The Queen Silva stared at Neige with curiosity, surprised to see a stranger in her castle. Despite the pressure and tense atmosphere Neige felt, he still managed to answer Silva's question with calm.

"Silva, it's me Neige... Do you remember me?"

"Neige..."

The Queen squinted her eyes and snapped her fingers. The guards immediately ran toward their Queen and used their bodies to make stairs for Silva to smoothly go down from her throne. The girl approached Neige and took a closer look at him before shaking her head.

"No, I can't say I've met a girl like you..."

"I'm not a girl... I know I'm wearing nun's clothing, but I'm a guy."

"A man dressing as a girl, how cute." Silva chuckled at herself before turning around "It appears you're not the one I'm searching for, guards, execute him."

"E-Execute!?"

Neige stepped back as the guards surrounded him. He was about to take his dagger but instead yelled toward Silva in the hope of getting out of there alive.

"Silva! I can cure your disease!"

The guards looked at Silva, who raised his hand to stop her guards. She walked toward her old friend with curiosity on her face.

"Cure me? Can you truly do that?"

"Y-Yes. I just need you to tell me what's the problem and I'll fix it."

Silva smiled, a bit amused to see Neige in such a panicked state.

"My heart yearns for a prince. I know he is somewhere, but I cannot reach him. My Love for him is as eternal as the concept of time, but alas, he is so far away."

~See? That's what I meant, they all look brainwashed like that.~

Neige nodded, it was hard for him to see his friend whom he spent so much time with forgetting him and the others. But even if she looked like a totally new person, Neige knew her Silva was still in there.

"Silva, is it possible that your prince might be a princess actually?"

"A girl?" Silva seemed disgusted by the idea at first but quickly changed her mind "Maybe, I do remember a splendid woman, with hair as soft as clouds and skin as smooth as a newborn. How do you know that? Have you seen her before?"

"Yeah, it seems like you forgot about a part of your life. We used to work together, going into other worlds to save the universe."

"Ridiculous... Is it possible that... My princess is in another world then?"

"She most definitely is. We'll need to leave and-"

"Leave!?" Silva asked, offended "No, you bring her here. I'm the Queen, why would I do something as low as working? Everyone serves me!"

"Silva, your life wasn't always like that. You can't live in that lie forever."

"Lie!? This is my life Neige! I... I deserve this life, I was born to be the most perfect person in the world!"

Silva stepped away and put one of her hands on her head. The girl looked delusional, shaking like she saw something horrible.

"NO! I'm not worthless! I'm not pathetic! I'm a Queen, deciding for everyone's Fate! I won't let you ruin my life!"

~She looks mad at you... Or at something she remembered.~

Silva ran away, followed by a few guards. Neige considered following her but a voice behind him stopped him.

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"Neige? What are you doing here?"

Neige turned around to see her old friend, Polyetta. The woman walked toward him and looked at his strange outfit before realizing.

"I see, the anomaly... I thought erasing the universe with her inside would have solved the problem, she really is an anomaly after all."

"Polyetta! What did you do? Is it your perfect world!?"

"Sadly, I didn't finish it yet. This place is a world I created long ago for Silva, I did for every one of you. It's just a temporary place to keep them away from me."

"Long ago... Polyetta, don't tell me you were planning for it for so long."

"I did, ever since I got this book I kept thinking about it... The destruction of our world was enough for me to start this project, just in case. I'll create a world away from any injustice and pain, a snow globe to protect us."

"But that's not what we want! Silva is barely herself anymore!"

"Don't worry, it's just temporary. You can play with your friends for a little while, I have more important to do. In the end, you'll just come back to me, and I'll stop you again."

Polyetta walked away, Neige considered following her but knew it was vain and instead ran deeper in the castle to find Silva.

Neige ran to the basement, where Silva was standing there, alone. The girl was holding herself in tears but quickly stopped once she noticed Neige's presence.

"W-Who is it?"

"It's me, Neige. Are you alright Silva?"

"I... I don't know. It's like I have two me inside me... What is real? Which one is right?"

"It's okay, we'll figure it out. You just need to-"

"No!" Silva violently stepped back and ran away from Neige, going deeper into the basement "No one should see me like that!"

The girl disappeared into the dark part of the basement. Neige followed her and tried to take his phone to use its light but quickly noticed it wasn't there anymore, Polyetta probably took it when he was unconscious. Forced to step into the dark, Neige confidently walked toward Silva's voice, echoing in the hallway.

"I'm no Queen... A Queen is above everyone else, not beneath..."

~Silva doesn't seem to be in a good state.~

Neige continued, the shadows were leaving place to light, allowing him to see Silva standing up in a child's room. Neige looked behind him and noticed that the hallway behind him left the place to a door instead.

~This place makes no sense, Polyetta probably didn't put much time into it.~

"Maybe... But it feels like Silva's uncertainty is what causes all of these problems."

Neige gently walked toward Silva but stopped once he heard her voice.

"Even in a world made for me... I still can't keep up with this facade..." Silva turned toward her friends, trying her best to hold her tears "Neige, please, tell me why. No matter how hard I try, no matter how better my life is... I still can't rid of those words, I still see myself as worthless... I need you, I need Emely, I need Sepide, I need everyone... I can't do anything on my own."

"It's because you lost your memories and ended up in this situation, it's still not-"

"I remembered everything... It just... No matter how hard I try, I still am the weak little girl that would shed blood for someone's attention. Even when my parents were horrible to me, all I wanted was for them to acknowledge me."

"Silva... You did so much, you stopped harming yourself, you stopped needing your meds, and you even defeated Silv by yourself. You already did so much."

"It's because you're all here for me... I'm nothing without you."

"Because you think I'm here just for fun? I came to save you, I want you around. There's no way I can do it by myself either, not only is Polyetta too strong for me, but solitude is even stronger."

Neige extended his hand to Silva and gave her a warm smile that even the blind girl could feel.

"Come on, let's get out of this false world. The real life may be hard, but that's why you have us! You can do great things alone, but together, we can do everything."

Silva stayed silent for a while before smiling softly. She wiped the tear off her face and tried to cheer up the best she could.

"You're right. The leader is alone, right? There's no way we lose against her then! And to be honest, it's a bit boring to order people who obey everything. I can't wait to see Emely again."

"Yeah, your princess must be waiting for her knight."

Silva went toward Neige, still a bit shaken up by everything that happened. Neige looked around the room and quickly noticed how similar the room was to the one Silva had before.

"We should hurry, who knows when the leader will finish her world?"

The girl nodded and took Neige's hand, ready to leave this place. Before they were able to, a voice coming from behind suddenly startled them. The voice of their former leader.

"Silva, you're already leaving?"

"Yeah, this place sucks."

The leader took a piece of paper and a pen, ready to write on it.

"Could you answer a few questions? I'm trying to make my perfect world... Well, perfect. So, out of five, how would you rate your experience in your world?"

"My world? I don't want it. I'd give it a zero, I hope this place burns while I'm away."

"It will if you leave, this place is related to you. I created it, but it changes based on your feelings. I'm sure you're not thinking about actually leaving, I'll improve everything and remove all your nasty memories. Also, I may have something to make you stay."

Silva and Neige both prepared to fight, waiting for Polyetta to make her move. The woman clapped her hands twice, prompting the door of the room to open. A man entered, someone that Neige had already seen before but that Silva knew more than anyone else. The man smiled and spoke in the most reassuring voice he could take.

"Silva, I missed you, my little girl!"

"F-Father!?"