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

"boom!"

Faced with such a stunning slash, Alice didn't even have time to react before she was sent flying!

He landed on the ground again, his buttocks making intimate contact with the ground.

"Good, so fast... so strong..."

Alice collapsed to the ground, her expression one of complete and utter submission.

Only now did she realize just how powerful Shirou, whom she had always looked down upon, truly was, and thus became certain that she could never be his match.

They're not even in the same league.

But this also puzzled her, and she couldn't help but ask, "Why? Why do you never use your strength when you clearly have it?"

Yes, that's exactly what confuses Alice.

She was puzzled. Since Shirou possessed such power that far surpassed her own, why didn't he use that power to force her to submit?

If Shirou had displayed this level of strength from the very beginning and had completely overwhelmed her, Alice might not have been so resistant later on.

In response to Alice's words, Shirou silently replied: "Power is for protecting those who are important to you, not for showing off your strength, much less for bullying the weak. Having great power doesn't mean you have to display it recklessly. On the contrary, being able to control your power and not use violence indiscriminately is the true manifestation of strength."

"..."

Shirou's words plunged Alice into silence.

This was clearly the first time she had heard such a statement, and she couldn't bring herself to deny Shirou's claim.

Because Shirou's statement is undoubtedly correct.

A true strong person would never recklessly abuse their power and destroy everything.

In other words, someone who cannot even control their own power and abuses violence cannot be considered a true strongman.

"Alright, let's continue practicing our swordsmanship."

Seeing that Alice was gradually learning from her mistakes and beginning to reflect on herself, Shirou smiled slightly and continued to teach her swordsmanship.

In the process, he also pondered more and more the questions that Gilead had posed to him.

Furthermore, as the sword's movements became increasingly pure, he vaguely realized an answer, but that answer remained unclear and he couldn't see it clearly.

……

More than a month has passed since Shirou became Alice's swordsmanship teacher.

Alice's fiery temper has not diminished in the slightest over such a long period of time.

This is also impossible.

The country is easy to change, but the nature is hard to change.

No matter how much Shirou hoped that Alice could become a well-behaved lady, such a thing would probably never happen in his lifetime.

However, aside from her unwavering personality, Alice's swordsmanship has been improving little by little.

Perhaps Shirou's teaching was too excellent, or perhaps Alice was gradually moved by his attitude of putting knowledge into practice.

Alice gradually abandoned her past practice of swinging her sword purely on instinct and intuition, and began to learn swordsmanship techniques more thoroughly, mastering the basic movements.

Although this progress is like a newborn baby taking its first steps, as long as they are willing to change, they will eventually be able to grasp the true way of the sword.

Of course, the goal that Alice was striving for was giving Shirou a headache.

One day, I'll be strong enough to beat you up badly. Just you wait!

Although that day will most likely never come, the other party's attitude undoubtedly proves that they still harbor resentment towards me and don't know when a good teacher-student relationship can be established.

Besides teaching Alice swordsmanship, Shirou himself is also working hard to learn swordsmanship from Kyrie.

Although Giren won't immediately teach Shirou the Light Blade, the very act of sparring with him was very beneficial for Shirou.

Kyrie Ionian's swordsmanship is completely different from that of the Heroic Spirit Emiya; it is the kind of swordsmanship that only focuses on offense and does not consider any defense.

In his confrontation with Kyrie Ian, Shirou was able to further examine his own shortcomings and further improve the abilities of the Heroic Spirit Emiya.

As for the question Gilead posed to him, Shirou still hadn't found the answer.

Time passed by little by little, and Shirou's peaceful daily life was suddenly disrupted by an unexpected development.

The incident began when Shirou was helping out in the Boreas family kitchen. He noticed that the other servants often encountered trouble, and he always offered to help others in their difficulties.

Before he knew it, Shirou's reputation in Bereas began to rise again, just like it had in Buena Village, and he gained the approval of all the servants working for the Bereas clan.

Whether it's a knight, a servant, or a maid, everyone greets him warmly when they see him. Shirou has even occasionally received love letters from some maids.

Of course, he completely ignored all of this.

However, although he won't accept some strange things, Shirou will still help anyone in trouble as soon as possible.

One day, by chance, he received a commission from the blacksmith shop.

As a great noble family, Boreas had his own private army, and naturally also had blacksmith shops dedicated to producing weapons.

At the time, the blacksmith's apprentice was having some problems, so Shirou took the initiative to lend a hand and assist the current blacksmith.

It's no wonder that Shirou has shown such amazing talent in weapon forging. His hammering rhythm and hammering movements are perfect. He can even occasionally create a treasured sword that surpasses the material's inherent limits.

The blacksmith was so excited, as if he had discovered a diamond, that he immediately grabbed Shirou's hand and eagerly hoped that Shirou would learn from him and become a blacksmith.

Shirou was somewhat surprised by this, but he also felt that he was quite suited to forging weapons.

Thus, through this almost coincidental development, Shirou began his journey as a blacksmith.

Chapter 117 Forging, the Golden Sword of Inevitable Victory!

Shirou has been with the Boreas family for half a year.

Time has passed from spring to late autumn.

In the cool, breezy weather.

Shirou's life gradually got back on track.

Every morning, he would wake up quickly and patrol the training grounds of Bereas Castle, practicing swordsmanship.

After working up a light sweat, he would go to the castle kitchen to help out, adding one or two of his signature dishes to the Boreas family's repertoire.

Often, these one or two dishes will be snapped up as soon as they are served at lunch or dinner.

Even the seemingly most demure and elegant Lady Hilda doesn't maintain her composure when faced with Shirou's cooking.

Shoros even used his immense power as the head of the family to force himself to be the first to eat Shirou's cooking every time, which can be said to be the ultimate privatization of power.

After having breakfast together, Shirou would practice swordsmanship with Kyrie Irwin in the morning.

Although Kyrie Ian doesn't teach him the specifics of using the Blade of Light, he does practice swordsmanship with him and even occasionally instructs Shirou on his swordsmanship, pointing out his mistakes and shortcomings.

With a sword master like Kyrie Irwin as his mentor, Shirou's swordsmanship skills improved by leaps and bounds.

However, the reason why he was able to improve so quickly was that Shirou's basic swordsmanship was too weak.

Both the Heroic Spirit Emiya and Shirou himself basically treat swords as tools.

To them, a sword is merely a tool with a special form; as long as it can be used to defeat an opponent, it doesn't matter if it's not a sword.

In fact, the fighting style that the Heroic Spirit Emiya is best at is not close combat, but rather using archers to wear down opponents from a distance, and then launching a surprise attack with swordsmanship when the opponent is tired and shows an opening.

In short, while Shirou's swordsmanship was powerful enough, it was entirely a practical fighting style developed through combat experience, lacking specific theory and systematic guidance.

Although Paul was Shirou's swordsmanship teacher and taught him a lot of swordsmanship basics, Paul's own skills were only so-so. Basically, after Shirou reached the intermediate swordsman level, Paul's teachings were basically useless. He could only improve his skills in actual combat through sword sparring.

As the user of the Mind's Eye skill, Kashiro's combat ability is exceptionally strong. Even if his swordsmanship is somewhat lacking, he can make up for it with his own reflexes.

If shortcomings are always covered up instead of being thoroughly corrected, they will eventually manifest as huge flaws.

Even if the Heroic Spirit Emiya wanted to change his flaws, he didn't have the ability to do so, which was a helpless situation.

Now that Shirou finally had the opportunity to be guided by a sword king like Kyrie Irwin, he naturally took this opportunity to thoroughly make up for his weak foundation in swordsmanship.

After sparring with Kyrie Irwin in the morning, Shirou would teach Alice swordsmanship in the afternoon.

Alice's problem was exactly the same as his: she had the instincts and intuition of a beast, but her swordsmanship was so weak that it was comparable to that of a beginner.

The other party had always been unwilling to settle down and learn the basics of swordsmanship, and even Kyrie Irvine's teachings went in one ear and out the other.

However, now that she has Shirou as her goal, she has finally begun to seriously learn swordsmanship. At least during Shirou's instruction, she has been very serious, even to the point that it makes Shirou feel uneasy.

After all, Shirou knew very well that the reason Alice was so serious was that she wanted to learn stronger swordsmanship so that she could beat him up.

This also made Shirou feel a sense of crisis, realizing that if he didn't work hard and Alice caught up with him, he might be severely humiliated by her, which led Shirou to spend more energy on swordsmanship.

This created a peculiar competitive relationship between the master and apprentice, with their swordsmanship skills developing at a rapid pace.

After finishing his swordsmanship instruction to Alice in the afternoon, Shirou had his own private time.

When he was at the Grerat family, he would usually use this time to study projection magic or practice the magic that Loki taught him.

But after joining the Boreas clan, he acquired a new interest to pass the time—forging.

……

"Shirou, you've come!"

At the blacksmith's workshop of the Boreas family, all the blacksmiths greeted him warmly.

"I saw you and Miss Alice practicing swordsmanship today. You were really amazing! You managed to make that unruly Miss Alice so obedient!"

A young blacksmith apprentice chuckled and said, "We've all given you a nickname behind your back: the Beast Tamer of Boreas."

"If the young lady hears you say that, aren't you afraid of being beaten to death?"

Shirou responded to the other party in a subtle tone.

"Ah this..."

The young blacksmith apprentice immediately shut his mouth upon hearing this, too frightened to utter a word.

Shirou then went inside the blacksmith's workshop. Since the blacksmith here had allowed Shirou to use everything in the workshop at will, he was now able to learn the basics of forging.

Material selection, furnace heating, initial polishing, detailed carving, quenching, grinding and hammering...

Every step and every detail of the blacksmith's work has been absorbed into Shirou's being through his own learning.

Although the Boreas family's blacksmith shop wasn't the best in the capital, it was still a relatively professional one, with all sorts of specialized tools, rare materials, and excellent smelting techniques.

The armor and swords made by the family are renowned throughout the Fituia territory, often selling for twice the price of ordinary weapons and equipment on the black market.

Although Shirou is just a newcomer to the blacksmith shop, he has now been allowed to participate in the formal weapon making process due to the blacksmith's great trust in him.

In fact, Shirou's performance as a newcomer has been extremely outrageous.

On his second day at the blacksmith's shop, he helped the blacksmith create a fine sword engraved with magic runes. Although it couldn't be called a magic sword, it was still much better than ordinary weapons.

Normally, the failure rate of a magic sword of this level is quite high.

Even if successful, the quality would fall far short of that level.

Shirou's contribution is evident.

From that day on, Shirou received the highest treatment in the entire blacksmith workshop. He was assigned to an independent forging workshop and received special instruction from the workshop master. He was even allowed to use the workshop's materials at will to make any weapon he wanted.

Of course, these materials would still cost money afterward, and the Boreas family couldn't give their blacksmith shops unlimited purchasing power.

However, Shirou already had a large amount of savings accumulated from killing the Red Dragon, so even if he bought the most precious magic stones, it would be more than enough to cover the cost.

Moreover, Shirou's forging success rate is extremely high. Even if the materials are incredibly expensive, as long as the forged weapons are of a high enough grade, he can earn a considerable profit just by selling them. He could even become a top-tier tycoon just by forging weapons.

Of course, Shirou didn't intend to make money through forging. The main reason he wanted to forge weapons was that he discovered this method could replace projection and allow him to stockpile weapons for himself.

Due to the influence of the Heroic Spirit Emiya, Shirou generally avoids using projection magic nowadays, as that would further lead to him being corrupted by the Heroic Spirit Emiya.

As a lower-level projection magic, sword magic generally creates weapons that are so fragile that they can be easily broken, because sword magic itself is just a rudimentary form of forging.

In fact, while practicing sword magic, Shirou realized that sword magic itself is a way to rapidly temper weapons.

The strength of the weapons he creates depends on Shirou's own skill in tempering, that is, his mastery of forging and smelting.

Now that Shirou has actually started forging, he has become certain that sword magic is a different kind of forging, and that his forging proficiency will affect the strength of the weapon created by sword magic.

If Shirou masters more efficient forging techniques and more advanced weapon forging methods in the future, he might be able to create weapons comparable to projections using sword magic!

"Forging, begin."

After Shirou entered the workshop and made thorough preparations, he immediately began forging weapons.

With clumsy yet steady movements, he replicated each of the smelting processes one by one, and finally began to strike and hammer the weapon itself.