You think we might be able to look
for a certain book? I want to find
out some more about Hermes blastia.

So we should just look for the right bookshelf?

Yes, please.

...Found it!

Hey, it's Ifsanft Napsejap's
“Discourses on Aer”!

What? You've heard
of this book before?

This book used to be in my house.
I think it may've belonged to the
person who lived there before me.

...I see... Yes, I see...

It was all full of codes that I couldn't understand,
so I didn't find it all that interesting.

I ended up giving it to the first person
who showed any interest in it.

Ifsanft Napsejap.
That's Hermes.
It was his pen name.

What?! Really?!

...So that means Hermes
used to live in Aspio?

That's what it would mean, yes.

Keeping something important
like that from us yet again...

I'm sorry. I wasn't entirely
sure of it until now.

*Sigh* ...Well, whatever.

What...is all this? I can't
understand any of it at all...

“Kdvkxosktzgr hrgyzog iuarj hk jgtmkxuay.”

It looks like he just wrote letters at random.

It's all in code. I thought about trying
to figure it out a few times, but...

This annoying type of writing is often
used for taking down personal memos and
the like. But not for research papers.

And look at the front of the book.

It says, “I dedicate
this to my daughter.”

And then it says “Try and
read it.” ...Pretty ambiguous,
don't you think?

I never felt up to
trying to read it.

...Do you think this could've
been his way of giving a
challenge to his daughter...?

Yes, I think it was.

I see... What a ridiculous,
foolish researcher.

He didn't even know what
the blastia he'd created
were capable of.

Yeah...

That's it... I'm going
to take this book
and decode it!

Wait... C-can you
really do that...?

No, I think that's best. We went to all
the trouble of finding it, after all.

I...I guess so...

Right. I'll show that
blastia-researching bozo!

...