Black Alice in the Murder Land
Chaptre 47. Systems and Characters in Fairy Tales
A notification that appeared suddenly sounded.
[Observations. Card “Queen of Clovers” detected]
“What?!”
Tenn's movements stopped and he seemed to not believe what his tsundere system said.
[Observations. Card “Queen of Clovers” detected]
[The card is in the heart of the fairy tale character]
“...”
Tenn was silent and no longer looked like he was going to attack her. In just a moment, he muttered quietly to himself.
“Wiec nie ma sensu jej zabijac prawda. Szkoda, widocznie to tylko strata czasu (so free to kill him, yes. Too bad, it just seems like a waste of time)”
There was no longer any intention from Tenn to kill him. He turned his body and headed back to his chair.
Tenn muttered again with the language of his underworld.
“Poniewaz karta na jego ciele nie jest tym, czego szukam najlepiej ja po prostu zignorowac (since the card in his body is not what I was looking for, should be ignored)”
This made the three people who were there wonder. But, to be honest, Tenn himself was astonished at something.
“Why does the tsundere system tell you where the card is without me asking? Does he feel sorry because the fairy tale is a picture of his algorithm?”
“But I didn't know the system had feelings. Maybe I can ask him this later if the time is right.”
“Which is clear, that pesky admin..I have to sue him later!”
Tenn sat back and ignored the three. Little Alice still trembled and watched Tenn sitting leisurely without glancing at her at all. Every now and then, the little girl noticed the drops of blood and peered out from under the table the corpse of the pink bird that followed her.
“...!!” he was shocked and his expression was truly terrifying.
Little Alice looked at the face of the young man who had just killed the bird.
“That relaxed face..he is indeed a devil!”
Code Name: Mad Hatter silently looks at the cards he took on the ground. The card with the emblem of “Ace of Spades” from Tenn is clean with no blood stains at all.
“This..suit “Spades” yes..” murmur slowly. Then, he looked at the calm Tenn while showing a flat expression. At first glance it was flat, but in his heart it was not so.
“Huwaaa~Alice! Alice! Alice! Alice! I know you're amazing! I know that dirty Tarzan must be killed! Finally, I can see Alice's ability! Huwaa, so strong!”
“I've guessed that the fellow story will indeed get stronger! Plus I met a real Alice!”
“I wouldn’t mind if I being stuck in this place forever as long as I’m with you, Alice!”
It must be admitted that the level of yandere possessed by the young man had reached an abnormal level outside the normal human brain.
Not because of feelings such as friendship, family, love or other important feelings, but because he only likes to think ‘ fellow fairy tale colleagues are friends’ that makes it so.
Meanwhile, Code Name: Cheshire Cat still can not stand because his legs are shaking.
“This is the first time I've been treated rudely by someone else. Why didn't he protect me! She should be thankful that she met a beautiful person like me!” grunts in the heart.
Little Alice looked behind her. The girl behind him held back tears and had difficulty standing up.
“You okay, Cheshire?” Little Alice stretched out her hand, “I will help you stand up. Come on, hold my hand.”
“Alice..”.
Code Name: The Cheshire Cat grasps the girl's hand and with the help of a nearby table, she supports her body slightly to get up.
It was still weak, but he had already managed to stand up. The two sat down on a chair near the table and took a breath before drinking a small glass of cold tea at the table.
“Haa~” said the girl after sipping the tea.
“Ehem!” Tenn seemed to answer with his cold deheman.
The little girl who had just barely become a corpse was still in shock. But Code Name: Mad Hatter seemed to enjoy the condition.
Quickly, he showed his ability.
“I don't want things to go back like before. Let's eat some more. Look, there's no more horrible stuff here. The cake I will prepare again yes.”
Little Alice immediately stood up from her place back and denied it, “Nothing terrible how?! The strange bird is even already..eh?”
As he looked at the spot where the flamingo was lying, he no longer saw the figure of his corpse. But there's something there.
“Kue...muffin?”
“Interesting, right? Here is my world.” said Code Name: Mad Hatter.
Little Alice realized that the Mad Hatter before her was different from the Mad Hatter she knew.
“Mad Hatter can't do this. You guys are..who?”
In a cold tone, Tenn replied, “It has nothing to do with you. After all if we answer, there is no chance that you will live after this.”
Tenn did not like the fairytale character whose name was used as Code Name: User.
Little Alice did not understand that, but she knew that what was inside the area was something unpleasant.
**
Inside the other side of the forest, Code Name: Queen of Hearts and Code Name: Peter Rabbit go on a run to hunt down two runaway fairy tale figures.
“Did he indeed run this way, Queen?”
“I'm sure. My system told me he ran here with the pink bird.”
“So. Speaking of systems, why would your system know where they are going so accurately? My system can't do it.” asked the girl.
The young man was originally silent, not long after noticing the surroundings, he shrunk his voice.
“I hope your mouth can keep information and confidential.”
“I...I can!”
“Algorithms of each system are different. Each player has their own system and characters owned by fairy-tale figures are used as a reference in building the system's own algorithm.”
“Algo...rhythma?”
Code Name: Queen of Hearts explains everything she knows.
“I once asked my system because a thing and this system tells me that each system has a different character.”
“There are original characters such as fairy tale characters that are owned and some are opposite to the original characters of fairy tale characters.”
“In addition, my system also explains there are some systems that have special privileges after reaching a certain level.”
“However, the similarity of each system is that they remain only data that does not matter whether their player is dead or not.”
“Their duties as a companion and guide so there will be no other feelings shown by him.”
Code Name: Peter Rabbit nodded although he was still surprised by all of that.
Speaking of the explanation of Code Name: Queen of Hearts, there is actually something out of sync with the conditions of our demon lord system. But it can be waited until the mystery is revealed itself.
“This is as I said. Now, we continue back and we grab the clondike card.”
**
Back at Code Name: Mad Hatter's tea party, the situation was already better with more sweet cakes on the table.
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