Bianca instantly felt lonely.
She wandered around in search of an exit. Before long, she found a door that led her to believe she could finally get out, but it turned out to be an adjoining room. She searched there too, but no matter where she searched, she could not find a door, let alone a full-length mirror. All she could find was a portrait of what she assumed to be her ancestor hanging there.
Gradually, Bianca grew more and more impatient. Would she be trapped here continuously? No sound could be heard in the room. Sooner or later, the maids would notice that she was missing and all hell would break loose.
Just as she was starting to cry out of loneliness, a window appeared on a different wall from the one she had entered from.
Bianca held up her hand, expecting to be able to get out from there. Then the mirror wavered to reveal a room on the other side. Across the room, where a large desk and bookshelves were lined with books, she could see her brother, who was earnestly researching something.
“Brother!”
Bianca instinctively screamed. She had no room to spare for the thought that he might go ballistic. Her brother then looked up from the mirror on the other side. In a panic, Satias turned around to confirm something and jumped into the mirror from his side.
“Brother―! I was so terrified, I thought I couldn’t leave!”
Bianca wailed at her brother.
“Bianca, keep quiet, Father will notice.”
“Huh?”
“Right now, I’m in the adjoining room of Father’s office.”
After seeing her brother, Bianca regained her composure and behaved for the time being. Bianca wept in disgust as Satias stroked her back.
“More importantly, you’re acting like this again. By the looks of it, you must have been searching for something in the villa’s hidden room.”
He hit the nail on the head. She was exposed immediately.
“I’m sorry. I just couldn’t stop myself from being curious.”
“Geez…”
“Um. I came from the book storage, but the full-length mirror disappeared! So I couldn’t get out.”
“The mirror in here moves unless it’s fixed.”
“What? Fixed?”
Bianca was in a daze.
“The mirror in this room is more complicated than the one in the villa and it’s more difficult for people to notice it. The truth is, it’s hard to even notice the book storage door.”
“Huh? Is that so?”
“Perhaps it’s those vermilion eyes of yours. Do they reveal what is hidden? It’s just that you were unaware of this room’s existence until now because you never thought to channel magical power into the mirror surface.”
The eldest brother narrowly observed Bianca as he analyzed her.
“But I can’t get out. Looks like nothing but danger.”
Bianca lowered her eyebrows sorrowfully.
“There is no particular danger. In time, the mirror will appear on one of the walls. You won’t be trapped. But, if you act carelessly in any way, this room’s existence will be exposed.”
She suspected that her father did not know about this room, either.
“When did you first come to know about this room?”
“I only knew about it after you went missing. More than that, isn’t there a maid somewhere watching over you? There will be an uproar unless you return.”
Bianca snapped to attention.
“If you wait a little longer, the full-length mirror will show up again in the same place. Then you can go back. Be discreet.”
“Brother, you’re not coming with me?”
Bianca squeezed her brother’s hand.
“It would be incongruous if I went with you and suddenly appeared in the book storage.”
Bianca nodded.
“Brother, I have so many questions to ask you.”
“I get it. I’ll go to your room tonight.”
“Really! You promise?”
It made her happy to know she would be able to talk with him after so long.
“Yeah, definitely. I’m more worried about you turning things upside down. But I won’t enter through the door, so don’t screech.”
That day, while she got ready for bed and waited for the light to go out, the wardrobe moved silently to the side. A scream almost escaped her lips, but she suppressed it just in time.
“B-Brother, you could enter this room so easily?”
“It’s not that easy. I have to make a little detour, and the passage is a little narrower than moving around the house.”
Satias seemed to still be awake and wasn’t in his pajamas like Bianca.
“Somehow, I am sorry. Even though you’re busy.”
“Don’t worry, it’s always like this. No big deal. What concerns me more is that you’re wandering around the house. If you get lost, it’s going to be a problem to find you.”
Her brother didn’t move from the spot where he had come in.
“Come over here for the time being; I doubt anyone will overhear our conversation, but you never know.”
Her pulse began to race as if she was about to embark on an adventure.
Thank you for the translation!