Disclaimer: I don't own Fate/Stay Night or Campione. They belong to their writers Kinoko Nasu & Takedzuki Jou
xxxGodou's POVxxx
When I first heard the news I was excited. Shirou is coming back home after months of wandering the world. I wondered what kind of adventures and experiences he's gone through. I'm quite sure he's accumulated more cooking recipes to his repertoire. He's not known as the Chef Killer for nothing. Even now, the local chefs of the neighbourhood are trying to outdo him in his own game. They would develop new cooking recipes and present it to Shirou and dare him to do better. Needless to say, Shirou never lost even once. He only needed to take a few bites of the food before he starts developing a better recipe. Thanks to that, you can always find a new menu in each restaurant and food stall every other week. This makes customers come in droves just to find out if there are new foods added to the menu. It never gets dull even if you've went to said restaurants and food stalls dozens of times already.
Other than the Chef Killer, Shirou is also known as the Fake Janitor at school. Every time you ever find him having some free time, he's always helping someone one way or another. He's went from saving kittens from trees to fixing electrical appliances to helping the clubs with maintaining their equipment for club activities. Sometimes I think he's Superman. It doesn't help that he always sneaks out of the house every other night only to find that some criminal, gang, mob, mafia or yakuza would be reported to have been apprehended by the authorities the next morning in the news. He probably thinks we don't know about it but you don't belong to the Kusanagis without having that kind of insight. At least, I'm sure Grandpa has already figured it out; I'm not sure about Shizuka though. We never brought the issue out in the open since it's never caused any kind of problems to our daily lives. When I first figured out about Shirou's 'night activity' I was very worried, but after finding out that he never got even a scratch from said activities, I figured he knew what he was doing so I never brought it up. Even Shirou's academic scores are top notch. He's always one of the top 5 students who obtained the highest scores in the exams. I've managed to keep my own scores in the top 30 thanks to him tutoring me.
Alright, its official, Shirou is definitely a real life Superman.
All these thoughts went through my head when I was woken up from my reverie by Mariya.
"Godou-san, are you alright? You seem to be lost in thought."
"Huh? Oh yeah, I'm fine. I was just thinking about the antics that Shirou went through before he went on his trip." I gave an embarrassed smile after being caught reminiscing down memory lane. We are currently at the train station waiting for Shirou's arrival. His last phone call said that he already arrived at the airport a few hours ago, so he should be here in about half an hour or so.
"By the way, what kind of person is Godou's brother? I need to find a way to convince him of our relationship if he has any protests. All I know is that he was adopted." As usual, Erica drops the bomb with such grace and confidence that I start to dread if allowing them to accompany me welcoming Shirou back home was such a good idea. Thankfully, Shizuka isn't here to make things worse because she was at her friend's house having a birthday party.
"Erica, behave yourself. We're here welcoming someone home after a long journey of self-enlightenment. We don't need you to make him more exhausted after just arriving." Liliana chides Erica with those stern words while standing upright beside me like a knight guarding her liege. As expected of someone who has attained the rank of Great Knight.
"But it'll be easier to be engaged to Godou if his brother accepts me right? The same goes to you too Lily, if he doesn't acknowledge you as Godou's premier knight, how are you going to justify being around Godou to serve him?" Erica says so with a face and tone that definitely says she's mock worrying which tells me that she definitely already has some diabolical scheme set up for the meeting.
Hearing this, Liliana's face makes a small frown. "Perhaps it would be good to know some information about your brother as Erica says." Liliana says this in an unsatisfied tone for not being able to refute her rival's logic.
"I'm also quite curious about your brother as well Godou-san." Mariya inserts herself into the conversation. She's been curious about the brother of Japan's Devil King ever since she heard about him.
Seeing no way of avoiding this conversation, Godou decides to answer honestly. Other than Shirou's vigilante activities, his life isn't exactly a secret. "The first thing you should know about Shirou is that he's known as the Chef Killer in the shopping district. I think you guys have heard of him before right?"
Mariya and Liliana perked up at this statement. "The Chef Killer? You mean the person who goes on to sample the foods in the shopping district and ends up making a superior recipe later?" Liliana says this excitedly. Being a cook herself, she must be trying to compare her cooking skills in relation to him.
"I heard that he has been undefeated in the challenges the chefs in the shopping district presented him. Is it true?" Mariya also seems excited at the prospect of meeting such a celebrity.
"Yup. I haven't seen him lose even once to this day. I'm sure he's gotten more recipes now that he's travelled to different countries all over the world." While saying so, I feel a sort of pride welling up in my chest. Hey, he's my brother. So sue me.
"Is there anything else we need to know about him?" Erica says disinterestedly since she's the only one here who doesn't have any passion for cooking.
"Well, he's also the type of person who likes to help others. He's always helping someone with something no matter how trivial. He's good at fixing things whether electronic or not. He's also quite mature for his age. You might think that he's already an adult sometimes." That last statement was true for as long as I've known him. Even when we were kindergarteners I feel like I'm talking to a full grown adult when conversing with him, and I'm supposed to be the older one too (Shirou was born 2 months after me).
I was trying to find more words to describe him when I saw a streak of red hair coming towards us. I put my hand up high and waved to get his attention and sure enough, he saw me and lightly waved back. I was contemplating how to introduce everyone to Shirou when his smiling face was suddenly replaced by shock and then annoyance and finally he sighed with a dejected face and a slump in his shoulder. I was wondering what was wrong until he started talking with a voice that makes me think that he has given up on something. "Godou, I'm tired from a long flight, so I'll just be blunt. How the hell did you become a Campione?"
Okay, I wasn't expecting that at all.
xxxYuri's POVxxx
After the initial shock of Shirou's blunt statement about Godou being a Campione, the whole group decided to relocate their conversation somewhere more crowded and with a lot of noise. This is so that they won't appear suspicious which would have happened if they tried somewhere more secluded and the noise can mask their conversation. After walking a short distance, they arrived at a café that was also playing some music from the radio. Erica picked a table that was a bit farther away from the other customers. Everyone sat down facing Shirou who had a tired look the entire time since we met.
"Um, since we're all here, Shirou-san do you mind telling us how you knew Godou-san is a Campione?" I tried starting a conversation while hoping that it will not end badly.
"I have a… sensitive nose for magical things. And I mean that literally. The amount of magical power Godou is emitting is similar to the other Campiones I've met." While he said this, Shirou had a calm but annoyed expression like he was remembering some annoying events.
"The other Campiones? Shirou, you've met them?" Godou asked while his jaw dropped showing how shocked he is.
"Five of them, two of them tried to kill me. I was able to converse peacefully with the other three." Shirou kept his earlier expression on while saying this.
"You fought with two of the Campiones? How did you survive? Who did you fight with?" It was Liliana who asked this time and from her tone she was shocked bordering on hysterical. She wasn't the only one; I was so shocked I wasn't even able to voice out any questions. Erica was similarly awed but she had a hint of suspicion in her eyes. Maybe she didn't fully believe what Shirou is saying? That is possible. How could any mortal man survive a fight with a Devil King unscathed?
"I fought the Devil of Balkan, Sasha Dejanstahl Voban and Ruler of the Martial Realm, Luo Hao. As for how I survived, let's just say I have a lot of trump cards." Shirou's voice was filled with hate when he said Marquis Voban's name but his face turned a little shade of red when he said Her Eminence Luo Hao's name. I was a little suspicious of this so I decided to take a risk. "Shirou-san, what happened between you and Her Eminence?"
The effect was instantaneous. His face started becoming redder and he started losing his calm a little. "Nothing happened. We fought a few hours and it ended in a draw. After that, I made my escape. Nothing happened after that."
Although I was shocked that he was able to fight Her Eminence to a draw (really, there have been more shocking revelations in the past few minutes compared to the past few months combined), I was able to keep calm this time and stared at him accusingly which Liliana followed suit. Erica just looked amused somehow while Godou just looked confused.
"Shirou, what happened with Luo Hao? Come on, you know you can trust me right?" Godou said imploringly to his brother. Shirou just stared at Godou for a few seconds before answering him. "…Our fight ended up in a small clearing full of a certain type of flower, which I found out later, are the main ingredients of a strong aphrodisiac. We were exhausted, battered and bruised. Both our magical reserves were running low so we never noticed the flower's pollen entering our systems until we breathed in a large quantity of it. …..We ended up doing it until morning." At this, Shirou sounded defeated.
Everyone was speechless. Even Erica. No one spoke anything for the next few minutes. That was how stunned everyone was. My mind has stopped working but I still unconsciously note that Liliana's face has become as red as a tomato. The same thing is also happening to Godou. Erica just looked at Shirou in disbelief. After a few more minutes, it was Erica who was finally able to find her voice.
"You expect us to believe that you actually fought Her Eminence to a standstill and in the end had….sex….with her? How dumb do you think we are?" At the end of her sentence Erica sounded a little outraged. Not surprising, since once you think about it sounded ludicrous. But, as outrageous as it sounds, somehow I felt that Shirou is telling the truth.
"If you don't believe me, you can ask Miss Alice of the Witenagemot. She saw everything that happened but kept quiet as a favour to me. Just mention my name and she will confirm my….statement." Shirou deadpanned.
Everyone kept quiet for a while, trying to digest everything that they just heard. I want to refute everything that this man in front of me just said. There is no way he was able to match a Campione in battle. And what are these so called 'trump cards' that he claims to have? My rational mind didn't want to accept such an outrageous conclusion. However, my instinct as a Hime-Miko says that he hasn't told us a single lie. Everything he said was true, from having fought two Campiones and lived (without any permanent injury too) to having sex with one of them. There was also the issue of how he survived a fight with Marquis Voban but if he can fight Her Eminence to a standstill (which I still find it hard to believe), than surviving Marquis Voban isn't too farfetched. And by the looks of it, Erica, Liliana and Godou also seem to have doubts about Shirou's claims. It was when I was thinking all this that the person in question broke the silence.
"So, now that I have answered all your questions, perhaps it's time I asked mine. First, how the hell did Godou ended up becoming a Campione? Second, I already know Mariya Yuri works with the History Compilation Committee so it's not surprising she is sticking close to Godou. But who are you two?" At this, he looked at Erica and Liliana. "It's obvious that you're Italians, so how come you're here instead of with that idiot Doni? Thirdly, why do I have this sinking suspicion that Godou has amassed his own harem?" At that last statement, he looked at Godou with eyes full of suspicion.
Godou's only response was to sink in despair while sitting between me and Liliana with both our faces red.
A/N : My first fanfic. Please review.