"Shirou Emiya, a third-rate magus and occasionally free-lancer." I paused before adding one more thing. "And currently a student of Kuoh Academy who is trying to get rid of so devils and demons while simultaneously dealing with the rent and my hospital bills."
"..."
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Grayfia continued looking at with a very strict expression, and I could feel the sweat gathering on my forehead and threatening to flow down. After a while I could feel her Prana levels dropping slowly to sowhat safer levels and her posture seed less prone to trying to cut off my head.
"It seems you are telling the truth for now." Grayfia closed her eyes montarily to let out a light breath before directing them at again. "Though your attitude could use an adjustnt."
"Well, it's not every day you would et soone who would actually stop short of attacking you. Most of the people I t tend to go for the head shot." I kept my hands steady and avoid showing any expression that showed my relief of her standing down.
"I guess that would be true." Grayfia raised an eyebrow at while maintaining that poker face. "But as I say, you need an attitude adjustnt."
"I have gotten that a lot. Believe when I say, this is considered an improvent." I allowed myself to roll my eyes at the mory of Rin constantly running her mouth off about . Boy was she real vocal about it.
"I would appreciate if you do not tell Rias-sama about our little talk. This is a private matter for ." Grayfia bowed as she made her request.
"Snort~ I doubt she would believe for that matter." I replied back as I lowered my arms slowly, still keeping a tight hold on my ntal trigger in case she tried to attack with my guard down. "But fine, I will not tell her or Sitri-san."
"I thank you for your discretion." Grayfia paused as she lightly turned her head to one side. "It seems I may have overstayed my welco. Ojou-sama and Sitri-sama are on their way with their Peerages."
"Oh great, just what I needed." I let out a frustrated sigh as I looked at the damage around . Well, I guess I won't be able to use this place as a secondary workshop anymore, I would have to look elsewhere.
More importantly, I hope they don't charge for the damage; that would take a few more months of hard work to pay it off.
"Well then, until the next ti we et, Shirou Emiya." The silver haired maid bowed once more as a magic circle appeared at her feet, bathing her in crimson light, then with a bright flash, disappeared without a trace.
And not a mont too soon, as I could hear hurried footsteps in the distance. A mont of silence, then...
"BBBOOOOOMMM!"
"SHIROU! We have co to help you!"
One of the larger doors blew off its hinges, and I was greeted with the sight of the devils rushing through with their weapons deployed and their eyes scanning the entire area for an enemy. They stopped almost comically and nearly crashed into each other when they saw the destruction around them and the mangled corpse of the devil.
"Whoa..." Ise blinked at the body before turning to . "Shirou, did you do that?"
"... Yes and no." I replied after getting my thoughts back together. "I managed to take the devil down, but he had so sort of fail-safe in the event he was taken out. Quite honestly, I was not sure if I would survive that blast when he blew up."
Whatever Ise wanted to say got interrupted when a blur of red hair flew past and slamd into , causing to gasp loudly and hit the ground hard.
"Emiya-kun, are you okay?! That Regeis Devil did not hurt you badly did he?!" guri started spouting a lot of questions as she hurriedly look at my body for injuries, before hugging very tightly to the point of suffocation.
"ARGH! Lady, can't breathe! My ribs, my ribs!" I choked out the complaint as I struggled to breathe under her grip. Damn, this girl could rival Luvia when she was hugging out of concern, I was in serious danger in passing out right now!
"guri-chan, give him so room to breathe!" My savior ca in the form of a flustered Reya who ca over and tried to persuade her to release . But it seed fate was taking lessons from Zelretch as guri shifted her body to avoid getting separated from , but was not prepared for my large fra and thus making her stumble and tripping Reya, and before I could react, ended up on the ground again with being in a very perilous position, with guri hugging my midsection and her head a little too low, my hand accidentally touching her bottom, and Reya being on top of and smothering with her chest.
Damn it, this was not what I had in mind of dying on the battlefield!
"Whoa, I thought that only happened in cartoons." Tsubaki remarked in a incredulous tone.
"Hohoho~ this is good material." I could hear the click of a cara over the evil musings of Momo.
"Damn that lucky bastard!" Ise cursed rather loudly with a big tone of jealousy.
"... Very lucky man." Unless I was mistaken, I could hear a hint of amusent in Koneko's flat voice.
"HYAAA!" Reya shrieked and got off of , allowing to get a breath of fresh air. At the corner of my eye, I could see a blushing Reya kneeling a little further from . guri soon followed, with her face being as red as her hair and her body a little fidgety.
"Need a hand?" Kiba ca forward and offered his hand. I rely grunted as I took it and he pulled back up. He smiled before looking at the spear. He then gave a thoughtful frown as he turned to look at the sword in his hand. My guess was the sword was telling him sothing.
"Emiya-kun, would you be so kind as to relay what has happened during the ti we lost contact with you?" I turned to face Sona, and I was not ashad to say that I flinched slightly at the smoldering gaze she had on . Clearly she was angry that I did not report in after fighting, and I was hoping that my story would placate her.
But thankfully an interruption ca in the form of Ise.
"Wait, what did you say Draig?" Ise frowned as he looked at his red gauntlet. I imagined he got his answer as his eyes went wider. He turned his head slowly and laid his eyes on the spear that was still in my hand all the ti. "Shirou, by chance that spear is..."
"A Sacred Gear." Kiba finished his answer as he looked up from his sword and focused on it as well. "That is what Sword Birth is saying. You apparently obtained a Sacred Gear from this fight."
"What?!" Everyone stopped inspecting the area and turned to face with flabbergasted expressions. My only response was to shrug and let out a tired sigh.
"That's going to be a long story."
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"Damn it! That guy had to go and get himself killed by a re human!" A figure cursed in the darkness as he slamd his fist against sothing hard.
"It is unfortunate, but look on the bright side, at least his death cannot be linked to us." Another answered back in an attempt to calm him down. "And the fact that guy is removed helps us, since we do not have to worry of having his spear in our backs."
"Yes, and on another note, it seed the rumors were true, that a human wizard was behind the victory of the Gremory Peerage. Him taking on Regeis is proof of his strength." A third figure raised his arms in slight despair.
"That may be the case, but Regeis was supposed to assassinate those wretched siblings of the Maous! It was the best chance we got!"
"There is no use crying over spilled milk, just be grateful that no one knows his real purpose for being there. They would think that he was just there to find the Red Dragon Emperor and the odd human." The second figure assured the first speaker while shrugging.
"Fine." The first figure folded his arms while grumbling. "But what was with that weird reaction with his Sacred Gear? The gear just burst out of the corpse and headed straight for the human."
"This is a first. I suppose we need to look into this more closely." The third person replied back. "Perhaps we may have stumbled onto sothing rather interesting. We could hold him hostage and force those girls to our will. While we are at it, we can find out why the gear reacted in that manner."
"You won't need to."
"SHRING!"
Before anyone could react, a brief flash appeared and their heads dropped to the ground softly, followed shortly after by the bodies. The person in question calmly removed the blood from the blade he used with a cloth, before he took out three crystals and threw them towards the bodies. As they made contact, the crystals started to glow, then small glowing ball of light ca out of the bodies and move into the crystals, making them shine with a red shimr.
"Well, I got that guy's material, but seriously why doesn't he get so live ones? First the feathers and blood of that fallen angel, now so random devils. It would be easier to have so live specins to compare with." The person grumbled as he went to pick up the crystals before snapping his fingers to set the bodies ablaze.
"Whatever, he got what he needed, and I get to rid myself of so inquisitive trash. All I have to do now is send the information anonymously and those devils should be able to do the rest of the cleanup for without anyone being the wiser." The figure paused as he watched the flas continuing to burn the bodies.
"So, that is the reaction of a Sacred Gear huh? Interesting, but then again, Shirou Emiya always did bring sothing new to the party. For now, I think I will keep this little tidbit of information to myself. After all, this might be useful and fun for in the long run." With that, the person vanished into the darkness, the only proof of his presence being the flas that eventually burned out.
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