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Hun was tapping the floor with his foot, as he was frowning a bit, leaning on the wall and folding his arms.
"… well, it would have been nice if there is a clock to look at…" His head rose, looking at the right wall's upper side. "I would understand if I should worry or I'm getting impatient…"
His head lowered all the way down, while shaking sideways.
"Seeing Squids passing by would have helped too… this place is so different, when nobody is around!"
He stepped off the wall, as he impacted and went on his left side.
"Yeouch!" He turned to his right side.
An Inkling woman wearing a dress bowed down in front of him.
"Sorry!" She quickly passed around him.
As the boy was tilting in her direction, his eyes caught a candle grasped in her hands… the woman went behind the wall. His mouth opened.
"… she has a candle?! Was that a candle?!" His eyes grew. "Bu-but Mirii was chasing after a woman who had one… …"
He frowned.
"I'm sorry for doing this… but Mirii is important!" He rushed over the right side of the wall.
The boy entered inside the changing room, as he immediately pointed his forefinger at the walking woman.
"Stop! Leave my friend alone!"
The woman jumped, as she screamed at the top of her lungs. Hun turned his irises around, seeing benches, lockers…
"Mirii! Where are you?!"
"What are you doing here?!" The woman brought the candle on her chest, while frowning a lot. "This is the female changing room!"
"I'm sorry for bursting inside it… but I'm here for a good reason!" He took a few steps forward, before stopping. "You are the same woman who ran away from my friend, when she caught you doing something with a candle!"
"Wh-wh-what?!" The woman's face went paler. "I never set foot in here! I don't know what are you talking about!"
"… well… tell me what you want to do with that candle, then!" Hun held his stomach internally.
"None of your business!" The woman swung her arm, showing her pointed forefinger. "And if you don't leave, I will report the butt out of you!"
"Yo-you want to do something with that candle!" Hun took some steps backwards, as sweat appeared on his forehead. "I-I will report that for sure!"
"I'm allowed to bring a candle… YOU are not allowed to destroy my privacy!" The woman gritted her teeth.
He stopped, while staring back at the woman.
"Mirii is in here… she's all alone!" He clenched his fists. "You want to hurt my friend, don't you?!"
"Who?! There is no one else here!" The woman twisted around herself, while opening her arms.
Hun's mouth opened wide.
"… Mirii?!" He turned around. "Mirii, are you here?!"
His eyes rested on a door in the distance.
"Mirii!" He began walking-
"Don't get closer to me!" She thrusted her candle towards the boy. "If you do, I will accuse you of attacking me!"
"I would never do that!" He immediately stopped, bending backwards.
"That would be your problem, idiot!" She stuck her tongue out of her mouth.
"Hey!" Hun frowned.
"I will scream so loudly, everyone will rush in and see you standing in the wrong changing room…" She nodded.
"Bu-but my friend is here!" His arms opened wide.
"So?! Wait for her!" Her arms folded. "What the problem would be?!"
"You and your candle…" He growled silently. "That's the problem"
"Look, I have things to do… LEAVE or else I will SCREAM!" Her forefinger pointed at the room's exit. "Out! OUT!"
"… Kelly! I need your help!" The boy turned behind and walked in that direction. "Find Mirii inside this room!"
Hun passed the wall, now stepping back on the hallway's carpet.
"… Kelly?" He turned around. "Kelly?!"
"Master… Hun…"
Hun twisted over the drawn wall, watching Kelly stumbling repeatedly while keeping her eyes semi-closed.
"… did you called…?" Some saliva was coming out from her mouth's right side.
She yawned loudly, while bringing her hand in front of her opened mouth.
"… can she even stand still?!" Hun rose his eyebrows.
"I'm… a bit sleepy…" She spun clockwise, slowly. "… buuut-aaah!" She fell on her bottom. "Ow, ow, ow!" Her eyes squeezed.
"K-Kelly!" Hun bended down on his knees, as-
"M-Master…" She jumped back up, as her hands went in front of his chest. "… mortals can't see me… remember…"
"Ah! Right!" His fists went on his chest, as his head turned left and right. "Nobody around…! Phew!"
"Master… you need… something…" The little girl resumed her stumbling movements.
"Mirii is inside that changing room… it's for females only." Hun walked past Kelly, as he leaned on the wall with his back. "There is a woman holding a candle, inside… I-I can't kick her off, since I"
"Iiiiii will cheeecck, doooon't wwooorrryyyyy…!" Kelly spun 180°, as she waved right and left while walking over the wall. "Tee hee… why the door is a wall…?"
"Kelly, wait." Hun's mouth downturned, as he looked at the end of the hallway. "Maybe you should go to sleep…"
"Nah… I can do this…" Kelly hit the wall, bouncing back and covering her nose. "Ow!"
"Kelly!" Hun grabbed his shirt, grasping it tightly. "The entrance is on the right side!"
"… oooookk…! Tee hee…" She tilted all the way to the right, resuming her walk. "Sooo odd…"
Hun's hand went on his cheek, as he sighed loudly.
"Mirii… where are you?!"
The stumbling girl slammed her shoulder over each wall, as she still manages to step inside the changing room…
"Tee hee… theeere she iiiss…" Her hands rubbed her eyes. "Holding the candle Master Hun mentioned…"
The woman was kneeing down, while holding a candle with her right hand and putting her left one on the little flame.
"Happy, happy… I'm a happy Squid…" Her eyes closed.
"… her voice is odd… … she sure is happy, though…" Kelly smiled. "Yaaaawwnn…!" Her hand covered her mouth.
The little girl passed the bench, as she sniffed loudly.
"Mirii… Master Hun wants you…" She stopped, while bending forward and almost shutting her eyes down. "Uff… I shouldn't dance at this time of the hour… I barely have much energy for later…"
"… I'm a happy Squid…" The woman's mouth waved a bit. "I'm a happy Squid…"
"Mirii… can you see me?" Kelly sighed. "… you don't…?"
"I'm sure…" The woman whispered.
"Uff…" Kelly closed her eyes for some seconds. "… now can you see me…?"
The woman turned her head over Kelly, as she screamed and let the candle fall down, while standing upwards and bringing her hands on her cheeks.
"Hmm…?" Kelly yawned. "What's wrong…?"
The woman's eyes kept blinking, as she took a step closer to the little girl.
"… no way…!" She now brought her hands on her mouth. "… it-it… it worked?!"
"Hmm?" Kelly rubbed her eyes. "Mirii… Master Hun wants to see you…"
"Master Hun?" The woman's head pointed at the broken candle on the floor, as a thin smoke was raising from its top. "… who's Master Hun?"
"He's outside…" The little girl turned behind, as she stretched her arms on the sides and walked over the bench. "… I will reach you… once I take a quick nap…"
The woman observed the stumbling walk of Kelly… as she reached the bench, throwing herself on its surface and landing on her right side. Her hands went below her head's right side, as she closed her eyes and smiled.
"Zzzzz…" She breathed gently.
"… Master Hun… outside… …" The woman turned over the changing room's entrance.
She began rushing, passing Kelly and aiming at the entrance.
A Squid jumped from a hill, flipping frontally once and diving back on the floor-pool below.
"Amazing!" Her eyes closed, while sliding towards the dry side of the floor. "This whole activity destroyed all my expectations!"
She jumped out of the short-sized Inkling water, as she kept sliding towards the table.
"I could slide around for hours…" Her tentacles pulled off the diving mask, as she bounced and put them on the table. "But I can't ignore Hunley for this long… and the remaining machines as well."
She pointed her head over the door, now sliding towards it.
"You leave?" The male Squid landed in front of Mirii.
"Yes, I have more machines to try out." She tilted upwards, now standing vertically. "Besides, I have to find my friend…"
"But it's too fun to leave like that!" He slid closer. "Come on! You are just tasting the pure experience of being yourself!"
"My decision is final…" Her eyes squeezed a bit. "Let me pass."
"Unbelievable! You splatted me away with that response…" His head shook on the floor. "… please come back, though. You look totally fresh like this."
"Bah!" Mirii went back down, sliding forward and passing the Squid. "Who does he think he is with such flattery tactics?!"
She stopped in front of the door, looking at its handle…
…
"… hmm…" The top of her eyes 'smiled'. "… why I have this very strange feeling all over me…?"
She turned back into her humanoid self, as her hand grabbed the handle and opened the door. Mirii was grimacing, as she closed the door back and walked away from it.
"As if… I wasn't happy about something…" Her mouth downturned, as her right hand grabbed her left elbow and her head lowered. "… something is missing… … Hunley." Her eyes closed. "It must obviously be about that…"
She was stepping on the carpet, passing several doors and some Inklings on the sides.
"… but there is something that… … it's like I have something on my face…"
Her hands went on her cheeks, as they massaged her whole face.
"… th-this feeling is choking my throat!" She panted, as her hands pressed her face and her eyes were looking in between her fingers. "M-maybe I'm just dirty! Full of dust everywhere!"
Her sight tracked down a sign on the right side, with the word 'W.C.' on it.
"… yes! That must be it!" Mirii smiled widely, as she rushed towards the sign. "Something that will be probably solved with a quick wash on my face!"
She slowed down once near, immediately pushing the opened door standing below the sign and facing two more doors, each showing a black figure: the left one had an Inkling boy figure, while the right one had an Inkling girl figure. Without changing her walking pace, Mirii went over the right door and pushed it with ease.
On her right side, various sinks below a large mirror. Her hands went on the first sink's edges, as her eyes were staring over the mirror. She kept panting, looking closely at her cheeks and forehead reflecting back to her.
"… I don't see any dust…" She tilted her head left and right. "… I do look nice, actually." She smiled a bit. "I never had any doubt about that… … although… how do I look like in that other form?"
She turned back into a Squid, as she jumped up on the sink and landed vertically. Her tentacles pressed on the edges, as her eyes were pointing at the reflection of herself. She kept staring at the mirror for a while…
"Wow… I… I look better than expected…!" Her eyes sparkled a bit. "My shape is perfectly balanced with my face… my head appears so smoothly too. Who would have thought that such form would reach such level of appearance?! Impressed is not even enough to describe the moment I'm seeing!"
She nodded.
"… it wouldn't be a bad idea at all, keeping this form for a while… or even going back inside that room. I was having so much fun, sliding all around… … now I see the true nature of that terrible feeling I was experiencing."
She jumped away from the sink, as she landed on her feet while turning back into her humanoid form at the same time.
"It's my wish to share this newly-found treasure… with Hunley."