Chapitre 39: Doppelganger

(A.N. Sorry I've had trial exams and a couple of SACs so I've been gone for a couple of weeks. I'll be getting back to my schedule.)

Diluc had finished the day, him and the girls had their fun in the pool.

They dried themselves and spent some time watching some hero programs on the T.V. before going to bed.

The bed had become more cramped since Anri was revived, Momo was always sleeping on his chest while Yuria and Kath would sleep by borrowing his shoulder and using it as a pillow.

Anri, the new addition, decided that she'd mimic Yuria or Katherine, the only difference being that she'd be lying behind them. They decided that she would alternate between the both of them every night until another woman was added to Diluc's ever-growing harem.

Once he fell asleep, he noticed that the button to access Dark Souls was blood red.

He pushed it and found himself in a dark abyss illuminated by a ring of fire acting as a sun far in the sky. His surroundings were calm, he was on a beach of ash and fire. The ash acting as sand and fire acting as the endless ocean. The waves were represented by the red/ orange fire burning blue instead.

In front of him, was himself. Well to be exact, it was a fully fire version of himself. Although he was currently made up of fire, his appearance was still the exact same as before, if not a little more ferocious looking. However, the doppelganger was 100% flames and in fact could be seen through.

It pulled out a fully flame version of Fume and approached Diluc.

The battle ended as soon as it started. The flaming figure was flat on the ground with its top half separated from its bottom.

The doppelganger rose and shouted.

"What the fuck is wrong with you?" It asked.

"Is this not a fight?" Diluc asked, puzzled.

"I mean yeah, it is bu-" The flaming figure was once again cut in half after it had just finished combining itself again.

"Stop!" It yelled.

"Why do you keeping calling a timeout if this is a fight?" Diluc asked.

"Why the hell are you so strong?" It asked.

"I just killed all the bosses and got the secret ending?" Diluc responded.

"What the fuck!" The doppelganger's expression transformed from shock to terror.

"You're supposed to give up after trying the Ringed City bosses or the Nameless King! Then you can start new game plus and win!" It yelled.

"Wouldn't new game plus make it more difficult?" He asked.

"NO! You idiot! It means you would've kept everything and started again! After a couple of resets then you would've defeated all the bosses! That's how everyone's done it!" The doppelganger complained.

"Others?" Diluc interrogated.

"You think you were the only one blessed with a cool Soulsbourne + Doom system? Think again! People have been being reincarnated for centuries!" It yelled.

"Ok." Diluc spoke as he rose his Gael's Greatsword to the ring of fire above.

"W-w-w-wait! I'm supposed to give you something before you finish this world for real!" The doppelganger begged.

"Hurry it up." Diluc stated.

"Well, it's not exactly something I can just gi-" The sword descended and rid the flaming figure of one of his legs.

"Stop speaking and start giving." Diluc demanded.

"The gift is that you get a wish to take back into the real world!" The doppelganger screamed.

"Oh, I see. Are there any limitations?" Diluc asked the figure.

"Not really, as long as it doesn't immediately have the ability to destroy galaxies." The doppelganger replied.

"I'll take Chastiefol then." Diluc spoke.

"What? Such a weak wish? You don't wanna take any modifications to make it more powerful?" The doppelganger began sweating slightly.

"I want the flying pillow." Diluc stated.

"Uh, ok? Given as I am such a good person, I'll allow you to take another weak wish." The doppelganger said as sweat began forming steam on his fire body.

Don't ask why he can sweat.

"..." Diluc eyed the figure suspiciously.

"Well, go on." The figure egged him on.

"..." He didn't reply.

"I feel like you think I'm such a good person, huh?" The doppelganger's nose rose to the sky in pride.

"..."

"Hey, answer. I feel like I'm speaking to myself." It asked.

"Why are you giving me a second wish?" Diluc asked in return.

"It wouldn't at all be because if I didn't use enough power on a wish, I'd get killed or anything or that sort. Not at all." The figure denied his claims.

"I'll abstain my use of the wish." Diluc was about ready to wake up and leave this world.

"Hold up! If you don't take another wish, I'll modify the pillow to become extremely uncomfortable!" The doppelganger threatened.

"You wouldn't dare." Diluc was about ready to slice him to ribbons.

"Make another wish then!" It demanded.

"Whatever, just give Izuku a quirk." Diluc told the figure.

"No can do bossman, he already has a quirk." It replied.

"What?" Diluc was shocked. He shouldn't have met with All Might just yet...

"Your brother has a quirk he was born with, not even he knows he has it!" The figure explained.

"Ok then give him a second quirk." He told it.

"Can't do that either, fate dictates that One for All is taking that spot." The figure then shrugged his shoulders.

"Then the third." Diluc was starting to get impatient.

"Rightey-O! Izuku will get a third quirk!" The doppelganger declared.

The world then shifted back to Diluc's bedroom.

He could feel the connection between him and Chastiefol, he knew he could summon it at any time.

Thinking that he'd deal with it later, Diluc went back to sleep.

Thankfully, his sleep didn't require him to go to Bloodborne and fight some more, so his good mood lasted until the next day.

He woke up expecting Izuku to be running around while screaming about how he got a quirk, but to his surprise it was dead quiet.

The girls allowed him to get off the bed and he peeked into Izuku's room to see him watching T.V. while taking notes about heroes and villains.

'He hasn't discovered it yet?' Diluc thought. Well, it's not like he could help considering he doesn't know what the bastard gave him.

Today was quite the normal day, except that it wasn't.

Today marked the day when the end exams for the second last year of middle school would be held. Izuku was very worried while Diluc didn't care. Momo and Toga were exchanging last second notes and the rest of the year level were groaning.

Before the exams started, the principal decided it was a good time for a speech. Just to make sure to fill the children's heads with the most amount of useless info as possible.

"Thank you everyone for coming here today..." The principal kept droning on and on for what felt like hours. Everyone, including the teachers, felt their energy being sapped by the principal. The only people that weren't, were those that didn't care, had confidence or worried too much. Diluc's girls and Izuku fit into this category.

As the principal left the stage, a drained student body did their best to applaud with the most amount of energy they could muster.

That's when Diluc looked to where Izuku was normally seeing and saw that he had been replaced by somebody else.

"WHAT?!" Sounds of yelling confusion filled the stadium.

Izuku came running back to Diluc.

"Brother! I just got attacked by a quirk! I teleported a bunch of different places while I clapped!" Izuku yelled.

And that's how Izuku discovered that his quirk was 'Boogie Woogie'. Perhaps, the worst time to discover it as he failed the exams out of excitement.

However, he was excused from failing because the school system had previously experienced similar situations and he was allowed to have a re-do of the exams a week afterwards.

(A.N. Sorry for the ass-pull. I was originally only going to give Diluc a single wish, however, I decided it'd be a nice moment for him to give up his second wish to Izuku.)