The Speedrun Manual of Miss Witch-Chapter 111 - "Light of the City" Ciel (2/3)

An unknown amount of time passed. A scorching sensation gradually roused Ciel. She slowly opened her eyes, her consciousness gradually returning.

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Her body no longer felt the touch of cold rainwater, only warm, fierce wind blowing past. Even her hair and clothes were completely dry.

On the ground was dry earth, not the sofa in Avena’s study.

No... Still in the simulation...

Ciel felt her body was no longer under her control, but fortunately, she still had the ability to control the black shadows, not being affected too much.

Two black shadows slowly helped her up. Ciel, bleeding from all seven orifices, strenuously moved her eyeballs, enduring the dizziness and double vision, looking towards where Oppold originally was.

Oppold’s figure was gone. Only a pile of transcendent items and materials glowing with various lights remained there, piled up almost to calf height—a pile of “relics.”

Oppold was dead.

And at this moment, not far from Oppold’s corpse, a huge fire tornado was rapidly forming, sucking everything around into it, including the relics Oppold left behind.

The fire tornado continuously climbed higher, rapidly expanding under the hurricane’s force. Likely within ten seconds, the entire field would be covered by it.

Suddenly, Ciel felt a cold sensation on her throat.

She slowly looked down. Blood flowed continuously down her neck, but she no longer felt any pain.

Ciel’s figure gradually faded and dissipated. The next moment, she appeared ten meters away. Supported by the black shadows, she looked towards where she was previously. Lucy, holding several blades between her fingers, stood less than three meters from where Ciel had been, watching Ciel.

“I... understand...” Lucy panted heavily, but couldn’t suppress the grin spreading across her lips. She reversed the blades between her fingertips, finally clamping them between her index and middle fingers.

“This is a ‘trial’... a gamble given to me by fate, a trial given to me by fate...” Lucy was covered in blood, but it couldn’t conceal the madness in her eyes: “Oppold is out! And you, fake ‘Judicator’ miss! You should rest too...”

Ding—

Amidst the fierce wind, the “Strong Luck Coin” was tossed into the sky by Lucy. It seemed unaffected by the hurricane, falling vertically onto the back of Lucy’s hand, standing upright.

Then, Lucy’s fist slightly turned. The upright “Strong Luck Coin” fell towards Lucy, the rust-red eye angel gazing at the sky.

Her sealed artifact... had its usage limit removed? And she could control its falling direction?

Why?

“Hahahaha... Hahaha! I won? I won again! I can control it now!” Lucy no longer had the strength to throw the blades again, and her mental state was extremely crazed. It was difficult to assess how much sanity she retained. Even the previous wounds on her face had reopened, the “things” previously “stuffed” inside gradually emerging.

The fire tornado was rapidly approaching. Ciel believed that soon, both she and Lucy would suffer damage from the fire tornado... and Ciel, with her throat cut, clearly wouldn’t last longer than Lucy, who seemed to still have the strength to laugh out loud.

Oppold is out?

Ciel certainly knew, because she was the one who did it.

She also knew how the condition for the second tribulation was met—one of them had to die. Lucy probably figured this out too, which was why she directly slit Ciel’s throat with flying knives when she woke up earlier than Ciel.

But Ciel wouldn’t die so easily. She wanted to see the end more than anyone.

Click—

The black shadow behind Ciel pressed the stopwatch in its hand.

Echo of Time.

The next moment, the black shadow directly entered Ciel’s shadow, controlling Ciel, beginning to walk quickly towards Lucy in an extremely stiff manner.

“Hmm?” Lucy noticed, tightening her grip on the flying knife. When Ciel walked up to her, she stabbed directly towards her chest.

“Goodbye. In many ways, you are my ‘benefactor’.” Lucy panted heavily, grinning wide.

But soon, her smile gradually faded.

Because she saw Ciel, whose heart she had just pierced, stiffly raise her hands and grab her wrist.

“You...”

Immense force came from the girl before her. Caught off guard, Lucy was directly dragged and thrown to the ground.

“What... are you doing?! Let go of me!!! Let go of me quickly!!! You lunatic!!!” Lucy frantically stabbed Ciel’s calves and arms with the flying knife, but the terrifying red-haired girl seemed completely unaffected by the pain, dragging her towards the fire tornado that had already approached right before their faces.

“Let go of me quickly!!! No... No no no no no!!!”

The figures of the two were instantly swallowed by the fire tornado.

Almost instantly, the two were swept up directly by the fierce wind. Their clothes, hair, and skin were rapidly carbonized by the flames. Even their eyeballs melted.

Lucy’s screams were completely drowned out by the fierce wind. Even Ciel passed out due to intense mental exhaustion.

Six seconds after being drawn into the fire tornado, Lucy and Ciel had completely turned into a pile of ashes. Only scattered transcendent materials, items, and sealed artifacts circled in the sky.

Eight seconds after being drawn into the fire tornado, the pile of ashes symbolizing Ciel rapidly reformed against the direction of the fire tornado. In the blink of an eye, it returned to its original spot, kneeling on the ground, clutching the slit throat.

Boom—

Ninth second, the center of the fire tornado exploded. A ball of fire broke through the barrier, blasting outwards in all directions. The various debris swept up were also thrown to the edges, breaking through the shadow barrier, scattering outwards.

The barrier shattered.

But Ciel, under the impact of the shockwave, flew tens of meters, all her bones shattered, completely unable to move.

She lay on the ground, her already dimmed eyes watching the raindrops falling anew from the sky, praying she would live until the side effect 【Temporal Disorder】 activated.

Adele is already second-tier, why didn’t I think to ask her for more potions... This was Ciel’s thought at this moment.

She had to keep herself thinking constantly, even about trivial matters.

It’s finally over...