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"I can cook tomorrow." Setsuna offered, confident she would have the energy.
"Shirou is better." Liz affirms and with Koneko they just stare at Setsuna trying to make the girl relent by pure pressure. If anyone asked she would deny but she surrendered to the cat like yellow eyes.
"Fine. Tomorrow after lunch, no more delays, outside of the club." That was her ultimatum.
"Tomorrow is saturday." Akeno points out, amused.
"Don't act like you all don't work on the saturdays devils." Setsuna was not going to be teased on this.
"Yes we can make our own schedule but can program ourselves better if you spar during the day." Rias said diplomatically. "This way we can watch the fight and even help judge a definitive winner."
"Fair enough." While the discussion was going Koneko approaches Shirou and taps his arm to call for his attention.
"You will cook tomorrow... right?" The request sounded like something Liz would say, but her eyes were different as in Liz eyes were more… dull while Koneko's shined more. Shirou wanted to pat her head and wondered if that was the feeling that an older brother would feel.
"Sure." He caved again. "What is your favorite kind of food?"
"Sweets." She answered with a smile, her voice had some excitement on it but it still sounded weak to his ears.
"Really? That is the same thing my sister told me once. That and waffles." For a second Koneko's eyes lost a bit of their luster. 'That won't do.' He was trying to cheer her up not make it worse. "Do you want a cake tomorrow?"
"Yes!" The girl finally showed a bit more emotion before clamping it up again.
"What kind of cake do you want?"
"Chocolate, no strawberry, no…" She starts to say different flavors, stopping after some time to think which one she felt would be better. It was adorable.
"What about a chocolate cake, with strawberries and vanilla cream." The little girl looks at him almost like he was a saint and gives him a single nod. "I will come here earlier and bake everyone a cake." That got him a couple smiles and a hug.
"She already has him wrapped around her finger." Akeno 'whispered'.
"Then we can have our match earlier too." The woman in man's clothes nods satisfied.
"Setsuna… why?" Shirou was starting to grow concerned for his friend's… competivines? It was either that or bloodlust to him.
"I just want to fight you at my full strength." She raised an eyebrow. "Don't tell me you aren't curious too?"
He couldn't deny that but not to the extent to rush it that much. On the other hand… "Fine, but we still need to define the rules."
"We fight until one of us admits defeat." That was good for him.
"No. That is a terrible idea." Rias cuts any hope of that off. "Setsuna-san, even if Shirou is stronger than the average human, he is still human. If you two fought until surrender he would lose."
After thinking for a second the raven haired woman nods. "You are right, Buchou."
"Why?" Shirou was curious about that.
"Well… it's just a natural thing really since she is a hanyo(half-demon). Her stamina is naturally higher." The red haired devil tried to explain hoping to not offend Shirou.
"Hanyo?" Shirou sounded surprised but not bothered. "So she is…" Or he just didn't understand the situation.
"My father is a yokai while my mother is a human." Setsuna explained.
"Ah, is that why you have such an advanced sense of smell?" The devils looked surprised by the question.
"It is related to the kind of hanyo I am. My father is a dog yokai and I got some of his powers from it." She explained easily.
"Okay, so we can't go indefinitely since you will outlast me." Shirou remembered how he was starting to get winded in their previous fight while Setsuna was still looking in top form. "I may have a few tricks if we go for a point rule or something similar."
"Then you can do it like this;" Kiba got everyone's attention. "First blood or first to the ground. It will end faster and avoid injuries."
"Since Shirou will bring EM tomorrow either myself or Akeno can stay on guard to help most wounds." Rias pointed out.
"Buchou, it is time for us to start our rounds." Akeno reminded the King.
"Thank you Akeno." They move back to Rias' office and she claps her hands. To the side of her desk a magic circle started to glow, it was the symbol of Gremory. "Anyone feeling a request already?"
"I do, Buchou." Kiba steps forward. "See you all later." With a red light the Knight disappears.
After that and a couple of minutes only Shirou, Rias, Setsuna and Liz were left at the club. Shirou made some tea while Liz was playing on her cellphone and Setsuna meditated. Once he got to Rias he saw her doing reports. "Anything in particular?" He asked her.
"No, just routine deals and a few reports of the area… altrought maybe this one interests you." She picks a stack of papers and offers it to him.
"'Report of the new ley line branch'? Is this about the new one in Homurahara?" She nods in response, a frown on her face.
"The investigator has made little progress on when it showed up. The specialists apparently are disagreeing, some saying that it popped up ten or so years ago, others claiming it has at least a century but the second one doesn't make sense." While Rias talked Shirou read a bit but couldn't follow most of the terms there. "So far the most accepted argument is that at some point ten years ago the branch just showed up."
'Ten years huh… " His mind fixed on those words, Shirou knew why. It was almost ten years ago that he almost died. 'Is that a coincidence?' Memories of fire and death came to him. He could still see it, the destruction, the despear, all the while he dragged himself-
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