My name is Dogma and I am a doppelgänger, I know that usually you'd experience a hero in the making to narrate this story, but no, you only have me to keep you company.

Yes I know that I'm no average guy, pervert, skirt-chaser, harem attractor, chuunibyou, handsome young guy or anyone you can reinforce into a hero.

In all honesty, I don't even know who I am, where I came from or what my age is, all I know is what I look like, whenever I stare at my reflection in the water, all I see is just a silhouette of a person all covered in murky black mist; you'd see how my hair looks like, how my body proportions are, what shape my clothes are, but that's it, you won't recognize anything else.

I look just like a video game character that hasn't been unlocked yet, as for all these references I've been mentioning? I don't even know where I pull out all of this from, I just know that I can use it normally whenever I speak, it feels natural and somehow I can't explain it even if it somehow fits the situation.

For now, the word 'KNOW' is a total mystery for me. Ironic right? but that's just how it is.

Let's start off with what I am exactly.

I am a doppelgänger, well a doppelgänger is an offspring between a demon and a human turned monster, we tend to copy out other people's appearances as well as their abilities.

How? Well to be more accurate, we are able to copy from a person by giving them what we call a Doppelgänger's Kiss, yes, it means what it says, now if you think that's not too bad, right? You're wrong.

What if, you miraculously know what your gender is, I for one, think that I am guy, pathetic for a gender neutral monster right? but that's my case as of now, In other words, I can't go off smooching dudes for their OP UBER DANK ULTIMA SKILLZ even if they're the feminine all-out bishounen type, Yeesh! I'm pretty sure some of you would even go all-out crazy fangirl over yaoi, BUT YOU WON'T CATCH ME MAKING-OUT WITH A GUY AS LONG AS I'M ALIVE!

Now the Doppelganger's Kiss isn't exactly the only way for us to copy crap, but as for how it works is, our censored lips, to be honest are able to extract information through this kind of contact, I agree that this is a sure-fire way to get what you want but this isn't how I roll.

I am a Doppelgänger that denies his own calling, what I am supposed to do is to by and means stealthily copy/steal the person's appearance and characteristics that I want, afterwards, we then hunt them down to assume their identity.

That's exactly how we get our humanity, but my race is known to be the greedy and malicious type, we will always want to be someone better as well as to be someone who is known and never to be nobody.

We are the race that is rejected by both human and demonkind, fallen under the ranks of monsters then left to boil in emotion and envy.

... and yet...

That's not my case though, I, who was born in the middle of nowhere, fed by strangers then discarded, to feel nothing, to have nothing, to remember nothing, as well as to want nothing, I didn't know what to do, what to say, what to look up to, and so I wandered around aimlessly, scraping for food which is what I believe to be what I needed.

Surprisingly, one day, I found out that I didn't need to eat, somehow I was able to go about normally without any food or drink, although I didn't have anything to consume, I noticed that something else was fueling me.

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I wanted to take a rest so I stopped walking and went to find shade under a huge apple tree a few meters away from the next town, I sat down and leaned back at the wide and sturdy trunk, leaving my eyes to slowly close, and then darkness.

I felt something weird passing through me... No. More like going into me, it felt like a breeze was blowing against my skin, and yet I knew it wasn't, something was off about it, the longer this feeling stayed, the less my fatigue grew, my wounds ached less and the calmer I became.

I wanted this feeling to last, so I called out and wished more to gather.

The calming breeze then increased into a beating wind, swirling around my body like a tornado, the reinvigorating feeling warped, as parts of my body started to throb all over, unbelievable pain coursed and pulsed, I wanted to wake up from this nightmare, but no matter how much I wanted to, I stayed in this trance.

"WHAT'S HAPPENING!?"

I heard a rather feminine voice filled with panic rang in my ears, somehow it felt quite seductive to hear, making me have mixed feelings since doppelgangers can't feel any emotions until they've stolen an identity.

"Everything's wilted! The tree's starting to decay as well!, what's the cause of this!?", this time the voice had ancient rustic tone, it felt like it held that word 'KNOW' that was always a mystery to me.

"I see a shroud coming from the base of the tree!, it feels like the mana's being gathered hungrily by whoever's covered in that darkness!", a beast like shout pointed out rather menacingly.

"Come on! let's pull the plug on that sucker!" the last one I heard had quite a british accent, playful but ladylike at the same time.

The darkness of my closed eyes was now painted red, I could feel my skin now bubbling and blistering from, the wind now felt like piercing needles, sewing in and out of my very pores, I felt like my head was going to pop from all the pain and pressure.

"We must move quickly before he starts swelling up because of mana overload!" the ladylike voice beckoned out to the others,

"What do you want us to do? We can only kill him before he starts to explode taking the town with him!", the feral beast gnashed out in reply,

"I'VE GOT AN IDEA!" the ancient voice blurted out excitedly

""What is it!?""

"We can compress the gathering mana into a mana core inside of this being!"

"Wait!, compress it into a mana core?, isn't that dangerous!?, you know just one wrong move during the process and he's a goner." The seductive voice finally interjected.

"We don't have any other choice, he'll die without a single change if we don't!"

"EVERYONE LET'S ALL FOLLOW MERLIN'S PLAN AND SUPPORT HIM" the lady like voice lost it's grace and released a heavy pressure from the sheer volume

""YOSH!"", leaving the rest to agree without anymore remarks.

"I SWEAR ON MY NAME AND TITLES, THAT I, OPHELIA, RANK SSS ADVENTURER AND MONSTER TAMER, I'LL SAVE YOU AND THIS TOWN WITHOUT ANY CASUALTIES!"

And then I blacked out.