The Speedrun Manual of Miss Witch-Chapter 118 - The Episode with the Highest Killing Spree Reward (3/3)

A silver light flashed.

Ciel felt she regained control of her body.

At this moment, before her eyes was a familiar silver-white world. And standing before her was herself with black and blue long hair and purplish-red pupils. She just looked into Ciel’s eyes, making no effort to hide the decadent and world-weary aura about her.

【Save character file?】

A system message appeared before Ciel, pulling her back from her previous state.

She raised her hand, looked at her own hands... In this space, her hands could move freely as she wished.

Recalling the experience just now, Ciel still felt waves of lingering fear.

That situation of being unable to control her body, only able to watch helplessly as she did things completely contrary to her thoughts... Even if the feather wanted to control her to kill loved ones then, Ciel would have been completely unable to resist.

What was that... possession?

Since Ciel didn’t understand Old Ansu script, she had no idea what the feather-shaped sealed artifact said using her body just now.

However, she roughly memorized the words. If she heard them again, or learned Old Ansu script, she would know what the other party said.

She felt that must be the key to resolving the predicament.

“System, in this save file, is that feather still there?” Ciel asked the system directly in this silver-white space.

Ciel wasn’t in a hurry to save directly. The flow of time in this space was like the flow between simulation and reality. She could use this time to ask more questions and think a bit longer.

Every extra second spent was a gain.

【Things parasitizing the host’s body are not considered part of the host itself, so... of course not】

【This save file, at most, just has a severe injury effect. After all, the head was blown open, gotta stitch it up yourself ^^ D】

“What was that feather just now? What’s its relationship with you?” Ciel pressed on immediately.

【Can’t you just look it up in the system mall yourself... You’re stalling for time, aren’t you!】

【Save or not? Suit yourself!】

“Save, No.4.”

Having her thoughts discovered by the system, Ciel didn’t delay further, directly saving the file to No.4.

Soon, the originally blank No.4 slot flickered, and a line of text was imprinted on it.

【No.4: Ciel Coroner】

After the save was successful, the Coroner Ciel before her erupted in a dazzling silver light. Ciel briefly lost consciousness.

...

【Reality】

【Holy Year 741, June 24th, 08:11】

【Evaluation: Well, you turned a perfectly good stitching scene into a transcendent slaughterhouse. Look how scared the kid got, completely lost her mind】

【Regardless, this is your most glorious achievement yet. Not only did you slaughter over a dozen transcendents unscathed, but you also successfully completed the “Coroner” Reconstitution Ritual】

【The answer seems close to surfacing... But how will you solve it?】

【Don’t startle it—this point, I shouldn’t need to remind you, right?】

【By the way, I just thought of a joke】

【Know why “Coroner” Ciel is so depressed? Because her path is called “World-Weary Officer” ^_^】

【Laugh? Why aren’t you laughing? Is my Chinese joke not funny?】

【Take it, this is deserved based on your performance.】

【Reward: Fate Points ×77, 【Headhunter Lv.2】, 【Endless Manual of Instant Forgetfulness】, 【Inventory】 +2】

【Fate Points: 166】

Ciel slowly opened her eyes, looking at the system settlement screen before her.

Slaughtering so many transcendents, plus successfully completing the Reconstitution Ritual to become a transcendent—these two major rewards combined actually brought the Fate Points reward directly to 77, even higher than when she broke the Fated Death last time.

Fated Deaths also varied in significance. Such a high reward, the most important factor must be that she obtained new intelligence.

The previous high reward was because the Fated Death originated from a third-tier bishop. This time, receiving such a high reward without resolving the incident indicated the opponent’s rank couldn’t be low.

Besides the Fate Points reward, what surprised Ciel somewhat was that 【Headhunter】 actually leveled up too... Was it because she chopped off so many heads?

Ciel thought again of the blue feather, feeling a bit of a headache.

This was going to be a tough battle...

The opponent was a sealed artifact, and an intelligent one at that. It had even been observing her all along... Ciel could no longer let Avena translate Old Ansu script for her. Even her thought process, it was best not to write it down on paper anymore.

Fortunately, Ciel previously only dared to confidently list plans on paper during simulations.

Ciel suddenly thought of something. She quickly opened her eyes, found her notebook, directly lit it with candle fire, threw it into the metal trash can, and waited for it to burn completely inside.

The notebook couldn’t be used anymore... Ciel didn’t know to what extent the opponent grasped information about her.

She had to find a new method or item to replace her notebook.

Right, the system rewards...

Ciel looked at the system reward 【Endless Manual of Instant Forgetfulness】. At this moment, it lay quietly in Ciel’s system inventory.

The system inventory increased from 4 slots to 6, allowing Ciel to store more things. This could also be considered one of Ciel’s trump cards.

In the new empty slot, an ancient, black-covered manual lay quietly.

As Ciel gazed at it, a system description appeared before her.

【【Endless Manual of Instant Forgetfulness】】

【Ability: A transcendent manual that can be flipped through infinitely downwards, things can be recorded on it】

【Side Effect: When the manual is closed, creatures who have seen the manual will forget its contents】

Ciel: “...”

Forget it right after writing and closing? Then what’s the point of writing?

No...

In Ciel’s vision, the system inventory interface still existed. But as her thoughts flipped, the endless manual inside the inventory slowly turned a page.

Although the icon was small, if the words were written larger, they could still be seen.

She could write, then flip through it directly in the inventory?

Ciel seemed to understand its true usage.

There were too many things to do. Ciel closed the system inventory interface.

She opened the system’s store interface. All the new items appeared before Ciel.

And the 【Basic Disciplines】 column also showed a highlighted red dot, indicating new things were available for learning.