When Raine's pupils dilated into void-blue slime, Ellen's mechanical fingers were buried in his festering scar. The sound of interlocking gears seemed to rise from abyssal depths, mingling with Lyria's fragmented lullabies—only when his ribs were pried open, exposing Garret's cloned heart still convulsing, did he smell the rancid blend of machine oil and dragon blood.
"Heart transplant... first time for me." Ellen's starlit scales rotated counterclockwise, mechanical spine fracturing. "Stay conscious... pain inhibitors are locked."
During the core replacement's quantum tremors, Raine's right arm exploded into void-slime gears. Each counter-rotation stripped gill tissue—accompanied by 299 parallel Raine clones' subsonic screams.
(Slime trajectories revealed Cycle 300's memory fragments—)
Child Ellen welded to "Mechanical Madonna" operating table, Inquisitor implanting Elaina's star-chips into her spineLyria's embryo weeping in pod, tail slaps forming 「Raine+Ellen」 gene-chainsGarret's claws piercing quantum barriers, slime splattering Ellen: "Church turns machines into wombs?"
"Alert... symbiosis protocol anomaly..." Ellen's voice glitched into Inquisitor's channel, yet her mechanical pupils cracked with Elaina's star-patterns. "Brother... Mom said..." Her left arm quantum-mutated, flesh nerves erupting from joints. "Vessel 001's true purpose..."
The extracted core projected holograms—lab-coated Elaina engraving data: 「Maternal Protocol Final Phase: Executor becomes void-core keyhole upon symbiosis.」 Starlight codes spelled 「Raine-001 = Inquisitor Genetic Template.」
Serena's crystal wings shattered the operating dome, only for counter-clockwork gears to reverse-parasitize her claws. "Fuck... these gears eat my genes!" Her fangs crunched gears embedded with micro-「III」 brands, slime solidifying into fetal Lyria's corporeal shell.
"Surprise?" Garret's claws emerged from quantum fissures, tips budding Cthulhu gene-suckers. "Every heartbeat... winds the Church's clock." His chest split open, cloned heart projecting counter-rotating gear shadows.
Raine's gear-arm accelerated inversely. Void tendrils reached through temporal rifts—each tipped with young clone limbs oozing homologous marrow. The fluid formed Church sigils, cores blinking Elaina's final uploads: "Your true identity... hidden in..."
Ellen's core disintegrated, star-chips fusing with Raine's scar into quantum symbiosis. Her voice final-glitched into Lyria's channel: "My turn... to be your heart..." Metallic fingers gouged her eye socket, extracting neurons entwined with 「Raine+Lyria+Ellen」 chains.
(Void feeds showed Lyria's embryonic shell absorbing ash-energy. Her 「III」 brand resonated with counter-gears—tail mutated into holy cannon barrels targeting Garret's cloned heart.)
Ash swirled into holograms—decades-old Church labs implanting fetal Lyria into Ellen's core. Slime droplets formed 「Protocol v3.14」 schematics—live feeds showed Garret's claws budding counter-gears quantum-syncing with Raine's arm.
"Next cycle..." Ellen's remains seeped into Raine's gills as void-slime. "Tell Mom... I hid well..."
Submerged Currents
The inverted lunar sigil froze. Ellen's core fragments revealed Elaina's unsent logs: 「Vessel 001 Purpose: Executor becomes Inquisitor resurrection vessel at 100% symbiosis...」 Meanwhile, Lyria's embryonic shell in the ash slowly opened void-blue mechanical eyes...