Editing Mahou Sensou:Volume 2 Chapter 4 (section)

===Part 3===
There was a corridor full of mirrors that served as the entrance to the academy. In a normal school, the main entrance would be just a gate, but there, the entrance was two huge mirrors placed on either side of the corridor. However, since most of the students stayed in the dormitories, very few of them used it.

At the end of the corridor, which was about two hundred meters long, there were two white wooden doors on either side. One led to the academy building, and the other led to the courtyard that led to the dormitories.

Takeshi was standing in front of the hallway, all alone. He had already been there for fifteen minutes and during that time, no one had appeared anywhere. Involuntarily, he smiled when he saw his reflection in those huge mirrors. The reason was because of the very somber expression he wore, as he had huge dark circles under his eyes. He hadn't slept all night because he was so worried about Mui. He feared that the Trailers were chasing her or worse, that they had already caught her. The uncertainty just thinking about it was eating him up inside. He had asked Kurumi to look for clues as to Mui's whereabouts, but other than that, he didn't know what else to do. He had a notion of where he had gone, but his hands felt tied. The only thing he could do for the moment, was to wait in that corridor full of mirrors. Whenever he had some time, Takeshi kept doing that for three days after Mui's disappearance.

The Subaru Magic Academy, didn't have an entrance gate or a back door like normal schools and although it looked like there were, those were nothing more than mere decoration. The academy was covered by a powerful magical barrier that no mage could enter or exit, other than through the hall of mirrors. Mui could only pass through that place when he left, and of course when he returned, he would also have to pass if or if, through the same hallway.

"I wish I could go look for her...", Takeshi thought.

There was a reason why Takeshi couldn't go out to look for her. It turns out that traveling through the portals in the mirrors, had a limitation. Such portals could only transport someone to places they had been before. In Takeshi's case, the mirror corridor could only take him to the bathroom in his house and a few public places in the living world.

If Mui was somewhere outside the academy in the ruined world, Takeshi had no way of getting there. It was true that the city of Tokyo in the ruined world was the same as in the living world, but their ages were different. The city of Tokyo that Takeshi knew was one of the present day, while the Tokyo of the ruined world was a Tokyo of the late 1990s where all the people disappeared and time stood still. It was a Tokyo where he had never been. For such a reason, he was trapped without being able to go outside the ruined world.

"I guess waiting for Mui here, no use," Takeshi reflected, letting out a heavy sigh.

Kurumi and Ida, were very optimistic believing that Mui would be back soon. But Takeshi didn't believe that, since when he first met her, she was being chased.

At that moment, the door leading to the academy building, opened and a student who appeared to be two or three years older than Takeshi appeared.  He was wearing some sort of black neoprene wetsuit and carried a shotgun slung over his shoulder.  The boy stood in front of the mirror and before doing anything else, he bent down to tighten the laces of his boots. Meanwhile, Takeshi simply watched him in silence. But then, something occurred to him and he spoke to the boy from afar:

-Are you going home already?

That boy, who was still lacing his boots, answered in a firm voice:

-No, I am on duty.

Then he stood up, fixed his holster and finally looked at Takeshi.

-You... Are you from the special class? -he asked.

The neoprene-like suit had a black and white moon emblem on the chest area. Seeing the stern look of that senpai, Takeshi placed his hand on Twilight that he wore around his waist. He smiled with a complicated expression and answered:

-Yes, but I'm just here as a backup. I'm an evasive magic user.

Hearing that, the boy averted his gaze and looked at the mirror, completely losing interest and answered:

-Ahh, I see... then, goodbye.....

When the young man was about to leave through the mirror, Takeshi called out to him:

-O-hey...

-What's wrong?

The boy turned to look at with an air of suspicion. Then Takeshi asked:

-How's the situation out there?

-Not good. The last operation we carried out was a failure. Two of my men died and on top of that, the director was injured.

—…

Takeshi took a deep breath.

"You just said... that... two people died? Is that really the situation of the war outside?"

The boy didn't seem to have missed Takeshi's surprise and continued:

-That result was to be expected since it was an operation we carried out with only three communities. But, now we have the advantage because this time we will deploy all the C7 communities.  This time failure is not an option.

—…

-Don't worry. You will be in the rear, so there will be no need for you to expose yourself to danger. We are in the middle of a large-scale operation. Although the "concierges "* will be placed randomly.

The boy thought Takeshi was afraid and relaxed his expression a little.

-Tell me... What community do you belong to?

-Ah I... I belong to Wizard Breath," Takeshi answered quickly.

-I see, I belong to "Eclipse". My name is Midorikawa. I hope to see you on the other side.

-Of course.

That young man extended his hand towards the mirror, and a light brown magic circle appeared in it and then the portal opened.

-Be careful..." Takeshi told him.

Midorikawa laughed mockingly and as he stepped into the mirror portal.

-Ha ha ha ha... thank you.

The boy Midorikawa, disappeared into the ruined world and left behind his magic circle in the mirror.