Saturday, July 8, 2023

7 - Otherworld Mirror

【異界の鏡、ikai no kagami】

In a certain school, there is a large mirror on the landing of the stairs going up from the second floor to the third floor, and it is said that at night the mirror becomes a doorway to another world.

One night, a girl snuck into the school by herself only to vanish into thin air.

A search found only the girl's shoes in front of the mirror. Perhaps the girl had wandered into the other world that existed inside the mirror.


Since ancient times, mirrors have been thought to have mysterious powers. 

The world in the mirror seems to be an exact replica of the real world, but in fact, the world that lies beyond the mirror is reversed, creating the illusion of a different world.

The other side of the mirror may stir up the imagination of another world, as in Lewis Carroll's "Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There".

In addition, a staircase is a boundary between floors, or between one world and another. The placement of a mirror leading to another world on a staircase landing could be a product of such an image.


It is said that that school's mirror, the gateway to another world, has since been removed. The girl who wandered into the world inside the mirror can no longer come back.

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