Volume 3 Chapter 13
Mayura: It's me, Alice. It's been a long time.
Alice: SIS?
Alice: Where... where are you exactly?
Alice: Where are you now? Is Dad with you now?
Mayura: What do you think?
Mayura: Dad says he doesn't want to go back anymore, he says he prefers darkness...
Mayura: Although you've interrupted me before, but soon I'll be bringing Mum over here.
Alice: You... what are you talking about? Sis are you crazy?
Mayura: I'm not crazy. Everything was your fault.
[Mayura "hanged up" the phone, thus ending the conversation with Alice]
Alice: I must go...
Alice: I must enter the "Inner Heart" as soon as possible!
Kyou: But Seno, who's "Inner Heart" do you want to go to?
Kyou: If the other person is not here, there's no way you can go into his "Inner Heart"!
Nyozeka: Right now, Mayura and her father's heart are connected to this house.
Nyozeka: The "Inner Heart" means connecting the inner hearts of the people through a big amount of space.
Frei: That's why Mayura can move freely through the darkness in people's inner hearts.
Frei: Especially one own's parents, it'll be even more easier than it seems.
Alice: What about that method which you've mentioned?
Frei: That is...
[Alice started to run towards Mayura's room]
[Flashback]
Alice's Mother: I thought I saw your Sis in her bedroom.
[End of Flashback]
Frei: Alice, please be careful!
Alice: [opens the door to Mayura's room]
Alice: !!
Alice: [thrown backwards and landed on Kyou]
Kyou: ARRGHH!
Alice: Yikes! Senpai, are you alright?
Kyou: Stars...
Frei: Damn it, the door refuse to budge!
Frei: {BUIMUKU} (RELEASE)!
[Frei was thrown backwards like what happened to Alice previously]
Frei: So many stars... is it the Suzaku Seven?
Nyozeka: Is it {VINA} (REJECTION)? Such a strong Maram word!
Nyozeka: There's no choice, we have to find another entrance!
Frei: [in the bedroom] Incorrect!
Frei: [in the kitchen] No way!
Frei: [in the bathroom] Wrong!
Frei: [on top of the toilet bowl] It's not here either!
Kyou: [sweatdrop] Even if it is, I won't go in even if you kill me.
Frei: Next one would be Alice's bedroom!
Kyou: But we've checked it out already!
Alice: (What shall I do. where exactly is the entrance?)
Alice: (How am I going to go into the "Inner Heart"?)
Alice: (Sis...)
Alice: (Until now I can't believe, that you're the one controlling the Mara!)
Alice: (Trying to lure Kyou senpai into the darkness...)
Alice: (And even had Mum admitted into the hospital, and Dad's disappearance...)
Alice: (Was it all her doing?)
Alice: (When did our family end up like this!?)
Alice: (Few years back, we were still getting along, everyone was so considerate!)
Alice: (I must let everything resume the way it was, I must make use of the Lotis to enter the "Inner Heart"!)
Alice: {NA.SADARU... LOTIS.RAN}!
Alice: !! [a sudden flash of light appeared]
Alice: Hu...huh!? What's this...
Nyozeka: Alice!
Kyou: Seno, have you found the entrance?
Alice: Senpai...
[Kyou jumped forward to grabbed hold of Alice's hand]
Alice: !?
Nyozeka: This is...
Alice: [shocked to find that she's holding on to Kyou, Frei & Nyozeka]
Frei: "Inner Heart"? But it looks no different from that previous house!
Alice: Anyway, let's just take a look outside!
[opens the door of the entrance]
Alice & Frei & Kyou & Nyozeka: WHAT?
Alice: ..... [too shocked to comment]
Kyou: If we fall, we become minced meat!
Frei: Don't worry, I won't consider eating you even if you became minced meat!
Kyou: Who's joking with you!
Nyozeka: From what I see, this must be your father's "Inner Heart"!
Alice: Dad's...
Alice: (Then he should be somewhere around here...)
Alice: Dad...
Alice: DAD!
Alice: Dad, where are you!
Frei: AH! OH! HEY!
Kyou: Nobody's asking you to make echoes, think of something and find us a path!
Frei: Hehe... Then we should use -- {SAMA} (PATH)!
Frei: Sorry, I failed.
Kyou: What? Failed so soon?
Nyozeka: It seems, other than Alice as the daughter, nobody's "Lotis" can be of any help...
Nyozeka: Alice, is there anything which connects you to your father?
Alice: Ah! Right, the cell phone!
Frei: That's right, Mayura called with a cell phone!
Alice: Let me try calling Dad...
[Dials her father's cell phone number]
Alice: Ah! Dad...
Voice: "WRONG GUESS!"
Voice: "DAD IS NOT SO EASILY FOUND!"
Voice: "YOU'D BETTER COME AND BE THE CATCHER!" "HAHAHA!"
Alice: (It's it's the voice of a little girl!)
Alice: (Who is it?)
Seno: Seno, no matter what number it is, as long as it's related to your father, just try and dial that number!
Alice: A number related to Dad... but... Dad says he doesn't know how to sms, so it'll be useless to send any.
Alice: GASP? (cough cough!)
Kyou: Haze! (cough cough!)
Frei: Tsk... No good, we have to hurry and contact your father!
Nyozeka: It's the "Disease Demon"! It's huge...
Frei: This is the thing that landed Alice's mother in hospital!
Frei: Alice, you keep on trying, I'll take care of things here!
Alice: But...
Kyou: Dial all the numbers you can think of! Start from the company...
Voice: "HAHAHA" "WRONG! WRONG! WRONG!"
Kyou: Try "birthday" numbers which is normally used as codes!
Voice: "PU PU..."
Alice: Ah, postal code?
Voice: "WRONG AGAIN!"
Kyou: If that's the case, try "88" (PAPA) then! [getting really pissed]
Note: "88" is equivalent to "0 10 3" which means "oh-to-san" (father) in Japanese
Voice: "YOU'RE REALLY DUMB!" "HAHA"
Kyou: indeed...
Nyozeka: It seems we've been fooled!
[Meanwhile, Frei is battling the "Disease Demon"]
Frei: JI-VA (CURE)!
Alice: (What shall I do? I can't remember anymore numbers at all.)
Alice: I can't take it anymore!
Kyou: Seno!
Alice: All these things about Dad, how can I be sure?
Alice: Dad always never asks anything about me at all!
Kyou: I believe you can't be unsure about this!
Kyou: Because... you're both father and daughter.
Alice: Is it true?
Kyou: Although I can't forgive my own father, and no right to say all this...
Kyou: But, the same family, is impossible you can't get along at all...
Alice: Senpai...
Kyou: !!
Alice: (Ah...!)
Kyou: It seems that my skills are not polished enough... protection...beyond my means!
Alice: Senpai!!
Kyou: Seno, don't ever give up!
Alice: (Number...)
Alice: (A number related to Dad.)
Alice: (There must be one, there have to be one!)
[Flashback]
Voice: (It's your turn to be the catcher!)
[End of Flashback]
Alice: (Ah...)
Alice: (Thinking carefully, when I was small...)
[Flashback]
Alice & Mayura: Dad, let's play hide and seek!
Dad: Oaky, then Daddy will be the catcher!
Dad: I'm going to start counting!
Dad: Start! 1...
Dad: 4... [Alice & Mayura running to find a place to hide]
Dad: 7... [Alice running towards the other "end" of the forest]
[suddenly Alice slipped and fell down a cliff]
Alice: (I didn't know how deep I fell...)
Alice: (I only remembered when I woke, it was already dark.)
Alice: Dad... Mum... Sis...
Alice: (I thought I was going to die at that place.)
Alice: (The "catcher" won't be able to find me here at all...)
Alice: Dad... [Alice crying and calling out to her father]
Alice: (Huh!)
Dad: ALICE...
Alice: DAD! DAD!
Dad: ALICE!
Dad: Listen carefully, Dad is coming down for you! Don't move about!
Alice: (When Dad came close enough, I realised that he was covered in sand and cuts.)
Dad: Finally found you!
Alice: (Although I was too young at that time, but I understood Dad had tried his very best to save me...)
Alice: Dad...
[End of Flashback]
Alice: (Maybe Dad knew that after Sis diseappeared...)
Alice: (Dad... when you were searching for us.)
Alice: (How was your exactly feelings?)
Voice: ("It's your turn to be the catcher!")
Alice: (He's searching for Sis all by himself!)
[This moment, Alice started to punch in numbers into her cell phone]
Alice: 1... 2... 3...
Alice: 4... 5... 6... 7... 8... 9... 10!
[a sudden ray of light transported Alice to her father]
Kyou & Frei: She did it!
Alice: (We used to play hide and seek at this place before!)
Alice: Dad, I'm Alice. I'm coming!
Alice: Dad, when I lost my way, and you found me... you've said that before!
Alice: "When I'm done counting to 10, I'll definitely find you." You've said that this was what you were thinking!
Alice: Dad!
Alice: (Gasp...)
Alice: (That's Sis and me, when we were young!)