"This..."
Vanessa looked at the two "pieces" of Byron that appeared before her, the Dragon Slayer Sword in her hand froze mid-air.
Even their clothes were part of the transformation, one wearing a tricorn pirate king hat, the other donned in a Hightins naval general's uniform.
Aside from looking identical, their auras were completely different.
Yet both elegantly saluted her, one reciting the first half of a famous saying from the Old Continent: "A legacy of honesty and loyalty lasts far."
The other continued with the latter half: "Being two-faced never lasts long."
Then they said in unison, "Mother-in-law, such a venerable elder as yourself, surely wouldn't go back on her word?"
Byron's split was obviously different from the creator's split, one was a precisely controlled active decision, the other a passively compelled one.
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