Miss Witch's Speed ​​Run Manual

【Coming to Japan】

【圣741年8月9日20:15】

[Countdown - 23:59:59]

September 8th?

47 days later?

The silver light in front of him gradually dissipated, and an illusory timing interface stayed in front of Charles' eyes for a few seconds, and then gradually dissipated, leaving behind a firelight under the night sky.

"Little Charles... Little Charles..."

"Little Charles!"

The call instantly activated Ciel's full control over her body, and made her feel the familiar pain brought by the surrounding flames.

In an instant, a black shadow pushed her up from behind. Charles suppressed the frantic wailing and muttering in her head and rushed towards the place where the familiar voice came from.

call--

The flames behind him were still burning fiercely. At the moment of rushing out of the sea of ​​fire, Charles bumped head-on into a figure who wanted to rush into the sea of ​​fire and pushed it out directly.

"elder sister……"

Charles saw the figure he had knocked down and his eyes narrowed slightly.

She suddenly looked back and saw what seemed to be a gravel slope behind her. Several neatly-made train carriages were scattered on the gravel slope. Some objects or coal carried in the carriages ignited everything. The entire freight train and the trees and weeds on the slope were all engulfed in flames.

The flames almost illuminated the entire night, and there were countless screams and wails in the fire. Charles could sense the pain, which made her headache so painful that it almost exploded.

Steam train... derailed?

notes!

Charles quickly felt around his body and found no canvas bag hanging on it.

She raised her hand and pointed in the direction of the sea of ​​fire. Four dark shadows emerged from her back and rushed directly into the sea of ​​fire.

Soon, a half-burned canvas bag was held high by a dark shadow and ran out of the sea of ​​fire.

Charles quickly took the canvas bag and unfolded it.

Inside were bundles of 20-pound Soviet pound banknotes rolled into rolls. Many of them had been burned in half or turned to ashes, leaving only three complete rolls of Soviet pounds.

Under the pile of Soviet pounds was a notebook with a blackened cover.

Charles took out the notebook and opened it quickly. Fortunately, only the cover was burnt and the paper inside was slightly yellowed by the smoke, so he could still see some of the information recorded inside.

The notes were almost filled with text, and the last date stopped at 8:9 p.m. on August 16, four hours before the fire.

What happened?

Ciel looked at the contents on the last page.

【August 9, 1941, at 4:30 PM】

[Things have finally turned out like this... I've tried my best]

I've investigated everything I could, even that devoted member of the Holy Advent sect has appeared, but I still can't pinpoint which organization or individual is targeting me.

I've been incredibly unlucky lately... No, it's like I've been cursed. I don't want to stay in Burren City for even a single day. It's such an unlucky place.

[Really, I want to use the "deep simulation" of the subsystem to see where the problem lies.]

[But my mission is to investigate and survive as long as possible. Even if I want to explore the other world, I can only wait until the last moment.]

I've only got 5 points left, and the remaining potions have been exchanged for money. Fortunately, everything is ready for the transfer, and I've already taken my sister on the steam train.

After comparing several options, I finally decided to go to Ansu. Although the steam train is very slow and cannot go directly to Ansu, requiring a transfer, it is still much faster than a horse-drawn carriage.

[That's it for today, I'm tired]

"Little Charles! What's wrong with you? Little Charles!"

Voices of calling rang in Charles' ears. Tormented by the mumbling and a little dazed, Charles slowly raised his head and looked at Lizzie who was shaking his shoulders in front of him.

"Take me...away from here..."

Ciel slowly opened his arms.

Lizzie took the canvas bag from Charles' hand without hesitation, picked up Charles horizontally, and ran away from the train.

Boom——!

Just when they had run less than 10 meters, a carriage of the train exploded behind them. The strong air wave made Lizzie unable to stabilize her body and she fell forward.

But before she fell to the ground, she twisted her body forcefully, slamming her back and shoulders against the ground, rolling several times without hurting Charles in her arms.

After the explosion, most of the mumbling and wailing in Charles's mind disappeared in an instant, and she fully recovered.

Those who were struggling in pain and panic were almost all dead.

Charles quickly turned over, picked up the tattered canvas bag and notebook that had been thrown out, took Lizzie's hand, and led her up the slope.

It was not until he crossed the railroad tracks and reached the other side of the slope, and could no longer feel the heat behind him, that Charles stopped and coughed a few times.

Charles felt a little dizzy because he had inhaled too much smoke in the carriage just now.

Lizzie also stopped panting. She looked back at the smoke and flames behind her, feeling a little surprised and confused.

What on earth happened just now?

My sister suddenly opened the car window, and for some unknown reason I... flew out, and then landed steadily on the ground.

But the next second, the train suddenly exploded, the entire train derailed, rolled down the slope in front of her eyes, and caught fire almost in the blink of an eye.

It all happened so fast that Lizzie had no time to react.

By the time she realized her sister was still in the car, her sister had already rushed out of the sea of ​​fire.

It seemed that she also saw her sister's canvas bag flying out from the sea of ​​fire...

"What... happened, Ciel?"

Lizzie spoke haltingly, her excessive nervousness making her speech unclear.

Lizzie was still feeling the aftermath of the recent series of events and was unable to concentrate on what had happened.

At this moment, Charles, holding a notebook in his hand, turned his head and looked at the other side of the billowing smoke with some confusion.

She also wanted to know what was going on.

How did the train suddenly explode and derail? Did someone know his itinerary and plant a bomb to murder him?

"Sister, what just happened?"

Ciel looked in Lizzie's direction, held Lizzie's hand tightly, and slowly asked, "Can you tell me in detail about what happened on the train?"

After hearing Charles' calm voice, Lizzie seemed to be infected by Charles' calmness, and her panicked mood gradually calmed down.

Slowly, Lizzie began to speak, telling Charles everything she could remember about what happened after she got on the train.

Once on the train, everything was normal...except for a few people coming over and wanting to get to know Charles, nothing special happened.

The simulated self seemed to have used up the last 5 destiny points and sent Lizzie out just one second before the explosion - it was very likely that he used the "Judge" save file, after all, only Sombra could do this.

In the simulation, Ciel, relying on the one-second prediction of [Precognitive Vision], saw the fact that the explosion would occur one second later, and used the last moment to choose to send his sister out.

She herself was suffocated by the thick smoke in the carriage and was almost burned to death.

Charles analyzed that it was very likely that after the explosion killed the "Judge" archive, the main body had no ability to escape from the sea of ​​fire and was trapped inside. It was considered dead by the system, so he came to this point in time.

She could have chosen to jump out of the car herself.

This way I can live a few more days and investigate a little longer...

There was no way Ciel could blame herself in the simulation for such emotional behavior. If it were her, she would never watch Lizzie die in front of her again, especially when she had the ability to stop it.

In any case, his own death in the simulation caused Charles' simulation to be advanced, forcing it from the original September 9th to August 27th.

It seemed that she could not travel to a point in time that her simulated self had not yet experienced, and she could not travel to the time after her simulated self died.

Ciel clenched the notebook in her hand, doubts lingering in her mind.

In the end what happened?

Why was my simulated self so passive today? Why had the investigation made no progress? Wasn't it even that fanatical member of the Holy Advent sect? Had my simulated self already met him in person?

Ciel really wanted to open the notebook to see what was going on, but now, she had to take her sister to a safe place first.

His sister had seen a small town in the direction they came from. Charles supported his sister and walked along the railway towards the town. When there was only a small dot of fire behind them, Charles brought Lizzie to the gate of the town.

After renting a room in a simple hotel in the small town, Charles took his sister into the room. After comforting his sister and letting her fall asleep, Charles sat down at a wooden table and opened his notebook.

[741, June 23, 5:46 PM]

[I see the subsystem now. There are so many tasks left... Me a minute ago]

June 23rd, 9:30 PM

[The dinner is over, it was very sumptuous]

After finishing her meal, Avina brought Adele and Amy to the study. Nia briefly introduced Amy's extraordinary background and then made a list for Amy to choose from.

[The list now includes two paths I've never seen before: "Performer" and "Gardener"... I can't imagine their abilities just by looking at the names.]

[At present, it seems that only the last two paths are left, and they are still in an unknown state. Even Avina knows very little about them. This seems to be a secret religion that only exists in legends, and there are few records even in books.]

【Remember the flowers in Amy's garden and room? 】

[Yes, that’s right, she chose “Gardener”, a potion I would never have chosen if I had listened to it.]

[But Avina also doesn't have the "Gardener's" potion, which seems to involve a mysterious natural cult. She decides to change her claim to Deton Manor and ask them to find a bottle of "Gardener's" potion containing the recurrence ritual.]

"Today ends here. I'm going to find my sister and ask her to move into the new house she rented. Avina has done some research for me and the landlord is fine. He's just an ordinary old man."

[I estimate that tomorrow, the stakeholders of Deton Manor will investigate the incident at Deton Manor. I will leave a message then.]

The first page was in the middle here, and Charles continued to flip down.

June 24th, 12:00 noon

[Today was supposed to be my long-awaited day off. I agreed to take a day off to spend time with my sister, but I can't. I have something to investigate.]

[Investigating within the simulation is much more difficult. The subsystem cannot see changes in the number of simulated days, only a deep simulation that includes the other world. I don't know what my actions will trigger.]

Today I came to the luxurious clinic that Avina bought. Because there was no publicity, there were not many customers today, and it was much quieter. However, Adele was tinkering with a new potion.

Avina's reappearance ritual progressed slowly, but Adele's speed was much faster. The antidote for dehydration she had prepared earlier seemed to have helped her complete most of the Plague Doctor reappearance ritual. The potion had already been purchased. Now she had everything ready, only the east wind was needed.

[I’m done talking now. I’m going to have lunch. I should hear news about the investigation this afternoon.]

June 24th, 4:50 PM

There weren't many patients this afternoon, but there were quite a few visitors to visit Avina. Among them, I saw some acquaintances.

[The first one is Lucy Silva, a senior commissioner of the Deton Group. She came to apologize to the senior VIP Avina on behalf of Deton Manor. The compensation plan is still under discussion. She will come again with compensation when the time comes.]

The second and third were Bishop Xio and Missionary Julis. They didn't know me, but I was very familiar with them. However, when they came, I was helping Adele with her medicine testing, so I didn't meet them directly.

[From what Avina said, they came to ask if she had noticed anything unusual, and also to check if she had been brainwashed by the cult for free. It seems they were screening people who had been to Deton Manor to see if there were any cultists they had missed. Amy had to be hidden.]

[——By the way, if Adele asks you to try some medicine, you absolutely must not agree.]

She insisted, "I don't want enemies to be able to take my medicine directly if they find it," and she didn't want to add mint. She insisted on adding poison to the potion, and that the potion and antidote must be taken together, otherwise something bad would happen.

The fourth person to visit was a third-level old professor from the Redemption Society. He seemed to be Xie Lun's teacher. He didn't know that Xie Lun's incident happened at Avina's house. He just came to find Adele, apologize to her, and hoped that she would return to the Redemption Society.

[In addition to these four, there is actually a fifth force, but they didn't come to visit. It was Avina who took the initiative to visit... The royal family also seems to have sent people to investigate. This is a major event in Ansu, and the royal family cannot ignore it.]

"You're right. Various interested parties have begun to make their presence felt after this incident. The only confirmed news we have now is that the aftermath of the incident at Deton Manor was handled very cleanly. Apart from the cultists, there were no casualties, and only some people suffered minor or serious injuries."

They could only find the Holy Advent sect and the sacrificial ritual, and the investigation reached a deadlock.

The only faction that could possibly find something inside, the Holy Advent Sect, seems to have not made any movement yet.

There seems to be a dinner party tomorrow night. These people are planning to gather together to discuss the sacrifice at Deton Manor. Many extraordinary people will be invited to the banquet.

As the person involved and the "local boss," Avina was naturally invited. Since this was a simulation, I decided to go along and treat it as an investigation.

【Hope things can end soon】

Are the royal family members here too?

Unexpected but reasonable forces have emerged, but this should have no impact on the overall situation.

If this dinner party happened in reality, Charles would never attend it, but in the simulation, for the sake of intelligence, he chose to go with Avina.