The Speedrun Manual of Miss Witch-Chapter 196 - The New "Uniqueness", Forte’s Trump Card (2/2)

Forte slowly held the finger and brought it to the black box.

The originally still black box was as if it had come to life. The box cracked open, revealing sharp teeth and flesh. It bit down with a vibration, like a black clam, and began rapidly gnawing on the finger.

Soon, the finger filled the inside of the black box. To swallow the entire finger, the black box had to spit out a string of items.

Tap—

A bloodstained watch chain was spat onto the table.

This was a bloodstained silver watch chain. After being spat onto the table, it coiled, resembling the shape of a Mobius strip.

The head of the watch chain was carved into an exquisite snake head. This exquisite, small snake head lay in a pool of blood at this moment, as if there was nothing noteworthy about it.

“I will make them pay...”

Forte slowly reached out and gripped the watch chain.

The small snake head was instantly activated. The area where the eyes should be flashed with crimson blood light. Its mouth slightly opened, revealing sharp, barbed teeth inside.

It seemed to have come alive. It crawled along the blood towards Forte’s left hand, whose index finger had been sawed off. Then it raised its head and looked into Forte’s eyes.

Hiss—

Instantly, the watch chain shot out, directly piercing Forte’s eye and entering it. It passed through the bone and entered his brain.

Intense pain and chaotic whispers completely enveloped Forte. At this moment, he completely lost all ability to think except for the pain.

And the watch chain snake rapidly coiled within his brain, its speed increasing. After almost churning Forte’s brain into a pulp, it opened its silver snake mouth within Forte’s skull, aimed at its own tail, and bit down directly.

Sharp teeth, and the clasp at the tail, tightly locked together, forming a closed loop.

Silver light erupted, completely engulfing everything before Forte’s eyes.

And Ciel, on the high ground at this moment, her eyes filled with astonishment, also had her vision covered by silver light.

Simulation... ended?

The next moment, Ciel’s senses around her returned. She quickly opened her eyes. A familiar scene appeared before Ciel.

Windsor, scantily clad, was sitting on the chair in front of the bed, her face flushed, looking at her, doing some handiwork.

And Ciel, trembling slightly, scanned everything before her, her face showing an expression of disbelief.

Simulation... restarted?

System BUG?

Was she dreaming just now? Was she just starting the simulation?

No... wrong...

That silver light...

Is a new “Uniqueness”...

And it’s highly likely to be the “Uniqueness” that comes with the pocket watch, just like the 【Overlimit Gear】!

“System!”

Ciel quickly called out to the system in her mind. A familiar screen appeared before her.

【Future Days】

【Holy Year 741, October 25th, 12:00】

【Countdown – 18:00:17】

The countdown is still running! It hasn’t reset!

Someone used a time rewind! But it didn’t affect the system!

Who is it?

Forte?!

Ciel had thought of many things and speculated on many trump cards. It was possible to probe the royal family’s expensive assets and various strange sealed artifacts, or even probe the Church of the God of Order for similar summonings—after all, they were most obsessed with studying the Other Side.

But she had never thought that she would probe out a “Uniqueness”...

And one related to the pocket watch!

Instantly, Ciel felt her tied hands starting to grow cold.

Simulating for a long time had made her never consider how to deal with an enemy who could rewind time...

The other party definitely didn’t have the system’s simulation, but just being Tier 4 plus the ability to rewind time was enough to make one virtually unable to deal with it.

Ciel could also rewind, but only back to 15 seconds earlier using the pocket watch, and it would be accompanied by the unpredictable negative effect 【Temporal Disorder】.

Ciel knew how terrifying this ability was, because she had continuously benefited from this ability.

Now, Ciel only wanted to know one thing.

After rewinding, does he have all his memories, just like her?

If she remembered correctly, it wouldn’t be long before... Windsor went to see Forte. If Forte still had his memories, he might come directly to look for Windsor.

After all, Windsor was his daughter. He wouldn’t let Windsor die again.

Ciel quickly calmed down and waited for things to happen. Even when faced with Windsor’s advances, Ciel kept her muscles tense, pretending not to see her.

There was one more thing she wanted to figure out.

Why did the time rewind... rewind to the time she had just arrived in the simulation?

This was unlikely to be a coincidence.

It was highly likely that it was influenced by either the system or her pocket watch.

Fortunately, this was just a simulation... In the simulation, she had managed to probe out this terrifying major trump card...

She must get that “Uniqueness”!

Looking at the already departed Windsor, a murderous intent gradually rose in Ciel’s eyes. She would not allow anyone other than herself to possess the power to control time.

...

Meanwhile, in Cecile Palace, in the music hall.

Forte, who had just been chatting gently with Princess Vita and was still wearing a smile, suddenly changed his expression at this moment.

He smiled as he got up, made an excuse to go to the washroom, walked out of the music hall, and quickly headed towards the washroom. fɾeewebnoveℓ.co๓

He quickly opened the door and entered. With his back to the wooden door, he raised his left hand.

A violent headache and dizziness came over him. His left index finger was rapidly rotting, deteriorating. After the flesh festered, bone was exposed. Finally, even the bone directly weathered away—as if this one finger had gone through countless ages.

Did I use the watch chain?

What major incident happened? How much time is left until the major incident? Who caused this life-or-death crisis?

Forte, leaning against the wooden door, forcefully endured the dizziness and whispers coming from his head. He slowly sat down on the floor. Sweat dripped from his forehead onto the ground. Forte panted, just watching as his left index finger rotted all the way down to near his palm.

Permanently lost 24 grams of flesh and blood...

This is the first rewind...

Must quickly find... eliminate the source of danger...

Otherwise, when the time comes to use the watch chain, the watch chain will rewind again in a loop...

Until it completely devours him.

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