The King's Mandate: Anomalous System

Classes ended, and just like always, Das was tutoring Elena.

They were in the counseling room.

Das was doing something on his laptop, and Elena was solving problems on her notepad.

Das kept glancing at Elena over his laptop to make sure Elena was studying and not messing around on her phone.

Suddenly, Elena stood up and said, "I will be right back."

"Where are you going?"

Elena raised her pinky finger and said, "Pee."

Das rolled his eyes and said, "Come back in three minutes."

Elena looked at him and said, "Want to come?"

"Shoo. Get out of here."

Elena left the room while hopping her steps.

After about ten seconds, Das glanced around the room.

He then looked at Elena's phone lying on the table.

He grabbed it and once again glanced around.

'There are no CCTV cameras here.'

Das turned on the screen and chuckled after seeing her lock screen wallpaper.

Her lock screen wallpaper had [I Am Not An Idiot] written.

Das swiped up, and the prompt to enter the password came.

"I knew it would be password protected, but still…"

He sighed and started entering random passwords.

After entering the wrong password four times, he stopped and stood up.

'If I enter it wrong one more time, it will be locked for five minutes'

He walked to the door as he said, "It's been about a minute since she left"

'If she comes back in three minutes, then I have plenty of time open her phone and check her call history, gallery, and messages'

Das peaked his head out of the doom and glanced around in the hallway.

He then rushed to the table and picked up Elena's phone.

"WHat can be the password?"

'I don't know anything about her. But as far as I know, her passwords would be easy to guess.'

He turned around the phone and said, "Maybe she has her face ID and sensors set?"

'So even if I enter the correct password, it won't unlock without detecting Elena's presence.'

He pondered for a while and said, "But I have never seen her do that. WHenever she unlocks her phone, she always typed the password rather than using the other sensors."

Das entered a password one last time, and it unlocked.

"I knew her password would be easy to guess."

He once again chuckled as he saw the home screen wallpaper.

Her home screen wallpaper had, [Love My Family]

He swiped through her phone.

He moved his thumb to open the gallery but suddenly stopped and locked her phone.

He punched himself on the things as he muttered, "WHat the hell am I doing? Why was I checking someone's phone as if it was totally normal?"

'Imagine what would she do if she caught me using her phone.'

"She ran off yesterday because I was being a creep and invited her to a cafe. If she sees me using her phone, she would definitely start hating me."

He took a deep breath and sighed as he closed his eyes.

He leaned back and waited for Elena to come.

After a while, he heard footsteps and opened his eyes.

Elena entered the room and sat down on the chair.

She didn't bother looking at her phone and looked at Das. 

She smiled and said, "Am I on time."

Das nodded and said, "Yeah."

She then started studying.

Das was feeling guilty and uncomfortable, so he cleared his throat and said, "Elena."

"Yes? Did I make a mistake somewhere?"

"No, you are doing it right. I want to ask you something."

"Yes?"

'Ask her, Das.'

"Uhh…"

'Do you have a boyfriend? Yes, you just have to ask that Das'

Elena leaned close to Das and said, "What is it?"

Das turned his face to the side and said, "Can you tell me who is Sely?"

Elena's eye widened as she said, "Why do you want to know that?"

'Her reaction… it's not like how I imagined.'

'So it is her boyfriend after all.'

'Of course, no one would want to talk about their private life.'

Das shook his head and said, "Forget it. It's nothing."

Elena stared at him in confusion and asked, "You have been acting strange all day. Come on, tell me. What's wrong? Are you worried about something?"

"I don't want an idiot to worry about me!" Das shouted.

'I… didn't mean to shout.'

Elena made a dissatisfied face and started studying.

"I was just concerned because you were acting strange," Elena muttered.

Das clenched his fist and said, "I am just curious."

"Sely is my…"

'Here it comes.'

'Dammit! My heart is beating so fast. It's almost the same as checking the monthly reports of my businesses'

"Sely is my younger twin sister."

"Hah?"

"Twins. We are twins."

A wide smile appeared on Das' face as he said, "That's it?"

'I was worried for nothing.'

'I am so dumb.'

'I should have realized that an idiot like her would never get a boyfriend. Only I can handle her...wait.'

"You have a twin sister?!"

Elena nodded.

"Wait, wait, wait! Twin sister as in twins?"

Elena nodded as she said, "We are identical twins."

"Oh!"

Elena grabbed her phone and showed him a picture of Selena and herself.

"She looks exactly like you. In fact, I can't even tell which one is you."

Elena pointed her finger at the screen and said, "I am on the left."

"I really can't tell any difference. But I guess you must look somewhat different in person, right?"

Elena shook her head and said, "No. We are one hundred percent identical."

"But one hundred percent identical is a very rare case. And even if identical, one hundred percent is not possible. There has to be some difference."

"Even our voices are similar. No difference at all."

"It's kind of scary if you say it like this"

"It is not"

"Wait…."

'Could it be that Elena sometimes switches with her sister sometimes? Like yesterday, she looked so changed. She looked so different. And she even got the solution of the problem correct.'

'Yeah! Now everything makes sense.'

Das took a deep breath as he looked at Elena and said, "Who are you?"

Elena showed him her fist and said, "Want to know?"