The enormous living room fell into a silent, eerie atmosphere. Mindy, who had poked her head out from the bedroom, immediately pulled back, her little face grave. One arm was folded across her chest, while her other hand was held as though she were gripping a pipe, her small mouth occasionally making smacking noises.
"Something big is going down..." Completely immersed in her own little inner drama, Mindy imagined herself as Sherlock Holmes, puffing on an imaginary pipe.
The little girl had never expected that the friend she had just met would make such a request of Sean. Gali didn't look like the passionate, uninhibited type, either...
She quietly pushed open the door and poked her head out again to watch. Sean had clearly been stunned as well. Looking into the girl's sincere, crystal-clear eyes, he was actually at a loss. Was society really this open these days?
"You smell so nice." The girl emphasized it again, her eyes sparkling as though she had found some dazzling treasure. "You fit the requirements Father mentioned for a spouse."
Sean covered his forehead helplessly. What kind of upbringing had produced such an almost cluelessly adorable girl? Had her father never told her that, as a girl, she should at least retain a little restraint?
The finger pressed against the girl's forehead suddenly trembled. The energy inside his body seemed to surge uncontrollably toward her. Within that intangible mental connection, Sean abruptly sensed an extraordinary and terrifying aura from her. The instinct to plunder life and devour matter was like a miniature black hole in the world of the mind, silently absorbing everything.
She was a cosmic life-form beyond humanity. Sean could keenly feel just how tremendous a power churned beneath the girl's slender, delicate body. Like a dormant volcano, it had yet