The Speedrun Manual of Miss Witch-Chapter 102 - Great! Respected! Omniscient Mother Goddess! (1/4)

Lucy’s body swayed slightly. Then, she supported herself on the floor with her hands, slowly stood up, and turned towards Ciel.

The various anomalies on her face had now disappeared, leaving only several dark cracks that seemed bottomless, and the right eye with three pupils.

Her left eye was completely bloodshot, the black pupil in the center no longer moving, appearing completely useless.

“Thank you...” Lucy looked towards Ciel and expressed her thanks, but her voice was extremely hoarse.

She walked towards Ciel step by step. Ciel warily moved aside. Judging by Lucy’s direction, she was heading towards the sealed artifact coin.

Ciel didn’t speak to interrupt Lucy’s actions. She needed to understand the coin’s function and side effects. If necessary, she could kill Lucy while she was extremely weak and take the coin before the simulation ended; the system would tell Ciel the answer.

Under Ciel’s watch, Lucy staggered to the front of the coin. When she saw the coin’s orientation, she finally lost control of her body, knelt before the coin, and laughed miserably.

Only after laughing until she lost all strength did Lucy lean back against a large rock, reach out to pick up the coin, look towards Ciel, and weakly ask, “Judicator... Your Excellency, is there anything else you want to ask...”

“I want to know the source of the misfortune upon you.” Ciel said directly.

“You are a ‘Favored’; these misfortunes happening to you are unusual.”

“Indeed unusual...” Lucy tilted her head back, resting it against the large rock. “But I don’t know the specific source of the misfortune either.”

After a moment of silence, Lucy continued, “I’m accustomed to using various methods to divine my fortune before doing anything, then acting according to the results.”

“Over a month ago, I received the mission to investigate in Berren City. Before starting, I performed divination. The result was... extreme danger, and a small probability of immense gain.”

High risk, high reward... Even after advancing to “Favored,” does one still maintain a gambler’s mindset? Or is it just Lucy?

“But after arriving here, I noticed something wasn’t right...” Lucy closed her right eye, calmed the dizziness in her head, then reopened her eye and said, “It seems everything I do here is bound to fail. It’s even more absurd than when I drank the ‘Misfortune Bringer’ potion.”

“But slowly, through fortune divination, I discovered a pattern...”

A pattern?

Ciel’s interest perked up slightly.

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Just moments ago, Ciel had also deduced a partial pattern to her own misfortune; a large part stemmed from “contacting the transcendent.”

“This pattern is ‘mission’.” Lucy raised her hand, patted the stone floor beside her, and said:

“My mission here was to investigate the case of the cultists in this manor...”

“But whenever I do anything that deviates from the ‘investigation,’ diverging from the mission objective, misfortune arrives as expected. Even leaving Deton Manor doesn’t work.”

So... this was why Lucy stayed at Deton Manor investigating repeatedly?

This pattern... or rather, this “rule” of not being able to leave Deton Manor, who set it? What kind of existence could impose such a “rule” on a third-tier “Favored”?

“Can this rule explain the source of all the misfortune upon you?” Ciel asked, pressing further.

Hearing Ciel’s question, Lucy looked up in astonishment, gazing towards Ciel’s position, murmuring, “How do you...”

How did this red-haired girl before her know instantly that the “misfortune rule” upon her wasn’t just one?

Even a “Missionary” or “Radiance Bishop” couldn’t possibly deduce that there was more than one “misfortune rule” just from these few words and her emotions, right? Because every sentence she spoke was the truth.

Lucy propped herself up with her hands, sitting slightly straighter, looking somewhat more formal.

She looked towards Ciel and said, “Your Excellency Judicator, allow me to reintroduce myself. My name is Lucy Silva, third-tier ‘Favored,’ senior dispatched commissioner of the Deton Group. May I know your name?”

Why do all these third-tier transcendents like adding such long prefixes when introducing themselves?

“Ciel.” Ciel spoke, but the next moment, she suddenly realized something and closed her mouth.

This simulation, she had already revealed her name to two transcendents of third-tier or higher.

Meaning, she had already made substantial contact with two third-tier transcendents, even letting them know her.

This definitely counted as “contacting the transcendent.”

Was the “misfortune rule” inherited by her simulated “Judicator” save file?

“Cannot contact transcendents” was a rule Ciel deduced not long ago as potentially causing her misfortune. But before deducing this, Ciel had already contacted two third-tier transcendents.

If the simulated “misfortune rule” was inherited by her “Judicator” save file, did that mean... a greater misfortune was currently brewing...

“Ciel...” Lucy, still unaware, nodded slowly and said, “Good name... May I call you Miss Ciel directly...”

“Lucy...” Ciel interrupted Lucy’s words, looked at her, and said, “The ‘misfortune rule’ on you seems to be on me as well.”

Lucy: “?”