Qin Ran never believed in coincidences.
Natural romantics would see coincidences as blessings from fate.
Unfortunately, the circumstances of his childhood had made Qin Ran cautious and suspicious.
With that temperament, he would magnify every coincidence in his mind and scrutinize it repeatedly to determine whether it was a trap.
When the earlier "Herbert" had conveniently revealed that Shudelin Castle was where the "Emperor's" legacy lay hidden, Qin Ran, who had begun to think that the Herbert before him was real but being controlled by some means, grew suspicious again.
Without a doubt, being friends with someone like Qin Ran was exhausting.
Every action would be interpreted in the worst possible light.
Aside from someone with "a screw loose" like Lawless, few could become Qin Ran's friends in any meaningful sense.
The one saving grace was that Qin Ran's suspicions were not unfounded.
The moment the first Otherkind knight was killed, Qin Ran knew he was right.
Perhaps the false "Herbert" thought his performance was flawless, but to Qin Ran, who possessed [Tracking] and extraordinary perception, it was riddled with holes.
Whether it was the faint smell of blood lingering on the carriage his opponent had ridden in after "twisting" off a head with the [Puppet String], despite every effort to conceal it, or the shallow but still recognizable footprints left by a man near the large cauldron, each clue exposed his opponent again and again.
Then there were the Otherkind knights who had been hanged by their own hair.
It was true that they had no external injuries and had not been poisoned.
But it was also true that they had been unconscious.
His Peerless-level [Medicine. Pharmaceutical Knowledge] and basic-level [Potion-making] allowed Qin Ran to easily identify what had happened to those hanged Otherkind knights.
As for the hair?