There was a legend that meeting one's doppelganger meant death, and that wasn't entirely baseless. Only a rare few doppelgangers could mimic someone simply by observing them without killing them, and those few were all extraordinarily powerful beings.0

But this case was a little different.0

"Sir Luke, are you certain of what you saw?" Caron asked Luke quietly.0

They were talking about a doppelganger of Cain Latorre.0

If what Halo had said was true, that Cain Latorre's corpse lay in the North Sea,then his doppelganger shouldn't have existed in the first place. That was why Caron assumed Luke had simply mistaken someone else for him.0

However, Luke shook his head firmly.0

"He wielded the Imperial Sword more perfectly than the current Imperial Guards. And most importantly… it was unmistakably Sir Cain's face," Luke answered.0

"Sir Cain lived over fifty years ago. Couldn't you have been mistaken, Sir Luke?" Caron asked.0

"…There is a portrait of Sir Cain in the underground halls of the Imperial Guards' headquarters. I have seen that face more times than I can count. I swear it's the same person," Luke answered. 0

"Well now… Isn't that interesting?" Caron remarked with a chuckle.0

The thought of a doppelganger walking around with Cain Latorre's face left him quite amused. Reincarnation was already absurd, but to reincarnate and then run into his previous life's doppelganger… That was...0