Eris's sword was like her fiery red hair, full of fierceness and burning passion. Every move she made gave a strong feeling of being pushed back.
If opponents of the same level faced this kind of sword skill, they would probably give up resisting after a few clashes. They would be forced into making mistakes by the very scary animal-like energy and would finally lose helplessly.
In fact, when Eris practiced swordsmanship before, the other people her age were usually like that. None of them could fight her, let alone beat her.
Even some adults with slightly better swordsmanship would be too busy defending against Eris's unimaginable attacks and would eventually lose.
This led to Eris having unusual confidence in her sword skills. Even if Shirou looked a few years older than her, she didn't think she had any chance of losing.
"Clack!"
"Bang!" "Clack!"
However, after fighting Shirou for a while, Eris noticed something was wrong.
Unlike any opponent she had encountered in the past, Shirou's sword skill was less like sword skill and more like moving a weapon, doing the matching actions.
Every time, the sword in his hand could accurately predict Eris's every move and defend against it, even reacting in advance.
No, I can't win against this guy like this!
Eris gradually felt a little anxious.
Her movements became more and more rushed, trying to launch surprise attacks on Shirou from unexpected angles, but they were all perfectly defended by Shirou.
"Clack!"
The wooden sword in Shirou's hand was like a thick city wall. No matter how sharply Eris threw her spear, it was hard to break through the wall.
In this very frustrating situation, Eris finally lost her cool completely. She suddenly took a step forward, like a cheetah, suddenly building up power.
"Boom!"
The next moment, she was like a speeding wind, jumping into the air, then doing an unbelievable spin. With her skirt fluttering, she finally pounced on Shirou!
"Clack!"
However, even this fierce move was easily parried by Shirou.
Shirou didn't even have any extra reactions, not even gathering fighting energy. He easily blocked Eris's fierce attack with one sword and, with a move that almost redirected the force, made Eris suddenly unable to stop because of the momentum. She fell directly to the ground.
"Aaaah!!!"
The girl's bottom made intimate contact with the ground, and a sudden, intense pain attacked her, making her scream in misery.
"Are you okay?"
Although Shirou said words of concern, he didn't offer any help.
Because he had deeply understood the temperament of this Miss Eris. She was the classic type who reacted badly to kindness rather than harshness. Being too nice to her would often make her completely unrestrained. It was better to use a slightly meaner attitude to let her know her mistakes.
"Damn it! That's not fair, why are you so good at dodging! Can't we have a fair fight!"
After Eris got up from the ground, she said angrily.
She was clearly very upset with Shirou's means of only defending, with the result that she couldn't break through his defense no matter what she did.
"A fair fight?"
Shirou couldn't help but laugh when he heard Eris's words. "Do you think your opponents on the battlefield will be so friendly and fight you fairly? In fact, except for Sword God Style, North God Style and Water God Style are not fair ways of fighting. If you can't even accept this kind of thing, you shouldn't even think about learning swordsmanship from the start, because you'll only ever meet enemies you can't hit."
"This..."
Eris couldn't argue with Shirou's words, but she still felt unhappy.
Shirou didn't care when he saw this. He just slowly raised the wooden sword in his hand, taking a fighting stance. "However, I am your swordsmanship teacher after all, and I still have to teach you the basics of Sword God Style. So if you want, I can have a head-on fight with you. Are you willing?"
"Bring it on!!"
Eris's eyes lit up when she heard Shirou's words.
The crazy sword skill he used just now made her feel uncomfortable all over. Now that Shirou was willing to have a head-on fight with her, Eris was naturally eager to do so.
However, the moment Eris made a move, before she could even react -
"Clack!"
The wooden sword in Shirou's hand was wrapped in amazing fighting energy and swung out.
The soundless quick draw, moving at a speed almost impossible to follow with the naked eye, even difficult to sense, suddenly appeared in front of Eris!
"Bang!"
Faced with such an amazing slash, Eris couldn't even react and was directly knocked away!
She fell to the ground again, her bottom making intimate contact with the ground.
"So, so fast... so strong..."
Eris fell to the ground, completely showing a convinced expression for a moment.
Only now did she finally realize how powerful Shirou, who she had always looked down on, was and became sure that she could never be his opponent.
They weren't on the same level at all.
But this also made her confused, and she couldn't help asking, "Why? Why do you never use it, even though you clearly have such great power?"
Yes, this was what confused Eris.
She couldn't understand why Shirou didn't use this power, which was far beyond hers, to force her to submit.
If Shirou had shown this power from the beginning, harshly suppressing her, Eris might not have been so resistant later.
And to Eris's words, Shirou silently replied, "Power is used to protect important people, not to show off one's martial strength, let alone to bully the weak. Great power doesn't mean you have to show this power recklessly. On the contrary, being able to control your own power and not use violence casually is the true sign of strength."
"..."
Shirou's words made Eris silent.
She had clearly heard this kind of statement for the first time, and she couldn't deny Shirou's statement from the bottom of her heart.
Because Shirou's statement was undoubtedly correct.
A true strong person would never recklessly abuse power and destroy everything.
In other words, if you couldn't even control your own power and abused violence, you definitely couldn't be considered a true strong person.
"Okay, let's continue practicing swordsmanship."
Seeing that Eris had gradually learned her lesson and started to reflect on herself, Shirou slightly smiled and continued to teach her swordsmanship.
In this process, he also thought more and more about the question Ghislaine had thrown at him.
And, as the swing of the sword became more and more pure, he vaguely realized an answer, but that answer was still very vague, making it hard for him to see clearly.
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More than a month had passed since Shirou became Eris's swordsmanship teacher.
Eris's hot temper hadn't eased at all during this time.
There was no way around it.
It's easier to change mountains and rivers than to change someone's nature.
No matter how much Shirou hoped that Eris could become a well-behaved, quiet lady, this probably wouldn't happen in her lifetime.
However, apart from her hard-to-change personality, Eris's swordsmanship had been improving bit by bit.
It might have been that Shirou's teaching was too good, or that Eris was gradually moved by his attitude of matching knowledge with action.
Eris had also gradually given up her past actions of swinging her sword purely based on instinct and intuition and had begun to further learn swordsmanship techniques and master basic moves.
Although this progress was like a newborn baby learning to walk unsteadily, as long as she was willing to change, she should one day be able to understand the true way of the sword.
Of course, the goal that Eris was working toward gave Shirou a headache.
One day, I'll be strong enough to beat you up badly, just wait!
Although that day would most likely never come, her attitude undoubtedly proved that she was still full of resentment towards him and that it was unknown when they could establish a good teacher-student relationship.
Besides teaching Eris swordsmanship, Shirou himself was also working hard to learn swordsmanship from Ghislaine.
Although Ghislaine wouldn't immediately teach Shirou the Light Blade, just fighting against her was making Shirou feel like he was benefiting a lot.
Ghislaine's sword skill was very different from Servant Emiya's sword. It was the kind of sword skill that only involved attacking and didn't consider any defense.
In his fights against Ghislaine, Shirou could further examine his shortcomings and further improve Servant Emiya's abilities.
As for the question that Ghislaine had thrown at him, Shirou still hadn't found an answer.
Time passed little by little like this, and Shirou's originally peaceful daily life suddenly had a different development.
The cause of the matter was that Shirou was helping out in the Boreas family's kitchen. Because the other servants often encountered problems, and he would always actively help others in distress.
Unknowingly, Shirou's reputation in Boreas had begun to become the same as in Buena Village, gaining the approval of all the servants working in the Boreas family.
Whether they were knights, servants, or maids, they would greet him warmly when they saw him. Shirou even occasionally received love letters from some maids.
Of course, he undoubtedly ignored all of this with a smile.
However, although he wouldn't accept some strange things, Shirou would still help as soon as someone encountered a problem.
One day by chance, he received a request from the blacksmith shop.
As a great noble family, the Boreas family had its own private army and naturally had a blacksmith shop specifically for producing weapons.
At that time, an apprentice at the blacksmith shop had some problems, so Shirou took the initiative to lend a hand and help the current blacksmith in the blacksmith shop.
Helping out was one thing, but Shirou showed extremely amazing talent in forging weapons. Whether it was the rhythm of hammering or the hammering actions, they were perfect. He could even occasionally create famous precious swords that were better than the material itself allowed.
The blacksmith at the blacksmith shop was like he had found a diamond. He grabbed Shirou's hand on the spot, urgently hoping that Shirou could learn from him and become a blacksmith.
Shirou was a bit surprised by this, but he also felt that he was quite suitable for forging weapons.
So, in such an almost coincidental development, Shirou began his path as a blacksmith.
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