Chapter 46

Castiel P.O.V.

"Out of the question!" Rin said in an almost yelling tone.

I am now back in the Tower. After all that happened a few days ago I made my way back to the Tower so as to discuss with Rin about what is the best for the Tower when it comes to this proposition of alliance, this amount of wait was just to give time for the Sitri house to decide exactly what it desired. And most important I came here to request something.

A place to train and a new training regime.

My intention is for my house to be expanded by the use of some bounded fields so that it can fit in places that I could train in, I was thinking a gravity room and maybe a place overcharged with curse/dark energy as well as one overcharged with light/blessing energy. Maybe even a room with high thunder energy to see if I can get a few about thunder and lightning elements so that I maybe can start controlling Clarent in a decent way.

However, there is one 'small' problem. This is going to be expensive. Especially since I will need those rooms to be extra reinforced so as to not be destroyed during practice. Now to convince Rin to pay for, well anything really, is a choir in and of itself. There is even a running joke here that says that it is more likely for Illya to marry Sairaorg than Rin spending money on something 'extravagant'.

So, I did the best thing I could.

I called the one person that will do exactly what I want and make Rin open the purse (for sheer competitiveness).

And she must be arriving in three, two, one and… well, look at that she still is not he-

"Hohoho, is this the poor that is talking?" And with a literal wave of rose petals, Luvia entered the room.

"Who are you calling poor, you rich cow?"

"Oya, I was talking about you. Was human language to advance for a poor flat monkey?"

"Oh no you didn't, you bimbo cow!"

"What did you say, Tohsaka? I cannot understand the words of a low born magus like you."

And that is how in less than 10 seconds the two are now trying to kill one another. I am surprised, it normally takes 6 seconds for this to happen.

Progress.

After a few minutes of this, and the room being completely and utterly destroyed, I decided to ask again.

"…so… about the expansion of my house in Kuoh."

Rin turned to me and said, clear tiredness in her due to how much energy she spent in pluming Luvia on the ground and getting out of the many her-sized holes in the wall.

"I already told you that it is out of the question. This will be far too expensive."

But then the third person in the room decided to intervene.

"What is this story about expanding your house, Castiel? I heard nothing about it."

I scratched my head in 'embarrassment' and said.

"Well, it is like this: I wanted to try and up my training, but as I am now living in Kuoh it is not possible for me to use some of the facilities that I need for proper training. I could try and come here more often, but Rias and Sona are upping security of the town now making teleportation in and out a hassle. Also, even if I did come here I know that the time would be very limited due to the time needed to get here and the fact that what would be left would be partially spent with the girls." I explained to Luvia in hopes for her to do something about it.

If there is one person that can do this is her, especially since she will want to outshine Rin just to spite her. And Rin will likely do a counter proposal just to outdo Luvia, and then Luvia will do the same. Thus the cycle continues until I receive the house and training location I want it and then more.

And all happened exactly as I predicted. It was the exact same trick that I used last time to get my previous house, the original plan was for a basic apartment that had two rooms one bathroom and a barely functional kitchen (obviously it was Rin's idea due to being cheaper), after this trick I managed a huge apartment with many rooms and all furnished.

I now only have to wait for a few days to have a new place to call home, what can I say except that Luvia is efficient.

All hail rivalry! Kampai!

After that was done I went to talk with Caster and Lancer about witchery and runes respectively as they are experts in those fields. I managed to convince them to give me some instructions and received some videos about different applications of those arts and how to use them.

It was a freaking lot of information and to be honest I barely managed to understand 15% right away, but thank to the head spirit bone my memory is much greater than most humans and I could maintain the information in my head so that I can think it over later to try and make sense of it all.

I also caught some books about this so as to study them later, it is good to think about the future and this knowledge may e the difference between life and death.

I would have done the same for magecraft with Rin or Luvia, but the two are in the office trying to murder each other for daring to be in the presence of one another. So my next stop was on Rider's place so that I could see my familiars.

Strangely enough, both the Cosmoems and Jirachi are feeling down, the energy in them is chaotic and they barely react to anything I or the others do. I asked Rider about it and she said that they might be trying to accumulate energy to evolve themselves, as it is similar to how the Cosmogs evolved into the Cosmoems. It is their biology so there is nothing to be done except wait for their recuperation and for them to finish evolving. A fun fact is that one of the Cosmoem likes to stay in the sun for as long as possible while the other likes to stay under the moonlight, and the same can be said about Jirachi as he also tries to spend as much time under the stars as possible.

Seeing as there is nothing else I can do I thanked Rider for taking care of them and then decided to go visit Saber for some training.

After 35 spars and 36 defeats (don't ask me how it is possible, it just is) I can say that I think I should have thought things more thoroughly before asking her for a spar. It is actually funny that I can think better now that I had a wood sword hitting my head over 27 times with enough strength that even rocks would crumble.

After I finished the spars (and got healed by Asia, the girl is a living saint) I went for one last spot that I needed to visit before I went back to Kuoh, the homunculi department that also serves as the alchemy department. I went there so that I could talk with Illya about her passing me some knowledge about alchemy, just enough to see if I can learn something that I can use now that my magical reserves are appropriate. Before I could barely learn anything with her due to the need of having considerable amounts of energy to execute alchemy during combat, and now that I am low high-class I can finally learn from her.

As I asked her about it I managed to convince her to teach me the 'basics' of alchemy from the Einzbern family (which I technically sort of am a part of, kinda), and so I spent the next 5 fucking hours listening to an unending and boring lecture about alchemy. It was so boring that Serenity even dozed off, that she managed to fall asleep at all was something I took pride in the fact that I know that this symbolizes her trust in me to keep her safe and the fact that she is much more relaxed now when compared to before.

At the end of the lecture, I asked for some books about alchemy to see how far I can go with this. Before I left, however, she requested me something.

"Castiel, I need some of your blood." Illya said to me with a serious tone and totally out of the blue. I answered out of sheer instinct.

"Hell no. Why do you even need my blood? For what I know you and Berserker already had plenty of it painter throughout the training fields many times over, go and catch some of it there." I said, not wanting to give my blood to her without an explanation about how it would be used.

Blood is a dangerous thing, especially when it is given instead of taken. It is possible to learn many things by analyzing the blood of someone if they give it out of their own free will, forcibly bounding others with curses or learning racial traits are all in the realm of possibility. There is no way that I am giving blood even if it is for Illya.

Illya then gave her trademark smile that is scarier than most things in this universe and said.

"You can give me a bit now or you can give a lot of it to Berserker." And don't ask me how but the giant mass of doom appeared behind her when she said that and somehow managed to give a smile that looked virtually identical to the one Illya was giving.

The fact that Illya managed to still be the scariest person in the room talks volumes about how scary she is.

Now that I think about it, I know her for so long that I can tell that she will not use my blood for anything nefarious. And the fact that I like my body being whole instead of in pieces also helped my decision.

After giving her a sample of my blood I decided that I needed a good night of sleep before I started my studies. It will take a while for me to assimilate everything I was taught today, but every step forward counts.

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As I got home I was ready for start my studies, I have a fucking lot to think and learn about and for it to be the most effective I need to start now as my memories are still quite fresh. The problem is-

"Hey, why are you here?" I asked trying very hard not to explode at this person that is in my house and is RUINING MY KITCHEN!

Said person tilted her head to the side and said.

"Isn't it obvious that a wife must live with her husband, darling?" was the answer that the invader of MY kitchen said, a smile plastered on her face saying those words as Miku tried to cock something. But the results were less cocking diner and more burning down the kitchen so it is easy to guess why I am NOT pleased.

"Fist, we are not married yet." She pouted at that… cute. "S-second is that this is my kitchen and only those who can cook can mess around in here, and only if I authorize." I had this rule for a long time as it was necessary. All the girls that like me are, for the lack of better words, a walking disaster in the kitchen. I once saw Yuno manage to make a soup become poisonous, it was a soup for Emily when she got a cold while we were all playing in the pool the previous day. I think I saw Yuno muttering something about it just being lumps of fat or something when she saw Emily on a bikini, but I am not sure.

After that incident I decided that none of them can enter a kitchen because, as unbelievable as it may sound, Yuno was still the best one of the girls in the kitchen even after the poisonous soup incident.

So now that I see Miku trying to cook in the only kitchen I have, well my overprotectiveness is explainable.

Miku seemed startled when I said that, and the pout she was giving was even larger now, and when she saw that I was looking straight at her with some degree of rage her lips trembled a bit before-

"BBBBBBUUUUUUUUUUUUUUAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! You hate me!" She started crying. How much emotionally unstable is this girl? I mean, I barely have shown any displeasure and the one I did was just because of what she was doing and not because of her herself, and still, she cracked and started crying just like that.

Shit. Why are women so damn sensible sometimes?

Oh well, I guess I should go back to the basics that Lancer-sensei taught me so long ago. I approached her and gave her a hug, started patting her back and whispered in her ears.

"It is fine, everything is fine. I just am not that good with anyone else in my kitchen, that is all. It is not like I hate you or anything like that, so please stop crying. Crying doesn't match you, you are the most beautiful when you smile after all." And at the end of that, she stopped crying altogether.

Honestly, Lancer-sensei's teachings are probably the thing that saved my life the most over the years.

After that I looked at what she did, hoping that maybe there was finally someone else around here that could cook anything at fucking all.

My expectations were on point as I saw what she did… she managed to fry an egg so well that it turned charcoal black. The worst part is that this was already better than all other girls here as it at the very least is not poisonous.

Her other dish was curry which looked perfectly fine. However, looks are deceiving, especially considering that she managed to confuse salt and sugar as well as pepper and curry powder, the flavor was just about to make me throw it all up. I ended up eating it all, not because I wanted but because her eyes were so bright and wanting for praise (close to a puppy dog) so I could do nothing but eat it all up and hope that my left leg spirit bone would manage to make sure I did not die.

Good news is that I did not die, the bad news is that my tongue wanted to very much.

After that, I managed to prove my mental fortitude as I did not pass out even though I really wanted to. I even manage to give her a smile, or so I hope because I am pretty sure that the ceiling isn't positioned under my feet.

I then said to her a few words, very practiced as I know that those might be my only line of defense against death.

"You can let me cook for now on, I want to pamper you."

She then hugged me and gave me a kiss on the cheek before walking away. I might have passed out after that because I remember entering home around mid-day and now that I look out of the window it is clearly night.

Sighing I decided to put this situation in the (don't trust the girls in the kitchen) list.

Afterward, I talked with Miku about her situation and she said.

"I decided I will be living here. I even informed the Tower and my parents and the Tower and mom said that it was fine."

Sigh, again my opinion about such matters is ignored. It is a trend as whenever it is about girls I have just as much control as someone in a roller-coaster. A roller-coaster that has Berserker as an enforcer.

… wait a second. I must ask this before anything else.

"And what did your father said?"

She had that damn smile on her face when she was about to talk, so I did what I had to.

HEAD CHOP

"Ouch! Was chopping my head really necessary?" She said while rubbing her head.

I then answered.

"Yes, yes it was. You were doing that bad smile again and I hate it." I said, and she looked to the side without knowing what to say.

This is an ingrained habit of hers, to give that smile whenever she wants to hide her emotions. I do not want her to keep doing it so I will keep head chopping her until she stops doing it for good.

"…So? What did he say?" I asked again. This time she sighed and said.

"He did not approve or disapprove, he simply wrote something in here and said that I should give it to you." She then took out a letter that was hidden in her big valleys, that I am trying 'very hard' not to look. And failing as it is quite enticing.

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.

What? She is my fiancé anyway so a look is not perverted or anything, I am a man after all.

When she gave me the letter I opened it and read it.

'Dear future dead body,

I will kill you if you look at her, I will kill you twice if you touch her hand or anything and I will eliminate your very existence if you even THINK of kissing my baby girl!

I hope this letter finds you in great health and going strong as I refuse to let anyone that I don't accept or weak anywhere near my treasure.

From: a very angry, and willing to kill you, father!'

You know, suddenly I feel that I should practice some Buddhism techniques of controlling the body and soul so as to not be tempted by earthly desires. Especially when such desires can make one of the strongest martial artists of the whole word and a GOD of the art want to kill me.

Yep, I will start chanting some mantras whenever I start to feel that my life is at stake (unfortunately, it is almost every awake moment of my life)

"Ahh~~~, this is the life."

OR I can go after someone that REALLY needs to learn that there are a time and place for everything, and the time and place for stealing my pudding is never and nowhere.

"LUGH, why are you eating MY limited edition pudding? I was keeping it for later." I said, glaring at Lugh as she was sitting on the couch with the remote control in hands as she watched TV and ate MY PRECIOUS!

She turned to me, then turned to the pudding pot and she decided what to do next. She turned the whole thing in her mouth in one gulp. She even turned to me and said.

"What pudding? I am not seeing anything. Hahahahahahahahaha…" And then she started laughing.

Sigh, I knew accepting her back was a bad choice. I should have kicked her out then and there, but I still considered her kind of a friend and most importantly I do not want her to go look for that spear supremacist bastard.

He is right there with Loki, Hades and Diodora on my shit list.

After that, I went to make dinner or at least tried to. When I looked the whole place was a mess of dirty dishes and if I went to clean them all I know that dinner will not be done tonight at all. I COULD ask Lugh, but last time I asked her answer was 'My only experience in kitchens is to steal food from others' and she said that with a straight face.

I decided to call for pizza, Okuyasu also came in here due to his place having a water infiltration in the walls and he ate with us. The pizza was good and all, but after we all ate I realized our new problem… there were not enough rooms.

This place was thought of to be comfortable for me, Emily and Taiga. Now Taiga went to Vegas out of the blue (typical action of hers s she loves being there for some reason) so there was her room empty for use, but now there is Okuyasu, Serenity, Lugh, and Miku all to sleep here too. In the end, a decision was made about how we would arrange ourselves. All the girls stayed in a room each, while I and Okuyasu stayed on the couch.

Which means-

SSSSSSSSSSSSSNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

That the snoring came back with a vengeance.

FART

And he brought friends.

I NEED a new home soon or I will go fucking crazy here.