The Speedrun Manual of Miss Witch-Chapter 102 - Great! Respected! Omniscient Mother Goddess! (3/4)

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The door opened again. Avena collected her thoughts, resumed writing on the letter paper, asking as she wrote, “Who is it?”

“It’s... someone from the police investigation department, milady.” The metallic buzzing sound came from within the armor, but Nia’s tone held noticeable hesitation.

Avena keenly sensed this, stopped her pen, tidied her nightgown, stood up, looked towards Nia, and said, “A transcendent case? They can’t solve it themselves?”

Recently, many people from different organizations had gathered in Berren City, even attracting a batch of transcendents drawn by rumors seeking opportunities, leading to frequent transcendent cases within the city, making the entire city much more chaotic than before.

So Avena subconsciously assumed another transcendent incident had occurred, requiring her assistance in the investigation.

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Avena had no intention of sleeping now; finding a case to solve might just induce some drowsiness.

When Avena had almost reached the dressing room without receiving Nia’s reply, she looked back puzzledly, only to see Nia standing still, looking at her.

“No... milady...” Nia’s voice came through the metal slits. “It’s... it’s...”

Nia fell silent. After quite a while, she continued, “Berren and Southeast Railway Company, steam train number 3472, experienced an unexplained explosion and derailment en route to Oggsve...”

“Currently, missing persons 34, deaths 291. Police forces from Berren City and surrounding areas are still being dispatched towards the railway...”

“That ‘Detective’ came to report this matter to you...”

Hearing Nia’s words, Avena felt dizzy. She blinked, took a deep breath, and said, “Number 3472, isn’t that...”

“Yes, it’s the one Miss Ciel and her sister took.” Nia nodded slowly.

Avena controlled her facial expression, subconsciously raising her left hand to cover her mouth, but her fingers only touched her lips before moving down to her chin, as if contemplating. But before her left hand touched her chin, it rose again wanting to adjust glasses, only to find empty air.

She wasn’t wearing glasses now.

Finally, she supported her left elbow with her right hand, her left fist pressed against her upper lip. After a moment, she looked up towards Nia and asked, “Did they find Ciel?”

Although Avena tried hard to maintain composure, anyone could hear the uncontrollable tremor in her voice.

It was she who suggested Ciel leave Berren City for Ansu...

For a moment, Avena felt as if her vision was shrouded in black mist. Even with Nia standing before her, it was as if she saw nothing. She wasn’t even sure what Nia said afterwards, or if she spoke at all.

“Let’s go to the railway tracks.” Avena looked up, about to walk out of the room, but was held back by Nia’s hand on her shoulder.

“Change your clothes first, milady.” Nia practically half-pushed Avena into the dressing room.

Nia’s heart was also heavy at this moment.

Although she hadn’t interacted much with Ciel, she could sense Ciel was a good person, very generous towards friends. Knowing she carried inexplicable misfortune, Ciel would reduce the frequency of meeting friends to avoid them being accidentally harmed by the misfortune.

But now, the misfortune on Ciel had become increasingly intense. Some disasters encountered had reached a level where even Nia couldn’t guarantee protecting Avena completely.

For example, this train explosion and derailment... If Nia and Avena were also on the train, Nia might be unharmed, but she couldn’t guarantee protecting Avena at the moment of explosion.

Ciel was extremely dangerous now.

Even if she survived this steam train incident, the danger upon her remained. The danger brought by this misfortune could even greatly affect Avena.

She knew telling Milady Avena about this would make her rush to find Ciel regardless of everything, but Nia still revealed the matter... Sometimes, concealment causes greater harm and leads to broken trust between herself and Milady.

Having chosen to reveal the truth now, she could only brace herself fully to deal with this matter.

Unlike Avena, Ciel, having already entered Berren City, had already found her target for causing trouble.

...

Berren City, Gem District, Opal Street No. 132 entrance.

A red-haired girl stopped at the entrance of this residential building and raised her hand to knock on the door.

After knocking, Ciel took two steps back, waiting for a response from inside, her thoughts wandering.

If her deduced “misfortune rule” was true, she had consecutively met two third-tier individuals today and stayed outside the city at Creek Hill for some time.

Under these circumstances, if the misfortune was still locked onto her, she was almost certainly dead. The only means of survival was the “Strong Luck Coin” in her hand.

Still locked on, then she must toss the “Strong Luck Coin”; if the lock disappeared due to the save file, the investigation must continue.

Anyway, the conditions for misfortune accumulating on her were already numerous. It was either death or tossing the coin. Might as well investigate a few more people before the misfortune arrived.