Halloween came and it was a blast. First Misa woke us up with a 'Trick or Treat' call. Then after that, we went to the haunted house attractions one by one. Like conventions, costumes were done to the nines. I passed by someone cosplaying as Major and I couldn't help feeling jealous that only Ace's love got to be real. I didn't care if I had to take her home with me to my world or if I had to stay in that world. The truth was despite all this cool fame and fortune, I did not feel like I belonged and I was sure Mike agreed.
We had started to furnish the house based on Light's mirror theory. The more alike something was, the more possibility of it's mirror dimension opening up. Something like this could not be attempted in worlds less realistic. It was still hard to get all the pieces but we were slowly getting there. Mike had sent over a clip of Lelouche from Code Geas to see if he was similar enough to Light that such a mirror was possible. Even if it didn't get us home, being out of here was good enough for me. Seeing anime in another anime world was so weird.
It felt also weird knowing what was going to happen but still being surprised. It was like preparing for an earthquake and it still shook you. It was mostly because only Ace knew the dates of when everything was happening. She could plan around the story line perfectly we had to do it based on events that already happened. In such a way this made me sure that Ace would not be this in control outside the domain. So now we had two problems getting her to want to leave the realm of her dreams and coming home. Leaving her here in this world and us going home was not an option despite how sad she would be.
The only way I could think was to use Mello to come over with us or bait her into going with us. I didn't even want to ask Light if bring a fourth was possible it would actually turn us into targets. My only hope was that Mello and her actually could make it until the conditions were right. I did make a silent promise that if she came along in the next world and fell in love again, I wouldn't separate her. It wouldn't be fair to be separated twice. I or Mike would settle into that universe with her that was if I could get her to move from here.
This time we went to the one in Joypolis. The only other haunted attraction we could go to was the suicide forest. There was too many scary stories there. I had to wonder if there were shinigami on earth right there or what. I wasn't going to investigate until I was ready to die if the risk was to be believed. It was better to be safe than sorry. The having shinigami made me wonder what else was there and what their original purpose was as Ryuk came when they had forgotten their purpose. I was sure that had Light died on his own terms he could have actually have made those discoveries.
The Joypolis haunted adventure line was not terribly long and there were lots of fans of ours. It was interesting to watch them use our products we endorsed. I never could have imagined this type of life outside this world. When it was our turn, we were in with ten people. It had a dark atmosphere and a lady told a story about a haunted doll in Japanese. We sat down after she left and the lights went dark. We heard sounds and cold air made us shiver and jump. I was sure I saw something out of the corner of my eye but a controlled scare like this gave fun to the fear we had been feeling since we came. Ace wasn't the only one with a life to lose, we were on the line as well.