Chapter 81: Why Alice Fights

-Grind.

'Ten minutes, if you can call it that...'

It was anyone's guess how much longer I could hold out against the thing that had already begun to catch up with StellarShift.

-Rustle...

The long white hair that normally streamed down my back had been partially and clumsily cut short today, leaving it uneven.

[Alice? Are you okay?]

'...It doesn't matter.'

It was uselessly heavy hair that I maintained solely for the sake of the concept, anyway.

Even if a little of it had been cut off, it only put me in a slightly bad mood. I felt nothing beyond that. If I had been a real woman, I might have been shocked that hair I had painstakingly grown had been cut, but mine was a fake created by transformation.

In any case, if I dispelled the transformation and transformed again, I would return to Alice's usual appearance...