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The 4 Inkling young kids were all looking ahead, as their mouths were open: a large building with long lines going around its wall, full of small shut-down lights forming Squids, presents, striped candy canes, snow symbols and Squidsmas trees. The words "Arowana Mall" were written above two automatic doors, as multiple Inklings, humanoid Prawns and Sea Urchins were walking by.

"Wow… just wow!" Grina swallowed quickly. "The mall… I don't remember those long walls and that large sign!"

"Like… what happened to that small collection of shops?" Bars turns his head over taller Mirii.

"People kept returning to Arowana Mall… and soon enough, new shops opened and appeared along with the others." Mirii looks over the sign.

Young Mirii folds her arms, while smiling and looking over the sign.

"I always knew this place adopted the best economic strategies, in order to expand and become the business paradise it's today." She nods. "It was an excellent move, dedicating a limited space for professional and regular Turf War matches."

Taller Mirii smiles.

"If I see the elements, any companies are utilizing… as well as their intellectual skills in knowing how to use them, I can explain what it's going to be the future for them." She let out a sigh. "They were all left with a surprised expression."

"Yeah yeah, it's easy to act all that smart now that you can see what Arowana Mall will do in the future." Grina tilts her head left and right, while grinning and turning over younger Mirii. "How about throwing out theories, when we were in the rustier times?"

Young Mirii frowns over the girl.

"Insolent!" She clenches her fists. "Lying brings nothing but a large spot of shame in my perfect career of knowing and discovery"

"Blablabla." Grina tilts her head, as her irises were looking up. "We get it, super genius! Can you also tell us, if we are going to find out the reason behind this madness of a day?"

Young Mirii was inhaling loudly with her nose: smoke was coming out of her ears. She steps forwards, when taller Mirii lends her left hand in front of her face: the young girl stops. Young Grina looks over taller Mirii: her face was frowning a lot. The girl expands her eyes, as she bends down a little.

"You…" Taller Mirii squeezes her eyes a little. "You don't want me to utilize those psychological methods on you, right now… correct?"

Grina shakes her head quickly.

"Then, stop trying to start a war with myself from the past. Because, I'm going to deal with it all by myself." Taller Mirii holds her hips.

"Th-that's not fair!" Grina downturns her mouth, while her eyebrows rose. "If my more awesome self was here, she would have told you one thing or two!"

"She would not." Taller Mirii shakes her head.

"Oh yeah? Why such answer?" Grina frowns a bit.

"Because she doesn't remember or even notice someone who declares an achievement." Taller Mirii let out a sigh. "But that thinking style is greatly missing from you…"

"Sgrunt!" Grina puffs her cheeks, while her arms are stretched down and her hands turned into fists. "I met people who keeps announcing whatever trophy, discussion or money they won! But they just talk and never show up their prizes, not even when they claim to have them nearby!"

Taller Mirii closes her mouth and keeps staring at the small girl.

"So? Does that mean they must be liars? How about you?" Younger Mirii slightly raises her head. "Do you have any achievements to share…?"

Grina frowns a bit, as her head turns over young Mirii. Her eyes were getting watery, her mouth was waving. Mirii rose her eyebrows and left her mouth open.

"Ehm…" She turns over taller Mirii.

Her mature self shook her head, while her eyes are closed.

"You were supposed to keep that mouth shutted." She opens her eyes.

"Wh-why?! I-I didn't say a lie, unlike this total buffoon!" Her right arm stretched a bit over Grina.

Taller Mirii frowns a lot. Grina gritted her teeth.

"WOW, WHAT A HUGE BUTT YOU ARE!" Grina frowns, as her eyes were expanded.

The two Mirii turned over the girl quickly. Grina stomped on the sidewalk.

"NOT ONLY WERE YOU TRYING TO JUSTIFY THOSE BABBLING LOSERS, BUT NOW YOU ARE EVEN INSULTING ME! HOW DID YOU EVEN BECOME ONE OF MY BEST FRIENDS IN THE FIRST PLACE?!"

The young girl steps backwards, slowly.

"Grina." Taller Mirii's forefinger points over the sidewalk. "Stay here."

"NO! I'M SICK OF YOUR DISGUSTING FACE! LEAVE ME ALONE!" Grina turns over, dashing over the mall.

"Whoa, whoa girl!" Bars runs behind Grina. "Like, calm down a bit! Girl!"

The two Inklings reached the right automatic door: the sides were each behind the door's window walls, as Grina first then Bars second passed right in the middle, while Inklings were walking by. Young Mirii folds her arms, while shaking her head and snorting.

"I hope you are not going to slap me, Mirii." She turns over her taller self. "As you just saw, the real immature being was"

The young girl stops, as taller Mirii kept looking over the right automatic door. Her eyelids weren't moving, neither her tentacles, her limbs… not even her mouth! Air wasn't passing through her nose.

"… Mirii?" Younger Mirii tilts herself to the right, as her eyes were still pointed over her face. "Mirii…?"

"Huh?" Young Hun tilts over Mirii. "Wh-what's wrong?"

Younger Mirii touches her taller self's right shoulder multiple times. She took both her shoulders with her hands, moving her back and forth. Her eyes expanded.

"Mirii?!" She snaps her fingers in front of her eyes.

Hun's eyes were wide: he turns over taller Hun, as none of his limbs and eyelids were moving. Air wasn't passing throughout his nose, as his mouth was closed. His head was pointed over taller Mirii. The boy looks around, as he sees an Inkling girl with her left leg rose while standing on her right leg.

She was holding a phone on her right ear, as her mouth was left open. Above her, a bird with the wings open standing in midair. On the left, a chunk of snow was standing in midair as well. Not even the wind was heard…

Young Mirii slowly turns behind, as she sees a car standing in front of the right automatic door sideways: smoke was out of the exhaust pipe, standing there… throughout the window, an Inkling man looking ahead, while holding the steering wheel with his hands.

She turns to her left: a snowball was standing high, as a young Inkling girl was on her right leg while stretching her left one behind, while bending forward. A young Inkling boy's right arm was stretched with the palm facing the snow-filled ground.

"… wh-what's going on?!" She looks around more.

"Th-they are not moving!" Hun's eyes were getting wide.

"Like statues… bu-but they are alive!" Mirii walks near Hun. "They are living beings!"

"Yet, they aren't moving…" Hun's mouth downturns.

Mirii's eyes were getting watery, as her right hand stands in front of her mouth.

"Th-this is madness… th-this is not the reality!" She trembles. "I-I'm not even feeling cold!"

Suddenly, the girl gasps as her irises shrunk.

"Wait… don't tell me… are we… dying?!"

"NO!" Hun jumps as he looks around very quickly. "I DON'T WANNA DIE!"

Mirii looks over the sky for a few seconds, while hearing Hun's yells… then, she frowns a little.

"No… no, that was a senseless conclusion!" She shakes her head, while closing her eyes. "I'm still breathing, I'm still seeing you…"

"Huh?!" Hun swallows loudly. "Are we still alive, then?!"

"Technically…" She taps her right cheek, as her irises look above.

"Wh-what do you mean by technically?!" He opens his arms, while gritting his teeth and raising his eyebrows.

"Calm down, now!" Mirii moves her hands back and forth in front of Hun. "As I said earlier… as long as we are breathing and seeing each other, we are still on this planet!"

Hun looks over the girl: gradually, he smiles and lowering his eyebrows into neutral position.

"You are right!" He nods. "I… I'll not stop looking at you, then…"

Mirii blushes a lot.

"Wh-why?! Why you want to look at me?!"

"Because I'll live forever! … ehm…" He looks to his right for a moment, while scratching the back of his head. "… th-that's what you said, right?"

Mirii looks over the boy for a small bit… then, she smiles.

"… so, your name is Hun…" She took her right tentacle, stroking it with her right hand, as her eyes were looking on her left for a bit.

"Yes!" He bows down in a small movement. "And yours is… uhm… Hun said that your name was… was… … ah! Mirii! Is that your name?" He raises his right forefinger.

"Correct." She nods, while smiling even more. "You remember it perfectly."

The two Inklings kept looking at each other, for several seconds. Mirii steps once, over the mall.

"Let's go inside the mall and find out the cause of this event."

"Ok! How about those other two…?" He turns over the mall, as the head was pointed over Mirii.

Mirii gradually frowns a little.

"Hmpf." Her head turns ahead, while her eyes closed. "Forget those imbeciles… they will do nothing, but stand in our way and waste our time."

"Ah… I see…" His head turns ahead. "But why we have to go there? It doesn't seem to have… ehm…"

"Mirii said that." She walks on the road.

Hun immediately walks on the road, standing on Mirii's left.

"She could deduct other details we couldn't even grasp in our sight… but I'm her younger self, thus I can still reach the perfect conclusion and solve this whole predicament." Her head turns over Hun.

"Ah… that sounds good!" He smiles.

The girl smiles too.

"I have a hunch that our cooperation will make this whole situation, look as easy as walking through the park."

"Ehm… alone?" He blushes a bit.

Mirii blushes a lot, while her eyes instantly expands.

"Wh-what?! Uhm … well… you can say that…" She sighs, while smiling.

The two kids look over the right automatic door: the sides were all in the middle. Mirii turns her head to the left, seeing the left side: the sides were open, as an Inkling woman was standing the middle while holding a black leash, tied to a brown seadog.

"Let's go on the left, Hunley." She points over the door.

"Hunley?" His right eyebrow rose.

"Ehm… my mature self keeps calling your mature self with such name. If my perfect self would say such name, there must be a valid reason... I hope you don't mind, if I'm copying myself."

"Well, my taller self doesn't say anything about that, so… it's fine, I guess!" He smiles. "Although, I still prefer being called by my original name…" He whispers, as he turns his head forward.

The two Inklings passed the Inkling woman from her right, as they were stepping the soft dark green carpet.