E3
3. Perverted Organism
\*\*“Even Doris\@Doll, who had resisted until the very end, finally yielded to fear and loneliness—and at last accepted Malice’s kiss. The Dolls who had gained living flesh became lost in pleasure, staging lewd feasts with the newly organic Machine‑beings wherever they went. Meanwhile, Heather\@Doll—rejected and grievously wounded by Joe\@Admin—lay at the brink of death. When Malice gazed upon Heather’s peaceful, sleep‑like face—Heather, who had never understood the concepts of life and death—she was struck back to her senses. ‘I never wished for any of this!’ Malice cried. Convinced that the root of all this horror lay with the Vessel, she resolved to ascend Organ’s upper tiers alongside Joe. Guided once more by the phantom vision of the mysterious girl, they reached the very stratum where Malice had first encountered the Vessel—but the truth that awaited them there would shatter not only Malice’s own understanding, but the very foundations of their world—!”
