Alice decided to stay at the Amusement Park, and Gowland provided her a room. The Outsider insisted that she earned her keep by working for the park in return, but as she just experienced yet another near-death experience, Alice began to question if testing new rides was secretly in her job inquiries. Shrugging that ominous thought, she then focused on the mysterious random Outsider that just popped out of thin air half an hour ago, who was drinking tea in her homestay.
"Arthur Kirkland, huh," Alice tilted her head, her chin on her hands. "It's quite curious to meet another Outsider...I'm from Oxford, what about you, Mr. Kirkland?"
Boris rolled his eyes, disliking how Alice was currently interested in the new guy, so he rolled on her bed. Cats. Possessive.
"I'm from London," Arthur answered calmly. "So what's the story here? It's quite close to Lewis Carroll's tale, except for how the Cheshire Cat is much more irritating than the original,"
"Lewis Carroll?" Alice tilted her head to a different side. "Hm? You already know about this world? Is that one of your magical advance? I barely know this world, like, everything that happens..." she shrugged, "That's that,"
"Well," Arthurt hummed, setting down his teacup. "I for one, know this world quite well. You're Alice Liddell, the main character, and there's Cheshire Cat, the Queen of Hearts, the Knave of Hearts, the Caterpillar, the Mad Hatter, the March Hare, Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum, The Duchess, and many other characters," the blond ruffled his hair, "Alice is actually just dreaming about being in Wonderland, and there are many different versions of how her dream ended,"
"Really?" Alice's eyes gleamed in interest. "Such as?"
"Well, mostly, you're awake because you're near execution, and everyone's chasing you to get your head off,"
"Oh, but Vivaldi is really sweet to me," Alice hummed and dropped her chin on the table. "And if I want to wake up from this dream, all I have to do is to drink this potion," she showed off her vial.
"Huh? Then why aren't you waking up?"
"I decided to stay here," Alice sat up straight again with a smile. "I'm quite happy here. But to fill up this vial, I have to get to know the people here,"
Arthur paused and gave a frown to Alice, and then turned to Boris, who was pretending to be asleep and let out a fake snore. Wait...Kiku didn't really explain what's the story of Are You Alice? In detail, didn't he? But the other story...Alice in the Country Series, right? That's a dating sims...
Get to know people...?
Arthur facepalmed.
~.X.~
Meanwhile in Reality...
Kiku frowned in worry as he kept pressing the spacebar to continue reading the visual novel. There was his friend, Arthur Kirkland inside there, having a dialogue with the main character, Alice Liddell, with the Cheshire Cat, Boris Airay, sleeping in the background.
"Ah, I accidentally sent him into the wrong world..." he puffed his cheeks. "Why did he have to surprise me by saying that he didn't even know what a tsundere is? Oh, but if I just exit the game..."
A warning sign appeared on the screen when Kiku was about to exit the game.
"Oh no." Kiku flinched back. "I suppose I have to watch the Visual Novel until Mr. Kirkland finds out how to get out of there...or he'll be lost inside that game,"
"Auf!" Pochi panted and tried to climb onto his lap.
"What do you think we should do?" Kiku asked and lifted the dog to sit on his lap. "Right, Pochi. I'll just set this on auto, and we should just go have some tea,"
Several moments after Kiku left his house, Alfred came barging in.
"Japaaan! I'm looking for England, have you seen—oh, boy, what is this?" he laughed and dropped himself before the screen. "Eh? A game—WHOAH! Why is Liney-Face in there?"
Alfred inspected the screen for a while, and noticed that there was a patch that let him to type respond in Alice Liddell's dialogue box.
"Oh, let me type...Fuck You, Liney-Face! Hahaha!"
~.X.~
Alice and Boris stared at Arthur curiously. The British man was groaning in his hands, something about getting into a wrong universe and having no time to play romance games, and kept mentioning the name 'Kiku' after several 'that damned guy'. Apparently, Arthur's presence in this place wasn't on purpose.
Well, Alice for one, she wasn't in Wonderland on purpose if it's not for Peter White's shenanigans.
"Fuck You, Liney-Face!" out of the blue, Alice yelled to Arthur.
Now the three were completely dumbfounded at that sudden exclamation.
Each of Arthur's eyebrows twitched.
~.X.~
"Oh, damn, I gotta call everyone, this is awesome!" Alfred laughed as he listened to Alice who repeated his typing. "What's next...?" he hummed while dialing for the Speed Line, and got an idea. "Drag Arthur outside and take off his pants!" he entered the command keys.
"Hey, guys? Come to Japan's place, he's got England in a game, this is awesome!" he said to his phone, and returned to grin at the screen.
"Aw yeah, second base, baby!"
~.X.~
Boris knew Alice quite well—there wasn't much to know about the female, since she's an amusing open book. But right now, after the sudden exclamation of 'Fuck You, Liney-Face' towards the random Outsider Arthur, the Cheshire Cat didn't know anymore.
"Uh, Alice, you okay?" Boris asked, slightly nervous, as Alice looked blanked out.
"Huh...?" Alice twitched and blushed. "I—I'm sorry, Mr. Kirkland, I don't know what was happening back then," she rubbed her head in confuse.
"Uh...okay...?" Arthur was unsure of how to respond.
But at the back of his head, he somewhat felt that it reminded him of a certain hamburger-freak.
Suddenly, Alice stood up, walked around the table, dragged Arthur by the back of his collar out of the room, and the British man was completely dumbfounded, as much as the Cheshire Cat, who uselessly stood there and turned to watch through the window.
Well, he was so curious as to what will happen, until Boris realized...
That Alice Liddell was pulling Arthur's pants down.
"ALICE, WHAT THE HELL!?"
To be continued...
