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I initially theorized it would be cranes and connected them to the myth of Persephone, but instead we get Kikonia, which is the closely related stork. More importantly, Kikonia also refers to the Greek Cicones, which the legendary Orpheus originated. Note of course Suparna, which refers to the Hindu Garuda (obviously also avian). Avian qualities are basically archetypal across all human mythoi (Garuda, Mesoamerican avian snake gods, biblical angels, Hermes and Hermes Trismegistus' Caduceus, Tengu, Horus and Thoth, even in Turkic myth, etc) because of their ostensive exhibition of birth through eggs and as well as the simplicity of their [eggs'] form, and flight too of course. It makes sense, then, that he should continue using religions and myths as engines of his storytelling, and use the one animal that is known to be the catalyst of delivery.

The cyberpunk setting likely acting as an expression of some Faustian bargain, where humanity was sacrificed for tech obviously, this time integrated into the body itself as a form of transhumanism, which follows if you remember the Buddhist themes he's been using since Umineko, and follows more because there are eight factions and in Buddhism there are eight samsaric Aṣṭagatyaḥ (inhuman beings), which would depict elegantly the corruption of natural birth (the cycle of life is big in Buddhism). And don't forget he took care to title a Haworthia track the sky of sunyata! Ryukishi really did it again!