Are You Alice? 5

English: Loyal Kiss & Scarlet Carnival

French: Oleo

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1.

Text 1: The Queen of Hearts has stopped the Mad Hatter’s time from moving,

Text 2: so it’s always 6 o’clock.

Text 3: He has an odd tea party with the Dormouse and March Hare.

Box: The story that the young girl reads…

Girl: The Cheshire Cat is the Duchess’s pet cat. // He’s always playing outside though. // This boy…

2.

Girl: Who is he…?

Man: Alice / Come here now.

Girl: Alright. // Let’s go, Dinah.

SFX: miaow

SFX: rustle

3.

Text: What’s my name…?

Artist: Katagiri Ikumi

Author: Ninomiya Ai

4.

Monster: A… / li… // ce…

SFX: drag

Monster: Where is… / Alice? // My lovely Alice…

Alice: What… / is that?!

5.

Monster: Alice… // Alice… // My Alice… // Where on earth have you gone?! // ALICE!!

Alice: …..

6.

Duchess: Welcome home. // Your Alice is here.

Alice: …?

Monster: Ah, there you are, Alice. / Come to me. // I won’t know it’s you unless you come closer.

Alice: What’s she doing?

Fish: Alice is here, gyo.

7.

Alice: Hey…wait! What’s that monster? // Why’s that girl taking Alice’s place?

Fish: That’s the rule given to her.

Alice: Rule?

Duchess: Kyaaa!

SFX: drip drip

Duchess: Oww… / Uh…

Text 1: It can’t be…

Text 2: Those wounds…

SFX: ooze

Duchess: Ahhh!

8.

Alice: … / Hey! // Stop! / Mmph!

Cheshire Cat: “The Duchess is Alice’s replacement.” / That’s the reason she’s here. // You can’t interfere, / Alice.

Alice: Ah…Cheshire… / Cat…

Fish: Ah…where did you wander off to?! // You are quite a disobedient pet!

Alice: Pet…?

Text 1: I’m just a pet cat.

Text 2: Nothing more, nothing less.

9.

Cheshire Cat: You’ve done enough. I’ll be the one to escort Alice. / It’s my job to lead the way. // Isn’t it your duty to “Watch the Duchess so that she doesn’t escape”?

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Fish: Gyo Gyo // What a disobedient cat.

Cheshire Cat: Let’s go, Alice.

Alice: Wait…explain yourself, Cheshire Cat! // What on earth do you mean she’s Alice’s replacement?!

SFX: grab

Cheshire Cat: There’s no explanation… // It’s a mass of the distortions created by Wonderland.

10.

Text 1: The residents of Wonderland don’t know how to look back at the past.

Text 2: What’s broken stays broken, they don’t know how to fix it.

Text 3: So an existence that swallows these regrets and abandoned pasts is necessary.

Text 4: The abandoned story is ignored, the pages thrown away.

Text 5: The torn up, scrawled on paper.

Text 6: The ink stained scraps of paper.

Alice: That’s… / that monster?

Cheshire Cat: Yes. / His existence is necessary in Wonderland. // The master is obsessed with Alice, you see.

Text 7: Usually, it quietly collects the waste in Wonderland.

Text 8: However, when it becomes unable to deal with the waste it holds, it begins to want Alice for itself

Text 9: and it goes berserk.

11.

Cheshire Cat: She’s extremely fond of happy things, so she that’s why she became your replacement. / If she stops that monster from going berserk, // then Alice won’t have to be in danger.

Alice: …..

Cheshire Cat: That unclean thing mustn’t touch you. / Isn’t it good that you didn’t get dirty, Alice?

Alice: How can you smile and say that? // She really hates it… / Help her! // Isn’t she your mistress?!

Cheshire Cat: It’s no good.

12.

Alice: I’ll stop it then!

SFX: click

13.

SFX: whoosh

SFX: click

Text 1: What?!

Text 2: Thank you.

Alice: Why does someone need to take Alice’s place…?

Text 3: Why does someone have to be sacrificed for Alice?!

Girl: Why? // What for? // You should know that without asking.

14.

Girl: You’re going to become Alice.

Text 1: You want a name, don’t you?

Text 2: You want a place to be, don’t you?

Text 3: You want a reason to exist, don’t you?

Alice: Kill the White Rabbit… / is that it?

Text 4: If I’ll find a place to be by doing that…

Text 5: then it doesn’t matter who is sacrificed.

Girl: You’re going to kill everyone for that reason, aren’t you? // Even the White Rabbit.

15.

Girl: Even me.

Alice: Ah…

Cheshire Cat: Alice / That gun is for killing the White Rabbit. // It can’t protect anyone. // Anyway… / You probably would have missed, right?

16.

Monster: Good girl…

Alice: …..

Duchess: You haven’t done anything wrong. / Alice will always be by your side.

17.

Duchess: That’s why you can’t hurt anyone / except me…

Monster: A… / lice… // Alice…

SFX: drag

Cheshire Cat: Many people will be sacrificed for Alice… // …..

SFX: click

Cheshire Cat: It can’t be helped. / It’s necessary for Alice to exist in Wonderland.

18.

Cheshire Cat: The Duchess understands that too. / She's accepted her fate. // There’s nothing I can do.

Alice: When we first met… / you said you were a stray cat… // You’re pretending not to see because you can’t help her.

Cheshire Cat: That’s right. / There’s nothing a pet can do. // No one can truly love a pet.

19.

SFX: ring ring

Duchess: Why is my lovely pet so dirty? // Nice to meet you, Cheshire Cat. // Do you know who I am?

20.

Cheshire Cat: Of course I do, mistress. // That’s because “The Cheshire Cat is the Duchess’s pet cat.”

Duchess: You got shot, didn’t you? // Come home with me / and I’ll treat your wounds.

21.

Bubble: Will a stray cat become attached to you if you’re kind to it?

Text 1: I’ll never love you.

Text 2: That’s how it’ll be.

Text 3: After all, I’m a replacement for Alice.

Text 4: Isn’t that right?

Text 5: It’ll be painful if I love you.

Text 6: Cheshire Cat.

22.

Cheshire Cat: Alice // We’re here.

Alice: Ah / Yeah…

SFX: ruffle

Cheshire Cat: Alice / It’s nothing for you to worry about. // The residents of Wonderland have to live, adapting themselves to things.

23.

Cheshire: It makes me happy that you tried / to save my mistress. // Thank you. // You’re a little different from the other Alice after all.

Alice: What are you talking about?

Cheshire Cat: Alice… / You’re…

SFX: bang

24.

SFX: smash

Mad Hatter: Let go of Alice. // Do you want me to shoot you again?

Cheshire Cat: No thanks. / That really hurt.

25.

Cheshire Cat: I’m scared of the Mad Hatter, so I’ll get going soon. / I’ve got to find somewhere to stay tonight.

Alice: Ah…

Cheshire Cat: Goodbye, Alice. / Have sweet dreams.

Mad Hatter: Tch… / That stupid cat. // I hate the sound his bell makes!

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Mad Hatter: Anyway, what about you? / I told you not to see him again. Were you even listening?

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Mad Hatter: Hey // What’s wrong, Alice?

Alice: Nothing…

26.

Alice: What is Alice anyway?

SFX: click

SFX: smash

27.

Mad Hatter: You’re Alice. You hopeless idiot!

28.

Bubble 1: A…

Bubble 2: lice…

Text: The duty to be Alice’s replacement!