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"Issei." Shirou greeted him.
"Ah, Setsuna-san, Yuuto-san." After the greetings were traded Issei turned to Shirou. "I am just checking if you were keeping our promise."
"Promise?" Shirou was confused.
"Yes, that we would act like normal students." Once his friend said that Shirou snapped his fingers. "Knowing you there is a good chance you will be already helping someone with a fridge if I don't check."
"Yes, right… that one." Technically he was keeping the promise, he was in a club hanging out with new friends and not working on anything else at the school at that point… but he was working. "Maybe we should all go to a karaoke one of these days…"
"Unfortunately I am the one breaking our promise now, getting on the student council is being a challenge." Issei's eyes suddenly showed determination. "But I will not quit. Soon, I will have her recognize my efforts."
With that he said his goodbyes and left and while Shirou had no idea who 'her' was he could only wish his friend good luck.
The three started to make way for the club again and managed to find Rias and Akeno on the same path outside. "Normal students? What does that imply?" Setsuna asked curiously.
"What are you referring to, Setsuna-san?" Akeno's curiosity had awakened from the other raven head question.
"Earlier we found Issei, Shirou's friend, and they apparently had a promise to be more normal students." Kiba explained.
"Shirou… What do normal students mean?" Now Rias was the one in the conversation.
Shirou lets out a sigh and tries to explain how he used to help his former school by fixing small appliances and just being pretative while Issei worked as a secretary for the council of the high school grade and planned to run for president before the change.
"Basically both of you are workaholics." Akeno said with her typical small smile.
"I mean… technically?" Shirou was pretty sure he was never called that before.
"Don't worry Shirou, you are still a workaholic." Rias' smile held no malice. "But that is a problem, maybe you should find something to relax."
"But I barely did anything." Shirou defended himself.
"Yes, but you worked to get the forge working the whole week, you studied the book of materials I gave you in a lot of the breaks and if I can guess it right you are still working on your forge at home right?" Not as much but he couldn't deny her. "Tomorrow you should try and do something fun." Rias decided with the same kind of enthusiasm his mother had when she wanted him to 'teenager' stuff.
"Working on the forge is fun." Shirou mumbled and most didn't hear.
"Rias, it is only the first week." Akeno reminded her King. "Let him find his own pace first."
"You still owe me a spar as well." Setsuna took the chance to remind Shirou. "And also a date."
Shirou almost fell on his face. "I already said that wasn't necessary."
"Are you going to make me a liar?" Setsuna asked back.
"Yes Shirou! Are you going to make her a liar?" Rias didn't resist.
"Fufufu, what an awful thing to say to a lady Emiya-kun." Akeno didn't waste the opportunity.
Surrounded by all sides he looks to his only potential ally. Kiba looks right back and shrugs before he kept walking. For the first time in his life Shirou felt betrayed.
"""Well?""" The three girls asked again and Shirou did the only thing he could think about. He caved.
"The spar first… we see about the date later." He really didn't even know what a 'date' implied but he was going to try and put it out as much as he could.
The instigator of the discussion nodded satisfied while the other two girls just smiled. With that settled the small group got back on the move to eat and finish with his workshop, not realizing they were being watched.
At the rooftop of the school stood Rutal, he has been paying extra close attention to Rias over the last week. Or to be more precise he was looking into her interactions with Emiya Shirou.
The new addition to the old school building was a surprise, the heiress wanted him to work close to her, she also was greedly suppressing any leaks of information about him. Rutal heard from one of the magicians who did the test she had him make a demonstration of his skill but once he asked what exactly he had made they all clamped up.
After the fourth one refused to talk he asked why and they said that 'They didn't want to mess with the full might of the Gremory Clan'. Rias had threatened them to block any sort of advancement on the underworld or worse using her family resources and they were right to be afraid.
If it was for the sake of the Gremory her family would support her decision, even Rutal was with his hands tied. The only one that can logically move and get the intel from the magicians is Sona who has almost the same political clout but she won't tell him anything.
So far the devil and human relationship is as of friends and colleagues, that is fine, normal even with a pact on play. 'But she made that pact too fast.' Behind him two figures show up, his Queen still in a business attire and another of his pieces, a slim man dressed in janitor's clothing, he had short hair but it was covered with a hat with a bird on the front, his face was inconspicuous and most would see him on the street and not think twice, perfect for a spy.
Neither said anything until their King gave them permission and Rutal was still deliberating. He had two paths in front of him; pursue the matter of Gremory or let it go. Those were the facts but not the point, even if she managed to find someone of great value the question was: Why did it matter?
'If he is not her lover she is not insulting my House, instead I am insulting hers by looking too much.' He was unimportant in the great scheme of things, just a cousin, weaker than the main family but it was still family. 'And if she is doing something I will find out what.' His decision was made. "Report Brosh."
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