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Fate/Heavenly Demon
arc 1 - birth of the celestial demon
chapter 5 - eradicating rats
Fuyuki - emiya mansion - two days after the attack on irisviel and shirou
When you try to get rid of a large number of people you may fall into the obvious possibility of being discovered, large numbers of missing persons throw up many danger signals.
Irisviel had not realized that problem but fortunately she was surrounded by professionals on the subject, either magically or in the traditional way, the job of the mercenaries and Fujimura was to support the albino after all.
Solving these problems on her own by the mercenaries and Fujimura allowed Irisviel to focus on her magical and non-magical training, but there will be times when she will have to be interrupted.
"ma'am, we have news" a mercenary was having the most difficult task at the moment and his odds were stacked against him.
an albino in training clothes, white leggings that showed in great detail the curves and size of her employer's butt, a tight purple top that showed off the beautiful valleys of Germany and a stretching posture on the floor that left little to be desired. the imagination.
the reason for the dangerous moment was the fixed look that the red-haired boy was giving him, two swords in his hands and ready to jump by the mercenary's neck if he looked at irisviel indecently.
"what's going on?" He paused his training to face the mercenary who was strangely looking at the ceiling.
"We intercepted a suspicious group of twenty people and managed to capture two of them alive while eleven others had to be treated at the time"
"Did six of them escape…or did they let them escape?"
"The second thing, ma'am" was part of the group that intercepted the suspects and the one who ordered the release of the other six had been Mandla "we sense that this small group will meet with the Yggdmillennia, we can find it that way"
"Two days of cleaning... only for more rats to appear" a small disdain came out of irisviel, fed up with the situation "good thinking, tell the usual three that I'll meet them later, at whose hands was I left?" the interrogation?"
"The interrogation will be carried out by Mrs. Julia and Mr. Scarface, they are the most apt to carry out the task"
"perfect, you can leave"
the mercenary sang victory in his thoughts for keeping his neck close to his head, he could still feel the boy's look that promised horrors.
"Shirou, you didn't have to be so rude" the albino complained to her son "by the way, don't you feel any discomfort?"
"No, everything's fine" the redhead assured "just more comfort with my body" he showed it by stretching and showing his elasticity.
"Is it normal to raise the cultivation level so quickly?" that question was not addressed to shirou
The boy grabbed Irisviel's hand, allowing mental communication with Yuan Jun without the need to enter his sphere of reality.
'don't worry about their speed, what's more, I think you don't understand that the speed of improvement of shirou, taiga and yours is much higher than the average of my world"
"what would the normal speed be like?" Irisviel wanted to know how fast they were compared to the martial artists of the yuan jun world.
'to reach the first level of cultivation, a normal person would take anywhere from six months to a few years of training'
"Our speed has something to do with your techniques, doesn't it?" the boy and irisviel understood how powerful the heavenly demon's training methods were.
'he's partly right but the other is because of his own talent, you, taiga and irisviel have above average talent' if yuan jun had to measure the talents he would put taiga and shirou on the same level and irisviel a little behind
"aah~, I already want to enter the second level of cultivation" the albino childishly complained while kicking her feet.
'everything comes in due time but I have an idea that can help you'
""which one?"" the red and the white asked at the same time impatiently.
'the three techniques I gave shirou are losing effectiveness and only work for the establishment of the base, as for irisviel she could use a little muscle' yuan jun was just thinking "voice" out loud 'I recommend adding weight to Your training'
"Something like lifting weights and stuff?"
'no, I recommend arm and leg bracelets with a weight of...mmmmm...I think ten kilograms will do the trick'
"total?" the albino's voice did not sound sure of her question
'in each arm' shirou could almost imagine his teacher's smile, almost.
"aaah~...there's no other way, I'll go create a mystic code that has the function of increasing his weight" he had finished training after all.
"I'll go train my magecraft after meditating" the mention of such a thing caught irisviel's attention and she forgot to ask shirou about his progress with his magic training.
"Was there any noticeable improvement, shirou?"
"My experiment is not working, I can't find the method to make my structural analysis show me the history of objects that are not swords"
"those things are not discovered overnight shirou, how is your screening going?"
"When it's not about swords, I'm fine, but when I try to throw swords I feel like I'm doing things halfway"
"I would like to help you but I can't do much for your specifications... specialized" irisviel thought that this was one of the many problems that would come to shirou for being an incarnation
'calm down, I can't help him either but I can make sure I keep him safe' irisviel trusted yuan jun with shirou's protection, after everything he did, he had a lot of faith in her 'as for shirou's partner, taiga'
"Is something wrong with her?" the young taiga had recently started training so there shouldn't be any problems.
'shirou's advance is fast, we have to ensure his recovery faster now and we only have taiga as a partner' shirou's advance speed was within his estimates 'we need another partner and immediately perform the ritual when taiga enters the level level culture: bone strengthening'
"You're right" the arrival of the Yggdmillennia stopped all their plans to gather couples for Shirou, if this lasted longer then there would only be one way "Anyway, I have things to do and Shirou too, see you at dinner Shirou"
With irisviel's farewell, shirou took the lotus position and began to meditate with the heavenly demon flame technique.
both he and irisviel and taiga were busy with their duties.
emiya mansion - studio
"You're not going to like what I'm going to tell you" Julia looked at her employer with some pity.
that was already bad news, irisviel was in the study with the three leading mercenaries as usual, after taking a bath and changing clothes, they were talking about the interrogations.
"Say it, I'm ready" she couldn't afford not to listen and not know.
"The Yggdmillennia came here for you, obviously, but they found out about you from an informant, he talked about you, your abilities and characteristics, they don't know where the informant found out about you, but it's obvious that he was from one of the two families of fuyuki"
Irisviel knew very well that the Tohsaka did not sell that information, they had people watching them twenty-four hours a day, more like kotomine than rin, so there was only one option left.
"matou"
They had no surveillance of that place, it was infested with worms that killed any suspect, two of their mercenaries suffered the cruel end of being devoured by those worms. They left the surveillance of the matou and concentrated on other things, that could have been the moment where they talked about her.
"one problem ends and another begins" irisviel grumbled and sighed "we'll finish off the Yggdmillennia and then we'll take care of the matou, I suppose the ones they let loose have already arrived with Avi, right?"
"That's right, while we're talking, our guys already had to get to the place, we could go now or later" Scarface was getting tired of going back and forth, he was getting too old for his job
After this mission he would retire, he had enough saved to buy a hundred whores and keep them with him as wives and have enough money for a few more generations.
"let's exterminate the rats and keep an eye out for any idiot who pushes his luck"
They all got up and Mandla communicated with the pursuers of the six freed.
Fuyuki - western farm
"USELESS, INCOMPETENT, THEY WERE NOT AN ELITE TEAM?"
one man was facing six others in poor condition, blows, bruises, bullet wounds and a little more, it was the state in which the remaining six of the elite group sent by Avi's superiors were.
"they attacked by surprise, they knew of our arrival"
"There were a lot of them and we could only run away because they focused less on us"
With the state they were in, trying to capture the Einzbern homunculus would be suicide and with no other option, Avi prepared to fail the mission and leave Fuyuki.
the smashing gate wiped out his hopes of escaping Fuyuki alive.
"finally we can meet in person Mr. Avi, let me say goodbye"
a familiar figure emerged from the cloud of dust, followed by many others fully armed, surrounded the man and trained their weapons on their target.
he.
"You hid very well, we had a hard time finding you"
"...they let them follow you" Avi's fury towards the six survivors reached a peak "YOU-"
"shoot"
Irisviel's cold voice interrupted the Yggdmillennia's screams and was followed by shots towards the six survivors, they were of no use anymore and only got in the way: Avi tried to flee but was intercepted by some metal ties and caught by them.
"This is the moment where you release all the information we need"
Captured, without allies and totally defeated, Avi was not willing to say anything to the homunculus, Yggdmillennia did not allow mistakes, if he did not die here he would die in Rumunia.
Avi was lamenting the bad decisions of his superiors, he was sure he would have a totally different result if the old men had allowed him to attack the homunculus but he couldn't cry over the spilled milk.
"Fuck you" was the last thing he said before his head exploded into many pieces, bathing Irisviel in blood and gray matter.
"Yuck...wow...damn, at least tell us if the matou sold the damn information" while irisviel was dealing with the disgusting explosion, one person couldn't help laughing
"hahahahahahaha"
"Hey, Julia, stop laughing, it's not funny!"
as quickly as it started, it ended. The yggdmillennia may come back but they don't allow anyone to make the first attack anymore, they will hit and then ask. Irisviel had learned her lesson on how to lead her small group.
one week later - Fuyuki - Emiya mansion
A week passed, a busy week for the mercenaries and Fujimura, they had to keep an eye on the entrances and surrounding forests to make sure that no one entered without their knowing and then getting rid of them.
they were not few.
It was fortunate that the only ones who tried their luck were the dying families in despair but they sinned in trust and three Fujimura men died, they were able to give them a proper burial but the albino still felt the weight of their deaths.
The disadvantage of being a leader is that the life of your subordinates is your responsibility and you must ensure their survival at all times, their presence is your strength.
"there was no sighting of the old matou, he never left his residence" a fujimura yakuza was telling the information his people had gathered.
That was the next headache that Irisviel and her team had to deal with. Finding out that the matou were the ones who sold the information showed that they have some grievance against them.
"The only one who leaves the residence is his adoptive granddaughter, Matou Sakura formerly Tohsaka Sakura, the other relatives also showed no presence"
Rin's sister, Irisviel thought. With the problem of the Yggdmillennia solved, the little tohsaka reappeared for tea time and had to inform him about the problem that killed them. The girl proposed that she could turn a blind eye but on the condition that they keep Sakura alive.
Irisviel had been suspicious of the request but after rin explained what her sister was, she understood. Little Rin did not agree with the treatment that her father made with the Matou since she did not trust them. The albino promised not to endanger her sister and came up with a simple plan.
"The places that the girl, sakura, frequents are the school and the market, we can perform while she goes to one of those places"
"It is obvious that she is watched by the old matou's worms, we will have to kidnap her quickly and bring her to the mansion, it is the only safe place from the worms"
The plan to kidnap the girl was what Irisviel had come up with to deal with the old matou more easily, the possibility of Zouken using her as a shield was too high to risk.
"Shall we kidnap her after school or before?"
"You seem very excited to kidnap a Mandla girl, do we have to be worried?"
"fuck you old man"
While Mandla and scarface were playing, irisviel thought about the best time to take sakura with them. They could minimize the chances of the zouken acting recklessly if they do so in daylight and in the public eye.
"We will kidnap her in the day, before she enters the school, we will pass it off as a common kidnapping"
"What will we do if it has worms inside it? You told us that the berserk master in the Grail War had worms inside it." The curiosity of the events of the Holy Grail War could not be held by the mercenaries like this. that irisviel was forced to tell the events.
"... there is a way" the idea that she had in her head was not to irisviel's liking but she had to bite the bullet "we can ask the priest, kotomine kirei, for help to remove the very possible worms"
None of the mercenaries said anything against it, they knew that the priest was a spiritual doctor and could help. Little Rin blurted out the information when she was complaining about the priest on her last visit.
"We will carry out the abduction tomorrow, you will carry it out, the Fujimura will take care of possible future rumors and we will prepare to eliminate the zouken worms. You can go"
Dismissing the mercenary trio, Irisviel set out to find Shirou and Taiga. They had something to talk about.
Emiya Mansion - Inner Garden
"This feeling, it's amazing" Taiga had the feeling that she could jump to the moon at that moment.
shioru was next to taiga watching how she reacted to reaching the first level of her cultivation, it was a day ago that she had achieved it and the changes were already present.
Smooth skin, glow in the eyes, slight increase in height, another slight growth in chest, hips and butt, but most importantly, a great increase in strength.
the change in taiga's body occurred much faster than in irisviel or shirou, shirou asked about that and his teacher answered.
"Your body and Irisviel's are very young and will not withstand such sudden changes, you also have to take into account that Taiga is special in its own way, just like you and Irisviel are"
speaking of changes, shirou also experienced them thanks to his arrival in the second level of cultivation: organ transformation, his changes were slow but if you compare the shirou from a week ago you could realize the changes.
The first and greatest was his height, once again, if before he looked twelve then now he looks fifteen, the second was his physique and strength, his change caused Shirou's hidden muscles to come out forcefully and the third change ... you can say later.
"Do you feel any discomfort or pain?"
"nope, none"
Just as Shirou looked fifteen but was seven, Taiga looked like she was in her twenties, though the discomfort Taiga had with Shirou faded a bit with her change in appearance, but it was still there.
"Fancy a fight?"
"damn yeah"
She was excited to test her new abilities but unfortunately they were interrupted by a female albino acquaintance.
"ehem, sorry for the interruption but the three of us have to talk" the albino coughed to get his attention "shirou, taiga, we have to talk about-"
"wait a minute" it was taiga who interrupted irisviel "is it true that you are ten years old?"
"...well, yes, I think I explained to you that I was a homunculus, right? and that it had a limited life time"
"Yes, you explained it but looking at you I thought you had time until you were thirty or something like that" Taiga's hand went to her neck nervously.
"Irisviel was already born with that aspect" Shirou was the one who clarified it
"oooh, I get it"
"It's good that you understand, but please concentrate." Irisviel's tone turned serious. "I've come to talk to you about that." Since Taiga-chan managed to reach the first level of her cultivation, the only thing left to do is find another. couple"
"Do you have candidates for shirou?"
"I have candidates but we have to find out if they are suitable with the help of yuan jun"
"If so, why the concern?" taiga's question was understandable, if you already have candidates, you just have to verify them and that's it.
"...I'm not worried about that, it was for another reason and fortunately it was solved"
"why did you care in the first place?" the redhead tried to join in the conversation
"I was worried if Taiga thought it was too strange to have to do it with another girl when the time came, but she doesn't seem uncomfortable about it"
"I came to accept it recently, don't be surprised" the answer was direct and with a touch of resignation
With the first problem solved, irisviel went to the second and faced Shirou.
"Shirou, I have good news for you" a teasing smile appeared on the white-haired girl's face "do you remember that there was a special exhibition in Tokyo about swords?"
"Yes, I had said that it would be good to go see her, shall we go?"
"no" the answer disappointed shirou a bit but he understood why they couldn't "but you know what they say, if muhammad doesn't go to the mountain, the mountain goes to muhammad"
"Will there be an exhibition here?" taiga joined the conversation
"That's right, I asked your grandfather if I could do something, a few calls later and boom, sword exhibition in fuyuki, it will be in a month"
seeing the expectation on shirou's face, it brought a smile to irisviel and taiga
one day later - fuyuki - surroundings of hamamura elementary school
'one more day' thought the matou heiress
that day she woke up with a strange feeling of anticipation, she didn't wake up with the pains of the worms inside her, she didn't wake up with that excruciating thirst she had to endure until it was gone, she just woke up and began to prepare for the day.
books and his backpack, a simple and quick breakfast to make and he went to school, he didn't take any detours to shorten the way since he had plenty of time and was in no hurry.
He never returned to the pool of worms, his training became much more normal, trial and error with a lot of time in between, he would rather neglect his school supplies than neglect his training and not be able to show progress to his grandfather.
his practice in matou magecraft didn't make much progress, he had no talent for those spells, but his limit fields were truly exceptional and the only thing he had any pride in.
Little Sakura was so lost in thought that she couldn't react when a van stopped next to her and she was forced inside. The whole action did not last even ten seconds. Sakura was in shock until a cloth was put in her mouth and she couldn't stay conscious.
the van accelerated hard and fled the scene. Hidden from everyone's gaze, a myriad of worms were moving violently in the same direction.
zouken noticed the kidnapping immediately, he kept an eye on the girl at all hours and was a little doubtful that the kidnapping was orchestrated by normal people. They killed them and they were a very wealthy family in the public eye, so it did not seem strange to him that they called for a ransom.
but zouken was not naive, Fuyuki, magical land, a place where there is currently a new group that he attacked for their interests and also the direction the van was heading was the einzbern mansion.
The worms tried to follow them but the speed of the vehicle was too fast to be a van, they tried to intercept and break its tires but they were reinforced, much to the surprise of zouken and the worms.
the old matou could rescue sakura without problems but it would be too flashy for non-magus, the worms inside sakura couldn't get out of her without killing her, it was a hopeless case. zouken could only watch as sakura was taken away.
'I'll let you take her' he couldn't rescue her but he would try to negotiate her release, the girl was too important for his trip to the mainland as the public face of the matou.
a few hours before - emiya mansion
"It was a big surprise to hear from Rin that the killer magus's wife needs my help."
Irisviel was possibly facing the person she hated the most in this world, after jubstacheit. Kotomine Kirei was in front of Irisviel in a spare room that was prepared as a medical room by the mercenaries a while ago.
"stop prolonging the conversation and answer the question"
"Oh, excuse me but I was distracted, could you repeat it?" the smile that the priest showed irisviel made her want to remove it from the priest's face.
"...haaa, I'll repeat it, can you extirpate parasitic familiars from a person's body?" The albino had to let out a sigh not to explode against the priest.
"Well, I have knowledge in spiritual healing and surgery but it depends on the type of relative and the type of parasite"
"it's a worm-like familiar"
"So you want to deal with zouken" with the mention of the familiar she was able to know who the albino was facing.
They were silent for a moment, Kirei studying the albino with a fake smile and Irisviel looking increasingly annoyed with the priest.
"can you do it or not?" the priest knew how to irritate people very easily.
that's why almost everyone hated him.
"I can do it, but you ask me to "extirpate" and not "exorcise", I can only do one thing"
Irisviel didn't understand what Kirei meant by "exorcise" but as long as he can safely operate on the girl, Irisviel could face the old matou.
"Just take care of removing all the worms from the girl, we will bring her here and I don't want you hanging around my home"
Kirei just smiled with his eyes closed as he nodded, Irisviel stared at him doubtfully but gave up and left the room, leaving only Kirei in it.
"I could tell him to ask the church for help after all zouken can be considered a dead apostle…but telling him wouldn't be fun"
Kirei prefers to put fun before helping, he could enjoy a good show with his king.
Currently - Einzbern Manor
"Take her to the infirmary" Irisviel ordered as the mercenaries carried the girl in their arms.
they practically ran to the infirmary and handed the girl over to the priest, irisviel stayed to make sure that kirei didn't do anything harmful to the girl.
"It has a lot" Kirei informed the albino while touching Sakura's body "This could take time"
"as long as you can save her"
"Okay, I'll start removing them as you ordered" she gave irisviel a fake smile and began the surgery.
Irisviel saw the entire process, the anesthetizing spell, the medical utensils, undressing the matou, writing runes on her body to prevent her from bleeding to death, and the first cut of the priest's scalpel.
the cuts were slow but precise and one by one he began to remove the worms from the girl, irisviel wanted to vomit when she saw the first one, the worm had a phallic shape and she could only imagine what the girl went through.
Time passed and Kirei's actions were repetitive, he opened sakura with a scalpel, removed the worm with unbinding spells and closed the wound, there were times when two came out of a single hole.
For Irisviel, the hour it took Kirei to extirpate all the worms seemed eternal. Finishing the operation and looking one last time for any worm that might have stayed.
"ready" notice kirei
With the surgery completed, Irisviel approached the girl and cast a healing spell on her to remove the possibly scars. Irisviel saw the girl and almost thanked Kirei, almost.
"Good job, you can go back, a mercenary will accompany you to the exit" Irisviel took Sakura in her arms with the plan to move her to a better room and let her rest.
"so cold, I thought you could invite me to your tea time"
"The further away you are from me, the better for me, your business is over" Irisviel didn't wait for an answer and left the room with sakura in her arms.
Kirei followed shortly after and came across the mercenary, following him as he looked around, nothing interesting until they passed a window that overlooked the inner garden. A boy and a girl were fighting with a sword and a spear respectively.
"I didn't know your employer was a babysitter" Kirei's intention was to try to get his guide to just release the information.
"..."
"If you don't tell me, can I say hello?"
The mercenary was about to answer in the negative but was surprised seeing the priest jump out the window and head towards the redhead and the brunette. The man's sudden appearance interrupted shirou and taiga's practice match. Shirou immediately pushed Taiga behind him, a strange foreboding appearing on the back of his neck.
danger.
"Don't worry, I was just passing by to say hello to the children of Irisviel"
At one point Kirei was surrounded by mercenaries pointing their weapons at his head, but the priest only looked at the redhead with his false smile, when the boy saw him, his whole body prepared to face him and his eyes showed an impressive emptiness to kirei.
"let me introduce myself, I'm kotomine kirei, nice to meet you"
"..."
"please priest kotomine leave"
Shirou offered no response to the priest's introduction as he was watching for any possible movement, he knew that the man was strong, stronger than him and the feeling of danger made his hair stand on end. A mercenary was the one who called for the removal of the priest from the mansion.
"It's a shame you don't want to introduce yourself, I'll retire for the moment but I hope we can talk another time, boy"
With his lack of response, the priest lost the desire to stay longer to play around with the place, he found something much more interesting and ended his business, having a group of seven armed people was not a problem for him but he did not feel like it make a scene.
Shirou kept watching the man until he disappeared from his sight and he let out a sigh, unconsciously holding his breath but he wasn't the only one.
"That priest…is really dangerous"
taiga was behind shirou in all that strange conversation, the priest didn't give her a look as he was only paying attention to shirou. Taiga's legs were shaking, she was in the first level of cultivation but her instincts were just as sharp as Shirou's and she also noticed that the man was really dangerous.
"...let's go with irisviel" Shirou grabbed Taiga's hand and they looked for irisviel
…
Irisviel took the little sakura to a room close to hers and Shirou's, she watched the girl rest and stroked her head, noticing her peculiar hair color. Rin was sakura's sister, the girl then was originally a tohsaka and no one in that family had that hair color.
"I can't imagine what they did to you"
the door of the room opened and shirou and taiga entered, they saw the girl sleeping while irisviel caressed her head.
"what's going on?" Irisviel saw the hurried look on taiga's face and shirou's empty eyes and got worried.
"who was the priest?" Shirou was clear and direct, that priest was dangerous and he wanted to know why he was in his home.
"...you ran into him" he sighed, he had to assume that such a thing could happen "he is the priest of fuyuki, son of the previous priest and member of the church, he was also a student of the previous leader of the tohsaka and is practicing momentarily the leadership of his teacher's family" irisviel told him everything she knew about kirei from the investigations that kiritsugu had done and what rin had told him
"why was he here?"
"For this girl, that man is a spiritual doctor and could do the surgery that this girl needed"
"If you meet with that priest again, I will go too, that man is…too dangerous"
"I don't want to put you in danger shirou, I understand your concern. That man was a participant in the holy grail war and survived. Kiritsugu, my husband, repeatedly said that this man was very dangerous."
"I might not be as strong as a competent magus, but if you and I face it we could take it on, I'm at the second level of cultivation, I'm fit enough."
"mmn"
the conversation was interrupted by the violet-haired girl waking up, she opened her eyes and looked around, she felt a warm hand on her head that reminded her of her mother, but the woman she saw didn't have brown hair.
"Calm down, we won't do anything bad to you, do you feel any discomfort or pain?"
Sakura realized that there were two other people in the room. His body felt different than usual, he did not have any discomfort or the typical thirst. He looked at the unknown people again.
"why did they kidnap me?" his voice came out with the same monotone as always
"Your grandfather did something bad to me and I'm paying him back, I'm also doing the Tohsaka a favor"
the mention of his old family and that his grandfather attempted against these people gave rise to a dark thought.
"Do you want to get rid of me?" Sakura's expression didn't change, her face was still hollow but her gaze fell down in sadness.
"No, it's quite the opposite" a maternal voice replied "your sister, rin, was the one who asked us to rescue you from the old man, I think you can't feel the worms anymore, right?"
the woman was right, the strange feeling she had was due to the lack of worms in her body, the feeling of freedom flooded her and she looked surprised at the smiling albino woman
"I am irisviel, emiya irisviel and the two behind me are shirou, my son and fujimura taiga, shirou's partner"
just like she said, they were rescuing her from the matou, they didn't want to hurt her, they got rid of the worms. A complex feeling settled in her chest, she didn't know how to react but Irisviel did and helped her once more.
A warm hug was what broke Sakura and a river of tears began to come out of her. Shirou and Taiga looked at the tender moment and forgot for a moment about what happened with the priest.
Sakura took a long time to recover from so much crying, take a fresh breath and enjoy for a moment the lack of worms in her body. She took a seat on the edge of the bed next to Irisviel who was hugging her with one arm.
"Have you vented enough already?" Irisviel didn't mind spending more time hugging the little girl, it broke her heart to see the girl cry and hug her tight as she curled up against her like a ball.
Sakura nodded and looked towards the other two occupants of the room, one a brown haired girl with a smile and warm eyes, the other a boy with bright crimson hair and golden brown eyes.
"...n-nice to meet you, I'm...matou sakura" she still used the matou's surname, the surname tohsaka was still taken from her after all.
"Nice to meet you, sakura-chan, if you need help with anything just tell your onee-san and I'll do it in a jiffy" Taiga's childlike introduction was fun and very welcome by sakura.
"I'm shirou, it's a pleasure to meet you" the introduction was brief but the boy's presence pleased sakura.
warm.
"forgive shirou for his coldness, he has some problems socially speaking"
"hey"
The exchange between shirou and taiga was funny, almost as if they had practiced it but that's what happens when you put someone like taiga together with someone like shirou, but sakura had a question for the albino.
" , do you want to get rid of zouken?"
"Yes, he attacked mine and I have to get rid of him so that it doesn't happen again"
after seeing the worms inside sakura, irisviel decided to kill the old matou, she would be doing the world a favor by getting rid of him.
"it's not going to be possible"
Sakura's response puzzled the other three occupants of the room.
"why do you say that?" Irisviel thought it was sakura's fear that was speaking, traumas cause your judgments to be biased but sakura didn't seem to have that.
"My grandfather does not have his soul in his body, he has it in a hidden worm familiar and he can move his soul to another familiar if necessary, he could only die if they destroy all the worms or kill the worm with his soul"
At that moment, Irisviel remembered the conversation she had with Kirei and understood why he had told her about "exorcising" the old Matou, but she had to confirm it with Sakura.
"Sakura...do you know if zouken needs external help to gather mana? Something like...blood" was an important question to ask and depending on what sakura answered, it could confirm his theory.
"I think so, the worms that were inside me often ate my magical energy but I don't know if it can do it with blood or not" Sakura saw Irisviel's furious face when she finished speaking "I'm sorry if-" she was interrupted by another hug from irisviel
"Okay, I'm not mad at you, I'm just sick from that...monster's perversion" someone couldn't "eat" someone's mana, but body secretions can have mana, sakura didn't suffer from anemia so there was only a way to remove mana.
"We have to break the news to rin, she will be very happy to see you again" Shirou's voice interrupted Irisviel's thoughts, drawing her to the real world.
"That's right, sakura-chan, do you want to tour the house with these two here? I have to take care of some things"
Sakura was undecided whether or not to meet Rin… with her sister. Everything that had happened caused her lack of hope to ever meet her sister again to act and talk like before.
Irisviel said goodbye and Sakura was left alone with Shirou and Taiga, the latter had a smile from ear to ear and faced Sakura.
"Come on sakura-chan, we have a lot of places to go, this place is huge, by the way…"
Sakura got up and left the room together with Taiga and Shirou to go around, the latter was silently following the girls lost in thought since he didn't know how to enter the conversation.
that girl
"Did you notice anything about her, teacher?"
yuan jun showed presence speaking in shirou's mind, speaking about sakura. the celestial demon noticed the special body that the violet-haired woman had. Cultivators, or martial artists, had the possibility of having a body with special characteristics but it was only displayed once the cultivator entered the third level of cultivation: Awakening of Flesh, but strangely the girl already had it.
"That girl has a special body, sometimes cultivators can be born with what they define as a 'divine body' but this only appears when you reach the third level of cultivation."
'recognize his divine body?'
'It is the divine body of purple mist, its effect is really mysterious and is considered one of the rarest in terms of complexity, they have a strange ability that allows them to create confinement spaces or powerful illusions, no one who does not have the divine body understands the rare connection
"Then, do you have talent for cultivation?"
´…I have to check exactly, when you can bring her with me and also tell irisviel since she may become your second partner´
Yuan Jun noticed that Shirou was gradually gathering talented people, Taiga, Irisviel and now Sakura. The woman theorized that the humans of this world may be much more capable in martial arts than in her own world since it was abnormal how many great talents were gathered in this small town.
"I think you have to start gathering your followers for your future sect"
"But you said that it was not the best time to start"
"That's right but I changed my mind, the earlier you start, the better it will be for your future sect"
It was true but only in part, the Meditation Technique: Heavenly Demon Flame allowed its user to gather a bit of the qi gathered by the person who received the Heavenly Flame, allowing the user to advance much faster in their cultivation and yuan together. he wanted shirou to become stronger.
'Who could my followers be?' Shirou asked his teacher's opinion.
"It's simple, start with the Fujimura and try to bring the Tohsaka girl and her sister, I have the ideal methods for all of them"
"earth to shirou, are you there?"
shirou paid attention to real life and taiga who was calling him. the trio was at the entrance of the mason, taiga just wanted to join him in the conversation, they kept walking and talking but shirou was thinking about his future plans.
you will have many things to do.
Emiya mansion - studio.
"you want to do what, you say?" Julia asked the albino
"call the church to take care of zouken"
"But why would they agree to take care of the old man?" scarface gave the key question for irisviel to explain.
Irisviel called the three mercenary leaders for an urgent meeting. As soon as they arrived, the woman told them that the church could take care of the old matou, just like that.
"zouken has characteristics very similar to the dead apostles, all we have to do is gather evidence and we won't even have to deal with it ourselves" irisviel quickly explained her idea.
"I won't ask how you found out about that, but if I did ask, how do you suppose we'll gather enough evidence?"
"The old man cannot recover mana on his own so he has to take it in another way, we have to document those moments and show it to the church, simple."
Irisviel was convinced that they could gather the evidence quickly, beings that can't recover their mana can't last long without eating some fluid or blood from people since they expend a lot of energy just staying alive.
"...we can try, we can investigate cases of disappearances with the fuyuki police through the fujimura"
"We are going to have to connect to the security cameras of the entire city and put cameras in places where there are none"
it would be an even more tedious task than guarding the fuyuki entrances and they would have fewer people and they would also have to invest their money in buying hundreds of cameras since they can't risk mercenaries or fujimura to watch it.
"money will not be a problem, buy the necessary cameras and install them with some credible excuse, you can leave"
Irisviel dismissed the mercenaries and prepared a familiar to send a letter to little Rin with the good news. He sent it out and prepared to start his training but was unable to continue before feeling that the familiar was destroyed.
"that?"
Irisviel prepared another familiar with another letter and sent it by a totally different path, I wait and once again the familiar was destroyed. He quickly ordered the mercenaries to avoid recklessly leaving.
Once again they were under attack.
"You acted too fast, you old piece of shit"
at least this time they knew who he was and what he wanted.
two days later - Emiya Mansion
two days passed and they were still imprisoned in the mansion because of the thousand worms that surrounded the place. Communications with the outside were fortunately not cut off thanks to the telephones and they were able to send someone to the Tohsaka to notify them of good and bad news.
"I can't believe they seriously think this is a good idea"
Taiga totally disagreed with the plan devised by the mercenaries, they said it was killing two birds with one stone. The plan was simple, the old man sent many of his worms to surround them, then they just have to kill the bugs little by little in a battle of attrition.
the battle started the same day it started, you could hear and see explosions, fire, lightning, sharp rocks and many gandr flying in the distance. The young Fujimura didn't think it was a good idea since two days passed and the number of worms didn't seem to decrease.
"Isn't it a good idea that you're here, or is the idea itself a bad idea?" The mercenary Julia was the leader of this group.
There were three groups and they attacked at three different points, taiga and julia were one group, shirou and Mandla another and the last group was irisviel and scarface.
"Second, they have been killing worms for two days but they don't seem to be slowing down."
"These worms are not strong at all and surely they can be mass-created, the outsiders say that there is no strange movement in the city but they cannot get close to the matou residence"
"What does that magus gain by doing all this?" Taiga may think that she wants to get Sakura back, but these worms don't advance at all and the strength they have allows her to kill them with her spear as if they were tofu.
"We can't know, but Shirou and Irisviel want you to participate in our watch so we can protect you if you need it."
taiga resigned herself and once again went to fight, certainly it was a good time to put her martial arts and techniques into practice, it was a lot of fun by the way, but she was worried for some reason. Taiga's instinct told her that they weren't thinking enough, a reason to keep irisviel's main force in one place without being able to go outside.
Emiya Mansion - Shirou's Group
The situation in Shirou's group was curious since most of the mercenaries were watching the situation instead of helping, it was the only thing they could do after all.
"...damn" Mandla was supposed to be in charge of shirou but it wasn't necessary at all.
Shirou was enveloped in the heavenly flame while swinging his two swords masterfully. The boy had discovered that the flame affected the worms in some way, his teacher had told him that it was due to the purifying effect of the flame.
Shirou, neither slow nor lazy, got down to business and engulfed himself in the heavenly flame and began practicing the heavenly sword stances. For shirou it was fun to be able to practice like that, enemies from all directions but slow.
"Shirou, time to change!"
the redhead wasn't tired but he had to follow the rules, if the mercenaries got tired then he took their place but when they recovered then it was his turn to rest, even if he wasn't really tired.
"But I can still go on" Shirou approached to complain to Mandla and the mercenaries took his place.
"I know, but if we don't do this and Irisviel finds out, my balls will be in danger."
"I know"
Shirou went to sit down while waiting for it to be his turn again, but he didn't sit idly by, he crossed his legs and took the lotus position to start meditating. The Meditation: Heavenly Demon Flame technique had not advanced in all this time and irritated the boy in the same way as his magecraft practice.
"You have to be patient," said her teacher.
'I know, but I can't help but think that I'm not making progress at all' Shirou felt that his effort was not giving him results.
'you have a problem with the meditation technique but it can be solved with time' yuan jun told him sincerely that the problem was his.
yuan jun knew that meditation techniques depend on a healthy soul to utilize the full power of the technique, which was a disadvantage for shirou with his incomplete soul.
'cultivating is synonymous with patience, everything takes time and effort, but believe it or not, your speed is already fast thanks to your talent, you don't have a monster talent like me but you are at a comfortable level of awesomeness' you would think it was superb but Shirou knew that he was telling the truth.
His teacher had a point, so many changes in the short life that he remembers caused him to get used to getting quick results. Shirou refocused, sighed, and continued to meditate.
emiya mansion - group by irisviel
"No attack on the Fujimura, right?"
"That's right, they are still safe in the hidden safe houses."
irisviel worried about the fujimura, they were a non-magical group but they were up to their necks in magical matters but her main concern at the moment was that zouken would catch them and try to get sakura back with a hostage exchange, so she sent them, two years ago days, in some of their hidden safe houses.
Irisviel didn't participate in the fight against the worms, it's not that she didn't want to, but her group was also in charge of communications and Irisviel was in charge of being informed at all times.
"It's been two days since the worms appeared, it's good that we prepared imperishable food for a few years as preparation for the einzbern"
"I had to be prepared for the worst outcome" if it wasn't for yuan jun, irisviel surely wouldn't even be here.
Irisviel watched the mercenaries get rid of the worms, the worms falling down in piles and disappearing into black ash. The albino thought about what sakura had said about zouken but nothing came to mind.
'Why do you let us exterminate the worms? Isn't the number a bit absurd?...' Irisviel deepened her thoughts to understand what zouken was doing.
Hours passed and the irisviel mercenaries began to get tired and began to use magecraft from a distance, but one of the mercenaries noticed an important change.
"The worms began to subside!" His scream caught everyone's attention.
"How are you so sure?" Irisviel questioned the mercenary's statement, she couldn't tell the difference.
"Don't you feel like you're a little less tired with each change?" the mercenary had noticed that he was less tired just as his shift ended.
"..." It was understandable that everyone doubted, at least a little, the mercenary's logic, but many could say the same.
"He is somewhat right, I thought it was because I overdemanded myself less" another mercenary reported
Irisviel turned to see the worms, she couldn't tell the difference. She ordered everyone to come back and was attentive to every detail, half an hour passed and she screamed.
"delusions!" He quickly got up and walked towards the fight against the worms "some of the attacks don't hit some worms but they die anyway"
"But we have mythical codes that prevent us from falling into hypnosis" Scarface showed a small bracelet on her wrist.
"It's not hypnosis, it's like the hologram that the Yggdmillennia used in our first meeting, you can notice that the worms turn to ashes when they die but some of them just disappear" Irisviel was thinking of some kind of imaging spell or a spell that works as a mirror, mages with a water affinity could do that.
the matou were specialized in water element spells.
"start using area effect spells, I'll let the other groups know of the discovery" if they were slowing down but didn't notice.
the fight was about to end, the worms weren't endless after all. It took them a while to figure out the trick but now it's a matter of time before they manage to get rid of everyone.
Two days ago - after sakura surgery - Matou Residence
zouken sinned with greed and his whole plan went downhill. the sakura worms were removed, he tried to kill the girl, but the priest was prepared for that and did something so that zouken would not interfere in the operation.
the old matou was really furious, he had to do something to get the girl back, it was essential to his plan and he didn't want to risk going to the mainland without her as a smoke screen. His first plan was to surround the homunculus house and try to send a worm to communicate but when he saw a relative leave the mansion with a letter.
his paranoia acted for him.
He changed his plans, no trying to communicate, he got rid of the first familiar and sent most of his worms to surround the mansion in the forest and he got rid of a second familiar, it occurred to him a little late to kidnap the yakuza who were under the command of the homunculus for a trade.
"..."
the homunculus went ahead of him and hid them in some unknown way, he could not do anything, he had the ley line at his disposal so the creation of the worms was not a problem but he could not make more worms than the mercenaries of the homunculus could kill.
continued to circle the homunculus house for now.
…One day later…
With no chance to get his hands on sakura again, zouken gave up and pushed all his plans forward.
Flee.
the priest's support could mean that the homunculus has support with the church and with his current status, he can easily be listed as a dead apostle by the church morons and it could also mean that the homunculus has the support of the golden servant.
zouken didn't want to deal with either of them, he would go to the mainland but he couldn't appear just like that, so he kidnapped hundreds of people, mindwashed them and tried to change their blood into matou blood as fast as he could.
it was trial and error but luckily one of the people was able to resist the torturous change. The pain of the change was impossible to bear and unfortunately the girl could not keep her mind intact but it was still useful for the old man.
I send all the worms that were not necessary to the mansion in the forest together with a mirror spell, in some of them, to entertain the mercenaries more time.
With everything ready, he left Fuyuki through the underground, taking his new granddaughter with him.
Matou ayako.
Present - Einzbern Mansion
after irisviel's discovery and the other two groups were informed, they threw their whole hand of man to get rid of the remaining worms. They finished at nightfall, making sure to kill all the worms without leaving a single one alive.
"It's finally over!" the cry of relief came from taiga and represented the feeling everyone had
The mercenaries were tired of fighting two days in a row with such weak enemies, but the real problem was the number, so it was more mental fatigue than physical.
"Any news from the matou?" Without the worms in the way, Irisviel believed that now they could approach the Matou residence.
"I will send a group, they will not get too close but they will watch the house"
"...we have to take advantage of the fact that it surely has few worms, we will form an elite group, bring the most capable mercenaries, they and shirou will accompany me"
he could see shirou's group arriving at that moment, they had to bring capable manpower to deal with the old matou, if what Sakura said was true.
he had to hit now that the iron is hot.
Fuyuki - matou residence surroundings
nothing.
Irisviel's group calmly reached the surroundings of the Matou home without any worms attacking them, making irisviel and the mercenaries think that indeed Zouken no longer had enough worms.
they approached the matou residence slowly and paying attention in all directions. The houses they passed by were empty, irisviel made sure of that, the houses were spotless but there was no boundary field to keep the non-magus away.
That alerts everyone.
they reached the front of the matou mansion but still no attack towards them. The group entered being careful with the border fields that were deactivated by irisviel, but they found nothing.
"there's no one at home"
now everyone understood the reason for the old matou's actions, he was gaining time to leave fuyuki and go to who knows where.
"...shit...shit!" irisviel was fuming with anger
"...well, the problem is solved, isn't it?"
"While that man is alive we can't be sure, maybe when the time comes he will seek revenge" the seriousness in Shirou's voice was understandable, everyone knew that if you don't want to have problems with a magus, it's better to get rid of him.
"...let's keep looking, the old man may have left some other important object" scarface would not let money rot.
said and done, there was nothing related to the magus but there were paintings, vases, etc. They seemed to be worth a lot of money but Irisviel didn't need them after all, she had the Tohsaka mines of jewels and other patents, she gave valuables to the mercenaries present.
"Think positive, now that we're not fighting with everyone, we can focus on other things" Julia tried to lift irisviel's spirits, she succeeded a bit but she was still a little down for not being able to kill zouken.
Julia was right, because of the constant enemies, irisviel couldn't do many things like train in good conditions, ask for materials for mythical codes, spend time with shirou and teach the latter some magecraft.
"You're right, everyone, we're coming back!" He ordered everyone to withdraw.
in this time he sharpened his fangs, after all he still did not have his daughter in his arms.
It cost me a lot to finish this chapter, so much nero fest can break you but hey I managed to finish it, I hope you enjoyed it and see you another time.
goodbye and have a great day.