At the Iris Flower Winery on the outskirts of Backlund.
Angel had already changed into her nightdress and was preparing to enjoy a rare good night's sleep when she suddenly felt a stirring in her spirituality. Puzzled, she looked around and activated Spirit Vision, but found nothing.
Strange. This doesn't seem to be a problem in the real world. Does it have something to do with my "Mirror Person"?
Taking precautions, she did not enter the Mirror World and head straight to the City of Calamity's projection there. Instead, she recited her own honorific name and refused to respond, allowing the prayer to pass to her "Mirror Person" for her to answer.
Soon, words spoken in a voice identical to hers, but with a slightly different intonation, reached Angel's ears in the form of a "bestowal":
"I sensed that stirring in spirituality too. Someone was summoning your 'Historical Void Image.' Since the situation was unclear, I refused."
What is that...? Angel was bewildered for a moment, then sent the same question through a prayer.
Separated from her by the Mirror World, the "Mirror Person," who was conversing with her through prayers and responses to the same honorific name, patiently explained:
"This is an ability possessed only by high-level Seers. They can summon power from the 'history' of people and objects they've come into contact with. For a 'person,' that means summoning an image with some of their abilities, but little independent will. It's rather like our 'Mirror Substitution'...
"Have you encountered a high-level Seer recently? Don't tell me Zarathus has come looking for you?"
She knows about Zarathus?
Angel considered for a moment, then shook her head and answered:
"That's unlikely. If Little Zarathus really made a move, he would definitely be confident that Backlund's Orthodox Churches wouldn't interfere. In