When everyone was puzzled, they suddenly heard Dox let out a startled "Huh?"
"Look, doesn't this resemble a human figure?" Dox pointed at a black streak on the shattered mirror surface.
Before this, everyone had only noticed how blurred the mirror was and had paid no attention to the marks on it. Only after Dox mentioned it did they turn their attention to the black blotches on the surface.
Now that they looked, it really did resemble a human silhouette at first glance, and...
"Why does it look a little familiar to me?" Wai was the one who spoke. He too thought the black blotch looked like a human figure, and he had the persistent feeling that he had seen it somewhere before.
As he spoke, Wai moved closer to Dox, craning his neck to examine the mirror closely. His face was nearly pressed against it.
Just then, the mirror surface suddenly reflected a flash of light, dazzling Wai's eyes.
Wai instinctively stepped back and shut his eyes.
When he opened them again, he found the surroundings utterly silent. He looked around and saw everyone staring at the mirror with stunned expressions.
Wai rubbed his aching, swollen eyes, then stepped forward to inspect the mirror as well.
When he looked at the mirror again, his expression became just as startled and doubtful as everyone else's.
"H-how... did it change color?"
The trace of the black human figure remained, but the blurred mirror surface had turned entirely blood-red, as though bloody light were flowing across it.
Not only the others—even Angel was astonished. His attention had previously been fixed on the mark of the human figure, but now the flowing blood-red light left him baffled as well.
He had clearly examined this shard with his senses and found nothing unusual. If