Card Apprentice Daily Log

Date- 28 Mar 2321

Time- 13:29

Location- Sky Blossom City, Foul Woods D-rank gate dungeon 

"Boss, we discovered that the Circle did not entirely vanish. They just shifted their base of operations to the neighboring Sun blossom city. But the thing is, their leader has retired, handing over the entire organization to his heir. But we were not able to find answers to why they suddenly fled from Sky Blossom City and regrouped at neighboring Sun Blossom city." Van reported everything he could gather on the Circle and it is core members. 

"By any chance, is this new leader of the circle a resident of Sun blossom city?" I asked Van based on speculation I came up with after reading through Clown Masks recorded memory. 

"Yea, Boss. How did you know? We also thought that this should be the reason behind the circle suddenly fleeing and moving to Sun blossom city, but this reason seems too whimsical. Therefore, I hesitated to add it to my report." Van was surprised to hear me point out something he had not reported yet. 

"Leave this matter here. I have an idea what the Circle is up to. Next, you have your people investigate Sun Blossom city officials, those that are connected to Circle. And prepare for war. It's about time I got a small installment of my revenge on them." I ordered Van to prepare for war. Hearing that the Circle was still active in Sun Blossom city. Thanks to Clown masks memories, I knew what circle was up to. This time I wanted to foil their plans as I did in Sky Blossom city by taking the false relic Soul Pupils for myself. Clown Mask's memories had a lot of information on the Circle and its Original Supreme Leader. She was holding back on lots of information. She planned to use this to leverage her and her daughter's freedom. 

"You and I both, sir." Though my Calamity daughter cores are faithful to me, they still have a will. And Van wants to get revenge for his two best buds. 

"About that, Van. The attack on you and the allied guilds was not the Circle's plan. They were commissioned by someone else. It seems you or your past has pissed off somebody the current you cannot seek revenge on yet." I informed Van what I knew from Clown Mask's memories. 

"Boss, if I may. Can you tell me who this somebody is?" Hearing that the circle was just a tool in someone else's quiver, Van asked to know the real culprit behind the death of his best buds. 

"Unfortunately, I do not have an answer for that yet. Maybe we can find a name behind the incident when we attack the Circle in Sun blossom city." Though Van was my slave and I did not have to care about his wishes. I still decided to help him find who killed his best buds because if they had his close ones killed, they would not hesitate to do that once again. Therefore I had to find the enemy in the dark before they struck again. 

"Wyatt, you do know that I have the authority to send you to jail for the words you just spoke and the actions you are going to do next?" Luna, seeing me blatantly make plans to massacre an organization in cold blood in her presence, tried to remind me that there is something called government and police in this world. 

"Go ahead, arrest me then." I knew Luna would not do such a thing, but she had to see where my limit lied. If anybody comes between me and my revenge, they will pay dearly. 

And most importantly, I want to make it difficult for Luna and whatever she was planning. For some reason, Luna is trying to get close to me. By striving to increase eye contact between us and conversing more frequently. Until I knew what she was scheming, I planned to keep her at bay. 

"..." Hearing an unexpected answer, Luna was speechless. So I repeated myself in a deeper voice, "I said, arrest me." 

"You think I won't?" Luna glared at me. Being provoked by me. 

"Do it then." I dared Luna glaring straight back at her. 

"You're crazy!" Luna exclaimed, giving up. 

"If you are not going to, then do not joke about my Revenge. Like how your papers and research are important to you, my revenge is to me. Do you understand?" I knew Luna would cave. She is the type to avoid confrontation until it's absolutely necessary. Luna was not hardened by war, like Anna and Lorenzo. Even though she had the power of a Card emperor, she was still a greenhouse flower that grew and spent her entire life under the shelter of her family and her university. 

" Got it." Luna wants to establish a better relationship with her Cousin's crush by conversing with him. But who knew that after a few whimsical words, he would blow up on her like a firecracker. Seeing her attempts of increasing conversation and eye contact to get close to her target fail. Luna was at her wit's end and did not know what to do. 

"Then follow me silently." Done playing with Luna, I turned my attention to the man of the hour, Kevin Zhang, and his trusted Nephew Ben Li. 

"Hi, Mr. Kevin Zhang. We finally met. It's nice to finally see the face of the guy who drove me to suicide. I hope my men are treating you appropriately." I greeted the two bloodied naked human bodies hung on branches of a Foul Tree. 

…

Unable to see the gruesome condition and agony-filled screams of Kevin Zhang and his cronies. Luna left and headed to the quieter part of the dungeon. 

"Hey, you okay?" Cortney followed Luna and checked if she was okay. 

"This is nothing. I have seen worse than this." Luna said, thinking that Cortney thought she could not handle the torment of Kavin Zhang and his cronies. 

"Me too. Wyatt is too soft. If it were me, I would have skinned them all and hung them to dry. But I am not asking about that. About earlier, I saw how you tried to get close to Wyatt and failed." Cortney stated her purpose. 

"Was I that obvious?" Seeing that even a simpleton like Cortney knew what she was doing, Luna was dejected. 

"Don't worry; everyone has difficulties trying to make friends. Sister Margaret gave me a few tips to make friends in the orphanage. They helped me a lot. I will impart them to you. Hope they help you too." Cortney began narrating what sister Margaret had taught her. 

*slap* Luna slapped her forehead reflecting on her current circumstances. As she thought, 'this idiot has no clue.'

"Don't be discouraged. I know making friends seems complicated, but trust me, using these tips, you will make a lot of friends." Seeing Luna slap her forehead, Cortney tried to console and encourage her. 

"How many friends do you have?" Luna decided to entertain Cortney cause she had nothing else to do in this dungeon. 

" I have two friends, Wyatt and Bloodette… No one friend. I don't know if Bloodette still thinks of me as a friend. But I have lots of little brothers and sisters back at the orphanage. But brothers and sisters don't count as friends" Cortney was unsure how many friends she had, obviously not because she had too many of them. 

Luna wanted to yell, 'Girl, you still dare to advise others on making friends' but chose to swallow her anger hearing that Cortney grew up in an orphanage.