Anime Crossover: The Losing Heroines Have Become Witches Chapter 264: The Mirror Realm

Guided by the young girl, the old Ford landed on the street, canceling its invisibility as it drove through an alley, then slowly stopped in front of a house.

"This is it!"

Chihaya Anon said, her tone sounding sowhat joyful, clearly not yet fully recovered from the excitent of riding in a Flight Magic car.

"Takuma-kun…"

Asagumo Chihaya frowned slightly, looking at Asakura.

"Mm."

Asakura also nodded imperceptibly.

Leaving aside Asakura, who inherently possessed the ability to perceive magical power, Asagumo Chihaya, who had experienced the runaway Moon Clock pocket watch, had lost the ability to use Magic, but as a trade-off, her perception in this regard was even more acute than that of a witch like Gokou Ruri who could use Magic normally.

At this mont, both of them, more or less, felt a subtle flow of distorted magical power from Chihaya Anon's house.

Originally, Asakura had thought that to find the culprit, the Magic Mirror, they might have to trace it all the way from the airport with Chihaya Anon, but now it seems it won't be that troubleso.

"Anon, was everything normal at your house when you returned yesterday?"

Asakura asked.

"Everything, everything was normal? That illusion, oh no, the strange thing didn't appear either…"

The pink-haired young girl, who had just excitedly exited the car, paused her lively movents and asked in confusion, "What's wrong?"

"Are your parents ho?"

Asakura did not answer, only continued to ask.

"Dad cos back later, but Mom should be ho…"

The young girl speculated, resting her finger on her chin.

"I see—" Asakura nodded, his face grim: "Then let's go in quickly."

"Oh, oh…"

Although she found Asakura's attitude a bit strange, the girl still obediently opened the door and walked into her house first.

However, the mont she stepped over the threshold, an ear-piercing static noise, like an old radio failing to tune into the correct channel, made the girl involuntarily frown and instinctively cover her ears.

And when she ca back to her senses, she found that the scenery around her had undergone a drastic change.

Although from the structure of the house, she was still standing in a place similar to an entrance hall, there was no longer a door behind her. Instead, there was a huge, sowhat frightening Mirror. At this mont, her reflection in the Mirror was staring coldly at her with hollow, lifeless eyes.

Chihaya Anon shivered: "Asakura? Asagumo-senpai?"

She tried to call out, but there was no response.

Looking inside the house, the walls, which were originally covered with warm-toned wallpaper, had lost their usual cozy feeling, replaced by many mirrors emitting a cold, bluish light. In an instant, Chihaya Anon felt as if she had entered a common Mirror maze found in amusent parks.

However, unlike the amusent park facilities where one could easily find a way out, at this mont, the mirrors surrounding the young girl reflected each other like Russian nesting dolls, making it seem as if each Mirror had beco an infinitely distant and profound tunnel.

An eerie and sinister feeling gripped the young girl's heart. Although it was sumr, Chihaya Anon felt as if the blood in her veins had congealed, and a chilling numbness perated her entire body, from her heart to her limbs.

"Asakura? This joke isn't funny at all!"

She tried to shout, desperately hoping to see Asakura jump out from so corner holding a sign that read 'Prank Success' or sothing similar the next mont.

But nothing happened.

Suddenly, a cold hand touched the young girl's face from behind.

Chihaya Anon was startled but also relieved. She turned her head, wanting to complain to Asakura or Asagumo Chihaya, but then she saw that the pale arm touching her face was reaching out from the Mirror behind her. It was the hand of 'herself' with hollow eyes but an unnaturally distorted mouth.

"Ugh…"

The young girl instantly felt as if her lungs had deflated. The imnse terror even deprived her of the strength to scream, leaving her mind blank.

And precisely because of this, she was able to see that in the Mirror behind her, a 'herself' with limbs significantly longer than her own and skin revealing a sickly pale blue-white color like that of a dead person was slowly erging from the Mirror, opening her mouth like a lamprey towards her—

And so, the string of sanity in the young girl's mind snapped. She ran frantically into the house, but in her haste, she crashed into a Mirror, shattering it and causing herself to fall to the ground.

Although her palms and arms were stinging from the glass shards, Chihaya Anon couldn't care less at this mont.

Because almost at the sa mont, the distorted figures in the mirrors seed to have co to life, and all of them simultaneously turned their hollow, utterly lifeless gazes towards the young girl. Even more, so had already begun to crawl out of the mirrors, just like the one at the entrance, attempting to beco independent monsters and crawl towards her.

The young girl felt her scalp tingle, but at this mont, she had no retreat—the house door itself was blocked by a huge Mirror, the stairs were full of these strange mirrors and nacing imposters of herself, and even from the ceiling hung many enormous hands that were clearly not human, much longer, with arm parts exceeding two ters.

Although she didn't know what would happen if she were caught by these long arms, like man-eating vines, it was clear that Chihaya Anon had no intention of experiencing it firsthand.

Just as one of the long, massive hands was about to grab the girl, the braided… I an, the Ouroboros pendant, which the girl had carefully treasured, suddenly ca to life. It sprang out of the young girl's pocket like a spring, its snake head directly colliding with the terrifyingly long, massive hand, which was completely out of proportion to its size.

As a result, the terrifying-looking giant hand, instead, seed to have been cremated, emitting a sizzling sound. Imdiately after, the spot hit by the snake pendant turned black and rapidly spread. In less than three seconds, the entire giant long hand turned completely black, finally crumbling and leaving a pile of coal-like dust on the floor.

"How amazing…"

The young girl cradled the snake pendant, which had returned to her, and murmured to herself.

But then her expression turned sowhat despairing again, because in just a short mont, she had already been surrounded by those creatures that had crawled out of the Mirror, looking like 'Chihaya Anon' but actually just so kind of monster with a human shell.