Mirrors 17

[Black screen]

Rika: *You see... There's something I need to do*

*I want to say farewell here...*

[Rika appears, eyes closed]

*I... Have to go...*

*Further... Further into... The depths of the mirrors…*

[Black screen again]

Iroha: *Moments after we had finally found Emirii-chan’s friend Hinano-san...”

*We heard their friend’s parting words...*

[We see the mirrors background]

Emiri: “Eh? Eh? W- What’ you mean...?”

Hinano: “Oi, Rika! Rika, what’s going on?!”

“Rikaaa!!”

Iroha: “.........”

Tsuruno: “... I can’t hear her anymore...”

Emiri: “Myaako-senpai... What does she mean with farewell...?

“I... don’t get it at all!”

Iroha: “She said... Something about further into the depths of the mirrors, didn’t she...?”

Emiri: “Then... Does that mean she’s said farewell in the depths of the mirrors...?

“Farewell.... Farewell as in... Farewell?

“I- I don’t get it! Rika-ppe what happened!?”

“What?! Myaako-senpai! What happened?!

Hinano: “Calm down! Emirii!”

Emiri: “AU...!”

Hinano: “Calm down and assess the situation!”

“...Ok? First Rika disappeared...”

“And then now, she told us ‘farewell’...”

Emiri: “As if she’d just leave us behind and say farewell!”

“She wouldn’t do something like that!”

Hinano: “.........”

“That’s right! As if she’d ever do that!!”

“Fugah!”

Iroha: “P- Please calm down!”

Hinano: “I- It’s ok! I’m calm!”

“...Anyways!”

“Even given that this was her intent with coming here...”

“What’d be the point of coming here along with us...?”

Iroha: “... That’s certainly true”

Tsuruno: “Ye... If you’re going to say farewell you might as well come alone”

Hinano: “In addition to that there’s one more thing!”

“What’d be her reason to announce her farewell to everyone present here...?”

Emiri: “... Right... Rika-ppe doesn’t know anything about Rohhaa and Tsurupii does she!?”

Hinano: “In conclusion! There’s a lot of suspect things about this situation!”

“And this clearly smells of some contrived purpose...!”

Emiri: “Which means...!”

Hinano: “Without a doubt! That voice was a Rika Impostor...!”

Emiri: “Yup yup. That’s it that’s it”

Hinano: “It’s a trap set by the ’Mirrors Without End’...”

Iroha: “But... That means we still don’t have any clues about Rika-ppe-san’s whereabouts...”

Hinano: “That’s true... That hasn’t changed...”

Emiri: “Let’s go look for her! With great haste!”

Hinano: “Of course!”

“...But, let’s use the resources we have at hand!”

Tsuruno: “Resources...?”

Hinano: “First! Rika’s search party!”

“Will be me and...”

“...Ehm, and...”

Tsuruno: “The strongest magical girl! Yui Tsuruno!”

Hinano: “Okey, Tsuruno then! ... Will you help us out?”

Tsuruno: “Of course! Fum fum fum”

Hinano: “Then next... You!”

Iroha: “Y- Yes!”

Emiri: “Rohhaa!”

Hinano: “Then, Rohhaa!”

“Yakumo Mitama seems well informed about this place, could you get some information out of her?”

Iroha: “From Mitama-san...!?”

(... Will I actually manage to get anything out of her...?)

(... Anyhow, there's a lot of things with these circumstances I'm curious about too...)

"G-Got it! I'll do my best!"

Hinano: "Thank you… Both of you. I'm grateful"

"...Then finally Emirii!"

Emiri: "Yos!"

Hinano: "We're searching uncharted territory. The more people we are the better."

"So, I want you..."

"To go find more people to help with the search!"

Mirrors 18

[Black screen]

Iroha: *To best search for the lost Rika-ppe-san...*

*Tsuruno-chan and Hinano-san went looking for her...”

*Emirii-chan went to find more people to help with the search...”

*And I...*

[We see the mirrors entrance hall]

“... Fuuh...”

(I got back here but... Mitama-san isn’t...)

Mitama: “... IROHA-CHAAN!”

Iroha: “HYA!”

Mitama: “Hello~”

Iroha: “Y- You scared me~...”

“P- Please don’t do that again! Scaring me by shouting behind my back!”

Mitama: “Eeh~? But if you want to scare someone, it’s conventional wisdom to do so from behind, right?”

“Besides, you were the one who suddenly appeared in front of me Iroha-chan~”

Iroha: “Eh? Ah, did I do that...?“

Mitama: “That’s riight~. Jee~”

Iroha: “I-I’m sorry for...”

“Wait...! You still didn’t have to scare me like that!”

Mitama: “That was just on the spur of the moment~”

“Anyways... Your head kept spinning around, were you looking for someone?”

Iroha: “... Ah, yes I was! I was looking for you Mitama-san!”

Mitama: “Mee~?”

Iroha: “You see...!”

[She explains the situation]

Mitama: “Aha, I see...”

Iroha: “So, do you have any information which might help us...?”

Mitama: “To begin with that’s without a doubt an imposter”

Iroha: “Eh!? That’s a sudden affirmation...”

Mitama: “This is not something to be done in a roundabout manner. After all...”

“There’s not much time left...!”

Iroha: “Time...!?”

Mitama: “Right...”

“Rika-chan mentioned ‘The depths of the mirrors” right?”

Iroha: “Y-Yes! Without a doubt...!”

Mitama: “Then...”

“She might already have looked too far into the mirrors...”

Iroha: “Into the mirrors...?”

Mitama: “She might have seen the depths of the depths of the mirrors... The deep abyss...”

Iroha: “The deep... Abyss...? What’s...?”

Mitama: “... That’s all”

Iroha: “N- No way!”

Mitama: “... We can continue this next time”

Iroha: “But!”

Mitama: “You should hurry back. I told you, right?”

“’You might be out of time’...!”

Iroha: “Ah...”

Mitama: “I will tell you everything I know next time”

“But for now, you should hurry back”

Iroha: “Eh, But... Ehm...”

Mitama: “... Hurry!”

Iroha: “Y- Yes!”

Mitama: “......”

“Till next time, Iroha-chan...”

Mirrors 19

[Black screen]

Iroha: *While I was meeting with Mitama, Hinano-san and Tsuruno-chan were...*

[We see the mirrors background]

Hinano: “OOI! Rikaa!”

Tsuruno: “OOI!”

Hinano: “OOI! Rikaa!”

Tsuruno: “OOI!”

“... Um, I have a question”

Hinano: “What?”

Tsuruno: “I was just thinking, should we really be going around shouting with all our might?...”

Hinano: “......”

Tsuruno: “Because, well you know! This could all be a trap, right?”

“And yet we are going around here shouting out like ‘We’re here!’...”

Hinano: “That’s fine!”

Tsuruno: “That’s fine...?”

Hinano: “There are two reason for us to be shouting out like this!”

“If we get a reaction from the real Rika, then that’s great!”

“And if we end up summoning some of the imposters laying in wait, then that’s also great!”

“Because that means our situation is changing...”

“The thing we should at all cost avoid is ‘inaction’”

Tsuruno: “In... Ah I see!”

Hinano: “If we don’t move the situation won’t change!”

“If something appears from out of the grove we’ll know that’s a step in the right direction”

Tsuruno: “Right!”

Hinano: “So! We must be ready to react to either of those two results”

Tsuruno: “In that case...!”

Hinano: “Mh...? Why are you holding your fans out...?”

Tsuruno: “Suu~...”

“UOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOI!”

Hinano: “Uwawawawawa!”

“... An overwhelming sound in all direction...!”

Tsuruno: “This is the secret technique ‘Wild Dance of Amplification’!”

“Well, allow me to explain!”

Hinano: “... Y- Ye...”

Tsuruno: “This is a technique I invented to aid us in advertising our store”

“However due to neighbourhood complaints it became a sealed technique!”

Hinano: “... R- Right...”

Tsuruno: “However, it sounded like it could be helpful now!”

Hinano: “... For sure!”

“Ok, Tsuruno! Do it for even longer!”

Tsuruno: “Okey! Suu~...”

???: *Myako-senpai*

Hinano: “Nu... Tsuruno wait!”

Tsuruno: “Ue!? Geho geho!”

“W- What’s that! Stopping me all out of...”

Hinano: “... Didn’t you hear that...?”

Rika: “Myako-senpai”

Tsuruno: “AAH!”

Hinano: “Rika...!”

Rika: “Did you... Come here searching for me?”

Hinano: “Of course!”

“Did you really think we’d accept you saying farewell out of the blue?!”

Rika: “Myako-senpai...”

“Even though you should’ve just left me alone...”

Hinano: “As if we could do that!”

“... A- And anyways... You’re just an imposter!”

Rika: “... Imposter...? Me...?”

“That’s... Cruel...”

“... That’s so cruel to say!”

Hinano: “Kuh...!”

Tsuruno: “... What do we do? Fight...?”

Hinano: “......”

Rika: “Come on... Myako-senpai!”

Hinano: “... A- Affirming evidence...”

Tsuruno: “Affirming evidence...?”

Hinano: “There is a possibility this is the real Rika...”

Tsuruno: “Eeh! But this is the ‘action’ you were speaking about earlier right?”

“Then, if we don’t act on this...”

Hinano: “I- I know!”

“... It’s just, now that she’s standing in front of us... My determination is...”

Tsuruno: “That’s! What do we do!”

Rika: “Myako-senpai...!”

Hinano: “Ri- Rika...!”

Iroha: *Hinano-san! Tsuruno-chan!*

Tsuruno: “Oh! That voice!”

Hinano: “... Rohhaa!”

Iroha: “I made it in time...!”

“I talked to Mitama-san!”

“As soon as I explained our situation she affirmed that it was an ‘imposter’!”

Tsuruno: “Ooh! In that case...!”

Hinano: “... Ye... I get it...”

“My decision has been made”

Rika: “........”

Rika2: “How cruel of you... Myako-senpai...”

Tsuruno: “The amount increased!”

Hinano: “This settles it...!”

Rika3: “Myako-senpai... That’s so cruel...”

All the Rikas: “It’s farewell... It’s farewell...”

Iroha: “WA! We’re surrounded...!”

Tsuruno: “Uwa! And we got split up!”

Hinano: “Shit...!”

Tsuruno: “Nunununu! I’m breaking through!”

All the Rikas: “It’s farewell... It’s farewell...”

Tsuruno: “U- UWA!”

Iroha: “The multiply at an incredible rate!”

Hinano: “This rate is unexpected...!”

“This is bad...! If it continues like this then...!!

Emiri: *Wait up!*

Hinano: “Ooh! You came back!”

Emiri: “It’s Emirii’s comeback!”

Tsuruno: “Nice timing!”

Iroha: “Which means...!”

Emiri: “She agreed to come with me! The perfect help!”

Hinano: “... Mu! It’s...!”

Mirrors 20

Emiri: “She agreed to come with me! The perfect help!”

Hinano: “... Mu! It’s...!”

Ren: “H- Hello...”

[We see the mirrors background]

Hinano: “ISUZU REN!”

Emiri: “We were super lucky!”

“I was running at mach speed like ‘Anyone, hello anyone!’...”

“But as soon I got out of the mansion I saw her, Ren-pasu!”

“What a...! ... But why...?”

Ren: “I am not sure...”

“I was feeling uneasy... It was as if my heart was shivering...”

“To calm myself down I went on a walk, and then I ended up here... Yes...”

Hinano: “I see...”

Tsuruno: “Um!”

Ren: “Y- Yes...!”

Tsuruno: “I am the strongest magical girl, Yui Tsuruno!”

“And that over there is Rohhaa, Tamaki Iroha-chan!”

Iroha: “H- Hello...!”

Tsuruno: “But, in a situation like this even the strongest...”

Rika: “... You... There...”

Tsuruno: “Nowawa!”

“... In a chaotic situation like that!”

Emiri: “Owow! This is not the time to say lucky and get hyped up...”

Ren: “...It’s ok... Yes...”

Emiri: “Eh?”

Ren: “I... Will not allow them...”

(Rika-chan...)

[Flashback, we see a park]

Rika: “After all, in this world, there’s a lot of bad things, but like”

“Surely, there’s also glimmering pretty things...”

“If just a single such thing exists”

“No matter how many bad things there might be, I think it’s worth to keep on living”

[End of flashback]

All the Rikas: “Let’s end this already... Let’s end this already...”

Ren: “......”

[Flashback, we see a park]

Rika: “But like, something more important than all those bad things, than anything...”

“Surely, the worst would be...”

“If you didn’t have a single such thing”

[End of flashback]

All the Rikas: “Farewell... I have to go... To the depths of the mirrors...”

Ren: “............!”

[Black screen]

* I... Will live... Yes... I will keep on living...*

[Flashback, we see a park]

Rika: “...!”

“Ye...That’s great”

[End of flashback]

Ren: “DON’T IMPERSONATE RIKA-CHAN...!”

All the Rikas: “......”

Hinano: “Ren...”

Emiri: “Ren-pasu...”

Ren: “I will... Make the imposters disappear...”

“... Yes!”

[Black screen]

???: *........*

*........*

*... Mh...*

*Mmh...*

Rika: “... Mh?”

Ren: “I’m so glad! You woke up!”

Rika: “Huh...? Ren-chan...”

Emiri: “Oo! I’m so glad! Rika-ppe~!”

Hinano: “... Geez! To leave us fucking worried like that!”

Emiri: “... Myaako-senpai. You can’t say that to people!”

Hinano: “... Mu... Y- Yyeah...”

Rika: “Emiri... Myako-senpai...”

Tsuruno: “Fu~!”

Iroha: “The first things first...!”

Rika: “......”

“... Eh... Who?”

Iroha: *Thanks to Ren-chan’s efforts Rika-ppe... Rika-chan’s imposters were dealt with...*

*And we managed to find the real Rika-chan...!*

*But, for how Rika-chan ended up in this situation...*

Rika: “... I don’t remember it all to clearly but...”

“Before we got here I wondered how my makeup was applied”

“And like, there’s tons of mirrors here right?”

“So I went to do a little check in the mirror”

“... And then like, I ended up checking many little things”

“So, I was staring into the mirror, and then...”

*Someone appeared behind me*

[Grey background]

Iroha: “She said she didn’t remember what happened after that...”

“Anyways, we all left the ’Mirrors Without End’...”

“And then I went to Adjuster's to meet with Mitama”

“The details of this situation... To continue that conversation...”

[Flashback to the mirrors entrance hall]

Mitama: “I will tell you everything I know next time”

[Black screen]

*But...*

[At the adjuster’s]

Iroha: “Mitama-san!”

“... Mitama-san...?”

“... She’s not here...”

[Black screen]

*That day...*