The Speedrun Manual of Miss Witch

Ciel turned back, looking at the Clock Tower Church in the distance.

The Clock Tower Church, shrouded in the rain curtain, every window was emitting scarlet blood light, but there was no sound—who knew what terrifying existence was brewing inside.

Just looking at the direction of the church, Ciel could feel her heart repeatedly contracting and a sense of oppression as if her hair was being pulled towards it.

Although it was still calm and peaceful at that moment, but as long as that door to the Other Side and the Other Side being finished absorbing those transcendent energies...

Her simulated self seemed to have anticipated a similar situation long ago. When staging the bombing earlier, she had already made Avena fake her death and leave Berren City, also taking Adele, Amy, and her own sister with her.

Although this was just a simulation, it didn’t mean they would suffer the effects of Nemesis in reality, thus developing a fear of Ciel.

And now, she had to rush to Manor No. 5 as quickly as possible.

There, was something the Keyman hid that Ciel hadn’t been able to simulate.

The “white horse” sped silently along the road. Just when they could see the outline of Manor No. 5, a sudden palpitation surged from Ciel’s and Tara’s hearts.

But neither of them turned back—Ciel knew that no matter what was behind them, turning back would only increase the burden on her spirit and increase the risk of attracting special attention.

And the reason Tara, sitting behind Ciel, didn’t turn back was that Ciel didn’t turn back.

Soon, the “white horse” carried Ciel and Tara all the way into Manor No. 5. The illusory white shadow smashed the manor’s gate. The “white horse” charged directly into the manor, stopping right in front of a room on the second floor.

At this moment, the few members of the “Chaos Squad” still standing at the entrance were blankly staring at the red light on the horizon, not even noticing Ciel and Tara appearing beside them.

Ciel directly pushed open the room door, her gaze immediately locking onto the desk.

She quickly walked behind the desk, stood in front of the wall, and soon found the section of the wall the Keyman had torn through with green light earlier.

Ciel directly lowered her stance and clenched her fist. She suddenly threw out her right fist, smashing it against the wall, hitting the position from the dream precisely.

With just a crisp sound, the hollowed-out, brittle brick shell was smashed by Ciel, revealing the wooden box behind it. She directly opened the wooden box and saw some money and items inside, and a notepad with a black cover.

Found it.

Ciel reached out and picked up the notepad. She casually opened it. It was empty. This was because the spiritual imprint on it had not yet dissipated.

Spiritual note...

The Keyman’s?

This is a good thing... With this, she can directly pinpoint the Keyman’s location in reality.

Perhaps the Keyman never expected, even upon death, that this action of theirs would bring about their demise.

Ciel, having obtained the spiritual note, did not linger for a moment. She immediately took Tara and left Manor No. 5, taking another road out of the city and leaving Berren City under the cover of night.

Only when she started seeing lush farmland around did Ciel have Tara stop the “white horse.”

At this moment, Ciel was standing at the foot of Creek Hill. Going up the mountain path through the farmland would lead to Deton Manor, but Ciel had no intention of going up now.

She leaped off the horse’s back, turning back to look at Berren City behind her.

Berren City in the rain curtain was very hazy. At night, only the factory lights in this city would remain lit, as usual.

Did nothing... happen?

Since Ciel left the city from the direction of Sir’s Bridge District, there were no troops for suppression there, only a few temporary checkpoints. Only, no one was on duty at night.

Many troops were currently stationed outside Berren City. If something happened in Berren City, she just needed to see if the army would retreat towards this direction.

“Lord Ciel...?”

Tara’s uncertain voice sounded beside her. Ciel turned, looking at Tara with a slightly puzzled expression.

“What is it?” Ciel asked, her gaze still on Tara.

“Your eyes...”

Tara raised her hand, pointing towards Ciel’s right eye.

In Tara’s perspective, Ciel’s right eye was just a black void. There seemed to be fangs deep within the eye.

But with the next blink, the anomaly Tara saw just now seemed to have disappeared. When Ciel’s right eye opened again, it was back to having normal eyeballs and pupils.

Eyes?

Ciel looked at Tara’s suspicious expression, slowly raised her hand, and touched the area around her right eye.

She... didn’t feel her eyeball.

Not just her right eye, she touched her left eye, still didn’t feel the presence of an eyeball, as if it had melted, leaving only the eye socket.

But when Ciel put her hand into her eye socket, she immediately pulled her finger out in pain.

Her fingers had several scratches, as if she had put her fingers in a pencil sharpener and turned it around.

But when she probed inwards, she clearly felt the obstruction of the eyeball, but the fangs caused substantial damage to her.

Her eyeballs seemed to exist in a superposition state of being and not being. Only by actually touching them could she tell if they truly existed.

Did the potion’s erosion also change her body?

No, it doesn’t feel like potion erosion. It feels more like something from the Other Side...

Moreover...

Ciel looked at her right hand. At this moment, in her vision, her right hand was already covered with horrifying cracks and tentacles. She extended her hand towards Tara, and found Tara’s eyeballs involuntarily moving with the longest tentacle on Ciel’s hand.

She could also see it now... This was something that could only be seen after being contaminated by the Other Side.

It could basically be confirmed that her eyes were indeed contaminated by the Other Side... the contamination had deepened.

And at this moment, in the distance that Ciel couldn’t see, Berren City was undergoing drastic changes that ordinary people could hardly perceive.

That “Blood Eye” had finally formed.