[b]Alice Curze, Elsewhere in the Island Kingdom[/b]

A small student was continuing to whittle away the hours doing essentially nothing of particular interest, leaning over a bunch of plastic squares and staring at an ever-shifting pattern of bright lights. After spending half of the day asleep, and having done the essential things such as 'get something to eat', Alice had ended up sat in front of a computer, consuming large amounts of sugary drinks and keeping out of everyone else's hair in much the same way that she hoped they'd keep out of hers. On the whole, it seemed to be working; the hat-wearing girl's day had been joyously quiet and devoid of human contact.

Well, except for food, she supposed, where she'd just gone and bought it rather than cooked anything. Quite probably because she'd run out of things [i]to[/i] cook and had no desire to go shopping. Still, that minor excursion aside, Alice had spent the entire day sequestered in her room, looking in irritation at code that continued to not be doing what she [i]wanted[/i] it to do. So she'd given up, closed the textbook, and turned her attention instead to watching videos.

So when the text box showed up, the girl adjusted her glasses... and moved her mouse to where it said no... and clicked. Obviously, nothing happened, and this was more irritating than the box itself. Not only had the thing obviously gotten past pop-up blockers, it was a stubborn virus at that. Just killing the whole process didn't do anything, so she set the antivirus to scan, and got up to dig out the [i]older[/i] computer that, running a completely separate operating system, should hopefully be immune to idiotic malware.

The textbox followed her. Removing and cleaning her glasses didn't make it go away. This was strange enough for her to actually pay attention to the box. Maou, huh? Well... she was fairly certain that meant [i]something[/i] like demon, and playing a villain was always more fun. Deciding to play along with what was obviously a dream, Alice reached out and pressed yes.