Coward

The world was a weird place.

Takahashi Mito was quietly living in his small restuarant that he acquired a week ago.

During that week, Takahashi Mito went to and fro between the mirror world and actual world a lot of times.

He wanted to test some of his assumptions about the mirror verse that he read in the message log.

The mirror world was the exact replica of the actual world but inverted.

Takahashi Mito was already happy for that fact that he had found a loophole in the god's plan when he left the mirror monsters to rot in the mirror world.

He was just experimenting his ability and it's usage so that he could be ready to escape to the mirror world when the actual world was in danger.

Secondly, he wanted to know if he can take things from inside the mirror world to the actual world or vice versa.

If he could, then he would have nothing to worry about be it wealth, food or technology.

He could just take it from the mirror world.

And that's why, he went and took things from the actual world to the mirror world and vice versa.

"The reality is often disappointing, isn't it?"

Mito sighed.

The results that he got was something that he had expected but still felt sour when it happened.

Anything that was taken from the mirror world dissipated in the actual world and anything from the actual world, once taken into the mirror world, disintegrated in a matter of seconds as well.

The rate of dissipation and disintegration are different for different objects as tested by Mito.

"The weird monsters, once taken out, can only exist to about 3 to 5 seconds in the actual world. After that, it dies or disintegrates. Too less information. But even this much is helpful."

Takahashi Mito mumbled about the disintegration time of the mirror monster that he summoned a week ago.

He found out that he could take anything from the mirror world to the actual world if he had physical contact with the object and he wills it to come to the actual world.

That's how the restuarant owner died as well. Takahashi Mito just went to the mirror world and then took the monster to the actual world and returned to the mirror world.

The monster unable to find Mito ripped the restuarant owner and dissipated.

"But to think that a low class mirror monster was able to think about its situation and kill a normal person in just under 3 seconds is pretty amazing. I will use them to kill others. Another loophole found huh."

Mito said while looking at the picture of the restuarant owner with a small smile.

"I forgot to throw that picture huh."

He got up from the chair that he was sitting casually on and picked up the photo frame of the previous owner and disappeared.

A second later, he reappeared but without the photo frame.

"The mirror world is a really good place to hide anything."

"No customers today as well huh. Good for me. I still don't know how to cook and I don't want to learn it anyway."

Takahashi Mito said while looking at the silhouette of a women who was coming near his restuarant from the glass panels of his door.

It had been three days that he opened but no customers came to his restuarant to eat.

As for what was he going to do if some customers came.

Simple, he was going to order something from the nearby restaurant, use the mirror world to go there, exit the mirror world, take the food from that restaurant, enter mirror world and then come to his restuarant and serve, aka outsourcing.

"Too much trouble but in times of need, even lifting bricks to earn a mouthful is a godsend, much less a person like me who has no degree, no knowledge of this era and being lazy, this much is fine."

"And it's not like I did any of that."

"Exactly what that heck am I doing?"

"Welcome, do you need something?"

Takahashi Mito calmly said to the woman who came for the third time this week.

"Did Mr Harrison said anything?"

The woman asked Takahashi Mito. She was wearing casual clothes and worry was practically written on her face.

"He didn't. There is still no news of him."

Takahashi Mito replied calmly.

This was the third time that he was answering the woman in front of him.

"Okay... you already have my contact information, please inform me when you get any information."

The woman said in a low voice and left. Her steps were heavy and her shoulders were down.

She seemed to be crying.

Takahashi Mito looked at the silhouette of the woman as she went out of his sight and then towards the back of the store.

In the storeroom, a little girl's mangled up body was lying in the cold freezer.

"Hah, what the heck am I doing?"

Takahashi Mito looked at his reflection on the glass panels of the door. His contained perplexed emotions.

I am no hero.

He went the door of the shop and closed it.

A day had once again passed and yet he was still thinking.

Thinking about what actually did he wanted to do.

What he had to do.

Working normally?

Living in seclusion?

Being a hero?

Or...