A Clone's Life (The Perfection of Imperfection)

In an unfamiliar and desolate saddle a putrid smell hung in the air.

Alexander just watched as someone cut off his right arm with an unknown object. He was no longer on Recta and felt that he was in spirit form somewhere else. Alexander's soul was imprisoned in chains.

"You woke up… I'm just ripping out a piece of your soul for experiments. Don't worry, your arm will grow back."

"Doesn't it hurt? It's normal to scream in pain and agony when you rip a piece of someone's soul."

The being that ripped off Alexander's arm was a metallic ball that floated in the air with its metallic tentacles cutting off Alexander's left arm.

"I wouldn't do that…" Not caring if he was hurting, Alexander warned the metallic ball that if it ripped off his arm things could get messy. Alexander would not do anything but the two individuals who were Alexander's left and right arm.

They were two individuals who wanted to serve Alexander all along, however, Alexander always ended up reincarnated and having someone accompany him would not be good. The only solution the two wanted was to become part of Alexander's soul; his arms.

When they became Alexander's arms, they no longer had any thoughts or notions of who they were as their only role was to be Alexander's arm. But if you rip off Alexander's arms; part where the soul of the two individuals is. They gain awareness and it was not good for that to happen. It only happened 1 time that they were ripped away from Alexander and all Alexander remembers his 7 sister said that, the memories of that event were pandemonium.

Alexander's 7 sister was responsible for Alexander's memories.

Alexander could not be a human only with the help of his power, he needs others to control some functions that in humans are natural, because something sustains his existence. In Alexander's case, nothing sustains his existence and he needs his brothers and sisters to take care of this obstacle.

He could keep himself in existence if he wasn't lazy in using his power, but his power was disastrous and boring.

Either way, he needed something that could control his power and just keep his conscience sane. There were many triggers that left Alexander in pure disarray, and one of them was swords.

Same thing that happened with the fight with Leon, Alexander unintentionally revealed himself on that sword.

Touching a sword was enough for his mind to change for the first time he appeared in existence, and it wasn't a reincarnation, it was his first appearance that happened in the formation of Destruction and Creation.

Alexander's original appeared as four beings, sword, body, mask and clothing. Sword was the main gate that the original manifested. The mask was to contain the sword and the clothing was to contain the body from spreading out in all directions.

Confused.

Alexander's existence was not confusing, he was something that did not exist and was trying to exist. It was hard to believe that even in existence, no one still saw Alexander. Just a cluster of distortion that wasn't seen by anyone but affected where he stood. The problem was, he didn't have a soul or a vessel to serve as an intermediary.

Picking up a sword makes the original start to emerge, but as Alexander is divided in power and mind, the original still can't come back.

The original dies when he exists for more than 24 hours, but this was Existence, Universe or Fate repelled the original Alexander, and if he didn't go before 24 hours the Existence could collapse and be destroyed.

He just looked for a way to stay in existence permanently, but whenever he turned 20, Existence found Alexander and killed him, and another cycle of reincarnation began.

"What!"

Someone took Alexander out of his thoughts, it was his two arms that started to move in a bizarre way; like a gecko's tail that's been torn off.

The metallic ball looked at the right arm that transformed or returned to its original form, which was a tall woman with black hair and gray eyes, her skin was white as snow.

The left arm had the shape of a man a little shorter than the woman. His hair and eyes were the same as the woman's, but only his skin tone was darker than the night; like a precious stone that reflected the light of the environment. Might get confused and think he was a black onyx statue.

They looked at Alexander and returned their gaze to the metallic ball that did not understand how those two individuals got out of Alexander's arms.

"Arms of matxataz?" The metallic ball said a phrase that referred to a story of a world he learned millennia ago.

Matxataz was a creature that had only two arms that were two beings. When the two separated, they caused chaos wherever they went. Matxataz stood still and to stop both arms, it was necessary to kill matxataz first.

"Who-" The metal ball that just said a word was shattered by the woman.

"You two stop that fuss." Alexander felt that the two would cause problems again.

"Hmph." The man just looked to the side averting his gaze out of Alexander's sight.

"What's up with him?"

"You still ask?"

"I'm not a psychic, do I need to see the future to know?" Alexander, still chained, looked at the woman who was removing the chains.

"Just don't let that happen again. Where is that impenetrable and unchanging person?."

"Impossible."

"Why?"

"It's kind of impossible for you to remove the chains. They are of absolute power. I remove them myself."

Looking at the chains of sheer absolute power that bound him to that spot, Alexander just said, "Let go of me." Those chains trembled and submitted to those words, but the absolute power that kept them from freeing him fought each other. Finally, the absolute power also submitted to the words of Alexander.

Coming out of that unknown cell, Alexander walked and looked at other prisons that had other prisoners and he didn't care or try to save those individuals.

The man and woman were each holding one of Alexander's regenerated arms. They were like Alexander's personal security at the moment. They did not return to be in Alexander's arms again, as Alexander stopped him and said that he had plans for the two of them in the future.

"Help me…"

Looking where the voice was coming from, he just continued on his way, not caring about the prisoners.

Alexander was in his spirit form and had no body and he just floated towards the kidnapper. The man and woman managed to touch Alexander's body, they were both carrying Alexander like a red balloon.

"Hey!"

Someone called Alexander who still continued and the person said, "I can give you power! If you help me, I can give you everything!"

Alexander stopped and was on the side of the individual who was an old man and his long hair covered his face.

"Give me a ■■■■■■■■."

"What?"

"A ■■■■■■■■."

The old man didn't know the meaning of Alexander's word and said, "I can only give power, not things I don't know what they are..."

Alexander was leaving.

"No! Don't go! I can help you, I'm very wise and- He left…"

The old man was sad to lose this one chance to get out of this prison.

"How much longer do I have to endure being an experimental animal..."

The man and woman weren't seen by the old man and they just kept on carrying Alexander.

***

Walking in search of the kidnapper, Alexander stopped in front of a silver gate with an engraving of someone falling from the sky from what should have been a blessed place.

"Open." The gate opened after submitting to Alexander's words. He saw the culprit experimenting on other worlds.

"Main system…"

The individual who quickly glanced at Alexander, she said, "I wanted to experiment with you, but I see it's better to eliminate something that might even get out of the power of an omnipotent god."

That thing that was a cloudy brown sphere with metallic tentacles attacked Alexander.

Alexander's head slowly dropped and before it could hit the ground, Alexander had caught his head. He didn't try to place his head on his neck, as he knew it would do no good. It was impossible for his head to get stuck around his neck again and he would have to live his life as a dullaham.

"You won't be able to erase me from existence."

"Impossible... interesting..."

The brown sphere started to prepare to attack Alexander again, but Alexander broke that place with his words.

"I said, You won't make it. Stop this useless action."

The place was destroyed and the sphere began to change its appearance.

"That's the strongest form of-"

-Rip.

The body the sphere was turning into was torn apart before it was fully completed.

"Stop."

The sphere had no escape and the only solution was to call a single individual who could eliminate Alexander.

The Creator.

However, she didn't know what could happen if she interrupted her creator for such a trivial reason.

"Don't try, he'll kill you first and create another major system when he finds out you experiment with his creations."

"How do you know that! That's a lie. One moment, how do you know he exists? Who-who are you!! How do you know him!!!"

Alexander just stared at the metallic sphere that called its creator 'he'. Alexander was the only one who could perhaps call he or she.

He hadn't created that being, but it should be just like Alexander described in the story.

"If you don't send me back to Recta I'll call your creator myself."

"You can not do that! You worm that does not die! After you appeared all my fun was destroyed. Demons stopped conquering other worlds because of you! It was you who made the demon god have a body! You're going to die! It is-"

-Touch.

Alexander casually touched the sphere's tentacle and something passed into his body. It fell to the floor like something flawed and lifeless. The main system was not dead, it was in a state worse than death and any kind of physical or mental suffering. He was on that floor totally stopping like it was nothing.

"I hope you enjoy the experience of feeling what I have to feel all the time and super cool~~~"

Alexander's white eyes and dark skin was the only sight the metallic orb saw. It was a distinguished and peculiar appearance.

He opened a fissure to go to Recta. The man and woman were sent, one to Tlys and the other to earth.

Something had stopped Alexander from stealing things from Tlys, it was a 22-piece, dark cylinder-shaped thing.

The nightmare Alexander created that could compete with a deity, no. He was on par with the original Alexander.

And that trinket was a guardian made of coal. However, it was more technological than just barbecue charcoal. The material was charcoal, but it was modified to act as some kind of bizarre technology.

The reason it was coal was that Alexander only took a handful of sand from Tlys, and with those grains that contained coal, stone, copper, water, gold, silver, diamond, wood, and a worm among other materials that were in that handful of sand in his hand gave birth to the guardians of Tlys.

***

I saw myself in the mirror and saw the face of a boy with her chest wide and firm. Bright blue eyes and dark hair. His skin tanned or he got a deathly tan on his skin.

I was in Jin's body...

Everything about this body is massively perfect. The measurements from your teeth to fingers and toes are the same size.

Was I a compulsive writer for perfection or was it because I put the traits I liked best, as if Jin were a character in a game I was making.

First, I couldn't enter my body because I had someone with my body.

Who?

Night Pigeon's body was not in Recta and what was left was my Jin-looking clone.

Looking at myself in the mirror, I'm beautiful. No, that idiot. Now, I look at the face I made and discarded. Whoever put me here has been watching me this whole time, as Jin's appearance has never been revealed to anyone.

Why did this one appear virile and beautiful? Jin I made was just words, the only draft I made of Jin for the cover of the story I discarded, as it was inconsistent with his personality.

It's not important. I've read this kind of story many times and I know I won't find answers so easily.

I put on the clothes again and something bulky scared me.

"Why is this thing big? If I had known this story would come to life I would have written that Jin was a handsome eunuch..."

Someone on a distant planet shook his body as if predicting a future evil.

"What's up Jin?" Said Night Pigeon that he drank like a street drunk.

"Nothing! Master!" Jin went back to his devilish training.

'Alexander….how many years haven't I seen him?' Said Jin's shaken mind that was shaken by Night Pigeon.

***

I made a video call to Zeki, he showed me Alexander's duel with Professor Merkwevi.

My only assumptions were that it was the system that was in my body. I saw that the system that had robbed my body was suffering a lot.

I was not at all happy to see the system in that situation, and to see the body I had used as a punching bag was horrible.

"Who?" I wondered who was such a weakling. Was it the system? I'll mock him later.

"What Jin?"

"---!"

Out of nowhere a premonition of the future came and I shouldn't do anything to upset the system...

I didn't understand.

But, it was very difficult for me to receive an premonition since I turned off the ability to see the lines of the future.

The system.

I don't trust him and he is someone who seems weak, but he is more suspicious than the existence of this world.

"Jin?" Zeki thought I was talking to him, but it was just words I said without realizing it.

"It's nothing Zeki... It's just that Alexander is a little different..."

"If you who are his boyfriend say that, who am I to say otherwise."

"Don't say that in public you idiot."

And I had forgotten that guy is my 'Boyfriend'. How hilarious, am I the only one who…

"Jin I still don't like him… He deserves to be beaten even more."

Alice spoke from the other end of the video call. She didn't like me and I her, we were workers at the same firm.

She reminds me of my mother in my second reincarnation... She was not my biological mother, in the second reincarnation I was a stone that changed its shape to a human one. And that woman just adopted me like her stray dog. Yes, I was a slave again.

And it wasn't the last time I was used, I didn't have the judgment of a human and I was a robot that obeyed orders. It was my dark pasts that I didn't have free will.

"Jin! Did you see that!?"

Alexander had punched Merkwevi who went flying. It was an interesting scene to watch.

"Yeah… hah."

I replied to Zeki and discovered that the individual in my body was really my useless system of payments and loans.

I laughed at the distorted expression on the face of the system that discovered that the body was indestructible.

I better go soon before something happens.

I had teamed up with my third clone and split from him and let him do his job as a clone of Jin.

***

[You are pertinent. Using my body.]

"What?"

Alexander, no. The system saw the system screen that it was Alexander slandered him.

The system looked at the bright blue screen with Alexander writing like a slug.

"…"

[Typing…]

[Get out of my body. (ノ-o-)ノ┫.]

Alexander who didn't know how to use emoticons, just used whatever.

The system glared at his daughter who returned after her husband kicked her out of the house and left for another woman. The system felt this feeling, even warning that that man was a boor and treacherous, she did not listen to her warnings.

The system shook its head denying the rambling thoughts.

That is not the plot of this story!

"…"

[Suicide. You must die for me to return to my body. I can't stay in the body that has a soul.]

"I have to do i-aggghhh!!!"

-Swing!

A grunt from the system startled Alexander.

Blood gushes from the neck cutting and body fell to the ground lifeless.

[What?]

Alexander looked at his head rolling on the floor, it was a disturbing scene even for the audience who had their eyes fixed on Merkwevi.

[I made this body to be resistant, but it was cut like cheese...]

Merkwevi who had a smiling and distorted face. He decapitated Alexander with the entire crowd of people watching.

Alexander said in surprise, [It was faster than I thought…]

[[Now go to your seat! I'm finally back in my room and laptop! っ꒦ິ꒳꒦ິっ 💻.]] Said the emotional system.

Alexander looked at where the system was, but didn't see. Everything was blocked by the system quickly.

[[Stop looking at my room! This is invasion!]]

[Serious? Let me see you. A human? Are you human? Not numbers 1 and 0?]

[[Your body will rot if you don't come back.]]

[You owe me an explanation.]

[[Huh? You too who ran away.]]

[…]

[[…]]

A silence hung between the two who had to explain themselves to each other afterwards.

Merkwevi who had regained his senses, he couldn't believe what he had done.

"What did I do?"

Merkwevi was paralyzing. A strange feeling had forced him to do it against his will, but he didn't know it and just accepted that he was going crazy.

Some teachers went to Alexander's body that was lying on the ground.

"He died…" A teacher had a sober look and looked at Merkwevi disapprovingly.

The audience was in a panic. Only a few people who knew Alexander wasn't dead were amused by the plot; Alice and Zeki.

"Professor Merkwevi Fugise. You are under arrest and we hope that you will cooperate with us to find out what was the cause and reason why you did this to the student Alexander Adrilia."

Merkwevi didn't know why all of a sudden he had an overwhelming urge to kill Alexander. That wasn't him.

Absolutely not me!

But how could he get out of this situation. There were too many witnesses and it would be impossible for him to try to explain.

Gods or deities did not exist in Recta and the word 'Miracle' was an unknown term, however, any group of people who did things in the shadows were called evil cults and fanatics.

If Merkwevi knew that word, he would probably want a miracle to happen.

"Wait!" A voice echoed.

The lifeless one got up and went to pick up his head from the ground. A white fire came out of Alexander's cut neck.

"Professor Merkwevi is not to blame for anything." Alexander said holding his decapitated head that he spoke normally without any problems.

The amount of disbelieving people was over 20,000 and Alice and Zeki were also impressed.

"How! How are you alive!" Said someone holding a condensed mana handcuff. He was very scared of someone who had just died not long ago.

Merkwevi showed no signs of fleeing or trying to resist. However, he felt like running away in fear.

"That was all by planning, Professor Merkwevi and I planned this in advance." Alexander exclaimed his lie and everyone did not understand.

Even Merkwevi was not believing that his victim was saving him.

What is happening?

Merkwevi walked away from Alexander who approached him.

[Will you save this killer that tried to kill your system? ꒦ິロ꒦ິ? What harm have I done to you?]

"Alexander Adrilia explain better." The professor moved a little away from Alexander.

Alexander saw that all the students were recording this whole event and many people watched this spectacle excitedly.

[What are you going to do? Will this save him?]

"I was going to erase everyone's memories or rewind this event and do everything normally."

[?]

"No. That's too much work. Give me a gift of immortality and I'll do the rest." said Alexander whispering to the system.

Alexander sighed and said his words, "I have a gift and to prove that I have it me and Professor Merkwevi put on this show."

[No one will believe this… I found a gift of immortality, but it's a bit weird…]

[[You have acquired a gift [Steal of lives] information: The living beings you kill their lives are added to your stock of extra lives. Total extra lives: 0.]]

"Oh! Did you do that on purpose so I could go around killing monsters...?" Alexander spoke quietly, chafing at the system that had given him this gift that it was necessary to kill monsters on a regular basis.

[I don't know. Huhuh...]

The system did not know how to disguise its Machiavellian plan.

Merkwevi confirmed Alexander's affirmations and for some reason everything went as planned. However, moments later, Alexander and Markwevi received punishment from the headmaster of the White Academy for putting on a freak show.

There were 4 hours of sermons and rebukes on the two who left the principal's office almost deaf.

Merkwevi humbly thanked Alexander and he asked, "Why?"

"I don't know, but didn't you do it of your own free will? So I'm just changing something that shouldn't have happened."

Alexander just walked away carrying his head in his arms.

Merkwevi just saw the boy disappear without explaining the reason for helping him. And how did he know that Markwevi did that against his will?

Who was that boy?

Merkwevi wondered why Alexander was peculiar, and the Alexander of now was different from the Alexander of the test.

Those gray eyes didn't show any hint of humanity, it was as if Merkwevi was looking at a robot that resembled a human but wasn't a real human. Being a ninth-level swordsman, he perceived the ripples of the world differently than an ordinary human.

Swordsmen were very sensitive to mana and aura and had excellent ability to differentiate people and this was not Alexander, his mana ripples were the same but his behavior was different. However, not all swordsmen were sensitive to mana and aura, and Markwevi was only good at that.

A mocking smile appeared on Markwevi's face which reminded that Hekie had no aura and was only good at mana control.

A handful of black hair was in Merkwevi's hand that had been ripped from Alexander in the test when he dragged Alexander holding onto his hair.

"I have to go visit someone again." Merkwevi spoke.

***

People who saw this event could not explain anything at all. The other firsts attacked Alexander with questions and doubts.

"Alex! You're leaving our dorm! Don't go! Who's going to cook our food! You can't do that! Absolutely not!"

"Yes, Alex, don't do that evil thing in our lives!! Don't you dare do that!"

Alexander after calming down his other dorm mates with difficulty, he was now at his home in peace.

"Nartor I bought a dog! Come see!"

Opening the door the only thing Alexander saw was the TV tuned to a news channel.

Alexander held his head with his left hand and the small dog with his other hand that licked his face. Looking for Nartor, but he wasn't in any room in the house.

"Wh-where's my son!"

[…?]

"Oooooowhoooo!!"

Alexander stood with a howling puppy.