The Grand Hall was much more extravagant than I anticipated, it was so wide that I couldn't help but open my Spatial Eyes to see how big the house was, I didn't know the exact numbers, but I guessed that the mansion was built on at least a few acres of land, that hall alone probably took a quarter of it .
There were no one currently inside the great Hall, their was no chairs as well, only tables and few mini monitors put on those tables, in the ceiling there was a main monitor like the one I had seen in the facility, so I suspect that the meeting will be held with a long-distance broadcast kind of method .
I didn't see how will that work exactly, but due to my newly acquired sequence that I got from that female officer and how my current body was using magical sequences or Magic Calculation in general due to the experiment I did on myself, now I was able to see the IP addresses of the monitors and the identities of people it belonged to .
Weird enough there were many different family names, I can concur that the Yotsuba was the least mentioned among them, which was something incredibly weird, not to mention that there were a few anonymous IDs and IPs as well, which made me understand that even though I could said to be connected to the internet now, there should be many door and windows I could be able to access anything I wanted with, there were some still dark areas, where I can't probe .
Realizing this I stopped trying to do so and instead followed directly after Hayama-san and the other two siblings we were heading towards the only person who was staying in the Hall, the family head, the woman who I wanted to call mother, but I'm still unable to .
It just didn't seem right to be the one who take initiative in doing something like that, so I currently forgot about this .
Maya-sama want you to stand behind her as well, Tatsuya-sama .
Just as I was engrossed in thinking of this, I came back to my senses second before I crash with the girl that suddenly stopped in tracks and were covering her mouth, she suddenly did this for some reason, something quite shocking to her should have happened, I looked around to see what was going on and I saw that Hayama-san was talking while bowing his head slightly to the guy that was leaving our group, Tatsuya .
He was telling him to come back and join us, that shocked both the boy and the girl alike, but the latter expression was more clear than the first one, Tatsuya was standing there unable to comprehend what was going on here, he looked at Hayama-san then at the amusingly smiling family head with some wariness, he seemed to be thinking that there was something wrong here .
I noted that as well, seeing the way Hayama-san referred to him, I was now certain that this meeting will have some huge impact on the whole family, whether for good or bad, that won't be clear until a long time to come .
You should all hurry up and stop dilly-dallying like this, the meeting will start in any moment now .
This time the person who talked caught all of our attention, the family head seated on her chair was telling us to hurry up and head to her, we complied with what we told to do and went directly on the stage and stood behind her, Miyuki's shocked reaction was still on her face, but the older brother of hers was much more composed and collected .
As we arrived closer to the stage, I noticed that Maya-san stares on me hadn't stopped or moved away, then as I we stood behind her, she pushed a button then the chair she was sitting on turned to face us, she was looking at me while cupping her chin, she seemed to be enjoying the view, then all of a sudden, she said :
This wasn't on your report, so I wanted to get an answer from you, are you capable of intercourse and whether are you sterile or not .
Hearing these questions being asked in such a manner, I couldn't help but wanting to curse out loud,was that the place or the time to be asking these kind of questions, matter fact were those questions suitable to be asked in any point of time, I don't think so .
At the questions, the little girl looked away from us and blushed, while Tatsuya looked just as surprised as me or at least he was acting like he was .
I calmed down by taking a few deep breaths, but even after I did, I didn't know how to answer that question, I didn't know whether there were tests done to check this out or not, so I really didn't have an answer for that, but thinking that I'm able to fix that even if it was really an issue, I nodded and said that I'm capable of making babies yes .
I was trying to be more considerate with my words, for the sake of the little girl that was so embarrassed that even her ears turned red, but it seemed that it had a minimal effect on making her calm down .
" Was there a reason for the sudden curiosity ? .
It's nothing actually, you look handsome, so I was wondering about how many people will hit on you in school and how will you react to them doing this, so I was complimenting you to see how will you react if complimented, let me warn you against blushing like this, otherwise you would make the girls and even the boys want to tease you even more, so be careful, alright .
See, even Miyuki-san seemed to agree with me on this, look how much she is blushing, there would be also the possibility of some Magical Families proposing for your hand in marriage, so I needed to ask you that, it shouldn't be a bother, right .
She was blushing because you suddenly started to talk about intercourse as if it was a normal kind of topic, that was what I thought in mind, but seeing that it wasn't worth creating fuzz upon and also there was the fact that Miyuki seemed to have regained her composure and was nodding her head as if approving of the logic .
I just nodded my head and let the matter go, but there were a few words stuck in my throat that I couldn't help but say them, I said looking at her deeply :
" You have changed .
It was illogical to say that to a person whom you had only met for the first day and someone who you had talked to only two times, but those words came out of my mouth and I meant every words I said .
At my words, the person in discuss directly turned the chair back to us and said after a faint cough :
Is that so, I hope it's a good one, the family meeting will start in 10 seconds, start the countdown .
At her words the pillers suddenly began to display a countdown on all of them, then after the countdown reached zero, the pillars emissions light that was made of Psions, then those beams hit the monitors on the roof, then without a second delay .
The doors of the Hall were opened again and from outside came the appearance of three people, two of them I was familiar with and the grown-up middle aged man behind them was unfamiliar to me .
Kuroba Mitsugu, linked to the internet allowed me to identify the man immediately, what surprised me was him being the Father of the two Kuroba siblings and the Kuroba family head, then one after the other, holograms of people began to appear from the monitors on the table, in an instant the Hall that were empty were now filled with people, there were a few guys my age, but mostly the whole was filled with older guys .
Tsukuba Touka, Shibata Osamu, Shiiba Hidetsugu, Mashiba Shinsuke, Shizuka Haruto, Mugura Asumi, all those older guys that appeared together with there family members, each bowed their head towards the family head respectfully first then were shocked at us standing behind her like that, then regained their composure after a few seconds, I was beginning to wonder if there were something scary about we standing behind the family head like that .
But what was even more shocking was the fact that everyone of those guys were the family head of his Magical Family, at least the information that was being currently showed to me seemed to imply that, but those guys were here bowing their heads like this to the Yotsuba Family head .
It didn't take much of thinking to understand that those families heads seemed to have the exact same relationship as the Kuroba with the the Yotsuba .
Reaching that conclusion, I almost sucked a breath of relief out loud, the guys standing behind the family head weren't bowing in greeting but simply nodding their heads slightly, so I too imitated them and was nodding slightly at the guys that were greeting .
Then the turned was on the guy named Kuroba Mitsugu and the two siblings that were present here physically, they greeted the family head and the siblings smiled at us three, while the middle-aged man besid them glare at both me and Tatsuya, but only for a second there .
Being glared at for no specific reason was quite a surprise, I couldn't help look at the other guy who got glared at as well and he simply shook his head at me and seem to say just let it be .
Not wanting to create problems for the family head, I did what he suggested and him glaring at us like this might be him having some problems with his mental health, after the greeting finished and all the holograms in front of us sat by the tables, the family head began to say :
This urgent family meeting that I called all of you here to attend will discuss a few changes that will be effective from the second they were pointed, first, the family had welcomed back yet another member, you should have see the news about it already, but to those who didn't , or thought maybe that it was another rumor,then let me introduce you to him personally, this is Yotsuba Ryuu, my very own son .
At those words fell, even though those guys were holograms and their facial features were not completely clear, I still sensed that those guys were currently widened their eyes in shock .
I looked at the man who was glaring at me a few minutes before and saw that he was actually quite composed, so it wasn't much of a shock to him, or maybe he was already informed about this .
My mother hand suddenly stretched forward and she had her hand in the air as if she was waiting for something, I was unable to react to all of this at first, but then the guys beside me urged me with their eyes to go ahead and step forward .
Being stared at by so many people wasn't uncomfortable to me in the slightest, if anything it might sound a little bit nostalgic, I'm really used to be eyed by others like this, understanding what the two guys beside me seemed to be telling me, I took two steps forward and held my mother's hand and said :
" I'm Yotsuba Ryuu, pleased to meet you all .
I was about to bow in greeting, but she applied some more pressure on my hand and stopped me from doing this, I understood the gesture and slightly nodded my head, then I saw the holograms of those older guys being the first ones to react, they once again bowed down in greeting, but this time they said in unison :
We greet the next Family Head .
Hearing their shouts echoing through the room, I was speechless not able to respond to them at all, but luckily I didn't need to, the family head said cutting them off :
The arrangements to choose a heir is to continue as before, I for now hadn't decided on someone to inherit the position of the family head and him joining the family hadn't changed my mind, it would be unfair for the other heirs to be stripped away of their rights just like that, but for now I believe that he will be included as one of the heirs, as for his chances that will be completely up to him .
As those words fell, they nodded their heads in approval and seemed to be a bit glad at this development, I also saw that the way they looked at me had changed in a blink of an eye, after losing my presumed title, those guys no longer seemed to look at me as pleasingly as before, some had unpleasant looks on their faces from the old guys .
As for the reaction of what I assume to be the younger generation of the family, well, it was a bit mixed but it was difficult to tell what their real reactions were through the holograms, but I believed that most of them reacted nonchalantly regarding this .
It wasn't difficult to understand the reason, most of those guys weren't even considered as possible heirs, so it really didn't have much to do with this situation, those who showed some reactions were those who had already chosen someone to support wholeheartedly or those who were candidates for the position themselves .
There were 3 guys in particular that I noted having what could be considered the strongest reactions, 1 girl and two guys, just as I was about to get the information on them they left the meeting, it wasn't because they had any choice in that matter, as I was thinking, I heard my mother say :
The younger generation is dismissed .
She didn't even need to give a reason, these guys directly turned off their monitors, but her mentioning the younger generation, didn't mean that only the younger generation was dismissed, the women and almost everyone else other than us three and the family heads, Hayama-san still here as well, everyone else had either left the meeting by turning off their monitors or got out of the hall, like the Kuroba siblings .
I tried cracking some fun with them and made the cat and that teddy bear to appear on their shoulders and force them to turn their heads towards me, as they involuntarily did so, the only thing that met them was the cold stare of my mother and her saying :
Is something Wrong ? .
The two hurriedly apologized, glared at me and they directly ran away, their father shook his head at the two's actions, then turned to look at the family head, like everyone else who was wondering what else was there to discuss, after seeing that their attention was captured, she said :
WE WILL BE DISCUSSING MAKING TATSUYA-SAN A HEIR ? .