Realistic Bias

The world of silence is never singular. For as long as she can remember, reality has been like a malfunctioning screen - a translucent "ghost" is always superimposed on the daily scenes. In the double image, the wall breathes slowly, the air is filled with emotional particles, and some indescribable existence is squirming at the edge of the field of vision. Doctors call this "reality disorder." Cen Ji knew that she just saw it too clearly. Her aunt's will took her to a funeral parlor on the edge of the city - "Only you can see it, and only you can take it over." Those abandoned cries, unspoken confessions, and secrets that have rotted for many years have accumulated here to form an inner world that only she can see. There, entrenched are consciousnesses fueled by human emotions, like beings in the Cthulhu mythology, squirming in the gaps of reality. Calm's job is to sneak into that ghost and perform the funeral for the lingering memory. Until she met Ni Chun in the backyard. Black cat ears, sharp bat wings, and a devil tail with dark red lines—she looks like a devil and a cat demon. But she is neither. She is a "mirrorborn": a shadow being born between two worlds, whose appearance is projected from the imagination of the "inhuman" by the collective subconscious of mankind. She is a living mirror, and her calmness is her most worthy example. There is no love between them, only a dangerous and profound entanglement that mirrors each other. When the "reality" began to disintegrate, and when the double image became clearer and clearer, Cen An discovered that those inhuman things that had always been watching her in the dark were slowly moving closer.