— M-Madigan you... bastard...

the GOLEM hissed with his remaining breath as the Pupa NMC consumed him entirely. But the entity was far from dead. The Pupa's flesh began to shimmer and convulse violently, its chitin cracking as the mutated DNA of No. 9's human-NMC hybrid biology rapidly took hold. The creature's roar shook the gantry, morphing into a monstrous hybrid with glowing red eyes and grotesque tumor-like growths spreading across its exoskeleton.