"I am the advanced manifestation of the S.E.X System of Cosmic Supremacy!" the Loli whined, her voice high-pitched and indignant. "I am the culmination of the Master's divine intellect! I am not a grape!"

The Amethyst King, whose form was still struggling to maintain cohesion, threw his head back and joined in Ethan's laughter, a glorious, thunderous sound that shook the timeless space.

"Oh, you are just so cute!" the Amethyst King said, his ethereal hands reaching out to playfully pinch the Loli's holographic cheeks. "Don't listen to him, my darling. You look so lovely and adorable when you are angry! That's my girl!"

The Loli squirmed in the King's grasp. "Master! Stop! You are embarrassing me in front of the new vessel!"

The King simply laughed harder, pulling the Loli into a brief, warm hug before his body began its inevitable, final dissipation.

"You see, Ethan," the Amethyst King said, his voice fading but full of warmth and humor. "You must always remember to enjoy the small details. Life is too short, even when you are functionally immortal, to be serious all the time."

The temporal clone dissolved entirely, its essence absorbed by Ethan and the Loli. The cavern snapped back to an intense stillness, the residual energy of the King's farewell vibrating in the air. The humorous tension eased, but the underlying severity of their situation remained.

"The Master's final instructions and a fragment of his raw power have been successfully integrated," the Loli said, her expression instantly shifting back to rigid professionalism, though a faint blush remained on her cheeks. "The temporal sanctuary is now destabilizing. We must use the remaining time efficiently, little one."

Ethan, feeling the surge of new, unexplained power settle within him, took a deep breath.

"My first question is about my enemies," Ethan said, his voice serious now. "If they survived, how strong are they, and where are they? How far away? Can they find me?"

The Amethyst King's ethereal image immediately solidified again, summoned by the necessity of the question.

"I have no idea," the Amethyst King said.

"I have no idea," the Loli said at the exact same moment.

Ethan blinked. The King and the Loli turned to look at each other, and then both burst into laughter.

If one system was annoying, two identical ones are a headache, Ethan thought.

"Well, that was rather well-synced, wasn't it?" the Amethyst King said, wiping a tear from his phantom eye.

"It appears the integration of your latest emotional profile is still a work in progress, Master," the Loli said, shaking her head wryly.

"Now, back to the questions," the Amethyst King said, regaining his composure. "As for my part, I am dead. This is only a fraction of my consciousness, a programmed echo designed to activate at the point of contact. So, it is simply impossible for me to know their current status, strength, or location."

The Loli then stepped forward, her small frame radiating a faint, anxious energy.

"And for mine," the Loli said, "I can only see as far as you see. For a brief moment, upon recognizing your genetic signature, I was able to use the power of the beacon to try and trace our true location to guide us back and fulfill the Master's objectives. It was then I discovered that something is actively searching for us."

Her eyes widened slightly, emphasizing the danger. "I did not dare reactivate it. I instantly shut down the external query, fearing they would pinpoint the source. The beacon still holds about 5% of its core energy, which we will reserve and use only at the precise moment it will be most effective."

Ethan felt a cold dread settle in his stomach. They were out in the void, hunted, and entirely blind.

"Okay," Ethan said, trying to organize his thoughts. "The 'Bastard' who is hunting me... who is he?"

"The King of Darkness," the Amethyst King replied instantly, his tone devoid of his usual levity, a rare show of gravity.

Ethan threw his hands over his face in exasperation. "Please, stop. Forgive me, I wasn't specific," Ethan said. "Who is he, where did you know him, and why does he hate you so much?"

The Amethyst King shrugged, a gesture of cosmic indifference.

"The truth is, I don't know," the Amethyst King said. "His mask is quite good, and I couldn't see through it even when he was in front of me. And honestly, there are hundreds of kings who want my head for screwing their women, so he could be anyone."

The sheer, staggering narcissism of the statement was almost comforting in its consistency.

"And the woman we saw in the vision... the one who subjected you?" Ethan asked, referring to the terrifying female figure of the King's memory.

The Amethyst King scoffed, though his eyes held a flicker of deep caution.

"She didn't subject me... well, I suppose you could say she did," the Amethyst King said, his voice hesitant for the first time. "She is, hmm, a crazy woman who was obsessed with me. I never wanted anything serious with her, and that frustrated her to the point of a cosmic meltdown. I thought she had died of old age in some remote, forgotten sector, but as you can see, she seems to have prospered and reached a truly terrifying level of power."

Ethan quickly moved to the next critical topic, the only thing that stood between him and oblivion.

"The System," Ethan said. "I know it's your collected knowledge and final resources, but how can it do what it does? How can it give me money, create items, and how can it have all that information, even about my current planet?"

"Ah, the mechanics of divine technology!" the Amethyst King said, lighting up again, the engineer in him taking over. "Regarding that, it's actually quite simple. The beacon analyzed your planet and found its life forms to be far too low-level, technically speaking. So, it simply hacked the entire planet."

The Loli nodded, her voice crisp and factual. "That is why I can do what I want here. If this were a more powerful, higher-tier planet, it would be an entirely different story. We would be severely restricted."

"That's also how the System obtains the weapons and artifacts from your planet," the Amethyst King added. "It just copies them from the local planetary database and materializes them. The items that are superior to your planet's technology—those come from my old kingdom or other highly-advanced realms across the universe."

The Amethyst King looked up, his gaze distant, staring into the far reaches of the temporal space as if recalling something immense and beautiful that was now lost.

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