To begin from the start.
After Mirror Wraith entered Little Saim's room, he swiftly enveloped the entire room with his power, creating a layer of multiple mirror images.
A mirror image was a kind of reversed, ring-like space created with mirrors as the medium and space as the guide.
It possessed the nature of an illusion, yet it was not merely an illusion. The mirror world endowed mirror images with an unimaginable sense of reality. If one could not find a way to break the mirror image, one might even be trapped within the mirror world forever.
And breaking a mirror image was not so easy.
Other than using overwhelming power to crush it directly, there was only one way to break a mirror image.
First, one had to be in The Real World, rather than a mirror-image world replicated by the mirrors. This could be seen from what had happened earlier to Little Saim and the other wizard apprentices. Those apprentices had entered the mirror-image world from the outset, so everything they did was futile. They thought they could become saviors, only to end up as prisoners instead.
Little Saim was different. He had actually entered the real room before the mirror image was formed. One could say that Little Saim had been in The Real World from the very beginning. Even after a reversed mirror-image space appeared, there was one—and only one—such space.
Little Saim had also been extremely restrained. He had only experimented back and forth between The Real World and that sole mirror-image space. Had he chosen to climb out through the window, he likely would have become like those wizard apprentices, lost among different mirror-image spaces.
Of course, Angel believed that even if Little Saim had not climbed through the window, Mirror Wraith would still