Detective Agency of the Bizarre
Chapter 217 - 217 Seventy-four

217: Seventy-four.

Number 2 217: Seventy-four.

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ID: ofTum-2

Form: Identical to the client in appearance, currently exists only in mirrors

Classification: Ghost (unconfirmed)

Pre-death: (No data)

Disposition: Malicious, threatening

Location: Inside any reflective mirror surface.

Client: Senge

Fee: To be determined

Client Record

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First telephonic contact with the client

*Frantic yelling and screaming*

“Save me, save me!

It wants to come out!

It wants to replace me!”

“Who, do you need me to call the police for you?”

“It’s a ghost…

the ghost wants to take everything from me, it’s learning from me!”

“You’d better calm down, can you tell me your name?”

“My name is Senge, save me!

Come quickly, save me!

It’s coming out!”

“Hello Senge, if you need help, we need details of the situation.

Yelling won’t solve anything.”

“It’s hiding in the shadows…

I have to hide…

I need to hide!”

*Cluttered footsteps*

*Static noise*

*Call ends*

End of the first phone contact

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Second telephonic contact with the client:

“I’ve hidden myself…

It should not be able to see me now…”

“Senge?”

“It’s me…

I’m hiding in a…

in a closet, it’s dark here, no mirrors, it can’t see me.”

“Can you then tell me what happened?”

“I…

I witnessed…

something terrifying.”

“A paranormal occurrence?”

“Yes!

Yes…

I encountered a paranormal event, but I don’t know if it’s a ghost…”

“Can you describe it?

Like what it looks like.”

“It…

It’s me, the me in the mirror…”

“Do you mean that the mirror reflection is acting differently from you?”

“Exactly!

That’s it!”

“Have you been under a lot of stress recently, and have you seen a psychologist since this happened?”

“I…”

“If this had happened ten days ago, I might have advised you to see a psychologist, but now, I will tentatively classify this as a paranormal incident.

If it’s convenient for you, tell me everything about when it first appeared and what happened after, without hiding anything.”

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“Okay…

you will help me, right?”

“Yes.”

*The sound of swallowing*

“It appeared seven days ago…

I was working in my study, it was very late, perhaps 2 am…

or 3 am.

My skin is very oily so I went to the washroom to wash my face, there’s a mirror on the wall above the sink, I was washing my face with my head down, and then, when I was closing my eyes to apply the soap, my peripheral vision caught something…”

“I thought I was overthinking it, and since my face was full of foam I didn’t dare to open my eyes, so I just continued to scrub my face.

But with my eyes closed and everything pitch-black around me, I felt like there was something hiding by my side, behind me…

it seemed like…

there were footsteps.

So I quickly rinsed my eyes with water to look around, but there was nothing.”

“Then I looked at the mirror again, everything was normal, so I hurried out of the washroom.

Right after I stepped out, I realized something was wrong…

because by then my face was clean, but in the mirror, the face of my reflection was still covered in foam…

I…

I just stepped back to the doorway to look at the mirror.

Then I saw myself still standing in the mirror, motionless, but those eyes were watching me, just tilted to the edge of the eye sockets, staring intently…”

*Rapid breathing*

“I…

I don’t know how to describe it…

I never knew my own face could look so terrifying…”

“I was so scared that I ran back to the bedroom, lit all the candles and oil lamps I could, and hid in the bed.

I thought it would be fine, but after a few minutes, I saw a reflection in the window…

No, not me, it was it, its reflection appeared.”

“Whatever I do…

it does the same thing after me…”

“Do you mean like a normal mirror reflection?”

*A scream of terror*

“No!

No…

not that…

It is definitely it!

Because no matter what I do, it’s always half a beat slow!

I yell and scream, and after a while, it also yells and screams.

I throw a pillow at it, and it throws a pillow back at me…

It’s learning from me…

it’s imitating me…

It has already taken over my shadow, it wants to take over my body!”

“Please stay calm.”

“Okay…

thank you…

Can you help me?

I read that you are a detective who deals with supernatural incidents…”

“Yes, if it’s a ghost or some other supernatural phenomenon, I will help you.

But before that, I need to ask a few questions: Have you been to any particular places during this time?”

“No…

no, I’ve been working, and when resting I just stay at home, I haven’t been anywhere else.”

“Is that so…

Does it appear outside too, or only at your home?”

“It has been following me always…”

“It seems like you might have brought it back home with you.

Now, six days have gone by since you first noticed it, what is the condition of the ghost in the mirror?”

“I don’t know anymore…

It keeps imitating me, starting off clumsy, any action I take, it follows suit but very sluggishly, then it learned to do it more and more like me, faster and faster…

I smashed the mirror, but in the fragments, it could still mimic my actions.

I was so scared, I covered up all the reflective mirrors, glasses, and also drew the curtains shut, damn this night’s curse!

If only I could hide in the dark…

without light, it wouldn’t be able to see me…”

“I’ve been hiding at home these past few days.

But then…

just last night, my parents came to find me, I saw it in the window…

its movements have started to be exactly the same as mine…

I throw a punch, it also throws a punch, I blink, and it blinks too, what should I do, what can I do…”

“Are you sure that what’s in the mirror is it and not yourself?”

*Hysterical shouting*

“Of course!

It’s it!

It has completely occupied my reflection!”

“Okay, I understand.

If it’s as you say, you’d better come to our agency as quickly as possible.”

“Can’t you come over?!

If I go out, that ghost will see me!”

“We can certainly come over, but it looks very urgent…

you might not last until then.”

*A brief silence*

“How can this be…

What should I do!

I don’t want to die…

I’m still young sob sob sob…”

“Like I said before, leave your house and hurry to our Detective Agency.

But I want to ask one more thing: Does it come out during the day?”

“No…

It only appears after dark…”

“Good, it’s not sunny right now, but it’s still daytime, you can take this opportunity to come to my Detective Agency.”

*Noises of disarray*

“I will come…

I’ll come right now!

I’m on my way!”

The second phone conversation ends

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Analysis: The motives of the ghost are unclear, and it only appears in mirrors that reflect the client’s image.

The assumption that it wants to take his place is the client’s own speculation; the ghost in the mirror might have other purposes.

Insufficient information to ascertain more content, will have to wait for the client’s arrival for further action.