(in the year 1595)
Jill: "...hmm, good, they've fallen asleep…"
Jill stood up and went outside; it was still raining.
Jill: "...hahhh…"
She went to the lake and wiped her face and hair.
Jill: "Good… they still haven't found out…"
She brushed her own hair back.
Jill: "That I… am a spy of the Black Eye Order…"
On her stomach was the symbol of the Black Eye Order: the black eye with a sword going through it, the emblem of the Black Eye group.
Jill: "Huh?... who's there?"
Jill stood up. She saw that someone had seen her and followed them.
Jill: "Hhhhh…"
He stumbled… it was… Dylan.
Jill: "Dylan…"
Dylan: "I… I… I won't tell anyone… I swear…"
Jill: "Hahhh… so you did see me… damn… that means… I have to kill you…"
Dylan: "No… please don't…"
She stopped him with her foot, pressing into his stomach.
Dylan: "Ugh…"
Jill: "…you saw it… Dylan… I don't like killing… I really don't… I'm sorry… but I have to kill you…"
Dylan: "Ugh… hahhh…"
She pulled on her gloves.
Jill: "You know… the Black Eye Order has a special unit called 'Crow of the Eye'… I'm one of them… they gave me the nickname 'Night Owl'…"
She held his cheeks.
Jill: "Shhhh… shhhh…"
Dylan: "No… please don't…"
She leaned close to his ear and whispered.
Jill: "You think I don't know what you did to Emilia… hmm?"
Dylan: "Huhhh… hahh…"
Jill: "You said you just left her lying there… but the truth is… you hurt her badly… isn't that right… that's why you stopped talking… because you were afraid someone would find out… even though I'm sure The Gift, or maybe Dante, at least Sophie… noticed it…"
Dylan: "I… I didn't want to… I… I pushed her towards the Crimson… when they came…"
Jill: "Hahhhh… you're a danger to the children… and to my friends… Dylan…"
Dylan: "I told you… I pushed her so I wouldn't die… I'm sorry…"
Jill: "First… you saw that I belong to the Black Eye Order… second… you're not strong enough… and third… you didn't just push Emilia 'by accident'. You were mad because she rejected you, gave you a 'no'. I heard it from Melinda before she died…"
Dylan: "Please… I'm sorry…"
She held his cheeks.
Dylan: "Please…"
Jill: "…I'm sorry… but… you have to die…"
From her gloves, small sharp blades shot out and pierced through his head.
(Splach!)
Dylan: "Ugh… urk…"
He fell to the ground, dead.
Jill: "Hahhh… good… now let's get rid of the body… she's yours… Beast…"
He appeared… the dark figure… and swallowed Dylan's corpse.
Jill: "No more evidence…"
(Patch)
Jill: "Hahhh…"
She ran off…
(Drip!)
Jill: "Hahhh…"
She looked at her hand.
Jill: "Hmm…"
She went to the lake to see her reflection… she was crying.
Jill: "Hahhh… damn… what's wrong with me… this isn't the first time I've killed someone…"
She wiped her tears.
Jill: "…maybe… I've spent too much time with this group…"
She looked at herself again.
Jill: "…I… I don't want to hurt them… why…? My job was… to watch Sophie, The Gift, and Liza… to kill them if necessary… but… Sophie and Liza… I just can't…"
She stood up.
Jill: "Hahhhh… but…"
(Memory)
(Eyes!)(Splach!)Jill: "Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh!"
(Splop!)
Jill: "Stop… stop!"
Black Eye member: "Calm down… this will be over soon…"
Jill: "Hmmm… hmm…"
He pushed the needle into her stomach.
Jill: "Mmmmm… mmm…"
Black Eye member: "Hehehe… quiet… quiet… my little girl… come on… crush her teeth…"
They shoved a tooth-breaker into her mouth and broke her teeth again and again.
(Krack… Krack!)
Jill: "Mmm… mmm…"
Blood ran from her mouth.
Jill: "Hhhmmm… hmmm…"
Black Eye member: "Go on, try again to save a human!… You'll go through this again… dare to disobey us… and you'll suffer…"
(Krack!)
Jill: "Hmm… hhhmmmm…"
Black Eye member: "Now stick the teeth onto the needle."
Jill: "Mmm… mmm…"
They did so.
Black Eye member: "Taste… your own teeth."
He drove it deep into her belly.
Jill: "Mmmmmmmmmmm… mmmm…"
Black Eye member: "Listen… do you hear it? Do you hear what I'm telling you?… You only listen to what I say!… what we say… For this world… of Wonderland… we want everyone to suffer… hehehe…"
Jill: "Hmmm…"
Black Eye member: "Hmm… I think I want to do something else…"
Jill: "Mmm… mmm…"
Black Eye member: "How about… this…"
He put the nail to… a place that doesn't need to be mentioned.
Jill: "HMMMMMMMMMMMMM!"
Black Eye member: "Hehehe…"
(End of memory)
Jill: "Ghhhh… hhh…"
She trembled and held her arm.
Jill: "…I'm sorry… I'm sorry… I'll be a good… girl… hhhh… hhhh… please… never… let that happen again… hahhh…"
Suddenly, she heard Sophie calling her.
Sophie: "Jill!… Jill…"
Jill: "Ugh…"
She hid… then saw Sophie coming closer.
Sophie: "Jill… what's going on here… first Dylan, now Jill… Jill…"
Jill pulled out a knife.
Jill: "Hahhhh… hahhhhh…"
She moved closer to Sophie… as Sophie stepped toward a tree, not noticing.
Sophie: "Jill…"
Jill: "Hahhh… (I… I can't do it…)"
She let the knife fall.
Sophie: "Huh?"
She went over to the tree.
Sophie: "Jill?… oh… there's no one…"
Sophie kept searching.
Jill: "Hahhh…"
Jill ran, but suddenly she tripped and fell into the water.
(Splach!)
Jill: "Hmmm…"
Sophie: "Huh…"
Sophie walked toward the lake.
Sophie: "Ugh… Jill…"
She stood in front of the lake.
Sophie: "Mmm…"
She pulled Jill out.
Sophie: "Hahhh… hey… are you okay… Jill…"
Jill: "You… you saved me… I… I can't swim…"
Sophie: "…good thing I noticed you were missing."
She dragged her out.
Sophie: "Hahh… what were you doing there…"
Jill: "Uh… I… was looking for Dylan."
Sophie: "Oh… that makes sense."
Jill: "Hahh… ahh…"
(Rain)
Jill: "Hmmm…"
Sophie: "You look cold…"
Sophie took off her jacket and put it over Jill's shoulders.
Jill: "Ugh…"
Sophie: "Or you'll catch a cold…"
Jill: "And… you…"
Sophie was only wearing an undershirt. It was black.
Sophie: "It's fine… hehe…"
Jill: "Ugh…"
Sophie put her hand on Jill's forehead.
Sophie: "Hmm… no fever… I'm glad… or rather relieved… so, you didn't see Dylan…"
Jill: "No…"
Sophie sighed and scratched her shoulder.
Sophie: "What a mess… where could that bastard be… maybe he realized that some of us noticed he was lying about Emilia."
Jill: "You… think so too…"
Sophie: "Well, not just me… The Gift said it… and well… his arguments made sense…"
She helped Jill stand and dried her hair with a cloth.
Sophie: "Anyway… come back inside…"
Jill: "Mhm…"
They went back in. Sophie lay down next to Kenn again, and Jill sat and just stared.
Jill: "(…hahhhh…)…"
(a few hours later)
Jill: "Hahhh…"
(Memory)
(Peng!) (Peng!)Jill: "No… no… Mama… Papa… no… no…"
Black Eye member: "Tsss… so, girl… do you want to die like your parents… or come with us…"
Jill: "Hahhh… hahhhh…"
Black Eye: "Hehehe…"
(Memory)
Jill: "Mmmm… mmm…"
Black Eye member: "Don't worry… this will only hurt… a little not…"
He pushed it into her chest.
Jill: "Mmmmmmmmm…"
Black Eye member: "Hmm…"
The Beast appeared.
Jill: "Hmmm… hmmm…"
Black Eye member: "Don't worry. That's just your contract partner from the Nightmare World. His name is Beast Teron…"
Jill: "Mmmm…"
(End of memory)
Liza: "Jill."
Jill: "Huh!"
Sophie: "Everything okay…? You were sweating like crazy…"
Jill: "What…"
Liza: "Hmm…"
Liza held her cheeks.
Liza: "Well… no fever…"
Sophie: "Hmm…"
Sophie stretched.
Sophie: "Hahhhhhhh… from lying down I've got a cramp… that rock I sat on really hurt my butt…"
Jill: "Sure it was the rock and not Kenn…"
Sophie: "Kenn."
Kenn: "No… don't even think about asking…"
Sophie: "…suspicious…"
Liza: "Hehehe…"
Jill: "Hahhh… what a funny couple."
They stood up.
The Gift: "Dylan is missing."
Sophie: "Hmm… I think he ran off…"
The Gift: "I see… he must have realized that's how it should be… we don't need him in the group."
Sophie: "Don't you think we should still look for him… what if he had no choice…"
The Gift: "To abandon his friends?"
Sophie: "I know… I know… but letting someone die now because he did something selfish to survive… I don't know…"
Dante: "Dylan was in our way anyway… did nothing… not even for the kids…"
Rita: "Hmm…"
Pierro: "…hmm."
Daisy: "Aht-choo…"
Sophie: "Oh dear… did you catch a cold…"
Sophie knelt down and held Daisy's cheeks.
Sophie: "Hmm?"
Daisy: "No, I'm fine… it's just cramped in here…"
Jill: "She's right, it's getting stuffy…"
The Gift: "Mhm…"
Zoe: "But why all of a sudden…"
Jill: "I'm guessing it's the rain, and well, we're in the forest. That'll cause a lot of humidity and steam, so breathing will get harder for some, I'd say…"
Sophie: "Hmm…"
Liza: "We should leave now… but… where to…"
Zoe: "Hmmm…"
Dante: "That's exactly the problem…"
(Dong!)
Dante: "Where are we supposed to go…"
They left the forest.
Sophie: "Hmmm…"
Jill: "…(Quiet)"
Sophie: "Hey…"
Jill: "Yes…?"
Sophie: "What's wrong… Jill…"
Jill: "…hmmm…"
Sophie: "I can tell quickly when someone isn't okay… especially with you… your cute face doesn't match a sad expression…"
Jill: "Have you ever… done something you regret…"
Sophie: "Huh?… hmm… yeah… I was with the Black Eyes after all…"
Jill: "Were you forced to do horrible things…"
Sophie: "When I was 12, I had to kill several people my age or younger to survive… They put us in a forest and we had to survive by killing each other… Liza had to go through something similar but at least there they weren't kids… I was a child, and the other prisoners too… imagine that… children killing each other…"
Jill: "Hmm…"
Sophie: "Why do you ask?"
Jill: "Hmm…"
Liza: "Hmm…"
Liza listened and came a bit closer.
Jill: "I just remembered my parents… who were killed in front of my eyes when I was a child…"
Sophie: "Ugh… you never told us that…"
Liza: "…murdered…"
Sophie: "By who…"
Jill: "Don't know… bandits… I was 5 years old…"
Sophie: "I see…"
Liza: "Hmm…"
Jill: "I rarely dream about them…"
Sophie: "Hmm…"
Dante: "Hey…"
Liza: "Hmm… what is it?"
Sophie: "Hmm?"
Kenn: "Hmm."
They saw it… two statues… from the statues water was flowing like a waterfall, or more like a fountain, coming from the eyes of the two female statues.
Sophie: "Hmm."
Jill: "Statues…"
The statues looked like elves, holding their hands as if they were crying… or begging…
Dante: "Hmm."
Jill: "I think this used to be a place where elves lived."
Sophie: "I thought they went extinct centuries ago…"
Jill: "Hmm…"
She touched the statue.
Jill: "Well… yes… that's true… these statues are very old… I wouldn't be exaggerating if I said at least 2000 years…"
Sophie: "What…"
Jill: "Elves are… or were… the oldest people of Wonderland. Nature spirits, orcs, humans, sure… but elves are older…"
Kenn: "Hmm… in the Sakura reich there were the Oni…"
Sophie: "They're evil, right…"
Kenn: "No… not all… it's just like humans, some are evil, some are really kind, that's what people say at least…"
Jill: "Hmmm… and what happens if we go up that stairway…"
Kenn: "Hmm… what stairway…"
Jill: "That one…"
She pointed with her hand.
Jill: "Hmm."
Sophie: "That's not a stairway."
Jill: "Yes it is… look closely… it's hard to see with all of this, but if you really focus you'll see a pillar. I think I've seen something like this before… if you press it, either stairs or an elevator appear…"
She pressed it—and stairs appeared.
Sophie: "Holy shit… she… was right…"
Kenn: "How do you know about this stuff…"
Jill: "Oh, uh… interest in technology and stories, hehe…"
They went up, and suddenly a sound rang out.
(Dong… Dong… Dong!)
Kenn: "What now…"
Sophie: "No idea…"
Jill: "Ugh…"
Suddenly several people appeared, armed.
Soldier: "Who are you…"
They raised their hands.
Sophie: "Hahh… guess we stepped into a hornets' nest…"
Jill: "We… we are survivors…"
Soldier: "Where do you come from!"
Jill: "Mirica reich… please… we've been traveling for days and we were in Bunker 441 and 442…"
Soldier: "You survived that… that's insane… guns down."
They lowered their weapons.
Soldier: "Hmm."
Sophie: "It would be nice if you also said 'hands down'… this position is uncomfortable… they can see my whole stomach."
Soldier: "Oh… sorry… hands down…"
They lowered their hands.
Sophie: "Hahh."
Kenn: "Nice stomach you've got."
Sophie: "Shut up…"
Kenn: "(Sweats)…"
Soldier: "Bunker 441… so… where exactly did you come from…"
Jill: "Well… it's like this… we didn't meet that long ago… but we were in the Forbidden Forest…"
Soldier: "The Hinterkaifeck Forest?… are you insane…"
Jill: "The what…"
Sophie: "I'll file a complaint with whoever comes up with these names…"
Kenn: "There are worse… my mother wanted to name me 'Stefen Einhauer'."
Sophie: "Yeah… okay, you're right and lucky… if that were your name I'd laugh at you so much you'd get annoyed."
Soldier: "Hmm… come inside…"
Sophie: "Hmm."
They went in.
Sophie: "Ugh…"
Rita: "Hahhh…"
Jill: "Oh… what…"
It was a huge city… it really looked like the cities from the old times… like London, just more like the 19th or 20th century.
Sophie: "…but… I thought the plague and the Sirus virus destroyed all of this…"
Soldier: "That's somewhat true… but that's long ago… Wonderland is a huge world… and besides, it seems you haven't just been walking for days, but for months."
Sophie: "What are you talking about… it's still the year 1595."
Soldier: "What are you talking about… it's the year 1440."
Sophie: "…what?"
Liza: "Ugh…"
What is happening here?… What exactly has happened…
Jill: "That's… the time syndrome legend."
Sophie: "What?"
Jill: "This can't be real… the legend of the black hole… is real…"
Sophie: "What are you talking about?"
(a few hours later)
When they went up the stairs they came to a city… but the soldier there said something that confused them: the year was not the usual 1595—suddenly they were in the year 1440. In any case, they were taken to something called a hotel, where the group was allowed to stay for a while.
Jill: "Hahh…"
Sophie: "I don't understand anything, Jill… can you explain some of it to us?"
Dante: "Mhm… she's right, explain it if you know."
Jill: "Hahh. In the books of Wonderland… there's a legend, an event that happens often in Wonderland… the Time Syndrome… or the Reverse Horologium, the reversed clock. As you know, the world of Wonderland is huge. There's a legend that there are multiple kingdoms, but… depending on the region and place… the time is different from our time in Mirica, for example."
Kenn: "Hmm…"
Sophie: "That would also explain why we only ever hear of Levro reich, Mirica reich, Sakura reich and Germanien reich… because the others are far away and in another time zone."
Jill: "Exactly… that makes sense. Now… it's not so simple… according to the legends there are 6 regions in the Wonderland world. The first is the one we knew: Timerion, then Crowtail, Oz, Grimmroth, Bremhaven, and the last one… the dream place… The Dreamroth. You can only get there through a portal."
Sophie: "And… now… you're saying we passed through a portal…"
Jill: "Exactly!"
Sophie: "But how… we didn't notice anything…"
Jill: "That's the thing… you don't always notice it. The portal doesn't have to look special… it could be an object… a door that looks normal. Remember… we went through a door…"
Sophie: "Oh… but it looked normal."
Jill: "Who said it can't look normal…"
Dante: "That's crazy… and where are we… which of the 6 regions of Wonderland?"
Jill: "Clock hand… that's what they're called… horologium manus in the old language…"
Dante: "Hmm…"
The Gift: "And where exactly are we?"
Jill: "Honestly… I don't know…"
Rita: "But… that means Milim isn't here now, she's somewhere else… which clock-hand were we in before?"
Jill: "Timerion… that's where we were… is there a map here…"
(Knock) (Knock!)
Sophie: "Hmm."
Sophie stood up and opened the door.
Liza: "Hahh…"
Sophie: "There you are…"
Liza: "Uh… yeah… I asked around a bit… then I found a nice lady… she gave me a map…"
Jill: "And?"
She handed her the map.
Jill: "We're in… Crowntail…"
Sophie: "Hmm."
They looked at the map.
Sophie: "Crowntail…"
Dante: "But… wait… did you hear what the soldier said?"
Jill: "If you mean that he also knows about the Sirus virus, yeah… I remember… but it doesn't seem as bad in this world as in Timerion…"
Zoe: "And… what do we do now…"
Jill: "I don't know… but…"
They looked at Jill.
Jill: "…but… we can finally rest for a while…"
Sophie: "Hahhh…"
Sophie sat down on the chair with a sigh.
Sophie: "Hahh… damn… finally…"
She put her hands on her head.
Sophie: "About time…"
Jill: "They also know about the bunkers…"
Sophie: "Maybe someone from here was there once…"
Liza: "Or maybe there are bunkers here too…"
Jill: "Hmm… (It's really strange… Hinterkaifeck Forest… according to the legends, there is a forest that exists in every one of the 6 clock-hands… I think that was Hinterkaifeck…) I've got it… the forest…"
Liza: "Hmm?"
Sophie: "Hmm… what about the forest."
Zoe: "He called it Hinterkaifeck…"
Jill: "In the legends of Wonderland there is a forest that exists in every one of the 6 clock-hands… that forest is Hinterkaifeck…"
Sophie: "Ah… and that's where Bunker 441 and 442 were… that's why they know about them… Wait…"
Jill: "Ugh…"
Sophie: "That means…"
The Gift: "The Crimson… also exist in this clock-hand…"
Liza: "Even so, we have to go back…"
Diego: "Hmm…"
Kenn: "Milim risked her life for us…"
Sophie: "Mhm."
Jill: "We have to go back to Timerion… and save Milim!!!"
(Apocalypse!)