Chapter 738: How Did You Guess It?

Who exactly are you?

This sentence that Lan Qingyou spoke to Esmeralda directly dumbfounded the drama-watching crowd around them.

No... we were just talking about Katie a moment ago, why did the topic suddenly change the next second, and such a baffling question was asked to Esmeralda?

"Hey, hey, Witch, you're not suspecting that Esmeralda is Katie, are you?"

Vivian looked at Lan Qingyou with a mocking expression.

The other party had already laid it out so clearly. To not be able to guess it would be somewhat mentally retarded.

Look.

Even Gu Xiaobei, who was holding a soup bowl next to her, revealed a thoughtful and surprised expression.

This was enough to show how big of a 'hint' Lan Qingyou gave.

But!

It still came down to that interesting academic question...

"Magic like clones is fundamentally unlearnable except for an extremely small portion of people as an innate talent. It isn't even in the rewards from the Will of the World."

"Exactly. If Esmeralda possessed magic like clones, your Demon Eye should be able to tell, right?"

Many people didn't think highly of Lan Qingyou's guess.

Indeed, Lan Qingyou's guess hit rate was indeed very high.

But that was just reasonable deduction carried out with the assistance of the Demon Eye.

In that kind of situation, they naturally couldn't interject.

But now that the topic involved academic matters, everyone had something to say.

As everyone knew.

Things like clones, which seemed very low-level in any literary or artistic works, just happened to not exist in this world.

They didn't even exist in the magic provided by the Will of the World.

It truly was something that couldn't be obtained unless it was an innate talent.

However...

"Then what if the example you guys are talking about is reversed?"

"Ah!?"

"That is to say, it's not that it doesn't exist, but conversely, it's being controlled? Deliberately made unavailable as an option?"

Lan Qingyou curled her lips, picked up a piece of boneless boiled fish with her chopsticks, and stuffed it into her mouth.

"Or rather, guys with the clone talent are actually just existences that slipped through the cracks."

"After all, to put it bluntly, a talent is something born from the Power of 'I Reckon'."

"So no matter how much it's suppressed, there will always be someone whose desire breaks through the suppression of the Will of the World to obtain Clone Magic."

This 'Power of "I Reckon"' theory of hers had already been discussed in the group before.

For example, her first thesis upon entering Tarot Manor was written about this.

So everyone could instantly understand her explanation.

To put it simply, it was suppressing for the sake of suppressing.

Then...

"For what purpose? Even for suppression, there should be a reason, right?"

"Exactly, it can't just be for no reason."

"No... before that, shouldn't we ask Fortune first?"

Just as the scholars' souls awakened, someone forcefully dragged the topic back from an academic discussion to the deck.

Only then did people realize the topic had strayed a bit.

But it didn't stray too far.

After all, Lan Qingyou's question was whether Esmeralda and Katie were the same person.

Thus, everyone refocused their gaze on Esmeralda.

However, Esmeralda's expression didn't change at all.

She was still drinking wine and eating food with a smile on her face.

Her aloof attitude was as if the person everyone around was discussing wasn't her.

"I think I only said I would answer whether it was right or wrong. I didn't say I would answer anything else, Witch."

Esmeralda smiled and slowly put down the wine glass in her hand.

"That's true. Those are the rules of the game."

Being reminded like this, Lan Qingyou also noticed that there was a problem with her question.

So she rephrased it.

"I'll be blunt. The magic power on this piece of mutated Leviathan meat belongs to Katie, and Katie's magic power structure is exactly the same as yours. This does not conform to the most fundamental logic of this world."

"Then there is only one answer left. You used some method to split yourself, creating two people with the same magic power but different appearances."

"One is active as the Wheel of Fortune of Tarot Manor, and the other is active as the supervisor of the Sociology Department of The Library."

"This also explains why the colossal beast riot broke out the moment the old Pope discovered the barrier in the outer sea."

Speaking of this, Lan Qingyou's tone shifted from her previous certainty to being slightly disappointed.

Only, this disappointment wasn't directed at others, but at herself.

"Honestly... I had originally guessed that the colossal beast riot broke out so quickly because the Will of the World was monitoring us."

"But looking at it now, it was entirely an inside job giving precise reports."

Hmm!

Everyone suddenly realized that it really was the case!

What she said earlier were just guesses, but now that they had Esmeralda's nod, everything became facts.

There was no helping it. One had a high guess rate, and the other had a 100% divination success rate.

When these two people got together, they were basically a 'truth combo'.

Of course.

This wasn't the most important part.

The most important part was that Lan Qingyou had now given her guess.

Next was to see Esmeralda's divination.

...No, that's not right.

It could no longer be called divination now.

After all, using a word like divination to cover for something concerning the person involved was a bit much.

"But from this, we can also see that the Will of the World is probably even weaker than I originally imagined."

"It's not even impossible for it to dissipate tomorrow."

"So... you, Esmeralda, are Katie, or rather, Katie is Esmeralda."

"And you have been helping the Will of the World handle some matters that It cannot conveniently show Itself for."

"Am I right, or wrong?"

After taking a deep breath, Lan Qingyou looked at Esmeralda opposite her with a sharp gaze.

"How did you guess it?"

After pouring herself another glass of wine, Esmeralda picked it up.

"From many aspects."

"Many?"

"Yes, very many. It's just that they were all separate points before. It wasn't until I held this piece of material in my hand today that they finally connected together."

Picking up the glass bottle, Lan Qingyou shook it in front of Esmeralda and revealed a victorious smile.

Since Esmeralda responded with a question like this, it meant she guessed right.

Even if the other party didn't nod and say 'correct' like before, she didn't care about that anymore.

After all, what the other party wanted now was her deduction, the 'chain of evidence'.

"Then where should I start from..."

Lan Qingyou scratched her head in some distress.

She might not know what Esmeralda had been doing behind the scenes.

But there were several points that she had seen and remembered.

So for a moment, she didn't know where to start.

"Right, let's start with this."

Lan Qingyou took out a card from her pocket, then turned her head to look at two specific people behind her.

"High Priestess, Magician, you two still remember this thing, right..."