Everyone wants to clean off right away.

Shuichi rubbed his aching shoulders, leaning his back against the edge of the pool. This whole thing was starting to become a pain in the neck, literally, but before he put a wrap on it, there was one aspect he definitely needed to take care of. "Keebo... my understanding is you've been taping-"

"Hey, before we talk about that!" Kokichi interrupted Shuichi, clapping his hands for attention. "Don't you all wanna clean off?"

"Yeah, a shower sounds great, nyeh..." Himiko flopped the side of her head on the concrete again, apparently not thinking about how many feet had been there. "I'd just clean us up with my magic, but, y'know. I used up all of my MP on Shuichi just now, nyeh..."

Tenko let out another shudder, quivering in her ball of depressed poolside slime. "To think, a temporary transformation took so much of Himiko's magic power... Shuichi, you should be ashamed of yourself for not maintaining the miracle! How could you transform into a woman and then allow yourself to transform back?! Have you no pride as a woman?! Have you no shame as a man?! Ugh... I want to clean my body... soul, and mind..."

The detective, of course, realized Kokichi was up to something. "Being clean again sounds great, but first, that tape-"

"Then it's settled! Let's clean that green." Kokichi clapped again and grinned, heading to the poolside shed. "Everybody hop outta the pool!"

"Wait, that's...!" Shuichi turned to see Himiko following the younger boy's suggestion, pulling her small body, identifiable only from the neck up, over the side. Sighing, Shuichi decided to follow their lead... truth be told, he was feeling a little jealous of anyone getting themselves free of this goo trap. As soon as he was out, though, he scrambled over to K1-B0. "All right, I'm gonna say it, even if you're the only one that hears it. Keebo, you've gotta bwuaaah!!" Before Shuichi could speak any further, a jet of water hit him from the back that almost knocked him off his feet.

Kokichi had gotten a hose from the pool storage shed and hooked it up to a faucet swiftly. With a big, friendly smile, he turned the nozzle down to turn off the pressure. "Lookie what I found! This oughta do the trick, huh, boys and girls?"

"How rude!" K1-B0 shouted at him. Before Shuichi could accidentally get the idea that the robot had realized what was so important for the two of them to discuss, K1-B0 continued. "What if you had hit me with that?!"

Kokichi gasped. "Oh, darn, you're right! I'm so sorry! I woulda fried all your sensitive circuits and you'd be up there in gadget heaven with the Atari and the Zune, huh?"

"You know good and well it's not that! My body is waterproof. Just..." K1-B0 sighed again, lowering his eyebrows as he returned to a subject he hated. "Would you blast a senior citizen at a pool with that dangerous tool at full power?"

"Oh, definitely not," Kokichi said with a laugh. "That doesn't sound funny at all. You totally convinced me."

"Good." The robot placed his hands on his hips and gave a satisfied nod. "Now, Shuichi was just telling me how important he felt it was that all of the humans present here become cleaned, so if you wouldn't mind carefully applying the appropriate water pressure to their bodies..."

"Good call, Shuichi, nyeh." Himeko gave the detective a thumbs up. "Did you know? A mage needs exposure to sunlight to recharge, nyeh... We gotta make it happen as soon as possible."

Shuichi sighed and slapped a hand to his face... a relatively clean hand. It looked like taking a blast from the hose had already done a fair job of blasting goop off of his upper body, revealing his pale, bare chest. That just reminded him of how important it was to take control of this situation! "I can't let Kokichi have his way..."