10 Reinforcement

AN = How does the views in Webnovel works...? Because I am having a hard time to think that there is more than 11,000 views per chapter... It has only been 9 chapters... Not counting this one.

Walking up the road to the Emiya Residence, Kiana could only sigh and looked at Shirou with a frown, "So... Now that we're nowhere near the dojo or anywhere near Rin... Mind telling me how you and both of them went to the dojo at the same time?"

Shirou could only gave her a wry smile after seeing her frown and answered, "Well... At first, we didn't actually walk there together. They were still talking about something while I asked Issei if there are anything I needed to do... which is surprisingly nothing. So, I went out and walked to the dojo. On the way there, however, I found an old lady having a problem."

Kiana raised an eyebrow in confusion at the last part as he continued, "It took a bit of time to help her but after finishing that, I noticed Rin and Ayako walking pass me. Of course, I went up to them and said hi. After that, we talked a bit and realized that we were going to the same place. I remembered your words about Rin but decided to go with them anyways, because we would have met at the dojo anyways."

Kiana's frown quickly disappeared as she contemplated on his story, 'If that was what happened... There's really nothing to get mad about...' She looked at his nervous expression and sighed, "Okay... That really didn't give you a choice to pick... I would have met her anyway even if you came first... Haa... I just wished to have met her in a more... magical way."

"Well... 'If things don't go the way you plan, that doesn't mean you can't do nothing about it. Try make it better and not regret it.' Raiga-jiji said that to me and Taiga when his birthday celebration was interrupted by the rain. Even if it was raining, they still made it better by wrestling in the rain, partying in the rain, and more... Although some got sick, that birthday was a lot of fun and memorable to all of them." Shirou said with a soft smile.

Kiana chuckled as she imagined Shirou wrestling with the Yakuza men while Taiga and Raiga cheered for them at the sidelines, "Yeah... That really sounds a very fun birthday. You're grandpa is very wise."

Shirou nodded in agreement before saying, "Besides, I think your first impression should be fine. You were shown to be helpful, kind, and great with kids. You helped Maya-san clean the dojo with a smile and Maya had told us that you taught the students as well. She said it was very impressive."

Kiana smiled happily at the comment and decided to take his words to heart. She was about to think of a plan for their next meeting but before she even started, Shirou's question brought her attention away, "So... Since we were somewhat in a topic related to Tohsaka-san... Do you know anything about her? I think it would be good if I have some knowledge of her as well."

She let out a low hum as she started to recall everything she knew about Rin from her memories, "I... She comes from a long line of magus that specializes in jewel related magecraft. She inhereted the title of Second Owner from her father, which just means she oversees anything magic related that's happening to the city."

Shiro's eyes became wide open with surprise but kept quiet as she continued, "She's also what people would call a 'one in a century' prodigy with forty good quality circuits and thrity extra from her family's magic crest. She's also an Ave-"

That brought more shock and confusion to Shirou as he interrupted her explanation, "Wait wait! Did you say she not only has forty very good quality circuits, but also an extra thirty!? How is that even possible?!"

"Eh? It's from her magic crest of course. Haven't I told you that?" Kiana asked before remembering that Shirou didn't know a lot of magical terms. She looked at his face full of shock and confusion and explained, "Just think of it like a family heriloom that you can store both your information and circuits into, before passing it down to your descendant."

'They can do that?!' He thought in shock before frowning at a certain person in his past, 'If they could do that... Then why had Kiritsugu never given me it...? It might have helped me... But since it was suppose to be given to a descendant... He might not be able to pass it to me because I'm adopted... That's... Haa... I can't even ask him about it now...'

Finishing his thoughts, he let out a sigh as he signaled Kiana to continue. "Anyways... She is also known as an Average One. It basically means, she has all the five basic elements as her 'Element'. Y'know like fire, water and the rest. Not only that, she is also a great fighter. She learned how to do... Uh... Bachikuan? Eh... Bajikuan? No that's not right either... Ah! Bajiquan! That's the one... I think that's all there is to tell you."

Shirou could feel his head spinning in shock by all this information, "Not only can she do Bajiquan... But she's also a very rare prodigy with seventy good circuits and can use fire, water, wind, earth, and... Metal?"

"Eh~ It's actually called Ether. I don't know much about it but all I could tell you is that Metal comes from the Chinese five great elements."

"Even then, it didn't seem to scale her potential down... I don't even know what ether is just like you but from everything else that you have told me. She is way more powerful than me... Not only that she's also the overseer that dad warned me about... That's just amazing! I can see why she's the top student in our school."

"Right! That's why I wanted to meet her in a more magical situation. I wanted to see if we could or at least be taught how to do magecraft with someone very talented in it... But I think she's a bit suspicious of me after seeing my right eye." She said with a frown.

Shirou raised an eyebrow in confusion as he asked, "What makes you think she's suspicious of you? I haven't really seen anything that would lead to that."

"You mean... You did not see her staring at me with the look you would normally use to give suspicious or potentially dangerous people? She literally gave me one right after I left the toilet!" She said with an incredulous expression.

"Huh? She did that? I... I guess, you could interpret it that way. I thought that stare was because she was in shock and disbelief thinking that we were in some kind of relationship." He said with a contemplating look.

Kiana could only deadpanned at the boy's expression of confusion as she thought, 'Is... He being serious right now? I remembered him being called by many as dense... but I know it isn't true. Maybe he's just not that perceptive?'

Shaking her head, she let out a sigh before explaining, "That was just her using misdirection. She quickly brought your attention to something shocking that would make you easily forgot about the thing right in front of you. I have learned how to resist this because I have used in the past... and fell victim to it..."

Tuna Tuna Tuna~!

Running down the stairs, Kyle looked at his brother, who was eating his favorite flavored bread, with an angry frown, "Are you seriously eating my bread that I was saving from yesterday?!"

His brother looked at him in shock before looking around nervously and pointed at their sister innocently playing in his laptop, "Kyle! Look! She's playing your laptop again! She might accidently erased you save files like before!"

"What?!" He shouted in panic as he turned to his sister that's playing his laptop. His eyes went wide opened with fear and panic as he quickly ran and shouted, "Wait! Don't play that game! Play Minecraft instead!"

(AN = True story. I forgot about my bread and remembered it when I slept. Even after years had passed, that memory can still be clearly remembered by me...)

Tuna Tuna Tuna~!

Even when the memory had happened many years ago, she could still feel frustration at herself for being easily tricked by her own little brother.

Shirou was startled by her sudden shift in emotion and thought it was best if they moved on from this topic and talk about something else, "O-Oh... Uh... Okay... Now that you have told me... I think that problem should be finished... Anyways! Have you already found a way to fix your eye?"

'...That might just be the most obvious use of misdirection I have ever seen.' She thought before quickly processing his question and answered, "Oh, yeah! I think, I may have found the reason why it had stayed like this from the morning."

Shirou looked at her with surprise as he asked, "Really? I thought it would have taken more time than a few hours..."

Kiana shrugged and said, "It might have taken longer if I hadn't remember that my yellow eye color is related to my... battle form."

"Battle form? You have something like that?" He asked with surprise and intrigue showing on his face.

"Uhh... It's not really accurate but you could call it like that. But that's not important as what's important right now is the with the fact on how I turn into that form. Changing to my other form, I always power my body with my special energy. The only time my energy had caused or interacted with said body was the time we opened our circuits."

Shirou winced as he recalled the memory of the amount of pain showing her face that night and asked with a bit of worry, "So what you're saying...is that they are still inside your circuits? Didn;t you flush all of it out before?"

Kiana nodded and answered, "Yes! I could clearly remember flushing everything out of my circuits because when I tried to keep up my void impact, the drain that hit my magical energy after the energy left was increased immediately. But when I give my circuits another check, I found a tiny bit of my energy appearing in the circuits!"

That made Shirou very worried as he could recalled all the pain she was suffering in that short amount of time and his futile attempts to help. He began to imagine if something like that were to happen once more, the feeling of helplessness would frustrate him even more.

Kiana looked at his grit teeth and comforted him with a smile, "You don't need to feel worried, Shirou... Until now, I haven't felt any pain or discomfort coming from my circuits. Don't let it distract your mind when we're experimenting later on... We could use the excuse of cleaning the shed to give a quick look on the circuits."

Shirou looked at her comforting smile and sighed, "Alright... I'll try my best."

At that moment, Shirou began to remember the question he had been asking himself in school. He frowned as he turned to Kiana who still had a smile on her face and asked... But nothing came out of his mouth as he decided it was better to keep it shelved until this problem was solved.

It was better to focus on her circuits first.

Tuna Tuna Tuna~

-Tohsaka Mansion-

"Alright... Three rubies, two amethyst, and an emerald... I think this much should be enough for those two. I'm not going to do much but to check on them." She muttered as she placed the magically induced gems inside her pocket.

"And where do you think you're going?" A young and emotionless voice said from behind her.

'Who-?!' She turned her back in shock and saw the white haired nun looking at her with her usual emotionless resting face.

She sighed in relief that it wasn't Kirei before saying, "Don't just come out of nowhere, Caren! I thought you were Kirei for a second... I'm just going to do my job as the second owner and check on some people I think may be a magus."

"Oh? Is that so... How odd. I thought there were only three magi family including you living here... Are you sure that you're not overthinking things again? We don't want to erase more memories like before." Caren asked with a raised eyebrow.

She felt a nerve snapped when she brought that up and shouted in irritation, "That was your fault! You and Kirei gave me false information about them! I wasted a month to carefully investigating Ayako's family because of that!"

The accusation and irritation in her voice only brought a satisfied smile on Caren as she innocently said, "What? Why would I, a kind and accepting nun of God, do such a heinous thing. I only told you about how she was very interesting. I never said they were related to the moonlit world."

"Gah! Shut up, you fake nun! You and Kirei were acting as if they were a magus family!" Rin shouted with a very pissed off face. If she hadn't gain a bit of resistance from the two fakes, she would have shot her with a Gandr shot in frustration.

Caren felt very nice when she saw her anger and irritation and let out a satisfied "Heh" by accident... Before covering it up with a fake cough, *Ahem* "You were just being paranoid, Rin. I have no memory of doing such an evil thing to my dear sister-"

Caren instinct flared as she dodged the sudden blast of flame... She then turned to Rin who had a very pissed off expression. 'It seems that I have gone too far once again... This... I need to keep this sinful thing in check...'

"Never. Call. Yourself. My. Sister." Rin said while gritting her teeth in anger.

Caren let out a defeated sigh as she nods and apologizes, "I'm very sorry for stepping out of my usual line, Rin... It seems that my personality is growing ever so quickly as I grow older... Forgive me."

Even if she was extremely pissed at her, she couldn't help but to feel pity for her as she brought her hand back down and calmed herself. She let out a sigh and said, "I know... You've been getting irritating as we grow older... I forgive you but please do your best to rein your sadistic nature. We have made a deal about this long time ago and I hope we do our best to fulfill it to the very end."

'Ah... That old deal we made... How... Rin of her... To think she still remembered that childish promise even after all the years of torment me and my father gave her...' She thought with a frown as she watched Rin walked away and left the house with a loud slam coming from the door.

She turned her head towards the fireplace that has two old photos. The first was her and Rin when they were a child while the other was her and Sakura... Her actual sister... She could only let out a sigh and muttered, "You're such a kind sister..."

Tuna Tuna Tuna~!

'Burst...' She thought as she let out a deep sigh and opened her circuits. She opened her eyes and watched as the circuits spread from her shoulder and down to her fingertips. She let out a sigh of pleasure when she felt a bearable but hot heat emanating from her circuits.

(AN = I'm keeping the amount of her circuits vague until I could decide how much she should have. I'm thinking 56 or 60. 47 from Kiana and 13 or 9 from Kyle. Kyle's wouldn't be as good since he is just a civilian in his life while Kiana would be very good since she is Sirin's reincarnation. What do you think? Too much or low?)

'This feels like submerging in a very hot bathtub... I can get used to this...' She thought with a smile as she watched her circuits closely. At first, it was normal with blue glowing magical energy running through it... but then she began to see pink streaks appearing here and there.

"Hey, Shirou! This is what I'm talking about." She called as Shirou stopped sweeping and placed the broom away before kneeling beside her and stared at her circuits. He looked at the pink streaks in shock before looking up and down her arm to find there were some there as well.

"You're right... They're still there..." He muttered before becoming very concern, "Didn't you say circuits are inside our soul? After hearing about how dangerous your energy is... Don't you think it's doing the same thing inside?"

Kiana frowned at the implication before shaking her head, "No... At least, I don't think so. I'm not feeling corrupted... I don't feel the urge to destroy or eat people... and I think I would have noticed that if it were to happen to my soul."

'It should be this way... I'm already away from Honkai's influence... Right? I'm now in another world with more beings that could not only beat her but is also the same power level as her... I hope I'm right because that would be... very worrying.' She thought while looking more worried as seconds passed.

Shirou frowned as she looked at her in worry, " Kiana? You are looking very worried at the moment. Did you find anything wrong?"

Kiana saw the worried expression on his face and was surprised at the overlapping image of Mei and Himeko. She didn't like seeing them worried about her like that... So it was almost instinctual that she shook her head and put up a bright smile, "Nope. I'm not getting anything right now. I was just remembering something from the past."

Shirou immediately frowned as he wasn't tricked by the fake smile. He knew there was something bothering her but wouldn't tell to not worry him. It was a tactic so very familiar, because he would have done the same in her place.

He knew he would be a hypocrite if he still asked away but even then, he would rather be a hypocrite than making a mistake he would regret in the future, "Kiana. That is not going to trick me. You can trust me... I might be worried and would get even more if it was bad news, but it was better than leaving it a secret and regret it in the future."

That line... She frowned as she remembered Himeko saying the same thing to her once. She began to frown at his insistence and said with a bit more force in her voice, "It's nothing, Shirou. It doesn't concern you or the problem I have right now. I will tell you about it in the future but for now, just know that it is a very personal thing and not related to my circuits.'

The atmosphere became tensed as the two stared at each other's eyes and frowned. They didn't want to back down but seeing Kiana not budging an inch about the subject, Shirou finally caved in and sigh, "Alright... You win... Just... If it concerns about your energy or circuits please explain to me so we could try and make a solution to it."

"I will... Thank you, Shirou." Kiana said as she mentally signed in relief. She didn't want to explain Honkai to him. It will only worry him more and distract him frol focusing on magecraft.

The two had a quick but long moment of silence before Shirou finally sighed and moved on, "So... Anything you want to tell me about the circuits?"

"Nothing so far... I haven't felt anything wrong at the moment. No pain. No burning feeling as if molten lava was suddenly teleported inside of my body... It really doesn't... Maybe... If I try to use it... Hmm... Shirou, pass me that pipe please! I want to see if it does anything if I use magecraft. I'll try to do reinforcement."

Shirou was a bit surprised but nodded nonetheless as he grabbed a plastic pipe and bring it to her, "Are you sure about this? I have only told you the steps I would do this morning. Your first time doesn't really count since you never let the energy flow to an object."

"I am..." She said as she took the pipe from his hand and breath... Four flaming wings burst into life as she muttered the spell, "Reinforcement..."

When the familiar heat started to rise, she proceeded to do the first step. She let her energy flow from her hand and to the pipe...

She looked down on the magical energy spreading to the pipe and sighed in relief as she took the next step. Letting the magical energy spread throughout the whole pipe, both inside and outside.

Once the picture was finally in her head, she began the hardest step of them all. To find the existence of a hole in its complete existence. It sounds very hard but in a more simplified term she needs to find holes she could patch up with magical energy to better it.

It took a while for her to finally find few and stopping at that amount because she didn't want to go further than this for now.

Next was the second hardest step since she now had to fill the holes with just the right amount of energy. Shirou said if it had too little it's going to be unbalance and if it's too much it would shatter instead. So she took anothee deep breath as she slowly fill the holes until it filled right at the edge.

Feeling nothing going critical, she sighed in relief as she stopped the flow of energy, "Phew! I thought I would screw it up... I can't believe this is my first ever-Woah..."

Her relief was quickly replaced with awe and surprise at the look of the pipe. It had blue circuits spread out from top to bottom, glowing brightly in the dark shed.

It was both amazing to look at and surreal for the girl even after she had merged. She actually did magic... People from both her worlds wouldn't even have the chance to do something likes this and here she was...

It was her first time and she could do such a difficult magecraft... She felt a sudden overwhelming joy and awe from both Kyle and Kiana as it also gave her a sense of accomplishment...

She felt a tear dropped down from her face as she finally noticed the tears on her face. She laughed a bit and said, "I can't believe I'm crying over this... Even after all that I has been through... Even when I had powers of a herrscher... This small thing could make me tear up..."

"Congratulations on your first ever reinforcemenr, Kiana." Shirou said with a bright smile. He had been beside her watching her do it correctly and was proud of her... He might not know what herrscher means but from the context it might be her powers...

Kiana could only smile back as she let the pipe down and said, "Thanks..."

Unknowingly for the both of them. If they had been wtahcing closely to the pipe they would have noticed the pink energy followed through as well...

*Crack!*

(AN = Finish Edit! June 23 12:04)

Ps. My hand is bruised and need to heal for a few days. It hurts and I can't really do much but type with one hand.)

AN = If you felt it's cut or ended wrongly... It was probably because I did... I thought it would be nice to put a cliffhanger... Which I might regret in the future. Also, It was reaching 4k... I wanted to make an explanation and make a chapter that could make a smile on your faces... Which is the joy Kiana felt.

Omake : Mei Raiden (Dead Kiana World)

"Are you sure about this Fu Hua...? Your original has disappeared with Kiana... Can you take your body back from Sentience?" Mei asked with concern.

Fu Hua's fragment frowned but nodded, "I have gained my other fragment from Bronya and Theresa. All I need left is my body... Even if Original isn't here with us. We could make up with the one possesing my body at the moment."

Mei frowned but nodded and trusted her plan, "Okay... Let's get going."

Fu Hua's fragment dissipated back into her body as Mei went into her Herrscher of Thunder form and summoned her dragon.

Mei-senpai Mei-senpai Mei-senpai~!

"Ha!" Sentience shouted as she summoned more swords that immediately shot through the air and towards Mei.

"Tch!" Clicking her tongue in frustration, she flash step once more before rushing towards her with lightning emanating from her sword.

She thrust her sword towards Sentience but missed as her smug voice sounded from behind her, "Baka~ Your back is wide opened."

Her eyes went wide opened in surprise as she tried to kick the herrscher away but only to be blocked. She felt her leg being pulled and was thrown away by her.

'She's playing with me isn't she?!' Mei thought in frustration as she landed on her feet.

'You can't beat her like this Mei. She has my 50,000 years worth of memories and experience. Even when she's acting immature, she still knows she could beat you. Just imagine her as Elysia... That would probably help."

"Damn that annoying pink elf!!" She shouted as her honkai energy began to grow larger and flash stepped behind Sentience.

"Haaaaa!"

Mei-senpai Mei-senpai Mei-senpai~!

Kneeling down on the grave of her loved one, Mei smiled and spoke to it, "Hey, Kiana... I'm back after helping Fu Hua getting her body back from Sentience... You must be happy right?"

No one answered her as she continued, "Did you know Bronya became the new Herrscher of Reason? She's always the smartesf of all three of us so it's not a surprise that happened... It suits her very well."

Again, no one answered her as she continued, "I hope I'm making you smile happily... Wherever you are... I... Why do you need to save them, Kiana..."

Before she realize it, tears were starting to fall from her eyes, "Those people... They were thankful for you to save them but they did nothing else! They don't visit your grave! They don't make a statue of you for saving them! They don't even reward you except saying thank you! Why?! Why?! Why leave all of us for them?! Why can't we just be together... Why..."

Once more, no one answered as her sobbing was all that sounded in the graveyard. It took awhile for her to regain herself but when it happened she wiped the tears away and muttered, "I just wished to spend more time with you... Goodbye... For today."

Walking out the graveyard with a stone cold face, she looked at the Herrscher of Sentience who was having a frown, "I see that you have finished grieving... Let's go, Kevin wants us to go back for a meeting."

Even when she knew it was Fu Hua inside her body... It still irritates her that she didn't went back to her original self because she was missing her original... Letting out a long sigh, she nodded and the two walked away from the grave.