The scene now cuts to the Quiet Troop's base of operations. The focus of this interlude is on Hokori as he checks up on the rest of the Inner 7. He decides to visit Senbō first. He surprisingly survived his fall off of the DIR, albeit with some…new modifications. Unfortunately, his personality is the same, as these two…really don't get along well, if their dialogue is any indication.

"Oh, what do YOU want, Hickory?"

"It's Hokori."

"Fuck off. Now what would the mistress' pet want with me?"

"I just want to talk with you."

"About what, you pussy? You know, all you do is appear menacing but then you actually don't do a damn thing for the organization while I'm left doing all the heavy lifting! Why am I the backbone, when you're the leader of the Inner 7! Not only that, you opt to waste your time at that club! Who is so special that you'd be willing to listen to some dumb bimbo tell cringy as fuck jokes that make me consider listening to Rosales' ultimate pun compilation just because its less racking?"

Hokori unsheathes his lightning rod of a sword at him.

"Be careful who you insult, Senpai. You just might offend the wrong person."

"It's Senbō, you bastard!"

"I'll have you know, you ignorant waste of human life, that my sister will be headlining at that club!"

"Your sister's a whore!"

Hokori unleashes a bolt of lightning at him!

"Oh you want to go, fucker? Let's settle this here and now!"

A QT colonel notices two of his commanders about to kill each other and tries to get them to stop.

"Guys, break it up!"

"You're lucky that the mistress cares about you, Hokori! Otherwise, I would make you see stars…like this!

Senbō tried PK Starstorm ω!

Hokori dodged quickly!

"Hey, you're going to have to clean up the floors now! Look at all these burn marks!"

Hokori leaves his mentally unstable acquaintance alone and moves on to Ikari's room. As expected, it's filled with Suit Squad memorabilia but also has various pageant themed objects in the room. She also has a dartboard with a picture of Lola Loud's face on it. The picture has been pierced several times.

"Oh, hey master Hokori. Can you believe the nerve of that Lola? Impersonating someone as great as you? Who could be so asinine as to mistake that dumb bitch for you? My idiot soldiers said it was because she had a cowlick. Well, I'm pretty sure our leader doesn't wear fuchsia!"

"You're right, Ikari. She wears Kelly green."

"Oh, I'm not talking about the mistress. We all know that she's the boss of everyone. I was talking about you."

"Yeah, so how are your burns healing after your encounters with her?"

"Ah, they're only first-degree burns. I already applied some of that petroleum jelly stuff on them. They should heal in a few days."

"Great. Do you need anything else?"

"No, I do appreciate you visiting me though."

"Ha, I remember that we needed to blackmail Lola and you were the one to help with that. Though, I can't believe she did THAT! Say, how'd you even find her secret out anyway?"

"I don't reveal my secrets."

"Fair enough."

Hokori moves directly northeast to Namakemono's room. He enters and finds out that he's not in his room for once. That lazy slacker usually doesn't move from his spot. Usually, he'd act all gloomy and depressed while spouting off Friedrich Nietzsche quotes. The only people gloomier than him are actual goths like Lucy.

He moves on to the room directly across from it. This is Don'yoku's room. He is a valuable asset to the Inner 7, both literally and figuratively, as he is the group's financier. He manages all the cash the organization has.

"Hey, Hokori!"

"You didn't have to join us, you know."

"But I want to help you!"

"Why? You have friends and not to mention 10 other people that would be more than happy to hang out with you."

"No, we were friends before everything happened and I'll stick by you no matter what!"

"You're a true pal, Yoku."

"Sure, Kor. We need to stick around. Otherwise, how else can we help make the world a better place?"

Hokori leaves his room. He moves on to the top left room. This is Yokubō's room. Now, he is infatuated with the person in this room but…this person has a bit of an obsession with him. Luckily, she just wants him to be with her. Even better, she isn't a yandere who'll murder him if he tries to leave.

"Hey, Hokori."

"Yokubō, why are you squeezing the life out of that body pillow? Also, where did you even find a body pillow of me?"

"Internet."

"Yeah, can you stop creeping everybody, mostly me, out with your weird obsession with me?"

"Sure, I can tone it down a little."

"Why are you suddenly obsessed with me anyway? When we went to school together, you hardly acknowledged my existence. And when you saw that apology video I made, it rendered you catatonic. So, why the sudden change of heart?"

"Truthfully, even after everything that happened, I still harbored a crush on you. But you moved on, didn't you? Well, even if I can't be with you as your girlfriend, I'll be with you as a girl friend. Does that make sense to you?"

"Yeah, it does. But please, get rid of some of this stuff. It makes you look like a stalker instead of a devoted friend."

"Ok, Hokori. I'll start getting rid of some of these things."

"Thanks for understanding."

After that important meeting between friends, Hokori visits the final room. The room on the top right belongs to Ōkui. In her room is a VR headset. It appears she's in the middle of fighting something in virtual reality. Hokori playfully fires off a PK Thunder α to get her attention. Unfortunately, we see her perspective and we see her fighting a VR battle simulation of the first Masked Man battle in Mother 3.

"Ha! Masked Man! You didn't account for my PK Shield γ! Not only that, I have the Franklin Badge, so I'm immune to PK Thunder!"

Hokori's PK Thunder α deflects back into his face, with Ōkui being none the wiser. Eventually, she finishes her VR battle and notices Hokori.

"Oh, Hokori! Are you okay?"

"Yeah, I'm fine. I just wanted to see how you're doing."

"Great. I just finished training on my new VR simulator! You should give it a try!"

"Maybe later."

"So, I heard you're making a sequel to your Ace Savvy comic."

"Yeah, how'd you know?"

"Oh, Yoku told me."

"Well, it's still a work in progress."

"Hey, tell Yoku and I when it's finished, we want to see what happens next in the Full House Gang arc. Maybe Bill Buck should have you as a cowriter to his series."

"Wow. I don't think I'm THAT good, Ōkui."

"We all heard that your comic was so good, Principal Huggins tried to imprison you within the school while he entered the contest."

"Hey, remember when Coach Pacowski had us run his death course? That was insane! I don't think it's legal to make something that deadly for kids!"

"Yeah, the Mini Golf King bragged at lunch about how he finally had a date after all this time."

"Really, he did that?"

"That was your doing, wasn't it?"

"Yeah. But we all know it was so that we could play with the parachute."

"You're a schoolwide hero for doing that, Hokori."

"It was great catching up with you."

"Likewise."

Hokori leaves and begins to head to the mistress' conference room when he's intercepted by Senbō!

"You know, you should be dead! Along with my nemesis, Lincoln Loud! He was already killed by a bear, so why not join him?

Senbō tried PK Starstorm ω!

"Hokori, look out!"

Ōkui tried PK Shield γ on Hokori!

Hokori was shielded from PK attacks!

Hokori was protected by the psychokinetic power shield!

The psychokinetic power shield deflected PK Starstorm ω!

Senbō takes 748 damage!

"Ōkui, why are you protecting this scumbag?!"

"The only scumbag here is you! Tell me, why'd you invite me to your birthday party and not invite Lincoln?"

"Because I loathe him with every fiber of my being!"

Hokori tried running!

Hokori got away safely!

"Grr! Why you…!"

"Attention, Inner 7! I would like you to come to my conference room to discuss our next objectives."

All the Inner 7 members conglomerate at the conference room. The flat screen TV in the room turns on, revealing the silhouette of the mistress.

"As you all know, the Loud sisters have destroyed the DIR's generator, meaning that we can't strike fear and lightning into our enemies anymore. Well, now it is time for our master plan to commence. The Quiet Troop has been constructing bases near our seven new objectives. Namakemono will return to the Outer Sativum Promontory. Don'yoku, your base will be in Royal Woods. We need someone to keep tabs on those Louds. Senbō, you'll patrol around the lakes. Yokubō, your base is in the Kiiro Hayashi, near our laboratory. Ikari, you'll be in the swampland while Ōkui will be in the prairie. Hokori and I have something in mind to distract those Louds. Everyone understand?"

"Ma'am, yes ma'am!"

"Good. Now our objective is to get these!"

The screen shows 7 eighth notes on the screen, each one a different color.

"All I will say is that we need at least 4 of them to complete our mission."

Everyone leaves to go find these mysterious music notes. What will happen to the Loud sisters? Chapter 7 begins now.