Star-Picking Tower.
Inside the highest-tier VIP room.
Matilda lifted her teacup and gently blew on it.
Her gaze passed through the curling steam rising from the cup as she looked at the person opposite her and spoke calmly:
"Go on. What did you want to discuss with us?"
Beside her, Black Whale frowned as he examined the "snacks" on the tea table.
He showed an unusual expression toward the strips of bright red flesh that twitched from time to time.
He was very familiar with them.
They were a flavorful snack known as blood-infused snake tendons.
They came from the sea clans and were famous for the intense bloody taste that burst forth when eaten.
Under normal circumstances, few people would use them as a casual snack to pass the time.
The flavor was simply far too niche.
But Black Whale loved them!
To the point where he savored them as if they were a delicacy beyond compare!
Even Matilda, who had once disliked blood-infused snake tendons, had grown accustomed to eating them after spending day and night with Black Whale.
He had thought that after Black Whale faked his death, Matilda would abandon this eating habit that forced her to endure something she disliked.
Who would have thought that they had now become one of her favorites as well?
Or perhaps...
Matilda was doing this deliberately?
Was she merely trying to test whether this "White Shark" was actually Black Whale in disguise?
Or perhaps...
This Octopus Lady had never forgotten their past feelings and was still immersed in the perfect-boyfriend image he had once created?!
Just as Black Whale's thoughts churned uneasily, Taowu across from him spoke.
Rather than getting straight to the point and addressing why Star-Picking Tower had suddenly relocated to the Solar System, he mysteriously kept