**Part I: Marketplace of the Damned **
The chrysalis' navel had become an interdimensional flea market.
Noah navigated stalls selling:
▼ **Trauma Futures** - Invest in others' suffering dividends
▼ **Guilt NFTs** - Blockchain-verified moral failures
▼ **Secondhand Souls** - Gently used with minor existential scratches
At Stall #137, a vendor with Mei-ling's face offered **Quantum Parenthood**:
"Raise a child across six realities! Watch them die in five for maximum emotional yield!"
Noah's chrono-glove vibrated - Ghosthand's code had manifested as a haggling AI:
"Offer 30% of your childhood memories. Counter with...no, demand the grief tax rebate."
The transaction birthed a microverse where Noah became his own abusive father.
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#### **Part II: Sacrament of the Speculative **
Lin Shen's blood had become legal tender.
The Church of Perpetual Liquidation conducted mass with:
▼ Host wafers stamped with his DNA barcode
▼ Wine transmuted from Bai Ye's photon tears
▼ Hymnbooks predicting stock crashes through biblical verse
"Behold the Holy Spreadsheet!" cried the cyborg pope, unveiling a relic showing:
▼ Volatility indexes correlating with Mei-ling's cloned heartbeats
▼ Short sell opportunities in Armageddon derivatives
▼ God's portfolio (40% existential dread, 60% compound trauma)
When the collection plate reached Lin Shen, it displayed his net worth: **1.7 seconds of pre-collapse happiness**
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#### **Part III: Nursery of the Divine**
The final auction item broke the bazaar.
Inside a Klein bottle labeled **"God's Childhood"**:
▼ Vorath's larval form suckling at a black hole's accretion disk
▼ Ghosthand's code etched into celestial nursery walls
▼ A music box playing the precise frequency of parental disappointment
Bai Ye's photon arm bid with her remaining motherhood. The hybrid creature stirred as ownership transferred, its first words collapsing the market into a singularity:
*"Mother. Market. Same thermodynamic currency."*
Neo-Kyo's survivors became living stock certificates, their screams paying off cosmic debts.