The sorority at Mouster College has a very special initiation ritual—the “Bloody Mary” summoning ga.
Anyone who wishes to join the sorority and beco an official mber must hold a lit white candle, walk alone through a pitch-dark corridor, enter the sorority’s small activity room, and in the darkness face a full-length mirror placed against the wall, calling out the na “Bloody Mary” three tis.
Only by completing this ritual can a participant prove they possess strong ntal resilience and admirable courage, earning acceptance from the other sorority mbers.
It is said that this tradition has been passed down within the sorority for over two hundred years. No one knows why the very first generation chose this ga, but over ti, the ritual has beco an unchangeable tradition.
Fortunately, in the past two hundred years, despite such frequent summoning attempts, the sorority has never actually summoned the real Bloody Mary.
“Hmph, as if it were that easy… Spiritual diums aren’t sothing you find everywhere. Even if soone has spiritual power, if they don’t genuinely want to see from the bottom of their heart during the ritual, it will most likely fail,” Bloody Mary added smugly after learning what Everly was thinking.
Everly didn’t understand what she was so proud of—shouldn’t being hard to summon be a bad thing for her…?
But according to Bloody Mary, Bethany had actually wanted to summon her sincerely?
Bloody Mary snorted. “That’s right… who knows what was going on in her head. She had a perfectly good wealthy life, yet instead of enjoying it, she went looking for excitent, wanting to glimpse another world. Still, thanks to her, I finally got the chance to escape from hell and enter this mirror.”
The full-length mirror is an essential prop for the summoning ritual. The sorority’s main activity room has a mirror, but it is fixed to the wall and cannot be moved. So before the welco party, they would notify the drama club in advance and borrow a prop mirror that had been left gathering dust in the club’s storage room, moving it into the small activity room.
January 24 unfolded exactly like this.
At noon that day, the mirror was set up in advance in the small activity room, placed directly facing the entrance door.
That night, eight prospective mbers were gathered in the hallway of the student activity center, each holding a lit white candle. The sorority examiners first announced the rules in the corridor. Then, to heighten the horror of the ga, they exaggerated and intimidated as much as possible, lowering their voices and vividly telling the candidates chilling stories related to “Bloody Mary.”
Once the stories were finished, the challenge officially began. The girls, candles in hand, entered the small activity room one by one in order. The examiners responsible for evaluation would close the door from the outside, leaving each girl alone inside to perform the ritual.
What the sorority did not explicitly state was that the small activity room contained not only the mirror, but also hidden microphones. If a candidate failed to recite the ritual incantation as required, it would be considered a failed attempt. Likewise, when leaving the room, if her posture was improper, her expression panicked, or the candle in her hand had accidentally gone out, she would also be declared to have failed.
The five girls who entered before Bethany were all eliminated for these reasons.
When it was Bethany’s turn, this girl displayed courage far beyond the others during the ritual. She completed the summoning smoothly—and for various reasons, she successfully brought the evil spirit Bloody Mary, who had been trapped in hell, into the world.
According to legend, after successfully summoning Bloody Mary, she would, depending on her mood, either give you a prophecy that would inevitably co true, or kill you outright.
“So you were in a bad mood at the ti?” Everly interrupted upon hearing this.
“No, you’re mistaken. I was in a very good mood, so I gave her an absolutely accurate prophecy—” At this point, Bloody Mary lowered her head slightly, the whites of her eyes rolling upward, her tone suddenly turning dark. “I told Bethany that she would die very soon.”
In a sense, that prophecy did co true—because the very next second, Bloody Mary reached out, grabbed Bethany, and dragged her into the mirror, then took on Bethany’s appearance and entered the real world.
“Hmm, be amazed—this is the strongest ability I created, one that only I can use: Mirror Substitution! As long as the person outside the mirror forms a contract with , I can use the mirror to swap places with them, escape the mirror, and enter the human world!” Bloody Mary’s eyebrows danced wildly, her excitent clearly rising again.
Everly thought back to Bloody Mary’s prophecy.
According to it, she might encounter so danger in the future and would need to rely on Bloody Mary’s abilities to escape. That made it crucial to understand those abilities now—otherwise, if danger really ca, she’d be completely at a loss and wouldn’t even know how to borrow that power.
This was exactly “Horror Movie Survival Rule #9: Always be prepared to run for your life!”
So she cooperated by putting on an awestruck, inexperienced expression, showering Bloody Mary with praise. Taking advantage of Bloody Mary’s swelling pride and loose tongue, she managed to learn most of the evil spirit’s abilities.
In simple terms, aside from common offensive spells, Bloody Mary’s three core abilities were: “Mirror Contract,” “Mirror Realm Traversal,” and “Mirror Substitution.”
“Mirror Contract,” as the na suggests, is forming a contract through a mirror.
But not just any mirror will do—it must be the one Bloody Mary inhabits, naly the full-length prop mirror used in the summoning ritual from the drama club. Other mirrors have no effect.
Anyone who stands before that mirror and calls Bloody Mary’s na three tis will automatically form the contract.
“Anyone who forms a Mirror Contract with becos a marked prey. As long as I wish, I can appear in any mirror that reflects the marked person and swap places with whoever is outside the mirror. That swapping spell is ‘Mirror Substitution,’” Bloody Mary boasted proudly.
She had every reason to be proud—because as the forr “Mirror Witch,” Bloody Mary possesses a unique domain that belongs only to her: an endless world of mirrors.
According to Bloody Mary’s description, the mirror world has no boundaries, nor any sense of up, down, left, or right. There are only countless mirrors floating in the void. Each of these mirrors corresponds to a mirror in the real world—they are “reflections of mirrors.”
Back when Mary was not yet Bloody Mary, but rely the Mirror Witch, she could use the mirror world as a transit hub, traveling freely to any place she wished through these “mirror reflections.” This ability is called “Mirror Realm Traversal.”
“Since you can move freely through mirrors, how did you end up being persecuted and killed by the Church?” Everly raised her hand.
She swore she asked purely out of curiosity, with no intention of mocking or provoking—but Bloody Mary reacted like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, instantly exploding in anger.
“Ahhhhhh! What do you think—why do you think?! That damned Church, and that damned man! He tricked , he tricked —ahhhhhh!”
Bloody Mary raged for quite a while. During that ti, she behaved almost like an animal stuck in a repetitive loop—pacing in circles, head lowered, muttering nonstop. Everly couldn’t even find a chance to comfort her.
After listening for a long ti, Everly roughly pieced together the story: the reason Mary had been killed by the Church was that, during her adolescence, she had fallen for the wrong person—a soldier with a broad chest and shapely figure.
That soldier used sweet words to win her heart, and through subtle probing, he tricked her into revealing the weakness of her abilities: although Bloody Mary could freely travel between the real world and the mirror world, she needed a mirror nearby to do so.
The soldier stole the hand mirror she carried and lured her into a small, empty room with nothing inside. Soon after, mbers of the Church and the Inquisition burst in. After a struggle, they seriously injured Mary.
They planned to hold a trial for the Mirror Witch a few days later—and then burn her alive in public.
Mary refused to let things end like that. In her dungeon cell, she drew a hexagram ritual circle, offered her soul to Satan, and fell into hell—becoming the infamous evil spirit known as “Bloody Mary.”
Becoming an evil spirit was a betrayal of her witch bloodline. Because of her willing fall into corruption, Bloody Mary was punished, losing her ability to freely travel between the mirror world and the real world. The once bright and warm mirror world also turned into a place of darkness—desolate and ruined.
Now, she is completely trapped within the mirror world—or rather, rejected by the real world. Only by using “Mirror Substitution” can she briefly enter the human realm.
The ability “Mirror Substitution” can be simply understood as swapping the positions of a reflection and its original.
Take what happened on the night of January 24 as an example:
After being summoned into the human world by Bethany, Bloody Mary first took on Bethany’s appearance, becoming her reflection within the mirror. Then, she used “Mirror Substitution” on Bethany.
Once the ability was activated, Bethany—who had originally been in the real world—was dragged into the mirror world, while Bloody Mary seized the chance to enter reality, replacing Bethany and taking over her identity as the “new” Bethany.
Although the location differed, in essence, Bloody Mary was still Bethany’s reflection. Therefore, when the Bethany trapped inside the mirror weakened and died, Bloody Mary’s body would undergo the sa changes, dying and decaying along with the original… This is the fundantal reason why Bloody Mary moves around in a “living corpse” state.
“Then why was Sara wearing pajamas when she ca out of the mirror?”
“Because releasing soone from the mirror is essentially the sa as performing another ‘Mirror Substitution’ between and her. At that point, she becos my reflection, so naturally, her clothes change along with mine.”
“I see…” Everly recalled the cri scene photos of several girls.
When Bethany’s body was discovered, there was a hand mirror placed beside her. In the bathroom where Cassandra died, a long mirror was embedded in the wall. Inside Mia’s pencil case was an open double-sided compact mirror. As for Ella, she died during the third act’s “monologue to the mirror”…
As for Bianca, Everly couldn’t quite rember whether there had been a mirror at her death scene, but she felt there must have been—after all, Bloody Mary could only complete the substitution through a mirror.
But Everly still had another question: “Then why was Sara uninjured when she ca out of the mirror?”
“Are you done yet? Why do you have so many questions?!” Bloody Mary snapped impatiently at her.
But when she saw Everly take out her phone as if to report her, she imdiately backed down. “Alright, alright, no need for that! I’ll explain if you want to know… Basically, Sara is a real human, not my reflection. So once she enters the real world, she is imdiately protected by its laws. Even if I’m missing limbs or in a terrible state, she won’t turn into that miserable condition along with !”
Everly didn’t fully understand, but this wasn’t an academic study—she didn’t need to grasp every detail. It was enough to know that when soone is released from the mirror world, their clothing may change, but their physical condition remains unaffected.
“Mirror Substitution” is extrely useful, but it has one prerequisite: both parties involved must have ford a “Mirror Contract.”
Among the six victims, Bethany was the one who summoned Bloody Mary, so she naturally had a contract with her. Cassandra and Mia were the last two to undergo the initiation test that night, and both completed the ritual. Mia, however, was unlucky—when she left, her candle accidentally went out, so she failed to officially join the sorority.
Thus, the first three victims had already ford their contracts with Bloody Mary on the very first night.
After the welco night ended, the sorority asked two boys to help carry the mirror back to the drama club’s storage room. Bloody Mary had no interest in n, so she didn’t force the two of them to form a contract.
Before using up her three “reserves,” Bloody Mary carefully selected her next target and set her sights on Abby, who had a pretty face. Using the excuse of “looking for inspiration for new accessories,” she requested to visit the drama club’s storage room.
Abby was unguarded. At the appointed ti, she brought Mia into the storage room, saw the mirror, and was bewitched by it—forming a Mirror Contract with Bloody Mary.
After Abby, Bloody Mary set her sights on Sara, a glamorous but sharp-tongued girl from the sa club.
She had originally planned to use Abby’s club connections to lure Sara into the storage room to sign the contract. However, sothing went wrong during execution—Sara sent Bianca in her place to run the errand, and it was Bianca who ended up forming the contract instead.
“Luckily, I still managed to get Sara’s body in the end through my own cleverness… but I have to say, her chest is way too big. It looks nice from the outside, but in reality it’s heavy—I felt like I was about to hunch over!”
Everly: “I don’t understand. Since Mirror Substitution can be reversed, why don’t you ti it properly—swap them out when they’re just starting to feel hungry, but not starving? That way, once they eat and drink, you could keep switching back and forth without having to constantly look for new bodies.”
“Because that would be too much trouble,” Bloody Mary said, crossing her legs. “I still want to stay outside and have fun for a few more days. That thing you people have now—the internet—is really interesting. You can easily find lots of handso guys just by browsing… what a great era…”
Just because of that…? Because switching bodies was inconvenient, she simply let the girls die of thirst—then, once their bodies began to rot and lost their value, she discarded them like garbage.
Even though Bloody Mary still appeared as a pink-eyed little girl, with a delicate and cute face, Everly felt a strong sense of disgust and unease rising within her.
Never before had it been so clear to her that the being in the mirror was not human, but a creature with no morality, no empathy, and no respect for life—a complete and utter monster.
No matter how beautiful the exterior, it was still a monster.
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