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"Why wasn't there a boundary field around the property?" Setsuna goes directly to the point and Shirou couldn't help but agree with the question.
"From here to the school itself is a good distance and everyone is distracted with the club hunting." Rias explained but Akeno complemented.
"There is also the fact that you can't have too many fields into other fields without destabilizing the whole thing. If Buchou got one on her base the other heirs would want some too."
"Not forgetting how much we already annoy them by having some space just our own." Kiba mused.
'Why is Rias' group getting its own space?' Shirou refrain from asking, instead he said. "Sorry for dropping in like that." Rias shook her head.
"It's fine. I was going to send for you earlier but the number of magicians was bigger than I expected." She shuffles through some drawers from her desk and pulls out a small notebook. "But that doesn't matter right now, here. Take a look at these and tell me what you want to try first."
Opening the book Shirou was legitimately impressed, every page was a kind of rare material with statistics, previous utilities, methods of foraging and suggestions. "You made this?" It was too much work for one person alone.
"We had some help but most of the work was from us and the others." Rias bragged.
"Others?"
"Not every member of our little group is old enough for highschool." Akeno said with a smile.
"While all that is all and good," Setsuna let herself be known, "I think you forgot why we come here, Shirou."
'Why we came here…' He slaps himself in the face before saying. "Rias, there is a brawl happening on campus-"
"It is already solved." Rias said definitively.
"What?" Shirou was confused.
"If there really was a brawl happening, believe me when I say there was something really strict there that already solved the problem."
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"I can't BELIEVE THIS!" The one known as Shitori Souna stood before over forty people, all bowing their heads in seiza position. "THIS IS SUPPOSED TO BE A DAY TO HELP THE NEW STUDENTS ADJUST! HOW ANY OF YOU DARE TO FIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF IT!"
That was the moment that the witnesses of the event understood the saying 'it is not about the size of a person in a fight but the size of the fight in the person.'
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"Trust me, she is probably lecturing everyone there at this point." The certainty in her voice had Shirou resign himself and just sit on the couch again. Akeno gives him more tea and he just accepts it.
"Good to know." Setsuna says motioning for Akeno for a bit more tea.
"But that is not important right now. Did you find a club of your own Shirou?" Rias asked. "If you didn't, you can join us here, since any practice that you make with your weapons is already part of the 'occult' you can use the free time however you want."
"Our club is also a cover for our operations." Kiba offers with a smile. "Since you are contracted to Buchou, it wouldn't be a problem for us to have you here."
"Maybe we could even give you a spot if you want Setsuna-san." Akeno offered.
Shirou stayed quiet for a minute, thinking about it. Under one hand he could work more on his projects, figuring out how to make an independent EM or finding a way to make magic swords with less effort would go faster with the extra time. Even if he didn't know where to start on the damn thing it would still be way faster if he spilled his time.
Yet… "How fast do you need the EMs?" He couldn't help but ask.
Rias hesitated in giving an answer, it was just a few seconds but Akeno noticed. "There is no rush but I would like to progress in your lifetime at least." For Shirou it was still weird speaking of his lifetime as if it was nothing. "I would love it if you could get something in two years if possible, at least some proof the process could be replicable by someone else or that you can make more in a… safer way."
He could already have made more if he was willing to risk his mother's life again but her heart almost stopped because she didn't tell him how much mana she was using.
"I don't get it." Setsuna pointed out. "Can't you make more of that with just your magic?"
"This is a copy of the original." Rias explained to Shirou who looked lost in thought. "It is draining him mana even now and that won't do. We need more of the legitimate articles, viable and permanent."
"Imagine that, a tool that can stop bleeding mid-fight or used for emergencies." Even Kiba has to admit he was impressed, once his King told him how Shirou forged that tool he tried to make a similar sword but he failed.
"So, Setsuna, tell me how you and Shirou met." Akeno sits and gets ready for the story while Shirou is still thinking about the offer.
Every tally that Shirou made on his head said that it would be better to take the offer. The only unsettling thing about the whole thing was Rias' attitude in relation to time but she was a devil, for a being that lived for milenia a few years was nothing.
But Shirou wanted to progress on his research, the development of his blade. He didn't care about the Root or anything like that but he wanted to make stuff that helped people, a more selfish man wouldn't think of streaming lining the process to make it impossible for others to reproduce and make a profit but Shirou didn't care about that either, he wanted to know that the tools he created were saving lives.
There was absolutely no reason for him to deny the offer and use his time effectively but he was dealing. 'Why do I feel like that is a mistake?' A part of him wanted to step back for a bit and work in other stuff, there was also the promise he made to Issei to try and be a normal student. 'There is no rush.' A part of him seemed to say. 'I can make progress in less than two years, I'm sure of it.'
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