"What's wrong?" Bruce asked inwardly, then added, "I just think he explained it in a pretty straightforward way."
"Of course it's straightforward to you." Schiller practically enunciated each word. "Because Agent is the best among us at Behavior Analysis."
"Uh..."
Great, he had once again perfectly avoided the field his teacher researched, Bruce thought. But he was used to it by now.
Main Universe Batman was clearly somewhat surprised by Agent's line of reasoning as well.
What was going on? Was mind-reading banned now? How did this actually sound logical and well-supported?
Main Universe Batman had known Schiller for quite some time. The two often exchanged letters, and Batman would occasionally mention recent cases in his letters and ask Schiller for advice.
Every one of Schiller's replies hit the nail on the head, but while they certainly hit the mark, exactly how he got there was never very clear.
More than once, Batman had pressed Schiller on how he could reach such precise conclusions from only a few brief lines in a letter. After all, he had never met the people involved in the case, nor had he inspected the crime scene.
At first, Schiller would give vague, cryptic answers that left Batman utterly baffled, to the point where he had even suspected Schiller was the Riddler in disguise.
But later, Schiller seemed to grow impatient and simply said it was mind-reading. The problem was that Main Universe Batman knew plenty of people who could read minds, yet their conclusions were nothing like Schiller's. They never cut so directly to the heart of the matter.
To Batman, it had always been a mystery.
Later, Batman met some people with particularly strong empathy, and only then did he roughly grasp the threshold of this ability and gain some idea of how