Snow White and the Seven Gods; or "Hitoribocchi no Shirayukihime"

Epilogue

EXT. NOTHINGNESS - SIX TRILLION YEARS IN THE FUTURE

"Huh, wasn't our story supposed to be finished?"

"When we're kept chained, nothing will ever end."

Snow White and a different Snow White conversed while drifting in limbo─I am the former, the confused one is the latter. Switch them out, and you'll essentially get the same person. Although now, I'm not going to desperately decorate myself as some ingenious narrator. First, let's work out on the arrangement: if the narrative suddenly becomes injurious, then I wouldn't be the one talking anymore.

I, as the dissociated self, huffed a bated breath as I, not the dissociated self, didn't answer.

I opened the console instead and consulted someone suited for the job.

"Magic Mirror!" I called and henceforth commanded, "Please scan through the stories of Amaryllis of Crimson Gables."

<Affirmative: scan is complete. May I ask what do you want to do with them?> Magic Mirror replied as soon as it processed the prompt.

I, as the dissociated self, continued embellishing his problem with a sigh.

I proceeded to ask a question, "Now tell me, what's the weirdest one of all?"

<Snow White and the Seven Gods.>

Straight to the point: we both sighed─and if the Magic Mirror was configured for the emotion, it would have imitated us.

"I don't know why she's not giving up writing our stories," I, as the dissociated self, assessed. "Why are we being restarted in a prologue again right after disappearing in limbo?"

Ha-ha, I heard myself chuckle.

Laughable for me to mull over a question supposedly bearing an answer easy enough for fools.

I must be lower than a fool not to understand.

Obviously, the author wants to redeem her position after failing herself more than a total of six trillion and one times.

You can only delight or grimace for the cringeworthy remark.

First of all, I've always thought all the stories out there were inspired. While I feel the emotion scurry under my skin, I don't do well in countering what I believe in. So, I'd definitely defend the thought─out of sheer ignorance to all the criticism.

I have the answer to the questions raised: there's another prologue because we're starting anew.

Welcome to the circus─the other story bearing the same name has been finished.

Even with the line already drawn, the story continued to thrive in its creator's mind. When the creator itself decides to take their thoughts on paper, us, the characters, must pay obedience.

I, the dissociative personality, sighed.

Withal, there's no punchline in existence where we─mere figments of imagination─can truly rebel.