The man who stepped out was wearing the same armor that I did. He had the same face, hair, and weapon. About the only thing different was the expression on his face, which looked cruel and slightly sadistic. He moved forward with a grace that I didn’t possess, laughing as he moved. I held up my sword, a grimace on my face.
Then, I looked back and shot Celeste a dirty look. “Celeste!”
“S-sorry, Master! I just said it out loud!” Celeste responded with tears in her eyes.
An evil grin remains on my doppelganger’s face as he slowly walks towards us. Due to the size of the room, he was still a long distance away, but he was quickly closing it. He lifted up his hand and glanced down at his body, examining it with a kind of interest.
“Heroes are truly a masochistic lot. I have taken many forms over the years, but it takes a certain kind of person to make their opponent themselves.”
“No, that was an accident! I want a redo!”
“No redos!
“You…”
“This is the form I will fight you in. Let your own choices be your undoing!”
“Guys, that is not me! It’s very sweet you think that I won’t hurt you, but this guy doesn’t care if you get hurt or not. So, we have to fight him together and hold nothing back.”
“Hehehe… is that how you think this battle will go down?” He chuckled again, shaking his head.
“Why?” I demanded worriedly. “Are you saying you’re not really me? You’re just wearing that skin? Why the heck do you bother having us pick if you’re just going to do whatever you feel like?”
“Don’t get me wrong! I am you in every sense of the word. I have your body and I also have your status. Perhaps, you just don’t appreciate how powerful you really are. I am you, but that doesn’t mean I have to act foolishly like you. I can access any skill you have, all of your many jobs. So naturally, I am just a better version than you will ever be!”
“Even if you say that…” I responded bitterly, “If you have my strength, even if you are better at using it than I am, you can only be so strong. That means that I can defeat you. Since it’s six on one, you’re already completely outnumbered. There is no way you can defeat all of us. I don’t believe I’m so powerful that I could defeat all of my girls at once!”
“No…” He shook his head with a sigh. “You’re right, I’m not so powerful that I can beat all of you at once. After all, you’ve trained your girls well, and they’re not weak. However, they won’t be a problem, and you will die here.
“W-why is that?” I suddenly started to get a bad feeling as he walked the last few steps until he was directly in front of us, where a single leap forward would be enough to attack with his blade.
“Because… I already said. I have all of your skills.” He chuckled. “Slave Order, Stay out of this fight, ladies.”
“Ah!”
“Oh!”
“N-No”
All the girls suddenly found themselves compelled to stay back, and my face started to turn white. It turned out when you were fighting yourself, you really could only depend on your own ability!
Huh? How can a slave have both him and his doppelgänger as master at the same time?
Literalmente copio todo de el es decir incluso su trabajo que lo une a las chicas asi que el dolpelganger tambien tiene la coneccion pero el MC es estupido y no va a dar ordenes para liberarlas de las ordenes de su doble.
Exactly. Deek is their master, not this doppleganger. The thing that binds his girls to him are magical contracts. M-A-G-I-C-A-L contracts! Nobody but Deek should be able to do that without severing his slave contracts with the girls. Nobody. Even if this dobbleganger had the power to issue such a command, Deek should be able to countermand the command and then command them to ignore all commands from either of them until this battle is over.
This whole scenario is ridiculous, not clever. And that plot with Deek trying to parody those lines in Ghostbusters and the thing with the Stay Puft Marshmellow Man was cringe.
@Xpacetrue slave contracts(different with every story/world/magic-type) are a kind of system, they exist, meaning they can be hacked or tricked. depending on how "exact" said doppleganger can copy an individual the girls could have two 'master' right now. actually it would be much much worse, because doppleganger could order girls to suicide/ kill eachother.
This is not the worst outcome, if the double took the ownership of the slaves and ordered them to fight, then this would be a nightmare, they would have to cut each other.
Useless! Now your cowardice will come bite back at you!
Idk why he asked them though? He should have just picked what him and Miki is geared towards and built for... something they all have a ton of experience fighting, expert Terra. That would be something undead. They could have dominated this boss but oh well I guess.
Slave Order: You can ignore my orders for the duration of this floor
Its completely irrational dat one dungeon could replicate the blessing of four dungeons if it was a 100 or even 50 floor dungeon it would be understandable but it was only equally to one of the 30 flor but wathever we are already used to the author random sh*t rain
TFTC!
I wonder if the doppelgangers stats would change with Deek's if he respecs. Could be a way to break any potential stalemate.
True. If both versions have “wear” the same classes, unequipping slave master will mean neither can use slave order, etc. Yeah, the girls lose the buffs but their allegiance will be personal instead of magical.
OTOH if Deek unequips slave master and doppelgänger keeps it they are in way worse shape.
But I still think being a doppelgänger and both “owning” the same slave(s) is messed up.
@Anonymouse2020
"I can access any skill you have, all of your many jobs."
Boss has all of his abilities to choose from, including his ability to change jobs, and is probably going to min/max them
I'd still say it's unclear from the wording if it means it has access to all his current jobs or any job he's ever unlocked, but you're probably right on that point. However, it may or may not be able to access the full power of the point system. It says it has his body and his status, but it might be lying or there might be something tied to his "soul" or whatever that can't be copied such as dungeon clears or the effects gained from true clearing a dungeon. I think this is either going to be a really hard fight or a setup for a joke fight. With this dungeon I could see it going either way.