time, but none are particularly difficult—these are all things done in previous simulations.】

【The only difference is that this time, everything needs to be done again in reality. You need to figure out the order of priority for these matters.】

【Merging the Savior Goddess and Divine Advent Churches, gaining cooperation with the Pope of the Church of the God of Order, getting Duke Roswell to cooperate with all of this, and inquiring with Lucy about the Deton Group’s attitude towards these changes.】

【In addition, you need to search for that lost path, help Adele and Amy with their ‘Rotting Disease’ research, and help Avena complete the ‘Soul Walker’ reconstitution ritual.】

【While doing these things, you also need to pay attention to the developments in North Ansu. Imogen might come to Ansu at any time because of North Ansu’s situation. If possible, purchase a ‘Substitute Death Relic’ from Charles for emergencies.】

There were quite a number of things to record… This would require the Future Days simulation to last at least half a month to complete most of the memo content. If possible, a simulation of a month or more would be best.

If it were a simulation of only one or two weeks or just two or three days, then Ciel would have to adjust the order and priority of these matters.

If all these things were done…

The unavoidable outcome would be that Ciel would not be able to remain entirely “behind the scenes.” Her existence would definitely become known to various well-informed high-tier entities.

Ciel was unsure if she was prepared to handle this shift. The Future Days simulation could be used to practice this in advance.

After organizing her thoughts, Ciel found she still had some time, so she directly called Tara and Percy.

Previously, when Ciel performed church mergers in simulations, she never actually reached a truly complete merger. She merely used a “Deus ex machina” approach, leveraging the Grim Worm as a common point of faith to forcibly merge the people of the Church of the Savior Goddess who were more inclined towards divine faith with the Divine Advent Church.

True church mergers are not that simple. Just the hierarchy and power distribution after the merger are insurmountable obstacles.

Also, the Church of the Savior Goddess had a prosperous past. As the most powerful church after the Era of Holy Wars, their re-merger would inevitably cause panic among many other churches and hostile organizations.

All Ciel could do was to ensure that the major powers within Ansu allowed the Church of the Savior Goddess to merge. As for whether they could truly withstand external pressure and internal differences to coexist peacefully, that would depend on them.

“Lord Ciel, what can we do for you?” Tara stood beside Ciel and asked respectfully.

Percy, meanwhile, stood by the desk, a little further away, curiously observing Ciel.

She hadn’t had a deep conversation with Ciel yet. Her presence here was mostly just to protect Tara.

“There are some things I want to ask you, and the Cardinal’s opinion.” Ciel stood up, walked around the desk to the sofa, and said, “Please sit.”

“Yes… yes.”

The sudden atmosphere of discussing serious matters made Tara a little nervous. She had originally intended to just stand, but to avoid defying Ciel’s command, she still sat opposite Ciel.

“You too, please sit.” Ciel looked in Percy’s direction and said with a smile.

“Yes.” Percy nodded, saying nothing more, and just sat beside Tara.

“What would Lord Ciel like to ask?” Tara looked at Ciel before her and asked with her head bowed.

“I want to ask your views on the merger of the Church of the Savior Goddess and the Divine Advent Church.” Ciel said, asking directly.

For a moment, the atmosphere in the study solidified.

Especially Percy. She almost instinctively wanted to speak up and refute Ciel’s absurd idea.

Church merger? What a joke? Both sides called each other “heretics,” treating each other more cruelly than “infidels.” For years, they had also had countless small-scale conflicts.

If the Divine Advent Church hadn’t truly been unable to directly fight Forte and invade Ansu, a new holy war would probably have broken out long ago.

Reconcile the conflicts between the two sides? Perhaps only when the Mother Goddess Herself intervenes—this implied that there was no room for reconciliation ever.

However, before Percy could speak, Tara spoke first, suppressing the words Percy had not yet uttered.

“I believe it should have been so long ago,” Tara nodded, echoing Ciel’s words, “Only a complete church can better serve the Mother Goddess.”

Percy: “?”

She looked at Tara beside her with some disbelief.

Had the Archbishop lost her mind?

Could it be that the Archbishop, serving the young lady before her in a maid outfit all day, had truly been brainwashed?

But she had already checked before, and Archbishop Tara’s mind showed no signs of being controlled…