A Dimensional Journey Begins with the Dragon Clan

Chapter 1219 1212. The Only Magic

"I'm a magician."

Although Kiritsugu said so at the time, he was actually a magus.

He is a pure magus who has learned many mysteries, delved into the structure of the world, and performed many miracles.

When he was a child, Emiya Shirou admired Kiritsugu and asked him to teach him magic.

But you can't become a magician just by wanting to. It requires both natural talent and the corresponding knowledge.

And he certainly had no natural talent, and Kiritsugu had not taught him the knowledge of magic.

When asked why, Kiritsugu said that he didn't need such a thing.

He still doesn't understand the meaning of this sentence.

But it doesn't matter what he was like when he was a child.

I thought that if I could use magic, I could become like Kiritsugu.

However, Shirou Emiya does not have natural talents, such as the number of magic circuits and the accumulated achievements of magic from generations.

Kiritsugu's magic achievement is the Emiya family's magic seal, which seems to be something that can only be transplanted by blood relatives.

The magic seal, the proof of a magician, will cause a rejection reaction on people who are not blood-related, so as an adopted son, he cannot accept the seal of the Emiya family.

but.

In fact, since he had no idea what a magic seal was, the presence or absence of such a thing didn't matter at all.

So it all depends on what he can do.

If one wants to be a magician, he can only learn magic that suits his own characteristics.

Magic, to put it in an extreme way, is the technique of releasing magical power.

You can also replace magic power with vitality.

Magic power is divided into a large source that fills the world, and a small source that is generated in living things.

If we divide them into big sources and small sources, it goes without saying that big sources are better than small sources.

The small source magic created by a human being and the large source magic that fills the world have different levels of power.

It's just some kind of magic. Magic performed by Dayuan can easily surpass magic performed by an individual.

Because of this, good magicians are skilled in the art of drawing magic from the world.

That's similar to a filter.

A magician uses his body as a conversion circuit, draws magic power from the outside world, and creates magic power that can be used by humans.

Magicians call this conversion circuit a magic circuit.

This is an innate talent. The number of magic circuits one has is determined at birth.

Most people have almost no magic circuits.

  Because that is a very rare thing.

Therefore, magicians accumulate bloodlines from several generations so that their offspring will have bodies that are more suitable for magic.

A family that overdoes it is like breeding a breed, increasing the magic circuits required to give birth to children.

Therefore, because of this, Shirou Emiya, who was born in an ordinary family, cannot be expected to have many magic circuits.

In this case, there is only one way left.

Kiritsugu said that no matter who they are, they seem to have at least one magic system that suits them.

He also said that it was to obey the origin of that person to extract the magic power or something, but he didn't understand that part at all.

What is certain is that even a guy like him has a magecraft that he can use, and if he practices that magecraft, maybe one day he can become like Kiritsugu, that's all.

So, Emiya Shirou only learned that magic.

That was eight years ago.

After hesitating for a long time, Kiritsugu acknowledged him as his disciple with a very serious expression.

"Listen carefully, Shirou. Learning magic is something that goes against common sense. When you die, you must die. When you kill, you must kill. Because our essence is not life but death. Magic is nothing but a path to our own destruction—"

The mind of a child doesn't know what fear is, right? So even if Shirou Emiya heard such words at that time, he still chose to learn magic without hesitation.

At that time, Kiritsugu could only put his hand on the head of Emiya Shirou who nodded vigorously and smiled bitterly helplessly.

"───What I teach you is something that will cause disputes.

Therefore, you should not use it in front of others, nor should you neglect practicing it just because it is difficult.

But it’s okay to give up.

The most important thing is that magic is not for yourself, but for others.

In this way, Shirou is a magician, but not a magus. "

Kiritsugu, maybe he doesn't want to become a magus? Although he knew this in his heart, Emiya Shirou thought that it didn't matter even if he did.

Because what he admired was Kiritsugu, not the magus.

  As long as I can be like Kiritsugu, like that red sun, for others, then──

"!!"

Some distracting thoughts arise.

It felt like the iron rod that had been inserted into the body had slipped to a place that it couldn't enter.

“Gu, wu────!”

If I disrupt my breathing at this moment, it will be irreversible. The simulated magic circuits will eat into my body and tear it into pieces.

Then it will all be over.

  Then Emiya Shirou would become a rookie who failed in this basic technique and died—

“――――,――――,――――――――――――”

Gritting his teeth as if he was about to break them, Emiya Shirou began to continue.

After struggling like walking on a mountain of needles, the iron rod reached deep into the body and finally melted into a part of it.

It took almost an hour to get here.

After spending so much time, I finally created a pseudo-nerve and turned it into a circuit that produces magic power.

"────Basic bones, explained."

After that, magic power just flows naturally.

Shirou Emiya is not a magician.

It is just that you can only generate magic power in your body and transfer it to items like this.

So that magic can only do one thing.

  That is────

"────Understand the composition material."

Reinforcement of objects.

A strengthening magic that simply grasps the structure of the target object and injects magical power into it to temporarily enhance its capabilities.

"────Basic structure, change."

What is in front of me is a broken iron pipe.

Infusing magic power into this, a simple magic of hardness enhancement is completed.

In fact, injecting one's own magic power into an object other than oneself is like mixing it with poison.

Just like Shirou Emiya's blood is not blood to the iron pipe. Even if it is strengthened by injecting different blood, it will only accelerate the collapse.

To prevent that, to turn poison into medicine, one must correctly grasp the structure of the object and inject magic into the open gaps.

"──,──, composition material, reinforcement."

It would be easy for a skilled magus, but for me who couldn't even generate magic power smoothly, it was as difficult as trying to hit a target hundreds of meters away.

By the way, the distance of a Kyudo shot is 27 meters.

  If it was several dozen times harder than that, then it would be hard for Emiya Shirou to even think about it────

"Goo!"

The heat in the body cools down rapidly.

The iron rod passing through the spine disappeared, and the lungs, which were squeezed to the limit, greedily demanded oxygen.

“Ha—ah, haaaa, haaaaa—!”

His body was bent into a bow shape, and he endured the dizziness that could easily make him lose consciousness.

"Ah, damn, failed again..." The iron pipe did not change. The magic power injected into it seemed to dissipate outside.

“It’s very difficult to work on something that already has a shape.”

What Emiya Shirou did was like adding one more stroke to an already completed work of art.

Working on a finished object carries the risk of reducing its degree of finish.

The pens that need to be reinforced can sometimes reduce the value of the artwork itself.

Therefore, enhanced magic is both simple and difficult, and there seem to be few magicians who like to use it.

No, he didn't like to use it, but he had no other ability.

Although it would be easier to simply knead shapeless clay to make a substitute, a substitute that only reproduces the shape has only the appearance but no substance.

That's what the junk lying around is like.

These were substitutes that I practiced to calm myself down when my enhanced magic failed, but none of them had substance.

Because the design of the object can be clearly imagined, the appearance can be reproduced very similarly, but the interior is empty and of course has no function at all.

"────────"

Emiya Shirou wiped his sweaty forehead.

When I came to my senses, I found that my whole body was soaked with sweat as if I had been splashed with water.

However, it was lucky that it ended at this level.

The situation just now was really dangerous.

If I were to recover even a breath slower, my internal organs would be almost completely destroyed.

"If you can make progress even when you are dying, then there is still hope."

It won't be that convenient.

However, it does make sense that if you are afraid of death magic you won't make progress.

Now that you have learned magic, death is always around you.

Even if it is a trivial magic that one is used to performing every day, it can explode due to a small mistake and take the life of the practitioner.

The first thing a magus must do is to accept death.

───Kiritsugu said that it was very sad.

Maybe that meant that the other party didn't want him to have that kind of awareness.

"To help someone means to abandon someone. The partners of justice are very selfish."

When Emiya Shirou said as a child that he wanted to be like Kiritsugu, Kiritsugu repeated these words to him.

He didn't know what that meant.

He just knew that he, Emiya Shirou, had to help others everywhere like Kiritsugu and become a partner of justice.

"On the contrary, even the basic things can't go smoothly here. How can you have distracting thoughts at the critical moment, idiot!"

It is very difficult to capture the structure of an object visually.

A good magician is one who only captures the 'gaps' between objects and injects magic power without wasting it.

“His dream is to be a partner in justice.”

I remembered what Sister Fuji said during dinner.

He didn't think it was something to be embarrassed about, or that it was impossible.

Because that is an absolute certainty.

Shirou Emiya will inherit Kiritsugu Emiya's will.

So even though he is not mature yet, he is doing what he can do.

He had no idea what the Partners of Justice were like.

Because he doesn't know, he is just doing things for others within the scope of his ability. This is the only way to approach it.

Then during these five years, although I intended to always look forward, I was more or less confused because many things did not go smoothly.

“Ahh, really, I don’t understand at all, Kiritsugu. What exactly do I have to do to become a partner of justice?”

Emiya Shirou looked at the sky through the window.

He thought that not everyone who helped others could be a partner of justice.

Although he clearly knew it, in the past five years, he has never grasped the important part of how to become a different person.

  ······

night.

It's a dream.

Shirou Emiya is a person who loves to dream. As long as nothing serious happens, he always has the same dream.

Objects that appear in dreams are usually swords.

I don't know why, but this is the only thing that comes to my mind.

There is no point or reason for that.

Well, that might be the factor that makes up Emiya Shirou.

Even if he is a rookie, as a magus, it is natural for him to control the world he lives in.

───In a word, magicians are exceptions to civilized society.

But even if they are exceptions, they cannot exist without a group.

Kiritsugu told him that the organization of magicians was called the Magic Association.

He also said that it would be better not to get involved with them.

The organization called the Magic Association is said to be responsible for hiding magic and managing magicians.

Simply put, it is to prevent magicians from using magic to influence modern society, but it does not prohibit a group of dangerous people who abuse magic.

Kiritsugu said that the Magic Association only wanted to hide the mystery.

If a magician sacrifices many ordinary people in order to conduct his own research, the association will not punish him.

What they value is keeping magic secret rather than banning it.

To put it simply, they are a group of dangerous people who will do anything as long as they don't get caught.

However, the Magic Association's surveillance is absolute.

Many magic researches will sacrifice ordinary people to expose the existence of magic.

Therefore, the Magic Association will not allow experiments that are harmful to the general society.

So the magicians stayed in their own homes and studied quietly, ignoring worldly affairs.

────That's sometimes the case.

Magicians hide themselves almost always to avoid being purged by the association.

Therefore, it is possible that there are magicians in this town, but he just doesn't know about it.

Because, Fuyuki Town seems to be a land that excels in spiritual power.

This kind of land will definitely be occupied by a famous family with a long history. They are called managers and are the leaders entrusted with this land by the association.

Magicians who want to develop in the same land must first greet them and obtain permission to build a studio.

From this point of view, they are the ones who were thieves who moved in without notifying the manager.

My dad cut ties with the association, moved in without the rules, and without the permission of the Fuyuki administrator.

The manager also doesn't know that Emiya Kiritsugu is a magus, and Kiritsugu doesn't know who the manager is.

Because of this, Emiya Shirou thought that the position of their house was very ambiguous.

My father, who was a true magician, passed away.

As both a son and a disciple, he knew nothing about the Magic Association and had no knowledge of being a magician.

According to the association's definition, a rookie like him should be caught and dealt with as soon as possible, but there is no sense of danger recently.

No, because Japan is a place that the Magic Association does not have much control over, so they actually didn't find him.