Canon Omake-- Family time. (Patreon)

Canon Omake – Date with Artoria and Mordred.

“You look beautiful.”

“You say that regardless of what I am wearing.” Artoria smiled bashfully.

Well, it’s not every day I get to see her wearing just jeans and a T-Shirt. She usually opts for more feminine clothing. I asked her about it before, and she mentioned that she was used to wearing ‘trousers’ and such during her life that she wanted to be wearing the opposite now that she embraced being a woman.

But still, absolutely beautiful regardless.

Personally, I think she’s scared that she’ll come off as ‘masculine’. So I make sure to remind her at every opportunity of how truly stunning she is.

I was about to sneak in a kiss, but a scoff behind us kind of ruined the moment.

“Please tell me you aren’t going to be doing this the entire time.” Mordred grumbled. “Still fucking weird seeing father being so lovey dovey with someone.”

“Mordred.” Artoria greeted, the tiniest hint of pink on her cheeks.

It continues to give me the warm fuzzies in my stomach to know that she’s still so adorable about things like this.

“Alright, I’m here. What’d you want?” Mordred asked.

“I thought it’d be nice to spend time together. Artoria and I have been dating for awhile now, and besides the joking about the whole ‘mother’ thing aside, I’d like for us to get along. So, I planned a little outing for us all that I think you would both enjoy.” I briefly explained.

It was at the point where I could easily see myself asking Artoria a very important question in the future. One that involves a Ring and everything that comes with that. Making sure Mordred is comfortable with us ‘together’ and doing things as a group was important to myself and I would assume Artoria if our relationship continues to the next level.

I mean, we already do things. We’ve gone out and fought, sparred, beat up people together and generally did things with one another. But I guess what I want was us to all spend time together as a family.

“It’s not like I hate you or anything, you didn’t have to do crap like this.” Mordred grumbled, sorta in a cute way like she didn’t know how to actually respond to my earnest desire.

“I think it’s a wonderful Idea.” Artoria smiled beautifully, grabbing my hand. “We should do more activities that don’t involve…”

“Fighting?”

“Generally, yes.” She admitted. “Admittedly, it is a very definitive aspect of our lives.”

“Aint never given up my sword.” Mordred grunted.

“None of us would ever ask you to, Mordred.” Artoria soothed her ‘son’. “And what activity did you plan, Wilhelm?”

“Hmm, before I say, let me ask you something. What do you know about Alchemy?”

“Barely anything. Know it’s to make stuff. Potions, and crap. Homunculi.” Mordred shrugged.

“As Mordred says. I know more specifics due to my time with Rin, but I am not a Magus by any stretch of the imagination.” Artoria also added.

“Right, well, it’s pretty common knowledge that Alchemy and other aspects of magic to a lesser extent, make use of parts of magical and mundane creatures. I’m sure you can imagine things like Dragons being treasure troves in that aspect.”

“Yeah, that’s pretty damn obvious, what’re you getting at?” Mordred sounded a little impatient. She never cared about magic stuff, so it was expected.

“As I said, mundane creatures too. Certain animals also have properties that make them valuable, enough that they get hunted by the magical side of the world. Combined with how the mundane side of the world is going, their habitats are also getting destroyed.” I waved my hand, producing a portal. “Our destination.” I welcomed them forward as we all stepped through. “Welcome to Africa.”

“Huh, didn’t expect that.” Mordred looked around. “Never been here before.”

“Neither have I.” Artoria mirrored.

“Specifically, welcome to the world’s largest reserve and sanctuary for what are essentially Big Cats.” I gave a better introduction.

“Big Cats? You mean like Tigers and Lions and shit?” Mordred’s eyes started lighting up as she stared at me.

“Precisely. And it’s owned and operated by someone who is a Magician themselves. They go around rescuing mistreated and dwindling species and protecting them here.”

“An honorable profession.” Artoria nodded, looking just and interested as Mordred.

Artoria liked cats. She had a pet Lion when she was king.

Mordred shared very similar thoughts on the feline species.

“I made a donation and talked to the owner.” I stated, spinning a key ring around my finger. “We have the place to ourselves, relatively speaking, for the day. Since the owner is a Magician, and I made assurances we weren’t here to harm the animals or ‘steal’ them, well, he doesn’t mind if we go in and play.”

The Owner was around, but I made a very significant donation to let me essentially rent the place out for the day. Which, was rather unorthodox for a place like this….but he didn’t really question it with the mount of zeros I showed him.

Not to mention they can’t exactly harm any of us so…..not any different than normal house cats.

“Really?” Mordred’s eyes widened. “I can just…?” She walked up to the fence of one enclosure which was probably pretty damn big.

I tossed her the keys. “Have fun.”

Mordred didn’t need to be told twice. She immediately made way for the gate, unlocking it and hurrying inside. There were a group of Lions in the distance, and she practically ran up to them and gave the first one a gigantic hug.

I think it tried to fight her, but I’m pretty sure Mordred took that as indication that it wanted to be pet.

And after a moment or two, the Lion seemed to accept its new life and settled down.

I’m fairly sure there were magics in place that soothed the lions and kind of let them know that the ‘people’ around here weren’t going to hurt them.

“This was a very kind and thoughtful trip, Wilhelm. I’m sure Mordred will remember today for a very long time.” Artoria squeezed my hand.

“It wasn’t just for her, y’know.” I looked down at Artoria who, very clearly looked like she wanted to join her child. “Go play with Mordred, I’ll be right behind you.”

She bit her lip, mentally fighting with herself for half a second before standing on her toes to give me a quick kiss on the cheek. And with grace, quickly made her own way towards where Mordred was.

God I love that woman.

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It was amusing, watching Artoria and Mordred sort of ignore the usual stiffness or any concept of decorum and just have fun.

Artoria found herself on the back of the biggest male, as it slowly trot around and she had a big smile about her as she rode it haphazardly.

Mordred, was the opposite.

She had a very confused Lioness above her head as she ran around with it.

AS for me, well…. I was giving ear scratches to a lioness who decided that my hair was her new plaything while I laid down in the middle of their little pride. There was another Lioness who was licking my cheek…..with her barbed tongue.

Fun fact, big cat licks are not pleasant. If I was a normal human, her licking would have torn the skin on my face.

“Should I be concerned that you once more find yourself surrounded by women?” Artoria came riding over. Her apparent mount looked like it was done and just fell down and rolled over, ignoring that Artoria was on its back.

She let out an adorable ‘eeep’.

“I could make a joke right now.” I pointed out.

She puffed up cutely before hopping over several lion bodies and laying down next to me, snuggling up as much as she could.

“Thank you, Wilhelm.” She whispered, giving me another kiss on the cheek. “This has been a most wonderful evening. I have not seen Mordred have such whimsical fun in my life. This means more than you can imagine.”

“As long as you and Mordred had fun, then it’s a success.”

She leaned over, kissing my cheek again. “I love you, Wilhelm.”

“I love you too, Artoria.” She rested her head on my shoulder as we watched Mordred run around with a few of the Lionesses.

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Just wanted to do a random Canon Omake where they go out as a sort of family and do something random. No particular time for when this happens, but it’s canon.