Card Apprentice Daily Log

Date- 3 April 2321

Time- 17:51

Location- Sun Blossom City, Card Creationist Association, Auction house, VIP Venue

From the time the circle's new branch leader Mike Brown showed up in the auction to the time when he left the auction, I tried to keep myself invisible not to attract his attention but it did not work. He still spotted me. It was as if he was searching for me and my shadow. At first, I left it alone thinking that I was overreacting. But when Agatha mentally reported to me, "I think he knows I am hiding in your shadows. Fuck, what is going on here? First you and now this asshole, my ace card is starting to seem shabby."

So it wasn't just me but Agatha too felt like the circle's new branch leader Mike Brown knew she was hiding in my shadows. So I brought up the Hive AI recording of Mike brown casually glancing over me and my shadow. He was able to keep his act while glancing over me but when he glanced over my shadows turn there were visible changes in his micro expression. Knowing that a semi-demigod was hidden among us, his act almost fell for a second. This proved that what I and Agath felt was true and that was when I realized that, "Fuck, he knows."

Not just about Agatha hiding in my shadow but the purpose of Agatha hiding in my shadow. This meant that my plans to attack the circle's branch in sun blossom city have been leaked. The reason I felt that my plans about attacking the circle were leaked was that the casual glance of  Mike Brown over me and my shadow was not so casual. It was a well-calculated and time move on his part. Though his acting was solid, my Hive AI broke his act part by part and concluded that there was nothing casual and random about Mike Brown's glance over me and my shadow. It was a planned event by Mike Brown. The only reason for him to do this was because he knew something. If he knew about Agatha hiding in my shadow then whatever he knew must be regarding the purpose Agatha was hiding in my shadow. Which was to protect me while I attacked the circle branch in the sun blossom city. So his unexpected visit to the open auction was to confirm whether the information being sold to him was legit or not.

The circle was already on alert for an external attack long ago due to the grimoire network war but they never knew who their enemy was and now they had a face to put to their unknown enemy. It would be a safe bet on my part to assume whoever sold Mike Brown information on my plan to attack the circle must have also sold information about me and my forces. Now the question was who sold the information to Mike Brown and how much do they know about me, my forces, and my plans to attack the circle.

Seeing how they even knew about Agatha hiding in my shadow then it means they must be very close to me. Making my list very short. And I did not have to worry about my activities being reported to the southern capital because once the royal family knew about Sansa's abilities, to cripple her information network in the southern region. They stopped making an archive about stuff classified as top secret, and I was also classified under top secret. The pool of suspects who leaked information regarding my plan to Mike Brown was small and they were people who arrived in Sky blossom city after the failed assassination attempt on me. And I had a feeling that they had something to do with Sansa.

The southern watch soldiers are not close to me so they could be excluded, leaving Cole, Aba, Agatha, Asong, Asong's aides, and Asong's bodyguards. I could exclude Aba and Agatha as if Agatha wanted to assassinate me she could have successfully done it numerous times by now and if Aba wanted to assassinate me she could have asked Agatha to do so- Wait, she did ask Agatha to kill me, let us not remove her from the suspect pool yet. I was kidding of course. Aba was in the clear, according to the clown mask's vision she was this world's humanity's hope, so she would not do something like this to someone whom she considered a friend.

Leaving Cole, Asong, Asong's aide, and Asong's bodyguards. That was a total of 13 suspects. Considering that Asong had already tried to deceive me twice despite my grace to her, she had the most suspicion of the 13 suspects. But that was not enough for me to point fingers at Asong. Come to think of it why was she even here? No, the right question was who called her here? It was Cole, that son of a bitch. He approached me of his own accord and even brought me a big client like Asong. What kind of black merchant pitches a teenage card creationist to his VIP client, fuck him, everything about this guy was starting to seem suspicious.

When I first Cole came to me with a business proposition, I had my superbrain card scour the grimoire network to get information about Cole, his business, his friends, and his family. As it would be foolish of me to consider a partnership with someone without doing the correct due diligence which involved a mandatory background check. What superbrain found about Cole on the grimoire network checked out, it painted Cole as a successful philanthropist who got to where he was today with his talent and hard work despite all the difficulties he faced. Come to think of it everything about Cole on the grimoire site sounded like a fairy tale with Cole as the protagonist. That son of a bitch, though I cussed Cole I was trying very hard to control my anger as all this was my speculation the chances of it being correct were a good 60 percent. Still, I had to give Cole the benefit of the doubt. Sudden a thought crossed my mind, why not ask Anna what she thinks about my speculations? Thinking of this, unconsciously, an evil grin formed on my face.