The Legacy System

Chapter 148 - 148: Compensation & Frightening

His words stunned the crowd, this guy not only wasn't satisfied with escaping like that, but he was also asking for compensation from the heirs of two big families.

He was touching them to their most painful point, face, and honor. While no matter what he asked of them would be just a drop of water to the ocean, that meant they were apologizing to him.

They were accepting their mistakes, and apologizing to him in front of the crowd. Leaving the two kids aside, the families they represented surely wouldn't take this lightly.

After all, who was Eric? Just a little nobody who had the support of the Special Unit, and had become the son-in-law of the Takeshiba family.

Surely that wasn't enough for him to act like that, as even the Special Unit might not back him up for this.

As the crowd was waiting for the reaction of the two Young Masters, they were startled hearing Young Master Shiba laugh out loud, as he said,

"Haha~! Just what you would expect from a useless nobody. You would do and say anything just to extort some money. Hahah~!

Why don't I make you an offer kid, tell me how much do you want to stay away from Aika from now on!? Or better yet, I will give you a blank cheque, and you write the sum!

How about it, huh!?"

His words made sense for most of the people in the crowd, as they were all rich and wealthy people with social status. To them, the poor were all the same unworthy and thinking only to extort them.

But Eric didn't seem to be really affected by the words, he just looked at Young Master Shiba with a clear look, and said with a loud and clear mocking voice,

"Oh, but I don't plan on extorting you, I just want one dollar! After all, asking more from a worthless idiot would be deemed as taking advantage don't you think, Young Master Shiba!?"

Then his face turned completely cold, and harsh for a moment, as he said with a light cold perfunctory smile on his face,

"Also, I would like to request you to not address my fiancé in her given name again Young Master Shiba, because then I won't be asking for money…"

While his voice was calm, and fluent, accompanied by the light smile, which should make him look harmless, the whole crowd felt shivers down their backs.

Young Master Shiba had been the target of those words, and his cold light killing intent and was in a worse situation than the others.

For a moment he couldn't believe how thick, and dark that killing intent was, as he felt like his heart would stop right then and there.

He seemed to have stopped in time in those moments, as he had some kind of flash, where he could see his life passing through his eyes at that moment, as the next he would be dead.

It took him a few deep breaths to escape the nightmare that his mind had fallen to, as he returned to the situation in front of him, as his new friend was looking at him weirdly.

Eric on the other hand just looked at the scene with a look that said that he had no relation to the created situation.

Young Master Shiba felt ashamed of himself to have fallen prey to such an attack, as he called it inside himself, as an underhanded, and cheap trick.

There was no way that Eric could have such a killing intent, that must have been just some kind of cheap underhanded trick he used against him.

If he had been more aware at that time he would have surely easily blocked it! There were weird times when the eyes see but the brain negates.

In these cases, our brain just refuses to accept that all this has ever happened, just because it goes against one of our principal lines of life.

The same thing was happening to Young Master Shiba, as he couldn't accept that there existed someone much better than him, that could make him afraid of even standing in his presence.

But still, there were some remains of his fear in his body still, so he didn't dare to try out what his brain was saying, as he just took out a 1-dollar bill, and passed it over to him.

With that done he just returned to his car, as Young Master Yuzuriha followed behind him stunned at his actions.

He didn't understand what was going on at the moment, and as soon as he entered the car, he asked in a loud voice,

"What the hell happened in there, why are you acting like this, and making us lose face!?"

Young Master Shiba seemed to be a bit better at the moment, as he looked at this guy, and tried to turn the situation to his side,

"With this, we aren't the only ones involved anymore, as our families are too, and he will have to face not only us but even our families."

Young Master Yuzuriha seemed to have quietened down a bit and was thinking more about the created situation, but he still had a weird look towards his new friend.

And it wasn't his fault because Young Master Shiba had a truly pale face at the moment. He looked like he had seen his own ghost in front of him.

On the other hand, Eric seemed perfectly calm and normal right now, as he carefully folded the 1-dollar bill, and placed it in his inner pocket.

It seemed like all this situation and the crowd had nothing to do with him, even though all of them were looking towards him with complicated looks.

There were a lot of others who were thinking of walking forward and gain some kind of prestige or favor from the big families, but seeing what happened none of them dared to step forward.

This was the problem with the people below, as even when one of them tried to get out of the misery, and break the rules, they would always try to pull him back, just for unworthy benefits.

Most of them were idiots who couldn't think straight anyway, so Eric didn't really care much about them, as they were even worse than shit.

But still, with a natural look, and expression on his face, he turned towards the crowd, as he said,

"Ladies and Gentleman thank you for the attention during the show, but as you can see everything is over now, so if you have nothing else to add just go home and have a nice sleep.

Restless times lie ahead of us!"

With that said, he just returned towards the purple devil girl, and said,

"I never thought you had this angle in your character beauty, but I must say it doesn't suit you at all! Now let us go home!"

Inuhara Hina was clearly a bit angered by his words, as she wasn't trying to show anything to him. She just took the appropriate conduct towards the situation.

But still, she forgot about this as she heard his next words. Wasn't this a big joke, returning to the apartment with no safety. That would be like walking towards his doom.

Considering the situation, he wasn't safe in that place, especially since they didn't know how people would react to this.

Eric had clearly entered the blacklist of many people from the big families, and the high society as Takeshiba Aika had just too many suitors.

Thinking like this she said in a weird voice,

"Mister Eric wouldn't it be better if you reconsider!? After all, that place is not safe for you for the time being, and it's too difficult to protect you in there!

We have already prepared a safe house for you, where we can protect you 24/7!"

Eric just looked towards her with a calm and carefree look, as he said with a mocking voice,

"Wouldn't it be better to say where you can observe on me better? While I am a free spirit man, I still don't want others to watch me as I sleep, or have intimate relationships with my women.

Furthermore, I already have a guest waiting for me home! I can't let him wait long for me, can I? Now let's go I don't have time to lose!"

With that said he hoped in a black car, as the stunned Inuhara Hina and her brother followed behind him, into the car.

She was furious with Eric as this stubborn guy was leading her, and her team towards trouble, and probably even death.

She was ordered to protect and save him at any cost, as he was just that valuable. Even though she didn't understand what value this guy had, she would follow her orders to the last.

She was even prepared to die just to follow the orders of the Old Man, but this guy was truly infuriating.

It was hers and her brother's bad luck to have encountered this guy during their mission. She didn't even understand how things had ended up here, as their initial mission had no relation to him in the first place.

Sometimes the world works in weird patterns and brings people together when they are supposed to have no relationship, but right now there was one more thing in her mind.

'Who was the guest waiting for him at the house!?'

Because beside staying there for his protection, she was also advised to keep an eye on him, and keep records.

But she clearly couldn't ask him, because Eric had already closed his eyes, wanting to have a small rest before he continued with the night, and he would surely not appreciate her question.

Even when they arrived there, Eric allowed them to escort him until the door but didn't allow them to enter inside, as that would be too much.

But he gave them access to his old apartment and told them they could use it to rest if they needed to. As he entered inside Akira's apartment….