Alice x Snow White: Book 1 Chapter 3

Verse 1
The Library: A desolate void that rang with the cacophony of battle.

Two girls found each other there,

in that place they both believed to be devoid of anything but monsters.

Alice the Bound.

Snow White the Just.

The moment they met,

the girls understood.

Their ideologies were incompatible.

And, for their authors to live,

the other girl would have to die.

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I have my own reasons for wanting my author revived.

But to kill others for my own personal gain...

You could never understand.

You who are a slave to a selfish sense of "justice".

People must be just.

Save it for someone who cares. Hard=

Alice the Bound and Snow the Just.

An unfortunate meeting.

An inopportune meeting.

Those fools do nothing but fight.

They were born to fight.

Verse 2
The justice you brandish

is not justice for everyone.

Verse 3
All devoted to one,

and one devoted to all.

That is the just world I seek.

Verse 4
Nothing is right with this world.

Not me. Not you.

Verse 5
If this world is wrong,

then it must be made right.

Even if the path to justice is a thorny one.

Verse 6
I will save the one I believe in.

That, to me, is justice.

No one else can tell me otherwise.

Verse 7
I know my justice is the only truth.

For that is all I have,

and all that I am.

Verse 8
I am weak. Maybe that

is why justice blinds me so.

Verse 9
Am I prepared to dirty these hands?

To see the greatest justice be done?

Verse 10
"I'll never agree that someone as selfish as you has more right to exist than me.

But right now there are greater wrongs in the world we need to make right,"

Snow muttered under her breath.

"Don't think I enjoy the company of a hypocrite, either," said Alice.

"But right now we don't have the luxury of picking how we accomplish our goals."

The two stood back to back to face the nightmare horde.

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Fighting alongside others...isn't so bad.

Heh...Heh heh heh.

What's so funny?

It seems you do have a belief, and yet, you're still uneasy.

We might have more in common than I thought.

...I'm here to fight. Hard=

Yeah, they're both smiling, inside and out.

They don't know the hellish suffering that awaits them.

Their smiles look like those of children.

Their whole lives ahead of 'em!

...

Just kidding.

The final blow.

The enemy's dying cries ring out.

Strangely haunting, like someone singing.

The battle over, Snow glared at Alice.

"The darkness is drawing us in."

The true meaning of her words cut straight through Alice,

piercing her very core.

The two went their separate ways without a farewell,

or even a second glance.

Discordant Poem
Being bound.

Pursuing justice.

Which is a worse reason to live?

Could two existences, so different,

share one heart and mind

when facing the same foe?

The girls spoke when their paths crossed.

Their words of resolute despair, yes,

but also words of those who believe in miracles.