The president's wife truly doesn't like Barbara.
She also wants to use a dominant position to subdue Andrew and absorb Wildfire Territory. That's also true.
On top of that, the romantic relationship between Andrew and Barbara, noticed by Linda and Havier during the female assassin attack, is indeed a very troublesome and sensitive issue!
According to the tradition of the Warm Fire Commerce Association, after Barbara completes her coming-of-age journey and returns to Warm Fire City, she is supposed to choose her future professional partner.
That is, selecting an outstanding Crimson Knight from the young generation.
In principle, the partner can be of any gender.
In practice, however, most partnerships are male-female combinations.
Because after becoming partners, there will inevitably be many more times and opportunities to train together, coordinate, and fight side by side, at least half of the partnerships develop into romantic relationships, some even lead to marriage.
