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Shiro only had the system perform preliminary repairs. Better safe than sorry—lying low was safer. After all, if your Chakra had overflowed so badly in a major battle that you strained your muscles, yet your meridians were completely fine, that would be hard to explain.

In the world of Hokage, which was full of old schemers, there was no benefit to being reckless. Take Shisui, for example. He could activate Susanoo with a single eye, yet because he got careless, Danzo plotted him to death.

Therefore, Shiro believed that as long as he kept lying low, he had already won! It would be perfect if he could lie low all the way until the finale.

Unfortunately, people were not alone in this world. They would always form all kinds of Kizuna with those around them, and if Shiro wanted to protect those bonds, then he was destined to be unable to keep lying low forever!

Of course, he could still lie low for now.

Over the next few days, Shiro spent his time training. However, he was not practicing taijutsu, but Magecraft. Even then, he was only organizing the Magecraft knowledge brought into his mind. After all, his injuries had not healed yet, and he was temporarily unable to mobilize Chakra.

Thus, he merely organized the Magecraft knowledge brought by Projecting Rule Breaker. However, the Magecraft knowledge possessed by Medea, a mage from the Age of Gods, was unimaginably vast. Shiro spent an entire week just sorting through and drawing from the portion related to Reinforcement Magecraft.

At the same time, after selectively retaining some basic Magecraft, Shiro had the system help him forget the rest of that Magecraft knowledge. He knew very well that, with his current experience, he could not bear so many memories.

This was something that could only be improved gradually. Otherwise, he would only end up going mad.

Another practical reason was that Shiro discovered he had little talent for Magecraft. He was not worthless, but neither was he a genius.

Therefore, he could only do his best to lay a better foundation, so that he could better receive the Magecraft knowledge of other Heroic Spirits in the future. This was a shortcut Shiro could not use yet, but that did not mean he had given up on it. After all, Shiro had not forgotten that the Heroic Spirit Card he inherited was incomplete, and, damn it all, the missing part was Reality Marble: Unlimited Blade Works. (The Magecraft closest to True Magic; it would be explained later.)

After all, Projection consumed quite a lot, while Unlimited Blade Works seemed to avoid that problem. Therefore, Shiro wanted to see whether he could use Unlimited Blade Works in the future, so he was making some preparations in advance.

At the same time, Shiro was rather curious what his inner world looked like. Of course, he was still very far from that.

A week later, Shiro's injuries had mostly healed. Today was the day he was discharged from the hospital, but aside from his parents, no one else had come to pick him up.

After all, most of the people Shiro knew were ninja, and ninja had missions to carry out. They had mostly just come to visit, and after learning about Shiro's condition, they went off to do missions. People had to eat, after all. Who had the time to sit around chatting with him for no reason?

Thus, almost all of them had gone out on missions. The reason he said almost was because Kushina was an exception. She had left the village, but not for a mission. She had gone traveling.

Although Shiro could not sense the presence of Anbu, he could guess with his ass that there were definitely quite a few Anbu around Kushina. Never mind whether anyone would dare stroke Konoha's tiger whiskers at a time like this—even the Nine-Tails going berserk would cause tremendous damage. The Third Hokage was not foolish enough to blindly trust the Uzumaki Clan's Sealing Jutsu and let Kushina wander around outside alone.

So she really had gone traveling to relax.

That night, after celebrating with his parents, Shiro returned to his room to train. Tomorrow, he would be meeting his new teammates, so he had to make the most of his time and improve his proficiency in Projecting the Projectile Weapon Amulet.

Noble Phantasm Name: Projectile Weapon Amulet

Rank: D- Holder: Gilgamesh, the Hero King of Uruk in Sumerian mythology, the oldest Hero King in human history.

Appearance: A gold ornament in the shape of a solar eclipse.

Ability: Greatly increases the wearer's evasion rate, rendering projectile weapons below Rank D ineffective. Each time it nullifies an attack, the gap in the ornament's sun grows larger. When the gap becomes as large as the sun itself, this Noble Phantasm completely disappears. In addition, if this Noble Phantasm is thrown at an enemy, it will shine and radiate heat like a small sun. Its power is directly proportional to the size of the gap in the sun.

This Noble Phantasm could greatly increase his evasion rate. Shiro had already tested it: thrown weapons such as Shuriken were also classified as projectile weapons. To Shiro, this was equivalent to a low-end version of Protection from Arrows. Moreover, Shiro had discovered as early as a year ago that no matter how powerful these ninja tools were, their rank was extremely low!

Although Shiro had yet to see higher-grade items, such as the Six Paths Ninja Tools, they probably could not be much higher. Thus, this Projectile Weapon Amulet was extremely useful. In battles between genin and chunin, Shuriken accounted for a large proportion of combat. Of course, that also included some Jonin with low Chakra reserves. (Yes, a certain white-haired guy who had become a unit for measuring Chakra.)

Therefore, the Projectile Weapon Amulet could be called a lifesaving tool! Shiro could currently Project it quickly, just like Rule Breaker. He could complete the Projection within two seconds, but it did not last long and was rather weak. The Projectile Weapon Amulet, on the other hand, would be best if it could remain for a long time. That would make it more practical in actual combat.

However, the amulet barely had one drawback: if he threw it at an enemy and detonated it, the power of the explosion would consume extra Chakra.

Therefore, Shiro did not value its latter ability too highly.

Trace on!

Analyze the structure!

Envision the basic framework!

Duplicate the composition materials!

Imitate the techniques of its creation!

Empathize with the experience of its growth!

Reproduce the years it had accumulated!

Surpass them all, and complete the myriad works!

A flash of white light passed by! A gold ornament shaped like a solar eclipse appeared in Shiro's hand. He looked at the amulet, shook his head, dispersed it, and began Projecting it again. He repeated the process until his Chakra was nearly exhausted, then stopped and began resting.

The next day, Shiro received an order telling him to go to the Hokage's office. He understood that this was probably to meet his new teammates. When Yamada and the others had visited him in the hospital, they had already mentioned it. Shiro had also met their new teammate. How should he put it? The person was fairly ordinary. If Shiro did not have his cheat, he would probably have been about the same.

Without wasting any time, Shiro quickly arrived at the Hokage's office.

"Reporting to Lord Hokage, Emiya Shiro requests an audience."

"Shiro? Let him in."

"Lord Hokage." After entering, Shiro first bowed.

"Hehe, no need to be so reserved. Relax a little."

"Yes, Lord Hokage."

Seeing that Shiro was still the same, the Third Hokage shook his head and smiled. "How is your recovery?"

"I have mostly recovered, Lord Hokage. Thank you for your concern."

"It's nothing. You're Kushina's friend, so naturally you are one of my juniors. Oh, right, Orochimaru has gone out on a mission. He left the Contract Scroll with me and asked me to pass it on to you." As he spoke, he took out a scroll from beneath the desk and handed it to Shiro.

"This... I'm troubling you, Lord Hokage." Shiro froze for a moment, then stepped forward and accepted the scroll. After thanking him, he put it away. Now was not the time to inspect the scroll.

To be honest, Shiro was a little surprised. He had not expected Orochimaru to have the Third Hokage pass it along. Judging from this, Shiro guessed that Orochimaru had probably researched something. However, that had nothing to do with Shiro. Orochimaru had not completely fallen to darkness yet, so he would not go so far as to capture Shiro for human experiments. Besides, Orochimaru might not even have much interest in these two types of Magecraft.

After that, while Shiro's new teammates had yet to arrive, the Third Hokage continuously cast a genjutsu called the Will of Fire on Shiro. No matter what Shiro might achieve in the future, he would indoctrinate him first. It cost nothing, after all, and strengthening Shiro's sense of belonging toward the village could not be wrong.