A/N: Takes place around episodes 8 and 9 of Rozen Maiden Traumend. Written in Sousei Seki's point of view on why she decided to fight in the Alice Game. This is my first Rozen Maiden fanfic.

Disclaimer: I don't own Rozen Maiden.

Sublime beauty and delicate features
A flawless body covered in garments
Wrapped in silk and velvet

Roses entwined in soft hair ribbons
Kissed with love for utmost perfection
This is Alice; the one we could not become

What we fight for is who we are
There is no other way to live
But to sacrifice ourselves for the divine

Alice is the sum of our parts
The sum of our failures
The sum of the breath inside us

She is the one who will be perfection
Perfection born from our shameful selves
The ones who brought only sadness to Father

Useless...

That is why we must fight
Why we must destroy each other
It transcends our friendship
My own twin

We owe it to Father for what he gave us
And I will be the one
The one to give this gift to him

At all costs…

This is who we are
And this is who I will become

To reach Alice
And please Father