The Legacy System

"Aren't you forgetting something!?"

Hearing those words Kazuya Tetsu was stopped in his tracks, as he was wondering what had he forgotten. What came to his mind, was only the fact that he had questioned his father's decisions.

With that thought in mind, he turned around and said with a red face, and a fake apologetic voice,

"I am sorry to have questioned your decisions father, I assure you it will never happen again in the future!"

With that said, he once again turned around to leave towards his room, but was once again stopped by his father, who said,

"I am not the only one you offended Tetsu!"

This time Takeshiba Tetsu was truly shocked, his father was asking him to apologize to no one? To some poor and stupid kid who managed to honey trap his little sister?

Wasn't this the same as humiliating him in front of everyone? After all, no matter what he was still the eldest son of the family.

He had his own dignity, and face, and he couldn't lower his head in front of a simple no one. Yet his father was asking the same thing at the moment.

How could he do something like that? Wouldn't that be like eating his own shit in front of everyone? No, he couldn't do such a thing!

While he was considering his next actions, he heard Eric say,

"Let us forget about all this father-in-law, we are a family now, and it's not a good thing to get stuck on these things, and say things we don't mean!

Today it's a happy day, and we should congratulate each other, not offend and ask for forgiveness!"

While his words seemed like peaceful words trying to defuse the situation, each and every one of the people around them was able to understand the underlying meaning.

Simply put, Eric was saying that his eldest brother-in-law was an idiot whose tongue spoke before his mind and that his words held no meaning, and even less his apology.

Master Takeshiba was really angry at that moment because he had truly given birth to a useless child, who couldn't even control his own mouth and respect his own father.

But there was nothing he could do about it, he knew that most probably his son was going to end up really bad if he didn't change his ways, but there was nothing he could do about it.

That idiot had already fallen for the honey trap and was useless to him. He had clearly noticed the action of his first daughter-in-law when he said he wanted to leave the house.

In fact, if he had done that, he would respect him for his decision and would think that he still had a chance to become the family head after him.

But the result and what happened had clearly disappointed him, as he had almost given up from his 1st born child.

It wasn't that he didn't love his family, and his kids at all. No, it was just that his ambition and his family's ambitions were much more important in his heart.

It was precisely due to this fact, that those old fogies with a foot in the grave had accepted to this engagement.

Even though they still had their reservations, they had kept quiet, and let him handle this situation as he saw fit.

In his heart, the family and its ambitions always came first! For that reason, he didn't mind engaging his daughter to someone that the world perceived to be no one!

It was enough for him to know, and understand that this engagement was going to bring him much more benefits than all three of his sons even if they did as he said for the rest of their lives.

This was precisely the reason why he was even supporting Eric this much. Eric was his golden goose, he couldn't allow his golden goose to escape from him.

It was enough already that he had to share his golden goose with his enemy for some time, but eventually, he wanted his golden goose only for himself.

Even though he understood the meaning of Eric's words, and was truly pissed of at his useless son, he took a deep breath to relax, as he called this matter closed, as he said,

"You are right son-in-law we better let big things become small, and smaller things disappear tonight, as this is a special day for you, my Aika, my Yuto, and Young Miss Yoshida.

Now go ahead and prepare, I have to go and receive my guests, apparently, my brother has arrived, hahha…!"

He completely ignored his eldest son on his words, and let the issue be over like this, as he told everyone to go and prepare, as his wife followed behind him.

No one dared to oppose this engagement anymore, as they knew that this would bring upon them only the fury of Master Takeshiba.

Takeshiba Aika took Eric by the hand, as she directed him towards a room to prepare, together with a few other maids that had been spying on what happened until now.

Yoshida Gina went close to Takeshiba Yuto to ask him if he knew anything she didn't that could help her better understand the situation.

The angered, and hurt animal Takeshiba Tetsu was led by his wife towards their bedroom, trying to calm him down.

While the second son, Takeshiba Kazuya was looking at them leaving with a sly, and winners smile on his face. He felt like he had truly achieved something great today.

Really soon the Takeshiba family would be on his hands, and he would have all the power, status, and wealth that came with it.

But he wasn't the only one with a sly smile, as there was one more person that had been there from the start, and had been looking at what had happened, without making her presence known.

This person seemed really angered, and wrathful at first, but then as if she was thinking something dark and bad, she had a hidden sly smile on her face.

After that moment the hallway had returned to its natural peace and quiet, as everyone was dealing with his own issues.

It was precisely because of that, that everyone behind Master Takeshiba Tomiyasu had their complicated looks on their faces, as one wasn't similar to the other.

The person with the weirdest, and most complicated look of them all seemed to be his eldest son, but no one could go by his side and ask him, or understand from him what was going on.

The guests could only wait and see what that big surprise was about. Everyone had an idea, but no one knew what it was besides the Takeshiba family.

Even Master Yoshida didn't ask what the surprise was about, even though he was extremely curious too.

He wanted to ask, but just as he was about to, the other big families approached to congratulate, and offer them their best wishes, while also trying to discover anything from them.

To them, the surprise wasn't as important as the fact of what might be going behind the curtains of this engagement.

It was no secret that the Yoshida's were in an extremely bad situation at the moment, and that really soon the balance might be broken.

This was a dangerous situation for each of them, as no one knew what winds will blow in Japan, but this was also a big opportunity for them to be gain more territory, and power.

For that reason, everything they talked about hinted at something or was trying to scratch the secret boxes of the people participating in the conversation.

Since they were also mingled with marriages, as they had married into each other's families, they were trying to use even their emotional ties.

It was a battle of emotions, and interests for each and any one of them. At some point, besides Master Takeshiba had appeared even his 'dear' nephew Shiba Yahiko.

To Master Takeshiba this guy was a gem, as he was able to use his infatuation for his own daughter, and dig a lot of information from him.

There were times when this kid had given him intentionally bad information, but he was trying to play the sly with the snake-fox himself.

For that reason, he had always shown a bit of affection to this nephew of his and had pretended to not understand his intentions while he fanned the flames.

While he was reminiscing about this, and thinking how to keep this nephew of his still on his side, Shiba Yahiko approached with a happy face and said with a cheery voice,

"Uncle it has been such a long time since I last saw you! How have you been?"

Showing a rare slight smile on his face, Master Takeshiba turned towards him, and greeted back,

"Dear nephew, it has been a long time indeed. Where have you been, we have missed you!"

He said we, as if he included even Takeshiba Aika in his words, and how could his nephew not understand and believe his words.

It was with small words like this that he fanned the flames and then used this idiot. After all, this guy was even more arrogant, and useless than his own Eldest son.

Of course, hearing his words, Shiba Yahiko's face brightened, as he said,

"I have missed you too uncle! If it hadn't been for my father insisting on sending me to Kyoto for some business deals, I would have come here earlier!"

Hearing those words Master Takeshiba pretended to be interested in his words, as he said,

"Oh!? It seems like my nephew is a grown man right now! You should tell your mother to look for a good young lady for you!"

He knew that this kid was just blowing his own horn, as the deals he had signed were already prepared beforehand, and he was there just as a figure.

But he didn't expect this kid to take his words directly and say…