The warden who guards the witches

"Who is this person..." Seeing the person who looked exactly like her in the cage, Deborah couldn't help but open her eyes wide, "Double Killer? Why did he become like me?"

"It's been a long time since we last met, my dear messenger of justice." The double killer spoke in a mocking tone as soon as he saw Deborah, "It looks like you are doing well."

"Listen to me, I used the Code to restrict the use of "stand-ins", and now she can't change her appearance." Aiden explained to Deborah, "So this is the true appearance of the double killer, she looks exactly like you."

"What?" Deborah was surprised.

"From your appearance, you don't have a clue either." Aiden observed Deborah's reaction.

"Of course she doesn't know anything, because she is just a delicate flower in a greenhouse." The killer interrupted.

"From the tone, it seems that you know something." Aiden stared at the killer and said.

"Does my origin matter so much? To tell you the truth, I have killed eleven people in total, and I am guilty of all crimes. What you should do is to kill me here, instead of talking nonsense to me. What? You want to persuade me to be a good person?" The killer grinned.

"I don't have to kill you. I can also hand you over to the Inquisition, although you are almost certain to be sentenced to death." Aiden stared at the killer and said, "You have been persuading us to kill you directly. This is strange. What will be the consequences of killing you?"

"...I should have the right to remain silent." The killer raised his eyebrows.

"You can choose to remain silent, but I think you will confess on your own initiative." Aiden said and wrote down the rules of forced confession on the Code to completely eliminate the possibility of the other party lying. "Now, explain everything clearly. Why do you look exactly like Deborah?"

"Um..." The killer resisted a little, but it was meaningless. Under the power of the Code, she was forced to speak the truth, "Because...I am her!"

"What?" Deborah was stunned.

"I said I am you, idiot." The killer sneered at Deborah's sight, "We are all 'Deborah Irwin', the orphan Deborah from the orphanage in the southern part of the frontier. I was sent to the orphanage when I was born in the frontier. When I was twelve years old, I found that the orphanage was colluding with human traffickers, so I quietly escaped from the orphanage. This is the life trajectory I remember." The killer kept staring at Deborah's eyes while saying this, "You should have an impression, right?"

"Why do you know my experience?" Deborah's face was full of disbelief.

In the past, she only mentioned it to her adoptive parents except Aiden.

"This is not your experience at all, idiot!" The double killer spat, "It's not mine either. You have never doubted your existence, right? Because your life is smooth sailing, which is completely different from mine!"

"Why do you say that those are not your experiences? Didn't you just say that it is the life trajectory in your memory?" Aiden questioned.

"Because our memories are fictitious. I discovered your existence by chance." The Doppelganger Killer pointed at Deborah and said, "A young lady who looks exactly like me, has almost the same power, but has a completely different life experience. After investigating you, I found that your past seems to overlap with mine. This made me begin to doubt my past, so I went back to investigate myself - Deborah from the orphanage in the western frontier. Guess what happened?" The Doppelganger Killer suddenly grinned, "Haha, I actually found a dead person!"

"What do you mean?" Aiden frowned.

"The real Deborah is already dead! She died of the plague not long after escaping from the orphanage!" The killer laughed and looked at Deborah and shouted, "You've never been back to that orphanage, right? I went there, but no one there knew me, and no one believed that I was Deborah Irving, because I don't look like her at all!"

"That's impossible! I remember that orphanage and the days I spent there very clearly!" Deborah couldn't believe what the other party said.

"You remember, and I remember, but no one in that orphanage remembers us. Because our 'personality' is fictionalized based on the real orphan Deborah, and only our appearance has been reshaped." The killer smiled and explained, "'We' are fictional beings created by the power of authority."

Deborah was struck by lightning: "What are you talking about?"

However, Aiden's reaction was completely different. When the double killer said this answer, he felt that his doubts had dissipated.

What he thought of at this moment was what Abigail told him: when the witches' gathering planned to assassinate the hound Dubman, a mysterious man stopped them and showed them his power - he made clones of several great witches, and even the other party could use magic.

If that mysterious man has the ability to create living people with real materials, then what the double killer said may not be just a fantasy.

"Then why do you know this?" Aiden looked at the killer and asked.

"After I investigated the orphanage, a letter was sent to me from the creator of this waste and me." The killer gestured to Deborah, "He said he told me the truth to reward my efforts. He told me that he was a ruler and I was a fictional character he created with his own power. The prototype was an orphan he met. Based on this prototype, he created a new appearance for me and gave me some new personality settings."

"You mean she is the same?" Aiden glanced at Deborah, "The creator created two people with one prototype?"

"No, there is only one!" The double killer emphasized, "From beginning to end, he only made one "

"Explain it clearly!"

"According to his explanation, he initially created a dual personality 'Deborah Irving' based on the prototype of the orphan Deborah, created a purely evil personality based on Deborah's dark side, and shaped her remaining conscience into another independent personality. 'Half angel and half devil, it's a cliché, right? '--These are the original words in the letter. So when he first created it, he felt that this character was 'too cliché', and then he had a new idea. "The doppelganger said, revealing a hideous smile that was half self-deprecating and half ironic, "He recreated a body for both personalities, allowing them to experience different lives and observe their final outcomes. "