The answer to this puzzle is a hint for The strange story of Lord Lefthide.
Several horsemen came across a German man. "Have you seen some twins?", they asked him.
The man answered by the negative, then added: "May I know why you're looking for them?"
"We call them the Scorpion Brothers, they have stolen something quite unique a week ago, while the guards were busy playing dice.", they answered.
"What did they steal?"
"That which is missing, of course!"
What was stolen?
Answer
I have no idea how it can be stolen, but looks like what is missing is
three
Looking at various parts of the story, there are places which hint, directly or indirectly, at similar entities, reordered:
unique (1), twins (2), horsemen (4, of the apocalyptic variety), May (5th month), dice (6 sides), week (7 days), scorpio (8th zodiac sign), "nein" (9, German for "no")
Couldn't find anything related to the missing one in between, so that might be what they stole.
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