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"… grumpf… urgh…" Mirii's right hand was holding her phone near her right ear, as her irises and head were tilted upwards. "… grrr…"
"Ehm… what's wrong, Mirii?" A sweat drop appears on Hun's right side of his head, as his eyes closed.
"Grina is still not answering my call…!" A vein popped out from her forehead. "And we are literally waiting in here, wasting our valuable time…!" Her teeth gritted.
"Then, we should just be more patient." Hun shrugged. "She will eventually call you back."
"… your advice is as wise as usual." Her eyes closed. "At the same time, we should"
"Listen to us for a while?"
Mirii turned behind, looking down at Eri standing still on Emi's left, as each had their hands down. Emi was smiling, while Eri's mouth had a dot shape and her eyebrows were slightly down.
"Good morning, Eri and Emi." Mirii's right hand lowered, as her right thumb pushed the smartphone's screen. "They look taller than before…"
Eri smiled.
"Hello Mirii." Her eyes closed, as she walked past her and bowed in front of Hun. "Good morning, Master Hun."
Emi rushed, passing the girl from her right side and bowing down in front of the boy.
"Good morning, Master Hun!" Her eyes squeezed, as sweat jumped out from her head.
"Good morning!" Hun smiled widely, as his eyes closed. "Emi and… Eri!"
Both twins lifted their postures, as they walked in between Hun and Mirii, while still staring back at the boy.
"Master Hun, did you enjoy the hot bath?" Both closed their eyes, while smiling.
"Oh, absolutely!" He nodded. "Were you saying that we should listen to you for a while?"
"We have the information you are seeking." Eri's eyes opened, while keeping her smile. "However, as members of the High Council, we decided to let you and the mort-Mirii!" Her right eye squeezed, while gritting her teeth for less than a second, before remaking her previous expression. "Relax for a while and regain all your lost energy, before focusing on the current situation."
Mirii's eyelids lowered to the middle, as her irises were pointed at Eri's back of her head.
"… are you even capable of treating me with more respect?"
Several sweat drops appear behind Eri's head.
"S-so! Yo-you are all fine and well?!" She turned behind, as her smiling mouth waved and her eyebrows went up.
"I preferred knowing about the current situation, before taking a hot bath." Mirii's head rose, as her arms folded. "So, in the meantime, I would had thought a plan and find all possible mistakes I could make."
Emi turned behind, as her eyelids lowered to the middle and a sweat drop appears on her head's right side.
"You would really think all that in such short time…?"
Eri turned to her right, while frowning at Emi.
"What's that supposed to mean?! She actually said something right, for once!"
Mirii frowned a bit.
"Oh, sure…" Emi's eyes closed. "Obviously you would think that much, if that means to win at all costs…"
"W-win?! Again with that lie?" Eri's eyelids lowered to the middle. "Emi, I'm really growing tired of that mention…"
"Should I mention yesterday's incident YOU made?!" Emi frowned a lot, while turning over her sister and opening her eyes wide. "All because you wanted"
"Emi, stop!" Eri frowned while staring back at Emi. "We are in front of Master Hun!"
"Grrr…" Emi turned over the boy, as her eyebrows went up. "I don't know what to do with her… she keeps on hiding her mistakes…"
"Ehm… how about we ignore this discussion and begin the more important one?" A sweat drop appears on Hun's right side of his head, as his eyes were closed and his mouth smiled.
"Wise words, Master Hun!" Eri's eyes sparkled. "Allow me to illustrate the alliance made in between the Shrine and Grin-Greta!" Her eyes squeezed.
"… Greta?" Mirii's head tilted to her right, as her irises kept aiming at Eri. "Are you talking about Grina?"
"Well… she told us to never call her Grina, anymore." Eri turned behind, as she nodded.
Mirii's eyes squeezed a bit.
"… I think I'm starting to see the big picture, behind such event…" Slowly, she nodded with her head returning on its neutral position, as her arms folded and her head rose a bit. "You mentioned an alliance too, didn't you?"
"An alliance me and Emi came up with!" Eri smiled widely, as her eyes closed. "Such a relief too, since I couldn't stand the stress of Master Hun going missing…" Her eyes opened back, as her mouth downturned. "Lisa told us how you followed after that… monster."
"Ah, wh-what about him?!" Emi twisted behind, as her eyes were wide. "Did you… defeated him?!"
Mirii's eyes closed.
"... I see…" Eri nodded. "I can kinda see the whole… journey you went through."
"Is that really a thing?!" Emi's mouth opened wide, as her each hand fell on one cheek. "Wow…! Just wow!"
"Well, Mirii just answered your question with her thoughts." Eri's irises went on her right. "Are you happy, now?"
"Yo-you didn't care about all this?!" Emi turned over Eri, while bending forward and frowning.
"Enough with this discussion!" Mirii's eyes opened, while frowning. "Resume your alliance speech! Now!"
"… I will close an eye on your bad behavior…" Eri's head shook. "But just because I wanted to do that as well."
Emi's eyes rolled.
"Now, about the alliance… that happened later in the evening, since you went through the portal." Eri turned behind. "Greta and Bars visited us, asking questions about you…"
Emi turned over Hun.
"We explained the situation to them… and we learned how having you two missing from the sweeter waters would raise a huge suspicion."
"That's why we decided to send ninjas disguising as you and Mirii, so they would cover your long absence and… letting Grina's plans start for real." Eri turned over Mirii. "Her plans of finally tackling Project Neo with efficiency and freedom." Her eyes closed. "Her words, not mine… I needed to be honest about such wonderful words." She smiled.
"And her plans revolves around… acting?" Mirii's head rose.
"I knew you would catch up quickly." Eri's eyes opened.
Emi turned over Mirii.
"We do not know the events happening in the sweeter waters… but we came up with the alliance idea, as a way to guarantee that Master Hun will stay closely to the Shrine." She smiled. "We are still working on the furniture, design"
"Furniture?" Mirii's eyebrows lowered a bit. "Design…?"
"Wh-why are you thinking about those…?" Hun's mouth opened a bit.
"… that will be discussed later in the day, Master Hun." Eri turned behind. "We are almost ready to show the plan papers to you and Mirii."
Emi did the same.
"Papers?! What are they up to, now?!" Mirii frowned a bit more.
"Patience, mortal." Eri kept her position. "Wait until this evening and you will be mostly prized… we are even working hard for making sure, you will not refuse."
"… you are truly up to something, don't you?" Mirii's head rose. "But no matter how much effort you will put in your works… if it has a shameful trick in it, I will immediately spot it."
"Mirii, don't think like that…" Hun's eyebrows went up, as his mouth downturned. "Emi and Eri are our friends… why they would ruin us?"
"Ooooh!" Emi's hands clasped, while going in front of her mouth, as her eyes sparkled. "Thank you for the kind words, Master Hun! I-I'm so… honored!"
Hun's right hand went behind his back, while smiling widely.
"Yo-you are welcome!" He nodded.
"Hmpf." Mirii's head lowered, as her eyes closed. "At this point, we just need to know what to do in order to reach this villa…"
"That's something I asked to Greta, several times." Eri turned over Mirii, while frowning a bit. "She still claims to be working on it…"
Mirii's eyes closed.
"Perhaps, there must be something inside that villa, which"
Suddenly, music starts playing from the smartphone. Her eyes opened back, as her right hand rose and her irises looked at the screen: the name "Grina" was written on it. Her head rose.
"… now I can truly solve this mystery, once and for all." Her right thumb pressed on the screen, as her right hand moved over her right ear. "At last, you decided to answer my call…"
Eh eh! At last, you decided to show up with Hunry…
Mirii snorted a bit.
"Are you talking to Grina?" Hun's mouth stood open.
She nodded, as her irises went to her right.
Your stubbornness never disappointed the expectations.
"Grina, quit those pathetic comments." Mirii frowned a bit.
… you still don't know?
"Uhm? … Greta." Her eyes squeezed a bit.
Yep! You said it right, Miss Perfection!
"Hmpf." Her head returned to the middle. "Then, from now on, you must drop that title calling… otherwise I will still call you Grina." Her eyes squeezed a bit.
Ooook! You got me there!
She nodded slowly.
"Now, tell us how we can reach your villa. You don't have to"
Eh eh, that would not be necessary.
"… excuse me?" Mirii frowned a bit more.
Eh eh eh! Mirii, Mirii… right now, I'm inside a car. Bars is driving and our friends are behind the passenger seats. We are going to the… "extraction point", so to speak.
"Extraction point?!" She bended forward. "Quit saying information who aren't"
Relax, relax… it's really much easier to let you see, rather than explaining for hours, all the details going on. Where are you two, now?
"We are inside the Shrine." Her head pointed at Hun.
Good! Pass the call over a Shrine staff, if you can see someone nearby.
Her head lowered, watching Eri. Her right hand went towards the little girl, as her little eyes expanded.
"No, no!" Sweat jumped out from her head, as her hands went in front of the device. "Keep that sweeter water toy away from me!"
A vein popped out from Mirii's forehead, as her eyes squeezed a bit and her face frowned.
"Excuse me?!"
"Unlike you, I'm a Shrine Squid!" Eri frowned, while bending forward. "How can I say that I believe so much, in our tradition, if I use such fake magic?!" She lifted her posture back. "I wouldn't touch one, even if my life is depending on it…!"
"I would." Emi walked towards the smartphone, as her right hand picked it up and carried it over her right hand. "Hello?"
Eri's eyes expanded even more, as her head was following Emi's walking.
Hey there… Emi?
"Yep!" She nodded, while smiling and closing her eyes.
Eri growled lowly.
You are near Eri, mhright?
"Yes, like always!" Her eyes closed.
Huh… thought she would pick up the phone, instead of you.
"She has a set… rule, when it comes to sweeter water technology." Her eyes opened in the middle, as her irises went on her left, while smiling. "That's also why I stick around…"
"We are going to have a loooong talk, after this…" Eri folded her arms, while lowering her head and frowning even more.
Emi laughed, while closing her eyes.
What joke did I miss?
"Nothing, nothing!" Her eyes opened wide. "Did you wanted to say something, Grina?"
"Greta!" Eri bended forward, while keeping the same expression.
Emi's irises went up.
Yes, we need a drawer who creates a teleporting paper. We are about to reach a park… which is where things get real.
"Oh…!" Her irises went on the middle. "Sure! I will call Kelly and send her inside this park."
Mirii's eyes expanded.
Niiice! Since Mirii and Hunry are there… did you let them keep their ordinary clothes?
"Ehm…" Emi turned her head over each Inkling. "… no, we did not."
No?!
"We made them wear kimonos…" Emi's mouth downturned.
Drats! Give the phone back to Mirii! Quick!
"Bu-but we" Sweat jumped out from Emi's head.
I will hear your little story some other time! Be a good girl, now!
The little girl sighed, as her right hand sprung away from her right ear, stopping in front of Mirii.
"She wants to talk to you." Emi nodded.
"… sigh…" Mirii's right hand picked her smartphone, bringing it on her right ear. "Yes?"
Mirii, take off that kimono and wear back your clothes! Same for Hunry!
"What?!" Mirii frowned. "Our clothes are taken by the Shrine Staff, since they were dirty and"
We cannot do the switch properly, if you get out with those kimonos! The ninjas are wearing the same type of clothing you had, when you two went missing!
"How did the ninjas figure out the type of clothing we had?" Mirii's eyes squeezed a bit.
Not that hard to guess, since we had to take all your belongings out of your rooms and transfer them inside the villa. Aside the fact we passed through a full odyssey, for making sure the ninjas weren't spotted… I was so lucky to have found a photo of us 4, stored in my smartphone, where you were wearing the only missing clothes from your wardrobe!
"… Hunley's clothing was fairly easy to predict?" Mirii's head rose.
Eh eh… boring clothing… as you said in the past!
Mirii's eyes expanded.
Eh eh eh! Now listen: I will send a text, where I will explain the rest of my little plan… don't wanna risk the whole operation, just because of some paparazzi who can read lip syncing.
"… understood." Mirii nodded.
Catch you later, Mirii!
"Bye." Her right hand went away from her right ear, as her right thumb pressed on its screen. "… we have to wear our original clothes, once more."
"Judging from the time it passed, your clothes must be almost ready." Eri's eyes closed.
"Almost ready?" Mirii's head turned over the little girl. "What do you mean?"
"We can't let you walk away with those kimonos…" Emi's head shook. "So, since Kelly said how none of your clothes were found inside your old rooms, we decided to use a speedy procedure to clean your clothes in no time!" A sweat drop appears on Emi's right side of her head. "But… were you thinking you could keep those kimonos?"
"Not at all!" Sweat covered Mirii's forehead, as her eyes closed. "Wh-why would I ever have such thought?!"
Emi's left eyebrow rose.
"If Greta let me explain this…" Emi sighed.
"She was probably caught in the hurry…" Mirii's eyes closed for a moment. "I wouldn't bother texting her now, just to let her know about it: at the end, the important part of this plan is to reach the extraction point with our original clothes."
"By the way…" Hun turned around. "Where are our clothes?"
"Those will come shortly." Eri nodded. "Just wait inside your respective changing rooms, in the meantime." Her head turned over her sister. "Let's go warn the staff, Emi."
"Yes, sis!" The little girl smiled back.
Eri snorted, as she walked past Mirii. Emi's mouth downturned, as she began following her twin.