Card Apprentice Daily Log

Chapter 3068: Harem Fight

Date: Unspecified

Time: Unspecified

Location: Myriad Realms, Card World, Five Regions, Southern Region, Blossom District, Sky Blossom City, TSR Tower, Penthouse Office

“You…” Jill instantly lunged at Susan, but Anna moved faster. She caught Jill and effortlessly restrained her, overpowering her before she could take another step.

Anna met Jill’s furious glare coldly. “What exactly are you trying to do? Act your age and remember your title.”

Jill finally stopped struggling.

Once she had calmed down, Anna released her and turned toward their fiancé. “So you were really going to sit there and watch her kill Susan?”

Both Jill and Susan turned toward me.

Throughout the entire debate, my presence had gradually faded into the background. I had barely said a word, allowing the three women to argue among themselves. That was especially noticeable to Susan.

She had dared to stand up to and even order around Card Demigods because she trusted that her fiancé had her back.

Now, for the first time, she genuinely wanted to know whether that protection extended to her when the opposition wasn’t some outsider. But Anna and Jill.

As the trio waited for my answer, I simply smiled as though I had no idea what they were talking about. A strange sense of loss and disappointment spread through Susan’s heart. Then, without warning, the penthouse office around them began to dissolve.

The walls broke apart into countless butterflies, fluttering away into the air. The floor transformed into a meadow covered in flowers, while the ceiling opened into a vast, cloudy morning sky.

All three women froze. None of them could immediately comprehend what was happening. For a moment, they wondered if they had somehow fallen into a dream. Everything felt too surreal, yet at the same time, far too real to be dismissed as an ordinary illusion.

Susan was especially affected by it. Unlike Jill, who was preparing to sense divinity, and Anna, who had already forged her own divinity, she was still a mortal. She couldn’t even begin to understand what kind of power could transform reality around them so effortlessly.

“So, when did we enter this illusionary space?” Anna asked, scanning the meadow.

Given her fiancé’s abilities, she naturally assumed he had created some kind of illusionary domain. After all, he was the creator of the VR Universe, a world so advanced that it had developed a life of its own.

Susan, however, crouched beside a patch of pink flowers and gently brushed her fingers over the petals before leaning down to smell them.

“Is this an illusion?” she murmured. She looked around in wonder “But… it feels so real.”

“This isn’t an illusion. It’s real,” I said, knowing they wouldn’t arrive at the correct answer even if I gave them a million guesses.

“It’s not an illusionary space, but a sub-reality. I created it the moment things started getting heated between the three of you. I didn’t want our people to see us at our worst, and I certainly didn’t want to come between you three and then get blamed for taking sides.” I looked between them, explaining myself. “So I simply shifted us into a reality where I’m in control. Here, my will is absolute. Even if Anna hadn’t intervened, Susan would have been perfectly fine.”

Jill stared at me for a moment before pointing an accusing finger. “Wait a minute. So you’d rather watch us fight each other than do something about it because you’re afraid of being blamed for picking sides?”

The other two immediately turned toward me as well. Three pairs of eyes locked onto me. Apparently, I had just created an entirely new problem for myself.

“See? Somehow, you three always find a way to make everything my fault.” I spread my hands helplessly. “If I try to help, I’m somehow at fault. If I simply sit back and let you vent, I’m still at fault. There is no winning with you three.”

I shook my head as I glanced between them.

“So, if you’re done, I’d like to return to our reality. The department heads and organizational leaders waiting outside are probably assuming all sorts of things by now, while I’m stuck in here caught in the crossfire. Does that seem fair to you?”

At this point, I decided that trying to reason with them was probably the best way to lose whatever remained of my sanity.

“Of course they are, all because you wanted to maintain the image of perfection in front of your people instead of simply being honest with them,” Anna said, rolling her eyes. She had already experienced enough of this sort of thing back in the Southern Royal Palace.

“You want honesty? Fine. Let’s be honest,” I snapped, ready to undo the reality isolation seal. Every man had his limit. Mine was particularly thin today.

“No, don’t!” Susan hurriedly protested, panic flashing across her face. “I can’t face them like this. Just ask them to leave.”

She was mortified by the thought of the department heads and organizational leaders outside discovering what had happened. The last thing she wanted was for them to mistake the situation for something more intimate, especially when she was still unmarried and hadn’t even shared a marital bed with her fiancé.

“Prude,” Jill muttered under her breath.

Susan merely rolled her eyes. Unlike the other two, Susan still cared about tradition. To her, traditions were part of the glue that held society together, giving strangers a shared set of customs and expectations to connect through.

She couldn’t care less about what Anna and Jill chose to do. But she absolutely didn’t want rumors spreading that she had gotten intimate with His Majesty before their marriage.

“Fine. Let’s get back to the matter at hand. More than half of the departments and organizations have already submitted their lists of demands in exchange for merits. Let’s settle this before they grow impatient,” I said, steering the conversation back to the issue at hand.

I had already more or less decided how I wanted to solve the problem, but I liked seeing my three girls come together to tackle it themselves. Their arguments had exposed flaws and perspectives I had considered with Hive Spirit, and I wanted to refine their combo before leaving for the Dark Realm. After all, I wanted them to take charge of the situation in Card World in my absence.