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Chapter 23 Uchiha (Newbies please read!!!)

22. Uchiha
A mere revenge for her father's murder - or something like that, of course, Toosaka Rin didn't have any idea of being a loving father and a filial daughter in this regard.

Toosaka Rin believes that anyone who participates in the Holy Grail War, whether it is her father or Shirou's father Emiya Kiritsugu, must be mentally prepared for a life-or-death situation.

It wouldn't be surprising no matter who killed whom, because they went to the battlefield with this awareness in mind.

What's more, Emiya Kiritsugu, who was also directly affected by the black mud, is probably not going to live long, right?

But as Shirou's illegitimate son, Toosaka Rin has no ill will. After all, Shirou probably doesn't know so much. What's more, Shirou will definitely stand on her side in the future.

Even if she used the cruel and mature pragmatic thinking of a magician, she shouldn't be angry with Shirou - this is the symbol of a mature magician! This is what Rin Toosaka thought.

It’s definitely not some random thought at work!
As for Shirou
Shirou didn't have any special ideas.

There is no memory and no sense of reality.

Most importantly, Shirou was able to read the narration and knew that Emiya Kiritsugu was present when he was fighting a fatal battle with Gilgamesh.

But he neither offered to help nor did he assist Shirou with rescue afterwards.

In other words - Shirou was abandoned by Kiritsugu (his father).

This is the only conclusion we can draw, right?
Shirou didn't feel anything special about this matter itself.

Toosaka Rin also felt that it was not a special thing for Emiya Kiritsugu to abandon his child as an abandoned child.

Magicians are such cruel and cold-blooded creatures.

The Tousaka family is very humane --- being too humane is a heresy among magi.

What's more, Emiya Kiritsugu is also a notorious 'magician killer' among magicians.

Based on the information provided by Kotomine Kirei, Toosaka Rin even deduced the general 'truth':
Emiya Kiritsugu not only has a lover and an illegitimate child, but also a real wife and daughter.

His wife was Irisviel von Einzbern.

Princess of the Einzbern Family Even in the world of magicians, the Einzbern Family is one of the most prestigious families.

Now that Kiritsugu Emiya's wife is dead, it is only natural for him to return to the Einzbern family for the sake of his daughter and protect her growth.

As for the illegitimate child, even the mother who was the lover died, what’s the use of the remaining illegitimate child?

Rather, if he were brought back to the Einzbern family, he would only be a burden.

What would the cruel and cold-blooded magician killer choose when faced with this situation?
The answer is ready to come out.

abandon.

It's only natural to come to this conclusion if you don't know what kind of person the real Emiya Kiritsugu is, right?
If we must think positively about this Emiya Kiritsugu: he might think that if he takes Shirou to the Einzbern family, since he does not have Einzbern blood, the environment that awaits him there would probably be a hellish one.

It would be better to give him freedom.

Anyway-

The ceremony will begin tomorrow.

But before that, Toosaka Rin still has one thing to do tonight.

That night, Toosaka Rin, wearing a light silk pajamas and holding a big teddy bear, tiptoed to Shirou's room.
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Shirou merely glanced at the information about his life.

The main thing is that I have confirmed that I am now alone and helpless, but it seems that I can’t really say that I am alone and helpless.

According to the information provided by Kotomine Kirei, his "mother" Hisau Maiya participated in the Fourth Holy Grail War as an assistant to Emiya Kiritsugu and was the bodyguard of Emiya Kiritsugu's wife Irisviel. In the end, both of them died in the Holy Grail War.

Her own 'father', Emiya Kiritsugu, dragged his dying body covered in black mud and went alone to the deep mountains of Germany and the castle of the Einzbern family after the Holy Grail War. His life or death was unknown. He probably went to see his daughter for the last time.

It is said that Emiya Kiritsugu and Irisviel have a daughter who is slightly older than Shirou and should be considered his older sister.

Is this sister Shirou's last blood relative in this world?
Shirou shook his head and did not intend to delve deeper into this issue. Perhaps not having any family was a good thing for him now, because he had made up his mind to repay Toosaka Rin by protecting her for the next sixty years until he helped her win the Fifth Holy Grail War and repay her kindness.

Shirou really didn't care.

Anyway, he had lost his memory and didn't remember his 'parents' at all. At most, he felt a little sorry: "Since there is a surname called 'Emiya', then we can't use 'Miyamoto'."

And then no more.

Because there is emptiness in the heart, one will be frank, lack sophistication, lack of independent opinion, and always agree with the people around him - but in a sense, he can also be considered heartless, right?
Compared to these, Shirou's attention was more focused on the magic-related books that Toosaka Rin had chosen for him, which he could understand at his current stage.

The purpose is of course to become as strong as possible - even if it is just a little bit stronger in terms of knowledge - to meet the trials in the near future.

According to Toosaka Rin, the magic books she chose for Shirou were all about the "general-purpose" or "simple-style" types.

"General-purpose" and "simple-style" are derogatory terms invented by magicians to target magicians.

Magician: refers to a person who studies the truth contained in magic.

Magician: refers to a person who uses magic simply as a tool.

Magicians are essentially scholars, and the combat capabilities they possess are often a by-product of their own research projects.

Magicians are warriors. Even if it is the same type of magic, magicians are more inclined to study how to make it "practical" rather than studying the truth behind it - shortening the usage steps as much as possible to lower the usage threshold, simplifying the content of the magic as much as possible to reduce consumption, etc.

For example, the original "curse ritual related to necromancy" was turned into a practical "grenade made from the heart", or simply cutting off the fingers of the deceased and using them as bullets with an instant death curse.

So the names "general-purpose style" and "simple style" came into being.

The magic book that Toosaka Rin gave to Shirou feels like a mix of Buddhism, Taoism, and animistic indigenous mythology. The final result is a strange thing that looks like Buddha but not Buddha, like Taoism but not Taoism. It also doesn't look like Shintoism, a local Japanese product that combines the first two.

Rather than being a book for spiritual practice, it is more like a training material for killers that teaches people how to kill people using techniques as simply, with low cost and high efficiency as possible.

Signed—Michimitsu Ashiya.

There was also a message written on it, which I didn’t know if it was written by him:

——"The essence of making a ritual is nothing more than manipulating right and wrong, deceiving and deceiving others, yourself, and the world to believe the 'answer' you have woven."

——"Making others believe in one's own power is a 'curse'. In other words——"

——"The essence of magic is lies."

This guy, nicknamed 'Master Doman', is often considered to be the nemesis of the legendary Onmyoji Abe Haruaki, or the 'second best Onmyoji in the world'.

According to Toosaka Rin, what she gave Shirou was not something rare. Ashiya Michiman was known as the legendary enemy of Abe Haruaki, but compared to most Onmyoji of that era represented by Abe Haruaki, he did not emphasize "storing and managing the mysteries and using them to maintain the ruling class", but instead widely spread these things he figured out among the people.

He is truly an enemy of order, a bastard who spreads power and chaos everywhere.

The end result was that Abe Haruaki had his legitimate successor, the 'Tsuchimikado family', but Ashiya Doman had many people from all walks of life who 'claimed to have inherited Doman's magic'.

Ironically, although often regarded as the second most powerful Onmyoji of that era, Ashiya Doman was not an Onmyoji, but a monk who was said to be a man of many evil deeds.

Magic in every sense of the word.

Shirou has no intention of developing as a magus.

What Shirou needs is 'fighting power'.

Among the various techniques passed down by Ashiya Doman, there was one thing that caught Shirou's attention.

The pattern formed by nine crisscrossing lines is the "Nine-Character Pattern" system of magic created by Ashiya Doman.

In Shirou's opinion, the cleverness of this technique lies in the fact that it is a "simple form" throughout.

Based on the ancient Chinese classic "Baopuzi", Doman Ashiya modified it to create his own nine-character mantra "Lin Bing Dou Zhe Jie Zhen Lie Zai Qian". Each mantra corresponds to a hand seal, and each hand seal has its own complex meaning.

This modification itself is a simplified form, which transforms what was originally supposed to be a large-scale ritual technique that required a large number of people to perform together into a simple form that can be used by individuals.

Based on this, Daoman created his own simple spellcasting system.

Simply put, it is to simplify the original complicated rituals and conditions. Master Doman only needs to use the meaning of "seal" to dismantle the chanting and ritual content of the original technique through the method of making seals, and then use simple spoken language to use the simplified version of the original technique. The essence of Ashiya Doman's school is that it is not a specific technique, but a "means of using techniques".

Almost all techniques can be simplified into 'hand seals + a few simple mantras + payment of magic power' through Ashiya Doman's ideas.

The originally most important "ritual process" can be omitted - to be more precise, the content of the ritual has been simplified to "sealing".

The most important thing is!

The "ritual process", which is the most expensive and time-consuming part of the magic ritual, has been omitted!
Save money!
Although it cannot exert its original maximum power.

But from the perspective of economy and practicality, it is simply perfect.

However, magicians don't really think much of this kind of stuff.

The result of being too practical is that Ashiya Doman's spells can basically only be used in combat and are not worth in-depth research.

Moreover, Ashiya Doman, who developed this thing, must have used similar methods to observe and analyze many other techniques, right?

It can even be said that Ashiya Doman's move is essentially like -

".Projection." Shirou muttered to himself after realizing something.

Correct.

Projection magic is considered one of the basic magics.

But on the other hand, isn't the so-called foundation the 'foundation'? Among the many complex and advanced magic formulas, there will be more or less some content related to 'projection magic', right?
However, the "projection" studied by Ashiya Doman is not a projection of weapons and props, nor a projection of the target object's power, but a projection of the target object's "technique"!
A nicer word is 'analysis'.

To put it bluntly, isn't it just blatant "plagiarism" and then quickly and promptly producing a degraded "fake"?

No wonder magicians look down on him.

——But it just meets Shirou's needs!
Projection for 'props'
Projection of 'Power'
Projection of the 'procedure'
Shirou felt that he seemed to have been able to vaguely figure out a fighting style of his own that revolved around 'projection'.

But what he lacks most now is time.

The 'Trial of the Devil' is just around the corner, but he is only seven years old and his body is not fully developed. No matter how talented and diligent he is, it will be difficult for him to learn well unless he cheats by using something like 'black mud'.

Just practicing the hand seals was not difficult for Shirou.

But if you really want to get started, although Ashiya Doman's hand seal technique can simplify other techniques, its hand seal technique itself is an independent system.

The annoying thing is that although Daoman's set of hand seals and spells can save the cost of ritual materials very economically, the magic power required from the caster will naturally increase.

What Shirou lacks most right now is magic power.

If Shirou followed the introductory teaching materials in the book he left behind, even if he learned it in the week before the Demon Trial, he would probably only be able to spit out a fireball (a simplified version of the Acala Fire World Curse).

(.I am still too young. I have insufficient magic power and I still need to obtain the power of the dragon demon. It would be perfect if I could use the power of the dragon demon to make up for the lack of magic power.)

But will it really be useful if it's just spitting out a fireball?

——Right now.

Although it was already late at night, Shirou had no plans to rest or sleep - he came to the pond in the Tousaka family yard, planning to practice one last time tonight and then meditate instead of sleep.

In fact, Shirou has been practicing hand seals for a week.

He has mastered the process of making hand seals by heart, but until today, he has not been able to successfully spit out a fireball of the simple Fire Realm Spell.

The lack of magic power is a fatal flaw.

But Shirou gradually figured out a way to make up for it.

There are two kinds of energy in Shirou's body at this time.

Magic power is Yin, Qi refining is Yang

Two energies with conflicting properties will cause an explosion when they collide with each other - this would have been a very dangerous thing, but Shirou got inspiration from the previous battle.

要是他主动让1魔力与1炼气进行碰撞，而后将碰撞得出的1+1＞2的那份危险能量用来施术呢？

Yes, if it really succeeds.
As long as he could use the energy from the explosion as a practical technique before it could harm his body—

Theoretically! It can be done!

This undoubtedly requires Shirou to have a very high degree of precision in controlling his own body, but Shirou, who has the physique of a mushroom man, has an advantage in this regard!

Then let’s give it a try!

Tomorrow is the day of the Dragon Demon Ritual. Although Toosaka Rin said that theoretically there would be no danger, and the worst case scenario would be that Toosaka Rin's money would be burned and the ritual would not succeed, Shirou always felt that...
It will never be wrong to have more power in your hands to deal with possible emergencies.

——Then let’s try it

According to the tutorial, first of all,
"Si, Wei, Shen, Hai, Wu, Yin"

Shirou had memorized the six seals by heart, but in order to coordinate with the upcoming collision and explosion of 'magic power' and 'refined energy', Shirou slowed down his speed and focused his attention on the delicate control of the two energies in his body.

everything's ready.

Let me type it out, let me type it out, let me type it out--

[Yin and Yang, magic and Qi, when two repelling energies collide, an 'explosion' of violent energy fluctuations will occur]

[If Shirou can use the power of this 'explosion' for himself, he will be able to make up for his current lack of magic power.]

Can you do it?

[Difficulty: 80]

[Shirou tries to master 'Explosion': 1D100=100 (What the hell!?)]

[Mushroom Man Physical Correction: 20]

[Total: 120]

[Shirou has mastered the 'Explosion' technique. As a reward for great success, the advancement of this technique has become possible (the relevant skill tree is opened)]

[And, Shirou has mastered the ability of 'Seal Casting (Ashiya Domitsu Ryu)']

[Shirou acquires the trait 'Successor of Ashiya Michiman']

——The whole body and soul!
"Fire Escape——"

Shirou was so focused on manipulating his power and spellcasting that he didn't even look at the narration transcript that appeared this time.

"——Great Fireball Jutsu!!!"

A huge fireball with a diameter of nearly ten meters!
Dye the darkness of the Tohsaka family courtyard at night red!
Shirou knew that he had mastered more than just the simple ability to spit fireballs.

A whole set of combat techniques centered around 'hand seal casting' opened the door to Shirou!
Shirou carefully and seriously felt the sensation of using the power just now.

The active magic power, the increasingly hot Qi refining, and the slight tingling sensation in the throat -

"I see, that's the feeling—"

"Thank you big head ghost!"

Shirou's mumbling was cut short by the oncoming giant bear who hit him in the face with a pillow.

Toosaka Rin swung the big bear pillow, came to Shirou angrily, raised her foot, and stepped hard on Shirou's little toe!
"Why can't I find you in your room? The ceremony is tomorrow, and you sneaked out here instead of sleeping?!"

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