A while later, they wake up to the place shaking.
“Ugh… Shila, what's going on?”
“Who do you want me to ask if you ask me?”
“Mom!”
“Oh Jamine… what's going on?”
“Oh, place falling!”
“What?! Oh oh… I forgot to land it…”
Hilda tries to use her mana only to find basically nothing left
“Fff—”
The place lands, sending Jamine into a splat on the ceiling, Hilda and Shila both init the ceiling too before landing down as Jamine's remains fall back down, regenerating back into her.
“Mom! I don't like being splat!”
“... Makes sense.”
They throw away the bed that's also got destroyed.
“Waste of points.”
“Hilda, your fault.”
“I know!”
“Screw it, how about furnishing the place?”
“No, not till we make sure this never happens again. Also, I have a better idea.”
“Which is…?”
“Floor 24”
“... Right. Fine, I guess your level works well enough now.”
“Mom, next level?”
“Yep!”
“Shila, let's go!”
“But you might be slightly pissed off at this floor.”
“Huh?”
Without warning, Shila sends them to the 24th floor.
Notification.
Locate and kill the fake in your memories.
“By the way Hilda, the next few floors are like this.”
“Hm? What do you…”
Suddenly, a loud slam can be heard as Hilda looks over, finding herself in her old school.
“Fuck.”
“Miss Hilda, would you mind paying attention and not using that type of language in my class?” the teacher says sternly.
Hilda stays silent for a moment before sighting, deciding not to argue back and to quickly finish this floor, standing up quickly.
“Sorry teacher…”
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“Good, now sit back down and pay attention this time.”
Hilda sits down, noticing Jamine and Shila beside her.
“God, this is gonna be a pain.” Hilda whispers to herself but the teacher stares in her direction again.
“You got something to say, Miss Hilda?” The teacher sounds more irritated this time.
“Nope.”
“Good, another warning and you'll stand at the back of the class.”
“Ok teacher.”
Hilda sits down, deciding to keep quiet this time.
“Hey Hilda, she can't see us by the way.”
“I know!” She writes down on a piece of paper.
“Mom looks pretty in school uniform!”
“Shut it…”
“Yea Jamine, your mom looks like shit in everything.”
Hilda pokes Shila with a pen.
“Ouch!”
“Yea! Sis deserves that!”
“I didn't!”
Hilda sighs, ignoring their arguing.
“Hey, so I have to have a doppelganger in this memory right?”
“Yep.”
“And kill them!” Jamine demands, sounding angry and annoyed.
“Why are you mad?”
“Because mom is my mom!”
“Yea, but why are you mad?”
“If there is another me, won't mom not like me any more?”
“Not true.”
Hilda pets Jamine on the head, catching the teacher's attention as it looks like she's petting nothing at all.
“Miss Hilda! Get to the back of the class!”
Shila snickers, annoying Hilda as she does so.
Once she heads to the back, she hears another person laughing softly annoying her as she looks in their direction.
“What the fuck.”
Hilda sees her sister, in her younger form around 13 years old she to this memory being when she was 15.
“What the actual fuck. This floor cloned Lela?”
Hilda clenches her fist by her side angrily, as Shila try to calm her down.
“Hilda, calm down. You're gonna need to redo it if you fail, you know?!”
“Nope, it simply said to kill.”
“Miss Hild—”
Hilda cuts off the teachers head, causing everybody to freeze up for a moment before they start running.
Hilda cuts off their heads with another swing, leaving only Lela alive.
“Is Lela the doppelganger?”
“... You already fucked this place up anyways, she's the only survivor left so yea.”
Hilda walks up to ‘Lela’ who tried to run but Holds cuts her legs off, causing them to turn into goo as Jamie kneels down, poking her finger into it and tasting it before starting to eat it.
“Jamie, what the hell?”
“Tasty?”
“Really? Then eat it all, including this goddamn fake.”
“Yay!”
Jamie walks up to the fake Lela, who is trying to crawl away to escape before dissolving most of her body by using cloning without actually making clones, doubling her body size and doing it multiple times till she was big enough to dissolve half of the fake Lela, causing her to cry out in pain.
“I thought doppelgangers can't feel pain?”
“They can't usually, your dear old daughter here made it so her acidity would make the doppelganger feel pain, probably out of possessiveness for you.”
“Proud of you Jamie!”
“Yay!”
Jamine finishes the doppelganger off, muffling her screams with her own now ginormous body, wrapping it around the other doppelganger, using her much higher acidity and regeneration to dissolve the other doppelganger.
“Shila, next floor.”
“Fine, but no cheating this time, it probably won't work anyways since the requirements won't be to kill.”
“Damn.”
Shila sends Hilda to the floor 25 where she finds herself at home, sitting at the dining table with Lela, her mom in the bedroom with another man. A cheap dirty and dusty looking urn sitting beside the TV, its presence almost unnoticeable.
Notification.
Fine and trap/incapacitate the doppelganger with minimum force.
“Does this goddamn system only choose bad memories?”
“Yep, I have no clue who it is, but it's probably not gonna be Lela again.”
“good.”
Hilda gets up, walking over to Lela and sitting beside her as Lela lies down on her lap automatically, looking up at her.
“Hi sis.”
“...”
“Hey Shila, Jamine, I feel conflicted about this. Am I cheating on my sister?” Hilda thinks, letting Shila read at her, voicing it out to Jamine.
“Hilda, there's something seriously wrong with you.”
“I know.”
“Huh? Know what?” Lela asks, making Hilda realise she said it out loud.
“Nothing.”
Hilda pets Lela's head, with her falling asleep oddly quickly.
“Oh yea, she hasn't slept for like 2 days since the couch is uncomfortable as hell and our room isn't sound proof either.”
“Shila, is there a time limit?”
“No.”
“Ok, then even if this is a fake Lela, I'll take care of her till she's deep asleep.
“...”
Jamine and Shila keeps pestering Hilda to finish the floor up with Hilda ignoring them, pissing off Jamine.
“Mom is mean! Mom's gonna replace Jamine!”
“Why are you talking about yourself in third person? And no, I'm not replacing you okay? It's just the current aunty of yours is having a bad time.”
“Aunt? This is aunt?”
“Yea, come see.”
Jamine quickly runs to Hilda, trying to push Lela off her lap but failing and falling through due to not being able to interfere except for killing.
“Hmph!”
Jamine looks at Lela then Hilda and back to Lela.
“Both look same!”
“Yea, we're sisters so it's normal though?”
“But what is she's a me!”
“A you? You mean another doppelganger”
“Yea! A doppelganger whatever that is!”
“Don't worry, she isn't, if she is, she'll just die a really painful death.”
“I wanna do it!”
“Fine, but later after we confirm.”
“Ok!”