Fate: Bonds Beyond Humanity

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Akeno knew that her king had some training with swords and took a few steps back. Rias looked around and then started to move the blade around with elegance and practice. The sword itself is elegant, with a handle made of silver with a leaf pattern, it was a good sword, light and Rias felt that there was a trick to it.

Part of her wanted to put mana on it and see what it could do but she didn't want to be rude and it also could be dangerous. "Why do you have so many normal weapons?" She asked while doing the routine.

"Training and also I tried to put spells in a complete weapon… I failed, badly." The number of swords he broke was considerable, at least he could reuse the steel. "So I tried the other way around, to place a weapon around the spell."

"That went wrong too." Iri said with a smile. "I still remember Shirou working in the details, he was observed to make something that could work for a few days."

"ANYWAY!" Shirou interrupts before his mother says anything that would embarrass him. "I know it is possible to do it, but it is like making a cake. You can't just throw the ingredients and have the cake, there is an order and other factors. EM was made on the way of placing the spell first. It was my mother's healing spell by the way."

"So when you healed me and I healed you we were using your mother's spell?" Rias was doing fast stabs with the rapier before she stopped. "And this one?"

"It would be easier to show." Shirou goes to the wall and picks up a lumberjack's axe. "Can you hold it defensively?"

"Sure." Rias was holding it now above her head on vertical. "That will do?"

"Yes." Shirou then gives an overhead swing with the axe, the blades clash but Rias feels nothing.

"I'm sure that you were putting your strength there." She comments.

"I was. The spell on the rapier helps it to absorb all the impact, all the force against it, on the blade." That made the devils look at the sword impressed but also nothing that it was now shining a little. "The impact stays in it for a while, turning to light… but too much will break it. It can help survive car crashes but after that bit breaks, too much damage."

"That is incredible." Akeno exclaimed. "If you could put that on an armor and high the resistance."

"Unfortunately that comes to the first bad thing about me… I can only make swords so far when it comes to improving them with magecraft." Shirou said depressed, the first thing he did once he succeeded with the rapier was trying to make a glove or something similar… every attempt failed.

"What? Why?" Rias could also see the potential.

"Shirou is very connected with the concept with swords and please leave it at that." Irisviel tried to end the conversation.

"But the EM is not a sword... or it is?" The concept of sword is flexible after all and what is a scalpel or a knife if not a smaller sword. "He can only make more EMs with you present Emiya-sama?"

"Sadly yes, I need to be there in the forging process and it takes time and a lot of energy. I fell unconscious after holding the spell for so long." That was what made the tool less viable; it was too hard to make because the only way of it being efficient is if a master of healing supplies the initial source.

"I will go to Kuoh anyway, a friend of mine is going to study there and I have no problems with it… but if you want to take back the pact I won't judge you. The fact is that I can't produce more EMs without risking my mother and I refuse to do that." Shirou blamed himself for it, more than once he wondered how easier it would be if he could use normal magecraft.

"No, the offer stands." Rias places the rapier on the box, it still glows a bit showing that the 'damage' was still there. She picks the katana next. "Maybe the reason why you didn't manage to make better weapons was the lack of materials? Most of them are normal steel."

Starting another routine Shirou could see that Rias was more familiar with the katana than the rapier. "Kiba-kun could also help him." Akeno comments.

"Because of his sacred gear?" Shirou asks and while Akeno raises her eyebrows in surprise Rias already guessed why he knew. "I met him that night and saw his sword. I have to say that a sacred gear that can make swords is kinda frustrating."

"Shirou… is that an iota of pride that I hear?" Iri asked.

"Maybe? I don't know… I kinda wished I had it really." It would certainly make his tests easier.

"Don't bother." Illya's voice cuts through the forge. "Sacred gears are just cheats and shortcuts. He may be able to make better swords than you but I doubt he can use them better."

The comment was weird for many, even though her mother didn't know where the certainty of Illya came from, she ended up chalking it up as faith in her brother. Rias on the other hand took it up as a challenge.

"I know Shirou-kun is good but Kiba is also strong. He has been training for the last few years under my brother's own knight, Okita Souji." Rias brags a bit.

Few japanese people knew the name of Okita Souji, the leader of the shinsengumi, someone that the historical records report has died of tuberculosis. Known as an exemplary cop and fighter with a superb technique the man is still acknowledged in the country until the modern day.

"So… Shirou will still win." Illya speaks certain.

"We will have to schedule a spar one of these days." Rias offers while placing the katana on the box. A thought enters Shirou's head while she does it.

'She was also trained by him, maybe not completely but enough to be comfortable with a sword.' It is a shame that she didn't use one...

"Anyway, I still want you as my contracted magician. I will watch your back and give you materials." Rias extends his hand for him and he doesn't hesitate to shake it.

Illya didn't like that and left, there was nothing for her there. Iri had no problems with the developments and invited the devils to stay for dinner.

"I appreciate the offer but we need to go soon." Rias said with a bow. "On vacations I like to spend time in the underworld with my family and I just wanted to talk with Shirou-kun before I go."

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