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Heartslabyul Arc begins here!🌹
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I open my eyes to see a beautiful maze of roses, and a young girl with a very pretty blue dress. "Huh...? Where... Who...?"
"Oh, miss, you're awake!" The young girl exclaims. "You've been sleeping on the ground for a long time and- oh! I forgot! My name is Alice, what is yours?"
"I'm Yuu."
"Um... Me?"
"Oh, no, Y-U-U. It's a common misconception."
"You have a very strange name, Miss Yuu! But everything I've seen here in Wonderland is strange... Hm, what's that sound in the distance there?"
Somewhere within the maze, there were sounds of people singing what seems to be a really catchy working song.
🎵 Painting the roses red,
We're painting the roses red~
We dare not stop,
Or waste a drop,
So let the paint be spread~ 🎵
"Painting... roses?"
"Let's go and take a look!"
We follow the voices, and we see many card soldiers painting white roses red with buckets of paint. They moved hastily, but with such precision so that the paint wasn't wasted. They sung as they worked, carefully painting the flowers.
🎵 Painting the roses red,
We're painting the roses red~
And if we stop,
Or waste a drop,
Then it's off with our heads~! 🎵
"'Off with our heads'? Why?"
"Maybe we should ask." We go up to a Clover of Three card, and Alice talks to him. "Pardon me, but Mr. Three, why must you paint them red?" Hey, did she just rhyme? Or is it just me?
"Well, the fact is, miss, we planted white roses by mistake." He replied, looking at us and simultaneously focusing on painting.
"And the queen, she likes them red. If she saw white instead, she'd raise a fuss and each of us would quickly lose his head!"
I grimace. Execution over the color of a flower? Isn't that a bit too much? It's better to paint the offenders in red paint instead. "Yikes..."
"That's right! Since this is the thought we dread, we're painting the roses red!"
"May we help you?"
"Of course, miss!"
Alice and I set off to paint the roses with the card soldiers.
It was actually kind of fun. But just as I finish the last petal on a rose tree I worked on, I hear loud knocks on a door.
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I wake up.
"That was such a strange dream... Why would people ever lose their head over a white rose...?" I rub my eyes, and yawn.
The knocks from before resumed, also waking Grim up. "...Hngh... Who's knockin' on our door this late...? The ghosts?"
"Probably not. Even if they're ghosts, I don't think they have the energy to stay up this late when awake for a long while." I get up, and look out the window of our room, that thankfully allows me to see who's at the front door. "Hopefully it isn't an intruder..."
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