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"I think we said everything…" The man stands up. "Now, it's your turn to keep your promise."
Mirii's mouth flattened.
"… there is something suspicious about their story…" Her eyes blinked. "They haven't said anything about… Mirii."
"Do you have any questions?" Jak stands up, while smiling and pressing the table with his hands.
"Yes, one…" Mirii's head rose. "… before I entered inside that room, I met a living image."
…
The three Inklings kept staring back at the girl.
"This image can assume various forms and shapes… the image can even replicate Squids, as if they are looking at themselves in the mirror." Her head turned towards each Inkling.
…
"… why haven't you mentioned it?" Her eyes squeezed a bit. "The image was following me… I'm sure Mirii must be around here." Her head turned to her left. "Mirii! Come in here, please!"
Her eyes were looking at the double-door in the distance. She kept staring at it for five seconds…
"… Mirii! Where are you?" The girl stands up, as her eyebrows went down. "Mirii!"
The girl turned around, as her wrists went each on one of her sides.
"Tsk… it appears that the image is not in here." Her head turned forward, as she sighed. "I'm sure it must be either outside of"
"Ehm… Mirii…" Tiss had several sweat drops around her head.
"Yes?" Mirii's head rose.
"What the Squid are you talking about?"
…
"Excuse me?" Mirii's right eyebrow rose.
"A living image? In here?" The man's head tilted to his left. "There isn't anything like that, at all!"
"… what?" Mirii's face went paler.
"Uhm… this is very interesting, actually…!" Jak bended forward, as he smiled. "Maybe Mirii is capable of seeing unidentified creatures?"
"WHAT?!" Mirii's eyes expanded. "Impossible! I-I have interacted with the image!" She kept turning her shoulders towards the double-door, before turning it forward. "Even that man saw it! I-I swear it's true!"
"That man…? Ah, you mean Chris?" Jak's eyes closed. "Huh… so, it must be true, then."
"Who's this Chris?!" Mirii's hands slammed on the table. "He menaced me, before!"
"He's a friend, who occasionally pays us a visit…" Tiss nodded, while smiling. "He promised to protect us from unwanted attention…"
SWISH!
Mirii turned behind, seeing the wall in the distance.
"I failed in my task… I apologize." The male voice was coming from the wall.
"It's ok, knuckle-head." The man grinned, as his eyes closed. "Mirii was a trustful Squid, at the end…"
"Wh-wh-where are you?!" Mirii turned left and right, taking a step forward.
"He's shy, Mirii… not even us have seen him once." Tiss shrugged. "But he's a nice guy. If he hasn't attacked you, is because he learned how kind you truly are."
Mirii turned behind, as her eyes expanded.
"That explains the reason why he never attacked me… … to think I considered him as one of those Mercenaries!"
"Mirii…" Chris' voice came from the girl's right side. "… I have to apologize."
"Uhm?" Mirii's ears rose.
"I lied to you, by saying that I saw your friend… I wanted to escape the room, before you would see me…" The male voice came from Mirii's left side. "I was hearing you talking towards a wall… at first I didn't realize it, but then I noticed"
"WHAT KIND OF NONSENSE ARE YOU SPOUTING?!" Mirii's face went paler, as her eyes expanded. "I have seen it! The image! The image who kept turning into me! ME!" Her hands went on her chest, turning towards the three Inklings. "It can't be an illusion! Nothing happened before I"
Friend…
Mirii gasped, as she turned behind and walked backwards: she impacted on the table with her back. Her eyes were seeing a taller image of herself, with the mouth downturned. Mirii's eyebrows went down, as she walked to the right, while pointing her forefinger at the image.
"Can you see the image?! It's right there!" Her hand kept moving back and forth. "She just called me!"
"… ha ha…" Tiss' teeth gritted, as her eyes closed. "… it's a nice wall!"
Mirii's irises shrunk.
"Yeah! It's a clean wall… could had some paintings on it." The man nodded.
Jak's eyelids lowered to the middle, as his right hand went in front of his eyes.
The girl's head kept turning on each Inkling.
"No… th-this must be a nightmare!" Mirii's head shook rapidly. "It can't be… IT CAN'T"
Friend…
Mirii turned behind: her taller self's image had her mouth downturned, with her hands behind her back.
Need… help?
"… am I looking at a magical creature from the Shrine… or is there a detail I'm missing?" Mirii's eyes squeezed a bit. "Actually… now that I think about it…"
The girl turned behind, as she walked towards her chair: her bag was standing near the chair's right side.
"Ehm… wh-what do you have in mind, Mirii?" Tiss' eyes closed, as a sweat drop appears on her head's right side.
"I happened to make a photo of the image you cannot see…" The girl bended down, in front of the bag. "I clearly remember seeing the photo stored in my smartphone…" Her right hand picked her smartphone, as she rose back up and pressed on the screen with her right thumb. "Would you mind coming in here and give it a look?"
"That sounds interesting!" Jak's smiling mouth opened, as he walked around the table. "I'm coming!"
"Jak, what are you doing…?" The man shook his head, as his eyebrows lowered a bit. "Do you seriously believe that a smartphone would let us see"
Tiss' left elbow hit his stomach, as the man's mouth flattened: the woman's eyes looked at his, as she growled with her mouth sealed. The man chuckled briefly, as he blushes a bit. The woman walked around the table, followed by the man.
"I would hate to admit this, but… if this photo doesn't show the image, I wouldn't know what to do in order to convince them!" Mirii swallowed silently, as she turned to her left.
Mirii's right hand tilted towards Jak, as her smartphone's screen was showing an image of her taller self, appearing on a wall.