When Garret's ice claws impaled Raine's chest, the splattering slime carried static-laced lullabies from Lyria's voice—a twisted blend of Inquisitor's mechanical vocals and Church's bloody sanctity that scorched Raine's gills into festering wounds.
"Defective products belong in incubation pods." Garret's pupils split triple-layered—Inquisitor's crimson seal, Elaina's star-circuitry, Lyria's quantum teardrop. "Did the Church cheap out on your pain receptors too?"
As the purge protocol screeched, lab's quantum barriers collapsed. Walls bled void-blue slime into 299 gene-chains nailing Raine midair—each chain terminating in dismembered limbs of young Raine clones, 「III」 brands flashing at amputation points.
(Black froth gushed from Raine's gills—Cycle 299.9's memory flooded—)
Child Garret strapped to "Synced Vessel 000" operating table, Inquisitor suturing Raine-cloned heart into his chestElaina's hologram crumbling beyond observation glass, starlight chips projecting logs: 「Protocol Flaw: Clone Heart Host Rejection 99.9%」Lyria's embryo screaming in pod, tail slaps splattering 「Raine+Lyria+Garret」 gene-chains
Raine's reversed claw strike into Garret's shoulder sprayed not blood but void-blue marrow—identical to his scar's effluence. Each droplet solidified into miniature Church sigils, their cores pulsing with clone EKGs.
"Surprise?" Garret ripped open his mechanized chestplate, the beating cloned heart engraved with 「Raine-001」. "Every breath you take... powers me." His claws quantum-shuddered, budding Cthulhu suction cups that siphoned Raine's spinal gene-chains.
Ellen's core erupted with Lyria's song frequencies. Her starlit scales projected alerts: 「Homologous Gene Contamination—Initiate Self-Destruct—」 But her voice glitched into Elaina's final recording: "Your heartbeat... hidden in..."
(Void surveillance showed Garret's 「III」 brand resonating with Lyria's embryonic tendrils. Each gene extraction morphed her tail closer to holy cannon completion.)
Raine's scar detonated, spewing Elaina's mechanical finger fragments. The shards formed encrypted text midair: 「Maternal Protocol Final Clause: Activate Symbiotic Purge at 70% Homology」.
"Symbiosis?!" Serena's crystal wings shredded quantum barriers, only for Garret's suction tentacles to reverse-parasitize her claws. "Church wrote me into their fucking terms?!"
When Garret's claws pierced Raine's abdomen, the Inquisitor's mask oozed from the wound—inner codes spelling 「Maternal Protocol v3.14—Final Symbiosis」. Live feeds showed Lyria's tendrils breaching her pod, grasping Garret's newly engraved codes: "Brother... my turn to protect you..."
Submerged Currents
The inverted lunar sigil accelerated its spin. Flesh nerves sprouted along Ellen's mechanical spine—her chips flashing 「Lyria Awakening 99.9%」 as Garret's cloned heart mutated Cthulhu suckers in sync...