"It's just excessive spirituality consumption. A little rest will do."
Krismona asked curiously, "What were you doing just now?"
"Trying to crack that wall and enter the Deep Mirror World."
"But that's impossible. Only..."
Edward opened his eyes and said, "If I were Sequence 2 right now, I might have succeeded."
"..."
Krismona's words caught in her throat. Reason told her it was impossible, but her intuition said he wasn't joking. All she could say was... was this only to be expected of the person her mother had always kept in her thoughts?
"After Lilith enters the Mirror World, can you only wait passively for her to return?"
"Yes."
"There's nothing at all you can do to help her?"
Her eyes lowered. "That is the domain of gods. I... am powerless."
Edward immediately knitted his brows. "Then you have absolutely no way of knowing how she's doing right now?"
"No!"
She hurriedly said, "Although Mother took Arrodes's main body with her, I've always been able to communicate with the consciousness he left outside and learn about her situation that way."
Arrodes could do that too?
Oh, right. In the original story, he seemed to have used a similar method to suck up to Klein for all he was worth.
"Can you take me to see him?"
"Of course. He's in the dressing mirror in my bedroom."
Edward immediately used Wandering to appear in Krismona's bedroom. He reached the redwood dressing mirror in a few strides. "Arrodes, can you hear me?"
"..."
The dressing mirror gave no response.
"Arrodes. Arrodes."
Edward tapped the mirror with a finger. "Honorable Mr. Arrodes, I have questions for you."
"..."
He continued to play dead.
"Are you sure Arrodes is here?"
Edward turned to Krismona, who had arrived after him. She looked puzzled too. "That