Date: Unspecified
Time: Unspecified
Location: Myriad Realms, Card World, Southern Region, Southern Capital
"Let us head to the palace. Your room is still empty, kept just as you left it," Colleen said, resting a hand on my shoulder. "For a change, your mother-in-law is home. You can meet her over breakfast tomorrow morning."
I wasn't surprised that Colleen still treated me as her grandson-in-law. After all, the Southern Royal Family never had an issue with me becoming their son-in-law. Their concern lay with Anna's unhealthy obsession with me. They believed that, as the next ruler of the Southern Region, such fixation would interfere with her duties as the future Southern Ruler. That was precisely why they had conspired against her, pushing her further down the Extreme path.
Fun fact, the new Anna, who had emerged from seclusion within Field Marshal Lorn's Mystic Dimension, also regarded me as her future husband, in accordance with the arrangement imposed by her family.
