There was a certain solace in finding the truth.
Well, that's what they say when the truth is something that aligns with what you want. But truth is rarely gentle, if at all—but if it is, it will caress your entire existence and bring a euphoria you have not even felt before and will never again.
But the truth is… it's always better to live in a lie.
"I'm… not your mother?"
Navi was gone, but the revelation she left left Alice completely frozen in them. Her words, repeating over and over again in her mind. She looked at Charlotte, who was completely unconscious on the floor because neither she nor Riley bothered to pick her up when she fell as Navi left her body.
"But you came out of the Alice of this universe, isn't that… isn't that enough?" Alice forced a chuckle as she looked at Riley, who was just staring at Charlotte, not having moved an inch even once since Navi left,