Chapter 31

-Somewhere-

A small blond girl can be seen running in what could be called an Hoshidan house.

The eight years old girl enters the living room before going toward the kitchen.

There, she meets a tall man with red hair and golden eyes shining as bright as the little girl's.

"Papa!" The child jumps excitedly. "Can we cook?"

The father smiles down on her while finishing to tidy his kitchen. "Of course." He sounds as excited as the child. "Do you want to make a cake?" She nods really fast. "A chocolate one I guess."

The girl nods even faster. "Yes!"

"Then let's do it!" He pulls his sleeves up and makes his way toward the sink with his daughter mimicking all of his movements. "Can you grab the eggs?"

She skips toward the fridge and grabs the box carefully under the amused gaze of the man. She then puts it on the counter thanks to her small stool.

In fact without it, she would not be able to see what is on the counter. The blond girl is small, even for a now eight years old, she is only one hundred and fifteen centimeters in height.

But she is as determined as everyone else and her father witnesses it everyday.

The latter explains how to make a tasty cake and the little girl tries to follow his directions.

While they are cooking, the mother enters the living room and sits at the table, waiting for them to finish.

The two golden eyed cook can be heard giggling while the emerald eyed woman is resting with a calm smile.

-Shirakawa-

"Kotai" Kamui's ward is woken up by none other than Maiko. "I know you must be exhausted by all the games you played with the twins but it is time to eat dinner." She smiles kindly.

The albino stands up from the couch with a yawn. "Alright..." he makes his way toward the table where Atsuko is already waiting.

They all sit down and nod in unison. "Itadakimasu."

-Kageyama-

Kamui tried to avoid the crowd when she was leaving the stage to go back to her quiet stall.

But she failed and now she is surrounded by a lot of people, most of them women taller than her.

"Congratulations!" "Can you teach me how to use a bow?" Those are some of the words she heard.

"Excuse me." She mutters, hugging her prizes awkwardly, flustered by the fact so many person are around her with their eyes fixed on her small self.

She tries to force the passage and this time succeeds, the group understanding that she does not like the situation.

However, some of them, mostly children, still follow her.

The knight turns a corner and is face to face with a soldier, this one adorning a different armor than those of the prince. "My Lord would like to speak with you." He says with a commanding voice, not leaving any choice to his interlocutor.

And without saying 'good morning', irking the girl.

But he is talking to Kamui Emiya Pendragon, who's stubbornness is without equal. "Cool." She looks up at him without any emotion before trying to walk past him.

The bulky man puts a hand on her shoulder but the hunter does not stop advancing, pulling him with her.

He frowns and tries a different approach. "If I were you, I would not ignore my Lord."

She ignores him.

"The daimyo will not be please by what you are doing." He tries yet again to stop her but all he does is making the bag of gold fall on the floor.

Kamui stops and gather its content without a word as the kids following her turn around the corner. "Who is this bad guy?" "He is ugly." "And fat!" The children whisper loud enough for the man to hear.

He turns around to face them. "Go away, this is not a place for children." He says with the same commanding tone.

But one of the kids steps forward with a frown, he must be around Kotai's age and has lost one tooth, giving him an adventurer look. "My dad is the Mayor of... here!" He says with a pause in the middle of his sentence, searching for the right words.

The man raises an eyebrow. "And do you know who is more powerful than your father?" The child shakes is head while backing away nervously, his spike of confidence slowly fading away. "The daimyo." He smirks.

"And then there is the Royal Family." Ryoma appears from the same corner as the children, followed by two of his soldiers. "If I were you, I would not threaten a subject who is under the Royal Family's protection." He gives a warning smile to the bulky man while mimicking his 'greetings'.

The soldier bows before him. "My sincerest greetings to the kingdom's first prince. Please forgive this soldier's ignorance."

The first prince gestures for him to stand back up. "Everything is forgiven, just tell you Lord that if anything happens to miss Emiya, he will have to face consequences." 'If she does not beat him up first.' He thinks.

"I understand." He turns to Kamui and bows. "I apologize for the disagreement."

The knight waves him off while keeping her prizes on one arm.

The man leaves them and passes before the kids who all pull there tongue out at him.

They would have run toward Kamui if it was not for the presence of the prince next to her.

Said prince gives a smile to the hunter. "Are you okay?"

Kamui stares at him with an annoyed expression. "Why would I not be?"

His eyes widen slightly at the aggressive tone the knight used. "If you say so..." He awkwardly responds.

They stare at each other in silence with the kids waiting for their conversation to continue.

The prince blushes so slightly that if Kamui was not looking blankly right in his eyes, she would not have noticed. He puts a hand over his mouth before coughing and averting his gaze. "Anyway. If I am here, it is because I have a question."

The blond champion waits for him to ask without any reaction, making Ryoma's nervousness rise.

"I saw, like everyone else, your skills, and I wanted to ask if you..."

"Want to join your armed forces?" She finishes the sentence for him with a raised eyebrow.

He nods. "Yes." The knight gets ready to talk but Ryoma continues. "Of course I am not forcing you to join and there will be no consequences if you were to refuse my offer." The prince explains, not wanting to anger the small archer.

She closes her eyes and crosses her arms. "I do not have time for this."

"What do you mean?" He asks with a smile.

The knight sighs, knowing she could make a lot of money if she were to join an army thanks to her firepower. "I need to take care of someone."

Ryoma puts a hand on his chin. "Who?"

"Someone." Kamui frowns, annoyed by the prince's questions.

The latter understand that he has reached the limit of questions. "Such a shame, but I will respect your choice."

He starts to walk away with his guards, both were waiting ten meters away from them.

Kamui humphs before walking back to her stall leaving the confused children behind.

-In the Evening-

The sun is setting and the Pegasus knights have just arrived to pick up the vanguard while everyone is watching the different teams compete for the second part of the archery tournament.

The first knight to put a feet on the ground is, in fact, an Kinshi knight going by the name of Reina. The young lady is the queen's retainer and she is known for... her love of the battlefield.

"Reina? Are you here to pick me up?" The prince asks with a big smile.

The Kinshi knight gives him a motherly smile in return. "Your mother did not want me to come but I wanted to be sure that everything was alright."

"Or you just hoped that there would be some action..." Ryoma mutters.

Her smile twitches slightly. "I have been unmasked?"

The prince's smile widen. "You missed it."

"Really?" The scarred girl's eyes widen in surprise. "How so?"

The brunette smirks. "Kagero was beaten by a hunter in the middle of the festival."

The ninja, who is helping packing everyone stuff, flinches at his words.

"How unfortunate." The kinshi rider sighs. "Who did that?"

The prince does not have time to respond as a heavy bag is dropped on the floor. He turns around and see Kagero with a dagger aimed at Kamui's neck. "Really?" He hears the cook talking to the kunoichi.

The blond girl calmly puts a hand on the woman's wrist and forces her to put the dagger down.

"I do not even have a weapon." She rolls her eyes. "Unlike someone."

Ryoma approaches them followed by Reina. "What is going on this time?" He crosses his arms as Saizo appears next to him, ready to attack the winner of the archery tournament at any moment.

"I am, yet again, attacked by your goon." The knight states.

Kagero puts away her weapon. "I apologies, she was able to sneak on me."

Saizo faces palm, to the great surprise of everyone.

Kamui huffs. "Anyway." She takes a small wooden tablet out of her pocket and gives it to the prince. "Take this."

The prince looks at it attentively and smiles inwardly. The plate is a little bit smaller than his hand and a beautiful sakura flower is engraved on it, he turns it around and at the bottom are the letter 'E.P.K.' written really small.

"And why the sudden present?" He hopes it is not because she discovered he is the heir to the throne.

He looks up at the knight who is, herself, looking at Reina's kinshi. "It's for saving the other prick, I was to tired to deal with him." She says with a wave before staring back at him expressionlessly.

Ryoma sweatdrops at Kamui's phrasing, believing her when she said he saved the bulky man hours ago.

"And this." The cook hands a dagger to Kagero who frowns at her. "I used it to carve that." She point at the tablet.

The kunoichi looks at the now blunt dagger with a sad look. She then thinks about the fact that the knight was indeed armed but does not say anything by fear of being humiliated in front of her Lord again.

"Where are you going?" The prince asks Kamui who had started to walk away while everyone was occupied by what she brought.

But she just ignores him like she did with the bulky soldier.

Saizo is ready to catch her but Ryoma stops him with a sigh as Reina speaks up. "I guess she is the one you were talking about?"

He nods with a smirk before going toward the bluette's kinshi while talking about what happened since he was gone to the border.

A/N

New chapter and the end of the festival arc, next chapter, Kamui will come back to Shirakawa.

I wanted to know if a 'Kamui Emiya in Re:Zero' fanfiction with more fight would interest anyone. It would not go past season 2 unfortunately.

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