Mirror Ghost's Fate

"Ridanput? Seville?"

Only then did Shade learn the two ladies' middle names. Before this, he had only known that Dorothy's middle name began with R during Summer Exam week.

"Push open the door of the Four Elements, and bear witness to the path of sublimation."

On the snow-covered street within the mirror, where neither matches nor a Ritual Matrix had originally existed, three hundred and sixty-five matches identical to those in the attic appeared out of nowhere, along with a Ritual Matrix centered on the Sun, Moon, and Stars and a simplified diagram of the human body.

The Ritual Matrices inside and outside the mirror were completely joined into a single whole. To Shade, divided by the mirror surface, the sight was strange, yet somehow felt exactly as it should be.

"Push open the door of the Four Elements, and bear witness to the path of sublimation."

"Push open the door of the Four Elements, and bear witness to the path of sublimation."

When the final line was finally spoken, Shade immediately pulled apart the hands of the two women that were touching the mirror surface. The pain did not vanish completely, but he thought it should lessen somewhat. Even so, their condition remained dire. Leisha inside the mirror had gone completely limp, slumped crookedly beside Shade, her Destiny Ring so faint that only a shadow remained. Dorothy outside the mirror was barely maintaining consciousness thanks to her increased strength, but she looked close to collapsing as well.

At the same time, Shade used a spell to make the four matches he had prepared in Dorothy's pocket fly out and arrive before him.

"Mystic Lock—The Little Match Girl!"

The extremely incomplete Mystic Lock unfolded once more, affecting both sides of the mirror at once.

"**First match, the beginning of the