The Tale of Hero Alice's Social Death (Pantsu Hero Alice) Chapter 248 - The Fish That Got Away

Knocking everyone in the hall unconscious turned out to be a more troublesome task than Alice had initially anticipated. This was because she needed to verify whether these people were actually unconscious or not. Then, she would need to ensure that whoever remained conscious became unconscious.

However, this was too tedious of a task, and someone could potentially fool her with their acting. So, Alice took a different approach to this problem, casting Waterball on everyone in the hall to wake them up before knocking them unconscious with a hit to the head. She would only consider a person truly unconscious after she had sent them off to slumberland with her fist. Everyone else was playing dead in her eyes.

When the conscious people in the hall saw Alice's "cruel" methods, they quickly abandoned their resistance. Originally, some of these people had thought of fooling Alice by pretending to be unconscious. Then, they would see what the cloaked midget was up to.

However, when they saw Alice nearly breaking the foot of a person, who continued pretending to be conscious after being soaked by Alice's Waterball, the others in the hall dared not continue acting. From how they looked at it, Alice was willing to do anything to wake a person. Had the unlucky fellow, who had tried to continue playing dead, not cried out in pain, Alice might have broken his foot for real.

Thanks to everyone's cooperativeness, Alice got to offer her slumber package to everyone in the hall much sooner than expected. Although she had to employ some physical persuasion with a few customers, it was a sacrifice she was willing to make to ensure her customers received her services without any delays.

"That takes care of everyone here," Alice said as she scanned the main hall. As for the people outside the castle and on the castle's second and third floors, she didn't bother to extend her services to them. Even if some of those people remained awake, they couldn't see what was happening in the main hall.

Of course, Alice had completely forgotten that

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