Hololive: Reflection

Part Six: Our Mistakes Don't Just Go Away

The two looked at Amelia in shock. She's the reason the Mirror exists?

" What do you mean by that...?" Suisei asked, her wound now fully closed and giving the detective a scowl.

"It was created..." Amelia started, looking down and grabbing the pocket watch on her coat, "When I used this..."

"Wait, that's..." Gura stepped back, eyes wide with shock.

"Yeah," Amelia nodded, "It's my time machine..."

"When did you use that...?" Gura asked bewildered, returning to the original place where she stood.

"Haha..." Amelia chuckled weakly, tears still building in her eyes, "That's a hard question to answer. A better question would be why, wouldn't it?"

"Don't get funny, detective," Suisei went up to her, holding her knife.

"Don't," Gura said, pointing her trident at Suisei's face, "You even dare."

"STOP!" Amelia shouted, her sadness briefly flaring into anger, "Just... stop it..."

The two returned to their original positions, putting away their weapons and glaring at each other. Not breaking eye contact, Gura put out her hand. Suisei looked at the hand and closed her eyes, sighed dejectedly. She held out her hand, and the two girls shared a firm handshake, significant of a truce.

"...I'll hear you out," Suisei glanced at Amelia.

"Thank you," Amelia said, still quite emotional, "You see, this watch is a time machine. But what Gura doesn't know is... I was the one who made it."

"H-huh?" Gura said, surprised, "I thought you've devoted your life to detective work, not inventions."

"In this life, yes," Amelia sighed, "But in my previous life, I was a different person under a different name."

"Different... life?" Suisei repeated, puzzled.

"That's right," Amelia said, "In my past life, I was just a simple inventor."

"What do you mean, past life?" Suisei said with a hint of agitation.

"The life I lived before I time traveled," Amelia started, "The life I lived before everything went wrong..."

"What went wrong?" Gura asked.

"In layman's terms, some insane bitch agitated the gods," Amelia said bitterly, "And they released Niku upon the world."

"NIku? That's the stuff Malice are made of, right?" Gura questioned.

"Yeah," Amelia nodded slowly, "It's the manifestation of humanity's impurity, as that unwanted crackhead called it."

"So, that person made the gods angry and they released Niku, so you time travelled to stop it," Suisei confirmed, "What then?"

"I did what anyone would do in my situation," Amelia explained, turning away, "I shot the bastard."

"I..." Gura stammered, "That's understandable."

"But it was so stupid of me to think that'd fix everything," Amelia said, grinning wryly and looking toward the ground, "Time travel couldn't fix it."

"Why not?" Suisei asked.

"Because," Amelia started, "Our mistakes just don't go away like that. Not even by meddling with time."

"Wait, do you mean..." Suisei began.

"The world I left behind," Amelia said, holding back tears, "Reordered and manifested itself as our Mirror."