Discussion and Planning

"Ah Nee-san, is your body alright? I think you should rest more."

Haruto remembered that Asami had just awoken after almost a week of sleeping. Her mind and soul should already completely recovered the moment she woke up according to Kaori.

So it was her body that need to rest more and after eating enough nutritions for a few days she should be fully healthy again.

"Un, I guess I should. But there's still your friends below right? I need to greet them and introduced myself. Also, to apologize for the troubles I've caused...."

She still remembered the time she was controlled by that malicious device. If Haruto's failed to defeat Ifrit at that time, they would all be...

She trembled when she imagined that. How frustrating it was to make her attack her own allies, especially Rikka and Haruto.

Ah that's right she remembered the most important thing!

"Haru, I heard about it from that creepy old man but you're.... reincarnated? Can you tell me what happened?"

Haruto smiled wryly thinking it will be quite complicated to explain.

"I can tell you but I think let's just leave it during your introduction to the others. It's a long story after all."

"...Okay."

And so while Asami was leaning on Haruto's shoulder's and he supported her body, they went out from the room and headed downstairs to the living room where the others were.

.....

Haruto introduced his sister to the others.

Elsie innocently introduced herself as both her and Haruto's little sister and almost made Asami's eyes popped out in shock thinking one of their parents had a illegitimate child and reincarnated together with Haruto. Thankfully it didn't last long because the Kami-niisama immediately explained the situation.

Kaori for some reason felt a sense of familiarity with Asami. She described that the feeling was like meeting her long lost childhood friend but thinking it's just her imagination she dismissed the thought.

But for Haruto he was quite curious because he suspected that Kaori was having a tinge her original self's feelings towards a certain ponytailed black hair swordswoman whom family was a ninja in disguised as a swordsmanship dojo outside.

As a test he tried asking about her opinion regarding a vampire young girl and the result was her face frowned right away and she felt a stra~nge irritating feelings for unknown reason. Maybe this was the result of not having any memories but retaining the original's personality.

Maybe that's why she became strangely attracted to Haruto who was a former otaku high schooler, similar to a certain demon king somewhere.

Selianna also introduced herself but her introduction brought quite some troubles for Haruto because she just casually called herself as Haruto's slave, she even called Asami as "Ojou (Milady)" considering she was the sister of her master (lord). Asami who heard that was frozen like a statue in an instant. She turned her head like a rusted mechanical doll to the supposed 'Master' of Selianna, her own younger brother and asked with her eyes that seems smiling yet not smiling, "Explain what the hell's going on!" Haruto was drenching in cold sweat and averted his face.

And so a session of a long-time-no-see preaching from his older sister began.

Haruto was unfortunate that Fia was actually the last to introduce herself because Asami suspected her brother to lay his hands on such a young girl, leading to another stage of desperate explanation from the suspect.

Rikka already knew about Asami so she just express her joy seeing her waking up and asked if she was okay. Asami too was glad of meeting Rikka again, she already considered her as a best friend from the time Rikka took care of her in her house and during their confinement.

Finally the introductions were over and Asami expressed her deep gratitude and apology for causing them troubles during the last event. The others did not mind and blame all of it to the dead man since it was all indeed his fault.

During this time Haruto also explained to his older sister regarding the details of his reincarnation and what happened to him, so naturally that includes telling her about Eisha. By this time all of his companion already knew everything about him so there's no reason of keeping it as a secret any longer, especially if the other party was his direct family.

But then Asami raised a question Haruto never thought before..

"Hey Haru, if you're reincarnated then can we still be considered as siblings?"

Haruto opened his eyes wide because what she said was something that never crossed his mind so he immediately fell deep in thought thinking of the answer. The others too began racking their brains for the subject.

First thing first was that Haruto's body was remade into a new body with Saiyan bloodline infused with Goku's power (albeit restricted) by the goddess Eisha.

Just by this should already made him a different person with unrelated bloodline and DNA to his previous life family. It was only his appearance that stayed the same as before but the inside was completely changed.

Still, there's also another thing he couldn't ignore of. It was the fact that Bryan used his 'current' blood as a catalyst to summon Asami using the summoning artifact he found ten years ago. If that blood called someone with a strong relation to him then why Asami was called using that blood? That didn't make any sense if she no longer has a blood relation with him.

Could it be he is actually still related to her? But that's should be impossible, just what is going on?

Just as the people there was deeply puzzled thinking of the reason, Kaori spoke up.

"I asked Okaa-san just now with my telepathy."

Although Haruto was not connected with Eisha but Kaori was her creation and they had a connection to each other, allowing her to communicate with Eisha but Elsie never realized this so she was flabbergasted and screamed in shock, she attempted to try right away but what she received in her head was a recorded voice saying {Please leave your message after the next tone~} so she hung her head, dejected. Looked like Eisha already returned back to sleep after her brief talk with Kaori.

"*Cough* Okaa-san said you're no longer siblings, at least in terms of blood relation."

"What? Could someone become real siblings other than blood relation?" Haruto was perplexed.

"Well, scientifically they cannot. But outside of that there's another indicator other than just the physical body structure."

"And that is?" He asked.

"Soul." Kaori answered.

"...Soul?"

"Yup, even if your body was changed and no longer blood related with your sister but your soul still heavily connected to her."

"But isn't Nee-san an otherworlder? Her soul should also be unrelated to me."

"That's not true, it's quite complicated but let me explain."

Then Kaori explained about otherworlder like Asami. Asami was an otherworlder that went out of her previous world cycle of life and entered Haruto's world's. Her soul was changed but not completely because she slipped inside the cycle all of a sudden. It was similar to how a new character suddenly join the party in the middle of a game with predetermined status and level, unlike the original characters who began from level 1.

That's why the game could only change that character's status and growth starting from the level the character joined in. Asami was like that, the part of her previous life was still brought along and remained uncleaned by the Haruto's world's cycle of life because she did not enter the process since the beginning. But that still change the majority structure of her soul and allowed her to be related with Haruto as they were born from the same parents. This is also why otherworlders, even the awakened ones could never recover all their memories, just a part of it.

"Hmm, well I get it now."

"...You get it because Kaori used a game terms right? You looked completely clueless before that." Asami rolled her eyes to Haruto. She knew about her brother's favorite things a lot.

"W-What are you talking about?" Haruto averted his eyes.

"But in any case that's still not answer why using his blood was connected to me. I mean we are talking about blood not soul right?" Asami ignored Haruto and asked Kaori.

"If you're saying that, the whole artifact thing wouldn't make any sense either Asami-san."

"Eh?"

"Think about it, if the artifact's function was using some kind of catalyst to summon another being from another world highly related to the catalyst then it would never be able to be activated."

"...."

That's right. If the artifact's function was exactly as Kaori described then how would it be able to summon the related being from another world? Otherworlders were all reincarnated individuals not transmigrated so obviously they bodily relations were all disappeared.

"Hehe, you all didn't know but blood also contain an essence of someone's soul you know?"

"?"

"When a person was still alive, their soul would be deeply integrated on their body, that's why every part of their body would contain the essence of their soul, and that essence of soul in Haruto-kun's blood was the one that connect the artifact to Asami-san's own soul."

"Hmm, is that so. That's really quite complicated huh but I get the gist of it at least."

Haruto and the others nodded together.

"In conclusion, that means it's hard to describe my current relation with Nee-san. But one thing for sure is..."

"We're no longer blood related...."

Asami finished Haruto's sentence, she sounded dejected from her tone. It was natural, after all this also meant she truly had lost all her real family.

"Isn't that fine?" Haruto spoke while smiling.

"Haru..?"

"What important is not whether we're related by blood or not but rather our bonds with each other right? Nee-san is still my family, that won't change."

"....You're right." Asami smiled, agreeing with what her brother said.

The others too were smiling gently and the atmosphere turned bright again.

"Alright, now that's taken care of let's move on to the next important subject."

Haruto changed the topic and put on a serious expression so the others too focused their attention on him.

"It's about forming a team for exploring Tartarus."

"A team, so you mean forming Clan milord?" Selianna asked. Fia meanwhile was explaining to Asami regarding Tartarus in brief.

"Yes, the guild only allowed someone to enter as a Clan if they planned to explore in a form of group. The problem was that the right to join Clan only given to blue ranks adventurers or higher and as of currently no one beside me held the same rank so I can only go alone. But I'm sure no one here will agree of that right?"

"Of course not!" Kaori shouted.

"If you're going then we will obviously come too, Haru-kun" Rikka added.

"Umu, letting their lord to fight alone is a failure as a knight (slave)." Selianna nodded.

"I'm still recuperating but I'll definitely join you after I've fully recovered." Asami smiled.

"Haruto-nii will be reckless if he's alone after all!" Fia commented.

"I can't join Nii-sama but I also against you to go alone!" Elsie exclaimed. She had already accepted her role to take care of everyone outside of fighting.

"Yeah, I thought so."

Haruto smiled helplessly and then he added,

"That's why until you all become at least blue rank adventurers and we formed a Clan of our own, we must go there together in another way. We don't have much time after all until the qualification for Tenkaichi Budokai began. Although risky, Tartarus is a very effective training place in order to win."

"Eh? But how can...? ...Don't tell me!" Selianna seemed to grasp what Haruto was trying to do.

He smirked and touched his temples with his fingers.

"Yup, it's by using Instant Transmission. We will go inside together secretly, hehe."