I Thought It Was a Fairy Tale but the Genre Is Strange

Episode 3 – Alice (3)

“Eh, Alice!?”

The face of the Heart Soldier who was about to cut my neck turned pale blue and hurriedly looked around. I prayed desperately for her to come quickly, but the surroundings were just silent.

The Heart Queen also seemed surprised, but when nothing happened, she showed a vile smile and said.

“Where are you wagging that disgusting tongue! It’s nonsense that that crazy woman would come at your call! What are you doing! Cut off that guy’s head immediately!”

“……”

Despite the Queen’s order, the Trump Soldier did not carry it out. He was staring somewhere with eyes filled with fear. At the presence lurking in the darkness among the giant weeds.

“What are you doing! You idiots!!”

The Queen, furious, got off her palanquin and snatched the heart-shaped sword from the dazed Trump Soldier.

“I’ll kill you myself! How dare you wag that filthy three-inch tongue at the most beautiful being in the world! I’ll make you regret not entering my chamber in the afterlife!”

The Queen, unable to raise her short arms due to her large head, was momentarily flustered, then twisted her body sideways and took a clumsy stance.

She raised the sword to avoid hitting her head, and I squeezed my eyes shut. Ah, am I going to die here? To that ugly, terrible, and morally bankrupt Queen. Ugh! Parents, forgive your unfilial child! I’m going first!

At the moment when I clenched my teeth, imagining the blue blade entering my neck.

“Kya ha ha ha ha! As expected! I knew it would be like this! Kya ha ha ha ha ha!”

A familiar, crazed laugh was heard right in front of me. When I opened my eyes with a pounding heart, there stood Alice, blocking the Queen’s clumsy sword with a mace.

“Alice!!!!”

The queen’s face turned bright red as she let out a furious scream.

“I-I’m alive! I never thought I’d be so glad to see that crazy woman!”

“So this is why you ran away? To lead me to these guys! You really are the Black Reaper!”

“The B-Black Reaper? That, that guy!?”

The queen looked as if she had been struck on the back of the head with a hammer. The expressions of the surrounding Trump soldiers were the same.

“K-Kill him! Kill him! Kill that boy right now!!!”

W-What is this nonsense? A reaper? I’ve never heard of a reaper appearing in Alice in Wonderland! Besides, I’m just an ordinary human!

The Trump soldiers’ eyes suddenly changed, and they rushed at me without hesitation, aiming to stab me with their spears.

“Ugh! W-Wait a minute! I think you’re seriously mistaken, I’m not a reaper!”

Clang! The spears that were rushing to pierce my body were struck by Alice’s lightly swung mace, making a metallic clashing sound as they were knocked back at once. The Heart Queen was rolling on the ground with a dirty shoe mark on her stomach, as if she had been kicked by Alice.

Alice, with her red eyes gleaming, charged at the defenseless Trump soldiers and shouted.

“How dare you covet my Black Reaper!”

Thud! The paper-thin body of a Trump soldier was torn apart by a single blow from Alice’s mace. Then, with a sinister smile, she scanned the remaining Trump soldiers’ bodies and twisted her neck grotesquely as she spoke.

“Kya ha ha ha ha! You’re all white? White? White? White rabbit!? White rabbit!!”

“aaah! S-Save me!”

The Trump soldiers, helpless against the now even more ferocious Alice, tried desperately to stab her with their spears, but to Alice, their attacks seemed slow, and she easily dodged them, delivering merciless blows with her mace.

Thud. The sight of blood and flesh splattering everywhere made my skin crawl and my stomach churn.

Now. Now is the perfect opportunity. I crawled awkwardly on the ground, trying to escape this brutal scene. And then I discovered someone similar to me.

A huge head dragging a dazzling red dress on the ground as it fled. It was the Heart Queen, terrified by Alice’s display of force, heading somewhere.

“P-Protect me! Protect me from that madwoman!”

The Trump soldiers gathered to protect her. And Alice, charging at them like a fearless general, struck them all down equally with her mace.

“Kyaahahahaha!”

Seeing her revel in the slaughter, I resolved to flee from here as soon as possible and slowly got up to run. It was at that moment when I tried to turn my head away from them.

“Ha! This is the end, Alice! I’ve prepared this to capture you!”

The Queen of Hearts, with a smug smile on her face, aimed a familiar object at Alice from atop the palanquin. A weapon that, when the trigger is pulled, fires bullets at such a speed that it’s impossible to react. A gun. As I watched the finger on the trigger slowly pull back, a thousand thoughts raced through my mind.

Could Alice dodge the bullet? She has unbelievable physical abilities, doesn’t she? No, that’s absurd. No matter how strong she is, Alice is still human. If she gets hit by a bullet, it’s definitely dangerous.

Why am I even thinking about this? I just need to run away. She’s none of my business. In fact, both the Queen of Hearts and Alice are equally insane and dangerous. Who knows what they’ll do to you if you survive?

Just run away quietly, you fool. Don’t you want to go home?

Yes. I want to go home. I feel it in my bones that I need to run away right now to stay alive.

Yes. Run away. Don’t look back, don’t listen. Just run. To survive. To escape this bizarre and grotesque fairy tale land and get back home!

So, so…!

“Damn it!! I don’t care anymore!”

I grabbed a large rock nearby, twisted my body, and with all my strength, hurled it at the Queen’s head.

Bang-! A grotesque roar tore through the air in the thicket. Thin smoke rose from the gun’s muzzle.

“Kyaaa! My head! Who threw a rock at my beautiful head! aaah! It hurts! There’s blood, blood on my head!!”

The Queen of Hearts, having dropped the gun to the ground, clutched the wound where her skin was slightly torn and blood was flowing, crying out in pain.

What about Alice?

I urgently looked at Alice, who had been slaughtering. She and the Trump soldiers seemed startled by the sudden gunshot.

Blood suddenly trickled down Alice’s previously unscathed cheek.

“Thank you, Black Reaper. Thanks to you, I saved my life?”

“Uh, yeah.”

Why is my face burning? Did something happen to my head? I gave an awkward smile, and she immediately changed her expression and glared at the queen.

“Meeting the Reaper means the story is rushing to its end, right? Damn queen?”

“He, heek! P-protect me! Protect me!!”

The queen shouted at the soldiers with a terrified face. The Trump soldiers came to their senses and tried to block Alice again, but she showed amazing jumping power, stepping on the face of the Trump soldier right in front of her.

In an instant, she jumped over the breakwater of Trump soldiers and landed on the palanquin, smiling as she thrust her mace at the queen.

“Kya ha ha ha! Let’s end this persistent bad relationship here!”

“He, heek! W-wait! I-I was wrong! Huh!? A-Alice, calm down! I’ll help you find the White Rabbit, so please!”

“Heh~? No way? Because I have…”

Alice glanced at me with a chilling smile that made my heart shrink.

“Because I have the Black Reaper.”

Thud! Thud thud! Crack. Crunch. Sizzle. No one at the scene could move. The beautiful red throne was stained with its owner’s blood. Flesh was torn, bones were broken, and intestines spilled out in a gruesome execution on the throne where the queen had sneered at everyone.

“Kya ha ha ha ha! Die! Die! Die!!!!”

The queen turned into the red color she loved so much. Her arm fell limply to the floor, her fingers twitching in post-mortem spasms. Her large head was crushed by the mace, spilling a mixture of blood and brain fluid, revealing a brain as large as her head. And the brain turned into finely chopped meat.

The Trump soldiers turned pale, and I was no exception. The more the mace went up and down, the thicker the blood stuck, and flesh splattered everywhere.

Roll. At that moment, something hit my foot. It was the bloodshot eyeball of the queen who had been begging for her life a moment ago.

I made eye contact with the Queen of Hearts for a moment, then ran away without looking back.

“Huff, huff! This place is crazy! It’s crazy!! Please send me home!”