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"Sure." Once Rias gave Setsuna the swords she felt its weight and was interested in its sharpness. Approaching a random tree she gave a one armed swing which cutted the tree in the side, having it fall easily.
"It is a good sword." Kiba just smiled at the comment.
'The sword may be good but…' He looks at the downed tree. 'Her strength is no joke.'
Raising the blade to her arm, Setsuna presses her limb until blood starts to flow. "Will this suffice?"
"Indeed." Rias approaches and holds the girl's other arm. "You are going to feel a small bite." With that she stabs the arm but feels some resistance, if it doesn't hold for long since Rias just kept pressing and soon enough she had an incision. "Please hold your other arm for all to see."
While doing it Setsuna felt the mana entering her body but didn't fight it since she could tell it was benign. Something curious since the user was a devil, a devil with the Power of Destruction at that.
The wound starts to close without issues. Many of the audience were impressed, even Rias' peerage who she told about Shirou's invention couldn't even comment.
"That- that-" Shinji was fighting to find words, he wanted to say something but didn't know what.
He was not the only one, to a magician that didn't make any sense. Projection was not supposed to do that, it was supposed to do a frail copy, an empty shell of the thing and then break with barely any effort with little to no ability. The only explanation that some could find was a sacred gear but nobody could remember a single one with that appearance and even then sacred gears couldn't leave the hands of their owners that easily unless it was a creation type.
The other hypotheses no one wanted to admit since it would imply that there was a sorcerer with the strongest true magic alive and that was a nightmare for everyone else. The only reason why nobody was jumping to that conclusion was the fact that there was a small trail of mana going into the scalpel to keep it stable.
Once the arm was fully healed Setsuna made a point to move it around, she felt no side effects. "Impressive." She turns to Shirou. "And you made that with magic?"
"No I-"
"Shhhhhhh!" Rias stops him by placing a finger on his lips, she felt amused how his face got red. "No telling Shirou, at least not with so many around." He couldn't disagree with her and then she said to the rest of them. "Some of you are powerful, have decent spells and knowledge but compared to him and this," she raises EM for all to see, "with these, anyone with enough mana can close even a lethal wound. With this, the medicine of my world can grow more. With this I can make a revolution in the Underworld."
She looked around all present, daring anyone to challenge her claim. That healing speed was compared to a high level spell or a sacred gear or even Phoenix Tears. In face of these facts there was no argument.
"So… can anyone do better?" It was a known fact that the devil's healing was slow. It can save people from fatal wounds but slow to the point it takes a whole night to heal someone unless the person using it was specially skilled. That was why Phoenix Tears were praised, even if Shirou's method wasn't perfect it was already fast enough to compete with the Phenex Family speciality. "Now, if any of you aren't going to disagree, I suggest you all leave and try to get a pact with the Heiress of Sitri." 'Considering her personality and the skill set of most of those then it is going to be pretty much impossible.' Rias didn't bother saying the last part, let them try and fail if they want.
One by one the magicians started to leave the premises, there was nothing to be gained from staying since they lacked any means to compete against Shirou at the moment. Some were just frustrated while others looked at both redheads with envy or hatred.
Rias didn't care for their opinions, even if some had decent skill it was not enough to warrant a pact even if Shirou wasn't a factor because it was more of the same when it came to the modern magicians, picking up where their parents left off and going from there doing the same thing. To more than one magician the symptoms were worse since they tried to reach the theoretical 'Root' and tended to ignore any avenue that wasn't expedient to it.
Matou Shinji glared at Shirou, he was furious but he wasn't going to act against him in front of the devils, another thing he planned to do was interrogating Rin about her attempt of contact.
Tohsaka was biting her lip when she thought about it since it was her carelessness that led the devil to Emiya. She had some research to do too because she couldn't believe what Shirou did was projection, it had all the signs of being it but it was still unbelievable.
Once there were just devils, Shirou and Setsuna present Rias moved to introduce herself properly. "I apologize we had to meet like this but a friend of Shirou is my own too. I'm Rias Gremory."
"Higurashi Setsuna, you can call me just Setsuna."
"Then please call me Rias." After everyone presented themselves, Rias offered their guests tea.
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Inside the Occult Research Club was dark, not to the point Shirou was blind but he had the feeling that they didn't receive many guests. Kiba stayed close to him and helped him navigate until the main office.
There was a certain gothic aesthetic to it, there were three coaches of different colors, a table between the couches, a huge table with some papers in it and a comfortable chair behind with a closed door behind the desk.
Once everyone was seated and Akeno offered to serve some tea, Rias said. "Sorry for not calling earlier but as you can see I was busy."
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