Chapter 8 : Once you are a devil
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With that comment Shirou changed his posture from confused to alert. "What gave me away?"
The smell disappeared and she looked at him confused.
"What do you mean? You called me for a contract, magus." Now Shirou was the one confused.
"I am sorry but I don't remember wanting to make a contract."
The girl placed a hand on her chin to think but Shirou had his own questions. "Who are you? And how do you know that I am a magus?"
"You felt my energy, it was supposed to be the sign and I was going to wait for you to go to an isolated place for a meeting."
"That… sounds overly complicated."
"Tell me about it!" The girl wasn't shouting but it was almost there.
"I mean, the other magus sends a familiar with an obviously modulated voice, tells me that there is a stray devil in this school and then this whole set up when I asked her for a cellphone number."
She starts to massage her eyes. "I thought that it was you and that the other magus was a truly skilled detector but apparently you are the better one!"
Shirou gives her a time to rest after the small rant, going to a drinking fountain reserved for members of the club he projects a small cup of plastic since he couldn't find any.
"Feel better?" He offers the cup and she accepts.
"Yes, thanks." She then examines the cup. "You made this?"
"Projected actually. It is something basic for a magus…" Shirou shuts up when he remembers that he shouldn't be talking about it and he didn't know who this girl was.
"Interesting. I always saw the magus as just the researcher you know?
Compared to magicians who can use spells from other races and true mages, sorcerers, who can bend the laws of the world with skill and knowledge alone."
She then finishes the water and Shirou stops supplying the prana to keep the cup existing, as little as it was.
"Mostly are, but my education was… specialized." Shirou then looks straight into the girl's eyes. "Who are you?"
"Oh. I apologize, I haven't introduced myself yet." The girl then did a courtesy. "My name is Rias Gremory and I am a devil."
Gremory was a name that Shirou knew, his mother had a book that spoke in length of those who carried that name and their similarity. "Gremory? From the Ars Goetia?"
"... You never have met a devil before, have you?" Rias' mirth was paupable on her voice.
"Well… no. But isn't that name a big deal?" She laughs and he just glares a bit.
"...haha, I am sorry. I am sorry. You really sound like the first time that some people summon devils."
She controls herself and smiles some more. "You also believe in people too easily, I could be lying about being a devil."
"Why would you lie?" She shrugged at that.
"No idea." Then she unfolds a pair of bat wings on her back. "But just so we have no doubts here.
Yes I am a devil and you are a magus. Correct?" He nods and she continues. "Are you sure you aren't the one that summoned me?"
"I don't even know how to do that." He decides to be honest.
"It has to do with these pamphlets." She pulls a piece of paper with a magic circle in it. "You make a wish and either me or one member of my… let's call them my household, comes to grant it if possible."
"Then how you don't know who called you." Rias could just sigh at the question.
"Because that person left a familiar where I showed up…" Rias then looks at Shirou and asks. "Are all magus that paranoid?"
"Don't know many, in my family… well technically there is only my sister and me that are magus and I am not that great of a magus."
"That makes no sense on a lot of levels but… to each their own I suppose." Rias smiles again and asks. "Speaking of family, what is your name?"
"Emiya Shirou." He stands his hand and Rias shakes it without hesitation.
"Emiya… I think I heard that name before… but it doesn't matter right now." It was obvious the girl was still frustrated. "I have no idea where the stray is… if there is even a stray to begin with."
"Okay, slow down a bit. 'Stray'? Can you explain that please?"
"Long story short, every high level devil has a household called a peerage." She raises one finger then follows with another.
"Once you are part of a peerage you can only leave with the blessing of the king, the leader and creator of said peerage."
The third finger goes up. "Those that leave before are called strays and usually they leave by killing their former masters and running to the human world when possible."
"Usually?" Rias shrugs.
"Some just run. Not ready for the life of a devil."
"Are they dangerous?" Shirou's question got another shrug.
"Depends, most are because once you become a devil you need to learn to control the energy that comes with it."
Raising a hand a magic circle appears and drops something for Rias. She shows Shirou a chess piece, a knight;
"This is an evil piece, if I used it on you, you would become a devil.
Once you are a devil the very mana that your body uses will shift, you will gain the element of shadows and if I, the mistress of this piece, die or lose my power for some reason the energy manipulation loses control and will mutate you if you aren't already able to control it."
"Why is that so cruel?" Shirou steps back, the small piece making him nervous but Rias shakes her head.
"Turning a member of other races into devils is a hard process. The benefits are huge and if nothing happens to the king until the person masters the power then there are no real downsides."
"Besides being a devil?" A chuckle comes from Rias.
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