The mention of a jewel did nothing for him, unfortunately, except subtly clue him in that he didn't know too much about Emil and what he did off-Plane. Not that that ever stopped him from helping others before. Far from it!

"Nope, you didn't." None of them had, he thought. "But another self had learnt of them, and in turn, passed that on to me when we ran into each other." Amongst other things, he didn't want Emil to learn about how his ninth self had been punched in the face. Now that he'd admitted he knew, however, he wondered if that would be enough to bring Ratatosk out...