A few minutes later, after Mirror had told Lin En everything she had learned from Anna, even he was left stunned for a long time, unable to say a word.
He had never imagined that, when they fell... Hana Ye had been there too?!
Mirror bit her lip and said:
"That's what happened. I just never imagined that girl would be connected to what we went through back then... in this way..."
Of course, Lin En had heard them talk about their experiences.
More than ten years ago.
Many children, Mirror among them, had been secretly abducted and taken beneath that church, all to create some kind of vessel that would allow the Weird deep within the Spirit Realm to descend.
And what Ophiel had told him had confirmed this.
The Demon Vessel Incident had indeed caused an enormous uproar in Clockwork City back then.
Lin En's gaze flickered as he said:
"How could it be such a coincidence? Did you see Hana Ye back then too?"
Mirror shook her head and said:
"No, only Anna did. Before she triggered the fall, she was told to look after a little girl. Now it seems that girl was Hana Ye. But she was different from us. In Anna's words... Hana Ye seemed to have been sent there willingly."
Her gaze turned to Hana Ye, who lay pale and unconscious on the bed, and a trace of pity entered her eyes.
"I'm not entirely sure, but Anna told me... she once secretly overheard those people... calling her the most perfect vessel."
Lin En narrowed his eyes.
A perfect vessel?
At that moment, he realized that all the clues were beginning to connect.
A horrifying truth was on the verge of surfacing.
He knew that Mirror and the others had been subjected to