Emperor Rupert was already dead, but remnants of the Anti-Organic Equation still lurked in every corner of the universe.
The mechanical lifeform that followed Samsara and Tuona was one of them.
The Interastral Peace Corporation had only one order for bounty hunters regarding such individuals.
—Destroy them all at any cost.
In the footage.
Tuona shoved the mechanical lifeform aside during the bounty hunter's attack and took the blow herself.
The mechanical lifeform froze.
It could not understand what Tuona had been thinking.
The bounty hunter who had accidentally wounded Tuona widened his eyes.
"Am I watching some shoddily made comedy show? A bloodthirsty Buli Ren died protecting Rupert's slaughter weapon."
"...So even you beasts who kill without blinking know how to huddle together for warmth?"
The bounty hunter tried to press the attack, but Samsara threw herself into it and brought him down with all her strength.
He lay on the ground, completely spent, and could only shout:
"Come on, I lost."
"You can kill me, just like you iron beasts killed my brothers back then..."
He glared viciously at the mechanical lifeform watching from the side.
"Remember this. Use that iron brain of yours, only fit to be my piss pot, to remember these last words of mine: the bounty hunters still alive will chase you to every corner of the galaxy and melt you into a puddle of molten metal!"
But the mechanical lifeform ignored him and silently stared at Tuona's corpse, sacrificed to protect it.
Over Tuona's death, it felt something infinitely close to the concept organic life called [anger].
The Anti-Organic Equation stirred, captured its negative feedback, amplified it, and produced a conclusion—
"Logic: even if Tuona locked my weapon systems, with the extermination plans remaining in the database, even with only a single stone..."