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Valentine saw the box; Ann's grip on him had been slack, after all.
She paused.
"Ohhhhhh? Wanna challenge the Elite Four?"
Reynard scoffed.
"Shut up, Val..."
Valentine and Lucy handed him their pins.
Reynard set the three pins; one was gold and shaped like a sun, one was the shape of a flamingo and was silver, while the last one was a common circular pin, made of bronze.
"Right to be free, right to distinguish illusion form reality, right to uncover what is just."
Montblanc stood, and then placed a platinum pin on a special slot on the lid. It was like ouroboros, but was a fox.
"This is the right to consider yourself a member of the Montblanc family."
He paused.
"Oh, you're missing three."
W-We don't want those!
Montblanc, apparently hearing Ann, continued.
"Those three give you the rest of the possible rights to being a family member!"

Y-You're insane!... Damn, you and Moé really are similar!
She opened up a portal.
The Midgard serpent froze in mid-swim.
He's wondering why the hell you're doing this...

The serpent seemed to shiver, and eventually the portal was inches away.
I-I don't even know what their pins mean, let alone any side effects...!

Ann squealed.
The portaler will portal you either home or to the next destination. I cannot go any further...
The portal closed behind him, and he was in a dank, underground laboratory.
There was some murmured talking, and then Patchouli passed by the doorway, not noticing Caleb, eating a chocolate bar.
She paused.
"I'm comingsh, Jin."
In a room across the hallway, there were the two pins, discarded, neglected.

Jin sighed.
"Dog demons have peripheral vision, boy."
Jin was not armed at all, and looked a little harried, with large bags under his eyes.
"I know you won't listen to me at all, but if I let you go with those pins alive, could you hear me out? I have... a lot of frustration on my mind... and I rarely get company. Any psychiatrist would lock me up, obviously... And Patchouli can only help so much."

Jin nodded, and began.
“My career as the Montblancs’ worst enemy began after my plot to turn everyone on Midgard into helpless drug addicts, called the 'Cirque incident'. Montblanc was submissive, he followed it in fear, but Lucy defied me. I didn’t like my plans being foiled. And before I knew it, those two had bred like rabbits, and their mutated children threw hack wrenches into my plans as well. That started my obsession with brutally ripping them apart.
Patchouli was the only one who saw things from my ‘point of view’, so to speak, as she’s my trusted tactician in taking down her own family; Bifrost was the huge weapon of mass destruction, as she could decimate a world within seconds. So I concentrated on resurrecting Bifrost, and pulling my plans as much as I could."
He squinted.
"...then Bifrost turned against me. Trapping me in some sort of illusion that I had gained ultimate power, only an interception by some sort of priest saved me and Patchouli. You see, I'm not remotely interested in invincibility right now, I'm so pissed off. I found out she was in cahoots with some man, a man who happens to be interested in your girlfriend, and he wants to destroy the Montblanc family too, since they let that girl-- Mahi-- marry a human, and die, instead of marrying her off to him. Need I remind you that ONLY I AM ALLOWED TO KILL THEM?!!?"
He had punched [and leaved a huge dent in] a desk, and he sat down weakly.
"Now, go, before I change my mind..."

The portal instantly flipped him to the source of the thirteenth, and final, pin; it must've been nearby.
It was a dimly lit apartment, and the only light came from some blinds.
There was a man there, sitting in a chair, and faced away from Caleb, though his features were masked by the half-shadow. He had dark, dusky skin, and dark green hair that messily stuck together. He had two large black ears that lay flat against his head.
He sniffed the air; he had a disturbing, weirdly raunchy voice.
"Fee fi fo fum, I smell the blood of an englishman. Be he alive or be he dead.."
He swung around and out of his chair.
"...I'll grind his bones to make my bread."
His eyes weren't visible under the thick hair. He had triangular teeth-- like Azrael-- but he had a long, prehensile tongue, striped white and black, which he used to lick his teeth and mouth.
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