The Tale of Hero Alice's Social Death (Pantsu Hero Alice) Chapter 253 - Should I Meet My Son?

After scanning the room with Psychokinetic Transcendence and failing to find any taboos, Alice grew a little impatient. Hence, she started spreading her psychic powers into the walls, hoping to find some sort of hidden compartment.

Unfortunately, Alice quickly frowned again as she opened her eyes and looked toward Andusia in confusion, asking:

"I didn't find any hidden compartments or doors even with Psychokinetic Transcendence, so there shouldn't be any more secret rooms nearby. Could it be possible that Grant kept his taboo collection in a different location?"

"That shouldn't be the case. If this place really did belong to that Grant fellow, his taboo collection should be kept here," Andusia said, similarly confused by this situation. Then, she looked down at the experiment table she was sitting on and continued, "The experiment table here shows that he had conducted his magic experiments here. In that case, it stands to reason that he would keep the taboo books he'd used here. Otherwise, he'd have to head to a different location to retrieve his books whenever he wanted to experiment on taboos. He'd also have to return those books once done with his experiments. Who'd want to do something as tedious as that?"

What Andusia said made sense. From a normal person's perspective, since Grant had placed his experiment table here, it stood to reason that he should have also placed his taboo books here. There was even a large bookshelf holding magic books and experiment logs here.

Only, Alice failed to find a single book on taboos even after looking through all of the books on the bookshelf. She had even flipped through the contents of the books to make sure that the covers weren't just a disguise. Unfortunately, none of the spells recorded in these books were taboos. They were merely strange spells with very little practical uses. When Alice was reading about these spells, she couldn't help but wonder if Grant had developed these spells or if he was using them to aid him in his experiments.

"But it's unlikely for Psychok

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