"All right, tell me about your recent circumstances."
After the grave atmosphere eased slightly, Aaron shifted into a more comfortable posture and assumed an attentive pose.
He looked first at Lilliat.
"I... I've been in Green Forest City, preparing to consolidate the Sothoth Family's strength and advance to 'Living Dead.'"
Lilliat answered without much enthusiasm.
"Very good."
Aaron was still quite lenient about this, and turned to Ye Funai.
Ye Funai spoke in her graceful voice, "I've been traveling all over the world, seeing many novel things and interesting people. It has, to a great extent, made up for my past regrets..."
As a divination master originally from the Investigation Bureau, Lady Fireworks had effectively been held half-prisoner at headquarters all along.
Only after Aaron rescued her from headquarters had she gained freedom, like a bird flying out of its cage.
Metana thought for a moment, her face showing distress. "I... I've been studying the curriculum for noble ladies, and I'm still working hard to resist my parents' forced marriage arrangements..."
Percy nearly laughed aloud. This lady's temperament simply did not match the standing of the Invisible Cult at all. This was a gathering of a secret organization, not a salon or tea party for aristocratic young ladies to vent their troubles.
Still, he coughed and said solemnly, "I have become the deputy director of the Investigation Bureau's Sixth Division and am accumulating contributions... enough contributions to advance into a Non-Human Existence. Mm, I follow a mixed pathway. My Fourth Primordial is called 'Bell Keeper'!"
*Bell Keeper... The name immediately makes me think of the Bell of Mitra Palace. Perhaps it's connected to that Unknowable Grade Strange Object. But a mixed pathway—well... I'd nearly forgotten that mixed pathways are the mainstream in the occult world. Mm... the sources of the