The advanced ritual is performed. (Pink Trigger)

In an effort to hurry, I helped Beatrice and her servants paint the circle I knew they'd need to perform this ritual. I wasn't thinking about my ****; I was only thinking about how to game the system. My Pink Trigger hungered for power and I couldn't keep grinding on the humans and furniture forever. To fuck witches, I need witch-like power.

"Player."

Beatrice's voice awoke me from my internal ravings. I didn't want to rush her along, but I had work to do! I rolled my hand to tell her to spit it out.

"I've sensed a great magical power from you from the very beginning. Do you really wish to throw your life away in such a foolish ritual? Just because I'm an endless witch doesn't mean I plan to bring you back."

Her eyes widened at my reaction: I shrugged.

"Idiot... I don't know what you're thinking," Beatrice complained, closing her eyes again and gnashing her teeth. By this point, she'd probably begun to suspect one of the other witches was playing a trick on her by sending me here. In a way, they were. "I've decided not to do the stupid ritual after all."

Well, I couldn't have that. Irritably, I grabbed a stake from the table- one of the sisters, who knows which, and plunged it into my heart harder than ought to be possible for a human being acting against his own self-preservation. I felt myself dying... a familiar sensation, typically unwelcome. In this case, it almost felt good... I could feel my Pink Trigger surging like never before. This potent power would help me go toe-to-toe with the witches.

When I stopped being dead, of course.

"Child of Man... You're testing my patience. I'm sealing off this route as well. Can you not simply behave like a good reader and stop making shortcuts? It's your own story, isn't it? Why would you want to take fantasy-based shortcuts like this?"

Can't hear you, I'm deeead! La la la... Cough... Hrk...

*Editor note: fixed an issue where this added the wrong type of points. There is a lingering issue where this chapter can be used several times to gain more points... issue or feature?! I will probably leave this option in until there are enough routes to feasibly get 4999 points without this exploit or repeats.