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Chapter.10 Mirror Country (Page 1/3)Previous ChapterbookshelfTable of contentsSave BookmarkNext Page    That morning, Klein was about to leave home for work when he unexpectedly received a request from Miss Witch.

    "You mean, you want to go out with me?"

    He was a little surprised and couldn't help but ask her again.

    "Will this embarrass you?"

    Alice looked at him calmly without any joking expression.

    Klein looked away uncomfortably, avoiding looking into those too clear eyes.

    "It's not that it's embarrassing, but I only have one day off a week, so I have to go to the company even on Saturdays. Well, it just so happens that I plan to walk there today. If you don't mind walking a few kilometers..."

    Uh... He suddenly got stuck here.

    Because Klein realized that if she wanted to follow him to the Blackthorn Security Company, wouldn't that be a trap? And he couldn't explain to her the issue of the Nighthawk Wanted Order!

    Should he rely on Miss Witch's mysterious magic ability? Can that kind of magic that confuses others' cognition be hidden from a senior Beyonder?

    Alice just shook her head slightly.

    "Don't worry about me. Just think of me as someone you can chat with on the way. I'll say goodbye to you when you get to the company."

    Since she had said this, Klein could no longer find any reason to refuse, so he nodded in agreement.

    The journey that used to take only ten minutes by public carriage now takes nearly an hour on foot.

    So Klein deliberately left home earlier. After saying hello to Melissa and Benson, he left home with his little tail following behind him.

    During this time, he was completely accustomed to the subtle expressions his siblings showed him, and he was able to accept all of this without changing his expression.

    ... Of course, before Alice returned home yesterday, Melissa had pulled him aside and said seriously that he should consider the issue of self-control, saying that Alice was not even of adult age legally, and it would be better for them to wait a year before having intimate contact... At that time, Klein could also consider renting a house suitable for young couples to live together, so that life would be more convenient and comfortable.

    Klein almost lost his temper at that time, but his sister Melissa added that she believed that they should not have developed that kind of close relationship yet, but living in the same room would indeed make accidents more likely, so she hoped that her brother could find a suitable time to talk to Alice and persuade her to move into the empty guest room on the second floor. Walking

    slowly along the Daffodil Street in the early morning, Klein thought of this matter, so he tentatively mentioned it to the witch lady, and received a "no big deal" reply from her.

    "As long as you don't feel bad about buying quilts and pillows." The girl beside him said with a slightly curved eyebrow.

    Klein felt his face a little hot after being exposed by his money-grubber nature.

    "I will buy it sooner or later... It's not a waste, and it can also be used as a backup for emergencies..."

    He replied stubbornly.

    But as soon as he finished speaking, Klein thought of her temporary residence so far, the dressing mirror in his room. This was a topic he didn't dare to ask in detail before, but since she was about to "move out" there, maybe it wouldn't be a problem to ask?

    "Well, are you curious about what's behind the mirror?" Alice reached out and touched her lips, with the corners of her mouth slightly raised. "Shouldn't you usually ask this kind of question when you first meet someone?"

    "...I just haven't found the right opportunity to ask." Klein replied with a forced smile.

    Alice seemed to be amused by his reaction. She stopped and the sound of her heels tapping the ground stopped. Klein subconsciously stopped and turned back to look at her questioningly.

    "If you want to understand the subspace behind the mirror, just experience it yourself." Alice said, and made a strange gesture with her right hand.

    This action seemed to touch Klein's spiritual perception. He looked around and vaguely felt that the surrounding environment suddenly became "stagnant", as if there was an invisible wall separating the area where he was from the outside world, forming a special closed environment.

    Klein noticed that none of the pedestrians around seemed to pay attention to the changes here, just like the situation when he first met the witch lady -

    "A little trick can avoid the attention of irrelevant people."

    Alice didn't explain much, and took Klein's wrist and walked forward a few steps, passing the fruit stall not far from the two of them, and came to a street shop with a relatively clean window.

    This is a relatively decent store in the city adjacent to Iron Cross Street, but the door is closed, and a sign of closure has been hung for some reason.

    Klein was distracted by the soft touch on his wrist. He paid no attention to the merchandise displayed in the shop window. He just stared at the glass window in front of him, seemingly normal and with a slightly dull look.

    The street scene was reflected there, as well as the young man and woman standing in front of the window.

    The petite and beautiful witch lady had changed into a brand new outfit today, a V-neck off-shoulder dress with a ruffled design. The necklace with light sapphires around her neck pressed over her beautiful and distinct collarbone, making the girl's frame look even more slender and fragile, making her look even more lovable.

    Her hand was holding the wrist of the young man with black hair, brown eyes, and a black tuxedo...

    Ah, she let go.

    "Come closer, Klein."

    Alice gestured for him to come closer to her as usual, as if nothing had happened, and then reached out to touch the dusty and stained glass window.

    Without seeing her make any movements or chanting any spells, Klein noticed that there seemed to be slight ripples on the horizontal mirror reflection in front of him, just like the waves on the lake surface blown by a breeze, but this change only lasted for a moment before returning to normal.

    Looking around, the reflection on the transparent glass was the same as it was at the beginning, without any abnormality.

    Alice turned around and stretched out her hand to him.

    Klein was stunned for a few seconds without reacting, and then he heard her sigh, and the look in her eyes when she looked at him became helpless, quite like the charm of Melissa caring for her mentally retarded brother.

    "Hand, Klein." Alice explained patiently, "If you don't want to get lost in the subspace, you'd better take the initiative... Hmm, have you never touched a girl's hand before? So you're a little nervous?"

    As she said that, she looked him up and down seriously, and then nodded slightly, as if she was sure of something.

    In addition to feeling offended by her blunt statement of the truth, Klein suddenly became angry and raised his hand to grab the white and tender hand.

    "No, I'm not nervous. I'm just a little surprised... Was that a spell just now? But I didn't see you use any spellcasting materials."

    Klein remembered clearly that when Alice briefly introduced the spell system of the other world to him, she clearly said that most spells there consisted of three necessary parts - the casting action or gesture, the chanting of a few sections of the spell, and the casting catalyst that guides the power of the spell. But

    she clearly didn't chant just now, nor did she take out any materials. It seemed that she had completed a spell with just one action... well, he didn't quite understand it.Chapter.10 Mirror Country (Page 2/3)Previous pagebookshelfTable of contentsSave BookmarkNext Page    ——But then again, are all girls' hands so soft? It's like they have no bones... And her hands are so small that he can almost hold them in his palms...

    Klein tried his best to suppress the embarrassing thoughts that surged in his mind, pretending to be completely focused on the magical power she displayed.

    It is worth mentioning that until now, he has not noticed the change in the witch lady's address to him.

    "Well, your focus is on this, I thought..."

    Alice obviously did not have the same thoughts as he did. Even though he took the initiative to hold her hand, her attitude did not change at all. She smiled with a bit of evil interest between her eyebrows.

    "Okay, I'm afraid you can't bear it if I continue. Come on, remember to follow me closely. As for your question just now-"

    She began to walk forward, and the glass window where they had stopped for a long time happened to be in front of her. Klein subconsciously opened his eyes wide and was led forward by her.

    Then he saw the scene he had seen in the room before.

    The witch lady was like walking into a curtain made of water, sinking directly into the glass of the window. Unlike the last time, Klein's own reflection was getting closer and closer until it collided with him completely -

    huh? There was no feeling...

    Klein closed his eyes reflexively for a few seconds, then realized that he had not hit anything, and the hand he was holding was still warm and soft, as if reminding him that he was still in reality.

    He opened his eyes half in surprise and half in expectation, and Alice also answered the previous question at this time.

    "Because this is not strictly speaking a kind of spell, um... it can be said to be a natural ability."

    Klein did not recognize what she said at all.

    His attention was completely focused on the space in front of him.

    Fragments...

    This is a world that seems to be pieced together by countless fragments.

    Under his feet, around his body, and above his head, all are made up of fragmented scenes reflecting various images. And from those images that were completely symmetrical with the real images, he could see a thin old man walking on the street, seemingly looking for a job, a middle-class housewife tidying up her appearance and hair in front of the mirror, a Loen gentleman fixing his hat and shirt in front of a dressing mirror, and even a worker wolfing down black bread in a cheap restaurant with simple decoration... With

    just a few simple glances, he saw many vivid scenes of life. From the different facial features and emotional expressions of those strangers, he felt the breath of Tingen in the early morning at this moment.

    He seemed to have... accidentally entered the world of the mirror kingdom in the fairy tale. But unlike the fairy tale he was familiar with, the one who led him into this world was not someone else, but Alice, who had the name of the fairy tale protagonist. (Note)

    ...Is she really Alice from that other world? A character who is the prototype of the fairy tale?

    No, that's not right. Miss Witch said Alice was a pseudonym...

    Klein was shocked for a moment, but he couldn't look away from the miraculous scene in front of him, until Alice stood on tiptoe and patted his cheek.

    "Don't look at it anymore. You'll get lost if you look at it too much... Follow me."

    "Where are you going?" Klein asked with difficulty, trying to focus on the girl's back.

    "Well, you'll know when you come."

    Alice seemed to have a clear goal. She pulled him a few steps and then stopped. She raised her hand and drew a rune in the air filled with various fragments of images.

    Then, a certain inconspicuous fragment was suddenly enlarged, and Alice walked in without hesitation.

    Although he wanted to take a few more glances at this fantasy world in the mirror, Klein was pulled by the force from his hand and followed into the fragmented picture that was enlarged to present a bright light curtain.

    Similar to the feeling of entering the mirror world before - in fact, he felt nothing - Klein only felt that the environment around him changed between opening and closing his eyes. It was no longer that bizarre and strange fragment space, but...

    a place that looked extremely familiar.

    "Is this... my room?"

    As soon as he finished speaking, he realized something was wrong. The room in front of him was indeed very similar to his bedroom, but as long as he looked carefully, he could find that almost all the furniture and furnishings were completely symmetrical and opposite to his bedroom.

    Moreover, he folded the quilt neatly on the bed before leaving, but on the bed with white sheets in front of him, there was a mess of quilts from sleeping, and there was a piece thrown on the bedside table...

    He suddenly reacted and did not dare to look at it carefully. The temperature of his face began to rise without any warning.

    "No, that's not right... Are you staying here these days?"

    "Yes." Alice nodded and continued to pull Klein, who was standing there like a piece of wood, straight to the dressing mirror by the door, and then passed through the last mirror.

    Klein suddenly felt something different.

    Perhaps because the environment before entering the mirror world had been changed by Alice's "little trick", Klein could always clearly recognize that he was in a "stagnant and still" place.

    But when they crossed the boundary drawn by this dressing mirror one after another, he clearly felt the liveliness of the environment around him.

    Looking around again, Klein confirmed that the room with familiar furnishings in front of him was his bedroom.

    He carefully opened the door and could vaguely hear the voices of Benson and Melissa chatting downstairs.

    Huh -

    Klein gently closed the bedroom door, turned around with mixed feelings and looked at the instigator of all this, opened his mouth but didn't know what to say.

    "Scared?" The witch lady still had that smile whose sincerity could not be seen, as if she was just happy to see his surprised reaction.

    ... Well, actually, I wasn't particularly surprised. How could the power of two different systems be explained by the same theory?

    Klein exhaled silently, finally calmed down, and spoke word by word:

    "It's amazing, I can only say it's amazing. However, you'll make it difficult for me to do this... I'll be late for work!"

    The witch lady seemed to be stunned for a moment, and then she blinked and replied.

    "Well, I forgot that you are a worker..." After saying that, she even stuck out her tongue coquettishly, which made Klein shout in his heart that it was shameful to act cute maliciously.

    After Klein "reluctantly" pointed out the approximate location of the company, Alice took him through the bizarre mirror world again, and finally selected a suitable fragment as the exit, and returned to the real space together.

    In just a few breaths, if Klein hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he really couldn't believe that he had arrived at another block in Tingen so easily.

    Fortunately, Alice seemed to have taken some concealment measures, and there weren't many pedestrians on the street, so no one paid attention to them suddenly appearing on the side of the road. Otherwise, Klein felt that he would probably be invited to have tea soon...

Chapter.10 Mirror Country (Page 3/3)Previous pagebookshelfTable of contentsSave BookmarkNext Chapter    The reason was to abuse extraordinary abilities and disclose the secrets of extraordinary beings in front of ordinary people...

    He shook his head, shook off the random thoughts in his mind, and then carefully identified the specific location where he was.

    The witch lady said that she was not familiar with the street layout of Tingen, and could only open a mirror exit in a general direction at most, so the probability of them "landing" on Zotland Street was not high, and there would basically be a deviation of one or two blocks.

    Through the towering spire of Saint Selina Church in the distance, Klein recognized that he was now on Henry Street in the northwest of Tingen. It would take about twenty minutes to walk from here to the Blackthorn Security Company.

    He glanced at Alice beside him, and silently muttered in his heart, "Ms. Doraemon who can use the Anywhere Door", and then immediately looked away as if nothing had happened, and praised her magical spells, while euphemistically expressing that his workplace was not far ahead.

    - Don't go to the place where the Night Watchers work to commit suicide!

    Klein prayed silently in his heart.

    "It's okay. I said I won't disturb your work." Alice smiled and followed his steps forward, with an expression on her face that seemed to be thinking about something.

    "...Do you have something to say to me?"

    As Klein walked, he realized that there seemed to be only this explanation for her actions today.

    "I guess so." Alice nodded gently and looked up at him. "I mainly want to ask you, how have you considered that wish?"

    Wish... Miss Witch's promise? Why did she suddenly ask about this...

    Thinking of a possibility, Klein subconsciously blurted out: "Have you found a way to go back?"

    So she "kindly" reminded him before leaving, asking him to quickly decide what he wanted her to accomplish?

    "...That's not the case."

    Alice's answer made his hanging heart fall back into his chest.

    I'm scared to death - Klein couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

    "Then why are you so anxious to ask..."

    "You don't seem to want me to leave? Your wish can't be this, saying that you want me to stay here with you or something like that." Alice said something that made him blush with a smile, but her next words made him feel a little bit amused.

    "Oh, by the way, I forgot to remind you before that those sneaky wishes don't count. If you dare to tell me, 'My wish is that you fulfill my seven more wishes', or 'I hope you will treat me as your master in the future and unconditionally fulfill all my wishes', then I will let you taste the taste of despair-" Miss

    Witch, you really have no dignity when you say such harsh words with that pretty and lovely face...

    Klein suppressed his smile and nodded with a stern face:

    "I understand..."

    It's better to say that if she didn't mention it, he wouldn't have thought about it

    in this direction at all. "So you are still considering it, right? It's okay, I don't want to urge you... Well, you should think about it carefully, but if that is beyond my ability, I can only say sorry to you."

    Alice quickened her pace and came in front of him, walking backwards step by step, revealing a kind of innocence and vitality that is hard to find in others. But this innocence is so contradictory under the mysterious feeling of complex mysteries around her.

    Klein looked at her deeply, then frowned slightly, and his spirit became restrained and calm.

    He seriously thought about the problem that he had put aside for several days.

    How to convey the existence of the earth to Alice and convince her to help him find its existence... Even, if possible, ask her to send "Zhou Mingrui" back to his home on Earth.

    - Tell her his true origin? He is also a visitor from another world, but he accidentally entered the body of the dead original owner "Klein Moretti"...

    But if he said it directly, would she still recognize the agreement between him and him?

    Miss Alice does not know the 21st century youth named Zhou Mingrui, and the person who made a contract with her is called Klein Moretti. What if she suspects that Klein's body is usurped by an unknown soul at this time, will she use some means to extract him from her body...

    No, no, he can't be unreserved. He can't guess how she will react. The risk of expressing it like this is too great!

    Moreover, there are still too many doubts about himself and the truth about the original owner "Klein"'s death.

    For example, the words "Everyone will die, including me" left by the original owner in the notebook, and the strange and terrifying resurrection from the dead, and the Antigonus family notebook that is still missing...

    ——!!!

    Klein's footsteps suddenly stopped.

    "Well, what's wrong?" Alice also stopped and asked with a blink.

    He rarely paid attention to her question, but looked up at a building on the street behind him with surprise.

    Why didn't he find it?

    This street always gave him a vague sense of familiarity. Why didn't he find it?

    Isn't this the hiding place chosen by the kidnappers in the kidnapping case yesterday? !

    How could there be such a coincidence that he accidentally came here again?

    ... However.

    The reason why he suddenly stopped was not this creepy familiarity. At

    that moment just now, Klein clearly felt a familiar gaze!

    Invisible and indifferent, the gaze from behind!

    According to Captain Dunn, if he had a similar feeling, it meant...

    there was no mistake about the Antigonus family's notebook!

    It was in that building!

    "Miss Witch, can you do me a favor?"

    Klein was so excited that he even called the girl by his name in his heart, but he couldn't care less at the moment.

    "Can you accompany me to a place? Soon, it will be near here, and there may be danger... Can you protect me?"

    Alice knew that there was probably some emergency at this time, and Klein's request now was unlikely to be his wish, but when she heard the name that made her unhappy, she still gave him a displeased look.

    "Okay, Mr. Klein... But please pay more."