The Legacy System

"Isn't that Young Master Eric, the Takeshiba family's new son-in-law!?"

Those words were enough to capture the attention of the whole crowd, as everyone turned their heads towards him, like a tiger turning his head to look at his prey to see if it was worth it or not.

For a moment they were all looking at him attentively as if to determine his identity if he truly was the person in question, but once the confirmation was made, they attacked like a swarm of bees.

Even the biggest brave heart would still tremble in front of this swarm, as it looked like they were about to eat him alive, bones included.

Eric wasn't an exception to this, as his face twitched a bit at this scene in front of him, but still, he didn't falter on his steps as he kept walking forward.

Not because he was confident in himself of pushing them back, but because he could feel that more than 8 people dressed in black suits, and glasses were running from behind him to keep them away.

Their presence was more than welcomed for him, and he thought that he would have to get used with that, as from now on the bees would follow him as if he was some kind of flower spreading pollen.

So, he would need these sprayers in order to keep these bees away from him, in order for his way to be open from any time-wasting worthless obstacle.

At this time, the sprayers totally surrounded him and Hilda, keeping the bees away from them, and opening the way for them, as a massive number of stings came his way.

These stings were nothing more than questions directed at him about his past, his relationship with Takeshiba Aika, the reason why Master Takeshiba accepted the engagement, his thoughts on the other big families.

So, on and so forth, their questions were so many and so different that went as far as asking if Master Takeshiba was planning to make him his heir, or if he was going to take over the Takeshiba family.

No matter the question that came towards him, Eric just gave a polite smile and walked forward, without even paying much attention to the journalist or the reporter.

He knew that he couldn't be an enemy of these guys, but he wasn't going to become an easy target either. He would talk to them, and answer their question but according to his own rules, and arrangements.

With this thought in mind, he stopped for a moment, as he made a sign for all of them to stop buzzing around, as he said,

"Ladies and Gentlemen, I know that you surely have a lot of questions for me, but this isn't the time of the place for me to do something like this!

I can only promise you that in the shortest time I will be holding a press meet with all of you, and will try to answer your valid questions one by one!

Please be understanding!"

With that said, he started walking once again towards the podium, where his father-in-law was waiting for him with a natural, and calm look, accompanied by a light smile on his face.

Eric had already received a sum up of what was going to be announced in this place, and the truth was that each announcement was even more shocking than the previous one.

Still, he could easily keep his calm, and show his business attitude the whole time, without even flinching for a second.

As soon as he arrived at the podium, his father-in-law stood up from his chair, as he announced Eric's arrival by saying,

"Ladies and Gentlemen let me introduce you to Eric Jade, my son-in-law, my youngest daughter's Takeshiba Aika's fiancé!"

Even though the whole crowd knew about him, and his identity, still hearing Master Takeshiba's words, and approval they all couldn't help but be a bit surprised.

The rumors that most of the people wouldn't believe were actually true. In fact, even more than true, they were genuine and were already set in stone facts.

On the other hand, Eric just continued to walk forward confidently as he finally reached the place where his father-in-law was standing, and after greeting him with a handshake sat next to him.

This action of his left all the journalists, reporters, and everyone else stunned, as they hadn't expected something like this.

While the news of Eric being the new Vice-President of the company had been announced the previous day, and today had become official, the workers still thought it was some useless joke.

There were even those who took this seriously, but those guys were able to think even further, and didn't want to lose their job because of it, it just wasn't worth it.

As for the people of the press who had little information over the matter at hand, they were waiting for the confirmation, otherwise, they would suffer a heavy backlash.

It was just that the more they saw the scene in front of them, the more they believed that those rumors were true, and Eric was the new Vice-President of the Takeshiba Company.

This news was truly a headline for any kind of paper, show, or even serial. The poor guy rises from the dirt to become an executive prince charming.

It was truly a fairytale story that no one would believe could happen in the real life. It was just too good to be true, but the facts showed clearly the opposite.

On the other side of the table, there was his father-in-law, with two of his P. A's and two of his best lawyers, his sons were nowhere to be seen.

As for the lawyers, and the P.A were there only to assure that the deal went through without any problems and that there were no confusing points on it.

Before the signing happened though, Master Takeshiba stood up once again, and giving Eric a clearly fake smiling and face, he silenced the people asking questions, and started speaking,

"Dear Ladies and Gentlemen of the press, we are gathered here today to make a truly important announcement to us and the company!"

After that, he started talking for 15 minutes straight and without even breathing for air, as he spoke nothing but more and more bullshit.

It was only after that moment, that finally, he said,

"As a result of the aforementioned reasons, I have decided to appoint my new son-in-law as the new Vice-President of the Takeshiba family Group of Companies.

Furthermore, from today onwards he will become entitled to 35% of the Takeshiba Group of Companies shares, and one of its owners!

At the same time, I also take this chance to announce that really soon our group of Companies will start exploring the field of medicines, and we already have three new products, that will undoubtedly become sensational ones."

Immediately after that, he started speaking once again for about 15 minutes of boring stuff, just repeating his trust in Eric, and the high expectations he had on his work.

In fact, to better show his confidence in him, Master Takeshiba was even appointing him as the CEO of the Takeshiba Pharmaceutical Company, and he would be in charge of the new products.

The truth was that his speech seemed like some kind of prank, as any time he would start laughing, and tell them that he had been joking, or fucking around with them.

After all the whole interview had been 15 boring minutes of nonstop talking, three big bombs, and then 15 more minutes of boring talking.

The whole crowd in front of him was totally stunned at this moment, as they hadn't even been able to recover from the shock he had given them.

Just what was going on here, and why was the Takeshiba Group of Companies having such a drastic change, so fast and hurriedly.

Everything seemed to be like some kind of illusion, where you could find Eric being in the center of it almost all the time.

It was more than clear that this decision of Master Takeshiba, had enflamed their curiosity, and logic even more, as more and more questions were being born in their heads.

As soon as Master Takeshiba finished his speech, he immediately signed the papers, and then handed them over to Eric to do the same.

As soon as they were over with the signing of the deal, which was just a show-off, as the real deal had been signed the same day they had agreed upon, Master Takeshiba once again stood up as he said,

"With this signing of the deal, then from now on my son-in-law is officially the Vice-President of the Takeshiba Group of Companies, and one of its legal owners.

Everyone please, let us give him a big round of applause!"

As soon as those words sounded through the venue, people started waking up from their shock and applauding a bit strongly, in order to feel the pain of their hands clashing.

Only like that would they be able to believe that this wasn't just some kind of dream or illusion they were seeing, as they couldn't actually believe it.

Letting the applause last for a few moments, Master Takeshiba continued saying,

"Now, as much as I would like to stay behind and answer all your questions, I have an important meeting to attend and I am unable to stay here with you!

But don't worry as I will leave my son-in-law here with you so that you could ask him whatever question you wish.

After all, this way he doesn't have to go through the pain of organizing another press conference and deal with these things as soon as possible!"

With that done he looked towards his son-in-law and blinked his eye towards him, his intentions were clear, he was leaving the mess to him to clean the place up.

Eric could do nothing but have his face twitch, as he thought that this time he had been framed in a masterful way, there was no way he would be able to scot-free from this situation.

His anger raised even more seeing his father-in-law give him a slight smile, but he could do nothing but accept his fate. Now or later he would have to go through this, and the sooner the better…