The Speedrun Manual of Miss Witch-Chapter 131 - I’m Tired, Want to Sleep (2/2)

“Oh...”

Ciel nodded lightly, walked past the maid directly forward. Suddenly, she seemed to think of something, turned back towards the maid, and asked, “Where is Avena?”

“In... in the second-floor study waiting for you...”

The maid still didn’t dare raise her head, not even daring to breathe loudly.

“Okay.”

Ciel had no desire to say even one more word, walking straight towards the second-floor study.

After reaching the study door, the maid at the entrance was slightly stunned upon seeing Ciel, but still pulled open the study’s wooden door, watching Ciel enter.

When Ciel walked into the study, she saw Avena sitting on the sofa and Nia standing aside.

The wooden door closed behind Ciel. Nia turned her head, glanced towards Ciel, slightly stunned, but said nothing.

Only when Ciel walked to the sofa and collapsed directly onto it did Avena return from her book, looking up towards Ciel.

“Ciel?”

Avena looked at the young woman before her with black and blue long hair and dark purple pupils, asking somewhat uncertainly.

Why did she dye her hair and eyes similar to mine?

No... wait...

Transcendent?

This time, Avena clearly sensed the aura of a potion on Ciel.

Just went to the washroom, and Ciel drank a potion?

What potion? Why at this time?

Questions instantly filled Avena’s mind, but she believed Ciel wasn’t someone who would drink a potion on impulse. There must be a reason.

If Ciel wanted to become a transcendent, she probably would have chosen a potion and drunk it long ago; she had that ability.

“Sealed artifact’s side effect...” Ciel looked towards Avena, explaining listlessly, “Removed the Other Side contamination, the price is being eroded by a random potion for 24 hours.”

Replacing Other Side contamination with potion contamination?

Avena carefully sensed Ciel’s spirit; indeed, there wasn’t much Other Side aura left.

“This sealed artifact... can only be used by non-transcendents, right?” Avena asked.

Replacing contamination with potion sounds simple, but implementing it has very harsh conditions.

Potions aren’t sugar water, can’t just drink whenever one wants.

If an “Instigator” used this sealed artifact, and the eroding potion wasn’t the “Instigator” path, or was a second or third-tier potion, probably before the Other Side contamination, the “Instigator” themselves would have gone mad.

“Yes.” Ciel nodded, simultaneously sighing in relief internally.

Managed to bluff through.

Otherwise, if Nia asked to borrow the sealed artifact, that would be troublesome... She didn’t have such a sealed artifact.

“What potion effect is this?” Avena looked at Ciel now, asking somewhat curiously.

“‘Coroner’.” Ciel replied.

“Oh...” Avena nodded, didn’t continue asking.

She was very familiar with the “Coroner” potion, having contacted many “Coroners.” As long as Ciel didn’t use the ability within these 24 hours, there wasn’t really anything wrong.

Not because the “Coroner’s” ability side effects were huge, mainly because the “Coroner’s” abilities were too... anti-human.

No, can’t say anti-human, should say anti-living being. Any living being wouldn’t fail to feel disgust and fear towards the “Coroner” ability.

However...

The current Ciel looked quite different. If she wore glasses too, saying Ciel was her sister might even be believable.

Just don’t know why, the current Ciel looked somewhat decadent and world-weary.

Should be the potion’s influence.

“What did you want to talk to me about?” Avena came back to her senses, stopped looking at Ciel’s face, and started talking business.

Already set the stage for me?

Great, don’t need to explain myself.

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Ciel thanked her simulated self internally, while thinking about making a stitched doll to speak for her.

This way she could just lie on the sofa and do nothing.

“I wanted to ask, what exactly was my mental state before,” Ciel asked in a low voice, “If treatment is needed, roughly how long would the cycle be?”

Hearing Ciel’s words, Avena’s brow furrowed slightly. She seemed to realize something, didn’t answer Ciel’s question directly, but asked back, “Are you going to the Other Side again?”

Ciel clearly already cured her contamination using the sealed artifact, yet asked again about contamination matters... What else could it be but wanting to enter again?

“No, just want to plan the time.” Ciel shook her head and said, “After the 24-hour potion influence ends, the Other Side contamination will still return.”

“So I want to make a plan for myself while still clear-headed.” Ciel said a long sentence in one breath, then directly closed her mouth. She had already finished her speaking quota for the next two minutes. For the next two minutes, she would become a “corpse” that only nodded.

“I’m not too sure either... Probably not many people have experience treating Other Side contamination. Optimistically, one or two months. Pessimistically, possibly several years or even decades.” Avena shook her head and said, “Unless a better treatment method can be found.”

So long...

If there were no more crises later, let alone decades, even a treatment cycle of several decades, Ciel could accept.

Ciel lowered her head, seemingly thinking. After two minutes passed, she looked up at Avena and asked, “How were my physical and mental states before?”

“Looked fine, could speak normally, no external injuries,” Avena recalled carefully, then said, “Except couldn’t write and was a bit weak, everything else was quite normal.”

Need to add the whispers in the mind... Ciel thought.

Should she use this plan to seize Uniqueness? This already seemed like the plan with the highest success rate.

Mainly depends on whether the “Uniqueness” gear is worth doing this for.

She had to ask the system properly after returning to reality about what exactly happened to the missing gear.

These matters might also appear in the system’s evaluation after this simulation settled...

But now, there was one more very important thing.

“Avena, do you have any potion that can make people fall asleep quickly.” Ciel looked at Avena with hopeful eyes and said.

“I’m tired.”