Splatoon: Old Hatreds

Coup D'etat

Kal's home, Inkopolis

Since Kal hadn't slept for quite a while he didn't wake up until the sun was high, not exactly unusual since Inklings lived a carefree lifestyle and often didn't care when they got up.

Kal awoke to the familiar sight of his room, with all that had happened recently he was glad he could see this normal sight again.

When Kal entered the living room, Victoria was already awake, she sat on the couch in the living room, once again lost staring at the closed family album she had brought with her.

Kal wished he could do something to get VIctoria's mind off that.

"Good morning Victoria."

"Good morning, or should I say good afternoon? its already past twelve you know, you sure can sleep."

"Ahh well, Octo Valley really tired me out."

Kal turned to make himself breakfast, or lunch? Brunch.

As he tossed out an empty milk carton he noticed a wrapper with unfamiliar writing on it already in the trash.

Then it crossed his mind, what had Victoria been eating since she got here?

"Umm, what did you have this morning?"

In response, Victoria held up the bag she brought with her from Octo Valley.

"I brought my own rations from Octo Valley."

"Rations?"

"Yeah, stuff like oatmeal, jerky, hardtack, things that last pretty much forever."

Victoria tossed Kal some jerky.

It didn't look like any jerky Kal had seen before, curious he took a bite and immediately regretted it.

"Salty! Why is there so much salt on this? Actually isn't it dangerous to eat something like this?"

Victoria shrugged

"Is this what you normally eat in Octo Valley? Aren't you worried about getting hypertension or something?"

"Well no, this is what soldiers eat when they are away on missions for prolonged periods of time, it's easy to carry around and won't go bad for years to come."

Now curious as to the quality of "rations" Kal picked up Victoria's bag.

"Umm may I?"

"Sure"

Kal rummaged through the bag and pulled out a piece of hardtack, it sure looked like hardtack, and felt like it but...

"Why did you bring this along in the first place?" Kal said while tapping the hardtack.

"I didn't want to bother you any further by eating your food."

"What? Why are you worried about that? Last time you didn't.."

"Last time? Do you really want this to be a repeat of last time?"

"Yeah you're right, let's not make this a repeat of last time, but still.." Kal was now trying to split the hardtack in two, but it was so tough he couldn't break it no matter how hard he tried.

Victoria couldn't help but laugh a bit at Kal struggling with a piece of hardtack.

Kal brought the hardtack over to the kitchen counter and slammed it down as hard as he could.

'SLAM!'

The strangely tough hardtack still stayed in one piece.

"Why is this so tough? It feels like you can knock somebody out with this, is it even possible to eat such a thing?"