Lola and Yokuza stood inside a 3D rectangular room with three walls made of stainless white tiles and one of them being from a reflective metalic mirror with a rainbow gleam. Lola wandered around the barren room while making sure to poke every single tile she walked past.

"This place looks just like a... one of those padded asllisem... rooms where people wear those funny suits," Lola remarked as she crouched by the wall and ran her fingers between the grooves of the white wall tiles.

"Are you talking about a straitjacket?" Yokuza asked as he tapped the reflective metalic mirror wall, followed by the wall showing the text: multi-time cube puzzle room is currently in use.

"Yeah, those things~," Lola happily said as she stood up and rolled, while not wrapping her tails around herself, over to Yokuza. Lola attempted to read the text on the metalic mirror wall, but due to the angle, she was unable to make it out.

"What's it say?" Lola asked while tugging on Yokuza's trousers.

"It says the room is in use-". The reflective metalic mirror began to wobble before its transparency increased until it fully disappeared revealing the empty cube-shaped tiled room and the short dark-skinned humanoid teenaged girl with slightly thick tighs as she defeatedly groaning about how hard the puzzle was while complaining about the dumb Rubik's Cubes pieces messing things up for her. (the short girl's a shibaru [light grey Shiba-inu ears with dark grey blue gradient tips, slight sharp canine teeth, and three poofy, big, fluffy light grey tails with dark grey blue gradient tips, and has light grey fur around her wrists, hip area and ankles]; she has light grey hair with dark grey blue gradient tips, and medium-violet-red eyes with her right pupil being in the shape of a white music note.)(She's wearing a grey fur jacket with black cuffs and violet-red insides, grey booty shorts with long bandages attached to them which wrap around her legs, and darkened silverwood getas)

"I can't believe I got screwed over by a bunch of Rubik's Cube pieces, especially given how close I was to finally beating this puzzle," the shibaru whined as she sulked with her eyes closed. The shibaru girl continued to walk with her eyes closed; but, because she had her eyes closed, she unintentionally bumped head-first into Yokuza's side. The shibaru girl embarrassedly opened her eyes, jumped back and flailed her arms in Yokuza's direction.

"Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry! I didn't see you there!" the shibaru girl blurted out with a bright blush on her cheeks. Lola squinted her eyes at the shibaru girl as the girl began to calm down.

"It's alright... but it'd be best if you didn't walk around with your eyes closed," Yokuza stated calmly while crossing his arms and putting on a forced poker face. The shibaru girl nervously giggled while rubbing the back of her head.

"Yeah, I hear you... I just didn't expect someone to be outside given nobody has been for the past two hours; oh, and I'm Kurai, Kurai Melody," the shibaru girl said cheerfully. Kurai looked over at Lola and tilted her head as Lola did the same.

"You look... familiar?" Lola said with a confused tone. Kurai giggled with an endearedly tone at Lola's puzzled expression.

"I hope I am. It'd be really embarrassing for me if I weren't given my profession," Kurai remarked jokingly while placing her hands on her slightly thick tighs. Kurai looked up at Yokuza and noticed the weird expression he was making. Lola followed Kurai's vision, and she noticed the look Yokuza had.

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"What's with that look?" Lola asked.

"Kurai hit my funny bone," Yokuza stated, causing Lola and Kurai to flinch in unison. Kurai apologised profusely to Yokuza for her negligence and unintentionally hurting him. Yokuza waved his hand and said it was fine.

"Before I forget, my name is Yokuza Zulcrestus," Yokuza stated while giving a light bow.

"And I'm Lola Sakamoto~!" Lola proclaimed while raising her clenched fists into the air.

"Woah... to think I'd run into my children of my granddad's friends," Kurai remarked.

"Oh, is that why you seemed familiar to me?" Lola asked while musing over why Kurai looked so familiar before she created a Memory/Dream Viewer Screen to look over her memories.

"Yeah, maybe you saw my granddad when you were younger... er," Kurai replied playfully as she saw the image of an old man who had similar features to her on Lola's Memory/Dream Viewer Screen.

"That... aside, I overheard you mention something about the Rubik's Cube pieces?" Yokuza asked while he waved his hand through the Memory/Dream Viewer Screen to dispel it. Kurai nodded her head while angrily crossing her arms.

"Absolutely! I was this close to solving this puzzle when, poof, a bunch of Rubik's Cube pieces came flying in out of nowhere and messed up the last puzzle as I was solving it!" Kurai proclaimed angrily while holding her index fingers close to each other to visually show Lola and Yokuza how close she was to completing the puzzle.

"Damn... I mean, that does sound annoying... I can't believe those marble monsters destroying the puzzle box would inconvenience so many people," Lola said with a panicky tone after she said damn unintentionally.

"Is see... so you're saying it's not the Rubik's Cube pieces' fault but those marble vultures outside?" Kurai asked with a slightly bitchy tone. Lola nervously nodded her head as Kuria narrowed her eyes at her.

"Well, that makes taking my frustration out on something way easier. I'll be back in a bit after I smashed a few hundred of them; feel free to try to have a go at the multi-time cube puzzle room while I'm gone, and good luck on finding those Rubik's Cube pieces," Kurai said, cheerfully while boasting they'll probably fail a few times. Kurai reached into her Storage Pocket bubble and pulled out a large purple scythe-shaped saxophone (scythe blade included) before she hurried off outside.

"Did... she just pull out a weapon-shaped musical instrument?" Yokuza asked perplexedly while Lola was scratching her head.

"Would you believe me if I told you my sisters have told me about stranger weapons?" Lola asked while she itched her face with her eyes closed.

Meanwhile, Zallino and Mimi marched through the dark and damp confined of a steampunk-themed tunnel as small jets of dense steam escaped through the kettle flaps on the many pipes. Mimi crossed her arms and tightly clung them to herself as her body shivered.

"This place always gives me chills," Mimi sulked as Zallino seemed unfazed.

"Don't you have a Temperature Immunity?" Zallino asked as he stopped walking and half turned to look at Mimi, who also stopped.

"I don't mean as in cold but as in creeps, you emotionless dolt," Mimi whined while she repeatedly stomped her foot on the floor.

"Right... if you say so, scaredy snake," Zallino stated monotonously before he turned away from Mimi and walked off. Mimi stared at Zallino with the most offended glare she could muster as she watched Zallino walk away.

"Rude...," Mimi grumbled before slowly walking after Zallino while she dragged her feet across the bronze floor of the pipe-covered tunnel.