Hello everyone, here I go with the next chapter. Before starting, you should know that before this chapter was going to be the same as my original version, but I decided to divide it as I was thinking of adding new things. I'll post the other half on the next Saturday.
On reviews:
Angelvan105: Thanks again. I am also proud of this development. It was also a bit interesting putting both Orihime and Mordred together for a change. But if you wait for me to put some yuri on it, you're wrong.
The idea came to me because Orihime is the most sociable of the group and she likes to meet people and learn from them by talking, although Mordred doesn't seem like the type of person who likes to talk out of friendship.
Either way I am considering making Orihime the central point of the Master-Servant relationship as you have already seen. Although of course, don't expect this to turn into some kind of romance like ShirouxArtoria in the end. You know what Bleach is like when it comes to romance, and I plan to continue that way. It also seems strange to me that Mo-chan is mistaken for a saint, but you know how crazy Gil is for the Saberfaces.
I also think Mordred is a good person despite his rough and brave exterior, and that's something Orihime at least wants to believe.
Maxim7: Thanks for giving me the answer, but I think I'll stick with the idea that Masters can also know the identities of Servants. And if not, How could Shirou and Rin know Gilgamesh's identity in UBW?
MugetsuGodIchigo: Yes, I understand what you want. Don't worry, you will later see an Ichigo as a Servant and he will kick some ass.
DarkMasterm: Sorry for the bad writing. I will try to correct it later, thanks.
Chapter 16: Encounter and suspicions
"U-um... Is this the Mackenzie residence?" A postman asked nervously in front of the Mackenzie House. A day ago, they had received a call from a certain Iskandar, who requested a special shipment of clothes to said residence, and said postman was in charge of bringing it to him in person.
The problem was that when he knocked on the door to announce his arrival, he did not expect to be greeted by a man of such tall and muscular build as if he had taken steroids and in a rather strange outfit. It was like being in front of a oni (traditional Japanese demon) but without Kanabō (truncheon), in addition to also lacking his demonic and terrifying expression according to Japanese folklore. Instead, this seemed to be a friendly guy, but his massive frame only served to make the postman uncomfortable and put him on with a tight smile.
"Yes, this is the name of this house's owner." Rider replied with his deep baritone.
"Well then... Is Mr. Iskandar, King of Conquerors, at home?" Asked the postman.
"That's me." He replied simply.
"Oh, I see." His eyes twitched slightly as he processed that this impossibly huge individual for a human was the client who had called him. Then he gave a slight nervous laugh as he gestures to his clipboard on top of the package.
"Um, could you please sign on the receipt here?" He asked as he took out a pen from his shirt pocket and held it up to the red-haired giant.
"My signature? Very well!" He exclaimed as he took the pen and clipboard to sign before handing it back. "You have my gratitude."
"T-thank you for your patronage…"
Inside, Rider began unpacking the newly received package and pulled out a large white, almost sleeveless shirt with a map of the world and a slogan that said "Admirable Great Tactics" and he put it on.
Hmm…! Flexing his pecs and the biceps of his arms, Rider exhibited great musculature in his body as if he had really taken steroids making him the most muscular man in the world and the big shirt was a little small and narrow on him, but he did not care.
"Hahahaha, it feels good to have the entire world mapped across my chest!"
The audience in front of him stared in utter amazement, not only at the giant Servant's outfit, but also the incredible muscles displayed in front of them as if he were showing off in a Body-building contest.
"What do you think?" Rider asked unfazed by the reactions of the others.
It was only after a few moments of shock that Waver was the first to regain his composure and protest with his Servant.
"Why are you dressed like that?"
"Well, you see, after seeing our Saber wear those clothes from this time, it occurred to me to also wear one of those, but not to look good." Rider responded simply. "I have understood that people here feel very comfortable wearing this kind of thing and can go wherever they please, and that is why I also want to do the same so that I do not have to always be in my spiritual form, do you understand?"
Waver could only let out a little weary sigh.
"I should at least wear pants, don't you think?" Ichigo muttered with sarcasm. Those words were heard by Iskandar himself.
"Pants?"
Taking this as a sign, young Quincy adjusted his glasses before answering.
"Well, putting the shirt aside, I think I am in favor of Kurosaki that it is very striking that you wear that outfit without putting something on top of you." Ishida explained choosing his words carefully so as not to offend the giant.
"I agree." Inoue replied as well.
"Me too." Kon was the next.
Rider took note of what the others told him and began to consider wearing pants.
"But Saber also wears shorts like me." He said looking at said person, the latter caught what he said and seemed not to like it.
"That has nothing to do with it, you idiot." Saber retorted annoyed. "As long as nobody says something stupid about my clothes, I will have no problem wearing it."
"Oh I see, then I'll have to get one of those pants somehow."
"Of course you do!" Waver exclaimed suddenly. "And before you ask, I'm definitely not going all the way to town just to buy you XXXL pants."
"Say what!?" Rider asked surprised by his Master's response. "Boy, are you opposing my triumphant conquest?" He asked sounding offended.
"The conquest and your pants have zilch and absolutely nothing to do with one another!" Waver retorted aloud. "Go defeat an enemy Servant before you start thinking about screwing around outside! Then I'll buy you pants or whatever you want."
"I understand. Very well." Rider said nodding in response. "So, you swear that you'll buy me pants once I've defeated an enemy Servant?" He asked seriously looking intensely at his young Master.
Waver stiffened a bit from the look he was giving him and the precision of his tone as if it were a very serious matter.
"You... Do you really want to walk around outside in modern clothes that much?"
"Both the Knight of Rebellion and the King of Knights was doing it. As a fellow king, I cannot allow myself to be left behind." Rider replied with a tone of fact.
Saber only mentally snorted at the last thing the King of Conquerors said. Was he just following the same example as her and father to look so cool? How immature.
"Also, I like the design on this shirt. It's a fitting shirt for a ruler!" He commented proudly pointing to the slogan on his shirt.
The young Briton just blurted out another weary sigh from his Servant's fondness for this era, almost completely forgetting that he was involved in a war.
Ichigo and the others also gave their opinion on it.
"Seriously, is this guy really the one who says he almost conquered the whole world?" Ichigo asked in a whisper.
"I wouldn't know how to tell you." Ishida responded in return in a confused state.
Fuyuki Church – Shinto District
Kirei Kotomine was not a happy man. No, it wasn't at all. Not after the fiasco that occurred last night in which for the first time since deciding to work for the machinations of both Tokiomi Tohsaka and his father in order to secretly win this war, he had decided to deviate from his master's plan to find what he had been looking for ever since he decided to get into this.
Just when the 'second' slaughter between Heroic Spirits ended, one of Assassin's remnants came to him urgently to deliver an unexpected gift (not hers) being the corpse of a familiar in the form of a bat. Attached to the creature's waist was a CCD camera. It was just one of many familiars loitering around the church, but this one stood out among the rest. Unlike all the other familiars which were of arcane or animal origin, this one had a piece of modern spying equipment strapped to it.
Kirei could think of only one of the Masters capable of such a thing. It was the same man whose track record had sparked the rare fire of interest in Kirei's cold dead heart. Kiritsugu Emiya, the so-called Magus Killer.
Technically speaking, Kirei was supposed to pose as a defeated Master taking shelter in the Fuyuki Church. The orders of his teacher Tokiomi had been to remain in the church until further notice. Though the point for such action may have disappeared after the appearance of Caster and his 'supposed' Master. But still, against Tokiomi's wishes, Kirei still left the bounds of the church and slowly drew towards downtown Shinto.
He studied the spell cast on the bat familiar and traced it to the magus with ease.
Curiously, the trail had led him to a large steel structure under construction that would soon be the tallest building in Fuyuki, but the most curious thing was that it was right next to the Hyatt hotel, which just an hour ago was the victim of an apparent 'attack terrorist 'detonating a series of explosives that almost completely demolished the structure. Kirei found this suspicious. The timing for such an incident was too suspicious to be pure coincidence.
This is how Kirei made his decision and using a nigram clavem (black key in Latin) broke the lock on the construction site gate and nonchalantly crossed the threshold of the fence and found the stairs. He just had to climb it is to the top of the building where the magical energy signal was located.
Upon reaching the top, he did not meet the man he wanted to see, but a presumed 'companion'. A young woman from what he could see, dressed as a mercenary who held a sniper rifle pointed anywhere below as if looking for a target to shoot at from great height. Naturally, Kirei suddenly interrupted her by throwing one of his nigram clavem at the woman's weapon causing the woman to throw it and hide herself in one of the construction pillars. Apparently, she knew who he was by mentioning his name with a growl which made Kirei curious. Kirei himself tried to confront the woman, but she avoided the confrontation by managing to escape using an army smoke grenade, temporarily blinding the Executor. Taking advantage of the opening, the woman managed to escape by throwing herself into the elevator shaft wordlessly through 38 floors of an unfinished skyscraper.
When Kirei started to follow her, he saw the perilous fall. An ordinary human wouldn't not have survived such a high fall. But that woman with military grade equipment had only left a few drops of blood from her open wound and nothing else. There was no bloody corpse to collect at the bottom. She was obviously trained in magecraft as well.
Either way, everything turned out to be a failure in the end. Having disobeyed the orders of his teacher and his father to remain in the church was unsuccessful and he would have no justification to clarify what happened except the dead familiar. That is how he left the place before any witnesses came and returned safely to the church. He wasn't surprised to find his father's stern and disapproving expression upon his return, and he knew why that behavior.
It didn't matter much to him that he scolds him for his recklessness and disobedience. For him, finding the Magus Killer was his main mission to understand the emptiness of his heart. However, he still couldn't help but feel disappointed at not meeting said man, and in his place, that woman who acted as his deputy assistant.
"Kirei…"
His father's voice caused the young Executor to wake up from his thoughts to look at his old father in front of him. They were both standing in front of the church mass.
"Are you alright?" The old Kotomine asked towards his son. It no longer seemed to frame the same stern face from the night and was a bit worried instead.
Kirei didn't change his expression as he took in his father. "Yes, father. Sorry for not listening to you."
Risei nodded sympathetically before continuing to speak. "Never mind. I suppose you must be exhausted from the incident you committed yesterday."
Although it didn't show it, Kirei frowned and was still frustrated by what happened last night.
"Are you really alright?" Father insisted once. Seeing his son act that way was not quite like him. He had been strictly ordered to under no circumstances leave this place, and he had suddenly disobeyed that order of his.
Not once in the old priest's memory had his son ever disobeyed an order or request from him and made sure he followed it to the letter. What he did last night was quite disconcerting and he did not understand what he had come up with. It wasn't until he had explained what had happened that someone had been monitoring the church with a bat-shaped familiar and a camera strapped to his neck. His son had followed the magical trail of said familiar until he reached a building under construction right next to the destroyed Hyatt hotel to confront a 'supposed' helper of Kiritsugu Emiya.
That had further astonished him by the fact that one of the participating Masters had violated one of the rules of war of not to send a private army. However, that was no excuse for his son to risk neutralizing her even without his consent. It could have been spotted by an enemy Master or a familiar patrolling the area. If something like that happened again, Tokiomi's entire plan would be spoiled.
"Of course yes." Kirei replied automatically.
Still, old Kotomine didn't know what to say to this. Honestly, he was somewhat concerned about his son's new attitude towards the Magus Killer. Ever since he found out from Tokiomi that Kiritsugu Emiya was going to be one of the participants in the conflict, lately Kirei has been absent with his own thoughts and studying as much as he could about Emiya. He could not understand what his obsession with the infamous murderer was, but it was actually quite worrying that his son continued down this path.
"By the way..." His son's voice brought him back to normal. "What does the teacher plan to do from today?"
Just when Risei was going to answer his son, suddenly the sound of the door being slammed from the outside echoed inside alerting the 2 men who fixed their gaze towards said door. They looked like he was going to have a visitor.
Deciding to put the conversation aside, Risei headed towards the door while her son stood motionless in place staring at his father walking towards the door. When old Kotomine was in front of the wooden door, he half opened the door to see a familiar face. In front of him was a blond man in his 30s dressed in strange green Japanese traditional garb and a striking green striped bucket hat. The visitor offered the old priest a friendly smile.
"Good morning, father."
From the beginning Risei stared at the stranger without understanding who he was until her mind clicked as she remembered seeing him earlier when the eighth contestant came a few nights ago.
"Oh, it's you... uh…" Despite having recognized the blond man who was presumptuously a 'wizard' from another world, he could not remember his name with complete precision.
"Urahara. Urahara Kisuke." The otherworldly 'wizard' helped the priest smoothly remember his name.
"Oh Urahara Kisuke, thank you very much. I can help you with something?"
The blond shopkeeper just looked at the priest with a mysterious smile.
"Wow, this is my first time coming here!" Kisuke exclaimed as jovially as a child gazing the chapel with enthusiasm. It is true that this was not the first time since he was already here when he and his group arrived in this world, but at that time it looked very dark since it was night and he had to be cautious.
Old Kotomine looked at the blond a bit confused and somewhat taken aback by his childish attitude. "Have you never visited a church?"
"Huh? Oh, no. I prefer to be with my ancestral roots more." The blond comedian replied looking at the priest. "My ancestors were neutral to Western influence even after the end of the Tokugawa period."
Risei didn't say anything as he kept looking at the shopkeeper, and Kirei also with some indifference.
"May I ask why your visit is due?" The old priest asked changing the subject to eliminate this strangely comical atmosphere.
"Ah yes, I would like to talk to you about something important. By the way, who is this?" Kisuke asked fixing his gaze on the young priest next to Risei as motionless as a statue.
"Oh, he is my son Kotomine Kirei." Risei introduced his son. "Don't worry about wanting to speak in private, he is also aware of the ritual."
"I see..." Kisuke nodded giving a strange questioning look at Risei's son. The latter hardly noticed it like his father.
Realizing this, Kisuke dispelled the mysterious ambient and changed the subject to say bluntly what happened last night. Both Risei and Kirei listened carefully to the circumstances in which the young eighth Master encountered Caster and the latter revealed his identity as one of the most infamous serial killers in history.
"I see, so your apprentice Ichigo-kun ran into Caster whose identity is Gilles de Rais, and apparently mistook the second Saber for Jeanne d'Arc, didn't he?"
"Yes, it was quite a surprise." Kisuke replied adjusting his hat a little. Kirei just watched this event nonchalantly as nothing worth his interest.
Kisuke went on to tell him about his theory that the Caster's Master could be the serial killer who has been ravaging the city for 2 months, and the latter could have invoked him using himself as a catalyst based on his own personality. He also told her about the possibility that this couple is going to commit a series of mass murders based on their history. Risei took every word the shopkeeper said with interest, though Kirei didn't change his expression.
"I understand. If what you say is true, I think this is going to give us trouble." Risei said gravely at the idea that this maniac serial killer was one of the participants in the ritual. And if so, he didn't even want to imagine what he would have planned to do depending on whether or not he wants to earn the Holy Grail to make a wish.
"I agree." Kisuke nodded. "Tell me, you are supposed to be the mediator of this ritual and therefore you should know about what is happening around the participating Masters, right?"
"Yes, that's right. Every Master who wants to participate in this has to come here first to register and tell me their goal to want to have the Grail in their hands just like your boy did." Risei explained. "The truth is that it is quite disconcerting that something like this happened."
Kisuke raised an eyebrow at that. "That's very weird of you considering that you knew about Kurosaki-san's arrival as the eighth Master."
"Yes, but what happened was that the eighth Master is an extra participant in the ritual, and the Grail advised us of his arrival, but not Caster's. We never saw this coming." Risei replied.
"I understand." Kisuke nodded once more adjusting his hat, seeing that he no longer needed to question the old priest. However, there was still one more thing left. "So, what do you plan to do in this situation."
Risei took a moment of silence to answer. "Well, considering that the alleged Caster's Master did not show up here to be able to officially participate in the ritual, and has the intention of abusing the power of thaumaturgy or revealing it to the general public, severe measures will be taken to get rid of said threat, and as judge of the ritual, I will have to modify the rules and establish a temporary pause and therefore suspend the combats so that the other Masters collaborate and finish with Caster and his Master."
The shopkeeper's eyes widened with curiosity.
"So, are you going to interrupt the war?"
"As I said, it is only temporary until Caster and his Master have been eliminated at once." Risei corrected the shopkeeper. "And if you're interested in knowing, I've decided to give whoever located Caster and remove him as a reward one of the additional seals." With that said, the priest raises his left arm and removes a garment to show a series of tattoos running around the arm. Kisuke looked at the drawings with curiosity and fascination and immediately knew what it was about.
"These are unused seals left by fallen Masters in previous wars. They should certainly be of enormous value to Masters willing to assist in the hunt for Caster."
Kisuke raised his head at the last sentence and understood that this was a means of urging the participants to stop their fights and focus on Caster.
'A very bold move.'
"So once Caster's death is confirmed, the war for the Grail will resume, isn't it?"
"That's right." Risei replied as he covered the arm with his garment and lowered it. "Right now, I will inform the other Masters about this fact and issue a temporary ceasefire."
The blond Shinigami smiled boldly at this move. "Very good move, Kotomine-san. I suppose Kurosaki-san would be interested in this news. Thank you for listening to me."
And with a wave of goodbye, Kisuke turned and headed towards the exit of the church happily for having gathered some of information.
"Wait a minute." Old Kotomine's voice echoed within the church causing the shopkeeper to stop in his tracks. "If you don't mind, I'd like you to explain something to me."
Kisuke turned to the priest to look at him from a distance. "As you already know, I am the judge of this event and therefore I am aware of what is happening, especially the fights that will happen like the one two days ago."
Kisuke made a note knowing what the old man wanted to talk about.
"From what I saw through a familiar, Berserker had almost managed to defeat the second Saber, but just as he was about to deliver the final blow, suddenly your apprentice jumped recklessly and received the blow instead of his Saber and already we don't know anything else."
Kisuke didn't change his expression as he continued to gaze carefree at the priest's impassive face.
"From what you've told us, it looks like that boy survived, didn't he? How?"
The blond adjusted his hat before starting. "You see, it's true what happened that night and my young apprentice was almost on the verge of death, but I managed to save him thanks to my healing magic." He responded by quickly crafting a story to mask Orihime's incredible powers that was undoubtedly a strange phenomenon even to magi.
Risei simply fell silent as he analyzed the words of the man in front of him and wondered if that was true, but after thinking about it, he concluded that it was true since there was healing magic capable of saving people even from the jaws of the death only up to a point.
However, Kirei did not seem to be too convinced by that fact, besides seeing something else through Assassin's eyes. Seeing the skepticism in the air, Kisuke decided to change the subject.
"You're wondering why Kurosaki-san did such crazy thing, right? You see, that's his way of being." Both priests listened attentively. "As I already told you, Kurosaki-san was a great war hero whose feats were described as saving and protecting people he held dear and always giving his best. He's always trying to protect those he cares about regardless of the danger. Though his methods are unusual, the way he tries to help people is quite endearing. Even after losing his powers and becoming a normal human, he still retains that fighting spirit. Although of course, sometimes he forgets that he is no longer a superhero and that is why he interposed to save his Servant without thinking twice and without thinking about the consequences."
Although his face was serene and calm, Risei could not help but feel perplexed by the fact that a normal person would risk his life in this way to save another life since that was typical of the great heroes of yesteryear, but he also found it admirable, and he couldn't help but praise him for his courage despite his recklessness.
As for Kirei, he simply scoffed sarcastically at that boy's stubbornness in saving the life of his own Servant as he found it absurd and pointless. Furthermore, despite his 'heroism', that was only in vain as Berserker turned his attention to the second Saber to finish the job. It was just a miracle that they were both saved.
It was just a miracle. It will not be repeated.
"I understand. And how is Ichigo-kun?" Risei asked curious to know the heroic boy's current status.
"Oh, thanks to my magic I managed to heal his wounds, but he didn't wake up until tomorrow, although Saber-san was not very happy with him and reprimanded him for having committed such recklessness." Kisuke replied as he recalled the events of the next day.
Risei was relieved by that although Kirei's expression remained unchanged.
"Anyway, I feel responsible for what happened since as I said before he is like a nephew for me, but this time I will watch him better so that he does nothing stupid this time. And you believe it or not, he is still willing to continue with war and he will do it more carefully." Kisuke added.
Risei nodded a little, though not quite sure of the boy's decision. "Well, with that being the case, I guess I can't object under the circumstances."
"Thank you, father. Well, if you'll excuse me, I have to go with the boys who I have left them there alone." With a farewell gesture to the old priest, he turned to the young Kotomine.
"Kirei-kun."
With that said, the blond turned and walked to the door. As they watched him move further away, Risei kept his face neutral while Kirei kept his usual expression, but with narrowed eyes. For the first time, he felt a twinge of annoyance besides plus he had the feeling that this strange man was looking at him on purpose as if he trying to look through his soul.
Mackenzie residence - Miyama District
"Hmm, it's always nice to come home." Glen Mackenzie commented accompanied by his wife Martha Mackenzie as they walked back to their residence.
"You always say that when we come back here." His wife said in response.
"Yeah, but it's always a relief to come back to rest. When you're old, you feel like you need to take a break."
"That doesn't sound very like someone who had invited me to move here a long time ago, remember?" Martha argued with a smile as she looked at her husband, and the latter did the same in response.
The elderly couple were Glen and Martha Mackenzie. They were an immigrant family from Toronto, Australia that had lived in Japan for the past forty years that at that time they had been enemies during World War II. Fortunately, Fuyuki had not been targeted by US bombers or suffered collateral damage, so anti-gaijin resentment was minimal, although it did not escape occupation by Allied forces after the country's capitulation.
Glen was a bigshot businessman who now worked as an English teacher in a local school and Martha was a housewife.
Their son Chris was in elementary school when they moved to Japan and eventually started a family there. While enjoying the country, she felt a strong attraction to her roots and wanted her son to be educated in Australia. When his son was 10 years old, his family moved back to Toronto, and he gradually lost contact with his parents. It got to the point where they barely heard from each other, and it was finally 10 years since they had received a single letter or visit from family.
It was only like this when they 'received' the news that their supposed grandson 'Waver Mackenzie' was going to visit them for a few weeks while he was still studying at a university in England. Upon learning of that, they prepared the whole house for he to enjoy his stay here for a few days. What they did not expect for the elderly couple was that he also came with a 'partner' they had never heard of, and truth be told, his single figure seemed to cause dread due to being huge for an ordinary human looking like a giant, but he didn't seem to be intimidating at all and he was very friendly.
From what his 'grandson' said his name was Iskandar and he was from Greece, although to Glen that name didn't seem like Greek at all. Either way, he was in charge of looking after Waver and making sure he didn't get into trouble while they traveled around town. The truth is, he seemed like a pretty funny and smiling man, one that you could make friends with, and that's what old Mackenzie wanted.
"Well, let's see how our grandson and our friend are doing." Glenn said before stopping in front of the door and moved his hand to the handle to open it. When the door was opened giving the elderly access to the interior of the house, they heard the voice of their 'grandson' speak.
"Oh no, they are back already." Both elders blinked upon hearing Waver's voice that seemed to come from the dining room, and from the tone he had spoken with, he seemed to be surprised or something.
Ignoring that, old Mackenzie decided to speak.
"We are here, Waver. How did it go with Mr. Iskandar?"
A moment later, strange sounds came from the kitchen as murmurs. Out of curiosity, the residence's owners decided to go investigate to find out what their grandson was doing, and when they turned a corner to see the dining room, they froze in place.
In front of them, they saw that apart from their grandson and his friend, there were also 4 people they had not yet seen and met. They are all teenagers; 2 boys and 2 girls. Three of them were half lifted from their respective chairs looking nervously at the elders and like the latter, they were frozen in place when they saw them. The blonde girl was still sitting in her place without caring in the least, and the orange haired boy looked like he had tried to urge her to get up, but he seemed to have come too late.
The next few minutes that they spent in the dining room were quite tense as the elderly couple continued to look stunned at the 4 guests, while the latter were still looking totally nervous at the couple without knowing what to do or react. Waver also stared in the same way and could not bear this uncomfortable environment, so he decided to break it.
"Oh, I see you are back. Hello, grandparents." He said with a rather tight smile.
The couple still stared blankly at what was happening until Glen was the first to regain his composure and glanced at his grandson.
"Waver, who are these people?"
"Oh, you see…" The young Master said as his mind desperately tried to find a quick excuse to clear the matter. "These are friends I just met and invited them home. I hope you don't mind them, right?"
The couple were still staring at their grandson while their minds were still trying to process this new information, and it seemed like they weren't taking it well.
Seeing that this was not going to a part, Waver let out a weary sigh before proceeding to do something.
"Oh I see, so you guys are friends with our grandson too, huh?" Glen said in a happy and enthusiastic way.
"I'm glad that our Waver has people close to him to spend time with." Martha said in the same way.
Not knowing how to interpret this strange turn of events, our protagonists decided to play along while they processed what had happened. What happened was that when the couple discovered them, Waver approached them and from what they saw, he held out his hand in front of them to the face and then told them. "These guys over there are my friends and I've invited them here."
And after those words, the couple was frozen in their place and the young Briton walked away from them until he returned the way he came. The expression the elders were giving from the point of view of Ichigo, and the others looked like they were in a trance or something. It was only after a few moments that the elders recovered, but they behaved strangely.
"Uh, yeah sorry if I didn't warn them to get here." Waver said apologetically. "But I wanted to invite they here to teach them a bit about this, do you understand?"
"It is true." Rider said suddenly. "The best way to strengthen ties of friendship is to invite your friends to a good banquet like this."
"Oh, I understand. If so, I don't think we cared." Glen said with a nod before looking at the other teens. "You can stay and eat here as long as you want. I'm sorry if my grandson caused you problems."
Still not knowing how to react to this new situation, Uryū was the first to respond.
"No problem."
"We really appreciate your hospitality." Orihime was next.
"Yeah." Lastly, Ichigo.
"Well, how about you tell us something about yourselves for a change?" Martha asked wanting to know more about her grandson's friends.
Ichigo just gave a blank look with no idea what they could tell them to cover up their true identities and their purpose here. He just hope this didn't get any worse more.
Thanks for reading this. I know that this chapter is a bit short since in the Word pages it only goes up until to 10. It would have been a little satisfactory if it reached 12 or 13. Anyway I had to do it so that it wouldn't be long.
Now the objective of this chapter was to put another interaction between characters from different franchises like in this case Kisuke and Risei on Caster and his Master. To be clear, our favorite shopkeeper's real goal was not to chat with the old priest about the Servant of Sorcery problem, as he just wanted to see at least the face of someone who could become a dangerous foe.
And for those who have not realized why Risei didn't know about Caster and his Master until Kisuke explained it to him, it was obvious that he was feigning ignorance so as not to raise suspicions.
Well, that's all for today. Until the next chapter.
Ja ne!