This chapter is timed between Ouvertüre OVA and episode 7 of Träumend and describes an event mentioned in the previous chapter.

Chapter 1.5

Plan Nummer 313

Plan Number 313

Jun opened the front door after he had heard the doorbell's chime. The bunch had just been eating dinner when it rang and of course Jun was the one that had to check it out. However, there was no one behind the door. Just a small lunchbox, a thermos and a letter. After a quick glance through the yard, he picked them up and brought them back to the kitchen, where everyone waited for him.

"Well, there was no one around, but I found these," Jun briefed the other as he placed the items on the table's corner. Shinku took an immediate interest to the envelope and grabbed it. Swiftly her finger popped open the old European styled signet and she took out the contents.

"Let's see now… 'I am truly sorry, but I must decline your generous offer for dinner due to other pressing matters, but accept this small token of my appreciation –kashira.' " Shinku read the letter aloud. As Shinku finished reading, Jun opened the lunchbox and the smell of warm freshly cooked tamagoyaki greeted the diners. Everyone followed their noses and prepared to grab their share.

"Unyuu, this is so good –na no!" Hina Ichigo happily praised the taste.

"I guess this is okay –desu," Suiseiseki reluctantly agreed with Hina.

Meanwhile Jun was eyeing the thermos with "tea" written on the side. He opened it and an odd smell flowed from within. He looked at the others happily munching on their meal and decided to try it. He poured the brown liquid into a tall glass. It doesn't look that good, I wonder what tea it is?

"Umm… anyone else want this 'tea'?" Jun asked.

Everyone seemed to shake their heads, Hina had her strawberry juice while the others were enjoying Nori's Darjeeling tea. I guess it's just me then. Jun tried a sip. Not that bad really. The cheerful dinner continued with only minimal amount of bickering between Suiseiseki and Hina Ichigo.

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"O ho ho hoo! Everything is going precisely how I, the most cunning of all Rozen maidens, planned -kashira!" certain strategist gloated to her artificial spirit.

"Surely this time I will succeed -kashira! Using that poison which I found from Micchan's medical cabinet, they will soon be too weak to resist my attack!" she continued. Happily going around and around in the bushes near the front door, she observed the bottle, in which the poison had been in.

"Let's see… 'Bowel-B-Gone, works within 15-30 minutes after intake'. So I just have to wait a little bit and they will be begging for their lives –kashira!"

The artificial spirit could not feel anything but worried of its prone-to-fumble master as it listened carefully every single one of her words. But for now, it remained silent and complied quietly with its master's wishes as they laid and waited for the 30 fateful minutes to go by.

- - -

Jun felt awkward. He had been feeling weird soon after the dinner and he couldn't sit on the couch properly. His stomach turned and twisted from inside. Did I eat something funny? But everyone else ate the same stuff as I did. Then he remembered the "tea" he had drunk. Could that be the reason? As the document about bears was nearing its end, so was Jun. The nature did not call him. Oh no. The nature roared like one hundred angry grizzlies.

Jun slowly stood up and made his way to the toilet nearby. Luckily for him, it was not far away from the living room so he made it in time. He happily closed the door and disappeared into the small safe haven.

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"I wonder if it's safe now –kashira?" Kanaria's doubt began to rise as she still heard some voices in the living room.

"A-anyway! I will now infiltrate the house through the window which doesn't seem to be locked 90 of the times I've checked –kashira!" she pointed to the back of the house.

She trotted under the window followed by her artificial spirit. Quickly looking around her, she made sure that there were no cats or crows around either. She climbed on top of the wall by the window and used her umbrella to pry open the window a bit. She was so concentrated on her plan that she failed to notice the invisible fumes that had been flowing from the opening. As the window opened a little, she could hear something from the inside:

"Oh god, please let me die already!" Jun whined.

"Hear that Pizzicato, my plan is working precisely like I wanted it to work –kashira!" Kanaria triumphantly explained to her spirit.

"Now go in and check the situation!" she commanded.

With a few hesitant tingles, the artificial spirit edged closer to the opening then sped towards it. The instant it hit the air inside the room, it flashed twice, made a few twirls, turned grey and fell. It bounced a few times from the ground like a small rock. There it laid silently and without a glow.

"P-Pizzicato?! A-are you alright –kashira?!" Kanaria worriedly inquired.

In the meantime, Jun had finally ascended to heavens, as he flushed and left the toilet, relieved like a soul which had just been washed away from every sin one could possibly think of. However, something evil had remained.

Kanaria poked her spirit gently with her finger, hoping for a quick revival. Pizzicato did not move. What could've happened? She hadn't seen anything that might've be the cause for such a terrible thing. She decided to find out. Hopping back onto the wall, she pried the window open a bit more. Slowly the window opened, just enough for her to inspect in much more detail. She shoved her head inside. The next few seconds proved to be her downfall. It was the literal nosedive for worse.

As the air intruded her nostrils, it was as if an orchestra had played "In the Hall of the Mountain King" with one hundred French horns, tubas and kettledrums in pure cacophony in her head. Her vision blurred and she felt her strength disappear by every passing second. Finally, after five seconds, her legs did not hold and she fell to the ground, as grey as her artificial spirit, without a single hint of life in her body.

Five minutes later, Jun came back to the toilet. He had remembered his foul deed and decided to do something to suppress any further damage to others. Unfortunately for Kanaria, it was too late.

"I better open the window and let the air change a bit, the next user wouldn't be too 'enthusiastic' to enter" Jun muttered as he was about to open the window.

"Hmm? It's already opened?" he wondered. A quick look outside made it clear who was the guilty one.

"Kanaria?! Why the heck are you in here? Weren't you supposed to be somewhere else since you couldn't dine with us? Wait a minute… Is it your fault that I had to suffer again like this?! Argh, cursed dolls, every day is another day of suffering for me!" the angered human raged on as he slammed the window shut, leaving the fainted doll lying in the grass.

As the sun sunk to the horizon, Kanaria the Grey once again missed her daily dosage of sweetened omelet and her chance to get her hands on the other dolls.

Plan number 313 had failed.

Author's notes:

Okay, first of all, I need to apologise the huge delay, which was mostly due to my laziness. I decided to write 3 chapters (ok ok, 2 minichaps and one normal chap) to at least try to get some forgiveness from the few readers I've managed to attract. Well, I'm going to try and speed up my writing, at least a little bit. I decided to add some kind of progress bar or summat into my profile page, since some people actually checked it out and found nothing (I suck at self introductions, so meh). Also, I fixed a lot of typos from first chapter and 3 fact errors, like Suigintou not using Megu's power at all and Jun having two rings. Sigh, such silly mistakes really, thanks goes to Aondehafka and I added his nick to the list. I should've posted it earlier but I wanted to do it at the same time with the other chapters but it just dragged on so…a bit late I'd say.

About this chapter:

This was pretty much one random idea I came up way back when I was thinking about the actual fic. I chuckled at the idea a bit, but I wasn't really sure whether I should write it or not since the topic was… a bit lower in perspective than the usual. After I got a green light from the beta reader, I decided that what the heck, let's do it.

Name of the chapter comes from a popular game series, which fits into this theme, also, the number had to be over 199 (I took the "challenges" she mentioned as previous missions plus the one she just failed, which could ofc be wrong) and under 457. 313 was a perfect fit.

Oh, and if you do not know the classic piece "In the Hall of the Mountain King" (composed by Edvard Grieg), check it out. It's quite amusing really.

Thanks to:

Edgewalker for beta reading and support

Yorumi for translation help