"No... Yuya and Lambert helped me steal it back," he says, glancing away. The whole thing had been very stupid of him and he was very embarrassed at the time, but maybe it needed to be done. "I don't know if they would have given it back without that. Maybe."

He looks down at his gem.

"But it was still connected to me... like how some of the others had their tails separated from their butts. The stuff they could do with gems was... really weird."