Hershel looked a little surprised that he got it right before smiling because hey, puzzles were fun and hard ones were satisfying when you got them. Maybe one day he'd become some sort of puzzle solving expert, but for today he'd take his 50 picarats and maybe unlock some rad bonus content.

"He was both really clever and really devoted to this theme." He said with a dry tone, though yeah, impressed this guy was something else. "So this was the code they wanted you to crack? You must have quite the reputation in Osaka if they caught you to figure this out. It really was incredibly difficult, I don't know if I could have gotten it without those hints."