Kagami no Kuni no Harisugawa 5

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Kagami no Kuni no Harisugawa

Top Right Text: Already, it has garnered much popularity! Here comes the heart-pounding romantic mirror comedy!!

Center Tilted Text: No peeking for you at a time like this (heart)

#5 Love Mirror

Kanou Yasuhiro

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Mao: Hmm... Anyway, here's about all the things we know right now.
Mao: While glass and metal surface can reflect, they won't become windows inside the mirror.
Mao: When we switch places, the windows will reset, and the time limit for switching is around one hour.
Tetsu: Also, the locations where the windows appear seem to be random.
Tetsu: They would appear regardless how they are placed in the real world.

Notes:
- Only reflecting off mirrors and mirror-made objects will make them turn into windows.
X Glass X Metal X Surface of water
- When we switch places, all the windows inside the mirror except for the master mirror will disappear.
- For some reason, the mirrors will appear with the same up and down directions.
(Arrow) But there's no up, down, right, or left in side the mirror, right?
- When we touch, we can switch places. (Arrow) For about 1 hour.
*Master Mirror only.
- Things cannot go into the mirror. (Underline) Only people?
- You won't feel sleep inside the mirror.
You won't feel hungry either. Nice-
- If you stand about 2 meters away from the window, you won't be able shown in the mirror when I'm looking from the outside. Not sure what would happen if the mirror is really bi
//The sentence is intentionally left out, since she's still writing.

Side Text: Solving the mystery of the mirror!!

Mao: We can't switch places with mirrors other than the master mirror.
Mao: It looks like getting you out would have to be done from this mirror as well.
Tetsu: So we're back to square one, with the master mirror being my lifeline, right?

Tetsu: Oh, and also, I'm a bit curious as what's at the depth of this darkness.
Tetsu: How far does it go? Is there anything out there or not...?
Small Text In Bubble: Though it looks like there's nothing.

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Tetsu: While I do want to check it out,
Tetsu: what's going to happen when I get to where not even the light from the windows can reach?

Tetsu: I'll be in total darkness, not knowing which direction is which.
Tetsu: At that point, finding the light from the windows will as impossible as the Voyager probe coming back to earth!
Tetsu: Awww... Just thinking about getting lost in such a world is a scary prospect...!!!

Mao: We already tried all kinds of things, but we just don't have any hint pointing towards helping you escape.
Mao: Oh well, I can understand why you're so anxious,
Mao: but we just need to settle with the status quo...

Mao: ... Wait!! I shouldn't be the one saying that, should I?!
Mao: Sorry!!
Tetsu: Don't worry about small things like that.

Mao's Mom: Mao! The bathroom is free now, so go ahead!
Mao: Got it!

Side Text: "Jump Next!" will feature the side story "Mao's Daily Life: Insider's Edition"!!

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Mao: Well then, I'm going to take a bath.
Mao: Just relax and watch some TV.

Tetsu: She's being so considerate that it's not really that bad living in the mirror.

Tetsu: Status quo, is it? As long as I don't get hated by Satomi,
Tetsu: it's kinda nice if this goes on forever, to be honest...

Tetsu: With us being together 24 hours a day,
Tetsu: she might begin to let down her guard eventually...

Mao: Come on, Harisugawa-kun, don't be staring like that!
Mao: I've allowed you inside the bathroom only so that we are able to talk.

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Tetsu: Just kidding~!!!

Tetsu: Nope. There is no way this will happen judging from Satomi's personality.
Tetsu: Quite the opposite, to be honest.

Mao: You're imagining these kind of things? You are the worst!!
Mao: I can't help you any more!!

Mao: I'm going to return the mirror back to the thrift store!
SFX: Rapid Running
//Or "Tap-tap-tap..."
Tetsu: Waaah~ Hold on~!!

Fat Guy: Ahh, this is nice. I'll take it.
Clerk: Thank you very much!

Fat Guy: Woaaah~ I got some major plaque on my teeth. A~hh
Fat Guy: I got a boil on my ass. Let's take a look, shall we?
Tetsu: urrrgghhh- urrrgghhh- urrrgghhh-
//Or some better puking sound.

Tetsu: Although it shouldn't get like that, I would rather skip going to the thrift store ever again.
Tetsu: Huh?
Tetsu: Wait, the thrift store?

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Panel Text: The next day. Saturday.
Mao: It's true that since it was in a thrift store, there had to be a previous owner.
Mao: I totally missed that.

Tetsu: Since the previous dweller was in here so long like forever,
Tetsu: it's possible that the last owner might not know anything at all,
Tetsu: but it would be great to at least know where the mirror came from...

Clerk: Yeah, this mirror.
Clerk: I remember this one.
Clerk: Although all I got left here is the sales slip since it was sold,

Clerk: I can tell right away because it's quite unusual.
Clerk: It was one of the many merchandises owned by a fortune teller.

Mao: A fortune teller?

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Mao: Look's like this is the place.

Mao: Kagami Kyouko, Fortune Teller?
Sign: Kagami Kyouko, Fortune Teller
TL Note: In Japanese, both "Kagami" and "Kyou" are written as the kanji for mirror.

Mao: ... Looks like she's a fortune teller for real...
Small Text: Note

SFX Bubble: Ding-Dong
Idiot Son: Yes, who is it?
Mao: Sorry to bother you. I would like to ask about a few thing.

Idiot Son: I'm sorry, but we closed shop about half a year ago.
Idiot Son: Please seek help somewhere else.
//The original is "Please go home."
Mao: Ahh... No, I'm not here for a reading.

Idiot Son: Huh?
Mao: Here!!
Mao: Do you know anything about this mirror?

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Idiot Son: MIss!!

Idiot Son: Hurry up and come in!
Idiot Son: Here! Over here!

Idiot Son: Where did you get that?
Mao: I bought it at a store.
Mao: At a thrift store.
Idiot Son: You're the one who bought it!

Idiot Son: To be honest with you, that mirror was put up for sale by mistake...
Idiot Son: When I realized it and tried to get it back, it was already sold.
Small Text: Really...?
Idiot Son: I was really in a tight spot since it's like a really rare antique.

Idiot Son: So please!!! Can you give it back?
Mao: !!?
Mao: Ehh? No, I can't!

Idiot Son: Don't be like that!
Idiot: Please, okay?
Mao: You're putting me in a tight spot here!

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Kyouko: Quiet already. What's going on?
Idiot Son: Ahh... Mom.

Kyouko: Who do we have here?
Kyouko: Hmm? Oh my...

Kyouko: That...
Kyouko: That's my "Love Mirror"!!

Mao: Love... Mirror?

Kyouko: !!
SFX: Sniff x 2
Kyouko: Hmm?
Kyouko: You...

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Kyouko: I like you. Come here for a bit, please!
Kyouko: Huh?
Kyouko: Hey...
Idiot Son: Mom!

Sign: Divination Room

Kyouko: I can feel... something mysterious...
SFX: Sniff x 2
Kyouko: Are you currently involved in something mysterious?
Mao: E... Ehh?

Kyouko: Me, Kagami Kyouko, is never wrong when it comes to the instincts.
Kyouko: I'm really interested in you, so please do let me give you a reading.

Kyouko: Mirrors can reflect the true self of anyone in front of it.
Kyouko: No one can fake who one really is.
Kyouko: And my mirror reading is done by seeing a person's destiny through them.

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Mao: Ahh!

Mao: Oh, no!!!

Tetsu: Gaaah, it just got reflected!

Tetsu: If I get seen, I'll be...

Mao: H- Hey...

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Kyouko: Hmm~ Let's see~
Kyouko: It should be right here...

Kyouko: Got it, here it is.
Kyouko: All right, let's begin the reading.
Mao: Good... Looks like she didn't see him.
SFX: Phew

Tetsu: Uhh... Ahh...
Tetsu: That was close.

Mao: Hey, erm... I don't need a reading.
Mao: Instead of that, I would like to know more about this mirror.

Mao: You said that this is called the Love Mirror,
Mao: which mean that you're not just the last owner, but that you also know more about this mirror, right?

Kyouko: That's correct.
Kyouko: I bought it because I knew about it.

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Kyouko: As part of my reading, I've collected various mysterious mirrors with a story behind it from all kinds of places.
Kyouko: There are ones that bring good fortune, ones for sacred rituals, and even ones that give you bad luck.
Kyouko: Anyway, I pretty much just collect whatever I can get my hands on all over the world.

Kyouko: My idiot son sold some of them along with the goods I have in stock for the customers,
Kyouko: and that brought him a really stern scolding from me.

Kyouko: Speaking of which, how about these? I still have some goods here. You wanna buy them?
Kyouko: Lucky Mirror, Beautifying Mirror, and Mirror for getting-yourself-a-man, all for just 1200 yen!
Mao Small Text: N... no thanks...

Kyouko: "Love Mirror", or the mirror of Love's Prison, is one of collection that I really liked.
Kyouko: If you really have to categorize it, it'd one of those cursed items, I guess?

Kyouko: Rumor has it, it's a magical mirror that would suck in people's heart and seal it inside.

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Mao: Suck in... people's heart?
Kyouko: That's right.

Kyouko: One that isn't filled by love.
Kyouko: An incomplete heart.

Kyouko: The love mirror will look for people without someone to love or that their feelings cannot be conveyed to the ones they love.
Kyouko: It will then suck in the person's heart, which has long been weighed down by loneliness.
Kyouko: It could be that the love mirror feeds on unfulfilled lonely hearts.

Tetsu: Unfulfilled... feelings not conveyed...

Mao: What will happen to the heart that's sucked in?
Mao: Can the person still be saved?

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Kyouko: To save that person, someone must filled the person with love.
Kyouko: If the person have someone he love, then that love must be realized.
Kyouko: If not, then he must find a new love.

Kyouko: It's a rather romantic story, isn't it?

Kyouko: When yours imprisoned heart is filled with love,
Kyouko: and when your best partner, with whom you now share a mutual love for one another, has appeared,
Kyouko: you shall obtain freedom for your heart,
Kyouko: and the curse is broken.

Kyouko: Well, of course, I'm only talking about the story that came with the mirror.

Text: When love comes true... mutual love for one another...
Text: So that's the condition to break the curse?

Text: If what just been said is the truth behind this mirror,
Text: it means to get out of here...

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Text: Satomi and I
Text: will have to fall in love with one another?!

Text: Y... you gotta be
Text: kidding me, right?!!

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Kyouko: Perhaps you, too,
Kyouko: have a little bit of unfulfilled longing yourself.
Mao: !?

Mao: No, I...

Kyouko: I don't believe it is a coincidence that you come across the Love Mirror.
Kyouko: That you would come to this place in search of the truth behind it like this.

Kyouko: It must be the mirror that's pulling you towards it.
Kyouko: It has felt the depth of your heart.
Mao: I don't...

Kyouko: Don't hide it from me. My reading has already begun.

Kyouko: Didn't I tell you that deceptions cannot work in front of a mirror?
Kyouko: The 4 mirrors I have here is already showing the various sides of you.

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Kyouko: Looks like you have a very stable and normal life. The bliss of the ordinary folks.
Kyouko: But for some reason, you have built a wall around your heart.
Kyouko: That is what I have seen from "the mirror of past".

Kyouko: Now we move on to "the mirror of present".
Kyouko: I can feel some kind of power.

Kyouko: There has been a big change to your everyday life very recently.
Kyouko: A really big change.

Text: !!?

Kyouko: Is this why I'm feeling some kind of mysterious aura from you?
Kyouko: What could it be?
Kyouko: It seems to be too big for you to handle on your own...

Kyouko: Well, instead of a change, it looks more like some kind of trial.
Kyouko: It would appear that this trial will eventually run you down.

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Kyouko: Then we have "the mirror of future".
Kyouko: It is what you will be from this point forward.

Kyouko: Hmm? What's this?
Kyouko: It is extremely hard to see...
Kyouko: I can't really see much clearly.

Kyouko: Could it be due to the trial you are undergoing right now?
Kyouko: At any rate, I do not know what the future beyond will be.

Kyouko: But close to us right now... I can see a sorrowful departure awaits you.
Kyouko: A man that's really close to you right now.

Kyouko: I seems like this man will fail to do something and then disappear from you side, no?
Kyouko: To some place far- far away...

Tetsu: !!! Does it mean... Could she be talking about me?!!

Side Text: The condition for escaping is for him and Mao to fall in love with each other!! But then...?!

Kagami no Kuni no Harisugawa
#5: The End