Shattered Memories

 is an event in SINoALICE.

Verse 1
World-devouring beasts wavered in the darkness.

From where did they spawn?

Do they think? Do they feel?

Do they live to kill?

Whatever the case,

if she must destroy them,

then she hoped they truly were evil.

She tossed aside her idle thoughts,

and trudged on.

Noya:

The nightmares are wailing.

Parrah:

It’s so loud, isn’t it?

Noya:

Kill all of those nasty beasts.

Verse 2
I was led by the dolls to castle ruins.

There, I was confronted with the sigh of innumerable nightmares,

shadowy and writhing.

Verse 3
The beasts before me began to dance,

fiery with resolve.

Did they sense their imminent death?

Even if my opponents’ cause was just,

I would not hesitate to mow them down.

The death of someone dear to you is a despair no being can overcome.

They gathered ever closer, trembling.

“Yes, that’s it. This way,

I can slay you all at once,” I encouraged them,

so as not to blunt my attack.

Verse 4
From deep within the ruins,

a creature surged forth with an eerie aura.

“I know these eyes.”

She, too, was a prisoner of her own impulses.

She identified with their desperate wallowing to avoid facing her own.

She felt no pity, but rather resolve.

She clenched her sword tightly.

By her bosom rested a pocket watch whose hands spun in a frenzy.

Its face emitted a mad torrent of light that harmonized with her wails,

dazzling as it tried to swallow her whole.

Unable to escape, the light took her.

The world began to bend and bow,

and she found herself standing at the entrance of the forest where she had stood long ago.

Verse 5
Though we were not bound by blood,

we came together and spent time together.

She became one of us.

Clock Rabbit:

Are you lost, too?

Clock Rabbit:

Come and sit. You must be lonely.

Clock Rabbit:

Everyone is at the castle.

Clock Rabbit:

We’re all family.

Verse 6
“Let us join hands for our protection,”

so said he, before leaving my side.

Clock Rabbit:

We help each other when lonely.

Clock Rabbit:

We share with each other when happy.

Clock Rabbit:

That’s how things work around here.

Verse 7
He sacrificed himself so I could live.

And so I gathered brethren with no kin, to trust and fulfil their will.

Clock Rabbit:

It’s different from where I’m from.

Clock Rabbit:

Our family.

Clock Rabbit:

The closest family in the whole world.

Verse 8
“Look. See how our family has grown.”

“We’re no longer alone,”

I said, smiling at the watch he left behind.

Clock Rabbit:

Mother’s treasure.

Clock Rabbit:

This shiny, broken watch.

Clock Rabbit:

I’m always, always looking at it.

Verse 9
Today was the jubilee of our union.

Everyone came to prepare for the festivities.

Friends who did not even reside with us came to celebrate.

Clock Rabbit:

Today is a big day.

Clock Rabbit:

A happy day when we all get together.

Clock Rabbit:

We all put a smile on Mother’s face.

Verse 10
Hear the death throes of my brethren.

I knew this day would come

I know how he felt when he saved me.

“I’ll protect you…”

Clock Rabbit:

Why us? Why do you take from us?

I’ll protect them.

You won’t get any more.

I’ll grow the family and get her praise.

Forgive me.

I could not protect my family.

Nor could I protect...the watch.

Oh, how I coveted your praise.