"N-No, it's nothing."
The two girls were somewhat wary of Mayu Hinase's sudden appearance, but perhaps because she was about their age, they gradually let down their guard and answered in low voices.
"My name is Mayu Hinase. And you are...?"
Mayu Hinase glanced around, making sure there were no Evil Spirits nearby before introducing herself.
Hearing Mayu Hinase's question, the two exchanged a glance. Then one of them spoke.
"My name is Mio Amakura. She is my older sister, Mayu Amakura."
"Nice to meet you."
Mayu Hinase nodded to them in greeting. Then her gaze dropped, and she immediately spotted the square Black Box Mio Amakura was holding. Her expression shifted slightly when she saw it.
"A Camera Obscura? Why do you have that?"
After the incident at Himuro Mansion, Shizuku had stopped paying attention to what happened here. Mayu Hinase, on the other hand, perhaps because of her brother, had remained deeply concerned about the events at Himuro Mansion. Of course, although she had learned the full story behind the disaster there, there were still things she had yet to figure out.
One of them was where the Camera Obscura she had obtained had originally come from.
After learning from Shizuku that the Camera Obscura contained fragments of the Sacred Mirror, Mayu Hinase became even more puzzled.
According to the past she had witnessed, the Sacred Mirror had shattered into five pieces after the ritual failed. After that failure, miasma poured out through the Gate of Yomi, affecting everyone in Himuro Mansion and wiping them all out. From then on, Himuro Mansion had become a place of death.
So who had put the Sacred Mirror fragments into the Camera Obscura?
Could it have been the young Himuro Kirie?
Mayu Hinase could not make sense of it. According to