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Regrets Failing YJH and YJH Alice
When Yoo Joonghyuk opened his eyes, he was standing alone on a unfamiliar street. He couldn't remember how he get here, he has no memory about his past either.
Why am I here?
"You are here to kill the White Rabbit!"
Yoo Joonghyuk quickly turned around, there were a pair of cat ears in front of him.
"I am Biyoo, Biyoo is Cheshire cat!"
You must be the new Alice, people who came to this place were all participating the game, the cat said while floating in the air. To kill the White Rabbit game!
Yoo Joonghyuk frowned, he didn't know what kind of game that is and he didn't have time to do this boring thing. He has places to go...he has to find a very important person...(Who is that? That person who is smiling with a blurry face)
"If you don't play, then you are a Loser! You must be really bad at playing games hehehe"
With anger, Yoo Joonghyuk reached out his hand, and a black sword suddenly appeared in his hand.
"Let the game begin!"
Biyoo disappeared right after she finished the sentence. Behind Yoo Joonghyuk , there were lots of black shadow started coming out from the ground and crawling towards his direction.
Everything got shattered as soon as the shadows touch them. Although when he cut those shadows, they would turned into dust with painful scream, new shadows would soon move towards him, so he had to keep running.
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Those black shadows kept chasing him. And then, Mad Hatter came out of no where to help him defeat the shadows with her fire.
"Mad Hatter Han Su Yeong at your services, tho judging from your impression, I doubt you want my help. I have to say I am the only character that will help you through in the game, so you stick with me now."
Alice kept running, on their way they met with lots of mad man that tried to block him or even kill him; The March Hare Jung Heewon who hates Mad Hatter so much at the tea party, The Dormouse Lee Hyunsung who hide in the cup, The twins that rode a chimera chasing them in the forest, Gilyoung and Yoosung, Caterpillar Sangah left him a strange message, then fly away after turned into a butterfly. She said he had to remember.
Every character he defeated were died trying to stop him to find the Rabbit. White Rabbit is the most important person to us, our dear White Rabbit, no more dying again.
Mad Hatter suggested they go to the queen's castle to look for Rabbit's clue, on their way to the castle, Yoo Joonghyuk's head hurt from time to time, images(memories)appeared in his mind.
Joonghyuk-ah, we can save the world, you know?
Yoo Joonghyuk grabbed Mad Hatter, angrily asking her what is wrong with this place. Mad Hatter started slowly to explain that those shadows that were chasing Alice, were called 『Regrets 』, they were former Alices who failed the game (Yoo Joonghyuk who failed 1863 times). Regrets wanted to kill the present Alice so that they could become real Alice, and then they could go home.
(Where is home? Home is Kim Dokja. Who is that?)
He encountered with more Regrets on his journey, his memory started to come back as well.
He swung his sword with no hesitation, he swung and swung, more Regrets turned into dust.
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They finally arrived at the castle, when the gate guards Jihye and Namwu tried to block them, Yoo Joonghyuk saw a glimpse of white figure went through the door. The round object shinning with golden light in the White Rabbit's hand, made Yoo Joonghyuk yelled out that name that keeps appearing in his head.
"Kim Dokja!!"
Kim Dokja stopped, turned his head and smiled.
"Come and kill me." then disappeared behind the door.
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After knocked out two guards, they followed Rabbit into the castle. They met the Queen of Hearts OD in the garden, he was playing chess, those chess pieces following queen's order, changing places on the board, killing each other, blood splattering everywhere. Huge dragon Plotter lying behind his beloved queen, supervising everyone.
The queen noticed Alice's presence, and invited him to high tea. He explained to him that this world was recreated by the White Rabbit, at first White Rabbit only wanted to stay here with Alice forever, but then too many innocent people got stuck in. White Rabbit couldn't end this world with his power (he is a powerless god), so he looked for new (or fake?) Alice, using game to end his life.
Alice? Joonghyuk-ah, this pocket watch is for you, please take care of it.
Although the queen and the dragon would love to be here(This broken world) forever, they knew the White Rabbit was waiting for Alice.
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White Rabbit will be killed by the person he loved the most(Alice).
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Mad Hatter remember why she is the only character that would help Alice.
She stood there in shock after hearing queen's explanation.
She is the one who gave this wonderland to the White Rabbit, She(Han Su Yeong) wrote this story to bring White Rabbit(Kim Dokja) back, to be exact. Here they can have everything, Kim Dokja can play and eat whatever he wanted to his heart content, and Alice can stay beside White Rabbit forever.
Alice/Yoo Joonghyuk is not just a character.
But then they realized this is a too ideal world, too perfect to exist, so at the end, she(the author) destroy the story.
No matter how perfect the story is, Kim Dokja won't coming back.
What they didn't expected is, Kim Dokja read the story before it got destroyed, and he dreamed. Since no one can refused the Oldest Dream, they all got sucked into this twisted wonderland.
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Yoo Joonghyuk started to recall everything while chasing the White Rabbit, everything with Kim Dokja. The post-apocalypse world, 1865 turn of regression. That damn subway train.
The dreams got connected together
Yoo Joonghyuk realized the reason why all those Alice failed is because they loved Kim Dokja too much, they just couldn't kill him. They wanted to stay with the White Rabbit in this fake world, but this means they lost the game, so they got turn in to Regrets.
Filled with remorse, filled with attached, but still wanted to be with Kim Dokja.
The White Rabbit was getting worried, because his plan was got killed by Alice before he remembered everything, so that everyone could go home.
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Lemme skip to the ending cause me lazy
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Tears running down Yoo Joonghyuk's face. With people's screaming/crying, he pierced through White Rabbit's chest, White Rabbit stopped breathing.
『System Notification:
Congratulation on winning the game, you are now the real Alice.』
The floor and everything started turning into pieces of blank paper, and character dissolved back into words, disappearing into thin air.
The White Rabbit lying still in Alice's arm, smiling. Pocket watch shinning in his hand.
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When Yoo Joonghyuk opened his eyes, he was in his room in the industrial area.
In his hand, is his pocket watch. (Clean, without White Rabbit's blood cover it)
In this dark silent world, he could only hear his rapid heartbeat, and the sound that the hand of pocket watch kept moving forward.
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〔Tik tok tik tok. This is a world without Kim Dokja.〕
END
You are now the real Alice.