Card Apprentice Daily Log

Date- 28 Mar 2321

Time- 19:32

Location- Sky Blossom City, Dungeon Highway, Barren Lands, Blood Rock Cave Gate Dungeon

Hearing Bloodette offer Van blood pills to bring more monster's blood for her, I could not help but frown. If Blood could offer Van, then she could do it for others too. Fortunately, Van is my subordinate. Otherwise, I could do nothing but watch my monopoly over Bloodette's blood pill come to a sad ending. Therefore I had to take measures so that this would not repeat again. 

"Bloodette, I thought we had been between us. You give me blood pills, and I provide you with monster's blood. Correct me if I am wrong." I asked Bloodette with a professional smile pasted on my face covering my disappointment over Bloodette's action. 

"We still do! You too can bring me monster's blood, and in exchange, I will give you blood pills. Don't worry about my deal with him. I can create more than enough blood pills for both of you in no time." Turns out Bloodette was just being greedy. And she did have the strength to back her greed as she can indeed create thousands of blood pills in a matter of minutes without breaking a sweat. 

"Bloodette, it doesn't work that way. He works for me." I had to coax Bloodette into becoming my monopoly. Despite the glares that Cortney threw at me. 

"So, what?" Bloodette asked in confusion. 

"He works for me, so the blood he brings belongs to me. I bring you the monster's blood, or he brings you monster's blood in the end, you will be paying me." I made my words a bit confusing so that Bloodette would get what I was saying but not understand where the problem lied. 

"I still do not understand." Bloodette pouted. 

"Don't hurt your little brian Bloodette. You do not want to feel hungry all the time, right?" When Bloodette was done digesting the 336,000 blood pills that she swallowed earlier, the first thing she said was, 'Is this how it feels not to be hungry?' 

The meaning from Bloodette's words was clear that she was always hungry. And could never satisfy her hunger because other than the bland and flavorless condensed blood rule, she had nothing in this room to quench her thirst for blood. Decades of surviving just on condensed blood rule had made Bloodette develop a kind of dislike towards it. Hence, she would rather stubbornly starve than feed on condensed blood rule. This is also the reason why Bloodette cannot hold back whenever she gets Monster's Blood, or food products made using it. 

"Yes, I do not want to feel hungry anymore," Bloodette complained. This is why she eagerly decided to make a deal with Van. She thought that two people bringing a monster's blood was better than one. 

"What? Why did you not tell anything about this earlier? If you had said something, I would have brought you lots of monster's blood every day." Cortney, who had finally understood the reason behind Bloodette mindlessly swallowing all the blood pudding she brought, could not help but ask why Bloodette did not tell her about her hunger? As she always thought that Bloodette was addicted to sugar so she would always end up limiting Bloodette's intake of Blood pudding. 

"I did not want to burden you with my hunger." The first few years that Bloodette spent as Cortney's friend, she knew that Cortney was very weak and could barely survive herself. Therefore she never mentioned her hunger to Cortney. And by time, Cortney found her mother Bloodette had gotten a minimum knowledge about how the human world works by reading the books Cortney bought for her. 

Even though it seemed Cortney's mother was loaded, she still chose to keep quiet about her hunger because she did not want to strain Cortney and her mother's relationship because of her. Money is a sensitive issue in the human world. Knowing this, Bloodette tried to make do with the blood pudding that Cortney brought her. 

"I'm so sorry! I never understood you. I was not a good friend." Cortney hugged Bloodette.

"Huh?" Bloodette was flustered, being hugged by Cortney suddenly. 

"Don't worry, Bloodette with me here. You will never have to be hungry again. I will form a team of card apprentices who will hunt monsters every day and bring you fresh and warm monsters' blood." I made a promise to Bloodette. This is why I was planning to build the TSR guild's main base here in the outskirts of Sky blossom city. To feed Bloodette and am at it also monopolizes her blood pills. I never planned to sell the blood pills made by Bloodette but use them for my Calamity daughter gem. So I did not demand Bloodette anything in return for feeding her monster's blood every day. Whatever Bloodette gave feeling debated to me would be more than enough for me and my subordinates. 

"Really?" Bloodette asked with big watery red eyes. Her hunger is her curse. It has tormented her for decades though she has managed to control her hunger and live with it. It would be better if she never felt hungry. 

"Yes. And not just the monster's blood for your hunger, but I plan to add many things to this place so that you never feel lonely and can live a life of luxury and pleasure." I planned to keep Bloodette happy and satisfied because the happier she was, the more indebted she felt towards me. 

"Good then. I promise to help you with whatever you need." Bloodette went one step ahead; instead of promising her blood pills, she promised herself. 

"Good, I will be counting on you then." And this, my friends, I call monopoly 101. Winning a person's heart gets more returns than coercing a person. 

"Are you still hungry?" Cortney asked in concern.

"For now, no, but soon I will be. Overlord rank monster's blood to satisfy my hunger for a long time." Bloodette finally was honest about her hunger seeing her friends genuinely wanted to help her.

'...' Hearing Bloodette's demand, I started to feel I seemed to have adopted a hunger ghost incarnation. 

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