Chapter 352 315 – Crumbling at the First Touch
"Takumi-senpai!" all three girls screamed at once.
The moment they heard Takumi's voice, Kana Ienaga, Natsumi Torii, and Saori Maki all cried out in unison.
The three girls turned toward the sound and immediately rushed over in wild delight.
However, as they drew closer, they also noticed Miyuki Yukino, who was currently holding hands with Takumi.
The three of them had been scared to death just a moment ago, but now the urgency from before was completely gone.
Seeing Miyuki, they almost forgot all about the Purple Mirror. Instead, they looked at her curiously.
"Who's this pretty lady…? Is she your girlfriend, Takumi-senpai?"
The one who asked was Kana, and a hint of envy appeared on her face.
Hearing that, Miyuki unconsciously puffed out her chest, the corners of her mouth lifting slightly.
But when Takumi said, "No, she's my tenant," Miyuki seemed to snap awake from another world.
Right. She wasn't his girlfriend!
Miyuki shook her face a little and wanted to pull her hand back to make their relationship clear, but she couldn't bear to let go.
After struggling with herself for a while, she could only mutter, "Mm, I'm… his tenant. But he's also a very important person to me. He knows my name, and I'm going to keep watching him all the time!"
As if trying to find an excuse for herself, the more Miyuki spoke, the tighter her hand clenched around his.
Faced with this scene, Saori and the others could tell that something was a little strange.
But Miyuki's incredibly mature, ripe figure and breathtakingly beautiful face made them feel somewhat inferior, so they didn't dare ask further.
Kana, remembering the matter at hand, hurriedly said, "Takumi-senpai, the curse you mentioned came true. It just—"
Before Kana could finish speaking, an eerie, illusory voice drifted out from the restroom.
At the same time, a dreamlike fog seeped out from within and swallowed the surrounding area.
In an instant, in Kana's field of vision, the bustling department store that had been full of people suddenly seemed to turn into an empty area.
Takumi and the others standing in front of her vanished all at once as well.
"Takumi-senpai? Everyone?! Where did you all go?!"
Kana called out in terror, but the only thing that answered her was the Purple Mirror's voice.
"Kana, I'm coming to catch you now~~"
The hazy fog began gathering in her direction.
The next moment, the sinister, terrifying Purple Mirror yokai appeared in front of Kana.
At this moment, aside from fear, Kana finally noticed something wrong.
She looked toward the mirrors in the department store and found Takumi and the others reflected inside them.
"No, Takumi-senpai and the others aren't inside the mirror… It's me. I'm inside the mirror!!!"
After hesitating for a few seconds, Kana immediately realized what had happened.
She slapped the mirror with all her strength and cried for help to Takumi and the others outside, but neither her voice nor her figure appeared before the eyes of those in the real world.
From Takumi's perspective, Kana had simply vanished right in front of everyone.
In that single instant, Takumi realized that Kana had been pulled into a mirror-surface alternate dimension.
"This Purple Mirror has a few tricks, but not many!"
Takumi turned to look at the mirror behind him, and Miyuki looked over at the same time.
In the blink of an eye, Kana's figure, begging for help, appeared in their field of vision.
As for Saori and Natsumi, who also looked that way, all they could see were their own reflections.
They asked nervously, "What happened to Kana? Why did she suddenly disappear?!"
"Don't worry. She'll be fine."
Takumi soothed the two of them, then looked toward Miyuki.
"I'll leave things here to you for now. I'll be right back."
As soon as he finished speaking, a teleportation magic circle swiftly appeared under his feet, linking his coordinates to Kana's.
As for the mirror world, Takumi actually didn't know that much about it.
He had only learned Katerea's mirror-image magic before.
Speaking of Katerea, she had recovered recently. He could probably put her to use now.
That thought flashed through Takumi's mind, but he quickly pulled his attention back and focused on the matter before him.
Passing through the magic circle in an instant, Takumi arrived in the mirror world.
An unpleasant, eerie voice also rang beside his ear.
"Kana, stop running. Play with me!"
The Purple Mirror kept approaching Kana, forcing her into a corner.
Cold white fog like tentacles drifted out from its body and stretched toward Kana, trying to drag her into its body.
But the instant the Purple Mirror's misty tentacles reached out, an anti-magic barrier suddenly unfolded in front of Kana.
Hiss!!!
The Purple Mirror's fog tentacles were blasted apart in an instant, and the demonic power leaking from its body could no longer approach Kana by even half an inch.
At that moment, Kana saw her savior and immediately threw herself into Takumi's arms.
"Senpai~~~"
She hugged Takumi tightly through her tears, clearly frightened out of her wits.
"Who are you!? Are you a yokai too?!"
Seeing Takumi appear and block it, the Purple Mirror went from shock to furious rage.
Kana was prey it had set its sights on long ago. How could it possibly allow someone who showed up halfway to snatch her away?
"Don't get in my way, you bastard!!!"
As the Purple Mirror vented its anger, demonic power continuously surged out from within its body.
In an instant, the Purple Mirror split into more than a dozen clones, surrounding Takumi and Kana from every direction.
At the same time, the Purple Mirror let out a smug laugh.
"Hahaha! How about that? You can't tell which one is the real me, can you?!"
One had to admit, this move really was enough to scare ordinary people, especially a little girl like Kana.
She immediately trembled in fear and clutched Takumi's sleeve tightly, not daring to let go.
But seeing this scene, Takumi really couldn't keep a straight face at all.
"You're barely a mid-level yokai, relying on nothing but a bit of racial talent. What makes you think you're qualified to say something like that to me?"
Takumi had been amused by the Purple Mirror's "threat."
And amid his laughter, wisps of magical aura rose from Takumi's body. Like a ten-thousand-ton hammer crashing down, it shattered everything around them in an instant!
The smug Purple Mirror couldn't even last a single breath before it was crushed on the spot by the magic aura leaking from him.
Before the drifting fragments could disappear, with one breath from Takumi, the Purple Mirror's yokai essence was completely devoured and digested.
[Ding! Randomly plundered attribute: Mirror Traverse (Blue)]
[Mirror Traverse (Blue): You can freely travel through the mirror world, and you can also bring other people inside.]
Feeling as if he had just eaten a little snack, Takumi's expression did not change in the slightest.
For a weakling like the Purple Mirror, even giving it an extra expression would be an insult to himself.
As for Kana, she stared at the Purple Mirror that Takumi had "killed with one look," her little mouth hanging wide open for a long time.
Only after a while did she finally scream.
"S-So amazing, Takumi-senpai!!!"
Kana looked at Takumi in worship, completely unable to let go of his hand.
Now she had seen even more clearly just how powerful Takumi really was.
For a girl in the middle of puberty like her, Takumi's image, already lofty in her heart, had been raised infinitely higher.
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