The stone room's walls gave off a faint yellow glow. Though it was dim, the air was strangely fresh, with a sweet fragrance drifting through it.
Xu Ye soon found the source of the fragrance-the man seated at the head of the table, wearing black stockings with a great deal of leg hair poking out.
The president of the Rose Society.
"Big Auntie... what a strange name..." Xu Ye muttered almost inaudibly.
Suddenly, Big Auntie looked up. His head was enormous, seemingly taking up a third of his body, and his large, long-lashed eyes swept toward Xu Ye.
Crack, crack, crack!
The air instantly grew heavy. An invisible pressure made the scalps of every Awakened attending the gathering tingle.
Who had offended the president?!
Xu Ye frowned, his mind reeling. The president's strength had definitely surpassed Sequence 6. The feeling he gave Xu Ye was comparable to that of the Dawn Blade's Chief Captain back then.
Almost simultaneously, the imposing Big Auntie covered his bright red lips with his left hand and waved coyly toward Xu Ye with his right, speaking in a gruff, babyish voice:
"Oh, stop it! If you don't like calling me Big Auntie, little brother, you can call me by my pet name, Sweetie. I'm just a little baby of six hundred-odd months, you know."
Everyone: "..."
Silence.
Someone accidentally choked on their own saliva.
But no one dared laugh.
The Rose Society kept a low profile, but that did not mean it was weak. On the contrary, some Awakened who knew about it were extremely wary of it.
"I can't take it. I need to wash my eyes out, even though I don't have any," the Bandit Lord said in disgust.
Even as Xu Ye shuddered, he was inwardly alarmed.
*Big Auntie's hearing seems unusually