Date- 27 Mar 2321
Time- 15:09
Location- Sky Blossom City, Outskirts, Underground Base.
After having a detailed talk with Grey fur and Sniper, Norman got all the answers he seeks. It wasn’t much of an effort since they told him everything he wanted to know. The important thing was Norman got an answer for why are there so many card emperors willingly serving under Sansa’s command? Mutual benefit. Something grown-ups call ‘you scratch my back I scratch your back’.
What Sansa provided these card emperors is something you would not hope to find in a coerced organisation like this, impartial trust and faith. Madam Web’s club is nothing but a huge network with Sansa as the go-between and safety net.
Material needs mean nothing to people with enormous strength like a card emperor. They hunger for something that material possession and their current status cannot get them, that’s where Sansa comes in to help these card emperors connect with people who can get them what they want in a mutual exchange.
Sansa’s involvement doesn’t end there, if it did she would never be able to command the card emperors like mere pawns. She provided them with trust and guarantee that their mutual exchange goes through without a hitch.
The card emperors trust Sansa’s memory control ability. And believe that Sansa has control over everybody involved and nobody dared to go back on their words or double-cross them during the mutual exchange.
More importantly, the privacy that came with these deals was world-class and could not be found anywhere. The card emperors trapped in Sansa’s web are no ideal citizens, they have many skeletons in their closet which they want to hide from the world. That is the reason they fell in Sansa’s web in the first place.
With Sansa’s ability, it was not hard for her to maintain privacy according to the requirements of her club members. She could make sure that after the deal except for the member who demanded the deal, other personnel involved would forget that such a deal ever happened. Since the demands are not something that these card emperors can achieve by normal means and require Sansa’s help then what they demanded is something shady which they would not like for many people to know. In a way, these card emperors themself are providing Sansa with more dirt and blackmail material on them.
The Card emperors did not care about this as Sansa and her network can get them whatever they desire, from extinct and forbidden card ingredients to positions in high places to getting revenge to assassinating to getting rid of competition to get away with genocide to anything illegal. As long as they had enough merits in Sansa’s books She would make their desires true.
Sansa was like an anchor for these people, with her watching after them they did not need to suppress their animalistic needs. But Sansa wasn’t a fool, she would cut anybody who was becoming a liability to the group without hesitation. If she can send 30 card emperor’s to kill a child in the card Soldier realm then she can send 30+ card emperor’s to kill a single card emperor whom she deemed as a liability to her club. For Sansa, all these card emperors were mere pawns to get what she wants, nothing more nothing less. Thanks to her origin card, controlling these pawns to form a secret organisation in the heart of the capital hidden from the demigods was an easy feat with her calculative and manipulative nature.
After learning all this Norman who was planning on getting free from Sansa’s web by struggling hard enough no longer thought it was a good idea as he knew with Sansa’s ability and the dirt she has on him it would foolish of him to think that he could escape from her clutches. Having come to this conclusion Norman started to think it would be in his best interest to not try to go against Sansa and maybe take Grey fur’s advice about using the organisation for his benefit similar to how it is using him because whether he likes it or not he is in the organisation and he will do what Sansa asks him off one way or the other, there is no use in struggling.
Having made up his mind Norman’s eyes shone with resolve, he was no different from other card emperors he had things he wanted but his current power and status were not enough to get him that. He had enough of being the useless young master of the Jones family. It is true that without the family’s resources he could never have been able to reach the card emperor realm. So, what? He had as much right to be the Jones family head as the rest of his siblings. Norman’s ambition which he had suppressed under his hedonism finally came to light after an entanglement with Sansa’s web.
“Grey Fur, when will we be attacking them?” Norman asked Grey Fur with newfound convictions.
“After the remaining 5 teams arrive at the rendezvous point and briefing them about our plan.” Grey Fur felt that something had changed in Norman and he was not new to this as he had seen many Interns have the same light that Flower Thief had in his eyes. After outweighing the benefits of the club nobody would think of rebellion instead try hard to gain more merits and be recognised by Sansa.
“While you guys are trying to negotiate with the Southern emperor, can I try kidnapping that kid? With him in custody, it will be easy for us to escape. Of course, we will kill him once we reach a safe place.” Norman no longer wasted time thinking about how to get free instead he was thinking of using his origin card to earn merits.
“Good, newbie. I like the way you are thinking. Way to show initiative. If you are successful then the number of variables in this plan will decrease sharply. You can go ahead with your plan after all madam did send you to do exactly that.” Commending Norman, Grey fur heads out of the underground base for fresh air.
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