Time was passing by—much faster than I expected. The sun, which had been positioned at the exact center of the sky, had already disappeared into the distance.
'Which one of these is the doppelganger?'
Eden continued trying to accuse me of being the doppelganger, claiming far-fetched logic.
Frey didn't come forward directly, but she continued to doubt me.
Even Frey had arrived here first.
To be honest, everyone was suspicious.
'If a doppelganger is a duplicate of the original's memories and experiences, is it aware that it is a doppelganger?'
If it wasn't aware of it, that was the worst situation imaginable.
Because that would mean it was truly acting like a human being.
In that case, the rule that you cannot tell lies might have no meaning.
I didn't know exactly what the criteria for "true" and "false" were, but for example, if you asked a doppelganger who believed it was human whether it was human, it would answer yes—and this forest might recognize that as "true."
