How could one experience such dizzying highs and crushing lows in so short a time?
Parrot had never known how to answer that question before, but now... he understood.
He had experienced a soaring high and a devastating fall in the span of moments.
The high, naturally, had been obtaining a ticket to the Wizarding World.
The fall was being seized by his enemy before he had even left the Mirror Realm...
Parrot raised his head and looked beyond the "glass."
An enormous face was slowly approaching the glass, its eyes filled with mockery, like a giant observing a canary trapped inside a birdcage.
In truth, that was more or less exactly what had happened. Parrot had been captured and locked inside a miniature glass sphere. Yes, he had been shrunk.
Now, the glass sphere was being idly played with by the person outside.
Looking at that face, identical to Luigi's, Parrot felt utterly stifled and helpless...
He had been deceived by that fake Luigi's face.
"Luigi" had come looking for him, saying he would take him away.
Parrot had believed him without a second thought and immediately followed. If he had been a little more cautious then, if he had taken even a brief look into Luigi, perhaps he could have avoided this misfortune.
But... saying any of that now was useless.
Besides, there had been a reason he had not looked into Luigi. When he had first met Luigi and Laplace, a wizard's faint sixth sense had warned him that none of them were easy to deal with. Any discourtesy could worsen their relationship and ultimately bring disaster upon himself. Under those circumstances, there was no way he would have probed Luigi.
So the little calculations now swirling in his heart did not even qualify as hindsight.
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