(Thanks to "The God-Emperor's cast blasts out the loyalty gene" for the tip. Bonus update 4/5.)
"All right, brothers, there's a very serious problem bothering me right now!"
In a secret room in the Spire on Agricultural Planet 496b, Li Qinwu addressed all his core advisers.
Joel, Little Knife, Rudosen, the Traffic Light Trio, Parson, and the others looked at him with utterly indifferent expressions.
Their indifference only made Li Qinwu angrier, and he slammed a palm down on the table.
"I opened a Portal and sent you all that way back home so you could pick up girls!
"And look at you useless bastards, Luther! An entire month, and not one of you managed to land a girl. I'm so disappointed in you!"
Yes, after the Sisters of Battle arrived and took over the Psychic Church's defenses, Li Qinwu had also opened a Portal and summoned his core advisers.
He figured that anyone who had followed him around must have picked up some of his commanding charisma.
Throw them in front of those sheltered young women from the Sisters of Battle, and they would have the girls swooning in no time.
Instead, after an entire month, these useless bastards had failed to so much as hold hands with anyone. Li Qinwu was furious.
Li Qinwu turned his bulging eyes on Rudosen.
"Time for some self-criticism. You first! Why didn't you succeed?"
Rudosen shrugged.
"What's there to say? The Sister I approached was career-minded.
"Getting married would mean she couldn't keep rising through the Order's ranks, so she turned me down."
The Divine Order had no explicit rule forbidding its Sisters from marrying. Unless a Sister had personally sworn never to marry, she was generally free to do so.
However, once married, most Sisters would be busy nursing their children