A pair of baleful, vicious eyes rippled out of the darkness, as though they had crossed time and space to appear on the surface of the water in the vat.
"This is..." He-El stroked his chin with interest and looked at those evil eyes.
If nothing unexpected happened, this should be the version of himself from a Parallel Universe divined by Fortune Teller Baba, Master Roshi's sister.
He-El had no doubt that this fellow was his future self from a parallel world in the Dragon Ball Universe.
In any universe that had branched into Parallel Universes, once He-El entered that universe, a copy of He-El would be created within those Parallel Universes.
This was not merely the universe's logic splitting into Parallel Universes and thereby replicating He-El. It was also because the universe instinctively sensed that something was wrong.
Yet logically, there was nothing wrong at all.
Just as people could sense danger and death, the universe had its own unique predictive logic. Though nothing seemed amiss in the course of its logical operations, it still sensed danger.
That sense of danger caused it to split into Parallel Universes, instinctively trying to isolate the threat. But since it could not truly separate it, it copied everything that belonged to itself instead.
He-El was He-El.
But Clone He-El from a parallel world in the Dragon Ball Universe was He-El of that parallel world in the Dragon Ball Universe. He belonged to the Dragon Ball Universe.
He-El, on the other hand, did not belong to the Dragon Ball Universe.
Once Clone He-El of the Dragon Ball Universe noticed He-El, he would naturally want to destroy him. This was the removal mechanism the universe had granted He-El's copy through its instinctive operational logic when it replicated him.
He-El knew very well that, strictly