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There are 2 girls who had a fight and are mad at each other.
One of them asks the protagonist if he is gonna fight against the other girl and he anwswers:

「あいつが邪魔をするなら戦う。
……まあ、ホントは聖杯なんて物騒なもんはあいつに任せたいんだけどな。
あいつならキチンと鞘に収められるし、桜を助けてくれるだろうし」

The the girl:

「……そう、でしょうか。
あの人は、魔術師です。
わたしみたいに弱い人間のコトなんて、考えてくれないと思います」

Looking online I found this:

元の鞘に納まる:一度別れた男女が、いろいろあった末に結局はもとの仲に戻る（復縁する）ことを言います。

I understand that it means something like get together, but it talks about man and women.

So, could this expression mean something like:

Make up, Make peace with each other

Even if it has no sexual meaning?

Alternatively it's talking about obtaining the 聖杯.

Another definition is:

鞘に収めた:強い働きかけを止める様子 Stopping a strong influence

I am not sure since 働きかけ seems to have multiple meanings. Looking it up I found this one:

人に対してその物事について考えるよう促すこと
Urging people to think about the circumstances
(Might be wrong how I understood it)

Or does it mean another thing completely?

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    You may already have found that but 鞘{さや} is scabbard and here 収める means “to sheathe”. So the meaning of the expression seems to be “to sheathe back one's sword” or in other word “to settle a fight”. – 永劫回帰 Mar 29 '16 at 16:00
  • Makes sense. Could you also help me understand "人に対してその物事について考えるよう促すこと"? I am not sure about に対して and ついて – Splikie Mar 29 '16 at 16:05
  • Maybe be “The fact of urging somebody about thinking about how it seen/felt from others'point of view” (the translation is lame so if it does not help you tell me I will try to do better. について is about as usual and に対して is “from 人's point of view”) – 永劫回帰 Mar 29 '16 at 16:11
  • に対して and その物事 are the problem. I tought に対して=Towards, Regarding. その物事 = What does その refers to?. My understanding was that it means "Urging towards people so that they will think about their circumstances". I did not know に対して could mean from the POV of X. Could you tell me to what その refers to? Thank you – Splikie Mar 29 '16 at 16:19
  • ^ Above translation is clearly lame. その物事 is just something like “that fact”. A sligtly better gloss would be “The fact of urging sb to think about what this thing/fact means to (other) people” – 永劫回帰 Mar 29 '16 at 16:26
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Two phrases are different in meaning.

鞘に収める
…([抜]{ぬ}いた[刀]{かたな}を)鞘に収める

Drawing a real sword means a commencement of battle. The term of this phrase originates here. This is a thing about spirituality.

元の鞘に納まる
…([別]{べつ}の鞘に[入]{はい}っていた刀が)元の鞘に納まる

All sheaths are somewhat different. One sword can be put back in only its sheath. This is a thing about shape.

Incidentally, the opposite meaning of 「元の鞘に納まる」 is 「[反]{そ}りが[合]{あ}わない」.

反り is the curve of a sword. It shows that a sword can not be put back in the sheath for the difference of shape. There are many proverbs about sword in Japanese.

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  • Could you help me with 人に対してその物事について考えるよう促すこと – Splikie Mar 29 '16 at 16:36
  • Because 鞘に収める has a meaning of self-control. – nariuji Mar 29 '16 at 16:48
  • In the case of this 働きかけ, I think it has a meaning of the action for self-requests. – nariuji Mar 29 '16 at 18:09
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The original expression 元の鞘に納まる is an allusion to a drawn sword going back into its sheath and is used, in its strict sense, to describe lovers getting back together after a bitter fight or breakup.

I think the writer may be using the idiom somewhat loosely to mean something to the effect of: to put everything back into its right place; to bring a situation to a harmonious conclusion.

Or, truer to the image its words evoke, it can be about settling of a fight, which in this case would be the 聖杯戦争. (Tip of my hat to 変幻出没-san. I didn't realize this until I saw his/her comment.)

Regarding

鞘に収めた:強い働きかけを止める様子 Stopping a strong influence ,

no, there's no such definition for 鞘に収める, I don't think.

(働きかけ is a nominalized form of 働きかける: to work on someone; to exert influence/pressure over someone.)

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  • Could you help me with 人に対してその物事について考えるよう促すこと – Splikie Mar 29 '16 at 16:28
  • 人(a person)　に対して(against/over←marks the patient of the action 促す)　その物事について(about the matter)　考えるように促す(urge (someone) to think)　こと(nominalizer) : to urge a person to think about the matter – goldbrick Mar 29 '16 at 16:40
  • So what does it mean? Is my translation correct? "Urging people to think about the circumstances" – Splikie Mar 29 '16 at 16:42
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    It means: to urge a person to think about the matter. I guess yeah, yours is just fine. – goldbrick Mar 29 '16 at 16:44

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