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Published at 23rd of January 2023 06:16:36 AM


Chapter 13

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As soon as Shiro was done having breakfast, he fixed the broken bounded fields last night. 

"I finally got these right. Didn't waste a time reading all night I guess."

During last night's battle, Shiro brute-forced through the bounded fields in the Matou Mansion. He knew that he couldn't stay that long here after the quest is completed, thus he tried fixing it after reading through some records in their study.

Though, it became quite different from what it used to be. 

Since Shinji's a knight, Shiro prioritized putting some anti-magecraft capabilities to it such as making the transmission of mana inside slower. Then there's also some other function like gravity pressure and light ray attacks. 

As for its power source, Shiro randomly picked something that could function as one in the Matou's 500-year old treasury.

'Magic circles to create such domains. This is a first for me.'

With his prior knowledge to runes, it is not that hard to create a "good" bounded field in less than a day. Though, he planned to upgrade it further while he stayed here.  

He knew that he would stay because...

"I knew they were coming."

With this newly built bounded field, he sensed a single presence outside. The person is filled with active mana, thus it doesn't take a rocket scientist to know that he's most likely a magus.

Narrowing down the person that would come in this place after such an event last night, he could only think of few most likely people.

He didn't think much about it before deactivating the bounded fields, letting the said visitor inside.

*****

Looking at the person sitting opposite of him, Tohsaka Tokiomi came to a single conclusion:

'Strange.'

The mana capacity that he saw within him is above average, though it is not the most outstanding value that he had seen. However, his mannerisms didn't match it. Its as if the overconfidence that he possessed truly matches his strength.

Though, he has to say that his appearance stunned him for a while, making him think whether his daughter would fall for him in the far future.

"The old man's experiment had gone wrong. Right now, I am temporarily the representative of this house." Shiro said calmly while sipping the tea he made.

"What about Byakuya?"

"Injured too. He can't go out of his room for a while."

"Can you prove the authenticity of your words?"

 Hearing this, Shiro acted as if he had expected this question.

"Authenticity? I'm just their distant relative, someone who belongs to the remnant Makiri family back in Kyiv."

Hearing him mention "Kyiv", Tokiomi believed some of what he said already. After all, only the other two families knew about the Matou Family's past 500 years ago.

Some knew that the Matou's are foreigners, but they didn't knew much about them.

"Don't worry, the contract that was agreed by both you and the old man is still valid. Here."

Shiro brought out a geass scroll that he prepared earlier in the morning. He also hurriedly learned a bit of cursed arts aside from bounded fields to make this countermeasure if this guy visited this place.

As for the contractor, he had put it under Byakuya's name along with his signature.

With his strong mental power alone, he could memorize many things in one look. This is one of the perks of having high willpower attribute. 

Upon seeing this, Tokiomi didn't care about his authenticity anymore. If Sakura gets to be the family head and inherit every knowledge of the Matou's, everything else is fine.

He silently read the geass scroll while Shiro looked at him speechlessly.

'It's different when I first watched him. This guy prioritizes his magus side slightly more than his father side. This is the reason for his bad judge of character.', he thought. To him, it was ridiculous just how he gets backstabbed by the one he always trusts.

Moreover, his ending is literally him getting backstabbed to death by his disciple!

"Are you done reading? Oh, and the family crest will also be passed down to her."

"I'm fine with everything here."

Tokiomi signed the geass scroll before Shiro felt the contract taking in place.

"Happy cooperation, Tokiomi-san."

"Please teach my daughter well."

"Don't worry, we will."

Both of them shook hands before Tokiomi left the mansion. After making sure that Tokiomi is now gone, he looked behind him.

"He left now, Sakura-chan."

On one of the doors in the guest area, Sakura was eavesdropping the conversation between the two.

"Shiro-nii."

She opened the door while looking at him embarrassedly. Shiro came closer to her before squatting to see her eye-to-eye.

"Are you alright with not meeting with your father?"

"Otou-san..."

Shiro sighed upon seeing this. He knew that she might be estranged to him due to his actions, but he didn't knew that it would be this bad.

'He deserves it.', he thought. Without him, things will most likely follow the pre-determined future of hers, with her living in this hell for 8 years straight.

Some of her suffering included her being ravaged by those worms that'll last for half a day straight at most. That all happened in the basement with the corpse of Kariya and Shinji's mother. 

Due to those worms, her lust will rise every time she experiences a change in her emotions. That's where the future Shinji came in, with him doing all that to Sakura.

Those worms will get mixed by her blood, thus it couldn't be cured anymore. Truly, she led a miserable life until Emiya Shirou had saved her.

"Well, both me and Shinji will try our best to raise you as a very strong magus!"

"Very strong magus?"

"Yes! Very strong magus! So that no one can snatch away your happiness!"

Sakura remembered what happened to her last night. That was also the time where she felt fear the most in her life. She started quivering as she felt the same fear all over her body again.

Suddenly, a warm embrace wrapped around Sakura. Shiro wordlessly patted her head as he promised her with a serious tone.

"That won't ever happen to you again, I swear."

Her eyes reddened as she started crying very loudly. All of her fear from last night being vented out in this instance.

It took a while before she calmed down. As she separated from Shiro's embrace, she has this determined look in her face.

"I... I will become a very strong magus!"

He smiled wordlessly from this sight. For reasons unknown, he felt warm right now, as if his entire being is in support of taking care of this brave young girl.

"How about we have an early lunch? I'll cook again this time."

"Mn!"

Sakura's eyes shined as she nodded her head excitedly. With Shiro's cooking, she felt much more better.

The two informed Shinji (who was still training in the backyard) that they'll have an early lunch. Shiro then used a mental interference spell to the cook who is now awake before checking the recipes in his mind again.

"What should I cook this time..."

Unbeknownst to him, cooking became a time of relaxation for him.





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