No, it's not the pen. It's the ownership itself. The control.
His sister wanted something and got it, and that's what he wanted to steal from her.
Just like he stole her career from her... Killed her and become a lawyer, cause it's like take her dream alongside her life... The psychical stuffs are just trophies of that achievements, that's why he's so fixated on them, and that's why they're inreplacable.
he did the same with the watch, and all the other stuffs - those were important for somene else, owned by somene else, and that's why he wanted them. because they had it, not him.
He literally killed someone just to show up later on the funeral and meet his "love".. because if he want something, he will get it.
This is what the word "shine" means for him. When something is highlighted for him, just like when you point at something to pick up in a video game.
The question is, why those certain things were highlighted, and not the 10000 other stuffs that people own, keychins, cars, whatever... I guess we have some clues already, but it's not really make sense yet... at least not to me.
(Anyway, that funeral scene is a direct reference for a famous game-like "test" for spotting the psychopats. (not a serious test, oc, but a fun one, like a riddle that only the psychos supposed to answer.
In short, a grandma dies, and a lot of people go to her funeral, including her granddaughter.
Next week she kills her little sister. The question: why? The legeds say, nobody knows, cause normal brains can't connect the dots, but a psycho would know instantly she met someone at the funeral that she wanted to see again, so she killed her sister, hoping that certain someone will come to the funeral this time too.)
