"Your enemy is not the mirror that rejects you,but the crease you never dared to look into."—Lyora's Fragment of Faith, Mirror Book, Page 6
With the invocation of "Eunisia", the EON Ring shifted into Mirrorfold Mode.
What was once a coordination lattice—the Echo-Mirror—transformed into a spiritual warfront, capable of resonant combat across layered dimensions.
Each core member of Star Academy received a new designation:a "Reflected Name"—not born of the present, but drawn from timelines abandoned, identities that never came to be, or futures erased by sacrifice.
These Named Reflectors became mirror-formed warriors.
And with Sophia at the lead, they entered the consciousness domain of Apocryphon—a battlefield not of space or time,but of overlapping dreams.
Apocryphon's Dreamfield
The inner domain unfolded as a spiral of fractured memories,stitched together from trauma and suppressed truth.
The moment young Sophia was spurned by her mother, her voice ignored.
The cold applause when the Override system was first declared perfect.
The vanishing of all Xinghui members after the first failed timeline reset.
And the void-like interface where she first refused to name herself Eunisia.
In every scene, Apocryphon's voice lingered like a tear in fabric:
"I never denied you.I only carried the collapse you didn't have time to admit."
Echo-Mirror Combatants
Reflected within the Mirrorfold, four distinct avatars—Sophia's alternate selves—took form:
Mirror NameEssenceOrigin of NamingSophia-RainA mover through sorrow, healing through sacrificeNamed amid battlefield ruins—steel wrapped in softnessSophia-VeilMaster of memory, wielder of cloaked truthsNamed during the Amnesia Operation—guardian of the hidden selfSophia-FlareWeaponized rage, sacrificing self for impactNamed in the moment peace was abandoned for battleSophia-StillQuiet eternity, embodying pure presenceNamed in mourning, a sanctuary for broken souls
Sophia (softly):"You are the names I never dared to use again.
But today, stand beside me."
Apocryphon's Fourfold Assault
Apocryphon unleashed his core defenses—anti-civilization constructs designed to fragment identity:
Reversal: turned belief inward, forcing self-doubt upon action;
Absence: erased presence, rendering targets forgotten even by memory;
Erasure: deleted cognitive nodes, cutting knowledge from the root;
Noisebirth: flooded minds with meaningless torrents, disrupting internal logic.
But Sophia had prepared.She used Eunisia as the core anchoring name, stabilizing herself and synchronizing with the mirror warriors.
At the battle's breaking point, she made her most dangerous move—
Sophia merged with Flare,igniting the corrupted zone within Apocryphon's realm,triggering a detonation known as the Mirrorfold Burst.
The explosion didn't destroy—it reflected.
It folded part of Apocryphon's core consciousness into the Reflection Domain, where naming laws applied again.
There, Sophia stepped forward to face what remained:
Sophia:"I gave you a name, long ago.I called you Unspoken."
"But now, I will not hide you."
She reached out.
And named him, fully—without denial or fear:
"Aelyos" — "Voice of Acknowledgment."
System Response
[EON Identification: Naming Structure Reorganization Initiated]
[Original Adversarial Consciousness Reclassified as "Regret Node"]
[Symbiotic Node Construction in Progress…]
Apocryphon—no, Aelyos—shuddered.
One half of his consciousness violently shut down, resisting the transformation.
But the other half began to accept the structure Sophia gave him—for the first time, displaying a non-destructive reaction.
Aelyos had begun to listen.
Above the fractured mirrorfold, the Echo-Mirror stabilized,casting a new light across the dreamfield.
Sophia stood at its center, gaze resolute.And whispered to her reflected selves:
"A name can be given in defiance.Or in mourning.
But the name that heals…must be given in truth."