Chapter 2023

"I've long since accepted another, and the person I've accepted happens to be another me. He doesn't know that, though, and thinks I'm a selfish bastard. He wanted to leave me in that dimension, but he's been proven wrong now."

Wilbur leaped off the stone wall, frowning at Stefan. "Who's this person you're talking about?"

"Don't you know?" Stefan sneered, and then his expression suddenly froze as he asked, "How did you even make it into the Cave of Korst without him?"

Wilbur lit up at the words. "Are you talking about the other you? The other Stefan?"

"No, not the other me, the Brighter Side of me. You're now speaking to the Darker Side of me. More accurately, Stefan separated himself and his shadow into two different beings. He's him, and his shadow is his shadow. And, well, I'm that shadow."

Despite the fact that different dimensions used cultivation methods, Wilbur could guess that Stefan had been to the dimension where the Shadow Men lived. What he had not expected was St