Looking a little confused at Veil, who was rubbing her little nose, Holly noticed…
Even after inhaling that yellow powder, the other party had no abnormal reaction—just kept sneezing over and over.
Were they just being overly cautious?
Looking around in bewilderment, she suddenly discovered a tiny smear of yellow powder on her own sleeve, probably picked up during the earlier escape.
She pondered for a second… and under Reliel’s utterly shocked gaze, Miss Holy Sword Bearer actually lifted her sleeve and, gently, towards the yellow powder…
Sniff sniff…
“Mm?! K-k-choo…” Almost in the very next second, Miss Holy Sword Bearer’s once curious eyes went vacant, her limbs snapping rigid in reflex!
The otherworldly girl snapped to attention on the spot!
Luckily, Reliel beside her reacted fast—her elbow shot out, quick and fierce, striking Holly square in the stomach!
“Cough, cough… Uuurgh—!!”
Holly’s face, which had just been twitching uncontrollably, was suddenly streaked with tears and snot, and in the next instant, she collapsed to the floor and vomited furiously!
Fortunately, she hadn’t inhaled much.
Fortunately, Reliel reacted quickly.
And also, they were standing close enough to each other.
That was the only reason they could stop Miss Holy Sword Bearer’s self-destructive antics right away.
As expected… curiosity doesn’t just kill the cat—it can kill off a fool, too.
This stuff… it’s like one of those red buttons labeled “Do Not Press Under Any Circumstance.”
There’s always an idiot who can’t help but press it.
Watching Holly on the ground, vomiting, and the others staring at her in confusion… Ileya shook her head in resignation.
The gaps between members of this team were still too wide.
It really did feel like a squad of bronze and king-tier players…
Watching her teammates’ moves felt like watching a comedy—impossible to understand, but understandable all the same.
But… Ileya didn’t bother with this bunch. She took a look around at everything first.
The furnishings here were a little old, but it was obvious… this seemed to be the “bedroom” of the room.
There was a wardrobe, a bed, and even a crystal mirror on the wall, covered thickly in dust.
Still, calling it a bedroom—there was no corpse of a tomb owner.
The bedding had almost completely rotted away to fluff… one touch and it’d crumble like a pile of dust.
All around… there didn’t seem to be anything worth paying attention to, so Ileya shared her vision with the Skeleton Soldiers outside.
At this moment… things outside were still rather dangerous.
Several Skeleton Soldiers had been smashed to bits by traps hidden behind the door, and looking carefully, those trap doors didn’t just hide mechanical rooms.
They’d actually set up kitchens, guest rooms, toilets and such…
The tomb styles of this otherworld really were bizarre.
Ileya, who’d never studied this stuff, didn’t understand why these people designed things this way.
Maybe… people from the Lighthouse School would find this design very interesting.
But, unfortunately, Ileya had no real concept of any of this.
She only sensed that… while the air here was thick with death, just like the previous level, there were no souls present at all.
So those Maid Corpses were there to be scary, but as a Necromancer, Ileya could guarantee… being scary was their only use~
These things couldn’t move at all.
Stroking her chin, Ileya ordered the Skeletons to carry all the Maid Corpses over as well, planning to take them along later!
Since they’d already come this far~
(6^1 \cdot 9^1)
At this moment… Veil, her little nose still red, walked slowly to the room’s one and only mirror.
First, she looked at it in confusion, then scratched her head, still bewildered.
Eh… something just feels off…
Why does this mirror look so awkward?
She examined it from top to bottom but still couldn’t figure it out.
“Ahem… Senior Veil… what… are you looking at?”
At this moment, Miss Holy Sword Bearer—having just finished vomiting and feeling fine again—curiously sidled over.
She actually wanted to ask why little Veil hadn’t reacted at all to sniffing that stuff, only sneezing.
But… from the looks of it… had the other girl noticed something?
“Mm (-=)… There’s something wrong with this mirror, but I just can’t tell what…” Veil didn’t seem sure if she was answering Holly’s question or talking to herself, and scratched her head again.
Following her gaze, Holly also looked at the dusty mirror in front of them.
At a glance… the foggy mirror really was… a bit off.
Hmm…
Holly rubbed her chin. She happened to be holding the water bottle she’d just used to rinse her mouth, so she poured some water over the mirror without thinking…
Splash! The water washed most of the dust off the mirror…
And the quality of this Crystal Mirror was excellent—it only took a rinse to make it shine brilliantly.
In that instant, as soon as the mirror was clean, it reflected the entire room with clarity.
Wardrobe, bed, drawers… Huh?
As Holly stared, she suddenly realized… something was wrong.
And the moment she realized it, her scalp prickled with numbness!
There were… no reflections of them in the mirror!!
That’s right. The mirror showed every object in the room, but none of the people!
This discovery sent the Holy Sword Bearer, raised in the age of movies and pop culture, into a spiral of bizarre speculation!
What doesn’t get reflected in a mirror?
Ghosts!
Could it be… could they already be dead!?
And they hadn’t even realized it… from this moment to eternity, their souls would be trapped in this space, suffering through endless cycles of terror!?
“Oi! Oi, what are you thinking?!”
Just as Holly was lost in a classic horror movie plot, the young lady beside her waved a hand in front of her face.
With a look that said, “Are you out of your mind?”
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Holly, meanwhile, gave her a look of “I’m the only one sober in a world of drunkards.”
How on earth was she supposed to explain to these otherworlders that they were already dead?
While she was thinking all this, Ileya also noticed the mirror, and saw that none of them had a reflection.
And in the face of this…
Ileya merely raised an eyebrow, then examined the mirror up and down.
“Um, Miss… I think we might already…” Holly thought sadly, working up her emotions before starting to speak…
Click…
But… before she could voice her theory, Ileya’s palm, which had been resting on the mirror, suddenly tensed with bulging veins!
Her arm shot out, hand twisting into a claw!
Crash!!
The mirror shattered with a crack!
But… the scene inside… didn’t shatter with the glass!
Eh?
This time it wasn’t just Holly—everyone but Arthur behind her was stunned.
“Just as I thought…” Ileya curled her lips.
It was just a cheap trick.
It looked like there was a mirror hanging in this spot, but in fact… it was just a sheet of highly transparent crystal.
And behind the crystal wasn’t any Mirror World, but a room exactly like theirs, just mirrored horizontally.
It was actually easy to tell.
Right now there was a puddle of Holy Sword Bearer’s vomit at the doorway.
But in the mirror’s room, there was nothing at the door.
That was proof enough.
Honestly… this kind of trick might fool panicked tomb robbers running for their lives…
But in Ileya’s eyes, it was a bit too childish.
Suddenly recalling something, the young lady tilted her head at the dumbfounded Holly.
“What were you just about to say?”