Fate: Bonds Beyond Humanity

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"Shirou-kun please calm down." Rias didn't want to make him worry.

"Yes Shirou, sit again so the poor girl can talk." With the prompt of both Rias and his mother, she accepted that.

"Because of the stray and our fight… the structure is not as sound as it should be." Rias explained. "With the damage that the stray did, a team of specialists is going to be called from Kyoto to help fix any damage to the ley line and while the repairs happen it is a terrible idea to have anyone around."

"So the school will be closed?" After all that happened, Shirou could hardly believe that was the end of Homurahara.

"Yes, but you don't need to worry about the staff." Rias assured him. "They were victims of this as well and, while I can't do it for all of the students, I swear on my pride as a Gremory that I will see the whole staff employed by the beginning of the next term."

There even Illya felt that there was nothing to say, the devils were taking responsibility for their mess and they were cleaning it. Shirou picks the envelope once again. "Is this because of the pact thing?"

"No. That was because I want you close to me." Rias said that straight to his face.

"WHAT?" But it was Illya that didn't like it.

"Gremory-san…" Iri looked at Rias with her sharp eyes. "Do you want to court my son?"

""WHAT?"" This time most of the table asked, only Shirou and Akeno remained silent, the first by being in deep thought while the later was enjoying the show.

"I mean," Rias focused in composing herself, "it was not my intention-"

"Are you saying my son is not good enough?" Iri pressed, it was just a tease but no one besides Akeno could see that. The Queen really likes her new acquaintance.

"No, Emiya-sama, he is without a doubt a upstanding man-"

"Mother! I can't believe you are entertaining that idea!" Illya wasn't liking this conversation, not at all.

"But Illya, your brother rarely brings company at home. Now we have a girl who is interested… and I want those grandchildren." The determination of Irisviel's voice was at such a level that anyone paying attention got silent, it was enough that even the heroes of old would look at it and say 'give the woman what she wants'.

"Okay." Shirou finally says, making Rias and Illya lose it then and there.

"WHAT!" "SHIROU-KUN!"

"What is wrong?" Shirou was startled by the screaming, he had no idea what transpired around him. He spent the last few minutes focusing on the contract in front of him and now his inattention brought up more confusion. "I decided to accept the pact." That brought everyone back to the matter.

Rias recovered her composure, Illya grabbed the contract and started reading it, Iri pretended she won the argument. After a while the older Emiya sibling said. "'This contract will last until the line of Emiya Shirou stops or until the parts violate it…' You are making a deal with his whole family?"

"Of course. Even if Shirou-kun doesn't pass his knowledge his potential contribution will warrant the protection and gratitude of many devils." Rias was putting herself as the personal benefactor of Shirou's descendents and as the heiress and future head of the Gremory that goes far. "Even my brother agreed that if EM can be mass produced then that is more than warranted."

"Before we sign however…" Shirou drew attention to himself again. "I need to show you something."

When Shirou got up his family already knew his intention, he was not a normal magus and what he was about to do was the ultimate taboo. They didn't stop him.

Rias and Akeno got up to follow while Illya and Iri followed them in turn to make sure that nothing would go wrong.

The backyard of the house was big, there was once plenty of space for another smaller house on it but a shed was built. That shed was Shirou's and once they reached the door he turned the doorknob, the boundary field accepted its master and allowed entry for all at that point.

Shirou honestly didn't care that much for the security but his family insisted and he had no reason to disagree. Unless he was inside the shed or opened the door then it was not going to open easily, repealing all invaders with some… nasty stuff. Curiously the house had a tamer protection with just a repellent to bounce off any would be invader and an alarm connected to his mother, father and Sella.

But his father was a… cautious man to say the least. Shirou didn't know all his misgivings and he was obviously less aware than he expected but he understood that the man was cautious, the house's security proved it.

There were mundane alarms, emergency supplies and even guns hidden somewhere, Shirou never understood why before but now he did. The biggest thing was the other boundary field, the one around the neighborhood, going to all sides for at least five kilometers. It is not for nothing Iri knew they had visitors coming.

Once inside all could see what the place looked like, it was filled with weapons, bladed weapons of all shapes and kinds. Swords of all cultures, spears, naginatas, daggers, knives, axes, any kind of blade that Shirou could research about and try to replicate.

Shirou moved to the end of the room, there was forge there, with hammers, towels and other equipment. "Most of them are normal weapons, the special ones are here."

He opened a wall behind the chimney, it was easy to access since there was no fire but nobody would look there without already knowing what they were looking for. Pulling out a box, big enough a person could hide inside, Shirou places it on the ground and opens it.

There it was, the original EM together with other weapons, a katana with a brow sheat, a two handed european sword, a rapier and a needle of all things. "May I?" Rias asked for permission, Shirou nods.

"Yes but don't touch the needle. That one is still an experiment and I am having difficulties to make it work as I want." His fellow redhead moved to the rapier, picking it up.

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