Chapter 8

Aki tried to go to Alice, and there was the sad face that Alice always saw when they both could not be together, as he said the three words. Alice wouldn’t stop Ray and Aki. It’s them, and they were so much stronger than her. When the doctor and scientist cut Alice open, a feeling of ‌cold steel pierced her, a sharp pain blooming in her chest. Becoming a new Alice meant for Alice to be a white slate, but her mind and body would remember Ray and Aki. Her power had setbacks to grant wishes: she had to know their name and fulfill two of Alice's desires.

Through the many deaths, the wish would restart, but Alice didn’t realize a wish couldn’t truly come true when she forgot its origin. Ray gives Alice a necklace, and Aki gives Alice earrings. Alice gives them a bracelet and earrings. Those gifts adorned with flowers, and Alice mentally assigned colors she felt represented them: blue was Ray, and red was Aki. Having the jewelry helped Alice remember them more clearly.

Later, while looking to pass the time, she noticed that the necklace and earrings showed a pink flower leaning through a book. This pink flower wouldn't last long after blooming. Ray pondered Alice's words: He was blue. She was right; Ray was indeed blue, a feeling that’s dull and steadily growing duller. Aki understood why the color red fit him: it could be bright, but it could also become dark. Why does the supernatural only happen to a few people?

The doctor and scientist thought perhaps it was because they had created 00592 in a world that had nothing in it. The supernatural was just beginning to manifest, which was why their wishes kept coming true. How do the brothers have their diseases like curses? The doctor and scientist think it could be fate, or something inherited.

One day, Alice sat in a white testing room. The scientist told her, “You shouldn’t be with those two; they’re a bad influence planting ideas of freedom through the act of granting wishes. They’re making you think about ‘why’, but you don't have to think.” Alice looked at them with a smile and replied, “They’re wrong? What is so wrong with it? Is it because I can only give out wishes when someone controls me?”