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

It is precisely because of such a vast castle and complex family that some of the purer, simpler dishes are able to touch people's hearts.

Chefs must put themselves in the diners' shoes and create dishes that satisfy them.

This is Shirou's way of cooking.

So Shirou quickly started working hard in the kitchen. He didn't take any complicated or rare ingredients, but chose all kinds of the most common and simplest cooking materials.

In the end, what he created was not any special food, but just some simple home-style dishes, such as fried eggs, fried meatballs, sandwiches... In his previous life, he might have thought he was preparing lunch boxes.

Shirou placed the prepared dishes on simple plates, without adding any extra decorations or secret seasonings, and then served them directly.

In Boreas's living room, the entire family had gathered around the dining table and were preparing for their meal with special etiquette.

The Boreas family is, after all, a noble family, and they must observe proper etiquette when dining.

Alice was often lectured by the housekeeper or her parents for not following etiquette, but she still did not correct her mistakes.

Now, Shirou has brought over the dishes, and the members of the Boreas family are visibly disappointed.

After all, Shirou's cooking was too simple, it was the kind of food that ordinary people would make.

If an ordinary chef made this, he would probably have been kicked out of the Boreas family long ago.

However, since it was Shirou who made it, everyone would naturally give him face and at least give him a simple try.

But they didn't know until they tasted it; the moment they took a bite, the expressions of the Boreas family members changed noticeably.

"This is……"

Philip stared wide-eyed at the seemingly simple dish in front of him, and could even feel a certain warmth emanating from it.

An unprecedented experience was exploding on his tongue, making his life, which had been constrained for many years as the son of a nobleman, suddenly more colorful than before.

For a moment, only one thought remained in his mind.

That's because this dish is practically magical!!

Chapter 114 The Blade of Light.

Shirou's cooking is magical, but that doesn't mean it's delicious. In fact, he just makes home-style dishes and uses the most ordinary ingredients.

Of course, the home-cooked meals he remembered were still somewhat different from the home-cooked meals in this world.

However, for the Bereas clan, who were tired of all kinds of delicacies, Shirou's cooking, no matter how unique, was definitely not something they had never heard of or seen before.

However, even so, when the members of the Boreas family ate Shirou's cooking, they still felt an almost instinctive tremor on their tongues and taste buds.

"This...this dish..."

Philip was the first person present to eat the food, and the first to feel a certain intense emotion from it.

Yes, Philip can sense the emotions in Shirou's cooking.

It's as if the chef infuses their heart into the dish and communicates with the person tasting the food through the medium of cooking.

While the dishes Shirou made were ordinary home-style cooking, it was precisely because of their simplicity and commonness that they were even more rare for the Boreas family.

Because Boreas, as a nobleman, was born under various rules and etiquette, even close relatives had invisible barriers and obstacles between them, making what should have been a simple parent-child relationship shrouded in strange interests.

Boreas has done a relatively good job in this regard, but it still lacks the simple family relationships that only a truly ordinary family would have.

Philip himself loathed this kind of family ties bound by self-interest, but he was caught up in the situation and unable to resolve this predicament.

The dishes Shirou made seemed to reflect his thoughts, as if the other person was conveying to him through the dishes that even if the warm family relationship on the surface could not be maintained, as long as the love for relatives was still maintained in the heart, they were still family members who understood each other.

Rules and etiquette are constraints, but human strength lies in the ability to achieve even better, almost miraculous, outcomes within those constraints and predicaments.

While eating Shirou's cooking, Philip even felt an inexplicable urge to cry.

Of course, all of this is because Philip himself is too perceptive.

In fact, apart from Philip, both Sauros and Philip's wife were simply enjoying the food and marveling at how unexpectedly delicious this seemingly simple dish was.

"You little rascal... I never knew you had this trick up your sleeve!"

Even the proud and arrogant Shoros took the initiative to praise Shirou.

"It was delicious."

Philip's wife, Hildaberias Greirat, has also given a positive assessment.

"..."

Seeing that her family members also appreciated Shirou's cooking, Alice, who hadn't been eating the food, couldn't help but fall silent.

She had already made it clear that she would never eat a single bite of Shirou's cooking, and would absolutely not admit to such an annoying guy.

However, when faced with a delicious-looking meal, and with her family members all eagerly devouring the food, even breaking free from family etiquette, she eventually found herself unable to resist.

Shirou had been observing Alice's condition. Seeing that she seemed unwilling to eat his food, he slowly said, "What I made may not suit your taste, but it is dinner after all. Miss Alice, you should eat a little bit."

"Humph……"

Alice outwardly expressed her displeasure at Shirou's tactful suggestion.

But his hand still honestly reached for the food on the plate.

After taking a bite, her brows twitched suddenly, and her face, which had been tightly closed and expressionless, began to relax slightly.

"Ham".

Then, without saying a word, Alice began to eat the food even faster.

Even though she was the last person to eat, she was the first to finish everything on her plate.

"Is there...is there anything else...?"

Alice blushed, her feelings were very complicated, but she looked at Shirou very honestly, clearly still not having had enough.

Shirou waved his hand helplessly, clearly powerless to do anything about it, but after a moment's hesitation, he still gave half of his dinner to Alice.

This gesture undoubtedly moved Alice deeply; she never expected that the other person would be willing to share the food on their plate with her.

A blush immediately appeared on the girl's face.

She felt a clear sense of guilt for her previous harsh attitude towards Shirou, and even didn't know how to face him anymore.

Of course, Shirou didn't care about Alice's reaction. He just looked at Giren standing next to him and said, "I've prepared one for you too, Giren. You can go to the kitchen to get it later."

The Boreas family has its rules; guards like Girenou are not allowed to eat at the table.

However, Shirou still respected Kyrie Illusion, so he specially prepared a portion for him in the kitchen as well.

"Really?"

Kyrie Irrigation was very surprised and excited at the same time, and its tail wagged happily behind it.

After all, she could tell just by looking at it how delicious Shirou's cooking was. The fact that the Boreas family was so obsessed with the food must have been incredibly appealing to her.

Dinner time gradually passed.

Shirou's cooking has undoubtedly won the approval of the entire Boreas family.

Philip even wanted Shirou to become the family's professional chef, but ultimately it was impossible for him to do such a lowly job.

Shirou didn't mind at all, saying that he could help prepare the dishes in the kitchen if he had the chance in the future.

His attitude aroused strong excitement among the members of the Boreas family. One by one, these originally elegant nobles were now unable to contain their emotions.

Shirou isn't focusing much of his energy on cooking right now.

For him, cooking is certainly something that can make his family happy, but he also needs to become stronger and have the ability to protect those around him in any situation.

So early the next morning, he found Kyrie Il and asked him to teach him the Sword God Style.

"Are you ready to learn the Blade of Light?"

When Kyrie Il looked at Shirou, who had come to learn swordsmanship, there was not much surprise in his eyes; in fact, one could say he took it all for granted.

"Since Lord Sauros has allowed me to stay here, it means that I should be able to learn a more advanced version of the Sword God Style swordsmanship now."

Shirou spoke slowly, his eyes firm and his clear attitude as clear as flowing water.

Kyrie Il could sense the boy's will. She slowly nodded, then shook her head: "I can teach you the Blade of Light, but you can't learn it directly right now."

"What's the meaning??"

Shirou was confused by Kyrie Irwin's words.

Girenou didn't offer much explanation. She simply took her sword and went to the square. Facing the empty space, she casually placed her hand on the sword.

"Snapped!"

The sword was swung with a speed that defied all common sense, creating a clear ripple in the air.

Shirou couldn't even see Kyrie's movements clearly before he realized that the other's sword had already returned to its sheath.

"So fast……"

Shirou could only react this way to Kyrie's swordsmanship; he simply couldn't comprehend what kind of technique was used to unleash such exaggerated swordsmanship.

Kyrie Irvine didn't keep him in suspense and immediately explained, "What you just saw wasn't a technique, and it wasn't even a true katana of light. It was just the sword's energy generated when the swordsman and the sword resonated after the swordsman reached a certain level of skill."

"The fluctuations of a sword?"

"Shirou, do you prefer to wield your sword with your left hand or your right?"

"This……"

Shirou dared not answer Gilead's question casually, because he knew that the question must have some significance.

He paused briefly for a moment, then replied, "I like both hands."

His answer was based on the dual-wielding style used by the Heroic Spirit Emiya. In fact, Shirou himself also liked to wield a weapon in each hand to maximize the power of the projection.

Gilead neither confirmed nor denied his answer, but continued to ask, "What if you lost an arm?"

"what?"

"If you lost your left hand, or your right hand, could you still wield the same sword as before?"

"..."

Shirou was completely taken aback when Kyrie Irvine asked him such a question.

Kyrie Irgen didn't expect to get an answer from him, and just continued to speak: "The so-called Sword God School is a school that exists purely for the sake of the sword, but how to wield the sword, or rather, what is the sword, has never been clearly defined within the school. After all, the sword is the only goal of the Sword God School, but if you lose the hand to wield the sword, how can you wield a real sword?"

"What does this have to do with the Blade of Light?"

Shirou couldn't help but ask a question.

"It doesn't matter. I asked this question just to tell you that the first step in learning the Blade of Light is not to be bound by the form of the sword, and even less to be limited by the act of wielding the sword itself. Only by breaking free from the form of the sword can you possibly unleash true sword energy, instead of being bound by the form of the sword like many of my fellow disciples, and thus trapped in the realm of the Sword Saint for the rest of their lives."

Kyrie Irving spoke in an almost earnest tone, “Therefore, I will not teach you the techniques of the Blade of Light until you understand what a real sword is, because that would only trap you in the form of a sword, making it impossible for you to understand what a real sword is and reach the higher peak of swordsmanship.”

Chapter 115: Shirou and Alice's sword duel.

"The form of a sword? A real sword?"

Upon hearing Kyrie Io's words, Shirou fell silent. He couldn't understand what Kyrie Io was saying, because in his view, a sword was just a sword, nothing more.

But Kyrie Irvine was clearly not joking.

The other party hoped that he could understand this statement before starting real training with the Blade of Light.

However, Shirou had absolutely no clue about this problem; he not only couldn't understand it, but he also didn't know how to figure it out.

Kyrie Irgen clearly didn't intend to give him any hints, hoping that Shirou could figure it out on his own.

She then slowly began to speak: "When my master was teaching me the Sword God Style, he said that if you can't understand what a real sword is, you'll always just be a third-rate swordsman."

"Third-rate swordsmen? What about second-rate and first-rate swordsmen?"

Shirou asked curiously.

Kyrie Irgen said quietly, "A swordsman who understands what a sword is is a second-rate swordsman. At the same time, a swordsman who understands what a true sword is but is still unwilling to give up the sword is a first-rate swordsman."

"..."

Kyrie Irgen's words were clearly full of metaphysics.

The content is somewhat similar to the concept proposed by a philosopher from a certain great nation in Shirou's previous life: "Looking at a mountain as a mountain, looking at a mountain as not a mountain, and looking at a mountain as a mountain again."

Although it has shifted to the realm of swordsmanship, it is still full of profound and unfathomable knowledge.

At least in the short term, Shirou clearly cannot understand what the other person is saying.

Kyrie Irwin clearly didn't want Shirou to understand right now. She said frankly, "I also spent a long time researching what a sword is. You don't need to get the answer right away."