With a rose collar around your neck and a silver chain in your mouth...
...once again tonight, I despise you for finishing alone.
Kneel down and lap up the bitter dewdrops of love.
Inexperienced discipline administered upon the angel.
In the coffin called "the self," my soul is still astir.
Torn wings return to life in the moonlight, becoming gossamer.
More frightening than the darkness is solitude.
Let us indulge in the proof of our unity beneath the Cross.
Removing the rose handcuffs and crossing pale wrists.
The miracle of this rapport, you are so dear to me.
Kneel down and make this offering, the painful words of love.
They are a red arabesque staining the gauze.
I don't care if it's a sin. Tell me you love these forbidden lips.
Destiny
Showing poor taste as ever, I see.
Suigintou, come on out!
I've become junk.
Give me that face.
Give it to me!
What a beautiful face...
Please, give it to me!
So your power the other day really was from your medium.
I knew there was no way you could be so powerful.
Suigintou!
I promised you, didn't I?
That we would settle this one-on-one.
In order to do that, I must ensure your medium can't interfere.
You don't mean...
What the heck?
You're...
Long time no see, Jun-kun.
What do you want?
Don't scowl at me like that.
It ruins your adorable face.
My body...
Night is time for sleep.
Sweet dreams.
Now everything is ready.
Jun!
Jun! Jun!
You really are such a dummy.
Suigintou, what have you done to Jun?
I just had him fall into a dream for a while.
But, Shinku, when humans can no longer differentiate...
...between dreams and reality, I hear they become broken.
Don't be so impatient.
You needn't worry.
Suigintou will torment you long and well.
You should not say such idiotic things.
Even without such a servant's powers, I can defeat you.
After all, you are a piece of junk.
How dare you!
I'll make you dance.
I wonder how long you'll last?
Everything you can do I can do. Had you forgotten that?
Shinku!
Jun!
Don't let yourself be fooled!
Jun!
This is...
Everyone, Sakurada finally came in third in the nation!
No one from this accelerated class has failed in the last two years.
All of you, put your energy into working hard like Sakurada!
Yes, sir!
What in the world is this?
Sakurada, you just worry about your health.
The exam is just a week away...
No!
What?
No!
This is...
No!
No... No...
No!
This can't be... Why...
Did you hear about the Sakurada boy?
Whoever thought he'd fail?
Jun-kun, you didn't make it in?
Stop it!
No way! I don't believe it!
Stop it... I don't want to hear this.
That's pitiful. Stop it... I don't want to hear this.
That's pitiful. Stop it... Stop it... Stop it...
Stop it!
Jun, please...
Don't be fooled by the dream...
It's no use.
I shut the doorway to dreams tightly so he could never get out.
That boy is going to become broken in his dreams.
If you don't want that to happen, hand over your Rosa Mystica.
No.
Father said...
We Rozen Maidens are not meant...
...to torment or harm humans.
I can't yield my Rosa Mystica to junk who can't abide by his words!
I am not junk!
If you have a message, would you like me to convey it to him?
Since I'll be sending these two into his dream now.
Suigintou, stop this.
I'm not stopping.
Shinku, you're wasting your time.
You won't get away.
Sakurada tested to get into a private school, right?
What's he doing here?
Say, Sakurada, I heard this from your big sis yesterday... What's he doing here?
Say, Sakurada, I heard this from your big sis yesterday...
That's just it! I heard he didn't get in!
...but you're good at needlework? That's just it! I heard he didn't get in!
...but you're good at needlework? For real? He was so smart too!
Talk about unexpected. For real? He was so smart too!
You've got this image like all you do is study.
Oh, my button's about to come off, but...
Shut up!
Shut up! I don't want this!
I don't want to be here!
I wasn't supposed to end up here!
Don't talk to me so familiarly!
I'm not like you guys! Don't think we're the same!
Sheesh. I thought I'd talk to you because you were all alone.
Later, needlework boy.
Shut up...
Shut up.
Class Representative Jun Sakurada Tomoe Kashiwaba
Please, I've had enough of this.
I don't want to be here.
I don't want this!
Um, yes, that's right.
Sis...
Sis!
I don't want to baby-sit Jun anymore.
I can't do my club activities or go have fun with my friends.
I really wish I didn't have a kid brother like him.
Please, Mom, you guys take him.
Okay? It's not fair to just foist him off on me.
Sis...
It was my mistake to have high expectations of you.
You actually can't do anything, can you?
You good-for-nothing!
In the end, you're just being a baby.
I'm tired of baby-sitting you.
I'm sick of it.
I hate you!
I was so relieved to get away from you.
He's a wretch after all.
I've never seen someone as useless as you.
Aren't you ashamed to even be alive?
Shinku, you seem to be hurting there.
Could it be your medium's power is lacking?
There you are.
I don't want to be "it" the whole time, Shinku.
Let us play a different game now.
Jun-kun...
The damn girl woke up.
Suiseiseki...
It is an emergency!
Hurry up and go to sleep, you!
Wait!
I'm sorry to be so abrupt.
We want you to let us into your dream.
Into my dream?
Something's happened to Jun-kun, hasn't it?
I sensed the chibi human's doorway to dreams opening...
...so we came to see.
When we got here...
He is currently locked away inside a sealed dream.
In order to save him, someone must go.
If we had Lempicka and Sui Dream...
...we could force open the doorway to dreams...
...but because of that damned Suigintou...
You are the person who is closest to Jun-kun.
There should be a connection to Jun-kun's dream somewhere.
So if you would cooperate with us...
I understand. What do I need to do?
This!
We're counting on you, Hina-Ichigo.
Leave it to me.
Say, Shinku...
...there's something I've always wanted to try once.
Do you know what that is?
That is to play with a doll.
To move my doll about in whatever way I pleased...
...make it say whatever I wished, and throw it away when it breaks!
You can't break on me yet.
It's still scary!
Shinku! Shinku!
Shinku!
Thirty points!
Hurry up and give me my prize of the Rosa Mystica.
No.
Just as I thought.
Even if you were torn to pieces...
...you'd never say that you'd hand it over, would you?
And that's why...
Jun!
At this rate, he will become broken.
Are you sure you don't need to save him?
Suigintou, you...
All you have to do is give me your Rosa Mystica.
Save that boy by sacrificing yourself.
It sounds like a farce that would appeal to you.
Hurry up. I hate laggards.
I refuse.
My Rosa Mystica is not so impure that I would give it to a piece of junk.
Fine. In that case...
Don't be mean to Shinku!
Hina-Ichigo!
Shinku!
Everyone's gone...
Hina's coming too!
Why is it so thin?
The bond between you two is growing weaker.
And the branches are beginning to wither.
Just as we thought, something's happened to him.
Oh, no!
Hey!
What a forlorn place.
This is the inside of the runt's dream.
Oh no!
The tiny tree is withering away!
This is not good.
What about Jun-kun?
Where's Jun-kun?
This is...
Nori, get down!
Shinku?
Jun is beyond this fog.
Do I sense a party getting started?
Suiseiseki, you protect Jun's tree.
All right!
Nori, you should be the one who understands Jun best.
Take care of Jun for me.
Shinku-chan...
Souseiseki!
It's not fair.
Two against one isn't fair!
You won't get away with it.
I'll never let you get away with it!
Jun-kun?
Stay away!
No matter how I tried, I couldn't somersault on the horizontal bar.
In my first year in middle school...
...I said terrible things to the guys who talked to me...
...and mocked them.
I took your cooking and threw it out the window.
I made trouble by ordering things I didn't even want.
I'm a really terrible person.
Jun-kun! Jun-kun!
I'm sorry, Sis.
I just trouble you by saying nasty things when I can't do anything.
That's not true.
It'd be better if a guy like me didn't exist.
What are you saying?
Don't worry. I'll be gone soon.
Then...
Then you'll be able to spend lots of time on club activities.
You'll be able to have fun with your friends.
I...
I'm no good, no matter what I do.
All I ever do is make trouble for you, Sis.
Jun-kun...
You hate having a kid brother like me too, don't you?
That's not true!
I don't think that!
Don't lie to me!
Jun-kun!
I'm in your way! Tell the truth!
Jun-kun!
I can't do anything but sulk!
Jun-kun!
I... I'm no good.
I'm sorry about everything.
I'm sorry, Sis.
What are you saying?
But...
That's right! You're no good!
But there isn't a person in the world who isn't.
Everyone thinks that they're no good.
That they're hopeless.
They think that and think that and think that all the time.
I think that too.
That I'm a no-good big sister who can't help you recover.
I'm sure it's the same with Mom and Dad.
Tomoe-chan too.
Everyone's like that.
That's why everyone tries hard.
They try to laugh so they don't lose to themselves.
They try to be cheerful!
I won't let you run away without doing anything!
I'll never let you get away with that!
Souseiseki!
Shinku...
To live...
Holie!
Meimei.
Because to live is to fight, isn't it?
Shinku...
Shinku!
Oh, Shinku, you really are such a dummy.
Did you seriously think you could win against me?
Listen carefully, Shinku.
I'll spell it out for you.
A broken doll...
...I am not!
A piece of junk...
...I am not!
Shinku!
You look pathetic, Shinku.
How fitting for a loser.
Shinku!
Jun!
The medium...
I will...
I will protect Shinku!
As the heart slows to a halt...
...it steals away beloved memories.
Beyond the trembling fingertips...
...the sky there is colorless.
But there is a soft voice that can be heard from far away...
...and I hope it will reach deep within those closed eyes.
The soaring, silver feathers rain down upon your body.
A melody echoing eternally unto the distant, phantasmal moon.
I am Shinku.
Over much time and across numerous encounters...
...I am now here.
I do not know if I am worthy of becoming Alice.
But I will fight.
For to fight is to live.
Watch me, Father.
See how I live my life.
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