The moment those words fell into the ears of everyone present, the composure they tried hard to regain just now completely dissipated, their reaction to my mother's words about making Tatsuya a hair was even more shocking to when I was announced as one .
I couldn't help but look at the guy who was being discussed, I saw that the same nonchalant expression was on his face, the girl next to him was holding his hand tightly, as if she was afraid that he might leave her side any second now while covering her mouth with the other free hand .
My mother seeing their reaction continued to say with a stoic expression on her face :
From now on the family will embrace the existence of Tatsuya-san and acknowledge him as a good member of the Yotsuba Family who contributed greatly to the welfare of the family, he will be able to use the family name as he like and will also being able to act more freely from now on .
So it's just right that he would be a heir candidate, which automatically revoke his position as a guardian, we can't have a heir responsible for the safety of another, even if they were brother and sister, so what are your opinions on this .
Can I share my opinion, Maya-sama ?.
After she finished saying this, the guys who were sitting gracefully on their knees were unsettled and all of those who were closing their eyes opened them wide, I didn't know anything about what sort of talk that was currently going on, but I was certain now that what I thought before was wrong .
The main event in this family meeting, wouldn't be me joining the family, but it will be more linked to Tatsuya getting his rights in the family back and the changes that might this bring, I now understand the reason to the sudden change of Hayama-san from before, so he was hinting at this .
The first one to speak his mind regarding this situation was surprisingly Kuroba Mitsugu, the head of the Kuroba family and most likely the higher-ups in the mouth of the two siblings referred to him, meaning that this guy was the one who instigated the two to try and poisen me .
My mother looked at him and nodded at him, indicating that he should go ahead and declare the thoughts he have on this, he after getting the permission to speak his mind, said :
I don't think that this is appropriate, Maya-sama, the late family family head had other arrangements for him in mind, those arrangements were made to ensure that his power won't lead to the destruction of the family .
I hope you excuse me for my words, I believe that doing something like this might create a huge disturbance in the family, going against the wishes of the previous family head who had these arrangements in mind for the benefit and welfare of the Yotsuba Family I hope for you to reconsider .
That guy's tone was quite natural, but I still felt his disdain towards Tatsuya from across the room, I still didn't know what kind of arrangements the late second family head made for Tatsuya, but even without being completely clear on them, I was able to understand that they weren't anything good .
Are you finished ? .
I'm .
Okay then let me answer you, what my late uncle had to deal with at that time forced his hands to make some cruel arrangements, I'm not saying that they were bad or wrong, but I currently believe that they will be no longer necessary for the family to go forward from this day and on .
As for Tatsuya-san matters, the family no longer think that his power need to be much restricted or restrained as before, even though the process is irreversible at the current moment, but we should be able to at least gave him that much .
As she finished saying this, the people present in the meeting were shocked beyond measure, some of those guys weren't able to even muster saying a word, their hologram hid their expressions quite well, but using the closet camera to their location at the moment allowed me to see what their real reactions was, most of those guys were currently widening their eyes in shock .
Could I say something Maya-sama ? .
Tsukuba Family head, Tsukuba Touka was the one who asked for the permission to speak this time, similar to before, my mother simply nodded at her and the woman who had somewhat a relieved expression on his face back in her room, she began to say :
I fully support the idea of loosing the restrictions put on Tatsuya-san, but can I ask what will happen if a conflict were to arise between the family and him, what will prevent him, if he were to use his power to destroy the family or use it to do evil things, will we be able to subdue him before that happened, I hope you could be patient with me Maya-sama .
But if Tatsuya-san were to be recognized as a family heir, then will the effect of pledge be enough to contain him, I have faith in the magic of our ancestors, but I'm worried about what might happen in the future, maybe at some point, it will no longer need the key to unseal his full strength, what then ? .
Want me to tell you the truth Touka-san, I had never believed that your Pledge was able to keep Tatsuya-san under control, but in all time and with all the things that he was forced to deal with, he still didn't try to do harm to anyone, I'm clear about him able to cause a catastrophic amount of damages, but him not doing so was because he still have some important things to do with the family .
For that reason, I'm willing to let him at least choose what he wanted to do, so Tatsuya-san come forward .
I was finally able to make a sense of what was going on here, it seemed that their was some unique magic used to restrict Tatsuya from using his full strength due to how threatening it was, I almost laughed out loud at the thought of what they might try to do with me, I was in essence a walking bomb .
A nuclear one at that, but they might already know that, so what kind of method could they possibly be able to come up with to restrain me, that was the amusing thought currently on my mind, I had no idea how will those guys deal with me, for some reason I felt quite expectant to find out .
After my mother asked him to go ahead and step forward, he complied to her words, then he said resolutely :
Since I'm allowed to choose, I'm thankful for the family head's offer, but I prefer to forsake my position as a possible heir and keep my current position as guardian to Miyuki, I hope Maya-sama can approve of my choice .
As he said this, I was the one who was getting my hand tightly squeezed to the point that I thought she was trying to damage it permanently, I too was surprised at his words, but it wasn't enough to shock me, I already understood how much those siblings love each other and how tight the relationship between them was .
I also couldn't help but remember the picture that was on my mother's office, those guys seemed quite distant in that picture, so what exactly was happened between the two of them that had them become this close, as I was wondering, another squeeze was made and I was forced to look at the woman that I was now able to call my mother .
I was hesitant, but after she acknowledge me as her son a few minutes before this, all of my hesitation went away and felt that the heaviness in my chest as I tried to say it before completely disappeared, I looked at her and saw that she was giving me a look that seemed to imply the words ' I told you so ', seeing her look, I was reminded that she said that not all people want to be released from their shackles or something like this, after witnessing it for myself, I could no longer disagree with her .
I nodded at her indicating that I had understood what she was trying to show me, the two siblings that were looking at each other with affection and the the family head who were sighing in relief about this kind of development, all those guys were currently quirking their eyebrows at our short interaction, I don't know whether it was intentional or not, but she seeing that all eyes were on us, began to say :
If that is your choice then no problem, I approve, but from now on you will be still be treated as a family member and my nephew, he will be given the respect he deserve from now on, do share this with your family members .
Tell them that they should be treating him with respect, at least to a normal degree, otherwise if he was provoked, he now have the permission to act as he see fit, as long as his retaliation was in the realm of the normal .
Due to taking the advice of someone from the younger generation, do expect a few more changes to happen in the next few days, for those of you who have questions, they can ask it now, otherwise I will be moving to the next topic and announcement .
After she finished saying that, I was able to see that both of the two siblings were looking at me one with a deadpan expression but his face still carried a hint of disbelief on it, the girl on the other hand was looking at me with eyes full of gratitude as if I had done here the greatest favor just now .
I looked at them and wanted to shook my head at them, but sensed that it might sound inappropriate, so I just stood there at loss of what to do, after a few seconds of renewable silent, I couldn't help but stare beside me at the woman whom I was still holding hand with and the person who had just throw me into the of fire and told me to deal with it .
As long as no one present here was stupid, anyone could be able to guess that the guy from the younger generation in her words just now, was none other than me, so I couldn't help but give her hand a slight squeeze as well, but all I got from her after I did this, was here smiling at me and nodding .
Seeing her do this, I once again fought the urge to frown at her doing this, if anyone had a fraction of doubt before, then I was certain that now after witnessing this interaction, all the people present were giving me weird looks and they have every right to do so, but I shouldn't be the one who was the target of these weird looks of them .
All I was able to do currently was to release a deep sigh and hope that we wrap this soon enough, I'm already dying of frustration here, as I was thinking like this, I felt her hand squeezing mine again, I didn't want to indulge in any sort of amusing prank, she might want to play on me, so I at first ignored it, but then after a few more seconds, she did it again .
So I looked at her and wondered what might she had stored in for me, but I saw that she opened her mouth and no words came into my ears, instead I received something akin to a mental voice note, I stored the sequence that was used for her to send me that note and read the content inside of it .
I might be interested in the offer you made earlier .
At this, I was bewildered at first, unclear about what offer I made her, but then I remembered what she was exactly talking about, it was related to me fixing the seal that was put on her memories for her, hearing her telling me this, I didn't know how to feel about this exactly, but in the end, I returned to reality after using the unique Mental Interference Magic she used to send her something as well .
A picture, one that I had found laying in the bunch of memories that my big brother Ryuu left for me, even though his own life was short, he was able to live for a longer period of time by altering his information body, he started as a kid then he got curious about the world and due to the environment in the facility, he was even able to mature early .
Not to mention that he lived for at least 3 to 10 years in different bodies and inhabited different clones of different batches, he was able to get enough education and have enough experience to mature early .
I don't know the exact age of my Big Brother Ryuu, but the picture I was showing her was from when he was still immature, he used Fabrication to create that drawn picture, using crayons colors, the picture depicted him holding the hands of two women, one he had written mother on it and on the other woman head, he wrote the word Aunt .
I returned to reality, but saw that she was still engrossed at the moment in maybe checking the authentic of the picture, or maybe just shocked at how I get hold of such thing, if not for her acknowledging me as her son and telling me what she said earlier, I wouldn't have let her look at this drawing, but surprisingly I had no such problem currently .
I saw her absent-mindedly staring at the front and I already began to sense that I seemed to have gotten closer to the woman in front of me, but as a whole minute passed, a person seemed to be keen on interrupting the fun time she was having, that person was none other than the Kuroba family head, he seemed to be the only one who had the intention of asking question, he said :
Can I ask something Maya-sama ? .
That was all it took to awoke her from the state she was in, she looked at him with an impassive face, I'm not certain of how she felt about getting interrupted so suddenly, but I was able to tell that she was completely focused on the man in front of her, I too couldn't help but gaze at the man in front of me wondering about what might he be asking, seeing that he caught all the people present attention, he said :
What are the arrangements Maya-sama made for Ryuu-san here ? .