The mirror that led me astray—Mirror, Mirror…

The first time I confronted this mirror was when I had just started my journey. I became a Keyblade Master, set off with Terra, and chased after Ventus, all while searching for Master Xehanort. The first world I visited on my long journey was this one. I didn’t know anything back then.

“Why won’t you wake up?”

Looking at Snow White, I remembered the words I spoke to Ven. And now, so long after that, Ven is asleep again and I have continued my long journey.

Is the person reflected in the mirror even really me? Is this what it means to face your demons?

Only your heart is hollow enough to be a demon’s.

The me inside the mirror quietly said, and then sneered. Maybe that was a version of me who had been lost to the darkness. I was still convinced I hadn’t yet succumbed to it, but what if I’d been swallowed up by the darkness after all?

My own hand reached out from inside the mirror and it pulled me in. An endless expanse stretched out before me in infinite reflection.

Maybe I just wanted to forget everything and let myself melt away into darkness—and it’s true, I really did have a moment where I thought so.

But despite everything, I would carry on. My friends needed me.