When the black fog dissipated, Shirahoshi found herself lying in the rose garden of the ruined monastery. The moonlight shone through the broken cross, illuminating the mandrake flowers on the ground, which were oozing black blood. These holy flowers, which were supposed to purify pollution, now had abyssal cuneiform characters on their petals.
"This is the seed of purification cultivated by your mother." Xizel's mechanical palm stroked the silver needle on the back of her neck, and vines suddenly grew out of Shirahoshi's mechanical exoskeleton. "But after being polluted by the Lord of the Abyss, they will devour the host's soul."
Shirahoshi's astrological dagger automatically flew to her palm. She saw in the future that Xizel was stabbing the mandrake flower into her heart, and she smiled and said "thank you".
"Do it." Xizel suddenly pressed her against the tombstone engraved with star maps, and licked her mechanical neck with his hot lips and tongue. "Pierce my heart with the flower thorns, so that you can purify the entire abyss."
Shirahoshi's dagger suddenly turned to her heart. Xizel grasped the blade with his gear hand: "Don't forget, every time you kill me, our bond will deepen."
The sound of metal friction came from the underground of the monastery. The mechanical octopus tentacles of the Lord of the Abyss penetrated the ground, and the body of Bai Yue was embedded in the suction cup. Bai Xing's astrological ability awakened, and she saw that in countless time and space, Bai Yue was repeating the same action - throwing the "Astrology Scroll" into the flame, and then said to her: "Sister, run!"
"This is the final truth." Xizel suddenly tore open his chest, revealing a mechanical heart beating with star tracks, "Your parents failed in the purification ceremony that year because..."
The shadows of Bai's father and mother emerged in the black fog. The mother stabbed the astrological needle into the father's heart: "Forgive me, our love has become the nourishment of the Lord of the Abyss."
The real Bai Xing trembled all over. Her dagger fell to the ground, and Xizel took the opportunity to imprison her in his arms, and his fingertips stroked the newly emerged seven-pointed star mark on her forehead: "Now, you have two choices--"
Twelve bells rang outside the tower. Bai Xing's hair turned blue, and she saw Xizel nailing her to the throne of the abyss in the future picture, and her eyes flashed with the same star tracks as his.
"Become my queen, or become the nourishment of the abyss." Xizel's silver mask shattered completely, revealing the boundary between the star tracks on the left face and the human skin on the right face, "No matter which one you choose, you will always belong to me."
Bai Xing suddenly bit his Adam's apple, and the tip of her tongue tasted rusty blood. Her astrological dagger flew up automatically and accurately pierced the astrological needle in Xizel's heart. Before the black mist poured out of the wound and swallowed the two, Bai Xing saw the last thing Bai Yue's body in the glass coffin opened his eyes, and there were countless rotating star maps in his pupils.