Song: The Lion's Roar, Trans-Siberian Orchestra
Focal Character(s): Anise, Arietta
It hurt to fight Arietta. Anise didn't want to admit it at first - she stood boldly, claimed she wanted to get this over with, that she wanted vengeance too - but when it came down to it, it hurt. She was nearly crying already. Why did it hurt so much? This was what Arietta wanted, wasn't it?
So she pushed the feelings away and let the duel begin. Anise's friends were rallied behind her, and Arietta's were the same. They gave it everything they had - Arietta for her liger mommy, for Ion, and Anise for the people who had died on the Tartarus, and for Ion too. Anise felt the guilt for killing Ion. For a scary moment, she almost believed that she deserved to die at Arietta's hands.
But her friends wouldn't allow that, and she wouldn't allow that. There was a world that needed them, that needed her. She was going to change that world, change the Order, too, and she was going to do it for Ion.
And in the end, after she saw Arietta fall and all of those pushed away feelings poured out, she decided that she would do it, just a little bit, without ever telling anyone, despite how much she'd hated her, for Arietta, too.