/ POP Alliter /
It was like time had become slow in some way. The snow had appeared; this snow is special, making Alice remember something. The feeling of waiting for someone you love, while keeping her eyes closed to hope for a better life, a better future, and a meaning for existing.
Alice looks at the snow through the window with a sad face, closing her eyes and living in her old memory. "..."
On the other hand, Alliter:
While sitting at her table at home, after reading all the novels, her face showed boredom. She laid her head on the chair while looking at the ceiling. She asked herself, "What should I do next? Oh... oh, this is my birthday. I forgot it..."
[My birthday, normally my dad will do it for me. My mom, she is... no memory, but I remember her warmth, her smile, but I hate her for abandoning me, my dad too. He hates me, right? I don't know why. But surely my life sucks with no logic. I am so lonely, sometimes I just want to have a friend to live a normal life, but the world right now sucks... I wish I could be isekai'd to another world or something like that... but inside me, I just want to destroy everything, haha. I will burn everything in this cursed world. It is your fault for birthing me into this world. I became like this because of you...]
Her head laid on both of her hands, her face showing uncanny and creepy vibes in some way.
Alice opens her eyes and moves closer to the window. She looks at the sky through the window with a forlorn voice, "On my birthday, it's just a normal day. There is nothing special."
She showed a complex face, looking back at Alliter in a deep voice like a commander to someone, "Maybe when I wake up from this dream, I can have a birthday with my darling."
Alliter looked unreadable, then she extended her hand and made her move until standing near an open window. The wind came from outside into the room, making it feel better. "Maybe this is not a bad idea. My dad doesn't care about me, but I'm free. I can do anything I want. I don't fear anything. This place is ruled by me. If someone dares to come here, I will rule them. I don't need to worry about anything, to be stressed by anything, what a peaceful life I have." She giggled while covering it with her hand in a clumsy way.
Alice smiled while standing near Alliter, "Yes, I'm the ruler now. My darling is my slave in my world and for eternity... forever... NO ESCAPE HAHA."
Alliter was in deep thought, shaking her head, "But I don't want that rat to come chasing after me again. But lucky for him, today is my birthday. I won't ruin my day with that shit. Let's listen to some music."
She doesn't want to see Zure, so she closes the window with the curtain rapidly. The room suddenly becomes dark. Alice doesn't like her action, looking at Alliter with an unreadable face, "...How dare you."
Alliter runs so fast to come back to her cage. Closing her eyes while listening to music.
[This is the best, I am so tired now. Let's think about what gift I will make for myself.]
甘いだけじゃつまらないでしょ It's boring if it's just sweet, right?
少しの棘で飾ってあげる I'll add a few thorns to decorate it
わたし色に染まるまで Until you're dyed in my colors
逃げられない夜にするの I'll make it a night you can't escape
Alice giggled. "Oh, I like this music." Her eyes looked dangerous, her mind only having Sana in a creepy way.
Alliter opens her eyes, reading the lyrics, her eyes in shock, "These kanji words are just a nightmare for me. Maybe I will buy myself a good book to learn them, and then I can read harder novels." She nodded happily, and then she is motivated to come to the outside world while wearing a lot of clothes to make sure no one can recognize her.
Alice moves around impatiently near Alliter. She doesn't have the mind to look around, with a stressed face: "How long will I watch this? I miss my darling so much now."
Alice tries to get further away from Alliter but her body can't, like something forces her to continue watching this boring memory, even though she has been trying to hug an electric pole.
Alice screams, "Help, you're tormenting me with this boring game..." but then nothing changes much.
Alliter hid herself very well and then she comes to a bookstore near the place she lives to buy a kanji book for her birthday, while struggling to find the way to go with Google Maps. She sees a couple of children, they're so annoying. They nearly bump into Alliter. If that happens, she will kill these children immediately, not caring about the consequences. Her eyes look cold toward all the people in this place, like they're just insects.
[...What pathetic, stupid people exist in this boring world.]
Sana holds Lata's hand with a happy face while running to the bookstore, making a lot of noise with his question to Lata, "I will buy a lot of novels for my sister, haha. You like them, right?"
Lata just stays silent, being shy because of these weird feelings she is having now.
They're buying some novels together...
Alice froze, couldn't believe her eyes, but after rubbing them again and again, it was really Sana. But something felt off about that Sana. "That's fake. How dare you." Her face looked angry, but she couldn't do anything to affect this memory...
And then she giggled crazily, "If Sana dares to hold another girl's hand like that, I will, haha..." Alice is losing her mind, her face distorted to grotesque.
The memory continued...
In a room having a lot of types of weapons, like they came from a cosplay event, but surely they are real weapons made by Alliter studying in her boring time. It has become an immense arsenal. Everywhere, she is so lazy to arrange them properly. Maybe she can even create her own terrorist organization.
Alliter is 16 years old, her addiction becoming worse. Just lying on the bed everyday, keeping reading novels, testing weapons and magic.
Alice cried in depression while looking at this messy place, "TWO YEARS without feeling my darling hurts so badly. What the heck is she doing now?" Alice feels very tired of pretending this way.
Alliter became like a main character in a novel. She could easily use some kinds of weapons very proficiently, and she could even use some kinds of magic like fire-based attacks or something related to that.
Alice says in a curious voice while moving around like a child, "When I knew I could bring a fantasy world into reality, I rarely performed like that. I just used anything for my darling. Maybe I should show more interest in him. I miss him..."
Alice doesn't want to use these kinds of power because it'll ruin her mind. Maybe she will lose control of herself and do something weird to her beloved.
Alliter smiled, sitting on her bed, looking at the mirror, relaxing herself with a serious face. "Very simple. Even in this world, which doesn't have energy like mana, I can use the laws of the universe to borrow the power of elements. Why doesn't my hand feel hurt, warm, or burned from fire? Simple. I calculated how to make the spatial coordinates not affect my body. How can I control fire elements? Just concentrate your mind, send a signal to the universe to create spatial coordinates with fire, and then it will appear, but..."
Alliter with a dangerous face comes to open the window and then looks at her hand with the little bit of sun in winter. She reaches out her hand to the outside through the window, trying to use a fire-based attack somewhere. The fire appears on her palm and then just drops when she tries to make a force to make an attack from it, then disappears into the air like nothing. It didn't affect reality.
Alliter asked herself while opening the window completely with a crazy plan in her head, "How to manipulate reality? To create a force to make the fire move with a strong effect?"
After trying again and again, Alliter sits on the ground, holding her head in pain, then smiled. "This is not an easy task, but there must be a secret behind it, right?"
[Sometimes I just want to give up on this stupid dream. I always have a feeling of wanting to burn, to destroy everything, ahahaha...]
Her eyes glowed... deep in calculation... while moving her hand and palm somewhere...
Alliter, with a big smile on her face: "Just like making an animation? Simple, let's try."
Alliter created fire in her palm. "Everything in this universe has a shape. To manipulate reality, I need to adopt it."
She calculated the spatial coordinates every frame to move the fire and imagined a strong effect... then, with an evil smile, she moved her hand to direct it toward her childhood home.
[Die, haha... Let's burn everything in this pathetic world, ahah...]
Alice giggled like crazy, trying hard to cover her mouth. "This is so fun. Maybe I'll do the same when I get out of this memory."
And then—BOOOOOMM....