The Mirror Specter

It was supposed to be a normal day.
The sky was gray, students chatted in the hallways, and the group tried to pretend to be… normal.
But nothing was.



It had all started in the locker room.While putting away his shoes, Theo had caught a glimpse of someone behind him in the wall mirror.
He turned around: nothing.He looked back at the reflection: the mirror still showed that hooded figure, slightly blurry—someone who wasn’t there in reality.
He didn’t say anything right away.
But in the following days, the anomalies multiplied.



Lyana sometimes heard a voice when she closed her eyes.A deep, dry voice. Always repeating the same phrase:
 “You fled. You must return.”


Mira would touch electronic devices… and they reacted.Lights flickering. Screens glitching. Phones heating up.
Akaru, on his side, felt a weight in his right hand.The sword he could no longer see… he had started to feel it again.As if it were trying to return.



One afternoon, as they were eating outside, a black cat approached.
Nothing strange at first.
But when it meowed… the sound that came out wasn’t a meow. It was a voice. Human. Deep.And only they could hear it.
— “Inverso is unstable. You are the link. And one is still missing.”
Then the cat jumped into a manhole… and vanished.


— What is “Inverso”? asked Mira.
— Maybe it’s this world, replied Lyana. Or the connection between both.
Akaru frowned.
— And “one is still missing”… that means we’re not complete?
They looked at each other.They were missing the fourth boy. The quietest of their group. Riven.He hadn’t fallen with them. At least… that’s what they believed.
But maybe… he’d been here since the beginning.

That night, Akaru suddenly rose from his futon.He walked to the window. Tokyo glowed in the dark.
And in the reflection of the glass, Riven was staring at him.
Not a word. Just a look.Before fading into the night.