Location- Sky Blossom City, Association Guild Mall, Warehouse no.234
"Anna, I have a proposal for you. I will mind my own business and leave you and your secrets out of it if you promise me one thing." Ann knew that Anna gets annoyed when she shares and spreads too much personal information about her. But Ann had a good reason to do so.
For Ann, Anna's friends, relatives, and family are her friends, relatives, and family. As Anna's alter ego, Ann grew up surrounded by these people. But for Anna's friends, relatives, and family, Ann was a total stranger, a nobody. Ann may have grown up surrounded by these people in Anna's mind, but for them, they did not even know of Ann's existence until Anna created her first origin card.
Ann was a total stranger to Anna's friends, relatives, and family, but for Ann, they were her closest people. This is an awkward situation for Ann as she was overzealous to meet them only to find that they had no idea who she was or if she existed. Even though Anna's friends, relatives, and family welcomed her with open arms, Ann felt a sense of distance and tension between them, as they did not have much in common between them. For Ann, Anna's family did not feel like her family but her family-in-law. She thought they were only friendly because she was Anna's origin card.
All this may be just a misunderstanding on Ann's part, but she decided to make a place in this family and become a part of them as she was stuck with this family. For that to happen, Ann needed something of common interest with the rest of the family, and that was none other than Anna. Apparently, the family members liked a good ripping, especially about Anna. And ever since then, Ann has used Anna's dark secrets, thoughts, etc. To bridge a connection with her friends, relatives, and family.
"Really, and what is that you want from me?" Anna was surprised to hear Ann's proposal as Ann was never open for negotiation before despite her luxurious persuasion.
"I will tell you when it's time. Are you up for it?" Ann did not state her request. Instead, she let out a mysterious smile.
"I know I am going to regret it in the future, but if it keeps you quiet for the next three months, then I am game. Okay, I promise you one request in return, you better hold up your end of the bargain." Anna had already tasted the disadvantages of the Soul contract with her experience with the silver milk powder, so she did not bring up soul contract this time.
"Deal." Hearing Anna agree, Ann cheered.
Location- Sky Blossom City, Association Guild Mall, Warehouse no.234
"Cortney, Bloodette, you guys are already here." Entering the warehouse, I saw Cortney and pseudopod Bloodette sitting on the couch and greeted them.
"You are finally here. I almost starved to death," Bloodette complained.
"You guys waited for me. You did not have to do that." Hearing that they waited for me, I was touched. Now I feel bad for enjoying Anna's sexual advances.
"It's okay we wanted to. Now, let's order in. What do you want for brunch?" I was surprised to hear humble words from tomboy Cortney, but I guess her demeanor is different towards her friends.
"Mind if I join in?" Susan came out of nowhere and asked if she could join brunch with us.
"Sure, more the merrier." I invited her to join us. Remembering Sarah, I asked, "where is Sarah?"
"She is resting on your bed now. I did call a doctor to check on her. They said her soul is strained, and until it relaxes, she will be unconscious. " Susan once again proved why I needed her with a job well done.
"Good, here, take this concentrated silver milk powder. Dilute it with water and feed it to Sarah. It will help her in her soul recovery and use the rest to increase your active soul control percentage. There is enough to last a month for both of you. I will soon prepare another batch, so don't use it sparingly." Silver milk powder is a good remedy for soul recovery, so I prescribed it for Sarah and asked Susan to use the other half herself.
"Okay, will do. Anything else?" Asked Susan, putting away the concentrated silver milk powder in a storage card.
"Yes, what will you have for brunch? So that we can go ahead and order in." I asked Susan what she wanted for brunch.
"Oh, I will have a cream puff." Stating her order, Susan headed to the kitchen to prepare silver milk powder water for Sarah.
"I will go ahead and order a dozen cream puffs then. And for Bloodette, 100litres of C-rank fresh monster's blood. Do you want to add anything else?" Hearing Susan wanted to have a cream puff, Cortney decided that she too craved Cream puff.
"No, make that two dozen cream puffs." With the restructuring skill of my calamity daughter gem, I did not have to watch out for my body fat. So I decided to have a sugary brunch.
"Sure." Cortney went ahead and placed the order.
While waiting for food, I checked on my baby C-rank Super Brain card. Before leaving to rescue Sarah, I had given it specific instructions on dealing with the Circle Sun Blossom Branch's false propaganda using the evidence brought back by Van and Old Ben.
The instructions were pretty basic. It had to flood the grimoire network with articles exposing the Circle for what it is and using the photocopy of the evidence brought back by Van and Old Ben to legitimize the articles.
I ask the super brain to keep publishing these articles everywhere and keep on republishing them again and again so that even the Circle's internet trolls have a headache dealing with this. Checking on the Super brain's progress, I was amazed by its results.. The entire Sun Blossom grimoire network community was buzzing.