Cinderella x Little Mermaid: Book 4 Chapter 3

## Verse 1

We're back, with breaking news.

A new explosion has gone off near Tokyo Station.

Citizens nearby are asked to evacuate.

We repeat,

---Kurumi tweeted:

Got a **video** of the **blast**. This is bad, guys.

---@sashibami

Is there a **woman** in the middle of that?

---@sashibami

So it's **suicide bombers**?

---@sashibami

There was a woman at the Yamanote Line explosion too.

---@sashibami

Maybe all the bombers are the same woman lol

 Th'hell? What're you doing setting of bombs?!

 Who do you run with?

 Run...with? What?

 Yeah? Law abiding citizens don't usually have bombs.

 I don't know what you... I don't... I...

## Verse 2

Met some weird girl in the street.

Looks all 'upstanding citizen,'

but she's lobbing bombs like it's nothing.

Wonder if she's with \*\*\*\*\*?

## Verse 3

I've met someone frightening.

The way her eyes appraise me like I'm prey.

A criminal? A gang member?

I can't understand her at all.

## Verse 4

She's pretty enough,

if she cried, she might even be cute.

Fluffy and soft as a damn cloud.

Just looking at her makes me want to retch.

## Verse 5

She's got a cruel, mocking smile,

looking down her nose at me.

She looks powerful, intense, feral.

...She's terrifying.

## Verse 6

The office worker lady strikes down the

dark creatures even as she's crying her eyes out.

Is that... the same power I have...?

## Verse 7

She's just as strong as I thought.

She's not afraid of the creatures,

and laughs as she kills them.

...She's no good.

## Verse 8

Don't need anyone with the same power around.

This strength is mine alone,

and anyone in my way? I'll remove them.

## Verse 9

I'm sure she'd laugh just like that as she killed me.

That's no good.

My death should be accompanied by tears.

I... I refuse to die in a comedy!

## Verse 10

*Before*

The two women face each other, glaring silently.

All around them, the **creatures of darkness** prowl and circle.

"One question. You're seeing all of this too, right?"

The office worker nodded, wordless.

"Good to know! Thought I was on a really weird **trip**."

"...No, it's **real**."

"Yeah. Which means, our power is too...!!"

The yakuza woman rushed forward, attacking the office worker and monsters alike.

 ...Hmph!

 ...Tch! And here I was gonna kill you all at once.

 You're tougher than you look, huh?

 I'm not going to die in a place like this!

*After*

"Well, whoever your crew is doesn't matter.

I **kill** anyone who gets in my way."

"...Sorry. **I want to die** in a beautiful tragedy."

"What the hell are your talking about?"

"I refuse to **get killed** by some laughing freak like you!"

"Yeah, I wouldn't be calling other people freaks."

Each woman viciously attacks the other.

As they do, the monsters surrounding them, the injured people nearby, and even the corpses...

Everything in the area burns to ash.

"Reports still coming in! The Tokyo Station area has been engulfed in another massive **explosion**!!"

## Discordant Poem

The sudden blast claimed many lives.

At the same time, it pulled in another like her.

One who was caught in the blast, and yet lived.

Another with the same power as she.

Dark monsters ooze out of nightmare to dance in the street.

They circle the two glaring women and dance.

As the two prepare to battle, they dance and celebrate.

We have the same powers, but...

No, because of that...

we can't keep from getting in each other's way.

Is that tragic? Or is it funny?