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With the exception of the older devils everyone else was dressed in normal clothing, even her was using shorts and a white shirt, Shirou was dressed on a white and blue shirt and jeans combo, Liz was similarly dressed like Koneko after she took a shower but on her it looked more tight, not the woman minded, Kiba looked relaxed on his black button up shirt and Setsuna was with a blue shirt and jeans with her normal ponytail.
Shirou was finishing the cake while everyone else ate lunch, her mouth already watering at the thought of cake made on the same level as the food of the previous day to the point she was already licking her lips.
He entered with a huge cake, as promised a perfect mixture of chocolate, strawberry and vanilla, to anyone looking it was a work of art. Shirou picks the first slice and gives it to the youngest of the room since it was made on her request.
Once she took the first bite Koneko couldn't stop herself. "Nyaa!" Once again many were shocked by the development, those that knew her history looked to Shirou who was confused how a girl could make such realistic noise of a cat, Setsuna twiched first her whole body but then her eyebrow kept going for a few seconds.
Then everyone else tasted the cake and only Liz kept a straight face, she was more alert and relaxed but besides that everyone else was acting on the food.
"As a chef! I have much to learn!" Rias' pride in her cooking was broken.
"Delicious!" Akeno shuddered while she ate.
"This is… heaven." Kiba looked like he had a revelation.
Setsuna said no words but the stoic girl was devouring a slice after the next with Koneko right behind and only because the black haired woman was bigger to reach the food faster.
"How? First breakfast and now this!" Rias questioned between bites. "I watched you cook and the food we made earlier was just as good." Another pause for eating. "How did you do this?"
"I use reinforcement on the preparation." Everyone stopped at hearing that. "What?"
"You can use magic on food?" Akeno almost screamed the question.
"Reinforcement is a part of magecraft." Liz said between her own bites. "It does as the name implies and reinforces things making them better versions of themselves."
"... You just repeated what Sella said when I tried that, right?" Shirou asked and Liz nodded while eating.
"Teach me!" Rias demanded.
"I… don't know how to teach that?" Then an idea came to the magus. "Can you use reinforcement?"
"Can devils even learn magecraft?" Setsuna was curious as well.
The King had a look of desolation on her face. "No… we can't. We can use our imagination and the natural mana of our bodies or the world in ways that humans can't even imagine but we lack magic circuits. We have cores that produce magic instead."
It was more complicated than just that but Akeno raised her hand. "Maybe we, the reincarnated ones, can learn." The Queen looked at her King and gave a smug smile. "The pieces may act as cores but there is nothing saying we won't have circuits."
Rias puffed up her cheeks getting upset by the prospect while Akeno just gave her a teasing grin. "We would have to run some tests into that… Did any devil try to learn magecraft?"
"I'm sure someone must have tried but when magicians turn into devils they go for our side of magic." Kiba said in deep thought. "It's just easier to do our own brand of magic."
"Hard to compete with raw imagination." Shirou admitted, how easy it would be if he could just think and stuff would exist… knowing his luck there would be another ten steps still.
"Either way we should get ready to the spar." Setsuna announced getting up. The cake was already done.
"That was supposed to last a few days." Shirou complained and some people had the shame to avoid looking at him, none of them had white hair.
"Calm down a minute Setsuna-san, I'm curious on how I can see if I have circuits." Akeno tried to convince her fellow ravenhead.
"You can do it late." Was the response.
"And fighting after eating is bad for one's health." Leysritt said drinking tea. "Rest another hour then you can go." The tone of her voice left no room for discussion.
"Fine, one more hour." She sits on the couch again clearly impatient.
"Actually..." At Rias first word Setsuna glared at her. "Calm down Setsuna. I have an idea that you may like to make the spar more fun."
The younger woman still glared. "I will be the judge of that."
"I'm curious to know if I have magic circuits. What about you Kiba?" Akeno really looked excited by the prospect.
Kiba looked more reluctant. "I don't think normal magic is suited to my fighting style."
"What is your fighting style?" Shirou asked curiously;
"That is a surprise!" Rias interrupted before the awnser. "Afterall, both of you need to spar first and I didn't tell Kiba how you fight."
"You didn't see me fight properly."
"But I can guess plenty and I honestly can't wait for it." Rias looked excited by the prospect and both males just shrugged.
"So… how do I know I have circuits?"
"It involves a ritual…" Akeno nodded, waiting for Shirou to continue. "I… don't know how to do it properly." Now there was a frown on the Queen's face. "It was years ago, I was sitting in a magic circle and mom just place a hand on my back and said-"
Liz almost slapped Shirou for how fast she placed her hand on his mouth. "No, bad Shirou."
"Mphuhmph?" He tried to say something.
"No. No revealing your number of circuits." While nobody else understood Liz spoke like she did perfectly."
"Mph?" Everyone could just watch the conversation.
"Because… Sella said it was bad. Something about knowing how much mana you could use on a fight." Liz was not paying attention to that one.
"Mpmmhumhummnhmph." Shirou gave a counter argument.
"Call your mother first." Was the retort.
The young man's shoulders drop but he just nods, finally having his ability to talk returned.
"Do we want to know?" Rias wanted to know but she could hold back her amusement for a friend.
"I think I do." Akeno hadn't the same courtesy.
"My father is paranoid and that rubbed on my mother." That was all Shirou had to say about the subject.
After an hour of rest they left the club room and entered deeper in the forest. Shirou was carrying three bags while everyone else had snacks and bottles of water, looking at his future/past opponent the redhead wondered how she was going to fight, he would be ready if she was going to go with her hands but Shirou was sure she used a weapon of some kind.
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