Ever since Eris failed to beat Shirou that day, she had completely locked herself in her room, refusing to come out.
People from the Boreas family went to her mansion to ask about the situation, but the only message they received was a demand. She insisted that Shirou be kicked out of the Boreas family immediately, and that he should never be allowed to step foot in the family again, or she would never leave her room.
The Boreas family was undoubtedly very troubled by this demand.
Philip and his wife tried to persuade their daughter several times, but without any success. They could only give up helplessly.
The couple also asked Saurus, the current head of the Boreas family, for his opinion. They wanted to know if they should give up on having Shirou continue as Eris's tutor.
But Saurus's attitude was even more firm than Eris's. He not only insisted that Shirou must be Eris's tutor, but also said that if they didn't make it happen, he would kick both Shirou and Eris out of the Boreas family. The Boreas family doesn't accept useless people!
Faced with Saurus's stubbornness, which was even stronger than Eris's, Philip was truly helpless and could only obey his father.
In the end, the whole Boreas family placed all their hopes on Shirou.
Because now, the only way was to have Shirou resolve his relationship with Eris. Otherwise, not only Shirou himself, but even Eris, might be kicked out of the house without mercy by Saurus.
While the Boreas family was discussing the matter and worrying about their young lady's safety, Shirou was not disturbed by outside factors.
He asked Philip for a separate empty room and locked himself inside, not coming out for a long time.
The people outside didn't know what he was doing in the empty room.
They could only occasionally hear strange noises coming from inside.
This led to all sorts of rumors.
Some even said that Shirou was a magical beast transformed into a human, or that Shirou had been taken over by some kind of ghost.
But contrary to the rumors, nothing abnormal had happened to Shirou. The reason he was staying in that empty room was purely to activate his Servant power.
Yes, Shirou had been aware of something ever since he came to this world.
He had a deep fusion of souls with Servant Emiya.
He not only possessed some of the other's memories, but also, from his body to his very essence, he had been deeply influenced by Servant Emiya and possessed a part of him.
The source of this power was undoubtedly that snowy night when he saw his junior, Sakura Matou, die and felt a surge of anger from the bottom of his heart. This anger activated the blank Servant card she had given him, and he connected to Servant Emiya from the Servant Throne out of thin air.
Because it was an unconventional Servant transformation, Shirou was practically halfway into the afterlife, hovering on the edge of death.
After all, Servant power is far beyond what ordinary humans can imagine.
Even a small fraction of Servant power, once it appears in this world, is enough to cause extremely huge karma and butterfly effects.
Furthermore, it is very difficult for the human body to control Servant abilities. If it were someone like the Ainsworth family, who possess proper magic and facilities to control Servant power through the normal procedure of using cards, there wouldn't be too many problems. But Shirou's process of obtaining Servant power was clearly abnormal.
The various abnormal changes caused by this have been ongoing ever since.
Whether it's Shirou's crossing over, shrinking body, inability to use magic circuits, or his hair turning white after using magic circuits, they are all problems caused by this.
In short, Shirou forcibly connected himself to the Servant Throne through irregular means, and carried Servant power in his human body. It's a miracle that he didn't die on the spot.
And behind every miracle, there is often an unspeakable price. These costs may not be immediately obvious, but as time goes on, they will eventually come back to the user of the miracle.
Shirou had already noticed the problem when he killed the Red Dragon and used his magic circuits again.
But he also realized that he had inevitably embarked on a path of no return.
Servant Emiya's power was already inseparable from him. Shirou now only had two choices.
One was to overcome Servant Emiya's power, stabilize his own existence, and even surpass Servant Emiya.
The other was for Servant Emiya's power to completely erode him, causing him to either be unable to withstand the Servant power and die on the spot, or have his soul eroded by Servant Emiya's rank and become another Servant Emiya.
In a sense, the first possibility was more likely.
Shirou's hair turning white after projecting with all his might against the Red Dragon was a sign of overdrafting his life force.
Servant power is not something humans can control. If you are not strong enough and forcibly control power that's beyond your control, it's basically suicide.
Shirou didn't want to die, nor did he want to turn into Servant Emiya, a killing machine of Alaya, devoid of human emotion. So he did everything he could to overcome Servant Emiya's influence on him. At least until he had the ability to fully control Servant power, he wouldn't rely too much on Servant Emiya's power.
And over the years, through his efforts, he had indeed managed to reduce Servant Emiya's influence on him to almost the lowest level.
Except for the battle against the Red Dragon, he had hardly been led by the nose by Servant Emiya's soul, and instead relied on his own abilities to solve all crises.
However, Shirou was also very clear that his abilities had limits.
If he encountered a truly insurmountable obstacle, even if it meant paying a price, he would have to seek help from the other self in his body.
"Servant power, there should still be a part of it in my body..."
Shirou sat in the empty room, surrounded by a chaotic and ruined scene caused by the surging magic power.
In the past few hours, he had repeatedly tried to summon the Servant power within him.
Shirou wanted to return to the state he was in during that snowy night when he prayed to his Servant self and gained power.
Although doing so was very dangerous and could easily lead to him further deepening his connection with Servant Emiya.
But Shirou wasn't just taking a risk. He actually had a certain degree of confidence that he could borrow Servant Emiya's power without being swallowed by it.
"It's very different from that time..."
Shirou clenched his fist. He could feel the Servant power within him, but he still didn't know how to draw it out. "Back then, I relied on the Ainsworth family's blank Servant card as a medium to forcibly summon my Servant self from the Servant Throne, allowing Servant Emiya's power to descend upon me. Now, Servant Emiya's power isn't in the Servant Throne, but within my body, but I lack a medium to communicate with it."
Realizing his dilemma, Shirou sighed.
He knew that this wasn't something that could be done easily.
But in order to solve his current predicament and prevent the Boreas family from continuing to be troubled, he had to do his best to do what he should do.
Since Servant Emiya's power was within him, but he lacked a medium to guide it out, then he just had to find a suitable medium.
But what kind of medium would be good?
Speaking of which, it would be great if the blank Servant card from back then was still nearby.
Thinking of this, Shirou shook his head. The blank Servant card had already gone with Miyu to the wonderful world he had wished for when he activated the Greater Grail ritual prepared by the Ainsworth family.
It was absolutely impossible for it to return to his hands.
However, even if he lost the original blank Servant card, couldn't he reproduce a similar card?
The moment the idea occurred to him, Shirou suddenly realized the situation.
He carefully lifted his right arm, making sure that his magic circuits were in a normal state and wouldn't easily go out of control.
Recalling the situation when he fought the Red Dragon, he activated a magic circuit as stably as possible.
Unlike when he activated all twenty-seven magic circuits against the Red Dragon, he didn't need to activate so many magic circuits now, just one circuit, enough to use basic projection.
"Trace, On!"
As Shirou chanted the familiar activation phrase.
His right hand suddenly emitted a faint glow, and a slight stinging sensation came from his arm.
"It worked!"
Shirou revealed a look of surprise. Ever since the battle of the Red Dragon, he had vaguely realized that he might have regained the ability to activate his magic circuits.
Although he was usually afraid to use this power because he was worried that Servant Emiya's soul would influence him, he thought that if he used this power carefully and didn't overstep the boundaries, there shouldn't be any risk of losing control.
As the light blue glow gradually faded, a card that he was very familiar with, even slightly warm, appeared before Shirou's eyes.
A replica of the blank Servant card.
Although it was just a projected fake, at least on the surface it was no different from a real blank Servant card.
And what Shirou needed to do now was not to use this fake Servant card to connect to the Servant Throne, which was something that was absolutely impossible to do from either a spatial or ability perspective.
Shirou was just using this card to recall the subtle sensations he felt when he used Servant power that night.
"Even though there are differences in various aspects, different ideals, different beliefs, and completely different paths pursued, even so, we are the same me, Emiya Shirou."
"Lend me your power once more."
Shirou took a breath and poured magic power into the card.
"Snap!"
With the sudden onset of a strange electrical sensation, an astonishing amount of magic power burst out of him, and most importantly, Shirou's appearance underwent a significant change.
A white coat, a crimson arm, not only did his figure become more robust, his height increased further, even his pupils exuded a sharp, hawk-like feel.
This was undoubtedly the form of Servant Emiya!
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