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BLACK SAPPHIRE COOKIE’S GUIDE ON GAINING SHADOW MILK COOKIE’S TRUST
- Do not judge my master’s tastes and interests when he comes to talk about them.
My master is not a person to enjoy being interrupted when he is talking about Truthless Recluse. Truthless is the only person he is obsessed with, even after what he had done—betrayal, whatever that he thinks he had done to his master.
Truthless Recluse— Such an intriguing subject. I never knew why my lord would be obsessed with him though, certainly I do not see that Truthless was paying attention to him. Whenever my master talked to him, Truthless was bound to turn away and give him his view of his back instead of muttering a response. Or sometimes, some rude insults come from those lips of his, desperately asking him to leave him alone.
Sometimes I wish he can just calm down and get over it. But I know it would be too rude to say it to him—He might as well ban me out instead of forgiving me. There is literally me who would pay more attention to him than enough.
- He will confuse you with his half truths and half lies.
I have been talking to my lord for such a long time, but I will never be able to understand his methods of talking about truths and lies. He mixes a lot of truths under lies, yet I am still unable to know whether he is lying or telling the truth to me. He tells me that he would never lie to his minions, yet I caught him lying more than usual to Candy Apple than me—Maybe he has lied so much that I started to stop doubting whether he is lying or not. Whatever, as long as he does not abandon me, I will be content with my current situation.
- Let him tease you.
Master has been accusing me of having a secret boyfriend. In the Faerie Kingdom. A certain faerie called Silverbell. After that one time I came back to the Spire giggling about having to successfully fool a bunch of silly faeries. Candy Apple saw me blushing and chuckling like an idiot in love, or whatever she said, and of course she bounced around the stairs just to tell Shadow Milk about her new found ‘fact’, but no, I do not have a secret boyfriend.
My lord does not seem to stop teasing me about it. It is as if he is jealous of me for successfully having a partner while he had fumbled with Pure Vanilla. I guess I should just admit that I have this ‘secret boyfriend’ that I have been hiding under my bed and sneaking out with while they are not aware. Maybe it would cease his still ongoing teasing—Sometimes it gets too annoying and I do not enjoy it.
If I admit it, will he finally shut up? Master better not be reading this guide.
- He likes it when those who are close to him are honest to him.
As much as my master likes to lie and deceive other people for his own fun and sport, I think he is into the idea of being told truths too. He must hate the thing ‘truth’ a lot. Since it is related to Pure Vanilla, yada yada.
Do little white lies count? He seems to be quite upset and calls me a bad liar, and that he has failed as a great mentor. I hope he was just lying to me again. How am I supposed to be honest with him when all he does is lie to me? Does he really mean all those words he has said to me, or should I just treat them as nothing but sweet lies just to calm my heart?
- Spend time with him…? I guess. But never, ever show sympathy.
He seems to look overjoyed whenever I spend time outside with him, but he does not like to share his inner thoughts with anyone, I assume. There are secrets that I am still oblivious to, but Shadow Milk has been hiding them well. I do not dare to question further, I am simply afraid that he would lash out on me and call me names—Not that I care.
Seeing him happy makes me happy as well.
But talking about sympathy? That's another thing. He does not like other people knowing too much about him, so if he told you nothing, do not try to dig in. He hates people digging up his past and trying to talk to him about him, even though if you try to comfort him, or absolutely mean no harm at all, it is all different to my master. Focus on the present, and the present only. My master moves on fast from what had happened in the past.
- Something happened? Pure Vanilla.
I think Pure Vanilla is the solution to anything. He's sad? I guess Pure Vanilla (sighs, why is he so obsessed?) could be the cure. Especially Truthless Recluse. Not the awakened Pure Vanilla though. Master loathes him so much that he would choose to burn down the Spire instead of taking a single glance at that wretched cookie.
If he's mad, Pure Vanilla would solely be a temporary solution to calm him down. Let him realise the point that made him mad, and talk to him about it. He might not take it easily though, that’s the problem. But with enough patience and guts to bear with his rage and crash outs, you should be over with it soon enough… Just remember he will never forget about what bad things you have done. When the wrong time meets the wrong person (you), he might as well impose punishments, revenge on you and there is no turning back.
Just… a gentle reminder.
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Let’s just say that I am still learning my way with Shadow Milk Cookie. And I still have much to learn. Not that I am complaining…