When Xing's dagger pierced Xizel's mechanical heart for the third time, the ruins of the monastery were suddenly shrouded in scarlet mist. The black blood of the mandragora gathered on the ground to form an hourglass, and her consciousness was dragged into the twelve-fold time loop -
The first loop: Shirahoshi stabbed the mandragora at Xizel, but was crushed by his mechanical palm, and the petal fragments turned into steel needles and pierced her spine: "You don't even have the courage to kill me?"
The third loop: Shirahoshi successfully purified the heart, but found that Xizel's consciousness was awakening in her body, and his voice laughed in her mind: "Now, you are my container."
The seventh loop: Shirahoshi used the wedding ring to open the core of the abyss and saw her parents sealed on the mechanical throne. Her father's voice seeped out from the gap between the gears: "Our love... became his nourishment..."
"This is the paradox space set by your parents." Xizel's mechanical palm stroked the silver needle on the back of her neck, and Shirahoshi's mechanical exoskeleton suddenly grew thorns, "Only by killing the Lord of the Abyss and me at the same time can the cycle be broken."
At the beginning of the eighth loop, Shirahoshi found that Xizel's mechanical skin was peeling off, revealing the beating Star Track heart underneath. He suddenly pressed her against the tombstone engraved with star maps, and licked her mechanical neck with his hot lips and tongue: "This time, I will let you kill me with your own hands."
The moment Bai Xing's dagger pierced his heart, the entire space twisted into a gear shape. Her consciousness was sucked into the core of the Lord of the Abyss, and she saw that in countless time and space, Xi Zeer was repeating the same action - handing her heart to her, and then being swallowed by the mechanical octopus.
"You begged me for this." Xi Zeer in reality pinched her waist and pressed her against the broken coffin, "In every life, you begged me to let you forget the pain of being betrayed by your loved ones, so I can only make you hate me."
Bai Xing's dagger suddenly pierced his mechanical heart. Xi Zeer's pupils shattered into twelve pieces, and each piece reflected the smiling faces of Bai Xing's different personalities. Before the black fog poured out of the wound and swallowed the two, Bai Xing saw the last thing the holographic projections of Bai's father and mother gradually dissipated, and their brows were flashing with the same star track mark as Xi Zeer.