The Speedrun Manual of Miss Witch - Chapter 287

Avena forcefully held Ciel down, helping her pull up the covers; Tara handed over a cup of water, carefully feeding Ciel; Adele busied herself searching everywhere for reagents and toolboxes.

Ciel watched the busy girls in the room from the God’s-eye view of Precognitive Sight, feeling a warmth in her heart, and also a hint of guilt.

They didn’t know this was a simulation. They all thought this was Ciel’s only life, and they were all worried about Ciel, busy for Ciel.

Words like ‘This is all a dream, I won’t die’ remained unsaid.

She probably wouldn’t be believed by the other two, except for Tara.

Adele meticulously examined Ciel’s eyes and body, while Avena also healed Ciel’s spiritual body.

However, after the meticulous examination, both Adele and Avena showed confusion.

“Your body… is fine, very healthy…” Adele looked at Avena, her voice hesitant, seeming to begin to doubt her own judgment.

Avena, listening to Adele’s diagnosis, was also filled with questions.

Although Ciel’s mind was somewhat weak and mildly polluted, there were no major problems… Those mild pollutions were even less severe than the whispers of a Tier 1 transcendent.

But why couldn’t Ciel’s eyes recover?

“What’s wrong?” Noticing the strange expressions on Adele’s and Avena’s faces, Ciel looked in their direction and asked.

“I didn’t find any problems…” Avena shook her head.

“Me neither…” Adele pursed her lips and said, “After cleaning the blood from her eyeballs, there were no wounds on them, and no traces of transcendent influence…”

Listening to their words, Ciel fell into thought.

The last image she saw was that unspeakable entity, like Sadhana, tearing apart those light spheres and lunging towards her.

This image finally froze the moment it was about to collide with her… Could it be that because the distance was too close, the system, or her body, feared she couldn’t withstand such direct gaze, and directly shut down her eyeball’s bodily functions?

Or did Sadhana already inflict substantial damage on her the moment it lunged?

The latter possibility seems more reasonable…

“I said I’m fine. No need to worry… It only looked scary just now.” Ciel propped herself up and sat, saying with a smile, “And I’m not completely blind. I’ve already recovered quite a bit…”

Ciel focused her Precognitive Sight on what was before her, simulating it to appear visible, and looked in Avena’s direction.

“Really?” Avena asked.

“Really.” Ciel nodded.

“What number is this?” Avena extended her hand. Her index finger was only halfway up when it curled into a strange gesture.

“Uh…” Ciel said tentatively, “Zero point five? What kind of strange gesture is that…?”

Only then did Avena finally believe that Ciel’s sight had truly recovered.

“So, can I go back now?” Ciel asked tentatively.

“No.” Avena shook her head and asked, “Is something urgent? The kind that’s life or death?”

“Not really…” Ciel shook her head.

Sadhana in reality might take action, because Other Side creatures are not affected by simulations.

However, Sadhana’s means of action are limited, and They cannot directly emerge from the Other Side to punch Ciel. They can only rely on intermittent instructions to make Cora act.

Currently, Sadhana’s strongest means of attack would probably be to have Cora get close to her, and then directly emerge from the crystal to punch her—but Ciel wouldn’t give Them that opportunity.

And her real self, at this moment, was protected by Tara and Percy. Cora couldn’t even get close to her.

But similarly, Ciel also had no way to deal with Sadhana, who was in the Other Side.

It felt a bit like a virtual argument online from her past life, except Sadhana actually had the ability to punch through the screen, and Ciel had to find a way to counter Them quickly.

“Then stay here and get a good night’s rest. Don’t go anywhere.” Avena sat on the edge of the bed and said, “I’ll stay here with you.”

“Eh?” Adele, standing by, was stunned.

Isn’t this my house?

If you two sleep here, where do I go?

All the other places are converted into laboratories!

“Then… then I’ll stay with you too.” Adele also sat on the edge of the bed, so she could also have a place to sleep.

“I’ll just sleep on the floor…” Tara lowered her head. It seemed she also didn’t plan to leave tonight.

Under everyone’s “forceful” demands, Ciel had no choice but to agree to rest for the night.

However, resting in the simulation couldn’t bring much recovery to Ciel’s mind. Sleeping for a night would probably only equal a few minutes of rest in reality… This was a huge waste of time for Ciel.

So she decided to go talk to the Pure White Knight about Sadhana later.

She needed to know more information, and the Pure White Knight clearly knew a lot about Sadhana.

After Ciel washed off the blood in the bathroom, dried her hair, and changed into a set of clothes Adele gave her, she walked back to Adele’s room.

Because Adele’s clothes were a bit too big for Ciel, she had to roll up the cuffs of the pajama pants and hold them up to barely prevent them from slipping down.

Lying on the bed, Ciel thought for a moment, then shifted to a sideways position, leaving space beside her—Adele’s bed wasn’t as big as Avena’s or Ciel’s at home, so they could only lie across it.

Ciel, lying on the bed, closed her eyes. She focused on the red flash in her mind and directly consumed mental power to actively activate 【Omniscient】—