Coral and Kelp are seen hanging out near an ink battle practice area where much like Inkopolis's ink battle areas, there are two Spawn Points so that both teams of Octolings are able to battle without needing to worry about being permanently splatted. Coral reminisces the time before Octavio's loyalists attacked, "I miss being able to do battles for fun and not to fight for our lives." he says, to which Kelp replies "Yeah, remember that first fun battle that we played on New Albacore Hotel? Kind of funny that it was a little intense for us, but then again, it was our first battle that we played for fun." she said, Coral then replies "At least we earn money from playing it, remember how much funding we contributed to this neighborhood before this real war mess started?", Kelp then says "It was actually so much, glad that other Octolings helped out in order to give our tentacle friends somewhere aboveground to live."
Coral then starts talking, "Which is why I'm trying my best out there to prevent anyone from taking this life away from them, our tentacle brethren protected us so much when we were underground, so it is my goal to protect their aboveground sanctuary from anyone with bad intentions. I have a sneaking suspicion that OGMO has sided with the enemy, a powerful enemy is never going to stop attacking unless something permanent is done.", Kelp then starts to worry "Wait, is OGMO really siding with our enemy? Are they still angry that they couldn't capture a single Octoling?" she asks. Coral answers, "Unfortunately, afraid so, if Shade does not come back as himself where he is willing to help us instead of harm us, then we will have to ask our leaders to declare war on OGMO, this will be especially necessary if they are siding with the enemy."