Alice x Little Mermaid: Book 3 Chapter 2

## Verse 1

The lights began to dim one by one on the street of **love hotels** in a dark corner of Shinjuku.

Couples stepped among those who work the city at night.

A girl in one of these couples called her male friend **"teacher."**

She was wearing a jacket, but under that was a **school uniform**.

The man didn't want their twisted relationship to go any further.

He tried to tell her that it was **over**.

She clung to her 'teacher,' tears in her eyes.

The **deed** was done.

He abjectly said goodbye, both to the student he had used for pleasure and to the **baby** growing inside of her."

 I had no idea I was pregnant.

 I missed my period and went to the hospital.

 I can't remember what they said.

 I was on my way home from my boring job.

 I was with my boss, twenty years my senior.

 We went to a love hotel.

## Verse 2

I guess he doesn't like me anymore...

Maybe he just doesn't want a child.

But... Am I the child that repulses him?

Or is it the child inside of me?

## Verse 3

I like it when older men dominate me.

Girls are supposed to be weak and sad.

That's how it should be, right?

## Verse 4

The teacher was very kind.

He always listened to me, smiling.

He was very clever.

He always exploited me with that smile.

## Verse 5

I hate younger men.

They make me feel old.

## Verse 6

I don't want to abort the child.

I don't want to give birth, either.

My mind is always racing, wavering...
uncertain.

## Verse 7

Men are stupid. They flock to weak girls.

Maybe weakness is how we stay alive.

That's why I need him to be with me...

## Verse 8

He's a coward. He knows I love him.

He knows I'll never leave.

## Verse 9

My boss is in bed.

I'm sitting on the floor, doing #""\*.

Is this a comedy? No... A tragedy this is.

A sad, miserable tale.

## Verse 10

*Before*

The story of a **high school** girl lost in an **illicit affair**.

On the sixth floor of a love hotel, inside a large suite, the **office worker** was at a loss.

The man, her **boss**, was collapsed on the bed. The man, who looked too old to be called her lover, had obvious signs of **strangulation** on his neck.

How could he do this to me? I'm **not guilty**. I'm a victim. It was his fetish, not mine.

I only agreed to **strangle** him because he wanted to try something kinky.

 He wanted me to choke him.

 I was surprised at how quickly he died.

 It wasn't my fault... Not my fault at all...

 I'm wandering a maze without an exit.

 All I do now is kill monsters...

 Trying to escape...

*After*

"In a corner of the city, the city of **Desire**, two girls were trapped in a fate like **quicksand**.

The high-school girl had been discarded by her **adulterous teacher** and yet still loved him. To her, the teacher was her **whole world**.

The office lady who had strangled her **boss to death**, simply by doing what he asked. A tragic heroine, who, in her confusion, realized that the accidental killing had **awoken** her to her true self.

The day when these women would meet their fate was only a **week** away."

## Discordant Poem

Kindness and cowardice look alike.

They say both are akin to flattery.

Affairs are born of inhumanity, they say.

Are cheaters not human, then?

If not, then what are they?

They were prisoners of their desires.

An unacceptable folly.

But who will forgive them?

Who deemed what they'd done as foolish?

*Related Pages*
* Alice
* Little Mermaid

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Book 1: Act of Impulse
* Alice: Book 1 Chapter 1
* Alice: Book 1 Chapter 2
* Alice: Book 1 Chapter 3 (crossover with Snow White)
* Alice: Book 1 Chapter 4
* Book 1 Chapter 5

Book 2: Act of Hatred
* Alice: Book 2 Chapter 1
* Alice: Book 2 Chapter 2
* Alice: Book 2 Chapter 3 (crossover with Kaguya)
* Alice: Book 2 Chapter 4 (crossover with Pinocchio)
* Book 2 Chapter 5

Book 3: Act of Reality
* Alice: Book 3 Chapter 1
* **Alice: Book 3 Chapter 2** (crossover with Little Mermaid)
* Alice: Book 3 Chapter 3
* Alice: Book 3 Chapter 4
* Book 3 Chapter 5

Book 4: Act of Fusion
* Alice: Book 4 Chapter 1
* Alice: Book 4 Chapter 2
* Alice: Book 4 Chapter 3 (crossover with Sleeping Beauty)
* Alice: Book 4 Chapter 4
* Book 4 Chapter 5

Book 5: Act of Elimination
* Alice: Book 5 Chapter 1
* Alice: Book 5 Chapter 2 (crossover with Sleeping Beauty)
* Alice: Book 5 Chapter 3 (crossover with Cinderella)
* Alice: Book 5 Chapter 4 (crossover with Dorothy and Snow White)
* Book 5 Chapter 5

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