Ella In The Mirror

I like horror games. If you ask me if I like the thrill of being chased by something grotesque, I would say yes.

I was never chased by a real monster, but it's like riding a rollercoaster. Because cowardly people get a chance to experience death. I was able to feel that thrill from horror games.

The joy of surviving and the secrets hidden in the horror tempts me, so I always go back to playing these types of games.

But this.

It's too much.

The faint sound of crickets tickles my ears. Dust that has been neglected and dances in the air. Old, creaking wooden planks. Antique furniture that looks like something out of an old western horror movie.

I'm sure. This is the suspicious mansion behind the school from the horror game [Mystery Investigation Club ~Summer Vacation Nightmare~].

Yes. I'm in a horror game.

"Oh my goodness! Who are you? Are you here to play with Ella?"

And to describe the beautiful girl in front of me right now, she has blonde hair with buns on both sides, and they're both decked out with a red flower-shaped accessory.

She has fair white skin like a doll and was staring at me with her ruby red eyes.

If you saw it in real life, you would hear people going "Wow!", and even the outfit is an old-fashioned western-style dress. You might even wonder if a celebrity was cosplaying.

The problem is that she's holding a knife and talking to me in a mirror.

"Why don't you say anything~? You're making me feel bad~"

This kid is the first monster you encounter in the [Mystery Investigation Club], in which the main character in this game belongs. 

And she's [Ella In The Mirror], a vicious monster who kills one person in the club of only four people according to the story.

Her smile gradually hardens. Ella likes playing hide-and-seek, and she enjoys watching her opponent die in fear. If there's no response, she gets angry.

'But I've just entered the game and I don't know what to do!'

I'm not being bold, it's just my body stiffened with extreme fear. God, why are you giving me such an ordeal? I just fell asleep while playing this game yesterday!

"Well, whatever. If you stab it with a knife, it will bleed. Big brother! Let's play hide-and-seek with Ella! Let's start on the count of three!"1

She says with a cute voice. This mansion is full of mirrors. In other words, I knew very well that no matter where I hid, I couldn't run from Ella who moves between mirrors.

"Eins (one)... Zwei (two)...."2

Ella stares at me as she twirls the sharp knife in her hand. She was like a wolf hunting its prey.

In my head, my life flashes in front of me. It was a very ordinary life.

There is nothing different from the others. Such a life in which I was born, studied, ate, played, wandered, achieved something, or failed. Ah. Right. There was at least one thing that was different from others.

It's that I have a horribly unlucky constitution.

From falling potted plants from apartments, stepping on a banana on the street and getting seriously injured, or accidentally walk on a puddle where electricity is shorted.

Ever since I almost died, I have always lived carefully, calculating all the misfortunes that could come to me.

It reminds me of a conversation with someone.

-You're really unlucky, are you enemies with the world?

-People less fortunate than me can be seen just by watching TV documentaries. It could be worse. Maybe.3

-No. It's because you accepted the accidents that came your way and acted to solve them. If it was someone else, would they have become a disabled person already?

-Is that a compliment?

-Well, if you take away this point, it's a step back.

Yes. I've been through bad luck all the time, but I've always been struggling to solve it. Let's try it again.

I made up my mind.

Thanks to that, the body that had been frozen until just now moves to live.

"Huh? This!... I've changed my mind. I'll spare big brother."

When I was thinking of escaping somehow, like the way the main character survived, Ella looked over my body and said that. Spare me? This killer? I asked back to see if I heard it correctly.

"You're saying... You're going to spare me?"

"Yeah! I'll spare you. To be precise, I'll let you live in this mirror!"

"What?"

Suddenly, my vision changed. When I came to my senses, I was in the mirror. Beyond the mirror is my own reflection. I can't believe it, this...!

"Kyahahahaha! Success! I succeeded! All I needed to do was drag it to the mirror! Big brother is a bit peculiar. I did it just in case, but it worked!! Kyahahahaha!!!"

Ella and I switched bodies...? Ella can only live in the mirrors in the mansion. Even at a glance, it's a mansion that has been neglected, so she must have been locked up for a long time.

Not only was she deprived of her freedom, but if the mansion collapsed, she herself would die, so she must have been trembling with anxiety. It was a no-brainer to get a body.

Now Ella has the body she longed for. Then, am I going to be trapped here forever..? I screamed.

"Turn me back right now!"

"No way~! Although it's not a cute body like Ella's, I'm sick of mirrors! Goodbye!"

It can't be like this, it's not enough to enter the game, but getting my body stolen too! What should I do? I have to do something...!

Ella run down the stairs. It was disgusting to see her jump and skip excitedly. However, when she ran like that...

"What?"

I'll warn you in advance, before you get fed up with the absurdity of what happened here. She died in a really stupid way.

First of all, Ella is not familiar with her new body. After all, she had been stuck in the mirror for a long time. And the stairs are quite old.

Can you roughly guess? The stairs collapsed and she lost her balance. There was no way Ella, who was unfamiliar with her new body, could ever regain her balance. Did she fall and die? No. The highlight is this:

My unlucky constitution. It affected Ella. The slight vibration caused by the impact of falling down the stairs to the floor made a huge chandelier sway in the hall of the mansion.

"Ouch... It hurts..."

After that, the ceiling collapsed with a bang and hit Ella, who fell and was in pain. This happened less than a minute after my body was stolen.

No matter how well I accept and adapt to situations... It took three minutes to understand what happened.

"My body!!!!!!!"

If you steal it, you should treat it well!!

In the messy mansion, only the faint scream of a girl who was once a man echoed.