A living person!!
"Me? I'm a clone, of course."
He... He was a clone?
"Of course. The dead original Fang Yuxuan was a clone too... and so are you."
"How... No, impossible! I'm not dead! I'm not a clone either!"
"Heh... You still can't believe it?"
He smiled, then looked at me.
"Of course, I've already decided to kill you, so I can tell you. It's been a long time since anyone else could share the burden with me anyway..."
As he spoke, he smiled, then lowered his gun and looked around before turning his gaze back to me.
"What do you think we are?"
"What... What?"
"You and me... Let's say you're the Fang Yuxuan who turned into a dragon and didn't die. What do you think you are?"
"I... I'm me!"
"No, you're not you, and I'm not me. We're all... clones of one person."
My fingers trembled nonstop as I stared hard at the man's face, unable to believe what he was saying.
A helpless smile flickered across the familiar face.
"It's normal to be upset. When I found out I was a clone, I didn't take it any better than you. But our clones were made from complete genes, while the clones the organization uses now were all created using that dragon-transformed Fang Yuxuan."
"...What exactly is going on?"
Trembling, I stared at the... Fang Yuxuan in front of me!
"We're all clones of one person. Before the apocalypse, there were hundreds of clones like me in this world... But unfortunately, once the apocalypse began, only you and I were left. Oh—by 'you,' I mean..."
"I didn't die... I crawled out of my own corpse..."
He froze slightly, lowered his head, and thought for a moment. When he looked up at me again, his eyes were