Minami crept up the stairs. What was there? A rumble and footsteps could be heard. A pair of glowing eyes stared at her. She was startled, but then she gathered up all her courage and opened the door to the attic. In her hand was a baseball bat, which she was clutching tightly. She padded silently over old boxes and chests. She got tangled in cobwebs and screamed in terror. She took a deep breath, brushed the cobwebs off her face, and crept on. Suddenly something brushed her leg and she fell. All she saw was her cat Shinyu jumping away. "Stupid cattle!" Minami called after her. She wanted to straighten up, but she was too fascinated by what she saw. The chest in front of which it had fallen was black as night, had gold decorations and the most fascinating thing: it glittered silvery and emitted a warm, bright light that cast a spell over it. She opened the chest. It was filled with nothing. But there seemed to be something painted on the bottom of the chest.It looked like looking into another world from above. Strange trees and bushes were seen blooming on a snow-white beach. The water was heavenly blue and small waves could be seen. Minami stared into the chest, fascinated. She ran her finger over the painting. The chest was sleek and not uneven like everything else in the attic. But what was that? The bird that was still floating so calmly in the wind hadn't really sat down on the tree. And since! The wave was even further back, now it is touching the trees! Minami closed her eyes to clear her head again. Suddenly it felt like he was being immersed in a warm liquid. That feeling crept up her arm, then it went through her arm, to her shoulder, and then quickly down to her feet. When the 'liquid' crawled up her neck, she opened her eyes again. Could it be? She was practically sucked into that box!With these words, Shinyu ended her story. She liked to write stories, probably because her father was a writer. Nobody knew exactly where he was. When he and Shinyu's mother flew to the Caribbean, there was an aircraft accident at the same time. You could no longer identify the aircraft and thus not tell whether they were dead now or were lounging comfortably in the sun. Shinyu wasn't afraid for her parents. They had survived everything so far. Her father has already been shot and her mother has been attacked by a knife. They had an amazing urge to survive ... That was six months ago. Shinyu is now sixteen. At that time she didn't want to leave because she sometimes needed her private life. And because she was waiting for someone in particular. It was her sandpit friend Kaosu. Of course, she had a bit of a crush on him too. At first she thought it was just a crush, but it was more. He wasn't exactly unpopular, perhaps because he was the guitarist in a well-known band.But the strangest thing was that he'd been gone for two years. Shinyu wrote down all of her frustration in mangas and stories. Usually she also gave one of the roles her name (like the cat this time). Shinyu didn't look much like her mother. She had exactly the same blue eyes, but she had blonde hair, just like her father. Her mother had (naturally) pink hair. Her stature, too, was more like that of her father; tall and skinny. Shinyu once had fortune telling for two years, which is why she was good at judging people. Another problem was that she noticed evil auras everywhere, although sometimes there weren't any. She wanted this so that another accident wouldn't happen, like with Take. The apartment wasn't exactly modest. There was a huge library (some books Shinyu had written, but most of them her father). You could have great parties in the party room or in the "Sauf - Keller" with bar and sofas. Shinyu's older brother Take came up with the name Saufkeller.Normally no one would call the basement that way (Shinyu's father does it a lot) unless Take was killed three years ago. Take was sixteen then, just like Shinyu is now. The Take Mishimoto case was filed and never resolved. She wanted to solve this case in order to avenge Takes death, but she still had no trace ...

The next morning ... It was finally the last day of school and Shinyu was getting ready for school. She slipped into the school uniform (red-brown checked skirt and white sweater with red collar) and black shoes. The doorbell rang on the oak door. "Come on!" Shinyu shouted sleepily. She trotted to the door and opened it. In a good mood like never before and with a broad grin, Monita stood in front of the door. "May I ask what you are happy about? There are people who still want to be in a bad mood because they are still half asleep!" "That's good. We have six weeks of vacation from tomorrow. Six weeks!" "I got it ...", Shinyu mumbled tiredly.At school everything was ordinary, Frau Schniegelbrecht, Shinyus and Monita's teacher, whose hair was already more gray than black, was singing again like a cat that had been stepped on its tail too often. Everything was as usual until ... Shinyu's teacher suddenly turned into a gray-black-tabby cat !!!
"Shinyu, Shinyu, SHINYU !!!", mewled Cat Schniegelbrecht. "Uh, yes?" "Are you asleep in class again?" "But no, Miss Schniegelbrecht!", Shinyu said drowsy. Mrs. Schniegelbrecht seemed to be "normal" again. "Girl, this is the third time this month! You sleep too much in class!" "Sorry," Shinyu apologized. "You surely know that I ni-!", Ms. Schniegelbrecht could not finish the sentence because she was drowned out by the school bell. Shinyu grabbed her school bag and Monita and was glad to finally have a vacation.

Back home, Shinyu and Monita did the homework they'd done over the holidays."I just don't get this quantum physics!" Grumbled Monita. Shinyu didn't reply. "Hello? Are you still there? SHINYU!" "Uh, yes?" "Let me guess, you thought of Kaosu again?" "G- g- Not at all!" "You can see that on the tip of your nose "" Okay, okay. There is something that concerns me ... It was said that the only thing you could find of him was his left shoe! And that his bathroom "" Yes, what? "Asked Monita. Shinyu replied: "Well, don't you think that's funny too? If he had fled from home, he would certainly not have been without his favorite shoe! And I also exclude the fight, because then there would usually be traces of blood or signs of a fight. But everything what was there was a clean bathroom. And besides: Nobody escapes from home for two years. Although, he would bring that ... ", Shinyu explained and Monita could not suppress a grin:" How do you know exactly, that this was his favorite shoe? And the details also seem to have been glued in place with hot air glue like in your head."Shinyu said, embarrassed," Um, well, well, that's clear, I've known him since the sandpit ... "" Anyway, I have to go. I still want to pack. After all, from tomorrow I'll be on a plane to the Caribbean and then it's all summer, sun, beach and sea! ", Shinyu replied and made a movement with her hand, as if she wanted to wipe the topic away .." Sure thing, say hello to my parents when you see them, they should be hanging around somewhere. Have a good trip ", Shinyu said goodbye. Monita waved her hand as she left, as a sign that she had understood. Shinyu sat for another two hours on homework, during which she bit three pencils until she got back to her manga turned to.

She posed in front of the mirror because she had to paint a certain pose. She pressed her hands to the mirror and tried to look pitiable as possible. Her hands literally glowed on the mirror, but Shinyu realized it was too late.Half of her fingers were sucked into the mirror. Her reflection in the mirror seemed to slowly fade ... From her hands there were only a few chopped off stumps that hung from her arms. At first Shinyu was too amazed to scream. But then she began to scream loudly: "Aah! What is that, help, help !!! Leave that, you stupid mirror! What, what is that? !!! Uaaaah !!!!!" Her arms were already up sucked in to the shoulders. She tried to pull her arms back, but it was already too late. Her (front) torso was sucked in, as was her front head. She could (after all, her eyes were now "in the mirror" too) see into another world. Rather in two long tunnels that ran parallel to each other. They looked like many smoky rings chained together. The tunnel on the right was lemon yellow, the one on the left was dark purple. She stared for a moment with open mouth and wide eyes at this magnificent, fascinating and at the same time eerie-mysterious sight.She forgot everything around her, she forgot all her worries. She forgot that she wanted to find Kaosu again, forgot that she wanted to avenge her brother Take and even forgot that she was being sucked into the mirror of her bathroom. But when she cleared her head again and resisted being sucked into the mirror, she had already been sucked so far into the mirror that only her legs were missing. She turned her head (which was now completely sunk in the mirror) and could still see the mirror, which shone brightly and dazzlingly. It was as bright as the sun and glittered mysteriously. It just made * Flupp *, her feet had already slipped through the portal. The mirror shone brighter than before and slowly turned into a shadow until it disappeared completely. Shinyu was now floating in the middle of the tunnels, which had turned from yellow to green and from purple to blue. "How do I get out of here now?" Shinyu shouted desperately.But her scream faded away in the yawning emptiness of the two tunnels and was not heard by anyone. But when she came to terms with the fact that she had no chance to get out, she slowly began to enjoy simply flying around weightlessly in nothing. "Well, you should just make the best of it, Ma always said. Nobody is at home with me anyway ..." she did a few laps. "Mmh, I'm a lot slimmer somehow ... That should perhaps be introduced as a fitness program. Half an hour of gymnastics in nothing ..." She got so close to the tunnels that she slowly