Scary Monsters! ~Endless Halloween Night~/Story/Episode 4-7

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Episode 4-7: It's a Preemptive Attack!

The Other Dimension - Bizarre Staircase

The Other Dimension - Ghost Ship Cove
Riddle Riddle	Is this…the sea?
Ortho & Ruggie Ortho & Ruggie	It's a ship!
Riddle Riddle	Hm? Why are you all so happy at finding a shipwreck?
Ruggie Ruggie	Cause it's every kid's dream!
Riddle Riddle	A-Again with that? Just what is so fascinating about a ship that's been run aground?
Ruggie Ruggie	A ship that's been run aground? Ugh, you really don’t get it, Riddle! It's all about how mysterious it is, about what secrets could be lying in wait.
Ortho Ortho	A ghost ship appears in the third book of the Adventures of the Moustached Captain! The moustached captain and the ghost captain battle it out, and in the end, the moustached captain got not only the treasure in the cargo, but the whole ghost ship. It's definitely at least first or second in terms of most popular scene among the readers, right, Mr. Ruggie Bucchi?!
Ruggie Ruggie	You bet it is. Kids all around the world hope they can one day be the person in those stories that gets all the treasure.
Jade Jade	It is very often actually the case that treasure can be found in the remains of a shipwreck, after all. Even in the Coral Sea, shipwrecks are a very popular place for young merfolk to explore.
Riddle Riddle	I have always lived inland in the Queendom of Roses, and until I came to Night Raven College, I had never even seen the sea. I have seen sea creatures and ships in encyclopedias before, but I don't have any particular attachment to them. Sorry I'm struggling to understand.
Jade Jade	Oh, come now. Do you not have a rather deep obsession with the sea?
Riddle Riddle	What? What are you…? gasp! Y-You don't intend to bring that up, do you?!
Ortho & Ruggie Ortho & Ruggie	What's this about?
Riddle Riddle	Stop! This is not the time to be reminiscing.
Yay! Another mirror shard!
Riddle Riddle	Those ghosts appeared with the most perfect timing…and it looks like they're in posession of some mirror shards! Ahem. That's enough of this chatter. We must steal the mirror shards from those ghosts.
Ruggie Ruggie	Alrighty. We're even stronger now with Jade on our side, so let's give 'em a little knock with our magic and…
Riddle Riddle	Wait. I've thought of a good tactic that'll let us save our energy.
Ruggie Ruggie	You sure…? I'm not sure I can believe that considering the last time you said that, we ended up fighting them anyway.
Ortho Ortho	Yeah. Wouldn't it be more efficient to just get rid of all the ghosts when we find them?
Ruggie Ruggie	You can be surprisingly ruthless when the situation calls for it, Ortho…
Ortho Ortho	Why wouldn't I be when our enemies are ghosts? There's absolutely no reason to bother holding back on them! Besides, if hold back, you or Riddle might end up being taken over by the ghosts…
Riddle Riddle	There's no need to worry! When I heard that the ghosts target the moment that we are surprised to take us over, it suddenly occurred to me. Surprise is a reaction that occurs when something in your surroundings does something unexpected. If we want to prevent that from happening to us…then what better way to work around it than to frighten them first! It's a preemptive attack!
Jade Jade	I see! What a bold and entertaining idea. It is very much what I have come to expect from you.
Riddle Riddle	Heh, but of course.
Ruggie Ruggie	Jade, you're having fun with all this, aren't you? …Well, either way, if it doesn't work out, we can just use our magic. If you're that confident, why not give it a whirl and see what happens?
Ortho Ortho	Giving the ghosts a taste of their own medicine sounds fun. I'm happy with this idea!
Riddle Riddle	Okay, then let's begin the plan right away. Ruggie, Ortho, could you both come with me? You're the one who'll have used up the most energy in that fight earlier, Jade, so you remain on standby. I'm trusting you to deal with any ghosts that leak past us.

Ghost A Ghost A	Oh-hoh-hoh! You've certainly gathered a good number of mirror shards, haven't you?
Ghost B Ghost B	The ghosts are searching for them en masse, you see. It's only natural we'd find so many.
Ghost C Ghost C	If we have this many mirror shards, then I'm sure, just one more time, we'll…!
squidge
Ghost B Ghost B	Hm? What was that sound?
squelch… squidge…
Ghost B Ghost B	What an unpleasantly moist sound… It sounds like it's getting closer, though…
???	That's my treasure. Those who dare touch it…will all be turned into seaweed!
Ruggie Ruggie	RAWR!
Ortho & Riddle Ortho & Riddle	BOO!
AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
Battle