"Human, what do you mean?"
The Strange Creature was still bewildered by the commission and the mirror when Su Bai hurled his three questions at him in rapid succession.
A Long-Life Species who had become a Ghost Creature?
What did that mean?
"The most important question is, was the power Mr. Mirror left behind strong enough to sustain the Mirror World even now?" Su Bai glanced at the round mirror in his hand. The pale, thin hand was still there, pointing toward the Strange Creature... or rather, toward the shattered mirror.
"Is Mr. Mirror really the one who has been sustaining this Mirror World all along?" Su Bai was reluctant to speculate about any terrible truth, but both he and Feng Ling had seen the hand the Long-Life Species had extended. When they exchanged glances, each could sense the other's shock.
"A mirror? What mirror?" The Long-Life Species skipped straight past Su Bai's questions and pressed him about the mirror instead.
With blue flame coiling around him, Su Bai held out the round mirror toward the Long-Life Species.
Perhaps sensing Su Bai's movement, the Long-Life Species, who had been sitting with his back to them all this time, rose shakily to his feet. Something seemed wrong with his body; his movements were stiff and accompanied by creaking sounds.
Only after he had finally managed to stand upright did he slowly turn toward them, revealing his true appearance for the first time-
Beneath the layers of clothing that had deteriorated into rags was not a body weakened and emaciated by suffering like that of his fellow Long-Life Species, Lorimas... but a stark white skeleton!
Eighty percent of the body concealed beneath those rags had been reduced to bare bones. The right hand he had reached toward the mirror with earlier was