"[color=0F52BA][i]Hm? Beat,[/i][/color]" Alice puzzled for a moment, then it clicked. "[color=0F52BA][i]Oh, you mean all the blood and whatnot. It’s, um, it’s okay, I’m okay...[/i][/color]" she bit her lower lip - this was getting hard already, upstairs and downstairs, as her mind wandered:

[center]‘[color=0F52BA][i]She’s so pretty. No, not pretty. Handsome? No, no, handsome is so... unbecoming. Gorgeous? No, disgusting. Beautiful? No, mundane. Radiant? Heavenly? Divine?! No, no, no!!! Ugh!!! Why is she so - so - so - so - so! SOSOSO!!! Her face is so serious! Her eyes burn like the sun! Praise those glorious eyes! But, the softness of her concern for me! I want her to fawn over me! Hold me! Hold my hand! So lewd! No, Alice, she’s pure! Look at her! An angel with a grim countenance... So... damn... ... ... ...[/i][/color]’[/center]
Alice’s thoughts were going a mile a minute. So much so, she didn’t even notice that her “bandages”, so to speak, were coming loose, and her head was lightening as her blood was simultaneously leaking out of her and being diverted elsewhere. In a motion that could be mistaken for a swoon, Alice would pass clean out onto Ayu without hearing or answering Takeshi.

"[color=9b111e][b]Idiot...[/b][/color]" Carroll muttered.