Polnareff did not bring up overhearing Alice's story, though he seemed less cocky with Alice less during their minor arguments, which caught Alice's attention. Upon the reveal of the identity of the Hanged Man, Polnareff seemed even more determined to fight this stand user. Alice became more restless since she didn't feel she had an outlet to her pent up rage. She now was having a new nightmare as they got closer and closer to India. This nightmare was of a black mirror reflecting her stand acting closer to a feral, completely enraged beast she would have no control of. It scratched up the black mirror in her dream, digging its amber claws across it and leaving jagged, amber claw mark-formations in the mirror as it snarled at her, as if it was a feral beast wanting to be let free from a cage. She could only hold her sides in pain in her dream as she felt like the claw marks were appearing from within her. She would wake up earlier then the rest and eventually, she gave up pushing any arguments with Polnareff entirely, which he took note of. However, when Polnareff had wandered off once more as they were keeping an eye out for The Hanged Man, Alice and avdol both went to check up on him. They arrived on the scene just as he was shot at by a cowboy-looking fellow. Avdol took the hit, knocking Polnareff down as Alice went on high alert, rushing towards the cowboy but stopped when she saw something in the puddle behind Avdol. She turned on her heel and skidded to a hault. Just as she was going to cry out a warning, everything happened so fast. The stand in the puddle stabbed Avdol and the bullet that had curved back struck it's mark, seemingly going through Avdol's forehead. Alice's eyes widened in a panic as her mind suddenly went realing. This couldn't be happening! The stab wound, the stand, the puddle, as Avdol hit the ground, Alice froze up in terror. The stab wound. . . . .the puddle. . . . . .it was exactly the same as how she found her brother. The killer. . . . .he had struck again, and this time, she finally had a name to them! Her mind suddenly went reeling as she felt her stand trying to manifest on its own and she brought her shaking hands up to her head and held it, trying to keep it suppressed. Kakyoin appeared on the scene and tried to get Avdol to come to, but it had seemed he was too late. Polnareff turned his back and kicked the puddle, making a crass remark that almost made Alice loose concentration on suppressing her stand. However, from her view, she could see him start to cry as he spoke those bitter words. Seeing him like that made something in her chest hurt only more as her hands dropped from holding her head and hung limply at her sides as she trembled still. She had gone to an almost catatonic-like state as her mind tried to process all that was happening. However, with the threat of the hanged man stand still, they knew they had to get away. Kakyoin picked up Avdol and Polnareff went to try to snap Alice out of it. When he saw she wasn't going to move on her own, let alone respond to him, he picked her up. She didn't protest as her hands dropped from her head and hung limpy at her sides as her panicked look turned to one of a blank, emotionless stare. They quickly fled as they tried to get far enough from the hanged man to form a plan. Polnareff was besides himself and as he spouted nonsense about not wanting to live if he could not properly avenge his sister Kakyoin was driving the truck they had borrowed out into the nearby desert. This seemed to be the thing that made Alice snap back to reality, as the emotionless look on her face suddenly contorted into one of both rage and disgust at Polnareff's bitter-yet-pitiful words of self-hatred. She promptly struck him in the face with her open palm as she snapped at him, "Shut that fuckery-nonsense-sorta-talk UP, Frenchie! You are NOT going to let Avdol's sacrifice be in vain and so fucking HELP ME if you say another bad thing about yourself! I nor Kakyoin am going to let you drop out of this, not when you are SO close to avenging your sister! You call yourself an honorable man, then fucking shut up and act like it, you goddamn french prick!". Polnareff didn't react to her hit right away, listening to her well-intended, though poorly worded, attempt to snap him out of his slump. He seemed taken aback, under all that hatred he though she had for him, he saw in that moment the truth as he turned to look her in the eyes as she yelled at him: She really did care for him, though she had a funny way to show it. A smile tugged at the sides of his lips and it would of been a beautiful moment if not for the fact they were suddenly ganged up upon the Hanged Man once more. The back window shattered suddenly and the truck veered out of control before flipping. Thankfully, they escaped from the flipped car quickly with only some minor bruises and cuts as they ducked behind a rock. Kakyoin quickly went to explaining how he thought the stand was light-based and how they should remove anything reflective. Alice checked herself over before a little kid wandered over, wondering what was going on. They all saw in the reflection of the kid's eye was the hanged man and Polnareff was promptly attacked. However, with his renewed confidence, he faced off with the hanged man stand and his user, Centerfold. Polnareff kicked some sand into the kid's eyes, causing the stand to try to flee and get cut by Silver Chariot. Polnareff rushed off to face Centerfold head on. Alice and Kakyoin were not far behind and just as Polnareff was going to attack the injured man they thought was Centerfold, Kakyoin proclaimed he wasn't because the man did not have two right hands. Alice and Kakyoin witnessed the blade strike Polnareff in the back and promptly go to his knees as centerfold revealed himself. Sudden filled with rage once more as Centerfold gloated, both Kakyoin and Alice brought out their stands, only for the three to be quickly surrounded by beggars that were mislead to believe they would get free money from the three. Centerfold continued to gloat and Alice began to shake as her rage started to boil up inside her. Though they were getting attacked from all sides, she tried to hold back from attacking the innocent beggars that surrounded them. "Ne ne, you look familiar, girlie. Yes, just like the girl I wanted to attack so long ago, but mama avized me to simply kill your annoying older brother and get him outta the way instead! I'm happy that the simple job mama put me up to brought her vision to fruition", Centerfold teased and for a moment, a soft, deep, almost inhuman growl passed from Alice's lips as she looked his way, her rage getting the best of her for a moment. However, Kakyoin, being the most level-headed of the bunch, was able to distract the beggars around them by tossing up a coin high in the air, giving Polnareff enough time to kick dust into one of the beggar's eyes. This made Centerfold's stand have to dart towards the coin, but was promptly cut worse by Silver Chariot. Centerfold was quite the coward and tried to run, but he was tracked down quickly by the trio and Polnareff finally got his long awaited revenge. Though she witnessed the defeat of the man who killed her brother, Alice still felt the burning rage within her trying to claw it's way out as her jaw was tense and her eyes held a dark look to them. The man had teased that their mother had put him up to killing Alice's brother. But for what purpose did her brother's death serve? The closer she got to the answers she was looking for, the more that came up and this only pissed her off more. . . . . she was going to find out, one way or Another!