Seven Sisters
When the Zombie Butler's voice rang out...
Something seemed to be wriggling and bubbling on the surface of the tightly closed Arched Iron Gate... Despite being a solid iron door, a hand seemed to be reaching out from between the door panels.
This hand has normal skin like a living person, except that the surface is mixed with some iron filings.
The class monitor reached out and shook his hand.
The moment his hand clenched, he pulled the class monitor inside, through the doorway.
Luo Di followed suit and shook hands with her.
The moment I grasped it, a strange force came through, as if I were being pulled by hundreds of people at the same time, leaving me no time to react.
Buzz!
In the blink of an eye, they had arrived inside the mansion, where a straight passageway paved with marble tiles stretched out before them.
The structure is very simple.
The left side of the passageway is labeled "Hall," the right side is labeled "Ceremony," and at the end is a staircase leading to the upper floor.
The mansion only had three floors, Luo Di guessed that the top two floors were bedrooms for resting.
The walls on both sides of the passageway are inlaid with exquisite candlesticks.
And many murals featuring women as their subject.
It depicts them dancing and making a fire in the forest.
Or they might sleep together indoors.
Or washing or playing in the lake,
Following the class monitor into the enormous hall, a huge chandelier hangs from the ceiling, capable of supporting more than three hundred candles burning simultaneously.
The fireplace was also burning, but the burning sound was very strange and didn't sound like wood.
Seven luxurious European-style chairs were placed in different areas of the hall, each chair with a simple carving on the back, representing different sisters.
The squad leader sat down in a chair near the fireplace, the back of which was engraved with a "syringe" design.
The patterns for the remaining chairs are as follows.
"Rotten Skull", "Eyes", "Crow", "Sunflower", "Female Face", "500"
"Honey, you'll be standing behind the chair in a bit. Reserve Partner don't have the right to sit here, so please bear with it for a moment."
"Um."
"Let your body touch the back of the chair slightly."
Luo Di followed the class monitor's instructions and pressed his side against the back of the chair.
"Can you hear me?"
A sound, transmitted through solid matter, reached Luo Di's brain; only the two of them could hear it.
Luo Di simply nodded slightly; he didn't know how to conduct such a private telepathic communication.
"I've never seen the sunflower and the number 500 pattern before; you must be a newbie."
The Rotten Skull and the eyes, as you know, correspond to the Zombie Shia and the Sister Eye.
Sister Eye Eyes can see through everything, sometimes even more so than Grandmother's incarnation. Don't make any unnecessary movements in front of her.
The crow represents a very polite young lady, who, apart from the Sister Eye, is one of the few people I don't dislike.
As for the one corresponding to the Female Face pattern, she is the one I hate the most in the sorority, and also the most difficult to deal with. She is even more difficult to deal with than Shia, and is recognized as the strongest sister, even surpassing previous sisters in every way.
For some reason, her Grandmother hasn't arranged for her to be promoted to a higher position in the sewing workshop yet.
However, Luo Di wasn't just curious about the sisters; he went straight to the point and asked, "Who is that zombie at the door?"
This question isn't impolite, since it's Luo Di's first time here, and it's normal for him to be interested in new things.
The class monitor also switched to giving a verbal answer:
"[Uncle Zombie] has been the sorority's long-time steward. Even though the ' Seven Sisters ' are frequently replaced, he has always been there. He is responsible for managing all the affairs of the gathering, verifying the identity of each person who comes, and ensuring that the gathering goes smoothly."
The sisters don't know his origins; the Uncle Zombie already existed before they arrived here.
According to rumors among the sisters, he was likely a special creation of their Grandmother.
"Is it very strong?"
"Whether he is strong or not, we don't know, but whether it is the sisters who have already gone to the seam or the sisters who come later, they all have to call him [Uncle Zombie].
Even though Grandmother had scolded, criticized, and punished most of her sisters, she had never spoken harshly to Uncle Zombie.
He always manages to handle everything perfectly.
"Understood."
Just as the two were talking, the sound from outside the door came again.
"Miss Wuya has arrived at the gathering."
A woman with dark brown skin, her body wrapped in simple black coarse cloth, entered the hall. She was rather slender, and her gait even had a model-like air about her.
Judging from various body proportions, this Miss Wuya should have a pretty face. However, she is wearing a very realistic crow headgear around her neck, which even looks like her own head, so lifelike.
He nodded to the class monitor as he entered, and then sat down on the chair by the window.
About five minutes later, the butler spoke again.
"Miss Shia and Miss Mu Mu have arrived at the gathering."
This is an old acquaintance, Miss Mu Mu, who is the Sister Eye" the class monitor mentioned, and Huaxia Nation.
After watching Luo Di's match in Pluto City, Sister Eye has been staying with Shia ever since, and now she's come along too.
As soon as Shia entered, she asked, "Isabella, why aren't you riding with us?"
"I need to spend time with my boyfriend~"
The class monitor quickly grabbed Luo Di's arm and leaned his head close to him.
"Tsk!"
Shia seemed to smell a foul odor and quickly pulled her Sister Eye away.
However, when the Sister Eye was being led away, she glanced at the class monitor through the side of her hair, as if to say hello.
"Miss Se. Flor (Aoi) has arrived at the gathering."
From now on, I will refer to Miss Sunflower as a shorthand.
A woman dressed in pure white priest's robes and wearing a golden sunflower mask entered the room with her hands in a prayerful gesture, her head always tilted upwards at a 45° angle.
The class monitor and Luo Di were both meeting this newcomer for the first time.
Even in Isabella's memories, there was no mention of her. She must have been recruited recently, as the expressions of the others also indicated that they had never seen her before.
As Luo Di looked at the sunflower mask the man was wearing, he suddenly caught a very terrifying detail.
The "flower head" in the center of the sunflower mask seems alive, as if you can vaguely see a woman's face among the sunflower seeds, or rather, her face is covered with sunflower seeds.
After realizing this characteristic, Luo Di felt quite uncomfortable.
The class monitor's voice, transmitted through the chair, also reached Luo Di's mind. "This one was probably directly recruited by Grandmother, without going through the usual sorority selection process, just like me! She's a little dangerous."
Just as everyone was curiously observing Miss Sunflower, the butler spoke up again:
"Miss Five Hundred Jin has arrived at the gathering."
As soon as he finished speaking,
Everyone sitting in the hall could feel the tremors coming from the ground.
Unlike the other sisters who arrived earlier, who all stepped into the hall on their feet first, this one bared her belly in first.
The oversized denim overalls barely contained her body, but some fat still bulged out from the sides or the gaps in the overalls.
She was also carrying a rather cute elephant backpack, which seemed to contain something or be used to cover up body parts located on her back.
Unlike most of her sisters, she didn't cover her face because her face was already abstract enough.
Above the piled-up fat neck was a deformed, fleshy head.
The swollen and overgrown nose resembles an elephant's trunk.
Its length is long enough to reach just below the chest.
To prevent the nose from wobbling while walking, the nose is clipped to the left side of the chest using overalls.
She walked to her seat, which was marked with the number [500], wearing roughly sized sandals that were nearly size 50.
When I plopped down, even the metal-reinforced chair creaked, making me feel like it might collapse at any moment.
It seemed that sitting down finally calmed her down, and as she breathed heavily, she pulled her swollen nose out from between the straps.
It swayed in the air, greeting everyone present in a friendly manner.
When they called over to the squad leader and Luo Di,
The pig's head hanging around Luo Di's waist trembled.
The class monitor's voice came again, "These are the sisters who came through the normal selection process. After all, the qualifications of Pseudo-Human can change later."
Some Pseudo-Human do not meet the standards of sisters but have potential will also be recruited, but they will not be able to participate in the gathering.
They will be placed in a specific area for intensive training, and the most outstanding one will be selected to join the sorority.
This Miss [500] joined after I left, but she still exists in Isabella's memories. She has strange flesh and blood, which is Luo Di's type.
The six sisters arrived, and there were only five minutes left.
Apart from Sister Eye and Shia chatting together, everyone else sat in their own seats.
As the last second arrived, the butler's voice also came through.
"Miss Hua Yuan and her Reserve Partner have arrived at the gathering!"
Upon hearing this,
Everyone present instantly changed their demeanor and posture.
Even the Zombie Shia and the Sister Eye stopped chatting and looked warily towards the door...