"You—or rather, we—were once an 'Apocalypse' Demoness?"
Angel's pointed question left her Mirror Person silent for a moment, as though she did not know how to answer.
A rare bewilderment appeared in her purple eyes, only to be concealed beneath their calm, gemlike sheen the instant Angel caught it.
"That's right. We did experience a period as a Sequence 1 'Apocalypse.' Specifically, it was during the thirty minutes before you became Angel Granger and I withdrew into the mirror to become your Mirror Person. After that, that power vanished completely, and I became an 'Assassin,' just like you."
Her Mirror Person answered carefully, her gaze wavering slightly.
"As for the other question—how I knew all this... I'm not quite sure myself," she continued, leaving Angel dumbfounded. "I only have thirty minutes more of memories than you. They include information about 'Outer Deities' and the 'Apocalypse,' as well as the significance of sefirot and above the Sequence. But they don't include how we left the City of Calamity and appeared in Tingen City, beside the recently deceased Cole Granger."
"But I'm certain that all of this has something to do with Adam and Amanises, because my earliest memory is of them standing before me, giving what were clearly perfunctory introductions."
That... is much like the fragments I saw during my advancement, except that I was lying on the ground then, with Adam and the Goddess beside me... Angel stared in disbelief. She had thought that after her arduous advancement to a "Catastrophe" Demoness, she could retrieve all the memories Adam had sealed away from her Mirror Person. Instead, she had found another victim in much the same predicament.
"What else did they say during that half hour?"
Angel pressed on, her questions multiplying rather than finding answers.
"Some cryptic things. For