Fate: Bonds Beyond Humanity

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Seeing Shirou work on their telescope made her wonder where the old thing was… knowing the redhead, he must have put it in his workshop somewhere and she just never noticed.

For a while she just stays there and watches him work, the tools he was using were old stuff he found in the garage when they moved in. After starting to learn magecraft Shirou decided to fix the tools, taking away the rust was not hard for him and he used them to take care of the car and anything in the house that needed repair.

He had just finished assembling the telescope completely and she decided to make her presence known. "I can't believe you kept this old thing."

Shirou was startled by his sister's sudden appearance. "Illya!" He bumps into the telescope and it would have smashed into the ground if he hadn't managed to catch it.

Suffice to say that Illya was amused, the telescope was actually smaller than she remembered… or she grew up. Looking at it now she was taller than it. "What are you doing?"

Not willing to reject a gifted horse Shirou just accepts that his sister is talking to him. "London is way more industrial than Fuyuki and the Clocktower can be stressful… I want to finish this so you can look at the stars there."

Nodding and accepting everything her brother was saying Illya gets closer and starts to see his work.

Mechanically it was fine, Shirou assembled it again to perfection but the magical side was the main reason why they haven't worked on it. "You are old enough to know what Liz wanted to say years ago." She affirms with a grin.

"I had this idea: what if we used this as a camera and the lens was in the tallest building? Then the only thing we needed to worry about is the boundary fields to protect the lens and the spell on it can be the one you made before." Shirou's explanation left out a lot of details, he was also not considering the dangers or the implication of such equipment.

'He was not looking at it on the practical side,' thinks Illya, 'he is seeing it just as a way that I will use and enjoy.'

Magecraft was close to the mundane, to close in some ways that millennia ago there was a fear that the craft would lose its potency the closer the technology got from the fantastic. Fortunately that never happened but what Shirou was suggesting was the creation of a mini telescope with high tech capabilities by just placing a lens in the tallest building.

Either he really doesn't see the implications, good or bad, or he trusts Illya that much with it. "For all that we actually need a second lens and you suck at enchanting." She teased.

"I know but I figured that I could make a second lens once I had the exact measures of the telescope… what gave me away?" Shirou knew she already caught his lie by her smile.

"You are the worst liar in the world." She found it funny and endearing. "Why did you assemble it?"

"I wanted to make it work, to apologize. By the time I thought about a second lens the thing was already properly set." He worked carefully, he didn't want to damage their little project.

Illya was worried for her brother, he was too nice and anyone could take advantage of that, especially that devil. "Shirou… can you promise me something?"

"Sure Illya! Just ask!" No hesitation again, she dearly hopes his disposition doesn't be his ruin.

"Promise me you won't become a devil." That surprised him.

"I already rejected the offer-"

"But she will make it again someday." She interrupts him, eyes full of passion. "Just… promise me, no matter what she does, begs or offers, you won't become a devil."

The redhead can see that the promise meant much to his sister, he didn't know why but wrote it off as just concern. "Sure Illya. I promise I won't let anyone make me a devil."

With that security Illya gives her brother a smile, a kind one full of joy. "Now we just need to get to work on this."

"The spells you make should still function, we just need to find another lens and then you can place it on a building somewhere."

"Well… we can just make one!" She grabs him by the arm.

"Oi! Illya calm down!" She was using too much to pull him to his forge.

"None of that, we have work to do and it's not going to be easy. How are you with glass- Oh! I better get the stuff in my workshop! You start with the forge and…"

And so began the Emiya siblings project, a last endeavour of love before a departure.

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Irisviel watches her children going into the forge, she sighs thinking on the disaster that the whole thing was.

Shirou was going to enter into a pact with a devil and not any devil but a Gremory of all things, the meaning and implications were so many that she couldn't help but feel a headache coming.

Picking up her phone she checks for any new messages. Maya, her husband's second in command sent her a reply. Apparently Kiritsugu was in one of those jobs again, the ones where he disappears for days or weeks at a time deep in another realm… literally another realm of reality. From the message she got he had gone somewhere in America to deal with an Aztec crisis.

'For the love of goodness one would think with that many goods in the world it would already have gone kaput.' She thinks while moving to her room passing Sella who just gives a small bow. Iri doesn't like being treated with reverence but the serious maid still did the gesture from time to time.

It didn't matter, if her husband was busy she needed to prepare and cover her family's bases. Rias Gremory looked and acted decently enough and the file she received from Maya indicated that she was a lucky girl if nothing else but not a bad one, a little spoiled but that is more like the norm when it comes for this generation of devils.

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