Chapter 98: It's a Treatment, After All

'...It doesn't matter. This bitch was always like this.'

I had only confirmed it one more time.

Knowing what she looked like would help me avoid her more reliably, but if she was close enough for me to identify her appearance with the naked eye, she would have already noticed me. All I had really done was confirm once again that this bitch was completely insane.

In one of the worst forms possible.

[Alice's adversary... the Queen of Hearts... So that's what she is.]

'...The doppelgänger has peculiar tastes, I suppose.'

[If Alice had really been duplicated and had to fight another Alice, I imagine this is what it would have looked like. Since superior doppelgängers apparently copy even the consciousness, it makes sense.]

I didn't particularly want it to make sense. I was the one imitating her.

My mind wasn't exactly sound... but following a mentally ill person with a relatively normal mind was enough to make me go crazy, too.

Momo and Black Rose had already seen me lose my composure and break character several times while living in the Abyss, so they probably wouldn't find it strange if I slipped a little. Even so, I couldn't help worrying about it...