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"Oh! I hadn't even thought of our disguises breaking..." Byron pouted down to Mary, but it didn't have the same affect Belladonna usually did. Byron just looked... Highly put out, petulant. A bit like a douchebag. "But it was soooo bad. But you're right. I'll try not to mention anything else!"
And ugghhh this was taking forever! Could they take a break for a snack? There hadn't been time for a snack beforehand and maybe Human food wasn't so bad! They had ice scream, right? Or candy? Or something they could nosh on?
But oh, wait... Just because their appearance was human didn't mean their physical bodies were, did it? Otherwise, Mort might not be able to eat anything! At least not anything from here as Belladonna highly doubted they sold the kinds of food he enjoyed.
So instead Byron pouted some more.

The next hug Mary did went by so smoothly that Belladonna jumped up and rushed over to the girl too. She looked rather easy-going, a much nicer human than the previous two!
"Totes?" She echoed the phrase Mort used, her arms outstretched to the girl. The girl paused her skellyphone usage, took an overall look at Byron and hugged him with a loud issuance of "GLOMP".
Belladonna didn't know what that meant exactly, but she surmised it was a very exuberant hug.
Actually, she kind of liked it!

Alright! Three humans down, only two more to go! This wasn't so bad, now that all the humans weren't angry and what not.
"You've been to the Human World before. Is it always like this?" Belladonna inquired as she searched around for more humans that looked nice and not angry or anything to hug. And maybe a snack store. Maybe... "While we're here, and since its a mall, is there anything you'd like to find? Weird books or something?"
Maybe it was a hold over from the small past life she had viewed, but Belladonna did wonder if she could find a bookstore, just to take a peek. Humans were pretty weird after all and it would surely hold at least a few minutes of fun!

[Hug 4]

Seeing Junko hug the human scareling gave Lizzy enough courage to hug the angry human lady... Before backing off, because the hug did not seem to cheer her up. In fact, she looked surprised for a moment, and then looked even angrier than before.

"Uh..." She dipped her head, "Chill out! Bye!" Her soulmate was then grabbed, and she ran through the crowd, away from the angry lady... And straight into a human ghoul wearing black. Black all over, including over her eyes; Lizzy couldn't help deciding if she looked more like a Panduhr, or if she was trying to look like an Egyptian-based monster, since black eyeliner was all the rage a while back, if she remembered correctly.

"... Hi?"

"The world is a dark, cruel place."

"... You need a hug," Lizzy decided, pulling the human ghoul into a hug. However, as with the angry lady, this human did not become happier at the hug. Instead, she flailed like bodily contact with another person was going to kill her, and then, when they made eye contact, the human ghoul glared at her before coming at her, causing Lizzy to retreat back into the crowd.

"These humans are weird!"

He had to hug people? He didn't even like hugging Halloweeners, unless they were busty ghouls, but everyone else wasn't even touch-worthy. The idea of hugging humans made his skin crawl, but the teachers had said they would be safe. If he got some weird rash or infection, he was sueing them for all the seeds their meager paychecks would allow.

Frowning (which actually matched her outfit), TG looked around and spotted a frowning boil also in black. Guessing humans went in packs, he walked over. "Hey, you." He said, to which the boil looked up. His eyes were deeply lined in black, and his hair was a mix of purple and black. Everything about him was black aside from the white skin. Was this a human? He looked like a reaper.

Not waiting, she went up and hugged him quickly before stepping back. The boil only looked at her, looking a little more colorful in the face. "Do ya...wanna hang?" He asked.

TG looked at him before rubbing his neck. "No. I like being alive. Undeads are stupid."

The boil chuckled. "Yeah, unless your a vampire. Zombies are cool though."

TG looked around. Did he hug a reaper? "Undeads can rot." She huffed, not caring for any undead lovers, and walked off.

Lizzy's methods were incredible. She was a genius. She was amazing. Her Soulmate.

The child simply screamed more when a stranger hugged it, especially a strange looking boil in ugly clothes with ugly, short hair. The mother was apparently displeased by this new development as well. As the angry human went after Lizzy, Junko fled with her into the crowd.

"So weird. And they dress so badly." Junko sighed and took out her handbook. "That was five humans for me. How many do you need still..? I'll help you find one!"

Always like this? Hardly. The first time had been during the trial of Famine, and they had been on an isolated beach. And the second, well, he couldn't talk about it. Literally.

"Totally," Mort explained when she returned. "N'...not really. Didn't interact with so many at once." Once more he clutched at Byron's hand as they made their way onward. "For sure n-never went to a maul." And while a souvenir was tempting, he had to shake his ghoulish little head. "Anything from Human world goes bad in ours," he told her. "Even if didn't, bet professors would confiscate."

The sound of yelling made him fearful that the angry couple had tailed them, but he realized after a few seconds that it was a different, equally irritated young couple. A shorter human was crying and rebelling against the woman's hold, desperately wanting to go back to the toy store if Mort heard right.

What was it with humans and all the yelling? Seriously.

Mort crept up behind the pair, his tongue sticking out a bit as he concentrated on being silent; who knew how good a sense of hearing these humans have? A plot second before he assaulted the parents with a double hug, the child hiccuped and stared at him. Thankfully the caretakers were too caught off guard to give chase, as the minute they turned their heads to stare at Mort's retreating back their child broke the mother's grip and escaped back into the store.

Mort was grinning a bit as he jogged back, a bit pleased with his meddling. "One left for me!" he announced. "Thank Jack too, can't stand smell've all this food..Let's just get something after trip." He didn't trust human food by a long shot.

"It's odd... How humans can be categorized," Lizzy mused out loud, "Like... Are they always like this, or is this a sort of temporary behavior? I mean... We get angry too, but we don't usually stay angry forever."

A human preserve, huh?

Why would they want to preserve potential hunters? That seemed like a bad plan to her ... well, at least they would let her observe.

... Through the power of... hugging.

Serafina sighed to herself, folding up the sheet of people and sticking it in her pocket. Very well! She would go hug the first person she saw...

Ow!

Of course, it didn't end up being the first person she saw so much as the first person she heard. This person was loud, and Serafina couldn't help but stick her fingers in her ears, rather displeased with what horrendous screeching sound was coming out of that woman's mouth. Was she certainly not a banshee? Because Serafina knew there were some banshee ghouls at her all ghouls' school that could screech that loudly if the situation called for it.

Was she shouting at the little ghoul? Hm. Serafina tilted her head a bit, before squaring her shoulders and walking up to the woman. The woman suddenly snapped her head towards the seemingly gothic teenager and glared, only to end up trapped in a hug.

"What do you think you're doing?!"

"I thought you might need a hug," replied Serafina, mirroring what she saw some of the others saying.

"Stranger danger!" exclaimed the mother, before running off, plucking up the small human ghoul with her. Serafina blinked. These women were strange...