This was not the first time Rorschach had faced "himself."
When the Ancient Sage split the two "Rorschachs," he initially just felt a strange sense of rapport and mutual perception. After their souls merged and their two sets of memories converged, he saw them as a completely unified self.
But now, a mirror image had appeared—a seemingly independent, more perfect existence.
Red Robed Rorschach claimed to have already ascended to Great Mage. He seemed to have absolute control over the Tree of Law and this space, as if he were the perfect archetype of the individual named "Rorschach," inscribed in the Boundary Land.
The original Rorschach, however, was merely a Middle Level Mage. Upon hearing, "You're the challenger," a seed of fear naturally took root. This fear wasn't cowardice but an instinct traceable to infancy, a fundamental human response.
