Why can't it be both? Like yeah, you probably aren't hiding anything in there, but boy would I feel like the world's dumbest moron if it turned out that's where you stashed the key to turning this case around and I decided to let it go because a hidden compartment isn't worth looking into at all.

I have questions. I have so many questions I don't even know where to start. Oh wait, yeah I do - whatever these Rules are, are they important enough that you'd kill over them?

Um, mysterious script on some kind of super shady parchment? Of course I did. Didn't understand a word though.