As the morning light of dawn slowly brightened, Shirou began his day of training.
He first did basic exercises on the training ground, and after stretching his body a little, he ran to the kitchen to prepare breakfast.
After that, he went to call Eris and the people of the Boreas family to eat breakfast.
Without realizing it, Shirou had now even become like a butler for the Boreas family. Philip and his wife Hilda had become accustomed to Shirou planning their daily schedule, not to mention Eris and Sauros, who were already lazy by nature.
But today was different from usual. After calling most of the Boreas family, Shirou slowly went to a side room on one side of the castle.
In this room, which the Boreas family used to receive guests, the second princess, Ariel, was staying, and she had no plans to leave anytime soon.
In her words, Ariel didn't plan to leave until she found the blacksmith Muramasa.
Even though it was a completely unfounded rumor, Ariel firmly believed that she would be able to find Muramasa in Boreas Castle, which really left Shirou speechless.
Right now, Shirou came to the door of Ariel's room, knocked, and planned to call Ariel to eat breakfast with the Boreas family.
As a result, he had just knocked when the door was opened.
Ariel, wearing pajamas, which could even be called underwear, stood in front of him, and she had no intention of hiding the exposed skin.
"You, why aren't you wearing any clothes?!"
Shirou was shocked, and even panicked for the first time in a long time.
Ariel said frankly, "Is it necessary to be so concerned? Don't tell me Shirou, you're still a virgin? No way, you look like you're already thirteen or fourteen."
"No, how could a normal person be thirteen or fourteen and..."
Shirou was about to retort, but he immediately realized a common sense mistake.
Although in his original world, a normal person became an adult at eighteen, that was in modern times. In this medieval era, a thirteen-year-old boy was generally considered an adult and could start a family. In an environment like the royal capital, the age of adulthood would be even earlier.
Considering the decadent atmosphere of the nobility, even if a boy of Shirou's age was not considered an adult, he definitely wouldn't be a virgin.
While Shirou was plunged into chaos for a moment due to the huge differences in worldviews, Ariel looked at Shirou with great interest, as if she was admiring his troubled appearance.
But she still gave Shirou some reaction, asking, "By the way, Shirou, what are you doing in my room so early in the morning? Don't tell me you want to launch a sudden attack on me while I'm still sleeping in bed?"
"How could I?!"
Shirou retorted immediately, but quickly realized that Ariel was just teasing him. He quickly returned to the main topic and said, "I came to call you for breakfast. The Boreas family won't prepare extra breakfast, so it's best to go to the living room and eat with everyone."
"Oh? That's something to look forward to."
Ariel obviously rarely had the habit of eating breakfast with a group of people, and now she showed a very interested look.
So she quickly woke up Luke and Derrick, who were still sleeping, from the next room, and followed Shirou to the living room with the two subordinates who were guarding her.
Luke still had the same hostile attitude towards Shirou, but after witnessing the Black Key, the hostility no longer contained much contempt.
He somewhat recognized Shirou's forging ability.
Not to mention Derrick, he had always been optimistic about Shirou. Now he was even more attentive than Ariel, hoping to win Shirou over to Ariel's camp.
But this was undoubtedly something that Shirou would not accept.
"I've already prepared breakfast in advance, everyone, hurry up and eat it while it's hot."
Shirou and the maids prepared breakfast together. His movements were very skilled, even faster than ordinary servants, looking like he was performing.
At least Ariel and Luke, Derrick hadn't recovered yet when they found the table full of dishes.
"Did you make all of these, Shirou?"
Ariel asked with great curiosity.
"Most of it, but some of it was prepared by the cooks."
Shirou's cooking skills have been recognized by the entire Boreas family during this time. If Sauros wasn't concerned about noble etiquette, he would have wanted Shirou to prepare meals every day.
Even with the restraint, Shirou's cooking production is becoming more and more common in the Boreas family, and he is even about to become the head chef.
Shirou himself didn't care. He enjoyed cooking and even felt that the insights he gained from it could be applied to swordsmanship and forging.
Ariel, Luke, and Derrick were undoubtedly very puzzled that Shirou was actually responsible for cooking. They didn't understand why Shirou, a nobleman, would do something that servants do.
Luke even showed great disdain. He didn't think there could be anything special about the food Shirou made.
You must know that Ariel and the others were born in the royal capital, and they had eaten all the delicacies since they were young. They had already eaten all the most delicious top-level dishes in the royal capital.
Even if the food Shirou made was a little different, it was hard to imagine that it would cause a reaction from them.
This idea lasted for less than half a minute.
The moment Luke reluctantly ate the food made by Shirou, his expression changed instantly. It was an indescribable taste, like a person extremely thirsty in the desert suddenly discovering a lush shade and rushing in to drink the sweet spring water in it.
After eating the food made by Shirou, even if Luke recalled the food made by the best chefs at the former court banquets, he couldn't help but feel that it was just a tasteless chicken rib.
It was clearly such top-quality ingredients, but the dishes made were so ordinary, lacking in taste.
Although the food made by Shirou was made with ingredients from the Boreas family, the Boreas family was not considered a super-big nobleman, and the ingredients were some things that could be seen everywhere. However, after Shirou made these things, they all gave people an insurmountable sense of shock.
Luke only took one bite of the dish, but it was as if he had experienced countless lives that he had never felt before...
"This is so delicious!"
Unlike Luke, who had countless thoughts gathered in his mind and was completely unable to explain his emotions, Derrick praised very simply after eating the dish.
He said with extreme approval: "It's clearly all ordinary ingredients, but every step of the production is like injecting the maker's emotions, causing the person who eats this dish not only to taste the dish, but also to resonate with the maker on a soul level. It's hard to imagine that this is a dish that mortals can make! Lord Shirou, you are simply a god of cooking!"
"No, it's not that exaggerated, right."
Shirou never expected Derrick to give him such a high evaluation.
But this was also the first time he had encountered someone who could talk so well.
After all, whether it was the Greyrat family or the Boreas family, most people were the type who would gobble up the food and at most say it was delicious, too delicious.
Derrick, as a genuine undergraduate graduate from the Asura Kingdom National Academy of Literature, obviously had language expression skills that others could not match.
For a time, he even made Shirou a little carried away.
Of course, the most important person here was Ariel. She hadn't eaten the food just now. After seeing Luke and Derrick's reactions, she finally took a bite.
Seeing this, Shirou realized that Ariel was obviously letting Luke and Derrick test for poison.
There was no way around it. As a princess, Ariel's vigilance was almost like an instinct.
After taking a bite of the dish, Ariel's eyes quickly lit up. She could very well understand why the people of the Boreas family were all eating in silence.
If it was such delicious food, it would indeed make people not want to say anything extra, and just want to concentrate on eating.
"Not only can you forge unique magic items like the Black Key, but you also have such excellent cooking skills. I no longer have any prejudice against Shirou."
After finishing the dish, Derrick said with satisfaction, "Ariel-sama, I think we can let Shirou join us! With him, your chances of becoming king will be further improved!"
"This…"
Luke obviously still had objections to Derrick's words.
Putting aside the struggle for family inheritance, he himself still had some dissatisfaction with Shirou.
But Ariel silently shook her head and said, "I'm sorry, Derrick, I can't let Shirou join us."
"Why?"
Derrick was puzzled. He no longer had any dissatisfaction with Shirou, so why was Ariel still unwilling to accept Shirou?
Ariel said silently, "Because it's not me who doesn't want him to join, it's Shirou himself. He has no intention of joining us."
"Shirou doesn't want to join us?"
Hearing Ariel's words, Derrick suddenly realized his problem.
Indeed, it was difficult for normal people to be interested in the struggle for the throne, because it was too difficult and too painful. It was destined to be a thorny road.
If you don't have a strong desire and obsession for this matter, you will never join.
Derrick was very sorry for this. He obviously hoped that Shirou could join Ariel's camp, which would definitely provide great help to Ariel's fight for the throne.
But if Shirou was unwilling, others would naturally have no way to force anything.
On the other side, Shirou didn't know what Ariel and the others were thinking. After eating breakfast, he went to practice swordsmanship with Ghislaine and brought a portion of breakfast for Ghislaine.
Since Ghislaine was a guard and didn't have any noble status, she couldn't eat in the living room. In addition, after seeing her drooling before, Shirou really couldn't bear it, so he would prepare an extra portion of food every time and bring it to her, which made Ghislaine very touched.
After Ghislaine sucked up all the food like a tornado, she officially taught Shirou swordsmanship.
Shirou's Longsword of Light was once again slightly, but steadily, improved.
After that, Shirou ran to the forging workshop, practicing forging while thinking about when he should meet Ariel as Muramasa.
If Ariel never saw Muramasa, she would probably stay in the Boreas family forever, which Shirou could not accept.
The best case would be to appear as Muramasa as soon as possible, fulfill Ariel's wish, and let her return to the royal capital contentedly.
Shirou told the old blacksmith about his troubles.
As the only person who knew that Shirou was the blacksmith Muramasa, the old blacksmith obviously didn't expect such an interesting thing to happen, so he said that he would definitely cooperate with Shirou as much as possible to help him pretend to be Muramasa.
Unexpectedly, he had to play another existence again. While Shirou was filled with emotion, he also knew that he had no possibility of escaping, so he quickly started to put on makeup.
He didn't plan to use the image of Servant Emiya. Under Darius's wanted order, that image had been known to most people, and it would be easy to be exposed.
Therefore, Shirou had to pretend to be a never-before-seen appearance.
Shirou quickly had inspiration. He used paint to dye his hair white, and specially got a light white mask to completely cover his image.
After making sure that he would not be recognized as the blacksmith Muramasa, Shirou slightly adjusted his temperament to make it as different as possible from the original, pretending to be an old and vicissitudes appearance.
Due to Servant Emiya's past experience, he could indeed do this disguise.
In this way, after slightly correcting his voice, Shirou finally completed the perfect disguise. He confirmed that his disguise would not be exposed.
In this way, he just needed to wait for himself to meet Ariel as Muramasa.
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