After writing all this into the endless manual, Ciel opened the system panel and began browsing.
She opened the system inventory, looking at the items inside.
At this moment, four items were placed in the system inventory.
【Sadhana Emblem】, 【Radiant Bishop’s Token】, 【Deadly Blood Roland】, 【Echo of the Silver-White Timebinder】
Adding the 【Endless Manual of Instant Forgetfulness】 already taken out by herself, a total of five items.
The Other Side page was already consumed in the previous plan—taken by Gemma to Avena’s house—moreover, that Other Side page was already dilapidated, lacking much effectiveness, not a pity to lose.
Still had 163 Fate Points, relatively ample.
After checking the items she had, Ciel continued writing in the endless manual.
【30 days time, best to obtain the “Musician” potion. If not possible, obtaining other high-quality potions and perfect Reconstitution Rituals is also fine. If necessary, can directly exchange Fate Points for gold pounds】
After scanning what she wrote, Ciel, believing there was nothing more to add, closed the manual in her hand. Silver light flickered, the endless manual returned to the system inventory.
As long as her simulated self didn’t cause major trouble, letting her see if Berren City is safe for the next thirty days is enough.
For the remaining time, Ciel basically had nothing left to do. She simply went out, asked a maid to find several Pharosian language learning books, and started reading.
Idle anyway, might as well learn another language. Might be useful someday in the future.
Time passed quickly. Ciel immersed herself in learning, not even noticing Avena standing behind her.
“(Pharosian) You flip pages so fast, can you keep up?” Avena spoke, asking Ciel in fluent Pharosian.
“(Pharosian) Because I only pick what I’m interested in to read.” Ciel closed the book in her hand, turned back towards Avena behind her.
Unsure if it was because she cried too hard before and then strained her eyes excessively, Avena’s lower eyelids were now red and seemed slightly swollen, looking like she was about to cry from being wronged at any moment.
“(Pharosian) So you really know it.” Avena looked at Ciel somewhat surprisedly, saying, “I thought you just randomly picked up a book to look at…”
Many Ansu nobles took pride in speaking fluent Pharosian. After all, Pharos was an old powerful nation, and Pharosian was once the common language of nobles on this continent.
Even now that Pharos’s national strength was inferior to Ansu’s, Pharosian remained a compulsory course for Ansu nobles. Pharos’s cultural influence was still quite strong; even legal terms in Ansu language like “lawyer,” “bailiff,” and “defendant” were directly borrowed from Pharosian.
After slightly combining short sentences and words in her mind, Ciel understood what Avena was saying. She just shook her head, saying, “Self-taught, still not very proficient.”
Couldn’t possibly tell Avena she just learned this in the past few hours.
Would be somewhat too shocking.
“I’m preparing to sleep, you should rest early too.” After Avena finished speaking, she walked towards the bed, climbed onto it, facing Ciel, seeming to remind Ciel it was time to sleep.
“Okay, then I’ll sleep too.” Ciel put down the book, very naturally walked towards Avena’s bed, took off her slippers, and directly slipped into the quilt.
“Good night.” Avena reached out, turned off the gas lamp. The room darkened, leaving only the still-hot lamp wick flickering with a faint orange glow.
In the dimness, Ciel opened the system interface, looking at the current time.
Still an hour before simulation… What to do for this hour?
“System, do you have an alarm clock function?” Ciel asked the system inwardly.
【Don’t interrupt don’t interrupt don’t interrupt, this is critical, don’t discuss useless things here】
Just as the system replied, in the warm quilt, Ciel felt a slightly cool hand groping over, grasping her wrist.
What does she want to do?
In the darkness, Ciel felt her hand being lifted bit by bit. Avena held her hand with both hands, finally placing it on a piece of softness.
Slightly larger than her own.
Is this the compensation? So there really is compensation?
Ciel slowly tightened her palm’s grip, but Avena’s hand resisted.
“Don’t move around…” Avena used a weak tone to speak firm lines. Ciel could almost imagine Avena with reddened eyes saying this sentence now.
“Okay, I won’t move.” Ciel nodded, her hand no longer moving—though didn’t let go either.
Just as Ciel was thinking of ways to turn on a light to see Avena’s expression, Avena had already pushed Ciel’s hand away, turned over, lying with her back to Ciel.
Ciel shifted forward slightly, resting her head on the same pillow as Avena, close to Avena’s back. Extended her left hand across her slender waist, resting it on her lower abdomen, whispering, “Good night.”
Previously Avena hugged her like a pillow crying, then she hugging her like a pillow sleeping, shouldn’t be too much, right?
Avena didn’t speak. In the darkness, Ciel couldn’t judge her current state through her ears. But surrounded by Avena’s faint hair fragrance, Ciel instead felt somewhat sleepy.
Hold on a little longer…
Time passed minute by minute. Ciel’s sleepiness gradually intensified. Finally, just as she was about to completely fall asleep, twelve o’clock finally arrived.
Future Days simulation Day 30 had become Day 29, the required cost also dropped from 100 to 10. Ciel didn’t hesitate, directly starting the simulation.
A silver light swallowed everything before Ciel’s eyes.