[i][hider=Stumbling By...][quote=@AzureKnight]Before the girls went away on their quests, he walked up to them for a moment. 

"[color=0072bc]Greetings and welcome to Zipangu. I'm Kannazuki Shizuka, the acting captain of Kyoko-sama's taskforce. Ayu already explained the gist of our current situation; right now the other member are out locating Lord Takeshi's allies in order to aid against the Varjan invaders. Some of them should be returning soon. In the meantime, I'll need to remain here to meet with them and discuss our next plan of action. Good luck on your endeavor and let us know if need assistance with anything.[/color]"[/quote]

"[color=0F52BA][i]Yeah! Thanks! Sure! Bybi![/i][/color]" Alice shouted, before she was gone - her stumbling movement hard to stop.[/hider][/i][hider=...and Moving On.]Upon hearing the tale in full bardic glory, Alice would accept the mission at hand. From the sound of it, the folks were possessed by the Demon Energy of the Heavenly Strike, and their blades had become Cursed Swords. If anything, that assumption surely made her the best choice to take on this affair.

After all, she had years of combat experience through Carroll's Parasitization, and her own "Mad" cleverness.

And, should that fail, she had her trump card...

However, such thoughts were for the future. Right now, she had to travel in the direction she was given on the task she was requested.

"[color=0F52BA][i]Carroll, you think we should ask that man for help,[/i][/color]" Alice asks, remembering Kannasuki's offer of aid.

"[color=9b111e][b]Hell no![/b][/color]" Carroll barked, as he remembered him, as well. "[color=9b111e][b]We don't need help from the pretty boy swordsman and his edgy boyfriend.[/b][/color]"

Alice blushed. "[color=0F52BA][i]D-D-Don't assume that![/i][/color]" she admonished. "[color=0F52BA][i]They could be really close friends, you know.[/i][/color]"

"[color=9b111e][b]I'm just saying,[/b][/color]". Carroll says, "[color=9b111e][b]You felt his Demon Energy fluctuate when the pretty boy lectured him. Pretty suspect, in my opinion. Makes me wonder who's the top and who's the bottom.[/b][/color]"

"[color=0F52BA][i]Honestly...?[/i][/color]" Alice pursed her lips, as she pressed the nearly filed nail of her left pointer into the lower of the pair, "[color=0F52BA][i]I didn't feel anything of significance from either of them, so I really didn't care to pay attention. Kanna just seemed nice to offer help for a Human. But, I do think, he's the top. Brutes tend to be secretly submissive in bed. And, Human men, so rarely, settle for less than dominance in the bedroom when laying another species.[/i][/color]"

Alice giggled pervertedly for a long moment, all sense of Human shame dashed in a fit of Mad Hatterness, before she veered back onto the topic at hand, "[color=0F52BA][i]Regardless, all we need to focus on is acquiring the Heavenly Strike technique, right? To that end, we must defeat our foes and be taught it.[/i][/color]"

"[color=9b111e][b]That, or we cut down its users, one by one, and take their Demon Energy for ourselves. In doing so, I will scry the technique, and you will master it yourself in combat, like any other sword technique,[/b][/color]" Carroll says.

"[color=0F52BA][i]Either way, we'll be one step closer to getting Our Wonderland back![/i][/color]" Alice says, her expression one of childish playfulness wrapped in sinister intent.

"[color=9b111e][b]Once and for all...[/b][/color]" Carroll says.

Missions in mind, Alice would continue on the path she was beset upon by 
the musician... walking alone on a path that would bring her to clash with those that could cleave lightning itself, and best thunderborn beast in a single pass.

If she could adapt that strike into Carroll's moveset and apply his vorpal edge... perhaps... she could slice open the very bounds of reality, and return...[/hider]