More than a week had passed since Roxy came to the Greyrat house.
During this week, Roxy earnestly taught Shirou and Rudeus, giving them magic lessons.
Rudeus mainly studied water magic, which was Roxy's specialty, because Roxy's title was Water Saint-level Magician.
Because of this, Roxy's teaching progressed quickly and efficiently, and she was soon able to make people understand the basics of water magic.
Rudeus also had great talent in magic. Not only could he use magic without chanting from a young age, but he also possessed a large amount of magic power that did not match his age.
Rudeus almost quickly gained the ability to cast advanced water magic, and he continued to improve, reaching higher levels.
This undoubtedly made Roxy very happy, and she was very excited about this student who practiced water magic like herself.
In contrast, Roxy's progress with Shirou's magic was quite subtle.
Although Shirou had tried all kinds of magic, he found that Shirou had some adaptability to earth magic, at least it clearly had unique features that were worth looking forward to.
However, Shirou's earth magic only had a clear advantage when making weapons. All other earth magic progressed slowly.
Whether it was using earth magic to build walls or release stone spikes, these most basic earth magic skills were quite ordinary, as if he was simply specialized in weapon making.
Roxy had never seen such a special person, and she didn't know how to teach Shirou's magic.
After all, what is the point of magic that is only used to make weapons?
If the weapons made with magic were very powerful, comparable to legendary holy weapons or divine weapons, that would be one thing, but the weapons Shirou made with magic were quite poor in quality. They were clearly worse than the originals. Such crude weapon making could not be used in any situation.
As Shirou's magic teacher, Roxy would naturally not allow her student to only use such half-baked magic. She tried every possible way to help him use more powerful magic, but she still didn't get good results, which made Roxy feel frustrated.
However, although Roxy was disappointed in Shirou's magic talent, Shirou himself was very satisfied with the earth magic that Roxy taught him.
Since coming to this world, Shirou had been trying to recreate all of Servant Emiya's abilities. His swordsmanship had improved to some extent through daily training, and his strengthening magic had reached a good level after a long time of hard work. Now he could strengthen his physical abilities more than twice as much.
However, Shirou had not been able to perfectly project Servant Emiya's most skilled projection magic to this day.
He didn't know if it was because he was too young and didn't have enough magic power in his magic circuits, or if he was missing something, that prevented him from projecting perfectly.
But the earth magic that Roxy taught him made him realize the possibility of finding another way.
Since projection magic could not be used, he could use the earth magic of this world to make up for it, shaping weapons through earth magic to achieve an effect similar to projection magic.
With this idea, Shirou immediately returned to his room to try it. He dug up a large pot of soil and kept trying to shape it with magic in his room.
Although he still failed at first, after several days of trying, Shirou finally made weapons that were close to the originals.
"Kanshou and Bakuya..."
Looking at Servant Emiya's most familiar dual swords placed in front of him, Shirou couldn't help but feel a strong sense of satisfaction.
Although making weapons with earth magic was a worse method than projection magic, as long as he used his strengthening magic to make up for it, magic weapons could still be comparable to those made with projection magic.
More importantly, Shirou's earth magic was still quite immature, and he couldn't even affect metals and minerals.
If he could go further and improve his earth magic abilities, Shirou might be able to create abilities even more powerful than projection magic, and create weapons that were almost exactly like the originals, or even surpass the originals!
With this expectation, Shirou entered a state of almost frenzy.
Every day, in addition to basic swordsmanship practice, he spent all his time learning earth magic and trying to use earth magic to recreate the projected noble phantasms that Servant Emiya had used.
Whether successful or unsuccessful, Shirou was constantly accumulating experience, and he could clearly feel himself improving little by little. Both his magic and his projections were constantly evolving in the direction of Servant Emiya.
This made Shirou feel very satisfied, and he was also very grateful to Roxy, who was willing to patiently teach him magic.
After all, Shirou's magic talent could only be described as mediocre. Most people would probably quickly lose interest in someone as incapable as him and wouldn't waste too much time teaching him. But Roxy not only didn't have any prejudice against Shirou, but also spent a lot of time teaching Shirou bit by bit from the basics.
It was because of Roxy's tireless and earnest efforts that Shirou's earth magic continued to advance with steady steps and achieve breakthroughs.
Shirou was naturally full of gratitude to Roxy. He thought that he had to repay this young-looking magic teacher in any way he could.
As for how to repay her, Shirou couldn't think of a good idea right away. After thinking about it, he finally decided to repay Roxy's kindness with cooking.
After all, cooking was Shirou's specialty, and he believed that his cooking could bring happiness to people.
Thinking of this, Shirou began to spend the little time he had in the evening preparing food to repay Roxy's kindness.
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The Greyrat family's kitchen.
Shirou finished preparing the ingredients in this much smaller kitchen than before and quietly admired the hot pot he had made with earth magic, revealing a satisfied expression.
Although using the earth magic he had finally learned in this way seemed very wasteful, Shirou was not a natural fighter with his mind full of fighting.
Outside of battle, he still knew how to enjoy life to some extent.
Making hot pot was Shirou's specialty. He believed that not only Roxy, but also the Greyrat family would definitely be surprised.
Of course, this was a surprise Shirou planned to show later, so he naturally wouldn't reveal it in advance. So, he carefully hid the hot pot and closed the kitchen door.
On his way back to his room, he suddenly heard a noise coming from the floor on the second floor. Confused, he instinctively walked in the direction of the sound, trying to figure out what was going on.
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