"What? Something's changed, Alphonse?
"You see? I was reborn to become a mercenary in the East, brother Ars. Someday you'll be stronger than brother Ars."
"Ah, stronger than me. That's good. Kids aren't."
Finally, the day of departure has come for the east.
I'm on a magic airship with my brother Ars. [M]
From here, you will head to Dejima once, and from that Dejima, you will be transported to the variant with the Magic Faction.
I've already said goodbye to my mothers.
I'm sure I won't be able to see you from now on, but I'm excited about starting a new life.
What is waiting for me?
"That's right. Besides, I'm not saying goodbye. I specifically authorize you to take the Barca family name."
"What's Barca's last name? Are you sure?"
"Oh, that's good. In the east, name it Alphonse Barca. I don't think it would be a good idea to call him a knight, but he's not going to the Fontana United Kingdom. It's going to be okay."
"Thank you, brother Ars. I thought it would be easier if I had a surname."
My brother Ars, who was sitting next to me in a magic airship, suddenly allowed me to take a Balkan surname.
Suddenly, this is really helpful.
Because I thought it would be difficult to do a lot if it was just an Alphonse without a surname.
In the United Kingdom of Fontana, those who have been named knights by nobles and others will be given a surname.
As a result, it became clear whether or not magic could be used, whether or not there was a surname.
However, things are slightly different in the east.
Instead of acquiring a family name by name, it is inherited from the parents.
If you are a nobleman, you will clearly know which house you are connected to because your child will give you the last name of each parent.
So what kind of surname you have depends heavily on your social credibility.
That's why I was told that there are a lot of things in the House of Lords.
No matter how much I explained to my brothers that I had kings, nobles, and knights, the people of the Brillian Magic Land could hardly understand.
If I were to be named Alphonse Barca, I might not have to do that again.
"Oh, I'll see you later. I have something to tell you. About your birth."
"About my birth? Is there anything else?
We're the only ones on the magic plane.
Eyes are the only ones on board.
I wonder why.
My brother Ars told me about my birth, which he didn't talk about very much after that.
But is there anything else?
"Your magic sword said this, didn't it? Me and you are all bleeding together."
"Yeah, that's right. You've been telling me that Brother Ars and I definitely have blood together."
"To be sure, is it possible that even parents and brothers have the same blood?
"No, that's not true. It seems that no matter how familiar the parents and children are, the blood won't be the same. But there seems to be an exception. Sometimes it's the same as twins."
"... I guess. I guess you're my brother after all. You may be my younger twin brother."
... hah?
Somehow, Mr. Ars suddenly said something he didn't quite understand.
Even though it is a twin because it is born at the same time, I don't understand the meaning of a separated twin.
What are you talking about?
"What do you mean? I don't know what you're talking about."
"It took me and Lillina a long time to get married and have kids. That's why I couldn't have children for years. At that time, I was just beginning to study cloning technology."
"What are you, a clone? You mean the technology that makes the same person's body?
"Well, yeah. Remove nuclei from undifferentiated fertilized eggs in the mother and place nuclei removed from somatic cells in another individual. It's a technique that creates a body that has the same factors as the owner of the somatic cell. The resulting flesh may have the same genetic qualities as the original flesh. Which means it could be the same blood."
"... I knew that?
I checked with Meem. In fact, at that time, in parallel, we were researching in vitro fertilization as a fertility treatment. Me and Liliana. At that time, there was a cloned embryo made from that fertilized egg. She said, "Maybe she got pregnant by putting it back into Liliana's belly."
"Um, I mean, do I have the same body as Mr. Ars?
"I don't know. Genetically, it could be the same, but as I said before, there's no way to confirm it. And we don't know if only the genes in the nucleus are responsible for making the body. If there was another nucleus like mitochondria, it would certainly be affected by Liliner's cells. If that's the case, my genes and I could be the same or the cells could be different."
... I don't know what your brother Ars is talking about.
I mean, what does that mean?
"In short, you are undoubtedly our child born from Liliana's belly. It is also the relationship between Alford and the twins that emerged at the same time, and because the genes are the same separate body, I also have a twin relationship. I mean, you're my child and my twin brother."
"... I don't know what to say, but it's a mess."
"Really. That's why, at the same time. Stay with the experiment."
"Experiment? What are you doing?
"Let me hatch this. It's a beast egg. If you and I have exactly the same blood, maybe the magic is the same. That means if you hatch the beast's eggs, you could have the same Valkyrie as me. It's a confirmation."
That's why Brother Ars handed me the beast's eggs.
It's a small egg, but I've heard it has strange properties.
When the eggs grow and hatch by inhaling magic, the magic creates a completely different beast.
They want me to grow it and see if it's going to be the same as Valkyrie, your brother Ars' beast.
After listening to the story, I thought that Mr. Ars would remain unchanged until the end.
No matter how likely you are to have the same body as me, I wonder if you have the absolute self that you are only yourself.
But now I'm the same.
No matter how genetically identical they are, me and brother Ars are clearly different.
My contract with Magic Sword Norn is definitely different because I was reborn.
This is how I received my family name and beast eggs from my father and brother Ars.