Volume 1 of Alice on Border Road (今際の路のアリス, Imawa no Michi no Arisu), the manga series written by Haro Aso and illustrated by Takayoshi Kuroda (黒田 高祥, Kuroda Takayoshi). It serves as a spin-off of the original Alice in Borderland manga.
Plot[]
A Tokyo school girl named Kina Sano (佐野 紀奈/キーナ) is bored with her ordinary life and believes that "life is a game, in which one is forced to participate for about 80 years". One day she wakes up in the desolated Kyoto with the Queen of Clubs card held in her hand without a clue. While wandering around, she meets another Tokyo school girl with the Queen of Hearts card, Alice Kojima (小島 亜里朱/アリス).
The two girls quickly get along with each other. They find the other clueless immigrants holding different face cards and are given a hint to walk their way back to Tokyo by an unknown person in the name of King of Clubs. It can be a very tiring journey without a vehicle. Therefore the eleven immigrants are divided into two groups: one would participate in the trip, and the other remains in Kyoto. The night before the journey, holder of the Jack of Diamonds, who refuses to go to Tokyo, is shot to death.