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Hun jumped out from the paper, returning into his humanoid form.
"WHERE ARE YOU BEEN?!"
Hun jumped even higher, as his arms moved quickly. Tonna was folding her arms, while frowning a lot. Bars and Grina both waved their right hands towards Hun, while smiling at him.
"I thought I was clear…" Tonna's right forefinger and thumb were resting on her forehead, as she sighed loudly. "I wanted you two down in that office, especially Mirii… since she was supposed to tell her testimony in front of us!" She bended forward, as her arms stretched down. "Why the turf you thought"
"Tonna, this is not the time to think about this!" Hun shakes his head rapidly! "Th-this is important! S-something happened to Mirii…"
The three Inklings' eyes expanded. Grina went in front of Hun.
"Is there trouble?!" Her hands rested on his shoulders.
Hun sealed his mouth. Grina moved him back and forth.
"Come on, talk! Don't leave us in stinky ink like this!" Her eyebrows went up. "What happened to Mirii?!"
Hun sighed loudly, as his head lowered to his right.
"… it's a bit complicated to explain… I hope you'll understand." He rose his head back, nodding towards the girl.
"… so, now Mirii is thinking to change your minds… sh-she is not done for, I swear!" He nodded, as his eyebrows were up. "That voice can be trusted, according to my sister…" His head turned down-left.
Fara nodded.
"Wh-what I'm saying is to play everything along with this!" His teeth gritted. "Who knows what bad things might happen to her… the voice said that not telling anything about her true self, would make things easier for Mirii!"
Tonna's tentacles were zigzagged. Grina's eyes were shrunk. Bars' eyebrows were up, downturned.
"… wait… Mirii is Mirii… except she remembers memories totally different from hers…?" Her head shakes quickly. "AM I UNDERSTANDING THIS RIGHT?!"
"Basically… yes." Hun's head lowered. "She doesn't know anything about you three…"
Tonna gasped, Grina's hands covered her cheeks as her jaw dropped. Bars… shrugged.
"Alright, dude… like, I'm all in." He chuckles. "That problem doesn't seem that huge to me…"
"NOT HUGE?!" Tonna immediately went in front of Bars, as her forehead touched his eyebrows while her face was frowning. "AN AGENT WHO DOESN'T REMEMBER SHIP IS NOT A HUGE PROBLEM?!"
"A FRIEND WHO DOESN'T REMEMBER US IS NOT A HUGE PROBLEM?!" Grina frowned a lot, as her forehead touched his left cheek.
"L-like, girls…" Sweat covered his forehead, as his eyes closed and his smile grew. "Hold your tentacles… I wasn't really sayin' that Mirii can still play No Memories Lane!"
"I'M RUINED!" Tonna turned behind, as she knees down and grasped the top of her head with both her hands. "SHE CAN'T WALK OUT WITHOUT HER PERSONAL WEAPON!" She bended down, as her fists started to punch the floor repeatedly. "I EVEN POSTPONED THE DARN TESTIMONY BEFORE LUNCH! THEY WILL FIND EVERYTHING OUT, IF SHE DOESN'T TALK PROPERLY!"
"Ehm… Tonna…" Hun's right arm thrusts a bit, as his eyebrows were up.
Tonna was bended down, facing the floor.
"… no… siiiigh, please don't worry… I… I deserve this…" She stands up, turning her sight over the boy. "This is what I get for working in the same team who took away my sister…" Her face's upper side went darker. "… it was a sign I should have guessed way back before…"
She sniffed loudly.
"It's a curse for me, this position… it's making me throw the same trash they threw at my sister… … I can't hide you the fact, I was seriously thinking to quit the job… once I'm done destroying those criminals." The darkness faded away instantly, as the woman was lowering her eyebrows. "No way I'll follow the same steps as those pieces of ship… NO WAY THEY WILL MAKE ME SUFFER ANY LONGER!"
"Tonna, please…" Grina's right arm wrapped around her shoulders, as she sighed. "Everything will be fine… you have to trust in us." She nodded. "We will always get a fine idea to use for the incoming situation…"
Tonna looked down for a moment… raising her head back, while nodding a bit.
"… I don't care if Mirii now thinks to deliver ads for the Shrine…" Her glasses got white. "… I'll make her deliver that testimony, no matter her opinions." Her right forefinger rested on her glasses' middle point. "At this point it's pretty clear I need to be more aggressive… the only way to make people understand my situation."
"Bu-but there is no need to be that aggressive…!" A sweat drop appears on Hun's right side of his head, as his mouth downturned. "Mirii is capable of understanding the situation, very well…!"
"No, Hun… knowing her, she might start complaining." Tonna's hands grabbed her hips, as her left eyebrow rose and her right one lowered. "I have to show my authority, after all… I'm not an useless pile of ink to throw away just like that!"
"But Mirii will never treat you like that!" Hun's eyebrows went up, as his mouth downturned. "She's a kind Inkling… even when she's not really in herself."
"… I hope you are right…" Tonna shrugged. "This event is really giving me a migraine. I really would need some lucky events to balance this situation properly."
"Well, let's recap a bit about what we must do in front of Mirii…" Hun cleared his voice, as his right fist rested on his mouth. "Alright…" He sighed loudly. "I'll bring Mirii here from the paper… she will soon think that you three are the guides I mentioned to her." He nodded. "You pretend to not know her…" He turns his head around. "I want to remind you that Mirii doesn't know anything about the things going on inside this building, since the voice did mentioned this fact."
Tonna opened her mouth a bit.
"… I could use a little excuse to make her believe something that's not true… making sure she will never get any chances to verify its veracity!" She smiled for a moment. "Even though Mirii acts in a slightly different way… at the end she's still Mirii, isn't she?"
"It's true." Hun opened his arms a bit. "She's still the Mirii you know!" He smiled. "So… is everything clear?" His head turned around.
"Well… it does suck she will not remember us…" Grina's hands went behind her back, as her head lowered. "Forgetting stuff isn't really the best trait someone could have…"
"I agree with that." Hun's mouth downturned. "I'm dealing with that, almost every day…" He shrugged. "But luckily, Mirii will return into herself later this afternoon!" Hun nodded while smiling. "And I can't wait to see the true Mirii again…" He blushes.
"Then, go ahead farm boy." Grina nodded while grinning, as her hands were resting on her hips. "Bring her here: no reason to waste time around, if you said everything needed."
"Right!" Hun turned behind, looking down the paper. "I'll be right back!"
The boy turns into a Squid, jumping towards the paper and passing right through it. Tonna's eyes expanded.
"… I can't get used to see a Squid passing through the floor, just like that." Her eyes blinked. "It's a magical effect who goes beyond my comprehension."
"Speaking of that paper, invisible in front of your eyes…" Grina lowered her eyelids to the middle, while smiling a bit. "After using it a few times, I can't get that scared of it anymore…" Her eyes closed, as she grins for a brief time. "Why being scared of a small paper, if everything went fine and dandy?"
"Eh eh, like…" Bars' right hand was rubbing his chin, as his head rose and his mouth smiles. "I could use that paper system to connect my room… with a Videogame Storage Room!" He chuckles. "Liike, I would get all the new games before they meet the shelves!"
A sweat drop appears near Tonna's right side of her head, as her eyes semi closed.
"You just can't think of anything more useful than a videogame…?" Her irises turned towards the boy. "You should: you can't get anywhere in this world, if you keep thinking about having fun all day…"
"Where is the wrong in that?" Grina turned her head towards the woman, while shrugging. "I keep thinking to have some fun each day!"
Suddenly, a Squid jumped out from the paper: Hun returned into his humanoid form. Behind him, another Squid jumped out: Mirii returned into her humanoid form. Her eyebrows were a bit down, as her head turned around and her mouth sealed.
"… so, you must be the guides called by the Masters. Am I correct?" Her arms stretching down towards the middle.
"Yep!" Grina grinned, while closing her eyes. "Three guides ready to help you out!" She nodded. "We are professionals at the job, as you might guess…" Her arms folded.
"Professionals… I knew I shouldn't expect anything lower from the Masters themselves." Mirii turned her head towards Hun, smiling for a moment.
Her head returned facing Grina.
"Then, it's time for the formal greetings… a matter of maturity, as we would say." Her eyes closed for a moment. "I'm Mirii." She bowed down for a moment. "Defensive specialist of the Shrine." Her mouth stretched a bit to her right. "What's yours?"
"I'm Grina!" Grina's right thumb rose, as her right eye closed. "Guide 2 of the team!"
Hun and Tonna's faces pointed at Grina. Tonna's eyes got larger, while several and smaller sweat drops appeared around Hun's head. Grina's left thumb pointed at Bars.
"Mr. Giant here is Bars.. aka Guide 3!" She nodded.
Bars chuckles, as his right fingers snapped and his right forefinger pointed at the girl, while his left eye closed and his mouth grinned.
"Yoooo, girl!"
Mirii frowned a lot. Bars kept his expression for about one second: he lowered his right arm, simply shrugging.
"Like, what?"
Mirii shakes her head, groaning: her sight turned towards Tonna.
"… ahem!" Tonna's hands went behind her back, as her posture lifted. "I'm Tonna, Guide 1 of the team."
"… hmm…" Mirii's head turned to her right, as her right thumb and forefinger rubbed together. "Not to sound too rude to you three… but I don't see why I would need the help of those mortals, for completing my task." Her irises turned towards the three Inklings. "I have demonstrated countless of times, how capable I am to act on my own…"
"But, Mirii!" Hun opened his arms, as his eyebrows went up. "They are guides! They know"
"Master, I understand they probably know the places within the sweeter waters…" Her eyes closed. "… yet, I can't trust them too much… considering the high feeling of danger I'm sensing from their presence."
"High feeling of danger?!" Tonna frowned. "Are you saying that because you don't trust Squids who come from the city?!" Her eyes squeezed a bit.
Mirii turned towards the woman, as her arms formed a cross.
"I do not hate you!" She frowned. "As a former defensive member of the Shrine, I know clearly well the value of mortals…" Her right forefinger pushed her fringe. "Their believe gives us more strength! They should be honored, because of the immense potentials they have!"
"Really…?" Her right thumb and forefinger picked her glasses' right side, pulling them a bit outside. "We can give you more powers…?"
"The devotion of the Shrine does the effect." Mirii's left foot slides forward, as her shoulders rose a bit and her head lowered. "In our tradition, the mortals who are loyal to our Shrine, receive special recognition…"
Mirii's eyes blinked, turning instantly green. Tonna starts stumbling a bit, as her mouth opened. Hun jumped, Grina gasped, Bars bended forward.
"Recognition…" Tonna whispered.
"Hey!" Grina frowned. "What do you think are"
Mirii turned her head towards Grina: she starts stumbling, opening her mouth.
"Recognition…" Grina whispered.
"MIRII!" Hun's eyebrows lowered, as his arms stretched down. "STOP THIS! YOU CAN'T ORDER THEM AROUND!"
"Masters… I didn't had any choices." She turned towards Hun. "Those mortals can't be trusted… they could hurt you two."