Splatober 13th, Friday

-You definitely noticed I'm calling this month Splatober compared to yesterday. It's because of what happened this morning.

Me: *Wakes up* "Damn it! I must've fallen asleep while thinking of ideas for pixel art!"

-I then opened the curtains and the window to get some fresh air, and that's when I realised something was horribly wrong.

Me *In Japanese*: "What?"

-Everyone that was at yesterday's food festival was still there. Except, they were biting each other. They were hungry for blood! My worst nightmare had come true, literally. I remember having one last year. I'll write down what it was like.

-So I find myself in an old looking apartment. Thinking about it now, it was similar to the apartment I'm in right now. Anyway, I notice a black figure walking towards me. I scramble to the wall in fear. Then the figure told me: "On Splatober 13th, you're going to die being eaten by complete strangers." I didn't understand what it meant at that time, but I was frightened for days after that. What is Splatober? Why would I get eaten? So many questions circled my head as I tried to forget about it. Today IS that day. Splatober 13th. The unluckiest day of the year.

Me: "I can't die like this!"

-I closed and locked all the doors and windows in my room. Then I lied on my bed and thought about what to do.

Me: "The food. Someone must've tampered with it! I'm not like them because I didn't eat as much yesterday!" I knew exactly what to do in order to survive.

*A few minutes later*

-It was horrible having stuff come out the other way, but I had to. Knowing that I'll survive made me feel better.

As I was getting a drink from the fridge, I felt something tiny bite my tongue.

Me: "OW!"

-I rushed to the bathroom and looked in the mirror. I noticed something moving in my mouth. Horrified, I grabbed it with my fingers and put it in a petri dish that I still had from school (I don't remember bringing that to Inkopolis!).

-Cymothoa exigua. That's what I found out it was after some research. Also known as "The tongue-eating louse", these parasites enter fish's mouths via their gills and suck the blood out of their tongues until they fall off. Then it replaces the fish's tongue until it dies. It's the ocean's equivalent of a vampire. However, the one I found seems to be mutated. It had sharp teeth, and its head was much bigger. A few of these would be able to mind-control an inkling, assuming their brains are bigger than before.

-So this is my guess on what happened yesterday. First, someone put a bunch of the mutated C. exiguas' eggs in the food. Since the food was so great, most squids ended up with a good few of them in their mouths. The eggs hatch; The parasites start sucking the blood out of their tongues and mind-control their hosts to bite others in order to lay more eggs; And so everyone gets infected.

-Almost everyone, that is. I only had one parasite in my mouth, and that was not enough to infect me.

-So who did such a horrible thing? I was thinking about it for the whole day, but I have no idea.