Emiya Shirou doesn't want to work overtime

The weapon-forging master here has forged several pieces of official equipment.

The revolutionary army originally wanted to secretly bring the master here to their ranks for protection, but he was extremely stubborn and unwilling to leave the capital, so the revolutionary army had no choice but to give up.

If they were forced to do it, they feared the blacksmith would be unwilling to provide them with the necessary tools.

Moreover, even the ordinary weapons he has are of the highest quality.

Emiya, who was left alone in the room, didn't seem to notice anything amiss. He looked around with great curiosity.

Having seen so many types of swords, this was his first time visiting a sword-making workshop. Looking at the various swords gleaming with metallic luster displayed around him, Emiya couldn't help but analyze each one one by one.

As expected of a master blacksmith capable of creating imperial weapons, the weapons here are all of extremely high quality. Emiya couldn't help but admire them as he analyzed their construction.

Not only is it sharp, but its hardness, flexibility, and weight are also extremely excellent. His light sword is in no way inferior to the heavy swords forged outside. In fact, when they clash, those heavy swords outside might even be cut in half.

Emiya couldn't help but become engrossed in it.

"Boom--!"

Seemingly having kicked something, Emiya covered his mouth to stop himself from shouting, hopped up on one leg, and covered his toe with the other hand.

Emiya was so engrossed in watching that he didn't even notice the anvil in front of him.

The environment here was very quiet, and Emiya did not want to disturb the person inside who was concentrating on studying the weapon he had projected.

Although Emiya didn't know who was inside.

Then he saw the iron block placed to the side, which indicated that the young man had been forging weapons there.

It must have been a task assigned to him by his master, or perhaps training.

Emiya looked around somewhat guiltily.

I think I should be able to try it myself without any problems; he'll pay for it.

He nodded to himself, thinking that he was only borrowing it for a short while and it shouldn't be a big problem.

Emiya gave the projected [Demon Possession] to Akame, Brand, and Leone in exchange for some gold coins.

Emiya originally intended to give it to them for free, but they felt it wasn't right, so he insisted on giving them a large bag of gold coins.

Then, upon closer inspection, oh, it was the bag I had given to Lubbock before.

He hasn't had a chance to use it yet.

As for why Shirou said he could only project two weapons but actually projected three, it's because it wasn't a battle. Shirou could have waited until he regained his mana before projecting, and he didn't need to project everything at once.

Emiya also wanted to teach them magic, but it seemed that he himself didn't understand the problem of magic circuits. He had no idea how to check if others had magic circuits, let alone help others open magic circuits.

Even when Emiya explained how he opened his magic circuits, they still couldn't understand it at all.

It's like someone with internal strength telling you to sink your qi to your dantian and circulate the essence of water and grain in your body clockwise, which will unlock your internal strength.

Unable to understand it at all, Emiya gave up on the idea.

"But I don't know how to forge!"

Emiya picked up the hammer beside him, wanting to use it, but didn't know where to start.

"It's probably smelting, hammering, cutting, and polishing."

Emiya scratched the back of his head. The main reason was that he had projected many weapons, but had never made one himself. He wanted to try forging a weapon himself.

This piece of iron is just an ordinary piece of iron. At least Emiya couldn't figure out what was so valuable about it. The material is the same as the swords placed on the wall around it.

"Weird?"

"What's weird?"

In another room, a burly man with a stubble beard was examining the weapon that Emiya had brought with him using a magnifying glass.

The young man standing nearby was also taking notes on what the middle-aged man was saying.

He is still an apprentice, and he has to remember almost every word his master says.

"If this weapon weren't so strangely constructed, I might have really thought that Night Raid had given me [Possessed by Evil Spirits] to study."

He held the small hammer in his hand and struck the "Possessed by Evil Spirits" weapon from all directions. This small hammer was no ordinary hammer.

It was a weapon he specially developed, although it had no combat capabilities.

However, it can easily destroy some Imperial Arms; it was created specifically to smash Imperial Arms.

He has never created an Imperial Arms, but he has always wanted to. However, because Imperial Arms are very practical, they are generally not sent to him for excessive research.

For example, he cannot disassemble the Imperial Arms.

He had sent messages to the Revolutionary Army multiple times, saying that if he were allowed to dismantle one of the Imperial Arms, they might be able to produce a new one, but the Revolutionary Army never believed him.

As for why the Empire wasn't told.

How could he not know the Empire's style?

Tell the Empire?

Before they even have any information, they might be drugged and controlled, or even killed outright.

He only wanted to study the Imperial Arms; he didn't want to lose his life or be controlled by others.

This is also why he didn't want to leave the Empire to join the Revolutionary Army.

Regardless of the revolutionary army's true nature, if I went there, I would be nothing more than a fish to be slaughtered.

He just didn't expect the Revolutionary Army to dare to give him such a Teigu directly. He thought that at most he could get a support-type Teigu like [Gaia Foundation].

Then he discovered the problem.

The iron filings that flew off the sword dissipated into the air.

He was very meticulous in his research on Imperial Arms, so he definitely couldn't just dismantle them right away.

So I only intended to study some debris first, but I didn't expect that the debris would just disappear. It's so strange.

He then continued his in-depth research and, through his own observations, discovered that the weapon was not made of metal at all.

Instead, it seems to be constructed using some extremely special energy. If the sword is damaged too much, or if the energy that constitutes it disappears, then the weapon will vanish into thin air.

He seemed to have entered a new world, his mind began to work wildly, and the young man next to him saw thick smoke swirling around his head.

"Master! Master! What's wrong? Cheer up!"

The young man shook his master, who had suddenly collapsed.

"Let's go check on the revolutionary army outside first."

He wanted to know more about the fake.

“Ding! Ding! Ding——!”

But a knocking sound startled him. His disciple had been right beside him the whole time, so where did the knocking come from?

Chapter 86 Preparing to Intervene

Emiya had no idea how he performed the forging.

From the moment he picked up the hammer and started striking, he became oblivious to everything around him; all his thoughts were focused on the piece of iron in his hand.

I felt my thoughts had almost stopped, and my body was mechanically hammering on the anvil.

It felt as if I was thinking, but then again, I wasn't really thinking.

Emiya entered a profound state, so engrossed that he didn't even notice the two people standing beside him, observing him.

Seeing Emiya wasting his hammer like that, the burly man with a full beard wanted to rush over and pull Emiya away.

But upon seeing the sword blank in Emiya's hand, he instantly stopped in his tracks, staring blankly at Emiya's fluid and effortless forging process.

The entire process proceeded without the slightest pause, without measuring dimensions or judging thickness; one could only watch as Shirou Emiya swiftly forged the sword step by step.

"hiss----!"

With a quenching sound, the sword in Shirou Emiya's hand was completed.

"What is this? Why is the blade of this sword on the reverse side?"

The burly man with a full beard asked.

"This way, there won't be any unnecessary casualties."

Emiya recalled the carnage he had committed when he entered the battlefield, and even though it wasn't his fault, he still reflected on himself.

Because projecting sword-type weapons is faster and quicker, Emiya immediately thought of the Nichirin Blade, rather than some club-type weapons. At the time, he also didn't have enough time to project weapons that weren't swords.

If there had been a weapon that wouldn't have killed anyone, perhaps my hands wouldn't be stained with blood.

During the forging process, Emiya harbored a desire for a weapon that would not harm others.

His body responded to his request, and a reverse-bladed katana was forged by Emiya.

Is this your first time forging?

He stared at the weapon in Emiya's hand, its metallic sheen gleaming, his eyes filled with disbelief.

This weapon is almost perfect, at least in its best form given the limitations of available materials.

Even he rarely forged such a perfect weapon; even when using a servant's weapon, it was difficult to succeed on the first try.

"Be my apprentice!"

His eyes shone brightly as he gripped Emiya's hands tightly, gazing at him with deep affection.

——————Time Break——————

Emiya returned to the Night Raid base, but unfortunately, even the blacksmith couldn't replicate the counterfeit in Emiya's possession.

Because he couldn't understand magic at all, it was impossible for him to pirate a magical artifact. With a powerful smash from the blacksmith, the [Haunted by Evil] weapon vanished into thin air.

He wanted to see its internal structure, but the shattered sword could no longer be considered a sword, and the magic was running rampant. As a result, [Possessed by Evil Spirits] could not maintain its form and simply dissipated into the air.

Emiya managed to break free from the blacksmith's persistent entreaties and return to the night raid's base.

"News has come from the Empire that they are recruiting people to deal with us, and they have decided to hold the selection in the arena!"

Upon returning to the night raid, Emiya immediately received intelligence from Lubbock.