Card Apprentice Daily Log

Date- 18 April 2321

Time- 10:09

Location- Card World, Southern Region, Blossom District, Sky Blossom City

'Hey, brat. Your words are starting to touch the line of ambiguity. Watch it, or I don't mind thrashing you around until you learn to respect your elders,' The Field Marshal warned Wyatt feeling the ambiguous nature of his words could not be more apparent. First, he undermined her husband to her, and now this, if she did not know better she would think Wyatt was hitting on her.

'Wow, just wow, well it's good to know where your mind is at, Your Highness,' Wyatt indirectly said the Field Marshal's mind was in a gutter for her to even imply such a thing.

'Watch it,' the Field Marshal uttered, as she covered the Rainbowfly with her intent. Feeling a sense of dread Wyatt hurriedly said, 'Your Highness, I don't understand why are you so hesitant about swearing your loyalty to me when you not only want me to join your family but also become the hope of the South. If you don't trust me how can you be willing to welcome me into your family and entrust the Southern region to me? Isn't this baffling to you?'

Listening to the point put forward by Wyatt, the Field Marshal fell into a deep contemplation feeling that what he spoke had merit to it. If she was so eager to welcome him into her family and hand the future of the Southern region over to him, why was she so hesitant to the thought of swearing her loyalty to him? However, suddenly she shook her head and awakened from her contemplation. Then, staring intently at the Rainbowfly, she said, 'You are good. For a second I was almost considering it.'

'Your Highness, I was just stating the fact. Besides, since you strongly believed that I am the future of the Southern Region, why is it that you want to continue to serve the old regime that is failing to give the Southern Region and its people the prosperity they deserve? Why don't you consider switching your loyalty to me, the future that you believe in? By doing that you will be allowing me to uplift the Southern region to prosperity faster. Don't you think what I said is true and the best for the Southern region?' Wyatt stuck when the iron was hot. He believed the only reason the Field Marshal was having a hard time giving her loyalty to him was because she was being cautious around him.

Yes, one of the top ten strongest in the card world was being cautious around a card master realm teenager. Wyatt did not dare to credit himself for this, because it was not his doing but the doing of Anna's mother. It must have been her who had forced the Field Marshal's guard up against him. Otherwise, how come a person who was willing to welcome him to her family and also willing to hand over the Southern Region that she defended by risking her life for most of her life to him was so wary about the idea of giving her loyalty to him?

Anna's mother was good, she had skillfully laid seeds of doubt in the Field Marshal's mind against Wyatt, such that she could never truly come to trust him. This may be because she saw how both her beloved daughter had fallen head over heels for him. Anna's rebellion was not new to her but to see Ann willing to bend a few rules for Wyatt, now that was a huge blow for Anna's mother because Ann's entire existence was built around pleasing her and winning her approval.

Now, seeing Ann go against the purpose of her very being for Wyatt, she felt threatened and challenged. She could not get around the fact that a nobody, who was nonexistent until recently, had managed to steal her daughters from her. Without knowing it Wyatt had already fired the first shot. Anna's mother was just trying to defend whats hers. Any mother in her position would do the same.

If Wyatt knew this, he would be speechless, and instantly conclude, 'Women are trouble.'Not that he would distance himself from Anna.

Meanwhile, the Field Marshal awakened from another long and complex contemplation, she would not understand the source of her caution towards Wyatt. But sticking to her gut she said, 'Wyatt, I don't want to talk about it. I have already told you my loyalty will always will lie with the Southern Region and its ruler.'

'You don't but I do. Because it pains to know that you do not trust me after all I have done and been through for the Southern Region. Yes, I look out for my profits but I was also born and raised in the southern region, I am a Southerner by birth. Just like the rest of the Southerners, I am willing to risk my life for the Southern region. Have I not made it clear by now?' Wyatt asked the Field Marshal expressing his anguish knowing that Field Marshal would not trust him. He acted his part so well that even he felt he might have meant the words he spoke.

'Cut the crap, what is your point?' the Field Marshal said mercilessly. Feeling that Wyatt's words were starting to sway her mindset, she immediately got defensive. That was a natural reaction, after all, one would want to stick to their beliefs and protect them but only a very small group of people would keep their minds open and see the flaws in their beliefs and try to correct them. It wasn't surprising to see the Field Marshal was not part of that small group. But it was good to know that she was willing to contemplate them. Showing Wyatt a chunk in her armor.

'Your Highness, let me make this easier for you. Will you be willing to bet your loyalty if I promised that I will always keep the best interest of the Southern Region in my mind,' Wyatt said knowing that unless he assured the Field Marshal that he would not use her loyalty against the Southern Region and its people she would never be willing to bet her loyalty with him.

'What about the Southern Royal family?'

'What about them?'

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