SCS 61

Story 61

Mirror

I live in a secondhand house, and I ended up breaking a mirror that the previous resident had left behind.

It seemed to be glued to the wall with some kind of adhesive, so I couldn’t remove it, and I had just left it there. It was in the hallway, so it kept catching my eye, which I didn’t like.

The mirror was probably a cheap one, about 40 cm tall and 20 cm wide. It had a white plastic frame. I’m guessing the previous resident bought it from a 100-yen shop or something and stuck it there.

I didn’t want to take it down because it might damage the wallpaper, but since it was broken, I had no choice. I pried it off the wall.

Then, on the back of the mirror, I saw that it was covered with tiny pieces of paper. Each one was overlapping irregularly.
The pieces were roughly rectangles about 1 cm tall and 3 cm wide.

On every piece of paper was written in red letters:

“Mika-chan, die.”

Seeing all those densely written words, I remembered something.

That’s right—this place was a “haunted” or accident property. I remembered that this was the scene where a mother, driven mad after her husband died, had abused her daughter to death without anyone noticing.