Intruder

At this time, the trio stood on the hallway of the second floor of the mansion.

"This is my room." Carla said as she pointed to the nearby room.

"This one's mine" Rick said as he pointed towards the room adjacent to Carla's room.

"I guess I'll take this one." Leon said as he pointed towards the room in front of Rick's.

"Let's clean our rooms so we can sleep comfortably tonight. Tomorrow, let's do a general cleaning on the entire mansion" Carla said with hands on her hips.

"Can you even sleep alone in your room? Hahaha, maybe you can sleep since you might not be the only one in your room" Rick said with a teasing tone.

"Hey Leon, there's no need for us to help Rick clean his room" Carla said as she shot a threatening look at Leon.

Leon could only helplessly smile as he reluctantly agreed with Carla.

"Uhmmm, Carla.. I was just joking. No need to take it seriously. Come on, Leon. You'll help me. Right?" Rick said as he looked at Leon. Carla glared at Leon as she clenched her fist, ready to smack Leon's head the moment he chose the wrong answer.

Leon was profusely sweating as he felt the gazes of the two. In the end, he felt that Carla was scarier than Rick so he could only apologize to Rick.

"Carla, I'm sorry. I was wrong. If it makes you comfortable, I can sleep with you tonight" Rick said as his face showed the expression of puppy eyes.

'Huh? That came out wrong.' Rick thought to himself. He can almost hear the footsteps of the FBI ready to break into the mansion and arrest him.

"No way. You're a man and I'm a woman. We can't sleep in the same room" Carla retorted as she rolled her eyes.

'Sure enough, she's grown up a little bit' Rick thought to himself as his lips curled up to a bitter smile.

Later that night, Carla and Leon helped each other in cleaning their own rooms while Rick just cleaned his room alone.

At this time, Rick was alone in his room as he stood in front of a mirror as he rubbed his chin. Unlike Carla and Leon who cleaned the entirety of their rooms, he only swept the floor and wiped the dust covering the furniture in his room.

He found a rectangular mirror with a simple wooden frame on the wall. He thought that it was peculiar since his image on the mirror was actually reversed, instead of the usual inverted reflection.

Nonetheless, he just shrugged it off as some strange mirror. Shortly afterwards, he lay on the bed as he tried to sleep.

About an hour later, Rick opened his eyes and got up from the bed.

"Damn, I can't sleep" Rick muttered with a low voice as he looked at the reversed mirror.

His thoughts flowed through but every time he's about to fall asleep, the reversed mirror would surface on his mind, forcing him to stay awake.

He got up on the bed and looked closely at the reversed mirror as he touched it with his left hand as his image inside the mirror imitated his action. His left hand didn't meet the left hand of his image inside.

When he removed his hand from it, a blemish was left on the area where he touched the mirror.

He then turned his gaze on the window and saw the clear sky with the moon in the middle as it illuminated the night.

'They should have slept soundly by now. I guess I'll check out the mansion' Rick thought to himself.

They still hadn't checked out the entirety of the mansion. At least, they hadn't explored the garden in front and the back of the mansion since it's already late at night when they entered the mansion.

When he left his room, the seemingly unassuming wooden frame on the mirror glowed with white light.

A figure of a black-haired boy was formed in the mirror.

The figure looked at the room for a while before he raised his left hand forward and touched the area exactly where the blemish was. When the figure inside removed his hand, the blemish disappeared without a trace.

It didn't take long before the figure disappeared inside the mirror.

It was Rick's figure in the mirror.

...

Meanwhile, outside the mansion, on the back side, a figure of a boy lurking in the streets looked at the mansion with a solemn gaze.

The figure had brown eyes, white hair with jaw-length bangs framing either side of the face. He wore a white shirt and short-sleeved white haori over the shirt, and white sandals.

'This should be the place' the figure inwardly said as he looked around the surroundings to see if there's anyone near him.

After seeing that the streets were empty, he sneakily climbed the wall and entered the back of the mansion, trying to be as light and silent as possible.

He then climbed to the second floor of the mansion through the pillar and entered through the windows.

When he found out that there were signs of people inside the mansion, his brows furrowed.

'There's someone inside? Impossible! It shouldn't have been discovered yet... Is it Lisa?' the boy inwardly exclaimed.

He then sneakily walked inside and checked the surroundings as if he's looking for something.

'From the looks of it, there's more than one intruder and they appear to be making this place their home. Are they Lisa's relatives?' the man thought suspiciously.

So far, he found Leon and Carla sleeping soundly in their rooms but didn't do anything to them. When he looked at Rick's room, he frowned when he didn't find anyone inside.

'This is troublesome' the boy inwardly complained as his frown deepened.

He concluded that there are a total of three people in the mansion. Two are sleeping in their beds while the last one is awake and is somewhere in the mansion.

'Hopefully, the last person is a kid just like the other two' the boy thought to himself.