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I encountered the word 「鏡越し」 while I'm reading a web novel, titled
『とある殉教者の訃報』by 鼠色猫／長月達平

Here is the full sentence.

> 「もし、これが **鏡越しの** 会話じゃなかったら、今頃、君はバラバラだったよ。そうならなかったことを、僕に感謝した方がいいんじゃないかな」

I googled 「鏡越し」 and still I couldn't find the meaning of this word. The closet
meaning I got when I used google translate was "Glanced up from glasses" and I
don't think it is the right translation for this sentence. How should it be
translated? Thank you in advance for your help.
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What does 鏡越し mean in this sentence?
Sounds like "through the looking glass" or "through the mirror". (Which I
think may refers to an alternate world/universe/timeline used as a metaphor to
illustrate what the present time might have been under different
circumstances)

Unless if it happens that in the setting of the story the mirror is a plot
device for actually going into an alternate world or communicating to the
alternate world (or going/communicating to somewhere else within the same
world) then it's not a metaphor.
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