Reading is useful. Perhaps not always as useful as practice and experience, but it was a good starting point. Hence why he spent some time there trying to pick up information on all manner of topics he'd never been able to learn before. Like cooking, knitting, and blacksmithing. Funny how all in he'd jumped once he learned he could do things other than fight monsters or wage wars.

Not that any of that was important at the moment. What was important was that he was trying, desperately and to no avail, to find that damn watch. At the question Seifer picked his head up and shot the guy a flat look that, if anyone could read expressions would very clearly state 'duh'. "What tipped you off?" He asked dryly, holding up his arm where the conspicuously absent watch was... well not present.

"Something I don't think I'm supposed to lose." He grumbled, going back to scouring under a shelf in the vain hope that maybe upon the third inspection it will have appeared.