If Reika felt at all intimidated by Mei's hard stare...then she obviously didn't show it. Really, one would think that the silver-haired Spirit would have noticed by now that Reika was as stoic as brick wall. Ironic enough. Reika did blink in surprise when Mei started spinning around like a magical girl right in front of her eyes.

"....did Mirall Mei make a contract?" she asked innocently, the movement reminding her of a manga she had read earlier in the library some days ago.

[i]"What do you think of humans, Shinigami-san?"[/i]

Reika glanced over at the wall of text then back at Mei than at the wall of text then back to Mei again.

"Humans? Humans are....confusing Mirall-chan."

Mirage looked at the Reaper for a long, silent minute after she heard the spirit's reply to her first question. Judging by her sour expression, it was blatantly obvious that the answer that Reika had given was either not satisfactory or not what she had wanted to hear. The canvas and the letters that spelled out the question vanished into thin air, as if they had never been there in the first place. Mei turned her head and sighed, looking at the Reaper from over her shoulder - having now turned her back to her. Her eyes were half-closed and she looked quite bored - unlike the chipper and smiling way she had been before, this almost seemed like an entirely different person, or perhaps the other side of a coin.

"That's it? They're confusing?" Her voice was now as monotone as Reika's face. "So you kill them because they confuse you?" She asked, disinterested.

Reika tilted her head, confused on Mei's initial words and reaction towards her answer. What was she expecting? Certainly nothing too deep or philosophical unless it involved Death...

"I thought Mirall-chan would like my answer? Would Mirall-Mei prefer if I said that humans needed to be judged for their sins? While it is true that Reika finds need in this world to punish the wicked and slay them, certain events have Reika to think...otherwise."

Mei sighed again.

"And how do you decide who to slay? What is it you base your judgment on?" She cupped her hand and rested her cheek in it, looking towards the Reaper as if she was looking at a dog that was chasing its own tail.

Reika blinked once, as if genuinely surprised of the other Spirit's actions. "Reika judges those who are naturally not fit for this world or its society. People who cause trouble for no reason than to better themselves. I suppose you could amount them to cliché "bad guys" such as robbers and serial killers. However, Reika also slays those who she knows death would become a much less painful existence than continuing to live. However...."

The Spirit paused. "Reika has already said that these actions have led me to to reconsider their meaning. Recent events have made Reika question the purpose and worth of her goals. But are humans not created simply to die?"

"Ho~ooooooh?" Mei let an elongated, overly dramaticized syllable.

Suddenly, Mirage was right in front of Reaper, even though it didn't look like she had moved a finger. She was just... There, an inch or two from Reika's face, smiling now. It was not a good smile though.

"But if you question what you've done up until now... Doesn't that mean that all the lives you've taken so far were just a waste~?" She said it in a playful manner, but she looked more like a villain than anything else as she said it. "Humans live short lives, you know? If you kill them, and then regret it, doesn't that mean that you're the one in the wrong, hm?"

"....you did not answer Reika's question, so Reika will ask once more. Are humans not created to die inevitably?"

The Spirit did not flinch away from Mirage's sudden closeness to her, a brief flicker of her eyes being the only indication that she possessed any feeling or emotion at all. "Reika does not want to cause ill omens between one that is like her, and so I do not seek to find reason to judge you. However, Reika would request that you please answer my question first before I answer yours."

A pause.

"Or, is Mirall-Mei one of those people who like to answer questions with more questions?"

Mei's face turned sour again.

"I'm a person who wants answers when I ask a question." She said in a bored tone.

The distance between Reika and herself extended again, now with Mirage being several feet off from the Reaper once more. She looked at her fellow spirit for a bit, an awkward silence that seemed to last for a long, long time. Then, finally, she sighed again and gazed at Reika's face.

"For a grim reaper, you sure are a very dull girl." She said off-handedly. " "Well, whatever, I've had enough of you. Why don't you go back now? This has been a complete waste." Apparently, Mei was not satisfied with her encounter with the Reaper.

And Reika didn't have time to protest, as a tear or zipper-like hole opened right behind her and literally sucked the spirit out of the room of light, ejecting her back into the dirty alley from where she had entered. The hole closed almost instantly behind her, disallowing the spirit to try and regain entry into the strange dimension.

Reika blinked, looking around and taking in her new surroundings. Wait, they weren't new. More precisely, it was the exact same location the Spirit had found herself wandering the night prior. Except it was day time now? Walking up to the bricked wall, Reika got the feeling that there was more to that other Spirit than initially let on.

Oh well. Reaching out, she gently flicked the bricked wall, flaking off some small chunks.

"So you live in a space that distorts time? How interesting.....Reika would very much like to meet you again Mirall-chan. Please though, maybe deposit me at a more suitable time frame? Reika is late for school."

With no more words spoken, the Spirit returned back into her normal clothing and proceeded to take the long walk back to Raizen High. What a strange girl Mirall was...

Darn. She hadn't reaped anyone at all in the time stolen from her. Oh well.