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

At night, Shinji was lying in bed and could vaguely hear the voices of Matou Kariya and Matou Zouken.

As Shinji and Sakura's uncle, Matou Kariya is usually not at home and looks very bad. I'm afraid he has been almost eaten by the cresting worms.

This appearance probably means that the Holy Grail War is about to begin. In the original drama, Kariya will summon Lancelot, the Knight of the Lake, who is of the Berserker class. He was a member of the Knights of the Round Table during his lifetime, but after the intervention of Matou Zouken, Lancelot, who had gone completely berserk, had his lower limit forcibly raised while his upper limit was also lowered. In addition, Kariya's body is unable to exert the full strength of a Berserker, which means he is doomed to miss the Holy Grail.

Moonlight shone in through the half-open window, and there were some footsteps outside the door. Shinji lay on the bed and listened carefully for a while. When he found that the voices had stopped, he turned over and lay on the bed to continue thinking...

Heroic spirits cannot be contacted for the time being, and the other Masters are no pushovers either, but the King of Conquerors' Master Weber is remembered to be a student of the Clock Tower. As a student of Professor Kenneth, he should be of some value.

In the four wars in the original work, Sakura's life was not disturbed too much, and the original owner did not appear at all, so it should not be too dangerous to maintain her current life. However, the only source of her knowledge of magic now is the few books given by Kariya... It is still far from enough.

……

A few days passed, and I went to school, used my eyes, and trained as usual. There was no change at home. The old bug also hid in the basement and never appeared again. Nothing changed, until...

"By the way, did you see the explosion last night?"

“The whole street was bombed!”

"I heard from my mother that it was a gas tank explosion."

"Your gas tank exploded in the street?"

Hearing the weird conversation, Shinji's mouth twitched. He had been watching the news these days, but didn't see this incident. Was it suppressed by someone?

Lying on the table, quietly listening to the discussions around him, a hint of determination flashed in his eyes.

After school in the afternoon, I didn't train, but went straight home, walked through the gloomy courtyard, looked at the basement that I used to avoid, swallowed, and pushed the door open and walked in.

The moment he opened the door, a cockroach-sized insect hiding in the corner of the door stared at him for a while, then burrowed into the ground and disappeared.

It was near dusk and the weak light from the sun could not reach here. After walking along the stairs for a while, he could hardly see anything. It was not until a little dim light appeared in front of him that he realized he was on the right path.

I leaned against the wall and took a peek, but no one was there.

I pushed the door open and smelled dampness and the smell of rotten wood. I frowned slightly and looked around...

He saw a row of bookshelves and a wooden table next to it with several thick books on it and a quill pen beside it.

He walked forward and took a look. It was about the history of the Matou family and the genealogy, and most of the books on the shelf were literary classics from decades ago. It really seemed like an ordinary underground study. Shinji leaned forward and just wanted to take a closer look...

"What are you doing."

A hoarse voice sounded, like the dull sound of teeth chewing wood, which scared Shinji, but then he looked at the strange old man in front of him with an excited expression of discovering a little secret.

"Grandpa, you can do magic, right?"

"I also want to learn magic, Grandpa, can you teach me?"

Matou Zouken was obviously stunned for a moment. He didn't expect this rude little mouse to be so direct.

"Who did you listen to?"

"I saw!"

"I saw Uncle Kariya was able to control insects to fly around, and even Sakura could do it. So, Grandpa, you are teaching Sakura magic."

After saying this, he looked as if he was observing "I found out".

As for Matou Zouken, his expression was uncertain. He had never thought of letting this direct descendant of the Matou family know about his magic. After all, thanks to his mother and his stupid father, this generation of the Matou family had no talent for magic. Otherwise, he wouldn't have needed the little girl from the Tohsaka family...

"Who did you tell about this?"

The strange tone made people uncomfortable, but Shinji still looked innocent and said, "I went to find Uncle Kariya, but Kariya refused to teach me and insisted that I forget about it."

Matou Zouken stared at the child in front of him with a gaze that pierced his soul, as if he wanted to see if he was lying.

"follow me."

Then he walked to the bookshelf, tapping his cane, and raised his hand. A centipede-like insect as thick as a thumb slipped into the hole next to the bookshelf through Matou Zouken's hand. After a series of creaking sounds, the bookshelf was pushed open like a door, and behind it was a dusty grocery room. He pulled out a thick, dusty book and threw it to Shinji.

"This is a magic trick passed down from the Matou family. If you can learn it, feel free to try it... Also, you are not allowed to come in without my permission. Do you hear me?"

After saying that, he pushed him out. Shinji hadn't finished seeing the whole thing inside yet, so he could only nod like a chicken pecking at rice, and then ran out of the basement.

He returned to his room and sat on the chair with a feeling of relief. He had made a good bet. Shinji, who appeared to have no magic circuits, was also of no use. The old bug had no interest in transforming him.

Moreover, the Holy Grail War has already begun, and he will only pay special attention to the Heroic Spirits and Masters, and will act cautiously. It is obviously inappropriate to kill someone who often appears in public with Sakura at this time. In addition, he is the only one in the family who has been kept in the dark, and it is only a matter of time before he is exposed.

But saying it is one thing and doing it is another. If the old bug really solves it impatiently, no one will think there is a problem. It would be like walking to the gates of hell.

He opened the magic book he had fought so hard for, and as expected, it contained some introductions to magic, such as how to control magic power. But in addition to that, it also recorded some water magic, basic strengthening magic, and projection magic. Although it did not contain the insect magic he had expected, it was still a big gain.

It seems that this should be a book from the early years of the Matou family. As for the ancestral book... just ignore this kind of kid-fooling nonsense. Even Shinji never thought that there would be records of butterfly magic or insect magic, but I mentioned it, but there is no introduction to insect magic at all...

"It seems that the old man doesn't think I can learn anything."

The corners of his mouth raised a faint arc. This was also part of the information gap. After all, even Matou Kariya was shocked that a kid who didn't even have magic circuits actually had extraordinary magic power in his body. But one thing was unchangeable, that is, you couldn't use magic without magic circuits. It's like having more chakra, but you don't even have hands and can't make seals, how can you use ninjutsu?

The next step is to wait for the opportunity.

In the evening, as usual, she had dinner with her father Tsuruno and Sakura, who was unaware of the situation. The old bug still stayed in his nest and refused to come out. No one would call him. After dinner, the family went back to their rooms. However, before Sakura went back to her room, she looked at her brother's room with some confusion.

"I feel like my brother seems to be in a good mood today. Is it an illusion?"

Shinji did not open the book immediately after returning to the room. Instead, he sat on the bed, making a variety of seals on his hands and closing his eyes to feel the flow of chakra, or magic power, in his body. He seemed to want to perform ninjutsu or magic through this form of conduction similar to magic circuits. However, he could only study this by himself. After all, if he did not have a pair of Sharingan, he would rather believe that his magic circuits could grow by themselves than believe that he could release ninjutsu by making a seal.