Chapter 334: Genji Project
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The Kuonji Mansion.
It was nestled in the mountainous region of Misaki Town, a sprawling estate shrouded by a dense forest. The locals called it the haunted house, the witch’s manor.
And they weren’t wrong—it was, in fact, the residence of a witch.
The mansion’s current master, Alice Kuonji, was a practitioner of an ancient form of magic, utterly at odds with the modern world. It was called Ploy Kickshaw, the Magic of Fairy Tales, and she was its last, rare practitioner.
On the second floor of the villa, Alice Kuonji and Aoko Aozaki sat across a table from each other.
Aoko, having just finished her bath, was toweling her brown hair, patting away the last droplets of water as she spoke. "Well? What’s the verdict, Alice?"
"...Nothing. Not a single trace," Alice replied, her lips barely moving, her voice devoid of emotion.
"The barrier didn’t even pick up a presence?" Aoko stopped, her expression turning serious.
Before their fight with the puppet, Alice had transformed the entire park into her personal ’forest’—a Bounded Field woven from Fairy Tale Magic. In theory, anyone present should have been instantly detected.