"So, after Gray returned to our current point in time, the 'closed loop' was actually complete..."
Angel had arrived above the gray fog early. Sitting in the high-backed chair belonging to the Empress, she sprawled idly over the bronze table, propped her head on one hand, and looked toward Klein, the Fool, as she asked.
"That was another way to deceive the 'world,'" answered the World, who sat at the other end of the table, deliberately shrouding himself in fog and looking rather gloomy. "I got the inspiration from a work from the Old Era. As long as Angel Gray believed everything was real, then everything was real."
"But it took me a lot of effort to calm her down. She felt exactly the way I did when Adam told me I was fake, a personality he had imagined into existence—dejected, hopeless, and wanting nothing more than to disappear from this world."
Angel turned toward the Klein on the other side and muttered.
Of course, Adam had not been deceiving Angel back then. Even he had believed that Gray, hidden within the Mirror World, was the real one, while the Angel Granger in the Physical World was a false "Mirror Person."
So this was what deceiving the world meant? Only on June 28, 1354, did the Lord of Mysteries and God Almighty, those two frauds, learn what they needed to do... As she pondered this, the guilt she had felt over being saved by information passed down from "another timeline," yet being unable to help them in return, eased somewhat.
With Angel's guidance, Gray's emotions had stabilized. The two had also worked out a preliminary plan for how this Mirror Person, who had developed an independent consciousness, would coexist with her original self.
Now that Gray had returned to her