Fate: Bonds Beyond Humanity

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There was a time the devils were many, rising from the pits of hell, their births being influenced by their creator, Lucifer… then he died.

Without their master, maybe by design or maybe because of the time passed and whatever methods used lost effect, the devils started to have a huge deficit on their number of births. There is the argument that it was because they lived too long lives and that was the natural order of things and the original Maou was messing with the births until his death.

For that argument the fallen angels, the yokais and many other long lived creatures were the counter since they never presented the same problem, it is even theorized that normal angels also would reproduce normally if their polices weren't strict.

During the war both sides could easily replenish their numbers… then things shifted, the devils lost their leaders and God himself was gone. An eternal war suddenly became way more finite.

Now Irisviel could agree with the argument the descendents, the direct heirs of the fours Maous had in continuing the war even if she didn't like it. Heaven was split with more fallen emerging by the minute, God was hurt, few knew even now he was actually dead and they always had the more versatile armies.

All that and considering they didn't know their own problems fueled the fire, it lasted until it was noticed the sudden presence of a lower birth rate. Once that was discovered it led to a civil war that led them to almost extinction and now everytime a new pureblood devil was born they treated it like a major event and did everything they saw as necessary for them.

Letting out another sigh, Iri entered her room, the bed was enormous for both her and her husband… except that they met so much in the exterior that they never really used it…

The room itself was calm and cozy, there was a closet full of clothes, a bookcase that was full on her side with a lamp for night reading. Kiritsugu's side had a laptop and a few magazines of motorcycles. She is happy he was getting a hobby, if he only worked he would go insane.

Above their bed was a painting, it was the picture of a castle surrounded by forests. If anyone that knew her story looked at it they would suppose it was a memory of her home… She hated that place but it was a good cover.

The parents of Emiya family agreed in a single rule absolutely: no guns in the house. Before the rule was 'no weapons' but once their children started to study magecraft that became hard for Shirou.

She stands on the bed and takes out the portrait, the safe box behind it also had its own set of boundary fields with alarms of many kinds and a lot of lethal alternatives for anyone that was not from their family. The fields were so dangerous that every member had a little of their blood used to avoid accidents of any kind, even if they didn't know about the safe that is just how dangerous the fields were.

But the real danger was inside it, Irisviel bit her tumb and placed a little blood on a specific corner of the wall, inserted the digital code, then the manual code and then did a movement with her finders using the blood of the same wound that was on the wall. The safe opens revealing another safe, that one only needing the use of her finger print… and had a field that killed anyone that didn't have blood on their hands with an added bonus of blowing up if the print was not from her or her husband.

Inside there were a lot of different things, documents, money, passapots, gold bars… they were bait. If by some reason their house was breached, their defenses overwhelmed and the safe itself open this would dissuade suspicion but the vault was bigger than it actually appeared, its true prize was on the fake wall at the back.

It was not what Irisviel came to collect, it was a small book, once that is on her hands she sits on the bed and flips the pages trying to find a name. The book had the names of many allies that the Emiyas could call with the means of calling them.

Considering the devil situation she needed someone expecifc to verify the character of Rias Gremory. A devil of trust would do but they never had many deals with those anyway. Fortunately Kiritsugu did have some other 'friends' on the supernatural.

Finding the name she takes notes on a notepad on the side and rips the page off. The call will only be made on a burner, no reason to give that person her number.

The small book goes back to the safe and she closes it easily since all systems were connected and she exits her room to ask Liz to buy a burner phone.

Unfortunately their security measures worked against them in a small aspect, it didn't allow them to check the danger inside the safe, it had been almost ten years since it was forged, ten years connected to a ley line, slowly feeding on the mana as it was made to do.

There was once a plan, a plan for a war. The plan was stopped, many of the tools destroyed but this wasn't, both the mother and the mercenary knew that one day it could be useful. It was a hope born of an impossible dream.

What they didn't know was that their hope gave the object the chance to gather mana, it was already sinning in a golden glow getting ready to be used. Maybe not for what it was intended but it 'wanted' to be used.

After all the cup was a 'holy grail' and its function is to bring out a miracle.

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Days pass by and the time has come for the daughter of the Emiya family to spread her wings. The whole family minus the father that was still in one of his jobs moved to join her or to say goodbye at the airport.

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