Alice x Sleeping Beauty: Book 4 Chapter 3

## Verse 1

The city was subsumed in **chaos** and **explosions**.

In the midst of the smoke and flames, I encountered **two girls**.

One held a weapon such as I had never seen before, and looked like a **high schooler**. The other was far stranger, a **girl** who floated in the air before me, **fast asleep**.

Though she slept, I could still hear her voice.

"I shouldn't be here... I shouldn't be... kill me. Kill me, please. You have to **kill me**..."

The thought felt like a sob, a scream.

I ignored it. The older girl passed me by, and I watched in fascination as she cut down monsters one after another, moving as though she was **possessed**.

 There are others with the same powers that I have?

 I don't want this power. Please, no more...

 Someone... help me, please...

 There's nothing I can do.

 Please.

## Verse 2

Please, god.

Don't let me hurt anyone. Strike me down before that happens.

## Verse 3

The world that trapped and crushed me was destroyed,

sending be back to this world once more.

I can't help but think what it could mean.

## Verse 4

All the tragedy I've caused,

the blight that strikes others with suffering,

I could do nothing but watch as it happened.

That's the nightmare I'm living.

## Verse 5

In the face of others' anguish, I found myself powerless to do anything.

I was worthless.

## Verse 6

The city in flames, the people suffering...

Appearing before me and vanishing away in turn,

as if all of it is contained within a dream.

## Verse 7

I must get closer, even if by only one step.

The desire to overcome my weakness

pushes me forwards.

## Verse 8

Everyone has their own weaknesses.

Everyone is afraid of something.

You're no different, are you?

## Verse 9

I've left behind the frailties of hopes and desire.

I'll keep going, believing only in the strength of my own will.

I have to. Anything else and I'd shatter.

## Verse 10

*Before*

The sleeping girl's consciousness turned towards the older girl in front of her, who bristled with a cold aloofness. Here was someone different. There's **something special**... The other girl had the same sort of **abhorrent powers** as herself, giving off the same sort of foul aura.

Whether she'd wished for such power or had it foist upon her, the dreamer could tell from their battle, understood more clearly than she would have any other way, that this girl was as strong as she herself was.

"This girl may be able **to kill me**."

She thought the other girl might be able to split her open on her sword, to rend her heart from her chest. So she cried out to her, with all the fervor of a **prayer**.

"**I shouldn't even be here**. I **shouldn't exist**. Kill me!"

 Even though I've slept for so long...

 Even though I've never wanted to hurt anyone...

 This power is a power that drives others to misfortune.

 I never should have been born...

 I'm sorry. There's nothing I can do to help.

 Goodbye.

*After*

As I turned to face her, that **desire**, that plea, "kill me," choked the air around me **like a curse**.

My knuckles went white around the hilt of my sword as I swung, even as I clung just as tight to my fraying sanity.

**"Shut up!"**

So be it. If anyone thinks they can get in my way, **I won't show any mercy**.

With murderous intent, I drove my sword through the sleeping girl.

It felt like nothing. It felt like **slicing air**, before the tip of my sword drove itself into the asphalt... as if the girl had **never** **been there at all**.

## Discordant Poem

A helplessly dependent fool.

A witch lost in slumber.

Only one of them ought to exist in the world.

Why don't you decide? ...With a deathmatch, of course.

Everything here is tainted.

The rot of this world pervades ever inch of this place.

So, fight. Fight to kill each other.

Kill until all of the corruption is washed clean.

It won't be so easy, you know?

You're the one who wanted a different world.

Death won't come that easily.

The world isn't that kind.

*Related Pages*
* Alice
* Sleeping Beauty

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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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