"I am Krismona, one of the administrators of these Underground Catacombs." The black-haired woman bowed slightly with elegance as she introduced herself. The body beneath her loose, unadorned white robe inexplicably stirred a trace of heat in Christina and Dorothy. "I guard the entrance to the fourth level, preventing anyone from entering unless necessary."
"But those tourists, and Mr. Pierre just now, have all been to the fourth level. He never mentioned you."
Dorothy frowned slightly in confusion, her gaze lingering on the spot where the Trier University student had abruptly vanished.
"Because the fourth level most tourists enter is actually a 'Mirror World' that replicates everything in reality. They step inside, explore, and leave satisfied, but they never truly reach the next level."
The Mirror World... Is this Lady Krismona also a high-ranking Demoness, like Lady Chariot whom we met earlier? Tina immediately thought of that dark, shadowy space where gray Mirror Tunnels alone connected the different mirrors. She could not reconcile it with catacombs that "replicated reality" so faithfully that the real and false were indistinguishable.
Yet according to this Demoness, she and Dorothy had already entered the Mirror World!
It really isn't very different from reality. If she hadn't told us herself, I wouldn't even have noticed anything... Tina looked around. Within the circle of dim candlelight, she could see only the enormous "Night Pillar" extending from floor to ceiling. She realized she had no way of telling the Mirror World apart from the Physical World.
Wait, this is the Krismona Night Pillar, and the Demoness before us calls herself Krismona. The Genie said the stone pillar formed after a Sequence 2 Catastrophe Demoness died. Could she actually be...
At that thought, Tina's face paled. Her enchantment with Krismona's beauty and bearing was instantly diluted by icy