"This... is impossible!" Anderon's excitement lasted only an instant before rapidly fading.
If the Naimus here was merely a Doppelganger, then how had the previous Naimus maintained the power to kill a Saint with a single sword strike?
By his understanding, Kru's world rules should have been incapable of achieving that.
Though he had remained hidden all this time, his fate had become entangled with the fates of others, concealing his true self.
Under that concealment, he was like a person without fate, someone who did not exist.
He could move silently through Fictional Space without worrying about being discovered.
Thus, he began traveling to other worlds to study some of their rules.
For instance, he had actually spent a long time in Naimus's Garden World.
To him, Naimus's methods of constructing worlds were simply art.
The transformations and progression of its various rules contained much of Naimus's personal subjective understanding, but the information on real rules behind them was not false.
Besides that, Anderon had spent a long period visiting different worlds, observing their rules and judging what they could accomplish with them.
He had visited Kru's world.
The Doppelganger rules of that world were special, but they should only have existed among ordinary lifeforms.
Everyone in that world could possess an "alternate self," a Doppelganger.
At a pivotal moment in one's life, making a different choice could lead to the appearance of a Doppelganger.
If one could find one's own Doppelganger, the differences between the two bodies could interact, forming a special ability through their status as "different things."
For example, someone might originally have been destined to become a knight, yet because of a wrong choice at some juncture, had instead become a homeless drunkard.
The drunkard was reality, while the knight was the Doppelganger. There was