Poor Alice, she will endure being held captive for a while longer…or maybe forever?
Alice glanced at the faceless woman, now gagged and tied tightly to the bars opposite to the foreigner.
"I ordered you to tell me your name or should I exercise my brute cruelty here?" Gray stared coldly at Alice.
Dry words formed out of the tired girl's mouth, "Alice Liddel"
Gray continued with his interrogation, "Assuming that you are a foreigner, you must have come from the Clover tower, haven't you?" Alice nodded her head in reply. Whatever this murderer was saying about foreigner she just had the feeling of nodding her head.
"Have you seen the master of the Clover Tower, young man with gray hair?"
Alice tilted her in confusion, "No"
"Are you sure that you are not lying?"
"I am not."
"Maybe I should test out if it's true or not," Alice could see a grin on the man's face as he took out a dagger and walked to the faceless.
"What are you doing? Wait! Leave that person alone!" Alice moved her body as she tried to untie the chains.
Without giving a care in Alice's demand, Gray positioned himself for Alice to be able to see the two. Then he flung the dagger right in front of the woman's face and stopped in a nick of time. Though there were no eyes, drops of tears streamed down from the woman's face. Gray looked at Alice who was also equally frightened, "So what you were saying, is it true?"
Alice, nearly crying, begged, "Yes…it's true. So please don't…"
Cutting off, Gray turned to the faceless, "Now it's your turn to interrogate. Now how should I do this? I absolutely cannot take your gag off; you might kill yourself by biting your tongue. I obviously cannot take off the chains either, but I can give you something to write with." His rare rants echoed the room as if he was toying around the captives. His words were blood lusting as though he were determining how to kill the woman.
He took out a piece of paper and a paint brush with ink. While holding out the dagger, he quickly shifted the woman's position so she could write even with the chains attached. He was shunning every possible means of suicidal attempts or escape. "Now state your gang's name and your objective. If you drop the ink bottle then I will start from breaking your toe."
The woman hesitated, but soon started writing once she saw Gray lifting up his knife. The blank piece of paper was soon covered with black cluttered letters. "Adam the Leper…so he was trying to get rid of us, role holders. What is his next motive?"
The woman scribbled the letters as Gray read it and smirked, "This will be interesting."
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Peter White sighed at the dull colors of red in the Castle of Hearts.
With a smiling face, Ace tapped White's shoulder, "Mr. Peter what are you sighing for~? A handsome man like you should always be having a nice angry face."
Not looking at Ace, Peter stared blankly at the rose, "Can't you say stuff like 'always be smiling' or something? Well no matter, that would be just too disgusting anyways."
An expression of surprise filled the knight's face, "What happened Mr. Peter? You usually would have already taken out a gun and in a killing rage. You would've also said stuff like 'Don't talk to me germ!' or something."
Peter muttered, "Alice is not here..."
"Who's that?" Ace turned to the soldier right beside them as the faceless just shook his head in mystification.
Instead of being in a killing rage, Peter suddenly turned to his Alice fan mode as he proclaimed his regret for Alice to the world, "Alice! My dear Alice! Oh my, what have I done! She must be shivering in the cold and I just left her there! She must be calling for my help; I need to go save Alice." Not giving a glance at Ace and the other castle residents, Peter went running towards the Clover Tower as everyone heard the white rabbit's declaration, "Wait for me Alice~"
For a minute, Ace was just in a state of deep thought as he finally figured something out, "Ah, I see! Mr. Peter, you finally found yourself a cute girl. This might be fun, I want to go too~" Ace nonchalantly ran after Peter as he laughed, "Wait Mr. Peter~"
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It was just a few minutes after Gray left the building, Alice shifted her gaze to the faceless woman and spoke tenderly, "Hi, I'm Alice Liddel." Obviously the faceless woman was gagged so she couldn't reply to Alice's answer. Furthermore, she just looked at the other way and avoided Alice's conversation.
Alice continued to talk as gently and light tone as possible, "This place is so weird, I just run into one trouble and after another. You know, I had an elder sister. She was kind and beautiful. I can say that I'm really proud of her. I always used to have picnic with my sister on Sunday afternoon, just me and her. Her name was Lorina and you have the same hair color as my sister. It's really beautiful. I hope we can be friends." After a while, Alice noticed the faceless scribbling something.
Alice squint her eyes to see the letters, "Lorina…Your name is Lorina?"
The woman nodded her head. "That… is a wonderful name! I love it! Say Lorina do you have any sibling?" The faceless just shook her head. "Family?" She did the same thing. Alice made a dour face, but soon lightened the mood, "Then I can be your little sister! How about that? Ah, but having two Lorinas as my elder sister is troublesome so I will call you Lori neesan ok?"
Though she was gagged, Alice could see a curve on the woman's face and scribbled something on the paper, "You saved my life, thank you".
Alice shook her head violently, "No, I didn't do anything. I can't even guarantee that you can survive out of this place…"
But the woman shook her head and tapped her finger on the paper, the same spot where she continued to write, "Why did you save me?"
Alice just blinked, "Well isn't it an obvious thing? I just didn't want you to die. Do I have to have any reason to save your life?"
Alice could see Lori widening her eyes and then after a while she wrote her last letter, "Sleep".
Alice looked at the paper and nodded her head as she casted down her already drooping eyes, "Thank you Lori nee…"
Lori just watched the sleeping innocent girl until she noticed Gray standing right next to her.
For a while, he just stared at Alice and then he turned to Lori and took off her gags and asked, "Have you grown a liking to her?"
Lori asked Gray in disbelief, "Taking off my gag like that, don't you fear that I will scream?"
Gray just shrugged the question as he continued to stare at the sleeping girl and then to Lori, "This building is sound proofed and now that I know your gang's name I don't really care if you commit suicide or not."
He then suddenly grabbed her neck, "What's wrong? Bite your tongue and die. All of them did that."
Still held down by chains, Lori staggered to breath, "I…cannot."
"Why not?" It was a pure question. It did not have any bloodlust behind the words nor any ill intentions. The words were honest as what a child would have said.
Gray have let his hand go as Lori coughed a few times until she looked at Alice dearly and answered, "Because Alice said she didn't want me to die. I cannot die in vain like this."
Gray widened his eye and muttered, "Hm, so I guess it is true then, foreigners are loved in this world."
"Huh?"
Gray just turned away from Lori as he walked to the next room to rest, "Never mind just shut your mouth or your dear Alice will wake up."
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"Huh?" Alice opened her eyes and noticed her surroundings. "Where am I?" It neither had a solid feeling nor did it feel real.
"You are in the dream realm Alice," a voice was heard from behind. Alice turned around and there stood a gray haired man with black suite. He resembled very much of the description, Gray had mentioned to her.
"Wh-"
"My name is Nightmare Godschalk, an incubus."
"Ho-"
"Because I can read your mind," a mysterious smile formed on the man's face as he approached closer to Alice.
Increasingly annoyed with the rude manners, Alice switched to having mental conversations. I never knew that incubus can read minds.
Nightmare chuckled as he kept on looking at the girl, "Well in this world you can."
Alice scoffed; well meeting the incubus is way better than meeting an assassin anyways.
Nightmare's expression suddenly changed as he heard the word, "Assassin? Alice, are you by any chance in danger?"
Alice flinched at the word and gritted her teeth as she suddenly remembered her current situation back in the real world, well hell yeah. I'm being held captive by this guy named Gray and he is torturing Lori neesan! I was so traumatized, but well…now that I think about it, her face was a little weird. I didn't even have time to freak out with her face.
Nightmare just contemplated, "Gray…"
Alice noticed Nightmare in a deep state of thought as she asked him, what, do you know him?
Nightmare just smiled gently as her, "Sort of, but I'm not his best friend or anything."
Well if you ever meet him, can you tell him to not bully? My heart aches whenever I see a person in pain. Alice's words were brave, but Nightmare could tell that Alice was afraid of Gray. Her faint sad expression ached Nightmare's conscience.
Nightmare gently patted her head, "Got it, but do you know where you are?"
Alice felt warmth from the man's gentle touch, but soon flicked his hand. Not really. I was blindfolded and the place I am in has no windows.
"I see. Well, no worries you will get saved soon."
By you?
Nightmare winked as he answered her question, "No, not by me. A certain person is really worried about you so I am sure he will save you no matter where you are."
Alice just blinked her eyes in question, Ok?
My naming sense really lacks any creativity == I mean "Lizard Assassin"? Pshhh, we all know what the story is talking about already. Sorry just had to say that xD