Card Apprentice Daily Log

Chapter 2693: Petra Petros Petrified!

Date: Unspecified

Time: Unspecified

Location: Myriad Realms, Card World, Southern Region, Blossom District, Sky Blossom City, TSR Guild Headquarters

”Hey, Petra. What if I told you there’s a way for Bloodette to be with you and with us? She doesn’t have to choose. We both get what we want, and everyone ends up happy,” I proposed, seeing through Petra. It couldn’t have been more obvious that Petra wanted Bloodette to move in with her.

”That’s not possible,” Petra rejected, unable to believe my proposal and not wanting to trust me, which only proved she was far sharper than she looked. Or with her Petruth rune not working on me, she just decided not to believe anything that came from my mouth. If it were the latter, it would be easier for me to get my way.

”Trust me, it is,” I insisted. Petra rolled her eyes, not even bothering to hear me out. So I gave her a gentle nudge to hear me out by reminding her, ”Bloodette has no memory of you. To her, you’re a stranger. We, on the other hand, are her friends, and one of us could even be considered her family. Think about who Bloodette would choose to stay with. A stranger, or Cortney, a friend she sees as family? If you want Bloodette to be with you, you’d better hear me out.”

Petra fixed me with a fierce gaze and reluctantly agreed to hear me out, but not before warning me, ”This better be worth it and not some trick. Your card apprentices’ help, somehow, always manages to leave us with the short end of the stick.”

”I’ll make it as simple as possible for you to understand, and you can decide for yourself,” I assured Petra once more before continuing. ”How about you create a subterranean field beneath the city? I’ll connect it to your subterranean home in the way beyond through a teleportation array formation. That way, whenever Bloodette wants to live with you, she can teleport home, and when she wants to be with us, she can teleport over here. If you’re willing to be a little understanding and compromise just a little, Bloodette will be able to live and enjoy both parts of her life without having to give up either one.”

”Let us do that,” Petra agreed at once. She understood her place in the current Bloodette’s heart all too clearly. Bloodette would not leave Cortney for her. So when anti-Petruth proposed a compromise that felt genuinely fair, Petra immediately agreed.

”Great. Now let’s discuss Bloodette’s blood rule rock vein,” I brought it up before Petra could recall it herself, making sure I appeared sincere when I moved on to what I intended to propose next.

”What about it? It’s Bloodette’s, so it should be in Bloodette’s home,” Petra replied without hesitation, clearly afraid that anti-Petruth might cut in and suggest otherwise.

”I couldn’t agree more. So once you’re done carving out a subterranean field beneath the city for Bloodette, we can lay the vein there,” I nodded, following her logic, offering a smile that clearly read, ’Would you look at that, we finally agree on something.’

”No, no. That is not Bloodette’s home. Bloodette’s home is my subterranean home,” Petra instantly rejected, bristling as she argued back.

”That’s your subterranean home. How can your home be Bloodette’s home? Her home will be the one you build beneath the city,” I countered, openly backtracking on what I had sold to Petra just a few seconds earlier.

”If Bloodette’s home is here beneath the city, then why would she live with me— You tricked me, you shameless Card Apprentice!!!” Petra swung at me with all her might, but my limitless barrier absorbed the blow. She caught herself before striking again, reined in her emotions, and turned away, pointedly ignoring me.

”Fine. Let’s agree that both subterranean fields are her home,” I said, conceding. ”One can be the proper home, and the other the vacation home. Which is which, we’ll let Bloodette decide.”

Petra continued to give me the silent treatment, but I went on, knowing she was still listening. ”Now, where do we lay the blood rule rock vein? Let’s let Bloodette decide that too.”

”No, we decide it right now,” Petra broke her silence. She realized that letting Bloodette decide everything might look fair, but in truth it was anything but.

Petra believed Bloodette would choose Cortney over her every single time. If that happened, Bloodette would remain in the damn Card Apprentice’s regions, while Petra would have effectively given Anti-Petruth and his Card Apprentice kin direct access to her home for nothing.

Yeah, she had caught on to the Card Apprentice’s plan long ago.

She had destroyed the teleportation array Anti-Petruth built in her home the moment she arrived in this damn city. Petra wasn’t stupid enough to spot a rat hole in her own home and do nothing about it.

She knew Anti-Petruth was somehow aware of what she had done to the array he had installed in her home and was now trying to build another one in her home using Bloodette. She didn’t mind it as long as Bloodette lived with her. But if Anti-Petruth thought he could outsmart her, get his, and leave her with nothing, she wouldn’t hesitate to flip the whole damn table. If not for Bloodette’s sake, she would have crushed his smug face long ago.

”Alright. Since you rejected my idea earlier, what do you suggest we do with the blood rule rock vein?” I asked Petra, throwing the ball into her court and letting her speak her mind.

”We lay the blood rule rock vein in my subterranean home. That way Bloodette will have a reason to come visit me in my home, her true home, not her proper home, not her vacation home,” Petra didn’t shy away from selling what she wanted as the best for all of us. She even glared at me, as if daring to try and reject her proposal, ’Come try me, I dare you.’