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"ARRESTED FOR WHAT?!"
"Calm down for a second: if you let me explain everything, you will notice that the situation isn't as drastic as it might look like!"
Oh sure, my friends are under arrest and somehow that's not enough drastic! Oooohh… t-tell me this is a terrible, terrible joke…
"They managed to stop the warehouse activity back at Sorriso… I copied the Agents' reports and learned the whole truth behind the mission."
… the irony… now I'm the one who surely got the scary face… not gonna see any mirror, until tomorrow.
"The fake mission wasn't just one for us… but it was one for the HQ as well."
EEEH?!
"So, I was right! That mission sounded way too stupid to be taken seriously!"
"Yeah… I-I couldn't imagine the possible reasons behind…" Ah, right: YOU were the one pulling down all this craziness, after all!
"Great job at taking enough information!"
"Bu-but this one wasn't included into any documents! I-I swear, I checked and re-checked them more than once!" Ooooh, look at her! Making her eyes go all sea-puppies on me…
"And you did all that under… what did you said? 3 minutes?"
"No, it was at least 15 minutes! Where did you heard those 3 minutes?!" Eh eh eh… she doesn't even know how to make a bluff face.
"Look, I'll answer the question later on! I mean, you were talking about something urgent… what were you saying?" Unfortunately, this is not the time to joke…
"Sigh… the fake mission was as such even for the HQ. Cough! That's because the HQ's true intentions was to inspect the warehouse and arrest a group of intruders who snatched one of Project Neo's failed projects…"
"You are saying that somehow, those Squids managed to reach outer space?" No, I can't believe this…
"Actually how they managed to do it will be asked directly to their leader… but the chiefs' plan was to pretend that an important person would had arrived, so the citizens of Sorriso wouldn't snoop their affairs inside the port, which would grant Agents free access to the warehouse and hide the whole truth behind it."
Pretty sure that something like this could be denounced by a chief… I should think about it later on.
"Unfortunately" Ah, she hasn't finished! "The citizens got this idea that this important person visits towns to turn them into Turf War arenas…"
"That's completely bonkers! Art. 4th, Section 3 of the Constitution: no one shall impose changes to any villages, towns or cities with the exception of communities reacting and acting under illogical, barbaric means, natural calamities, deep economic crisis and other causes explained in the relative region laws, approved by the National Congress." Eh eh eh…
"… do you have a Degree in Law?" Look at her expression! Absolutely priceless!
"Let's just say I also use Law books for my work… you can't start a mission if it's not approved by the law itself."
"I knew about that…" Yeah, sure… your bluffs are too evident! "Although, I wasn't expecting you being this prepared…"
"If you keep reading the same laws over and over, even Stella would learn all of them."
"Ah, that's for sure! Eh eh!" I made her smile, at least… "Anyway, the citizens successfully rejected the Agents' intervention at least 2 times, because of lies said probably by those criminals back at the port… yes, the whole Project Neo issue happened some weeks earlier. I happened to retrieve a memorandum too, where the chiefs were planning to come up with another plan… until that paper signed by you passed under their eyes."
"So… they noticed that the Inkinators would be on it, right?" I'm seeing where this is going…
"Yes, they all agreed to send them to Sorriso… like many others, the chiefs are suspecting that Mirii and her friends are trying to stop Project Neo. From the memorandum, they mentioned showing several evidences about the Inkinators' involvement… however, those evidences were all rejected, no matter how much authentic they were!"
"… eh?" Uh… HUH?! "Evidences… rejected?"
"When they received the paper, they all agreed to let the Inkinators getting the job done… they knew all 4 of them would have managed to get inside the warehouse in some shape or form, since they thought that the Inkinators would know something about that building…" Oh, oh…
"So, the chiefs have sent other Agents to just arrest the Inkinators when they were all in?" This has to be it…
"In a nutshell." I TURFING KNEW IT! "But even then, there is still some hope…"
"Hope about what? What kind of hope would there be after this point? This isn't just evidence… this is them confirming all the theories said for days!"
Ah, speaking of theories…
"How come I have never seen those memoranda? I was called for various chief briefings…"
"The chiefs are also suspecting you to be involved as well…" AAAAAH! "Thus, they made sure to never let you read any memorandum who mentioned their suspicions."
"A-are they coming here?!"
"No no, the memorandum doesn't mention any of that… instead, they declared to stop Mirii first. Not a surprise, really…" … same.
"I can see that: she is very focused on Project Neo… to be honest, I don't think I have ever met any Squid this determined. Not just for the whole Project Neo war… I mean in general."
"… sigh…" Hmm?
"Aga? Something wrong?"
"No… it's just I really don't see Mirii as the whole perfectionist as she claims to be."
"Oh, undeniably! Her friends, Bars and Grina, told me about her… and her mother." Surely a person I would never wish to meet…
"Mirii might act tough, but… I can see her, hiding her true opinions about the whole situation. Not from the others… even from herself." Hmm… I don't see that…
"I think she… believes in morals who aren't necessary right. Not that I disagree 100%, but the whole perfectionist part does kind of get on my nerves, sometimes. You know, that is something you would hear from charlatans… and that impression really makes her much more annoying than she really is."
I still don't have the courage to tell her this… I'm afraid she would lose her mind and attack me from pure rage!
"Yes, I mostly agree… although, I see her perfection talks as a mask to wear." Mirii wearing masks… bah! "Which isn't really necessary, since she knows how to act smart… I hope she will realize this and drop off all the perfectionist act, one day."
"Well, at this point you should mention what kind of hope this situation has…" Oooooh, why they had to be arrested today?! I got ship to do all day long! Not even a hot bath would melt down all the stress I accumulated! … unless I can take hot baths for at least two days…
"Despite their plans and evidences… it's very probable to see those rejected like all the other ones."
"Forget about it! The evidence is way too decisive: at that point, the same person who does reject the evidences would be accused of malicious cooperation!" Now that I think about it… "Who is rejecting the evidences? A member of the High Commander Chiefs in particular?"
"… Mr. Tarfo in person."
"HIM?! Isn't he involved in this project?!" Mr. Tarfo is helping… us?! No… no, that can't make any sense! I mean… he… … ooooh, what's going on around here?!