Chapter 16
The Nameless Caster
Illya stretched herself as she took a break from her little video game session, her arms creating small pops from some knots. Cu looked at her curiously as she stood up and made her way to the kitchen.
She wasn't hungry per se but she figured she might as well feel other sense of satisfaction other than video games. No matter what alternate timeline he was from, Shirou's cooking was surely something that could get him ascended to godhood.
Speaking of Shirou, I wonder how much longer he's going to take... She wondered absent-mindedly as she got the container that held some leftovers of her beloved brother's cooking. As she waited for the food to heat up in the microwave, she closed her eyes in concentration. ... My Big Brother Shirou senses aren't tingling so no girlies are approaching him...
She finished her little moment of concentration with a confident nod before getting the food out and moving towards the rice cooker for some rice. Uwa... I really want to spend time with Shirou... Her face lit up as she processed her thoughtless thought. Wah! This is so embarrassing...
As her emotions switched from one to another, Cu took advantage of the small height gap to nab two fried chicken breasts leftovers and made a mad dash to what he deemed a safe distance.
Obviously noticing the sudden shift of weight, Illya blinked owlishly before she looked down to the half chicken breast absently. "Cu! You meanie!" she said angrily as she put the container on the countertop before taking after the backstabbing tamed wolf.
Utilizing her superior servant speed, she swung right in front of the tamed wolf with a glare.
The wolf halted his tracks and slowly started to back away with his eyes slowly going to the dog flap that led to the outside.
Noticing the line of sight of her pet, Illya glared harder as she spoke, "Don't try it, Cu! I have the superior speed!"
In turn, Cu grunted several times before taking off towards the door. He could literally smell freedom as he neared the dog flap. He felt the wind blowing to his face from the free air of the outside. His freedom was-
"Gotcha!" Illya declared as she tackled Cu with almost back-breaking speeds.
The poor semi-phantasmal wolf, in a vain attempt to spite his owner, started to eat the chicken breasts with haste.
Only, for both of them freeze as someone knocked on their door. "Amazon delivery!" a distinctly female voice called out.
Illya completely forgot Cu at that moment and leaped towards the door to open it and receive her beloved package. "Yeah! It's finally... Here..." her voice trailed off as she opened the door to find not one person but multiple people standing before her.
"Hello, is this perchance the Einzbern household?" the same female voice questioned, belonging to the leading person right in front of her.
Illya could feel the suppressed magical energy that belonged to the inhabitants of this world. While in her world, magical energy rarely exerted actual pressure besides some magecraft; she felt the people's energy before her trying to exert pressure all around.
"U-Uh... Nope! The wrong household!" she said in a panic as she slammed the door on the people's face and immediately rushed away from the door.
The door burst open with magical energy as she deflected the ball of energy by slapping it away.
"Tell us where is the Excalibur of Destruction is, child," a gruff man said as he walked through the door first while drawing out a sword hilt from the box he held, causing many figurines to fall out.
"M-My limited edition Magical Girl Madoka figure!" Illya gasped, aghast at the blatant disregard of her ordered figurine. "H-How dare you!" she cried as she extended her hand out and summoned Ruby. "Fuer!" she roared as she conjured the beam of magical energy from Ruby's tip.
The group of what obviously was exorcists tried to quickly gain ground towards her but unfortunately for them, they were simply too slow.
The leading gruff man was first to be hit by the beam and his body was more or less used as a tip of a spear to push the rest of the exorcists out into the open street.
"Father almighty!" someone from outside cried, announcing that there may be more exorcists outside.
Illya grimaced at the thought of fighting more people and her mind wandered to the discarded boxes and figurines spewed around the front door.
An idea sparked as she started to concentrate mana into Ruby. Suddenly, the whole house was covered in thousands of overlapping star shields that prevented all entrance into her abode.
Heaving a sigh from the exertion, she turned her attention back to the packages and figurines. She cried silent tears as she looked at the crushed Modoka figurine. She then proceeded to do clean up and bring the figurines to her room.
Vasco Strada gave a mild reprimand to the team of exorcists that had attacked Archer's hideout without waiting him. They had claimed that they saw the red-black themed man leaving the house a few hours prior, leaving the man's supposed sister.
They had thought that they could swiftly intimidate the girl into giving them Excalibur Destruction if it was on her person or at the house.
Of course, it had failed.
He turned to the massive bright dome composed of what appears to be star shields. "I wish to talk, my child!" he boomed with as much of a kind voice he could muster whilst keeping his volume high.
He spotted a face peaking backward from the upper window of the rather normal house. She quickly hid at seeing his form.
Having a big amount of patience but knowing that time was not on their side, he started to roll his shoulder and stretch a bit, trying to get some stiffness from his aging body.
"Please give me a chair and do get one for our guest as well," he commanded kindly.
"Okay," his apprentice replied with a hint of the annoyance, obviously from the fact that he was acting informally for a very serious affair.
Shaking his head lightly, he disregarded his apprentice's annoyance and turned back to the house. "You leave me with no choice," he said a tad bit seriously as he reared back his fist. "I will try to be gentle," he added as his fist broke through the barrier with ease, creating enough force to create a hole big enough for someone of his massive stature.
Hm... She has potential. He mused lightly, as he strode in.
Illya paled as the giant of a man, the one who had fought Archer a while back, broke through her barrier and strode towards the stronghold. "Great..." she groaned as she sent a look at the organized mess that was her anime figurines before looking at Cu.
As luck would seem to have it, the man, Vasco Strada she believed his name was, was actually quite polite and was waiting outside for her to answer the door. Of course, it could be a trap and he was waiting so he could fight her outside.
Well, perhaps she could just hit him with a surprise attack? Standing in the hallway, she readied herself, taking up a stance that would hopefully be able to evade any unsuspecting attack to herself.
She breathed in and then breathed out. "Fuer!" she roared as Ruby lit up and released the familiar beam of mana.
As it turns out, the hulk of a man quickly evaded to the side of the door seemingly at last minute if the smoking side of his sword was any indication. "I see..." he said quietly as he frowned at the remaining pieces of what used to be this house's front door.
With Illya, she soon found two windows broken and multiple exorcists quickly entering with their light swords already drawn.
"Schneiden!" she instinctively called out as she crossed blades with an exorcist, almost swiftly overwhelming him with her E rank strength.
Cu, in an attempt to alleviate pressure from his master and actually do something, shoved and bit any exorcists that tried to attack.
Knowing that she needed to put some distance between her and the exorcists before Vasco joins into the fray, she erected dozens of shields that essentially paved the way to one of the broken windows. Quickly grabbing Cu, she jumped out and immediately held onto Cu as she took off to the sky.
"Durandal!"
She moved instinctually to her left, dodging the beam of energy that cut through where she was previously. She quickly spun around and shouted, "Schießen!"
Hundreds of balls of energy shot off towards the ground, peppering the house, the exorcists, and some of the fencing in the barrage.
She cried silent tears for the sacrifice she had just made but continued on her journey in the rendezvous point where Archer said he was going to meet her in case of the destruction of this hideout.
Only for her to get some tingles and dodging to her right as dozens of spells whizzed past her. She quickly shot up a bit higher, into the clouds as the spells quickly redirected itself and shoot at her once more.
"Hang on, Cu!"
As she shot upwards, she couldn't help but grimace as the lack of visibility denied her ability to locate the guided spells.
Hearing the sizzling sound of a guided spell, presumably a fire-type, from below her, she cast a shield below her and continued her ascent. A sizable explosion parted the clouds as dozens of spells impacted the shield.
Gasping for some air, Illya steadied her breathing before entering the cloud once more but this time descending to just below cloud level before taking off.
After half an hour or so, she struggled to keep Cu in her arms despite the wolf not doing anything. "Ah..." she groaned as she tried to keep her arms steady.
Finally giving in to her E-rank strength, she swiftly cast multiple shields before her and set Cu down and as well as sit down herself.
Cu swiftly shook himself of most water, spraying the tired Illya in cool water. "Haha... Thank you..." she groaned out before stretching her arms and back.
Cu merely tilted his head in confusion.
Vasco's apprentice merely sighed at the sight of the ruined house and injured exorcists. He walked up to his teacher and asked, "Why did you let her get away?"
Vasco looked to his apprentice and then back to the injured but not dead exorcists. "I may not be the smartest but I know when someone has a place to rendezvous with their allies," he said wisely as he turned to some uninjured exorcists who were focused on keeping track with the girl via their tag spell. "Besides, who would I be to leave people injured? Go, get some beds and contact the nearby church for assistance."
His apprentice nodded, actually quite surprised but glad that his teacher actually has a plan.
"Yes, father."
Archer clicked his tongue in annoyance as he used his superior speed in spirit form to swiftly get to the rendezvous point he had set. Why the hell did the exorcists have to attack now? He thought bitterly with gritted teeth.
At the very least, they were now officially in the Hero Faction but all of that would've been dulled if Illya was killed. I will not lose her again!
Landing before the abandoned church, he kicked open the door. "Illya!" he called out as he scoured the area, desperation clinging to his heart.
"Wah! Shirou, don't scare me like that!" Illya cried as she glared at him from where she was sitting previously, near the front of the church.
Archer heaved a sigh as relief flooded his system. "You shouldn't scare me like that either, Illya..."
"Hehe... Sorry, Shirou..."
Archer palmed his face as he finally calmed his breathing. "Are you hurt anywhere?" he inquired as he sent his gaze on her once more.
"Ehm..."
"Illya..."
"I'm fine!" Illya yelped as she got nervous under Archer's intense gaze.
Archer kept his intense glare of a little bit longer before sighing. "If you say so... But if I see a single scratch on you, I will change my credit card password and not tell you, little missy," he declared.
"Yes, mom!" Illya yelped unintentionally.
"Mom?"
"Y-You... S-S-Sound-"
"Well, as your mother I will suspend your gaming time to the weekends," Archer declared as a smirk wormed to his face.
"W-Wah?! Why?!"
"You didn't do your chores nor your homework for the month."
Illya gasped. "Y-You knew?!"
Archer's smirk gained a gleam. "Once we settle down at the Hero Faction's hideout, you will do all the homework and until then, no playing on the weekdays."
"Wah! Why are you so mean, Shirou?!" Illya cried once more as she gave him her best puppy eyes.
Root almighty, why does her puppy eyes make me feel this way... Archer groaned.
Chapter 16 End
Bah, been busy with school. I apparently have sinus inflammation and scoliosis so I've been spending less time on my phone. I also get a lot of headaches whenever I do go on my phone.
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