🍁Nine Ancient Obelisks

- No, wait a minute... They could have found all this out about you anyway, and then they gave the imposter the same information to trick me... But I'm not that easy to fool; I have more intelligence than the average person.

- Oh, Jack, if they already know everything about me, why go through all this charade? I'm asking you to tell me something that only you and I know... that is, I mean, only I and the real Jack know. If I'm a fake, what's the point of all this, if, according to you, "we" already know everything. "We" are the "church agents." Right now, you seem like a dumb mushroom, more trouble than you're worth, "intellectual" that you are...

By the way, if you decide to get rid of me, think again. The Mysterious Star is gone, so it's quite possible that I'm the only intelligent mushroom in the world... which is certainly worth more than twenty-five rem, you know?

- How is that so? And where did it go?
- Get rid of you, you say... I won't lie, that thought occurred to me during our current conversation, "you're a valuable specimen"... I don't see any use for you. Maybe I should really give you to "good hands"? I mean, to someone who will give you a name you like and be a "more suitable friend," huh? Because I'm starting to think we're... very different...

- And from now on, call me Mr. Jack, show some respect!

- There! And this "new friend" might even call you "Mr. <your new name>"...

Erica burst out laughing again...

- Okay. Tell me what happened after that jerk... that agent knocked me out. Everything. What they did, what they said. And why they decided to send you to me? And how did they even find out where I live?
- And yes, I haven't forgotten about you. I just had no choice. The Protector said that the agents are acting on the king's orders and that no one else can give them orders. And since they confiscated you and that device, then... And you seemed suspicious to me because the "way you returned" was strange... Why send you by some kind of mail when they could have just given you to me?