Type-Moon: Shinji Matou Also Wants to Be the Protagonist

Who is Shinji Matou, who shouldn't be studying abroad?

Almost half a year has passed since Matou Tsuruno arranged for him to study abroad.

Shinji did indeed travel abroad, but he returned illegally not long after.

As for how Shinji, a child, managed to smuggle himself back without attracting anyone's attention.

It can only be said that hypnosis is still too authoritative for ordinary people.

This is one of the few who can use magic without any magical power, relying solely on mental strength.

After quietly returning to Fuyuki, Shinji found an empty detached house and moved in.

This period was arguably the most comfortable time Shinji had experienced since he transmigrated to this world.

There was no sense of despondency or resentment from the alcoholic father, nor the heavy pressure from Zouken Matou.

Shinji can freely research his cheat abilities and immerse himself in magic research without caring about anything else.

The magical books brought out from the Matou family's study included, in addition to, basic introductory knowledge.

Shinji acquired the most alchemy-related materials.

Zouken Matou, when he was still Machiri Zorgen hundreds of years ago, had a good relationship with Justessa Ritzreich von Einzbern of the Einzbern family.

According to rumors, Machiri Zorgen was in love with her at the time, so his study contained a lot of alchemical-related materials, some of which probably came from the Einzbern family.

Shinji's first cheat ability comes from the memories of a Super Dangerous Species counterpart that was made into an Imperial Arm from the world of Akame ga Kill!.

This allowed Shinji to glimpse the mysterious technology behind the manufacture of Imperial Arms.

This technique is also called alchemy, but it doesn't involve as many mystical elements and is more like biotechnology.

The Einzbern family's alchemy specialization was in the creation of artificial beings, a field in which they were unparalleled.

Therefore, Shinji plans to use this as a breakthrough point to try to combine the alchemy of the two worlds.

Shinji has a good talent in this area. His research progress, while not exactly rapid, is at least steady and has not encountered too many obstacles.

In addition, there were the demonic secret techniques that were traded with Zhong Ling.

These secret techniques, if classified under the magic category of the World Clock Tower, should fall under the field of spirit summoning.

Zouken Matou's bookshelf does have some content on this topic, but very little, and it's all at a basic, introductory level.

He probably kept the truly profound knowledge to himself. After all, as a magician who transformed his own soul into a Crest Worm to parasitize others and prolong his life, hiding such knowledge was instinctive.

Due to a lack of reference materials, Shinji's progress in localizing magical secret arts is somewhat unsatisfactory; he has only just begun to grasp the basics.

Theoretical research alone did not significantly improve Shinji's combat abilities, but it laid a foundation for future progress.

As the saying goes, a tall building starts from the ground up, so the more stable the foundation, the better.

If it weren't for an unexpected event, Shinji might have stayed here until the Holy Grail War began.

He raised his right hand, revealing three crimson marks etched on the back of his fair hand.

This is a Command Seal, proof of the Holy Grail War Master's identity, which appeared inexplicably on Shinji's hand just a few days ago.

Shinji racked his brains but couldn't figure out why a Command Seal would target someone like him who didn't even have magic circuits.

However, since it has already happened, there's no point in dwelling on it anymore.

The most urgent task now is to summon the heroic spirits.

As everyone knows, summoning a Heroic Spirit requires drawing a magic circle, which Shinji, as a descendant of the three starter families, can do.

Next, we need artifacts. Because the incident happened so suddenly, Shinji didn't prepare any artifacts, and it's too late to go find them now.

Finally, we need to find a way to obtain magic power. The only energy-related ability Shinji possesses is the Blue King's special ability.

Shinji has not yet found a way to convert supernatural abilities into magic.

Is there a way to solve both of Shinji's problems at the same time?

Yes, brother, yes, Shinji has been eyeing this target for a long time.

Ryunosuke Uryu, one of the participants in the Fourth Holy Grail War in the original work, Caster's Master, and a psychopathic serial killer.

Shinji went to great lengths to find him; this guy was a criminal who had been committing crimes all over the place and had only recently arrived in Fuyuki City.

In the original story, he summoned the famous dark wizard "Bluebeard" Gilles de Rais.

However, he did not prepare any relics and completed the summoning entirely based on affinity.

In other words, this thing is almost equivalent to the relic pointing to Bluebeard.

Ryunosuke Uryu's ancestors were also magicians, although by his time he didn't even know what magic was anymore.

However, unlike Shinji, Ryunosuke Uryu also inherited the bloodline of a magician; he possessed magic circuits.

Perfect timing! Shinji's research into alchemy has slowed down; it's time for him to start putting it into practice.

Relics and magic circuits—both conditions are met in one go.

Most importantly, Shinji had no psychological burden in taking down this deranged serial killer.

Shinji then spent some money and, with the help of convenient hypnosis, sought assistance from his underworld associates.

Although Ryunosuke Uryu is a psychopathic serial killer, he has neither supernatural abilities nor superb martial arts skills.

Faced with a well-prepared kidnapping gang, they were brought back without any power to resist.

Shinji took the unconscious Ryunosuke Uryu and his suitcase to the basement, where he had already prepared an "operating table".

With the tools and medicines that Ryunosuke Uryu brought with him, although the conditions were a bit rudimentary, it was enough for Shinji to perform a magic circuit removal surgery.

Chapter 10: The Magic Hand

The surgery was a success. After inserting three magic circuits, Shinji successfully extracted one.

Don't think it's too few. When watching anime, the characters often have dozens or even hundreds of lines.

But these people are either the main characters or rare exceptions.

Either it's a family tradition with a long history, and their magical circuits are the result of hundreds or even thousands of years of eugenics and breeding within their family.

As the last descendant of the magician's bloodline, Ryunosuke Uryu's ability to retain four magic circuits is already considered a bloodline reversion.

Don't you see, the future famous El-Melloi II only had a mere seven magic circuits?

Moreover, the fact that we were able to achieve success on our first try is thanks to the contributions of our predecessors.

Shinji is certainly not the only one in the magic world who has designs on magic circuits.

In fact, older generations of magicians have been deeply involved in this field for a long time.

Given the utter lack of morality among magicians, they would do anything, no matter how cruel or inhumane, as long as there was any hope of creating even one more magic circuit for themselves or their descendants.

The idea of ​​transplanting other people's magic circuits naturally came to their minds.

However, transplanting magic circuits is extremely dangerous, and the success rate is even more slim.

After a period of bloody and unchecked growth, this idea was quickly abandoned by magicians.

After all, they research this in order to make themselves or their descendants better.

However, the low success rate of transplanting magic circuits has led to the loss of many excellent magicians, and using them on future generations is even more of a losing proposition.

Excellent offspring already require a certain amount of luck, plus the addition of an independent multiplication area of ​​transplanted magic circuits.

If the Magician wants to gamble on producing a genius offspring, he'll probably have to keep having children.

Should we continue the research? Should we continue the family tradition?

Not to mention that even if someone really had that much perseverance, they might not necessarily win the gamble in the end.

The cost is too high; even the wealthiest families can't afford such a drastic undertaking.

Therefore, the research on transplanting magic circuits gradually became a low-level school of thought. Those who are still researching it now are either magician families that have reached the end of their road and want to make a last-ditch effort, or they are self-important new generation magicians who want to catch up with the ancient families.

The Matou family was a long-established family before Matou Zouken, so naturally they had this kind of heritage.

Perhaps Zouken Matou himself didn't value this aspect, or perhaps he did it on purpose. In any case, Shinji obtained this grimoire, and the imaginative operations of the previous generation of magicians within it greatly benefited him.

While there has been little progress in transplantation, extraction techniques have become quite sophisticated due to the large number of samples available.

Stepping out of the basement, I shut the pungent smell of blood behind the door.

Before the magic circuit that was just taken out loses its activity, Shinji needs to hurry up and proceed with the next step of processing.

Am I broken?

Despite having just committed a bloody and cruel act, Shinji felt no discomfort whatsoever.

Even now, all I can think about is how to make the best use of this material.

For the first time, Shinji Matou realized that he had changed so much compared to his previous life.

After reading too many books about magicians who are utterly lacking in morality, one's mind begins to gravitate towards that of a magician.

"Should I ask the Sand Swallow for a method of self-cultivation to practice?"

In order to avoid becoming a worthless scoundrel like Zouken Matou in the future, I must start cultivating my character and moral integrity.

While pondering this, Shinji arrived at the laboratory that had been converted from the same guest room.

The lessons learned from previous generations of magicians led Shinji to immediately rule out the transplant option.

Moreover, Shen Ershou has better technology to utilize biomaterials.

The essence of the Imperial Arms is to extract the super-powered organs of Super Dangerous Species, preserve their activity through technological means, and enable others to use the super-powered abilities of Super Dangerous Species.

The magic circuits of magicians are not fundamentally different from the superpower organs of super dangerous species.

Theoretically, it is feasible to create a magic circuit into an Imperial Arm.

Furthermore, Shinji incorporated the alchemy of this world, achieving new breakthroughs in the processing of materials.

At least in the original technology, even when a Super Dangerous Species organ was made into an Imperial Arm, the will of the Dangerous Species remained within it.

This means that users must be in sync with the will of a Dangerous Species in order to use it, thus becoming what is known as a Teigu user.

The conflict of wills between Dangerous Species also makes it almost impossible for a Teigu user to possess a second Teigu.

Some of these creatures are so powerful that they can even corrupt the user, achieving a different kind of resurrection.

Shinji's Danger Species counterpart was made into the Teigu Five Visions Omnipotent and lived for a period of time before dying.

But in this world, there are far too many solutions to problems related to the soul and will.

Whether it's a familiar contract or necromancy, it's a perfect match for my profession.

However, considering that the energy level of Ryunosuke Uryu's magic circuit is far lower than that of the organs of the super dangerous species.

Therefore, what was made could probably only be considered a servant's tool.

The Imperial Arms are also a specialty of the world of Akame ga Kill!, and are the failed products of attempts by later generations to restore the technology of making Imperial Arms after it was lost.

Its power is far inferior to that of the Emperor's weapon, but it does possess certain extraordinary abilities, so it is called the "Minister's Weapon".

With Ryunosuke Amusei's magic circuits, what he made would probably only be considered low-grade among the tools of the court.

However, as a practice project, it should be sufficient for emergency use.

Considering compatibility issues, Shinji directly extracted the materials used to make this weapon from Ryunosuke Uryu.

The production process went smoothly without any obstacles.

Shinji devoted all his energy to the technology of manufacturing Teigu from the moment he acquired it.

At that time, Shinji had not yet entered Manjusou Plaza, and the Imperial Arms was his only hope, so Shinji put in much more effort than he had for the college entrance exam in his previous life.

I have observed the manufacturing process of various Imperial Arms countless times.

We are only creating a simplified version without the interference of a dangerous species' will; failure would be a disservice to our efforts.

The final result was a pale leather glove.

Although the material is somewhat off-putting, it has all the necessary functions, and the effect is even better than expected.

First, there's the function of the magic circuit itself: converting life force into magic power and linking it to the magic base.

Shinji tried to perform his most proficient hypnosis magic. After connecting to the magic base, the hypnotic effect was about 30% better than when using mental power alone.

Aside from a slight pain, the function of converting life force into magic was working well. Feeling the energy in his hand that was different from superpowers, Shinji smiled happily. After so many years in this world, he had finally taken the first step.

Furthermore, there's an unexpected surprise: when a Teigu user uses their Teigu's superpowers, they consume stamina.