Lyria's crystallized tear shattered the void-core as Serena's draconic claws gouged Raine's reversed scale. Asphalt blood and void-slime merged into a counter-vortex, swallowing global quantum tides into the singularity.
"Don't blink this time..." Lyria's tail coiled around Raine's wrist, mermaid DNA peeling away in the crystal. "Mother plagiarized my birth... Now steal my death..."
Ellen's wreckage quantum-reassembled, starlit scales flashing alerts: 「Singularity Energy Threshold Exceeds 299」. Her optics glitched into Elaina's dying smile: "Remember the sea's salt, dear..."
Raine's scar split into 298.5 shards, each reflecting Lyria across cycles—holy cannon pierced, slime-dissolved, fused with Garret's genes... The final shard showed infant Lyria weeping in a Citadel pod, Elaina logging data outside.
"Surprised?" Dracula's specter oozed from the crystal, fingering Raine's pupils. "Your siren... was the original matrix..."
Global obelisks collapsed into void-matter, seawater draining into the singularity. Serena's wings disintegrated in quantum storms, asphalt blood forming counter-gears: "I ain't your reboot fuel..." Her fangs crumbled the Dracula pendant, stabbing her own mechanized heart.
Lyria's specter quantum-corporealized, mermaid hand phasing through Raine's chest to grip his 298-beat scale: "Breathe... follow the tide's backtrack..."
As the singularity detonated, Garret's claw debris materialized, slime congealing into: 「Next cycle's menu—Tequila x Void-slime, three shots KO.」
Waves lapped at child Raine's toes as he crouched on the beach, picking up the scale engraved 「298.5」. Starlit-blue pupils mirrored the First Inquisitor's mask floating offshore—its cracked interior flashed 「Vessel Incubator 003 Activated」, perfectly matching Garret clone brands exposed by the ebbing tide.
"Mom! Shiny thing!" He raised the scale toward the sunset. Sea wind carried slime's rancid tang, foam whispering Lyria's song frequencies.
Submerged Currents
In Citadel's quantum debris, Elaina clones' mechanical fingers reassembled. Starlight codes read 「Maternal Protocol v3.14 Updated」, their genes now blended with Serena's asphalt blood and Lyria's tear harmonics...