Jobless Reincarnation: Emiya the Great Hero Must Show His True Skills

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This can be seen as a form of escapism on his part.

The girl did not react at all to Shirou's words.

Shirou stretched out his hand for a long time, but received no response.

"I'm sorry... I was being nosy. It's probably happier to die than to live a painful life."

Shirou let out a sigh of relief.

He realized that his self-righteous salvation might not necessarily bring happiness to others, and therefore wanted to give up.

But just as he was about to pull his hand back, a thin little hand landed on his.

Shirou looked over in surprise and saw the girl in front of him slowly opening her chapped lips, pleadingly saying, "—I don't want to die."

Upon hearing these words, Shirou froze, tears welling up in his eyes.

He didn't know why he was crying, but many things were indeed coming back to him.

That was a scene he had almost completely forgotten after that snowy night, a scene he had almost forgotten and relegated to a corner of his memory.

In that inferno, a man named Kiritsugu Emiya, with tears in his eyes, dug through the rubble, joyfully embracing Shirou, who was still clinging to life, and said happily, "Thank goodness, you're alive, thank goodness..."

At the time, Shirou couldn't understand why Kiritsugu was more excited and joyful than he was when he was rescued.

But now he understands why Kiritsugu Emiya was both crying and laughing as he dug himself out of the rubble.

The person who is saved is often not the only one who receives salvation.

Those who save others will also be saved by those they save.

"Thank you... thank you."

At this moment, Shirou was just like Kiritsugu Emiya back then, crying and laughing as he held the girl's hand, as if he were the one who had been saved.

……

Shirou quickly bought the girl from the slave trading company.

Although this seemed like self-satisfaction in a sense, and nothing actually changed, Shirou's heart was more or less liberated.

He stopped thinking about the justice of the Heroic Spirit Emiya and instead focused his attention on taking care of the poor girl from the mining tribe.

As a little girl of about five years old, she was obviously underdeveloped. Not only was she very dirty, but she was also severely malnourished and was practically skin and bones.

After bringing the other person home, Shirou immediately cleaned them up and then went to a store to buy some children's clothes and daily necessities.

When he got home, he found the girl from the mining tribe he had brought back standing at the door waiting for him.

Instead of running away, the other party waited for him at the door.

This surprised Shirou, who couldn't help but ask, "Aren't you afraid of me?"

"Because you... are a good person."

"..."

Shirou fell silent in response to the girl's words.

He didn't know what to say, only that the many complex thoughts that had been swirling in his mind had completely vanished at this moment, leaving only relief and frankness.

He doesn't care about being a partner in justice.

As long as you have a clear conscience about everything you've done, that's enough.

Chapter 306 The difficulties encountered in forging, Ariel's request for a meeting.

After bringing the girl from the mining tribe back, Shirou had her stay temporarily in his blacksmith workshop.

He had no intention of making the other person an apprentice in the forging workshop.

After all, the girl's age and short stature made her seem unsuitable for the role of a workshop apprentice.

Moreover, Shirou encountered a small problem: as a descendant of the mining tribe, the other party did not seem to be at the age where they had a name.

Miners typically don't name their children until they are seven years old.

Shirou didn't want to name the other person, but it would be difficult to communicate without a name.

After much thought, he could only consider naming her, and after consulting the dictionary, he named her Juliet.

Although it was just something I randomly flipped through in the dictionary, it somehow sounded natural to me. After reading it aloud to the girl, she nodded in agreement, and that's how we decided on it.

Shirou thus became Juliet's guardian.

He certainly couldn't treat the girl as a slave; he intended to see her as an independent individual.

However, Juliet seemed to have a different idea. After moving into the blacksmith's workshop, she worked hard to help with various chores, seemingly unwilling to accept Shirou's charity unilaterally.

Although his abilities were limited, he learned to work as an assistant in the forging workshop.

Shirou initially didn't want Juliet to do these things, since Juliet looked very weak and not the type to handle heavy work. However, even after he forbade it, Juliet still secretly helped with chores in private.

He eventually reluctantly agreed to let the other party handle these tasks.

However, in order to lighten her burden, Shirou chose to have Juliet learn magic.

If one can master some useful magic, even someone with a small stature can handle some heavy workloads.

Shirou initially intended to teach Juliet magic himself, but he soon discovered that he had virtually no talent for it.

He then approached Rudeus and asked him to temporarily serve as Juliet's magic teacher.

Having taught Sylphie magic in the village of Bouyena when she was a child, it can be said that the other party had no problem teaching Juliet.

By the way, let me mention Shirou's own forging skills.

After the forging workshop officially opened, Shirou took up the profession of blacksmith again. However, unlike before when he forged at will, he now had a clearer and more definite goal in forging: to further improve his forging skills and create even more powerful sword magic.

This requires Shirou to forge weapons that are no longer ordinary, but rather to pursue unusual, even unconventional, weapons.

For example, there was that eternally distant golden sword he forged at the Church of Milis...

The birth of the eternally distant golden sword, the only divine weapon that Shirou personally forged, can be described as an accident and a coincidence.

Only a portion of it is the result of Shirou's own improvement and refinement of his forging skills.

What he is pursuing now is to forge a weapon that rivals the eternal and distant golden sword, and even surpasses that divinely created weapon, solely through his own abilities, without relying on any coincidences or external factors.

But this is undoubtedly a very difficult thing, and anyone can understand the difficulty involved.

Shirou knew that such a thing could not be achieved in a day, so he did not force himself to forge a divine weapon directly. Instead, he started with ordinary forging and gradually worked his way up to his goal.

The first weapon he forged was the Noble Phantasm used by Caster Medea in the Holy Grail War, the Manjushri-Breaking-the-Rule.

This is a very special weapon. Although it cannot be considered a weapon created by the gods, its effects are quite powerful.

The effect of "Wanshu Bibing" is that it can break all the magic rules of the object pierced by the blade. The object that can be broken is any object made of magic.

For example, a contract based on magic, or a life form born from magic... as long as you pierce it with this weapon, you can reset it to the state before the magic was used.

In other words, contracts based on magic will become worthless, and life forms created with magic will be instantly destroyed.

Even the Command Seals system and Heroic Spirit summoning from the Holy Grail War can be broken with this unique Noble Phantasm, destroying the summoning contracts.

Due to its wide range of uses, it can almost be called the ultimate anti-magic weapon, but its effects are limited. It cannot work on weapons of the same level and cannot undo magic at the level of a weapon.

Conversely, as long as it's not a Noble Phantasm, whatever it is, as long as it's constructed with magic, it can be completely destroyed.

Shirou's initial idea for such a weapon was naturally to create it using anti-magic stones.

But the results were not good.

Weapons forged from anti-magic stones can only work on magic that has not yet fully formed, or suppress magic that has already been formed, just like the red rose that breaks magic. They cannot pierce through barriers or curses.

Shirou realized that he needed to change his approach. He could not use a simple and direct method to forge the Manjushri Blessing, but rather he needed to start from a more subtle level to complete the forging.

Simply put, the forging method of the Mantra of Wisdom should not be a weapon, but rather something closer to a magical item, which must start from the principles of magic itself.

However, this kind of problem at the level of principle is undoubtedly the most difficult to solve.

To forge it, more research is needed.

……

Amidst all the hustle and bustle, Shirou has been at La Noa Magic University for several months.

He does almost the same thing every day.

After getting up in the morning, I went to Principal Genus for various magical training sessions.

Although progress was slow, thanks to the principal's experienced teaching abilities, his fire and earth elemental magic reached an advanced level.

At the same time, as his basic magical strength improved, Shirou's sword magic was also enhanced, with both its speed and quality of activation increasing.

After noon, he would go to the forging workshop and, with the help of Juliet, his little assistant, would begin the forging work.

Although the difficulty of breaking the rules with the Myriad Talismans is too high, he cannot forge them, but he cannot stop forging because of this. Instead, he will spend his time further honing his forging skills.

In the evenings, he would go to the library of La Noah Magic University to collect various materials and books.

Thanks to the extensive library at La Noa Magic University, Shirou gained a great deal of useful knowledge.

Although this is a magic university after all, and information about forging is extremely scarce, what Shirou needs now is not purely technical skills, but rather a broader and deeper range of knowledge.

Just like the trouble he encountered when forging the Myriad Talismans, he needed to acquire enough knowledge to find the corresponding forging method.

Living this kind of life every day is really monotonous.

But Shirou actually enjoyed it.

After all, the feeling of being able to gradually become stronger every day truly motivated him to improve.

This made him even more convinced of what the Second King of the North had said.

The other party said that Shirou should not be limited to one technique, but should learn as many techniques and skills as possible in the world, so that he can continue to become stronger instead of stopping there.

Although learning magic did not help him learn swordsmanship, compared to swordsmanship, which was difficult to improve immediately, studying magic did give him a long-lost feeling of becoming stronger.

Of course, Shirou's life is not entirely monotonous; there are occasional changes.

First, there's Rudius and Juliette.

Besides helping out at the blacksmith's workshop, Juliet spent her days learning magic from Rudeus.

Perhaps it was teaching others magic that reminded Rudeus of his childhood, and the pain he suffered at the magic university gradually subsided. He would even often start to miss the time he spent in Buena Village.

He even wanted to set off with Shirou to find Senis, and also to find his childhood playmate named Silph.

However, Shirou did not agree, because he had not yet obtained any clues about Senis and Sylphie, and he also planned to further master sword magic techniques at the magic university.

Next up were Lynya and Prusena.

After being disciplined by Shirou, these two cats and dogs not only did not retaliate afterward, but instead seemed to approve of him.

After all, the orcs truly believe in the supremacy of the strong. Although Rudeus is powerful, he is, after all, a mage and is far too insecure.

Shirou completely won them over with both his strength and his spirit.

However, they didn't follow Shirou around all the time. Instead, they would bow their heads to greet him whenever they saw him on the street, and they would give way to Shirou when they met face to face on the street. They even started calling him "boss".

Shirou wasn't entirely accepting of it, but he couldn't change it, so he just let them be.

In addition, Zanova from the special class also became very close to Shirou.

Because he had been bullied by Linia and Prusena, although he himself was unaware of it, it was a fact that he was bullied every day.

Now that Shirou has completely dealt with the two bullies, the cat and the dog, Zanaba's life has suddenly improved, and he often comes to express his gratitude to Shirou.

The last one who frequently appears in front of Shirou is Fitz from the student council.

Since that incident, Fitz has often come to see Shirou and occasionally visits Rudeus.

Leaving aside Shirou, he was already very busy, so he often didn't have time to pay attention to the other party.

Rudius's interactions with Fitz were quite awkward because of his natural awe and fear of the student council.

As a result, the two sides were almost unable to reach any formal talks.

One day, Fitz returned, but instead of being as easygoing as before, he displayed a serious attitude.

As soon as she arrived, she relayed a message to Shirou: "Um... Shirou, Lady Ariel wants to see you."

Chapter 307 Reunion with Ariel, A Challenge from the Demon King!

Shirou had heard Ariel's name many times since enrolling at the Magic University, but had never actually met her.

Firstly, he was too busy and had no extra time to do other things; secondly, he believed that this Ariel was not the Ariel he knew.