Trissy? I thought she had gone to secretly meet Edessak now that he was back. Why had she come looking for me again?
Angel was curious, but she still responded and arranged to meet Trissy at her lodgings shortly.
Surprisingly, this time Trissy had not chosen the impoverished, chaotic East Borough as her refuge. Instead, she was staying at a hotel in the North Borough, just one street away from Saint Samuel Cathedral, the largest cathedral in Backlund. This left Angel somewhat concerned about her mental state.
Had she settled her last concern and decided to turn herself in?
Chuckling inwardly, Angel performed her customary divination to confirm that it was safe before connecting to the Mirror World. She looked toward central Backlund through the Mirror Tunnel, located Trissy's room in a hotel on Arka Street in the North Borough, and activated its largest dressing mirror, making her mirror substitute appear directly on the room's armchair.
At such a short distance, she did not need to go there in person at all. She could simply let her substitute do the work.
A substitute casually fashioned like this could transmit Sequence 4 power and be swapped with her real body at any moment, making it difficult to distinguish the real from the fake.
Trissy, at least, did not notice. She merely glanced at the activated mirror and instinctively assumed Angel was hiding behind it, projecting her substitute into reality.
"I thought you were with your prince. Why are you staying in the North Borough, near the Church of Night?"
Once Trissy sat down across from "her," Angel was the first to speak.
"If I hadn't received your reply, I was planning to go straight into the cathedral and seek protection. Even being locked in a dungeon would be safer than my