"Of course, the despicable thief must have accidentally left it behind!" Yi Yue gave her a puzzled look. 'This young female my son chose doesn't seem very bright.'
"If the thief had left behind some hair or something similar, that might be more convincing. But what they left was a complete scale."
An Jin pointed to the Black Scale and continued, "Look, the tip of the scale is flat and smooth, without a trace of flesh and blood. This means the scale didn't fall off naturally. It was pulled off and kept for a long time before being deliberately dropped in the Secret Realm."
At her words, the atmosphere grew tense again, and the Merfolk looked at each other in dismay.
'That's right. A scale isn't like a strand of hair. They don't fall off easily, so how could one have been 'accidentally' left in the Secret Realm?'
An Jin looked up at them. "Unless the culprit deliberately left us this clue."
