Endless dream

You come to apologize... And then you end up painting the roses

(Y/n) Pov :

It was the second time I was coming in the hall of mirrors. The first time, I was pursuing Ace who was too much of a lazy ass to help cleaning the windows. And after that, Grim ran away too and then we had to go to the Dwarfs' mine and fight a freaking monster. And now, I was here with Grim, Mara and Deuce to accompany Ace to Heartslabyul to make sure he doesn't mess up anything in his apologizes, so that he can get ride of a collar which deprives him from his magic.

Aaah, my school life has barely started and it's already a goddamn mess...
I stepped in front of the mirror and extended my hand toward the mirror. But instead of crossing it, my hand only felt the cool surface of the mirror. I frowned until I remember why it was doing this, and I took my earring off my left ear and gave it to Grim

- Take it with you for a moment. 

- 'Kay.

So the earring really does nullify any types of magic... Good to know. This time without the earring, my body successfully crossed the mirror. When I opened my eyes, I was in front of a gorgeous black, white and red castle with the banners of the dorm, surrounded by a roses maze. Ramshackle was really compared to this dorm. I was in awe in front of this scenery, like Grim 

- It's so beautiful...!

- Whoa~! This is super fancy ! It's completely different from our dorm !

- Grim, our dorm is in renovation for the time in years, of course it would be completely different from Ramshackle. Anyway, we're not here to admire the landscape. Let's go. 

We advanced through the roses maze of the dorm. Some roses were white but most of them were partially or completely covered by red paint. I couldn't help but have a feeling of deja-vue while looking at it. As if I had seen this scenery not so long ago...

- Oh, no. I gotta hurry and paint these roses red. 

Why does those words sounds even more familiar ? We all turned toward the source of the voice

- Oh, someone's over there.

The person Grim was pointing at was a orange haired student, the top of his hair tied in a ponytail and the rest of it straight, painting the white roses in red carefully not to leave any traces of white on it

- Whoa there~ If there are some left unpainted, it's off with my head.

The moment I heard 'off with my head', memories came back to me, and I finally understood the reason behind this feeling of deja-vue. I dreamed of this place last night. And those card men, they were painting the roses too... Or else it was 'off with their heads'.

No, wait. It's not only that. There's something else. Even before I made this dream, I saw that scenery before. I tried to find the first moment I saw this scenery within my memory, but nothing came. Shitty amnesia... I sighed, giving up on trying to find my memory, and I called the orange haired guy

- Hey ! Can you help us please ?

The orange haired guy finally noticed us and glanced at us over his shoulder. Now that he had turned around, I could see his appearance. He was a quite handsome boy, probably a bit older than us, with shoulder length orange hair and green eyes, and under his left eye a red patch shaped like a diamond. He asked us, seemingly surprised by our presence 

- Hm ? Do you guys need something ?

Instead of asking him where Heartslabyul's prefect was, Ace and Deuce were more intrigued by what their comrade was doing 

- What're you doin' ?

- This ? As you can see, I'm painting the roses red.

- Eh ?! Why do such a thing ?!