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"You trust her? I… I don't know about that." Jak's eyes closed. "We still don't know her intentions…"
"My intentions?" Mirii's head rose, as her arms folded. "Obviously to uncover the secret operations you are running inside this abandoned building."
"All alone?" The man on the left frowned a bit. "With the HQ permission of running such investigation?"
"Yes… I was sent here by the Headquarters, in fact." Mirii nodded.
"WHAT!?" Both men bended forward, as their mouth were opened wide.
Mirii's right forefinger pointed at the man on the left, as her right arm was stretching fully.
"Wh-what the ship?!" Jak jumped backwards, as his irises shrunk and his fists were clenching. "How did the HQ find that one out?!"
"They couldn't possibly know that, trust me!" The man on the left shook his head, as he took three steps backwards before sitting on a chair. "You know our friends would never put us into jeopardy! Why they would, anyway?"
Jak lifted his posture, as he turned his head towards the other man. Mirii sighed, watching him blinking his eyes twice, before keeping them open for at least 3 seconds.
"… so, you think she's lying on this?" His head tilted to his right.
"That was sure a silly mistake from the Perfectionist." The other man grinned, as he watches Mirii back. "I thought I would use more brain for"
"How dare you implying that I, Mirii Hanache, would possibly commit miniscule mistakes?!" Mirii's right forefinger pointed back at him, as some veins popped out from her forehead and her eyebrows were lowered. "Not only it's statistically impossible, but I have never caused any mistakes in the first place!"
Mirii's mouth sealed.
"… it doesn't count the room incident…" Her head turned to her right, lowering, as her cheeks blushed a bit.
"Hey guys, what I'm missing?" The Inkling woman was walking from the opened double-door, as she was smiling a bit.
"Nothing much aside from Mirii's presence…" The man on the left had his arms on the chair's top, as he smiled widely, while still looking at the girl. "… eh eh, I knew the Perfectionist wasn't all that perfect to begin with…"
"Enough with your useless comments!" Mirii bended forward, while frowning. "I still claim that I was sent here by the Headquarters. I'm sure there is even a document or a file who would prove my statement!" She growled a bit. "If only I knew I would fall into such situation… I-I would had brought something with"
"We can still check for that, actually." Jak's right hand took his smartphone from his right pocket. "Might as well do that, before this conversation becomes an endless amount of bickering."
"Tss… I was being honest!" The man rolled his eyes.
"Uh uh uh, do I have to tell her how much you love arguing with others?" The woman stopped behind the man's chair, as she bended down on her knees and grabbed the man's shoulders with her slim hands.
She was smiling, as her eyelids were lowered to the middle. Sweat covered the man's forehead, as his irises went on the upper-left corner of his eyes.
"Aaaaww, why you have to ruin my fun, Tiss? I wasn't destroying her self-esteem or something…"
A sweat drop appears on Mirii's right side of her head: she turned her shoulders towards Jak, slowly raising and carrying her feet along with her sight direction.
"I would like to know the application you are using for inspecting Agents' assigned missions." Her head rose. "As far as I know, I have never heard the existence of"
"It's the official HQ App." Jak kept staring back at his smartphone, as his right thumb was pressing on its screen. "I just need to log in and check the database… I have a high rank, so-WHAT?!" His eyes expanded. "Mirii has a mission to complete!"
"YOU KIDDIN'?!" The man jumped from his chair, as he rushed towards Jak. "What mission?! Let me read!"
He stopped near Jak's right side, as his head was staring back at the smartphone screen.
"Investigate suspicious Agent activity…" Jak's mouth opened wide. "No way…"
"Ah, look at that…!" Tiss frowned, as she took 4 steps forward before stopping and folding her arms. "Your allies decided to climb the ranks up, after all this time..." Her eyes closed, as she snorted. "… too bad we don't have a plan B for driving the attention off, now!"
"Ugh… Tiss, please…" Jak's head and eyebrows rose, as sweat covered his forehead. "This is not the time"
"Ooooh, it sure IS!" Her wrists went on her sides, as she bended forward and frowned even more. "I have repeated many, MANY times to make up some fake alibis to cover our butts, in case we have someone screwing us up!"
Her eyes squeezed a bit.
"Even this morning I asked you two an asap discussion about it… but you outright ignored me! Gaaah!" Her arms opened wide. "I had the feeling that sooner or later, we would be thrown into high waves! This whole operation was"
"That's enough, Tiss!" The man on the left frowned, as he took two steps towards the woman. "What's the turfing point of discussing this? We have to find a solution!"
"What solution?! We have been found like idiots!" Tiss bended forward, as her arms slightly stretched forward. "There is no way we can even escape, let alone fix the mistakes we caused in the past!"
Mirii's ears rose: she turned towards Tiss, as her eyes squeezed a bit.
"Who said that we can't do nothing?! In fact, we still have several options available!" The man stomped the floor, as he frowned even more. "For example, we could still hold Mirii as a prisoner, until we are done with the fixes."
"You wouldn't dare…" Mirii turned towards the man, as she growled and clenched her fists.
"Oh yeah?" He turned towards the girl, as a small chuckle escaped his mouth. "We are in three and you are alone: try to guess how that fight will end..."
"… it would be a wasted opportunity." Mirii snorted.
"Huh?" The man's head shook quickly.
"You are right… you still have several options available." Her right hand went on her right tentacle, caressing it. "You just said one of them… before choosing, I would highly suggest giving a thought to all the remaining ones."
Tiss and the man stared back at each other, while Jak looked at both of them. The man turned behind, watching Jak for a brief moment, before returning his sight on Tiss. Mirii's head rose.
"Instead of fighting, why don't we act like intelligent Squids and… begin negotiations?"