Chapter 503 - The Stroll

Earlier, when Jacob and President Martin were having a stroll around the Loghouse, Jacob mentioned the incident yesterday when they spotted a member of Novus Rex following them from Hellebore. That's how they got delayed from coming to Naupaka Mountain.

"You really didn't have any idea what that promise is all about?" Jacob asked.

President Martin sighed in frustration. "I wish I had." Then he brushed his hair with silver streaks that has gone out of place due to the wind. President Martin is very particular with his hair. He has to always keep it neat and nicely done. It would take him hours of fixing it in the morning before he comes out of his room. And once he has fixed it, it would stay that way the whole day. This has become a habit that Madam Victoria unwillingly has grown accustomed to.

"If I had known, this day wouldn't have come." He continued after he successfully put back his hair into its place.

Jacob looked at him with furrowed eyebrows. Unlike President Martin, he doesn't care if his hair has become a bird's nest. He actually looked even more gorgeous with messy hair.

"This day?"

President Martin looked at Jacob in amazement. He chuckled. "I'm talking about them threatening my daughter. Not your marriage." He knew what he was thinking by that frown on his face.

He really can't believe his daughter's fate. Thou it was an arranged marriage, it was fortunate that the man loves his daughter more than what he had hoped for.

"Oh..." Jacob sighed in relieve while scratching the back of his neck. If they were in a different circumstance and J was not arranged to be married to him. He was sure that one way or another, they will meet with each other and he will make everything he can just to get married to her. Because he knows that they were fated to be together. And he will not give up on her. He won't let her go even if a thousand Alex Ogden tries to steal her from him.

"I've heard that Leo was sent to Novus Rex to be a mole?" Jacob was back into his serious tone as they continued walking an unknown path. Thou he was not familiar with it, looking at President Martin's familiarity with the path, he goes along with him.

Although he was not surprised that Jacob has found out about it, he was surprised that he brought it up. He knew that after sending Leo with him in his meeting with Alex Ogden, he will eventually notice the familiarity between Alex and his men and Leo.

"Yes, my father has full confidence in Leo's skills and capabilities. As soon as he finished his training at Twelve Army, my father immediately sent him out on that mission."

"Why?" That is the question that Jacob really wanted to know. He really suspects that it has something to do with Elder Do's promise to Jack Ogden.

President Martin stop in his track and raised his head to look up in a tall tree. The tree is huge with luscious leaves covering the place from direct sunlight.

"Somehow, my father knows Jack Ogden's way of thinking. He was already suspecting that one day, Jack Ogden would covet for The Robin Hood Society or the Twelve Army. So he sent Leo there as a precaution. He just wanted to know his every action. If they show signs of any form of an attack towards the Society or Twelve Army. We will know immediately and will be able to launch a counter-attack."

Jacob was flustered. "He also wants the Twelve Army?" He knows of his interest with the Society, but Twelve Army? His grandfather never cautioned him about this before. Or he didn't know?

"Well, that was what my father says. But I doubt if your grandfather has any idea. My father never told him."

Well, that explains why his grandfather never mentions that before. Then why Elder Do won't tell Elder Parker about it? Unless Twelve Army has never been a target in the first place. Jacob thought internally but he never told it to President Martin.

Jacob was surprised when they reached that familiar oak tree. It turns out that that unknown path leads back to that same place. So, they were just walking around the circle.