Book 1: Records of Magus Killer – Chapter 17 - Wedding (Patreon)

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Tokyo

'This is literal hell...'

Thought Kiritsugu as they were going from one wedding store to another, and another, and another, and another.

All of this is because Maya couldn't find anything she liked, or rather, she bought everything she liked but wasn't sure about anything; thus, she bought all the dresses she liked. Kiritsugu was paying for everything, of course, and Maya had already bought several dresses, collectively for more than 200,000 yen.

Right now, Yen was already almost on the same level as the USNA Dollar in terms of buying strength, so 200,000 was a huge amount of money, but Kiritsugu didn't really care much about things.

Not to mention all the money he had from mercenary and assassination jobs, he also got a steady income from his company by manufacturing Magic Gem Sequences.

Now, they were going to another store, as their bodyguards were carrying out a small mountain of boxes and other things that Maya chose.

Their wedding would be for family and invited only, as Maya didn't want to have their wedding turned into a formal occasion as a gathering for politicians, military officers, and prominent members of Clans.

She decided that their wedding should be only focused on the wedding itself and not anything else.

"This one is good, don't you think, sister?"

Asked Maya, her twin, as she was trying a new dress; this one was pitch-black as the darkest night, with a more modern style compared to the dresses she had tried previously.

"Indeed, it fits you very well."

Stated her sister.

"How much was it?"

The store clerk quickly calculated the price.

"17,500 Yen."

"We will take it."

When Kiritsugu heard that, he almost coughed blood; even ammunition for his weapons when he was doing missions and taking contracts was several times cheaper than a single dress.

"Now, we only need to find something suitable for Kirtisugu; we can't allow him to attend the wedding in his military uniform; that would be no, no..."

Muttered Maya as she mischievously looked at her finaceé.

"Maya, I don't n..."

Even before he could finish his sentence, Maya stopped him in midway.

"You have one pair of suits that looks like it from a previous century, and your fashion sense is terrible; if not for me taking care of your wardrobe, you would still be wearing that same torn trenchcoat even to bed."

She lectured him as he hung down his head in defeat.

Ironically though, Maya chose him several suits, each looking very good, and everything cost only under 20,000 Yen. For such high-quality clothing from world-renowned fashion designers, it was a good price.

He had to admit that Maya was better with people overall than him. He was good with guns and magic; while he didn't have a problem commanding squad of soldiers or even the entire Brigade, he sucked at some common-sense related things, or rather he didn't really care about that.

"Oh, my, we would be coming late to our reservation for lunch. We need to hurry.

Complained Maya as she looked at her watch, while her sister had similar thoughts, and Kiritsugu wondered when she had time to make a reservation, as he was instructing guards and butler on transporting all things they bought here.

It cost a pretty lot of money.

Contrary to Maya, even though he was rich, he never indulged himself in a life of luxury and used money rationally and only on necessary things.

After they entered the limousine, they soon arrived at the restaurant, where the Manager, who was a middle-aged man, a little fat one, was nervously waiting for them before the entrance.

Kiritsugu exited the car and helped Maya come out by holding her hand as bodyguards surrounded them from all sides.

In truth, a small convoy of black-armored cars quickly attracted the attention of other people passing by, as many recognized him through his infamy.

'He is even scarier in real life.'

The Manager of the restaurant thought, as sweat dripped on his forehead.

"Hello, welcome to the Yukimura."

Greeted them, Manager, as Kiritsugu mainly ignored him, though he was mainly ignoring most of the thing, he just nodded at him, as he led Maya, Miya, to enter, followed by a small army of their bodyguards that were following them.

***

After several days, the wedding preparations were in full sway, as the entire Yotsuba Village was in a celebratory mood due to the upcoming wedding of Clan Head and Enforcement Elder.

While the Yotsuba Clan and its vassals were in a celebratory mood, the rest of the world followed and watched as this was also a wedding of two Strategic-Order Magicians.

Especially the Magus Killer was an infamous person in the underworld with the highest kill hit as an assassin in the past fifty years, not to mention his assassination of several Strategic-Class Magicians or high-profile targets.

The wedding ceremony would take place at the gardens of the Clan Compound of the Yotsuba Clan Mansion as it was the most suitable place for the wedding.

Right now, the guests were already arriving, though most of them had already arrived as only a very few people were invited to the wedding.

From the Ten Master Clans, aside from some members of the Dairenji Clan and Tsuchimikado Clan, Kudou Retsu was one of the invited, then some Heads of the Vassal Clans and some close allies in the Military involved in the Project Exodus.

"It is becoming lively here."

Ohtomo Jin stated as he shook hands with Kiritsugu as he arrived at the Yotsuba Village to attend the wedding.

Ohtomo Jin was a tall man with green eyes and long white hair. He wears glasses and is always seen in a grey suit, with a black necktie and a beige shirt; he walks with the support of a cane, as he got a pretty nasty curse several years ago, which affected his right leg.

He was the Divine General of the Imperial Magic Corps.

Imperial Magic Corpse was one of the strongest military divisions; it consisted of Magicians with long-ranged magic, so basically, they could tear down entire cities and fortifications from a safe distance.

"Indeed."

Kirtisugu answered to his fellow Divine General.

"You are quieter than ordinary. Is it stressful for you from the upcoming ceremony?"

Questioned Ohtomo Jin as he came and sat down.

"After the wedding, I need to sneak into the USNA and assassinate Edward Clark, one of their top scientist. Of course, there is always an opinion that I sent someone to do that job in my place, but something important like this cannot fail, so that I will be taking care of it personally. I am currently formulating a plan for the assassination."

Explained Kiritsugu as Ohtomo Jin looked at him with a weird face.

"You know, men normally feel stressed and nervous before the wedding or try to back out... thought it is good that you are still yourself."

Stated Ohtomo Jin with a laugh while he swirled his cane in his hands.

"Surprisingly or unsurprisingly, I don't. I love Maya with all of my heart, and I just feel satisfied."

Kiritsugu then took out one cigarette and lit it up before inhaling a smoke.

"Do you think I can contract some Shikigami that moves in the shadows?"

Kiritsugu asked as they started walking around the Yotsuba Village.

"If someone prepares a ceremony for you and helps you in that. Shikigami usually responds only to Onmyouji, but if powerful Onmyouji with powerful Shikigamis helps you, then it should be possible."

Shikigami were servants of the Onmyouji, and they entered into contracts only with Onmyouji, practitioners of the Onmyoudo. Of course, Kiritsugu could see the logic behind his words, but he could simply ask someone from the Tsuchimikado Clan to do that for him, as they were direct descendants of the Abe no Semei and practitioners of the Imperial Style Onmyoudo Arts.

There were still a few hours until the wedding ceremony started, so he went to take a walk around before he needed to change his clothes to a wedding suit that Maya had chosen for him.

***

After several hours, Kiritsugu was waiting beside the altar with an elderly man wearing the clothing of a Shinto Priest, who was Tsuchimikado Yakumo, a former Clan Head of the Tsuchimikado Clan and a very powerful Onmyouji.

After the music sounded, everybody stood up, and the bride in with her father escorting to the altar. Altogether the entire wedding was attended by only around 50 people, which was a very low number for such a "high-profile" occasion such as this.

In the end, Maya chose to wear the purple-black gothic dress, which consisted of a corset with a pattern of thorns spreading through the corset, with a lace-up back strapless court skirt of deep purple color and black bottom. Around her arms and hands, she wore a thin black shawl.

After Genzou escorted Maya to Kiritsugu, he went to his seat without saying anything, as he was very satisfied with his daughter's future husband, so he didn't feel any need to say anything.

"You look breathtaking."

Kirtisugu said after several seconds, as Maya giggled lightly at his awkwardness.

"You also don't look too bad in that suit."

She answered as they turned to the wedding officiator.

***

After the wedding ceremony ended, the banquet followed right afterward.

Now, the guests were talking with each other, while Kirittsugu and Maya were sitting together with Yotsuba Genzou, Yotsuba Eisaku, Yotsuba Motosuke, and Yotsuba Elders.

"I heard that old Saegusa was pissed that he almost got a heart attack when Chibas became our vassals."

Laughed Genzou merrily, as his hatred for the Saegusa Clan didn't substitute in the slightest.

"Of course, he would be... Saegusa Kotaro always wanted to expand his influence in the Military and other armed forces. Still, they lacked the power, and now, when the situation presented itself, suddenly, the Chiba Clan filled that place. Now, with them as our vassals, they could only lament at the cruel fate."

Stated from the side Yotsuba Motosuke as he was responsible within the clan for the "foreign relationships".

"Let that bastard die with his entire bunch of fucking cowards! He should be rotting together with those Dahanese scum in some unnamed mass grave."

Even Maya didn't know what to do, as her father's hatred for the Saegusa was going still strong as it was several years ago; it was a miracle that he didn't kill them already. That would probably create a lot more problems than it is worth.

"Let them be... in the end; they will all die sooner or later."

Kiritsugu stated quietly, as some of the Yotsuba Elders looked at him gratefully, as Genzou finally became silent about the entire Saegusa Clan matter.

At the same time, Maya didn't really care too much.

While she didn't like her former fianceé as he was a coward and pretended to be dead or whatever, to save his life, she kept her hatred under a polite smile and plotted revenge in the shadows.

"Congratulations on your wedding, Maya, General Emyia."

After a while, Kudou Retsu approached them, and he congratulated them on their wedding.

"Thank you, Sensei."

Yotsuba Maya thanked her teacher, as she was once together with her twin sister Myia, a student of Kudou Retsu.

"Thank you, Sir."

Said Kiritusug neutrally as he shook hands with an elderly man.

Maya slowly left them alone as she went to her twin sister Miya as they had fought several days ago; Maya basically forbade Miya's pursuer, Mikami Tatsurou, to attend the wedding with her, as she developed a very strong sense of distaste for the man, as she viewed him as an opportunistic bastard.

"There is something that Maya and I would wish to talk with you at the later day."

Kiritsugu whispered to him as Retsu instantly caught on to what was going on.

"Does it have something with the motivations of Yotsuba and those two fossil clans to use everyone as puppets?"

Kiritsugu didn't say anything, just nodded in agreement, as he was already long ago aware that Kudou Retsu would suspect something was going on.

"Then we will talk later; I believe it would be productive to take your wife from your sister-in-law before they make a scene."

Answered Kudou Retsu as he motioned at his two former students fiercely arguing about something, but slowly their voice was rising, and soon it would attract unwanted attention.

Kiritsugu quickly made his way to where Maya and Miya were seated; as he came to his wife from behind and put his hands on her shoulders, calming her down.

"People are starting to notice. Especially those gossipy elders."

He said in a low voice.

Suddenly, both sisters stopped and just glared at each other before Maya huffed, stood up, and took Kiritsugu away as they returned back to her table.

"Stupid sister of mine, how can't she see that, is just using her to obtain a higher social position... dammed ladder climber."

Maya cursed under her breath, as Kiritsugu chose wisely to remain silent in this matter, as he never got into Maya's Miya's conflicts, which never ended well for any third party that wanted to meddle in their things.

"The simplest way would be to kill that man and be done with it."

Said Genzou from the side, as Kiritsugu wanted to agree with him, as indeed that presented itself as a most straightforward solution to the current problem.

Even Maya started considering this solution before she discarded the plan as flawed. She knew that her sister would then retaliate in her own way and probably find an even less suitable partner.

"No, then she would find even someone worse."

Grumbled Maya as she focused on the dessert that the waiter brought them; as Kiritsugu wanted to take away her attention and lighten the mood, so he ordered the chefs to prepare Maya's favorite dessert, which was dark chocolate ganache tart.

After Maya got her dessert, she focused more on eating than on her grudge with Miya, but their father was another case entirely, as he also didn't like the company that Miya chose so that things could get bloody really fast with temperamental Yotsuba Clansmen.