🍁Nine Ancient Obelisks

- Are you sure the item was actually stolen? Maybe it was just misplaced somewhere. - Iliman's hesitant tone didn't make his words sound very convincing. - I'm not saying that's not the case, I just wanted to clarify before jumping to any conclusions...

- Misplaced? No, that's impossible. I was paying close attention to it. I was checking on Zenus at that moment. He seemed suspicious to me because he was traveling on the same train as me and Zibab, but when we met at the bar before the tournament, he acted as if he hadn't seen me in ages. But my suspicions weren't confirmed. They're both from Asuguh, not from the Haranian Empire...

Erika's words weren't entirely true, but she decided not to tell Shram that she had tried to check him out...

- Then that pirate came over, I got distracted, and when I looked again, the item was gone... Even if he didn't take it, it must have been someone from his group while he was distracting me...

- That's not good. - Sheila glared at the pirate. - I don't think we should let this go unpunished.
- Hmm... Even if that's true, what can we do besides report it to the guard?
- We could ambush him somewhere and make him empty his pockets.
- What if he's not the thief?
- Then we'll apologize and look for someone else.
- I don't know...

- "Empty his pockets"? We could try that. We could say that he has cursed items on him and ask him to show us what he has? Our guild is currently working on "researching and investigating" various curses... What do you think?