Heroic Spirit: I, Shinji, have tried my best.

Chapter 282 Shirou is Unaware

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"...Okay! You can just put your luggage here. The room has been vacated, so you and Sakura should be able to check in tonight!"

"Well... Actually, there's no rush. After all, our original plan was to stay overnight in a nearby hotel, and then go out and play during the day."

"Is that so... Then we can be your guide and take you to visit the attractions here!"

Shirou was happily talking to Shinji. After all, he had always regarded him as his friend.

Shinji didn't refuse this kindness. Sakura just liked the lively atmosphere, and he didn't dislike it...

"Then let's go to the clock tower and meet up with Rin. But first, I'm not sure if I can take you in."

"?"

"why is that?"

Seeing Shinji's puzzled look, Shirou immediately scratched his head in embarrassment:

"Hehehe... Actually, I am entering the Clock Tower as Rin's attendant. After all, I don't have her talent, nor do I have a so-called special invitation."

"If I didn't have this identity, I would just be an ordinary person, not qualified to enter the Clock Tower... And even if I only have a three-year trial period now, I will still be kicked out after three years..."

"...Don't be so modest. You're not as bad as you say. I've never heard of an ordinary person being able to project a Noble Phantasm to fight a Heroic Spirit...it's just that your talent has not been discovered."

Shinji looked speechlessly at the ignorant boy in front of him. It was fine if others thought he was weak, after all, he had never witnessed the scene of the Holy Grail War.

But this kid doesn't even have any self-awareness?

Although this guy doesn't have much magic power and may not perform as well as others in a magic duel, if it were a real fight, there might not be many students in the clock tower who could be his opponent.

"Hahaha, that's not what you said."

Shirou felt a little embarrassed for a moment when he heard Shinji praising him.

After all, his talent is really low, and he has only a few magic circuits. In the eyes of traditional magicians, this undoubtedly means that his upper limit has been fixed.

But they obviously didn't take into account a series of unconventional factors such as heroic spirits, treasures, and inherent barriers...

"But what you said makes some sense, but there is one thing that makes me curious... You said that Sakura received an invitation, but you didn't. What's going on?"

"Shouldn't you be the one with the strongest talent? Your attainments in magic are also amazing, and you even have the magic eye..."

When Shirou saw Shinji talking about this, he suddenly remembered the doubt in his heart. In his opinion, Shinji was the one who must be given special attention by the Clock Tower.

"Is that so... maybe in the eyes of those big shots, someone like me who has no magic circuits at all is destined to be just an ordinary person for the rest of my life."

"...Really? It seems like you were also...wait, what did you just say?!"

After hearing what Shinji said, Shirou's first reaction was to stand up for him... But suddenly he discovered something even more shocking:

"You said you... don't have any magic circuits!?"

"OK!"

"...No way, is this true...Then how do you perform magic?"

"...Strictly speaking, I don't know magic because I was born without the so-called magic circuits, so I can't perform magic like a normal magician.

"But I do have some magic power, so I modified those so-called magic to make it rely on magic power instead of magic circuits."

"So now in their eyes, you are nothing more than a layman with mediocre talent and a limited knowledge of magic... and I am a completely ordinary person who doesn't even have a magic circuit."

"..."

After hearing Shinji's explanation, Shirou fell silent for a while.

In his mind, he recalled the scene when Shinji drove a Gundam to tear apart the Heroic Spirits with his bare hands... Now he was told that the guy in front of him who almost blew up Fuyuki City was just an ordinary person?

This world...is becoming increasingly strange...

Now even a layman like him began to doubt the intelligence of those people in the Clock Tower.

"Then...if they knew your true strength, would you be able to enter the Clock Tower?"

"That's not OK."

"Why is this again?"

Shinji glanced at Emiya Shirou with disdain. Why is this kid so short-sighted?

With the strength he showed back then, not to mention killing people in the magician circle, he would at least be a monarch in this clock tower. Why would he bother to be a student?

But he knew that there had always been open and covert struggles among the families, big and small.

Sometimes, the importance of power and status even exceeds the individual's ability. In this case, young people like them who are very capable but have almost no qualifications still have to start as students.

In short, to put it simply, he doesn't think highly of this place at all. At most, he comes here to experience the college life as a student.

As for learning magic here, improving your skills and qualifications... that's complete nonsense.

"Nothing... I'm just not that interested in this place. If the regular route doesn't work, it's pretty easy to get into the Clock Tower using some tricks."

After all, he had been there before.

"Oh, I see... Then let's go and give it a try. Anyway, if you are really not allowed in, we can just call Rin and the others over!"

Compared to Shinji, Shirou didn't think so much, and he didn't have such high vision. He just wanted to understand the world of magicians more deeply.

And...I want to know more about Kiritsugu...

...Partner of Justice, it turns out that he still can't let go of this title.