Iluna's expression grew even more complicated. Though the eighteen-year-old girl had already seen all manner of things, she was still young. By comparison, the Doctor, who had already resolved to bear the Demon, was truly calm. What he intended to do was even more dangerous and terrifying than anything these people faced.
The man sitting on the flatbed cart sighed to the five of them:
"Doppelgangers are really useful. I know they are monsters, but low-level Doppelgangers truly inherit all the habits of their original humans. They do not understand how to love their families, but they know they should love their families. That is actually enough.
"Although some of the money came from selling off part of the fixed assets, over these four months from autumn until now, everyone here has earned more for their families than they could have earned in several decades before. It feels wonderful not to work for wages, but to work for yourself. I have even felt happiness and fulfillment. Those increasingly powerful positive emotions are also why I was not completely assimilated by that part-Doppelganger body for so long.
"I had originally thought we could at least keep working until spring. I never expected you to come so quickly. But this is fine too. After all, I do not want Tobesk to truly become a city of Doppelgangers. When they left, I promised to help them protect their families. Everyone knows this situation cannot last for long, but at least I have fulfilled every promise I made."
For a time, none of the five standing there said anything, because what had happened here was even more unbelievable than the House of Resurrection.
Everyone had thought the House of Resurrection's method of reasonably replacing ordinary people was rather ingenious. No one had expected that