Fate/Inheritance

"…So what the hell is this situation." William said with eyes tired due to lack of sleep. Looking in front of him a beautiful blond woman looked at him expressionlessly in a seiza position. I am currently in front of this girl alongside a gray haired girl leering at Yamada and I already felt the various presence around us.

"I already told you last night~." Yamada said with a grin

Last night was pretty hectic and I was actually sleeping when this guy punched me suddenly in the gut. It seems there was an incident but when I tried to pull it out of him he won't budge, even later in the morning when I asked the other's they merely shake heads. I feel like being left behind in that moment and I felt pretty much edgy with the situation.

The only clue I had is that I might be slightly involved with the event or more apparently the Heroic Spirit inside one of my class cards. I remembered the details of one of my skills clearly when I had this assumption.

Install: Phantasm Summon – A skill that has first appeared in Mikado William in the world of Terradesia. Using a medium to call in the power of a powerful being that has once lived. Creates a [Mystic Code] or use the user's body as an anchor that will let the being 'possess' the user and can use the abilities, weapons and also appearance of the being when he/she is alive.

Note: Some beings can influence user or take over the user if they have a strong ego or used in a wrong manner.

I remember how Sapphire mentioned that my Class Cards did not get affected by something similar as Pandora's Box muck that erases their ego so they are not mindless beings as seen with Lancer. I already experimented with my available class cards and I can say that the Heroic Spirit connected with the cards does not possess any abilities that can forcefully silence a whole bunch of powerful people without killing them. Caster maybe can do that but she tends to rip the place apart if she gets pissed and I haven't seen any signs of destruction anywhere so there is a very few chance it's her. Now for the girl in front of me…

It seems they were forced to do evil things based on a scam contract this girl's father signed up for and they had been looking for ways to break it forcefully and Yamada learned of the situation and pointed to me.

"Well can you show me the contract please?" I asked her politely. Hesitating, she pulled out a parchment from her bossom and gave it to me. Ignoring the weird stare of Yamada I unfurled it and read the contract.

'What the hell! This is really a scam contract!' I exclaimed internally, it's an ordinarily dangerous contract using a strict and dangerous consequential punishment as Soul Destruction but if you read it clearly there are really absurd clauses that I wonder why the father of this girl signed it. One of the clause that really pissed me off is the 'Requests cannot be denied unless it harms either parties till the end of the contract' normally this would had been an ok but the 'cannot be denied and till the end of the contract' killed it.

'How can this contract even end if there is an indefinite duration bitch! This is basically asking to be a slave!' I screamed internally, before I tried to rip this thing to shreds. This is not even one of the worse clause for even the successive generations must follow what is written so it's basically giving yourself and the future generation of your family into a wonderful wrapped present.

"Ahh… shit my brain cells are being burnt just reading this." I sighed, forcing myself to calm down and summoned a white globe of light. I don't want anybody to learn my true nature of using cards so I practiced manipulating light so they won't see it's real form.

"Include: Caster" I murmured activating the card turning it into an ornate ceremonial dagger releasing a mysterious aura. Seeing the widened eyes of the people present I felt a bit smug.

"Rule Breaker." Stabbing the contract, it quickly turned into motes of light after a sudden quick flash and the girl in front of me felt something and cried heavily alongside the girl besides her. I also felt the aura's surrounding us waver. I smiled at them radiantly and waited them to calm down. But the next thing that happened made me dumbfounded.

"Roselia leader of the Lost Banshees greet the Lord." She said kneeling alongside the various presence of around us. Counting, there are 50 girls kneeling making the room suddenly cramped.

"Oi! Stahp~!! What the hell is this!" I said shell shocked, Yamada also looked shocked besides me but the next thing happened his face suddenly whitened in rage and punched me in the gut.

"Gaah! The f.u.c.k you doing!" I screamed at the sudden ambush and quickly returned a straight to his face knocking him to the direction of the girls.

"Tch… Naturally be– "Yamada tried to reply while trying to stand up but the next thing I knew he was quickly wrapped with strings turning him into a dumpling with bladed weapons pointed at him.

"For you to suddenly ambush the lord are you tired of living!" Roselia said with cold eyes.

[Heh~ such smooth movements~.] Lancer said praising them. Ignoring the voice inside me I quickly stood up and asked them to release the guy. Even if this guy had dangerous death seeking tendencies I don't want him to be turned into a pin cushion this early of the game.

[Oi! So it's fine if it's 'later of the game'~! Such a heartless little brother~] Lancer cynically said

[Shadap aniki! My head is hurting]

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A few moments later

Pinching my nose, I scrunched my face after hearing the information I just got told by my new servant in front of me, Roselia who is back in a seiza. Ignoring the shivering Yamada who is being stared at by the others, I arranged my thoughts and asked this girl who is respectfully looking at me.

"…So I'm your master now?" I asked her seriously.

"Yes." She said with a solemn look.

"Why is that?" I questioned.

"We swore an oath whoever saved us we will follow that person as servants." She said with a serious look.

"Can't you just return to your temple or your home?" – William

"We cannot, even if the temple does not send hunters we are still branded as traitors… We can't return even to our homes…if we still have one" She looked down and smiled sadly.

"But your free now? Can't you just work as an adventurer or work as an intelligence corps in other places. That freedom of yours will be wasted." – William

"Me and my sisters won't budge on this one my lord… We don't trust other people easily anymore so being adventurers will be hard to us especially serving a kingdom that might exploit us. We know that you are kind person that won't use us to do evil." She said and looked at the girls behind her.

"But I refuse." – Wiliam

"Eh~! Why?!" – Roselia

"I don't need any use of your expertise all I just need to do is go get the head of the Demon King and then return home." William said and tried to refuse adamantly.

"You do will need us~! Especially by cleaning the pests in your road in killing the Demon King. We all know also how to cook and do chores~" Roselia also did not budge and started to put down benefits.

"I can cook delicious food." – 'Laila'

"I can tailor great clothes." – Assassin Girl 1

"I can sell the corpses of the monsters you slay in a good chump~." – Assassin Girl 2

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This bickering continued for another few minutes and even one girl said she will warm William's bed he still did not budge. Honestly William is already in his last straw and Lancer curious why he still won't accept them asked William.

[Why are you even refusing bozu.] Lancer

[…I don't know why… I can think of countless reasons and excuses but I don't even know if they are the 'truth' of why I am even refusing them…] – William

[…You... you really are kind aren't yah~.] Lancer said smiling.

[Where the hell did that come from?] William retorted

[Ma~ Ma~ focus kid it seems they are going to pull out their secret weapon~] Lancer

[What the hell is a se– Heok!!!] William tried to reply but the thing happening in front of him made him turned shock and speechless.

There in front of him 50 girls looking at him with upturned teary eyes begging like a cute puppy and said together.

"Please~ let us serve you William-sama~!" – Lost Banshees

"Arrghh!! If you guys are really idiotic to even do that how can I f.u.c.k.i.n.g refuse~!! Ahh whatever! Even if I throw you to the pits of hell don't f.u.c.k.i.n.g complain!" – William said while scratching his head in frustration.

"Yay~!" Like flipping a page, they quickly threw away the teary expression and cheered… Ignoring the eyes of resentment being pointed at me, I looked up in the ceiling and thought while sighing in the umpteenth time.

Dear mother, father. Your son just gained 50 beautiful assassins as servants…