Shirou finished projecting the Servant card, successfully drawing out the power of Servant Emiya from within his body once again.
He should have been able to do this long ago.
But deep down, Shirou still had a fear of Servant power.
That snowy night, while he saved his sister Miyu using Servant Emiya's power and fought his way through the entire Holy Grail War, it also made him fully aware of how exaggerated and uncontrollable Servant power was.
Unfortunately, he had absorbed all of Servant Emiya's power and established a connection with Servant Emiya that was too deep to sever in the worst possible way.
For a long time afterward, Shirou maintained a sense of awe, even fear, towards Servant power.
He tried his best not to use Servant Emiya's power, mainly for this reason.
However, after the Red Dragon battle, Shirou gradually changed his mind.
Servant power was indeed an uncontrollable force, but it was also his last resort to protect the people around him.
He had once used this power to save his sister Miyu, and in the future, he could naturally use this power to protect more people around him.
The form that power takes depends on the user themselves.
Even a bad power can be used for good if the user has the right beliefs and can do good deeds.
Also, Shirou dared to directly borrow Servant Emiya's power because he had experience with dream summoning.
In the past, Shirou realized that as long as he didn't forcibly use Servant power in his human form, but used cards to perform dream summoning, he could greatly reduce the erosion of Servant power on himself and use Servant power to a greater extent.
The only problem was that dream summoning consumed a lot more energy. With Shirou's current physical condition, if he fought at full strength, he might only be able to maintain the summoning for a few minutes.
In a way, this was also because the cards Shirou had were not original blank Servant cards, but just false cards that he had projected.
The quality of the card itself also determined the degree of summoning.
Of course, Shirou didn't care if he could perform a complete dream summoning right now. All he needed was to use dream summoning to show Servant Emiya's appearance to trick Eris into accepting his swordsmanship training.
According to Ghislaine, Eris hated people like him who had no special qualities, but she admired the hero who killed the Red Dragon.
Due to the exaggerations in the rumors, his usual appearance didn't show the manner of one who slew a Red Dragon, but appearing as Servant Emiya would probably add more believability.
Although this was a form of deception, Shirou was no longer the naive person he once was. As far as he was concerned, he could use any means necessary to achieve his goals.
After making his decision, Shirou quickly went to the mansion where Miss Eris was.
Since she had previously expressed her rejection of him, he didn't enter the mansion directly through the main entrance. Instead, he used his Servant-enhanced abilities to jump directly to the second floor of the house, and with movements impossible for a human, easily reached the top floor of the house.
That was the benefit of being Servant-enhanced.
While Shirou could use projection abilities comparable to the real ones, whether or not he was Servant-enhanced, there was still a huge difference between Servant Emiya and his physical abilities.
If Shirou were to fight the Red Dragon in his Servant-enhanced form, he probably wouldn't even need the power-amplifying "Unlimited Blade Works." Just a simpler projection would allow him to stand against, and even defeat, the Red Dragon.
"I think Eris's room is..."
Shirou thought about his previous memory as he moved along the roof.
After passing a room with a window, he quickly remembered that this was where Eris was, so he immediately came to the window, preparing to find a chance to go in and greet Eris.
To be honest, doing this was very reckless and could easily lead to unknown consequences. If Eris panicked and called for help because she was too frightened, he would be finished.
But Shirou had no choice. In order to get Eris to accept his lessons and complete Saurus's task, he had to get Eris to accept him.
As Shirou thought this, he saw Eris in the room through the window, spacing out.
Due to her willful behavior, her situation wasn't much better than Shirou's. She was completely confined to her room and couldn't go out at all.
This was undoubtedly a painful state for a young and energetic girl, and the impatience on her face was obvious.
But Eris's personality was indeed stubborn to an incredible degree.
Even though it was hard to this point, she had no intention of giving up. She gritted her teeth and was determined to wait until her family drove Shirou away.
This wasn't just willpower, it could even be said to be the personification of the highest degree of pride and defiance...
"This is really..."
Shirou watched Eris, because she was too anxious, even tore many of the stuffed animals in her room to pieces but still gritted her teeth and refused to go out, and couldn't help but feel a bit ashamed.
He realized even more how difficult this young lady was to win over.
Under normal circumstances, no matter what he did, he probably wouldn't be recognized by her.
But in the current situation, he really had no choice. The only path he could take was to force her to accept him, so he could only do his best!
Shirou made up his mind in his heart, and his actions also showed his determination. He planned to push open the window and go in to meet Eris.
However, before he could act, Shirou suddenly noticed Eris's door being pushed open.
A middle-aged butler walked in from outside.
Shirou remembered his identity. He seemed to be the butler of the Boreas family, named Thomas.
This butler didn't have much authority in the Boreas family and didn't seem to be qualified to meet Eris, the young lady of the Boreas family, in person.
However, he was indeed here.
Shirou thought nothing of it and figured Phillip must have given him some order.
In fact, it seemed to be the case. After listening to a few words from the butler, Eris suddenly looked happy, waved her hands and celebrated, and then left the room with the butler.
"This..."
Seeing the scene in the distance, although Shirou couldn't hear the specific dialogue, he could tell something from the butler's lip movements and Eris's attitude.
Butler Thomas seemed to have told Eris that Phillip was going to drive him out of the Boreas family and had invited her to witness it.
"I'm going to be kicked out?"
Shirou couldn't accept it for a moment. He never expected that Phillip would lose patience even before his plan was put into action.
But Shirou soon felt confused again.
It was Saurus, the head of the Boreas family, who asked him to be Eris's tutor. He was the source of everything.
Did Phillip have the ability to go against Saurus's opinion alone?
No, that was impossible, right?
Recalling Saurus's stubborn appearance, which was even more exaggerated than Eris's, Shirou really couldn't imagine that fierce old man would allow Phillip to act on his own.
But Butler Thomas was indeed here...
Hesitating, Shirou couldn't let go of the sense of something being off. Even at the risk of danger, he followed Thomas and Eris as closely as possible.
To reduce his energy consumption, Shirou first canceled the dream summoning and followed the two of them in his normal form.
Thanks to his superior Sword God Style skills, plus his eagle eye level of Clairvoyance, Shirou could easily track Thomas and Eris.
It was dusk at this time.
The setting sun dyed the road red.
He followed the two of them to the outside of the mansion, and Thomas seemed to have deliberately chosen a small path that wasn't the main entrance to reach the outer perimeter of the Boreas castle.
After reaching the road, Thomas made Eris wait there, and secretly gave a signal in a certain direction.
"!!"
The next moment, before Eris could react at all, several burly men in black suddenly rushed out of the shadows, covered her mouth and nose with their hands, used a special cloth bag to knock her out, and then threw her directly into a sack.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!!"
At the same time, a carriage drove from a distance as if it had received a signal. Without thinking, the men in black took Eris into the carriage, leaving Butler Thomas alone to wait in place, and acting as if nothing had happened, he swayed back toward the Boreas castle.
"..."
In the shadows, Shirou witnessed everything.
He knew almost without thinking, this was a pure kidnapping—Butler Thomas had conspired with a group of outsiders to kidnap Eris.
At this moment, Shirou had only two choices.
One was to return to the Boreas family and expose the butler's plot, but in that case, the location where Eris was taken will be unknown, or at least difficult to track.
The other was to immediately activate Servant power and go to rescue Eris.
Although Shirou's own speed wouldn't be able to catch up with the kidnappers, everything would be different if he used the Servant card.
"Looks like I have no choice."
Shirou sighed, and without any unnecessary thought, he took out the Servant card from his pocket and decisively began dream summoning!
"Snap!"
As an astonishing torrent of magical power swept through the scene, Shirou reappeared as Servant Emiya, and at this moment he dared not waste a single moment, and directly began to run wildly towards the distant carriage, absolutely not allowing the carriage that kidnapped Eris to disappear from his sight!
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