Sensations gradually returned to his body. The paralyzing numbness disappeared, and Shirou felt his surroundings suddenly become warmer.
The sensation beneath him was almost like the soft bed at home.
Wait a minute... bed?
Shirou woke up suddenly and sprang up from the bed.
Shirou looked around and saw that the layout was undoubtedly his room.
"What the hell is going on..."
Thinking about it carefully, whether it was Uryuu Ryunosuke, or Tohsaka Rin, or even the final life-and-death struggle, every scene that happened before was clearly engraved in Shirou's mind.
"That couldn't have been a dream..."
Shirou, who was a little confused, sat down.
Could it be that I was reborn?
Just as Shirou was about to ask the system, there was a knock on the door.
Knock, knock, knock...
"Shirou~ It's time to get up, otherwise breakfast will get cold."
"Ah... Oh, coming..."
Speculating about what had happened before, Shirou quickly got up from the bed and rushed into the bathroom under the somewhat puzzled gaze of his mother, Fujimaru Kana.
Turning on the faucet, he filled the basin with cold water and splashed it on his face. As the cool sensation hit him, Shirou felt his heart become calmer.
He looked up at himself in the mirror.
Then, he touched the area over his heart with a somewhat trembling hand.
"Intact..."
After Shirou walked out of the bathroom, Mrs. Fujimaru was already dressed and was about to go out to the supermarket with her bag.
Seeing Shirou walking towards the table, Mrs. Fujimaru turned around.
"By the way, Shirou, your bento is on the table. Remember to take it with you after breakfast."
The words that he had already heard once before came again, causing Shirou to be stunned for a moment. Then he nodded.
"Un, got it. Take care."
When the door closed and the footsteps faded away, Shirou exhaled, picked up a piece of bread, and stuffed it into his mouth, mumbling.
"System, what the hell is going on? Can you explain?"
[You died in the previous world line, so a new world line has been restarted for you.]
"A new world line... I see."
Anyway, he was a transmigrator. Having encountered rebirth himself, he quickly accepted the system's explanation.
"But it's a bad feeling to start over..."
It seemed that because of the psychological effects caused by what he experienced in the last world, Shirou still felt a dull pain in his heart.
"Because you killed Uryuu Ryunosuke in the previous world line and obtained the soul of Uryuu Ryunosuke, do you wish to extract it?"
Hearing this sudden question from the system, Shirou raised his eyebrows and asked, a little puzzled.
"Extract what?"
[You can extract knowledge, abilities, or magic from the soul.]
"I see."
Shirou understood a little, and then nodded.
"Alright, let's extract, system!"
For more than ten seconds after saying this, Shirou remained a little apprehensive.
He was a little excited about what he could extract, but he felt helpless that he had finally left his normal life behind.
"So, am I still going to embark on this road..."
Shirou shrugged his shoulders and suddenly realized that he had finished eating the bread in his hand, so he reached out, picked up the cup full of milk, and took a sip.
At this time, the system's prompt sounded again.
[Extraction complete!]
The next moment, Shirou felt a slight throbbing pain in his head, but it was only a few seconds before that sensation faded.
Then, in his mind, he seemed to possess the knowledge of Uryuu Ryunosuke, and he also obtained his magic, though not much.
"Evidence hiding, inducement techniques, demonic literature, magic circle drawing... Huh? Why is there a child abduction process? What do I want this thing for... Is it to commit a crime?"
The useless knowledge gained had been stripped away, leaving only what was beneficial to Shirou.
"If I get magic power, it means that I already have the prana to perform magic now..."
Shirou hurriedly opened the status bar and looked at it.
Name: Fujimaru Shirou
Gender: Male
Age: 7 years old
Height: 135cm
Race: Human
Lineage: None
Special Ability: Soul Capture
Magic Circuits: 10 (27)
Physical Strength: 6 (10) Nerve Reflexes: 5 (10) Life Force: 6 (10) Mental Power: 15 (10)
Sure enough, both the mental power and the Magic Circuits had increased.
As for the new special ability "Soul Capture", it was probably the ability that Shirou obtained after the restart.
There were 10 Magic Circuits. This might not be much compared to the magi who participated in the battle this time, but it should be noted that the one with 10 Magic Circuits was only seven-year-old Fujimaru Shirou!
The Magic Circuit is a pseudo-nerve held in the body of a magus, and it is the qualification required to be a magus.
The path that transforms life force into magical energy is closely connected to the foundation and Grand Rituals.
Magic is divided into the Greater Source that fills the world, and the Lesser Source that is born in living beings.
If you want to compare the Greater Source to the Lesser Source, it goes without saying that the Greater Source is superior.
The power level of the Lesser Source magic power generated by a human is different from the Greater Source magic power that fills the world.
No matter what kind of magic it is, magic using the Greater Source can easily override magic used by individuals.
Because of this, excellent magi are skilled in techniques that draw magic from the world.
It is similar to a filter, where the magus uses their body as a conversion circuit, drawing magic from the outside world and turning it into magical energy that can be used by humans.
This conversion circuit is what magi call a Magic Circuit.
Normally, it acts as a nerve, but the core point is connected to other points to form multiple divergence points.
The pathways of these divergent points are connected to synapse-like substances in the brain, and the core is absolutely immutable.
Strictly speaking, these cores are called Magic Circuits.
As long as there is a Magic Circuit, it provides Magic Resistance that can reject hypnosis, bounded fields, and other interference magic.
If an individual's mana runs out, it will take time for the Magic Circuit to recover; conversely, without a Magic Circuit, mana cannot be generated.
The current Shirou also had a certain amount of Magic Resistance.
"There are 10 Magic Circuits, so it seems like enough for my mana to summon a Servant..."
Shirou, who was muttering, suddenly froze as he said "Servant", and then chuckled.
"...Have I subconsciously put myself in the identity of a participant in the Holy Grail War?"