Jiang Xia put away the knife and nodded, agreeing with Kudo Shinichi.
"..." Detectives really were useful.
Then Jiang Xia dropped the huge stack of books back onto the desk with a thud.
While everyone else was looking at the books, he glanced toward Noah out of the corner of his eye. The standards of judgment had to be consistent from now on, especially when other people were around... Even if he really didn't dare to strike, at the very least, the visual effects had to match those from when he struck others. Hattori Heiji's lightning bolt had looked pretty cool...
The bound volumes couldn't be taken apart, so they naturally couldn't be read at six times the speed by relying on numbers.
And if one person had to go through all this material... Who knew what this Mystery Phenomenon Research Club had actually been researching? One year's worth of club journals was a full centimeter thick, and thirty years' worth added up to thirty centimeters.
Searching for the "key" to solve the mystery within such a vast amount of material was truly like looking for a needle in a haystack. Even just filtering out "campus," "the Seventh Great Mystery," "the locations and keywords related to those 'mysteries,'" and so on would take an exceptionally long time. Finding one or two keywords in long passages of text was no easy task when the materials were so old that the print had become blurry.
Compared with those bound volumes...
Jiang Xia looked at the small disk beside them and picked it up to inspect it.
"Sakuragi Senior seemed to say that it contains information related to the Seven Mysteries. Although it only has the first six, they're very likely connected to the seventh.
"Why don't we first visit the locations