Miyauchi Hikage briefly mentioned the illusions that might exist in the mirror, and then added a few sentences.
"Although my constitution is relatively special, and mental attacks and those illusions basically can't produce any effect on me, and I don't know what would be inside originally, there shouldn't be any danger inside. It feels more like a special test to me. If you are confident in your willpower, you can come and try."
"If you want to avoid using violent means to communicate with Shadow Chizuru, I think this should be a necessary method."
Moreover, Miyauchi Hikage also knew that the diaries of these girls had the function of dispelling illusions, so there was no need to worry.
Hearing Miyauchi Hikage's explanation, several girls looked at each other. They naturally also knew the function of the diary.
If they really got lost in the illusion, the diary would definitely save them.
It was just that the Reading Value consumed would probably not be a small number.
They were not wealthy enough to squander Reading Value at will now.
Then Sudou Ayami was the first to stand up.
"Let me try. After all, I am the only one who has awakened a Persona present."
If it was just a test of willpower, she felt that she, who had already awakened a Persona, should have no problem.
And she did have a lot of Reading Value left. She had farmed many commissions in the Metaverse this week and saved them all up without using them.
Moreover, manipulating Tomoe Gozen to fight those Shadows in the Metaverse every night improved her mental power and will significantly.
In terms of mental power alone, maybe even Shinomiya Kaguya who obtained Psychokinesis might not be higher than her.
In the reality outside, unable to use her Persona, she also relied on this surge of mental power to successfully cultivate many general jujutsu posted in the group by Shinomiya Kaguya and others. If she went for a strength assessment now, she should be able to barely become a Grade 3 jujutsu sorcerer.
And she still carried the glove made of Black Rope given to her by the Mysterious Person, just without taking it out to use.
The function of the Black Rope could interfere with techniques, and theoretically, it also had a certain effect on those illusions.
After communicating with several girls, under Miyauchi Hikage's instruction, Sudou Ayami reached out her hand towards a huge mirror in front of her.
In the next moment, her figure seemed to be swallowed by the mirror and disappeared.
Miyauchi Hikage sensed carefully. Sudou Ayami should have successfully entered the mirror space, but he didn't know what the other party experienced inside.
However, with the protection of the Calamity Torrent, there was indeed no need to worry about Shadow Chizuru's attack.
The only thing to worry about was that her own willpower wasn't firm enough and she failed the test in the mirror space.
And on Sudou Ayami's side, she felt that she quickly lived through her original life again in the mirror space.
In her childhood, she spent her childhood happily while her father was still alive.
Until later, her father died unexpectedly, bringing huge changes to her family.
Then came her mother's remarriage, finding a promising rich husband.
But it turned out to be a domestic violence scumbag, yet he PUA'd her mother to be dead set on him, unable to leave him at all. So much so that in just one or two years of marriage, her personality underwent earth-shaking changes.
Until before the start of high school, she obtained that diary, completely rewriting her fate.
But this was her experience in reality.
In the illusion, she didn't get the diary.
She was still that ordinary girl who barely got into a good high school relying on previous accumulation.
Her parents were not changed by the Otherworld APP obtained from the Mysterious Person and divorced smoothly, but continued to torment each other in endless domestic violence.
Her high school life afterward was also ordinary.
She just completely lost the motivation to study.
Skipping classes time and time again, even reduced to the point of repeating a grade.
And she was completely unwilling to return to her family to feel that increasingly suffocating atmosphere, simply choosing to wander back and forth between several friends' houses for several months without returning home.
In the end, running out of money and not finding any part-time job, she heard about some special software from acquaintances, saying that she could make quick money on it.
It was also at this moment that Sudou Ayami instinctively generated resistance.
Even according to her self-abandoning situation at this time, such emotions shouldn't have been generated.
But she still realized at this moment that something seemed wrong.
No, it shouldn't be like this.
How could she have reached this step?
She asked herself in her heart.
Although she lost her previous memory in the illusion, some subconsciousness was hard to replace.
Especially since she had already awakened her Persona and faced the dark side in her heart directly.
She knew very well what she truly wanted now, and there was always a place in her heart for that Mysterious Person whose appearance couldn't be seen clearly.
Therefore, there was always a voice in her heart reminding her not to forget her true self, otherwise she might become an irrelevant existence among the other party's hundreds of clones.
With the sense of incongruity surging in her heart, she looked at the friend who recommended this software to her again, only feeling that the other party's appearance suddenly became blurred.
Then as she realized this, a reminder from the diary suddenly came to her ears.
"The diary holder has broken away from the illusion autonomously. Currently, 1 Reading Value can be consumed to completely dispel the illusion for the holder. Consume Reading Value?"
Hearing this voice, Sudou Ayami woke up as if from a dream, and memories about the diary instantly flooded back into her mind.
Immediately after, things about reality also gradually came back.
In fact, less than 1 minute had passed since she entered this mirror space.
But in just this one minute, she almost relived her life in this dream-like illusion and experienced a future that made her feel even more depressed.
If she hadn't already untied her knot with the help of the Mysterious Person before, she would probably have sunk in this illusion for a longer time before waking up.
She wiped her forehead, then looked at the increasingly blurred scene around her. Judging from the current situation, even if she didn't use Reading Value, she seemed to have already broken away from the illusion.
It was just that passing this illusion, was there any benefit to herself?
As she had such a thought, she seemed to feel that her Persona seemed to have become stronger than before.
Although the magnitude might not be large, after feeling this, Sudou Ayami couldn't help but be a little excited.
After all, since she awakened her Persona, although the Persona could grow in battle, the growth rate was not fast, increasing little by little.
And now she just stayed in the illusion for a few minutes, and it could actually make her Persona grow slightly.
One should know that there were at least tens of thousands of mirrors in this mirror space. If these mirrors all had the same function, wouldn't it greatly improve her strength?
Of course, Sudou Ayami also knew that she was thinking too much.
Before entering this Mirror Theater, they actually tested those mirrors at the entrance, and no special reaction occurred.
Only these mirrors found by Miyauchi Hikage now were relatively special types.
With the complete collapse of the illusion in front of her and the sound of mirror shattering in her ears, Sudou Ayami felt a warm and somewhat familiar aura beside her.
But when she opened her eyes and saw Miyauchi Hikage in front of her observing her situation carefully, that somewhat familiar aura dissipated completely.
Did she feel wrong?
Sudou Ayami thought so in her heart, and then facing the inquiries of the other girls, she also told what happened to her in these few minutes.
"It should be a reminder from the Persona. If I got completely lost in the illusion, I might have ended up becoming one of the other party's clones."
"But even if it really reached that step, it shouldn't be difficult to break free from the illusion relying on the ability of the diary. However, I didn't consume Reading Value and broke free myself relying on the reminder of the Persona."
Mentioning her experience in the illusion, Sudou Ayami was more or less disgusted.
Even knowing that it might indeed be the future where she didn't get the diary, she still felt uncomfortable.
"Quickly experience one's life and see something equivalent to the 'future in the original story'?" Shinomiya Kaguya muttered, feeling that she couldn't handle such an illusion very well.
"Not necessarily the future," Kasumigaoka Utaha analyzed. "It feels to me like just some predictions based purely on previous life experiences. Didn't Ayami say it herself? When she realized she was in an illusion, she found that the faces of those people in the illusion couldn't be seen clearly at all."
"Rather than an illusion, it's more like a dream. Most people don't know when their dreams start, feeling like a long time has passed in the dream, and seeing those unclear faces in the dream, they won't suspect they are dreaming at all."
"But for someone like me who already knows my original future, under the influence of my own memory, entering this illusion might really be arranged to walk through the original script." Kasumigaoka Utaha said with some disgust.
Although Reading Value could be used to exit the illusion in advance, looking at Sudou Ayami's state, the diary probably wouldn't issue a reminder before they completely fell into the illusion. Just like usually, it would only take the initiative to issue a reminder when they truly encountered danger, and wouldn't warn them directly when they made dangerous choices.
Unless they used the diary to warn themselves before doing anything, like Yotsuya Miko did before.
"Failing the illusion means becoming Shadow Chizuru's puppet clone, and passing it means getting some mental power rewards?" Shinomiya Kaguya calculated in her heart.
"Moreover, honing one's will in such an illusion might allow one to awaken a Persona in advance in this way."
Shinomiya Kaguya pondered.
She still had dozens of Reading Value points unused in her hand. If any problem really occurred, she could forcefully pull herself back with Reading Value.
If she could really awaken a Persona in this way, it would be a huge profit.
So next, Kasumigaoka Utaha and Shinomiya Kaguya also entered the corresponding mirrors one by one under Miyauchi Hikage's instruction.
It was just that their experiences in the illusion were not as "normal" as Sudou Ayami's.
In Kasumigaoka Utaha's world, she stepped into the story of Love Metronome she wrote. As the heroine in the story, she first met the male protagonist with the same face as Miyauchi Hikage and developed mutual affection.
But under the operation of her subconsciousness, finally, the second female lead with Shiina Mashiro's face popped up to intervene, and finally snatched the male protagonist, making her the final loser in this illusion.
Finally, trapped in this emotion of "broken love" and unable to extricate herself, she paid three points of Reading Value to break free from the illusion and returned to reality with a depressed face.
As for the story on Shinomiya Kaguya's side, it became another routine.
Completing supernatural awakening in middle school, under her father's instruction, she joined Tokyo Jujutsu High with the goal of establishing another Shinomiya family in the Inner World, and became a Grade 1 supernatural being in a short time.
Then during an exorcism mission, she met Miyauchi Hikage in Beika Town and discovered the talent on him. So before the other party awakened supernaturally, she extended an olive branch to him one step ahead, became the number one shareholder of Asahigaoka Media, and made Miyauchi Hikage a worker working for her.
After that, she logically guided the other party to complete supernatural awakening, becoming a new special-grade supernatural being in a very short time.
And relying on her advance investment, Miyauchi Hikage, who became special-grade, was still loyal to her, and even became a guest elder of the Shinomiya family, fighting for a lot of resources for the Shinomiya family.
Perhaps because the scene described in the illusion was too perfect, she was the first person to discover Miyauchi Hikage's talent, and there were no other girls around Miyauchi Hikage.
Therefore, even Shinomiya Kaguya couldn't help falling into such a dream.
It wasn't until the moment before that Miyauchi Hikage in the illusion got engaged to her as a matrilocal son-in-law that the warning from the diary and the automatic deduction made her recover.
And finally, the expressions on the faces of the two people who broke away from the illusion were completely different at the moment of leaving the illusion.
Kasumigaoka Utaha was feeling a little depressed and frustrated thinking about her experience of becoming a losing dog again, and also a little guilty, not daring to look at Miyauchi Hikage.
Shinomiya Kaguya's gaze towards Miyauchi Hikage couldn't help but become softer, but immediately turned into a trace of regret, and then quickly completely withdrew her gaze.