Book 1 - The Rose-Red Tyrant: Chapter 1; A Desperate Heart

This time the opening is different, the first part reads "Book 1 - The Rose-Red Tyrant" before the chapter title showed "Chapter - 1; A Desperate Heart". Showing that this is the next part in the overarching story, as "The Rose-Red Tyrant" will instead be showing in front of every part for a while.

It opens going a dream sequence into the mirror that was above the fireplace in Grim and Yuu's room in Ramshackle dorm.

The mirror starts to have a ripple effect as it starts to glow towards the center and as it gets closer to the mirror.

It goes white for a second before it shows a rose bush and a hedge mage but all in black, white, and grays. A card person that is an ace of clubs is painting the roses, that were white, to red, making it be the only thing of color. The ace of clubs is yelling "Hurry up and paint those roses red!" Another card, although for this one the symbol is currently unclear, also yells out "Slather them quickly, as aforesaid!" The ace of clubs then yells out again to either the other card or possibly to more of them out of sight "Hurry, hurry! There are still roses left to paint!" A black cloud goes over everything with the white text of "(They're painting…roses?)" Before it disappears and a girl with an apron dress and a black bow appears and asks "Why are you painting these white roses red?" The other card says "Huh?" As a two of clubs answered "Why, you ask? It's quite simple. We planted the wrong color, you see." Then the ace of clubs finishes by saying "The Queen likes her roses red. If they're white, we'll lose our heads!" The girl then appears to run across the screen as she goes to a different rose bush. She then says "Goodness!" As a different card, this time a three of clubs appears as it's painting the other rose bush and says "And so, we're painting the roses red."

It then goes to black as it goes out of the mirror and shows total darkness as someone unknown asks "By the way, where am I?" before it switches to Yuu who had just woken up from what had just been shown in the mirror as a dream.

She then hears knocking which wakes her up fully as she mutters "I feel like I was having the strangest dream…" as she gets out of bed to go to the knocking of the front door.

She then hears Grim, who had been woken up by the knocking and her getting out of bed "Myaaah… Hey, Yuu… I know it's the middle of the night but I think we've got a visitor"

She looks out one of the windows and frowns as she sees it's still really late or early in the morning as the sun hadn't even began to peak out nor had the moon gone down yet.

The knocking sounds again as Grim makes a guess "Maybe it's those pesky ghosts again? They just don't know when to quit."

Yuu rolls her eyes as she makes her way downstairs and to the entry hall, which is just as torn apart as the rest of the dorm.

She asks mainly to herself but also to Grim who followed her half asleep "Who would be here at this hour?"

But the person on the other side of the door hears her as they say "It's me, Ace! Just let me in, all right?"

She then unlocks the door, even if the locks didn't work properly and she couldn't really lock the door, and opens it.

Grim, who now fully woke up hearing it was Ace, asks him "Ace? It's the middle of the night!" Then freezes as he shouts "B-bwah! That collar!" and then it shows Ace, who has the exact same red, black, and gold collar Grim had gotten at orientation.

Ace then firmly says "I can't go back to Heartslabyul House. I'm joining your dorm. For good." This shocks Yuu and Grim as he shouts out "Myah?! Come again?!"

But before more context is shown the screen fades to black as the words "To be continued" show on the screen before it turns off fully.