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"... again, why are we walkin' on the sidewalk?" Bars turned his head to his left. "Still would like an answer, girl… this whole time waster isn't really my jam."
"Because of that sign right there!" Grina's right forefinger pointed at a circular sign, showing a black car shape put into a profile position, below a red, diagonal line as large as the red edges.
"Whoa, what's that funkiness?" He chuckles a bit. "Like, kinda useless put a car there, thinking that good ol' Bars didn't drive all those giant miles!"
"Actually, that sign means you can't even get on with the car in this place… well, except some very huge exceptions!" Grina bended forward, as her right eye closed, her mouth smiled and her hands were grasping behind her back. "But you know, that sign is one of my favorite parts of this park…"
"For real?" Bars' right eyebrows rose.
"Eh eh! Believe or not…" Her eyes closed. "… but I had to walk here too, in order to reach Oceanic Park. While me and the others from the studios were walking down the sidewalk… I felt so free and light! Especially when walking past people who were just giving me small looks…"
Grina chuckles.
"I was like a little bird coming out from the cage, flying around all those places I could only imagine from the television screen I had in my room! Seeing all those houses over there…" Her turned to her left for a moment. "… those let me taste what an everyday life would look like. Even now…" She smiles widely. "I can't stop smiling at that… they appear so warm and inviting… I bet those apartments have all nice people"
"I'm sensing great danger…" Mirii's irises turned left and right, as her eyebrows went down. "It seems to come inside that large area on our right…"
The two Inklings ahead turned behind: Grina's mouth opened wide, as her irises shrunk.
"Wh-what are you talking about?!" She frowned. "Oceanic Park has zero dangers! How dare you saying"
"Be quiet." Mirii's right forefinger pushed her fringe. "I'm trying to understand what this danger is…"
"Oh sure, the sweeter water Squid who acts like a Shrine one!" Grina frowned even more. "Maybe you should wake up from this dream, Mirii… even earlier, when we were in the Headquarters, you kept on getting worried and paranoid for no reason!"
"… do you want me to use one of my powers on you?" Mirii frowned a lot. "Don't make me do this… I never had any regrets for my actions."
"You wouldn't do this to a friend…" Grina's eyes squeezed. "You should listen more to a friend… especially if they know more than you."
"I may not come from the Shrine… but I still want to act as one." Mirii's arms formed an x. "My powers are real… my sensing is too! I was using one of them on you two, before Master Hun would stop me… and until I lost all of those powers, I'm still effectively coming from the Shrine!"
"Mirii is right!" Hun frowned a bit, as he stepped near Mirii's left side. "We should listen to her, Grina: it's better to prevent than to take any damage!"
"No… this place is harmless!" Grina's left arm moved from her right to her left. "I don't believe your words! The security is so tight, I could leave a mountain of coins and no one would even steal a single one of them!"
"… to think I was the one who is supposed to believe in mere fairy tales." Mirii's head turned to her right, as her right thumb and forefinger rubbed together. "You, Bars… I hope you will mention your lessons to this Squid as well." Her irises pointed at Bars. "That would be the only way for her to learn from her own mistakes…"
"Girl, like…" Bars grins a bit as he closed his eyes while his eyebrows went up. "What's up with the huge walls around the park? Like, I don't think that Mirii is shootin' offenses or anything! She doesn't even know you that much to have a huge grudge against"
"Bu-but, Barsy!" Grina's eyebrows went down with the tips moving a bit up, as her mouth downturned. "She is attacking the park… and that feels so wrong!" She bended forward. "I-I know it ever since I first heard of it from my father! Kindness is the symbol it has! Hearing those supposed attacks"
"Is it me or are you treating this park… as a person?" Mirii's eyes squeezed.
Grina's head turned towards Mirii: she frowned, growling.
"… I sounded like that, I admit…" Grina turned behind watching the gate entrance. "I tend to talk a bit too passionately… thanks to all that acting training I got in my past." Her fists clenched. "I really hate this thing I have… it makes me look like an alien in this modern world!"
"I would say that even your thinking method is rather… passionate." Mirii's head turned to her left, as her right thumb and forefinger rubbed together.
"What?!" Grina turned behind, frowning even more! "How can you say that?! That's so wrong, Mirii!" Her head shakes. "My thinking style is more about being free and having friends!" Her arms opened. "I have no relations with this passion stuff you mentioned… that's definitively not me!"
"… I have another power in my arsenal…" Mirii's eyes closed. "I think this would be the better time to use it… I'm sure you'll learn more about yourself."
Her eyes open: her irises were black and her eyes were orange. Grina gasped, as she walked backwards for a bit.
"… gggghhhh…" Her mouth was waving. "… I… do you know that feeling when the safe is open…?" She trembles a bit. "… you know what? Mirii isn't really wrong at all!" She smiles widely, as her right arm stretched up in the air. "I like acting! I like delivering passion!" Her eyes sparkled, pointing at the sky. "Feeling the flowing energy which makes the living beings move… that essence is pure art! Pure satisfaction! It's the most valuable of treasures!"
"Ehm… wh-what did you do to Grina…?" A sweat drop appears near Hun's right side of his head, while his face was pointing at her.
"Master, aside from controlling others… I can also force them to let the truth all out from them." Mirii smiles, as her arms folded. "An ability I could have used earlier… but unfortunately, I forgot about it until earlier, while we were walking towards"
Grina's hands picked up Bars' right hand: her mouth was forming a 3, her eyes were sparkling, her cheeks a bit bright.
"Barsy… would you like to reach my favorite place of all Oceanic Park?!" She nodded two times. "The one where I acted on a ship?!"
"Eh eh, like… what about the mission?" Bars' eyes closed, as his mouth smiled.
"Screw that!" Grina frowned a bit. "It's boring and mechanical… I want nostalgia to flow through my veins!" Her face made the same expression as before. "I forgot what emotions acting was giving to me… I want to remember! I want to pick up the good part of acting…!"
"Well… then, let's roll!" Bars chuckles.
"Yippie!" Grina pulled the boy, as she was walking towards the entrance. "Onward we go, me buckos! We have a treasure to dig up!"
Mirii's eyes were seeing the two Inklings approaching the entrance.
"Mirii… tell me you are going to free Grina from this power…" Hun's mouth downturned, as his eyebrows went up. "She seems to be cursed by"
"The power will be gradually consumed within a short time…" Mirii's right forefinger pushed her fringe. "… I suggest to leave those two alone: there is this dangerous feeling I'm sensing from this park…" Her eyebrows went down a bit.
"W-wait, shouldn't we pick up our friends?!" Hun jumped. "Th-they might get into"
"If we ignore this danger, even us will run a tremendous risk!" She bended forward. "I can't let you face down this danger, Master… without you, our Shrine will be lost!"
The girl turned over the gate entrance.
"Let's go now, Master… the sooner we find the source of this danger, the sooner we will get rid of it." She walks forward.
Hun looks the girl for a moment: he sighed as he starts walking, reaching Mirii's left side quickly.