13 My, my.

After yesterday's meeting it was decided that I'll just have to prove it myself, so I took Carolina with me being as she's a sensible person who everyone trusts and Sam since he's the oldest member in the group and we staked out the script factory.

We rented a room across from the factory for a night and agreed to use Carolina's Script 'Insight 3' able to see through anything within a 500 meter radius, she would use it to stake out the place and alert us if she saw them. At first she refused to do it saying that she didn't feel like it and wanted to spend more time with Tom Hammerfield (the name she chose for the monkey), she certainly could be fickle sometimes, but after some convincing she agreed on the condition that we abide by her every request throughout the night. I agreed and Sam, being my henchman, couldn't refuse if he wanted to (and he certainly did). As such it was all set. We only had to wait for the rats.

"Honey, buy Tom some chicken will you?" Carolina said.

"Ehh? Didn't he just eat bananas?" I answered dishearteningly, it was the 5th time today she sent one of us to get some food.

"Yes, now he wants some chicken." She smiled.

"Fine...Sam can you go fetch us some chicken?" I asked.

"No no no honey, that won't do. You brought him here against his will, the least you can do is fetch the chicken no?" She said.

"Yeah but....this is the 5th time...."

"Ah ah ah, you don't plan to refuse a request of mine do you?" She signaled 'no' with her hands. The monkey then grabbed onto her finger and swang on it.

"Fine." I sighed.

I then grabbed my wallet and head on downstairs to see if I can buy some chicken.

I went to a local market not too far from the place were staying in and then I went to a farmer who sold prepared chickens.

"How much for one?" I asked him.

"250 Sievert sir." He said in a meek voice

"Old man, do you take me for some sort of an outsider? Aren't you overpricing a bit?"

"No no sir, here you can have only the finest chicken sir."

"Eh? Finest chicken? What do you play a song for her? Tuck her to sleep at night? Listen, it's either 150 or I'm going."

"200"

"150"

"200"

"150"

"180"

"Ok fine, here you go." I put my hand in my pocket and fetched a 100 Sievert coin, a 50 Sievert coin and three 10 Sievert coins and handed them over to him, grabbed my chicken then left.

I walked back to the place we were staying in and opened the door.

"Hey, brought the chi—"

"Shh" Carolina shushed me, she signaled with her hands for me to come and I came and looked, I didn't have an "insight" script like she did but I could barely make it out from where I stand, it was the rats again.

"My my, I never thought one of your drunken hazes would be right for once." She said with her eyes wide open.

"I told you, I wasn't drunk." I sighed. "Anyways like we planned, tonight we follow them, Carolina, sam, you have what we agreed on?" They both nod. "Ok then. The hunt has started!"

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