The Ranch

Predecessors' Legacy (3)

Victor walks over two a long boulder shelving two longswords. Copying Victor, Tih places his hand over the hilt of a sword. The two stand side by side, holding their individual weapons. Victor counts off," Ready? Three, Two, ONE!"

Victor pulls on his sword, taking no longer than a minute to shift it out of its wedge. Expecting to hear gasps of exclamation, he's awarded with silence. Grasping his new sword, Victor turns around in a triumphant pose, assuming everyone was too shocked.

While it's true everyone is shocked, Victor is not the cause. Victor notices dropped jaws and widen eyes staring at the space next to him. Turning his head, he sees," What?! You managed to pull it out as well!?!"

Everyone, from the announcer to the headquarter members stare at the small boy in shock. Compared to Victor's exclamation, the crowds silence is a lot more over the top.

An over the top reaction calls for an over the top performance. Not only was Tih able to pull the sword out of the stone, he yanked it out immediately after Victor said "two". Like butter, the sword slid right out of its cramped wedge, breathing the fresh air exalted by the breathless onlookers.

Not understanding why his and Tih's treatment is so different when they both pulled a sword out, he tries to shake his teacher out of his daze," Instructor?"

Finding that he actually had to put a little effort into it, Tih was now more intrigued with the other tools, or more specifically, pulling them out.

Now holding an incentive, he moves from one object to the next. Tih continuously pulls up one after another with seemingly no effort, creating a heaping pile of tools.

Looking around, Tih realizes he already pulled everything in the area. Finished with his fun, Tih walks back to his instructors side, complacent.

The onlookers, who just witnessed the massacre of Predecessors' Legacy, were forced to take the time to reboot their currently on-fire mainframes. Victor finally got to see what all the fuss was about and also became stupefied. In the headquarters, the committee member also had their brains fried and were looking at the screen with a blank expression.

The first to reboot is Theodore, who runs up to Tih, grabs his shoulders, picks him up, and starts shaking him wildly," That. Was. AMAZING! Monster! You're a total monster! Hahahaa" Theodore's eye's we're slightly maniacal, but he was still coping better than the others. "I think you're the strongest person alive, no, IN HISTORY!! Tih!- ahh, no Boss! Can you acknowledge me as your underling?!"

The forceful shaking causes Tih neck to snap back and forth, causing the allusion of him nodding his head.

"Thank You Boss! I'll loyally follow you anywhere and complete all orders without hesitation! Ahhh, to have the strongest person in the history of the world as my boss! How lucky!!"

Watching Theodore's weird display, Victor is the next to come back," THAT! That's impossible!!! T-there's no way, it...it has to be a fluke or...he cheated!!"

Chest puffed out, Theodore swings Tih into a side carry using one arm to get a better view and boldly declaring," Give it up Victor! There's no way anyone else could do that, even by cheating! Let's just face facts, Boss is the strongest being in all eternity!"

"You Chūnibyō! Stop spewing stuff like that! There's too much cringe-" Victor looks at the child in Theodore's arms, groaning with a twisted expression he eventually sighs," seriously...what kind of monster are you..." Victor ends up in the fetal position, hugging his legs and trying to cope with his loss.

With a wire-y smile, unlike his usual calm and collected one, Instructor Henri looks towards the boy, thinking to himself," An amazing kid decided to join my class, huh...it's going to be quite troublesome if I don't want him to get snatched away."

Another person with a wire-y smile, the announcer is the fourth person to reboot. He stares at the small mountain of weapons," This...might be a problem. I wonder what I'm supposed to do in this situation."

Just as he finished that sentence another man arrived," Hello, I was dispatched by headquarters. I've been given the general gist but-"  The man's eyes land on the pile of tools,"-so it wasn't an exaggeration..." he mumbles under his breath.

The members in the meeting room have slightly better control over their emotions, resulting in the man's speedy appearance, but because of the unrealistic description given by the members, the dispatcher did not put much effort into choosing who to dispatch, resulting in...

"Hmm, I'm not quite sure how to go about this actually. I don't think something like this has ever happened before...uh, let me message my commander about this."

By now, the rest have already been rebooted and are talking amongst themselves. Tih, who is still being held up by his "subordinate", listens in.

"To pull everything out...doesn't that mean he owns everything?" Victor's teacher wonders.

Theodore's teacher counters," There's no way headquarters can allow that. It'd basically be erasing the entirety of Predecessors' Legacy."

"...can it still be called a legacy?"

Listen to their conversation, Tih has come to the conclusion that it'll be bad if he keeps the object, which he's not especially concerned with. He had fun pulling them out and never had any intention of keeping the weirdly shaped tools. Tih's uncaring nature to the idolized weapons are well-founded, although his reasons are different, but who needs a sword that can be snapped with one of his fists. Who needs an axe that will shatter with one kick.

Tapping the beefy arm holding him, Tih gets released from Theodore's hold. Picking up a weapon in each hand, he slides them back into their place.

The onlookers watch as the pile becomes smaller. Theodore's teacher gazes at a returned sword," This...doesn't actually work right?"

"He's just sliding them in, so won't it be too easy to pull them out now?" Victor's teacher walks up to a hammer and pulls on it, but the thing doesn't budge. An embarrassed blush appears on the man's face as he fails to lift the hammer that's been pulled out and put back by a child.

After that, Theodore's teacher, the announcer, and the person that was dispatched try to pull out different weapons, failing in succession.