In that desperate situation beneath the sea, Neo had eaten Mr. Phileas's corpse to survive.
This directly led to Neo and "Mr. Phileas" spending a long time loving and fighting each other inside the same body.
This "battle" had only reached a final outcome after Dark Moon Island, as Behemoth Duolons set off on another long journey carrying those True Light Believers...
Neo had become himself again.
Although Kallen had always wondered, and believed Neo himself wondered too, who had actually won or lost that confrontation, and who had been its true victor?
But on the surface, at least, Neo was "alone."
Some bonds, however, could not be undone simply because you wanted to undo them. They were not mere ropes that ceased to connect you once you broke free and threw them to the ground. When you first began struggling, they tightened and dug deeper.
The true bond was not the rope, but the marks it left on you.
And so, this had no direct connection to gaining what you ate.
The most immediate example was Kallen, who had even more inheritance systems within him but had never eaten a person. Oh, he had eaten an egg once.
Kallen opened his hand. Thousand Enchantments swept out, carrying the Sword of Arius into his grasp. At the same time, Chains of Order filled her skeleton as she wound around Kallen's arm and then around the sword's hilt.
In their previous exchanges, the Sword of Arius had not been of much use, because Neo's fighting style made Kallen extremely uncomfortable, forcing him to abandon the sword again and again.
So Kallen chose to bind himself to the Sword of Arius this way, while slowly calming himself and adjusting his condition. In the fierce fighting that might erupt next, he could no