Chapitre 41: Time for a new religion
[ Aqua pov ]
"And... perfect!" exclaimed Aqua as she placed the frame above Rin's bed. "Now all I need to do is placed the other 50 frames throughout the school and see if a newspaper agrees to publish them."
Aqua took a step back and saw the frame while nodding her head. "I really 'nailed it' huh?" she said while chuckling at her pun.
"That was absolutely terrible." said Assassin, who was sitting behind her. "Also, the frames are huge, are you sure your master will like them?" asked Assassin sarcastically and amused.
"Ahh but that is were you're wrong my dear Assassin. Everything a goddess does is simply divine, and thus amazing. Obviously such gorgeous things must be set on proper display to have as many people as possible see them." replied Aqua. "Now, will you help me put the other frames on the school or not?" she asked with a raised eyebrow.
Assassin shook his head before smiling. "You know perfectly well that I am in. But you will have to tell me how you got Caster to add Saber to the picture."
Aqua smiled as well. "Great! Let's go then." she said while placing a bracelet on her hand, the same bracelet Rin wore while attacking the Matou's house. The bracelet that allowed Assassin to move out of the temple, though only in a certain radius of the bracelet itself. "As for what I gave Caster... well let's just say Saber will be a bit uncomfortable later tonight."
(Image of bracelet here)
As they were about to leave Rin's room, they came across Rin and Artoria who wearing the school's uniform. Rin and Artoria focused on the two servants in front of them for a moment before their gaze moved to above Rin's bed, where a frame nearly as big as a person was nailed to the wall. The problem with the frame was the picture it contained...
"Aqua!" screamed Rin while blushing. "Why do you have that?!"
Aqua launched herself forward and pecked Rin in the lips before winking at Artoria and proceeding to run away.
Rin remained blushing for a few seconds before her eyebrows twitched. "Get back here Aqua!" she screamed.
Artoria simply remained looking at the painting of Rin and Aqua, the same one that had been on display at the 'auction', the one that should have been given to Kuzuki, the only difference being that in the picture Artoria was looking at Rin while blushing. She moved her gaze towards Assassin while narrowing her eyes. "You gave the painting to Aqua." she said slowly. "And then had it altered."
Assassin raised his hands with an amused smile while a drop of sweat fell down his neck. "I know how it looks, but it doesn't look as good as those hamburger Caster brought." he said while pointing behind Artoria.
Artoria immediately turned around, only to be met by the emptiness of the hallway. A vein popped on her forehead as she turned back and saw that Assassin was gone.
Assassin left Artoria behind and ran downstairs as quickly as possible, where he saw Aqua hiding behind a couch and Rin looking for her. Once Rin noticed him, another vein on her forehead popped. "Assassin..." she said slowly, a creepy smile growing on her face. "Answer me something... where did Aqua get that painting from?"
Assassin understood he was in a bad situation. Rin was in front of him extremely angry and Saber would come down in seconds, so he came to the most logical solution possible, he was Assassin so there was no such thing as a low-blow. "Why don't you ask Aqua? She is hiding under that table." he said, pointing at the table behind Rin.
Rin's eyes widened as she turned around and crouched, however she was met by nothing under the table. Looking back she saw Assassin and Aqua running away, reaching the door and leaving the house as fast as possible.
"We will be back later!" screamed Aqua while leaving. "Take care master!"
Rin stared at the open door with a dead expression as she crouched down and hugged her knees.
Artoria came down and saw her master with small tears on her eyes. "Are you okey master?" she asked.
"They ran away..." she muttered. "They totally outplayed me! Assassin said 'look behind you' and I fell for it! It's like the oldest trick in the book and I fell for it ughhhh!" complained Rin.
Artoria simply smiled awkwardly while rubbing the back of her head. "W-We shouldn't focus on this master..." she said. "We can deal with them after school."
Rin nodded and stood up, her expression growing a bit more determined. "That's right... I will deal with them later!"
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"I will kill them..." muttered Rin.
"I will help you..." muttered Artoria in agreement.
Once they arrived at school, Artoria and Rin could only look with dead expressions at the countless frames nailed all over school, each with the same painting.
"Tohsaka!" said loudly a male voice coming from the windows upstairs.
Rin raised her eyes and saw Issei looking at her with an angry expression. "What is the meaning of this?!" he continued.
"Ohh, I am so going to kill them..." muttered Rin once again.
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Aqua sat down at the top of the rooftop and waited calmly. Assassin had dematerialised, but was still with her.
"I agree to your proposal." said a voice coming from behind Aqua.
Aqua didn't turn around and instead remained sited, a smile plastered on her face. "Rider... so your master gave you permission to join me?" she asked.
"Yes..." muttered Rider who had appeared. "She actually wanted to come and help you herself."
"And you didn't let her?" asked Aqua.
The woman simply smiled. "Is it wrong to want to see your master happy?" she asked. "Besides, I simply convinced her that there were safer ways to help a goddess..." the servant's expression turned awkward for a moment. "On a completely unrelated matter, she and the boy she hangs out with might give you a headache later."
Aqua raised an eyebrow at this. "A headache?"
"Yes... well, since you saved them they might have taken a... liking to you." said Medusa awkwardly. "And my words might have pushed them a bit further than expected..."
Aqua's eyes widened at the words as a crazy smile appeared on her face. "So that's what I've been feeling..." she muttered while standing up and opening her arms widely. "I HAVE NEW FOLLOWERS!!!!!!!"
État de l’alimentation hebdomadaire
-- Classement
Power Stone 
-- Power
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