Sorry for the delay! I was concentrating on finishing Real Game that I forgot to post this. Hahahaha. Ok I'm not trying to act like Ace.

Alice slumped down, making a motion of throwing up, "I…thought I was going to die…" Gray and Alice were at the surface, surrounded by snow covered branches and white sheets spread across the field.

Gray shrugged nonchalantly as he casually offered a hand to the pale faced girl, "Not as bad as you think. I use this route all the time."

Alice looked at the offered hand for a while and awkwardly took it, I guess even if he is an assassin, he still has his womanizer skills, "Does that mean I have to use it again?"

"Of course."

The girl sighed and changed the subject, "So why do I need clothes again?" Alice looked at her clothes; it wasn't that dirty, was it?

The man scrunched his face as if he ate a bitter melon, "It's for the meeting. It's like an annual thing for us, roleholders. We have to wear formal attire and gather at this one spot. We don't really do much though, it's quite tiring."

"And a foreigner also has to be there?"

A sly smile erased the previous bitter frown as he looked at the girl, "Not really, but I have to be there so why not just bring you along?" After a few moments, Gray muttered quietly, making sure Alice wouldn't hear his last statement, "Plus, there is this certain someone who is dying to meet you."

"Who?"

"It would have been the best if he just died, but he is so persistent. Anyways, you will know when we go there."

Alice made a fair guess and asked, "Is it by any chance-."

Cutting off Alice, Gray had his eyes locked on to a clothes store and dragged the girl with him, "Hey let's go there."

"….Here?" Alice stared at her surroundings. Intricate lacing and pink patterned wallpapers surrounded the store. All of the clothes in the shop were for girls with gothic or lolita as the shop's main fashion.

Looking at the displayed clothes, the man looked around for Alice's clothes, "Must have some clothes that will fit you."

Gray picked a blue laced dress that went along with a bow. He then offered it to Alice to try it on. Alice looked at the cloth and dropped a sweat, beautiful and it was to her liking, yes, but Alice really didn't have any money, she couldn't afford any of the expensive looking dress, "Um, but this is kind of…"

Gray held out a few more cute looking ones, "What about these clothes?"

"That is well…"

"You don't like it? Was this better?" Lastly, Gray held out a dress that was covered with lace that was overly gaudy.

Alice just picked the clothes that Gray first held out and rushed into the fitting room, "No! No! I will wear it!" I would rather wear this than that.

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Alice stepped out of the fitting room and showed her new clothes to the tattooed man, who was sitting on the nearby sofa. Gray nodded his head in approval, "You look cute."

The sudden unexpected tone made the girl blush, "T-thanks." Since when did Gray become this nice to me?

"Seems to fit you nicely. Let's buy that one," Gray stood up and walked over to the cashier.

Alice tugged lightly on Gray's coat, "Wait. I can't let you buy this."

Gray smiled as if something was funny, "It's alright. I have more than enough to spend. Plus, I was the one to suggest on you getting clothes so it is only natural for me to buy it."

Looking at the golden eyes, Alice judged that it was useless to further protest and gave up, "….Ok."

With her new clothes, packed in a soft pink tissue and delicately patterned bag, the couple went out of the store, "Do you want to go anywhere else?"

The brunette shook her head, "Not in particular." She came to this date without premeditating; it was hard to say where she wanted to go right on the spot.

"I actually want to go to this certain place. Can we go there?"

"Sure."

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"….What is this place?" By this time, Alice was not surprised by the man's odd taste, but this was going over the top of loving cute things.

Gray suavely escorted Alice to the entrance, "A doll café." The couple was greeted by several animal voiced welcomes.

Alice sat down and dispassionately stared from the menu to the employees, "So it's a café where the employees dress as dolls?" One of the waiter came by as he was dressed as a black cat. The ridiculously dressed waiter took out his notebook and purred.

Gray nodded his head and turned to the waiter, "Two potato snow white cheese miracle omelet." The waiter purred in response as he took the menu and walked away. Alice just stared in total awkwardness at the two men having their strange conversation. Not only is this café weird, but the employees don't even speak human language! More like, how can Gray and other people communicate with them?

Gray turned back to Alice and smiled in excitement, "Not only that, but if you eat this meal you can get a limited edition of Mocha Milky-chan."

"Mocha Milky-chan?"

"It's a super popular doll in this world. Once you see it, you will also fall in love with it too."

Seeing Gray in a total anticipation, Alice gave up on her sarcasm, "Alright…"

After a few minutes later, the faceless black cat waiter brang two hot omelets. Alice took a bite and widened her eyes, "This omelet is good." The inside of the omelet were soft and the warmth of the newly cooked food was beyond imaginable.

"Actually their famous dish is the egg butter cake. I will guarantee the taste."

The waiter came up to the table as he held out a doll and purred.

In that moment, Alice soon recognized what Gray was talking about. "This is Mocha Milky-chan…?"

Gray hugged the delicately made doll, "Yes, isn't it adorable!"

To Alice, it was beyond adorable, the soft texture to the carefully sown fabric and the extraordinary loveliness all struck Alice's heart. Alice carefully receive the doll from Gray and exclaimed, "It's soooo cute!"

Gray smiled, "You finally smiled."

"Huh?"

"You looked very uncomfortable before, I'm glad that you enjoy this. If it doesn't bother you, I want to give that doll as a gift to commemorate this day."

Alice felt her face becoming hot as she lowered her head and muttered, "Thank you." It was a little ticklish to have someone be concerned with whether you were comfortable or not.

"No, thank you. I did not have this much fun for a long time… no I don't think I ever had such an enjoyable day…"

"Gray…" Alice looked at the man in front of her and wondered. How did this man live before I arrived? Was everyday lonely and sad for him?

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Alice sighed, "…I don't think I can ever get use to this elevator."

Having his stoic, emotionless expression again, Gray shrugged, "It's just a matter of time."

It was hard for Alice to imagine that the murderer standing right in front of her was smiling gently at the girl a few minutes ago. Shaking off her contemplation, Alice smiled and held the Mocha Milky-chan towards Gray, "Well we have another collection to your doll room."

"I told you can have it."

Looking at the doll dearly, Alice replied, "I know, but I think this doll's rightful place is that room. I think this doll wants to be in that room too, but can I go visit this doll every now and then?"

Though expressionless, Gray nodded his head in approval, "You can always visit this room."

Just as when Alice stepped inside the underground hideout, she heard a voice which she least expected, "Sorry, but I don't think Alice wants to ever visit that room of yours."

"Peter!"

The dark haired man glared at Peter, "What is the Queen's pet rabbit doing here? I think you should hurry and find your owner soon and obediently go back to the cage."

Peter smirked, "Well this pet rabbit had already found its missing owner."

Gray took out his knife as he was prepared for the attack, "And who might that be?"

Peter suddenly turned to the girl and literally made his eyes into a heart mark, "Alice! I love you the most in this whole world! Please leave this filthy place and come live with me."

"…Um no." Peter was the least person she would ever want to live with. Where am I supposed to live in, a rabbit hole?

Stepping forward to protect Alice, Gray's golden eyes sparked in utter coldness, "Well that's Alice's answer so get out of here unless you want me to make a rabbit stew for tonight."

Peter made a motion of gagging, "Only you would eat that kind of disgusting thing."

Gray raised an eyebrow, "Oh, you're calling yourself disgusting?"

"Just shut up and I'll make you into a sashimi!"

Another voice entered the conversation, this one, Alice didn't recognize, "Ahaha Mr. Peter you are so funny! There is no lizard sashimi, you know." A young handsome brown haired man walked beside Peter. He had a fresh smile plastered on his face as his red coat gracefully swung along with his movements.

Peter raised his arm and shot the man with the red coat with no hesitation, "Ace, just shut up and die along with that filthy reptile!"

Oblivious to the killing intent, Ace skillfully dodged the bullet, "Hm, but lizard pie sounds good…" Then he turned toward Alice, "Hey you."

"Me?"

Ace beamed his bright smile as he unsheathed his sword, "Yup, after this let's go for an adventure while eating the lizard pie."

Peter yelled as he shot another set of bullets towards Ace, "Alice, would not eat that kind of gross thing. She would definitely attend to the tea party I set up just for her!"

"Shut up. You guys are so annoying," Gray made his move by flinging a small set of knives towards and used his other knives to attack Ace.

"Tch!"

Woah!"

Peter dodged the knives as Ace took Gray's attack with his long sword.

Gray formed wicked menacing voice and attacked once more, "Stop bothering Alice, you s***heads." Alice flinched at the terrifying voice, it reminded her of the first time she met Gray. It was not a pleasant feeling.

Peter laughed sarcastically, "Ha, what are you talking about? You're the one who kidnapped and trapped Alice to this place. What right do you have to say that? Surely Alice is sick of this place too."

Gray did not make a comeback. He was silent and even had a faint painful expression.

Peter continued, "Right? My dear Alice, you don't want to stay in this place, right?"

Alice hesitated in her answer, it was true that she wanted to get out of this place as soon as possible, but something made her unable to say it, "I…."

Ace launched himself to attack Gray, "Anyways I would like to have some more training with you Mr. Lizard."

While Gray was hands full dealing with Ace, Peter took this chance to snatch Alice away, "Kya!"

Peter smiled gently at Alice, which was even more scary considering the situation, "Alice, let's go and have some tea party ok?"

"No! Wait!" The girl turned toward Gray, she couldn't just leave like this.

Gray flung his knife at Ace and turned his head to look at the girl, "Alice!" The girl was nowhere to be seen. Only a blue ribbon was left on the ground.

Gray slowly picked up the ribbon and turned to Ace, "…You're not gonna be leaving in one piece." He was back into his real face, the assassin.

Ace smiled thrillingly, "Of course because I want to train more with you."

Last night I was stuck in traffic and had 2 whole hours to type my fanfiction stories and do my homework. Yeah! I felt crappy, but at least I didn't waste my time.