"If anyone had paid close attention, they would have discovered that Nicholas had long since become a puppet of the Outer Gods," Mr. Dres declared startlingly. "The Nicholas people thought they knew had already had his soul carried into the depths of the Starry Sky by the tentacles of the Goddess of Dark Fertility... It was an extremely terrifying form of Black Magic, one used only by the Outer Gods."
"Forty-eight years ago—1961—Mr. Roy Liki briefly stayed in Godswold. After being blessed by the great Pan and becoming His follower, he visited Doctor James at Mercy Mountain Hospital. The Doctor was then contaminated by the Starry Sky as well. I was very close to Doctor James."
"Not long ago, after seeing the report in the Beta Town Post, I recognized the symptoms at once. (The report Mr. Dres referred to was the May 10 interview published by the Beta Town Post, 'The Blood-Draining Half-Werewolf.') He had definitely been contaminated. I could tell at a glance... the black mark, the pale face, the twisted soul like that of a goat, and that wool-like hair... These symptoms were exactly the same as Mr. Roy Liki's!"
"You think that boy is an idiot, but you don't realize that he sees you as idiots!"
"Idiot, idiot—that's simply short for Child of Shub! Even if people misunderstood him, he was proud of his identity as a Black Goat Cub! Who is Shub? Shub-Niggurath, the Goddess of Dark Fertility, the great Pan, the Black Goat of the Woods who birthed countless descendants! Look at their surnames: Nicholas, Nikolas... He even used his true surname without caring in the slightest!"
"I have already written to the First University Professor Joint Conference and the Trident Sword, hoping they will deal with this contamination from the depths of the