A Chance Encounter with a "Mirror Person"

The vibration was extremely faint, masked by the carriage wheels rattling over the gaps between paving stones. If Angel had been two Sequences lower, with only the physical abilities of a Mid Sequence Beyonder, she might not even have sensed the mirror shard wrapped in invisible threads trembling.

But there was no doubt about it: a "Mirror Person" had appeared within ten meters of her!

On bustling Shady Avenue, how many people and carriages were passing by?

Tiny flashes flickered through Angel's violet eyes like sunlight glancing off a mirror. In that instant, she used the upper windows of the buildings along the street and their decorative metal surfaces as "mirrors" to observe her carriage and everyone around it.

Six pedestrians, three carriages... She quickly identified every suspect, then ruled out most of them based on when the shard stopped vibrating. That left one carriage and two pedestrians. All three had just passed beyond ten meters from her, traveling in the opposite direction.

Without hesitation, Angel left a Mirror Substitution in her seat. She herself entered the Mirror World through the carriage window, whose constantly shaking glass had become a motionless black vortex for an instant.

Within that mysterious, profound space, which overlapped perfectly with the real Trier, illusory passages extended in every direction. Some led to windows along Shady Avenue, including those Angel had just used to look around. Others moved constantly—the windows of passing carriages. Countless more stretched toward infinity, enough to make anyone dizzy.

Used to the sight, Angel quickly found a suitable "exit." She first turned invisible within the Mirror World, then reached out with the shard in hand to check each suspect for a reaction.

The method worked remarkably well. The three suspects gradually separated as they traveled at different speeds, and the shard reacted