EPISODE 57 — The Mirror That Fights Alone
⚔️ EPISODE 57 — The Mirror That Fights Alone🩸
🎭 Subtitle: "The War That Enters Through the Eyes."
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🎬 SCENE 1: Zero-Mirror Arena — Activation Phase
📍 Location: An inverted arena built in a folded space, between two reflections.
The floor is made of liquid glass. Every movement produces an echo in an alternate version of reality.
✦ Duel: Vaël-Mir (Commander of the Mirage Blades) vs Reck-Zhôr (Master of Temporal Fractals)
> 🔔 Oxarys' mental announcement:
"This fight is recorded in six timelines. Each wound counts six times."
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🎬 SCENE 2: Introduction of the combatants
🩵 Vaël-Mir — mirror strategist of the Ariav constellation
Weapon: Double spectral plasma blade, sensitive to emotions.
Superpower: Delayed movement — her movements are perceived one second after they are executed.
Secret Technique: "Gentle Fracture" — disintegrates her target's pain but keeps it for later.
Forbidden Technique: "Refused Duplication" — prevents any copying or cloning of the opponent.
> 💬 "I fight to be seen for who I am... not through what others project."
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🧠 Reck-Zhôr — fractal being with 6 temporal cores
Weapon: None. He uses the gravitational projection of regret.
Power: Partial time reversal — he rewinds 0.6 seconds around him.
Secret Technique: "Axis Shift" — shifts the fight into a parallel version.
Forbidden Technique: "Total Future," where he becomes the sum of all his unmade choices.
> 💬 "I am the answer that no one asks. And that's why I win."
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🎬 SCENE 3: First clash — 8 seconds, 41 effects
The fight begins.
⚔️ Vaël-Mir lunges diagonally backwards, creating three afterimages behind her.
Reck-Zhôr reverses them: he draws a version of her into a time loop.
She reacts by projecting a "Delayed Strike" — her sword cuts through the air, then strikes 1.4 seconds later.
💥 Impact:
A blade pierces Reck-Zhôr's left shoulder... but blood flows from his knee.
He has transferred his pain to another version of himself.
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🎬 SCENE 4: Mental destabilisation — The mirror becomes the enemy
The floor of the arena opens up like a glass wound.
Each fighter sees a future version of themselves, already dead.
Vaël-Mir staggers when he sees his own corpse, with its eyes open.
Reck-Zhôr, on the other hand, embraces his own death and uses it to launch:
> 🔥 "Punitive Fractal – Delay Form"
— a pure mental attack that ages Vaël-Mir's heart by 1,000 years in 3 seconds.
💢 She screams, falls to her knees... but as she falls, she releases a shower of "Spectral Tears" that burn the space-time around Reck.
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🎬 SCENE 5: Oxarys' Interference — The Arbiter Begins to Feel
While the fight rages on, part of Oxarys watches silently from above the arena.
A soft voice reaches all the mental spectators:
💬 "These two don't want to win... they want to survive themselves."
Faces appear briefly on the walls of the arena. Memories that neither of them has given away.
Vaël-Mir sees his mother die at the moment of his birth.
Reck-Zhôr sees a whole life in which he was never a warrior.
⚠️ These images weaken them psychologically... and create flaws for what is to come.
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🎬 SCENE 6: Final combo of the episode — Partial space fusion
Reck-Zhôr traps Vaël in a sphere of slowed memory, where she must relive her injury 12 times in a row.
She has only two options left:
1. Give up the fight.
2. Use her forbidden technique.
💬 Vaël (in a low voice):
"You want me to suffer? I was forged in an army of ghosts."
🔥 She activates: Split Refused
> All versions of herself merge into one absolute Vaël-Mir, capable of acting in all timelines at once.
Just before she cuts Reck down... the arena explodes in a vortex of inverted space-memory.
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🎬 SCENE 7: Abrupt cut — To be continued
The spectators in the other arenas scream.
Kairos grips his sword. Champlain closes his eyes. Bella whispers, "This fight will break them."
The vortex swallows both combatants.
Final text:
> "To be continued in episode 58: The Second Fall of the Reflection. The fight continues... but they are no longer sure who they are fighting against."
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🕯️ END — EPISODE 57: The Mirror that Fights Alon