033, You've Got the Nerve to Talk About Him?

Rimuru glanced at Shirou Emiya and found his expression calm, as though he had expected this all along. Rimuru suddenly grew interested. "You don't seem surprised?"

"Yeah, just as you said, I guessed a little... about the future me..." Shirou lowered his eyes slightly. "That longbow you used before."

"Oh? You noticed." Rimuru froze briefly, then smiled and casually reached down. An ordinary-looking black longbow appeared in his hand.

"This is the only weapon in all of Unlimited Blade Works that truly belongs to 'Shirou Emiya.'"

"Well, personally, it's not really my style... but if I hadn't fulfilled the promise, then no matter how much control I had over this power, I would still think it didn't belong to me. So I never altered it carelessly."

"So this really is Emiya's magecraft?"

Seeing Rin standing there foolishly, utterly stunned, Shirou scratched the back of his head in confusion—

"What? Is this thing really that amazing?!"

"Well... whether it's amazing or not..." Rimuru pondered for a moment before explaining calmly, "A Reality Marble is a magecraft technique that manifests a skill honed through countless trials, or a landscape within one's heart that has been completely solidified. Setting aside its power for now, in terms of technical difficulty alone, it is indeed 'the magecraft closest to magic, beneath true Magic.'"

"Even your Saber cannot master it."

"So once you master a Reality Marble, future you will be just a tiny bit stronger than Saber!" Rimuru clapped his hands and laughed as he reached that conclusion, ignoring Rin beside him, who was clutching his arm in utter collapse.

"...I... in the future, I'm a Magician stronger than Saber...?" Even Shirou himself was dumbfounded by that conclusion.

"But don't get too excited, Emiya." Rimuru's indifferent eyes flicked toward him. "A Reality Marble is something