Don’t Bother the Dark Arts Scholar When He’s Doing Research
Chapter 231

The Jia Xiu Squad Is Invincible at Night

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Mia rattled off a whole string of things, but Jia Xiu did not catch much of it.

She spoke too quickly, and the amount of information was overwhelming.

It was exactly the sort of speaking style a genius detective with strange quirks might have in a detective novel.

There was one not-so-good thing about the common language: many words were homophones or sounded similar. That made it easier to learn, but if one lacked a basic understanding of what the other person was talking about, it was easy to be unable to tell which word they had actually said.

Jia Xiu roughly caught that the culprit was ambidextrous and kept unusual pets, among other things.

Another episode of left-handedness and niche hobbies being persecuted by public opinion.

It felt as though anyone whose dominant hand and hobbies were more ordinary could not become a high-level perverted criminal.

Who had started that trend, anyway?

Although he had not heard most of it clearly, the task completion rate suddenly jumping past twenty made him certain that what Mia had said was basically correct.

What kind of magic was this? Or some sort of superpower?

No, when he had watched Mia examine the scene, he had not sensed any magical fluctuations from her. She had simply seen it all.

He had only seen such outrageous displays in mystery novels. Whenever the protagonist's special qualities needed to be shown off, they would casually glance at someone and immediately "unbox" them, digging up every last detail of their background.

Like Sherlock Holmes, Poirot, or Quinn.

So people who studied the School of Prophecy all had observation skills on this level?

No wonder so few people studied prophecy.

It demanded not only exceptional mathematical ability, but also formidable powers of observation and deduction.

Perhaps those two

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