Date- 26 Mar 2321
Time- 13:45
Location- Sky Blossom City, Lion Cubs High
“I called to inform you that some of the juniors of your family tried to ambush and kill me. But sadly they failed. You know what this means right.” With the protection of the southern emperor and southern watch over my head, aiming for my life in the southern region was a big crime or even a death sentence in itself. Which the three brothers failed to take into consideration when they fought for the honour of their patriarch. One of the reasons why I was confident in extorting 4000 soul jades from William.
“They did… who are they?” William’s voice became cold. He knew the only reason southern watch did not step in till now was that they did not deem it as their obligation to help Wyatt with his day to day problems. They only signed up for protection, not babysitting. But if Wyatt were to claim this incident as otherwise then the whole Bright family is in peril.
“The slender blondie…” until now I did not realise that I did not know the names of the three bright brothers. Looking at the three brothers I ordered, “Your Patriarch is on the call. Introduce yourselves.”
“Nick Bright greets the Patriarch.” Yelled the glasses blondie
“Tom Bright greets the patriarch.” Yelled the Bulky blondie
“Ed Bright greets the patriarch.” Yelled the Slender blondie
The three Bright brothers one by one introduced themselves, the respect and admiration they held for William could be heard as they greeted William so formally over a simple call. This may be the first time they have ever talked to their patriarch but thanks to their family grooming which had brainwashed them with a high level of loyalty, respect, self-sacrifice and admiration towards their family and its elders their attitude towards William was normal. If William were to ask them to sacrifice themselves for the family they would follow through without batting an eye. In this world, family values and loyalty were like a cult following nothing made sense or seem logical. This was necessary for a family to survive and become prosperous.
“You guys are from the 3rd great elder’s branch family who inherited the War golem twin’s grimoire, right? Didn’t anyone in the family tell you I have retired as the patriarch?” William’s voice was found and audible since the gold grimoire speakers were top-notch.
“Yes, patriarch. We belong to the 3rd great elder’s branch family and had the honour to contract the War golem twin predecessors grimoires.
About the Patriarch’s retirement, the elders of the family do not agree to it… Even the Matriarch has not agreed to Patriarch’s retirement. The decision is still pending till the Matriarch returns.” Explained Nick Bright, fixing his glasses proudly knowing that their patriarch knows them. A big family like the Bright family has many younger generations. This generation alone had about 70 to 80 children. Therefore it was an achievement if their name was worth being remembered by their patriarch but sadly this happiness didn’t last too long knowing that their actions have put their family in a complicated situation.
“What does that woman want. She fought for dominance with me the entire time I was patriarch now that I have decided to retire shouldn’t she be happy. *sigh*…
Did you kids not receive the memo this morning asking every family member not to mess with this particular boy whom you tried to kill.” He clearly remembers that even he, the ex-patriarch, was briefed about staying away from Wyatt. Then he suddenly recalled, ‘Come to think of it, I forgot to brief Corey about this.’
“We did patriarch but… he insulted you. We had no choice but to act to protect your honour.” Upon William’s question, Nick and Tom did not know how to answer because they knew what grave mistake they had made. Instead, Ed answered ignorantly as he thought as long it was for the family everything was justifiable.
“*sigh* henceforth you three are disowned by the family. Beg for Wyatt’s forgiveness, I do not know how you do it but that’s only for you three to redeem yourselves. Become his followers if you have to. I don’t care, just don’t drag the family with you.” William was quick and decisive and did not hesitate to down the three brothers to protect the family.
The three brothers’ faces paled, especially arrogant Nick and Ignorant Ed. While Nick and Ed heard the patriarch abandoning them to save the family. Tom heard a way out of this predicament and possibly earns some merits.
“I, Tom Bright, wish to follow and offer my loyalty to Master Wyatt.” Tom stepped forward and pledged his loyalty to me, that sly old snake William couldn’t be more obvious. Seeing Tom, Nick realised their patriarch’s intention and dragged his ignorant brother Ed to pledge their loyalty to me.
“I, Nick Bright, wish to follow and offer my loyalty to Master Wyatt.” Yelled Nick as he kneeled on a single knee.
“I, Ed Bright, wish to follow and offer my loyalty to Master Wyatt.” Ed knew he was not smart but following his brother had always kept him out of trouble.
This is why I hated contacting William, he always did something which any other family would not choose to do. People like him and Jack Whiteburn who did not play by the book were hard to deal with. I knew William wanted to plant some of his people around me after the Silver milk powder blunder. He must be regretting not having taken me seriously during our last encounter when he visited the warehouse to check on Corey. This move of William would be perfect if I did not have Calamity daughter core. So I did hesitate to accept the three willing subjects, “Good, what about the compensation for the emotional damage I suffered being ambushed and being attacked with the intention of killing.”
“Brat, Don’t push for a foot just because I gave up an inch.” William Voice grew colder. But his tricks won’t work on me. I never demanded him to disown his branch family juniors or make them my followers. William did what he thought would bring him high returns while portraying that he is taking a loss.
“William, 7000 soul jades as compensation or else do not blame me for the mental and emotional trauma I suffered affecting our friendship.” I wanted to ask for 4000 soul jades as compensation earlier but considering the 1000 soul jades each of the brothers would require after they had fused with the calamity daughter cores to build their second transformation body, I added another 3000 soul jades to the compensation.