After acknowledging the fact that I have two years until the start of the Holy Grail War, I get right to perusing Shirou's memories and watching his interactions with the people around him. With this knowledge, I can better act like Shirou to those around me without seeming suspicious and keep up the act until the grail war. Once the war happens, well....I'll think about it when that happens, I still have two years.
I re-check the calendar and see that today is Friday, which means I have Saturday and Sunday to use my magecraft. I'm so fucking excited, what kid didn't dream about having powers when watching anime, I sure did.
I activate my circuits once more and really get a feel for them, just letting them be active, so my body can slowly get used to the feeling of my magic circuits. While my circuits are active, I start using Structural Analysis on everything around me, got to get my mastery up. The way the information is transmitted to me feels amazing and the fact I'm the one doing magic makes me giddy.
I used Analysis on some heaters and tools in the workshop, just to see if I could identify any weak points in the structures for me to practice reinforcement on. Of course I wasn't going to try reinforcement right away, I needed to at least master Structural Analysis first so I can better identify what points need to be reinforced and get my circuits used to performing magecraft.
That's what I did the entire night, spent Structurally Analyzing everything in the goddamn building and finding some secrets along the way. One thing I found was a secret compartment in the floor which held the infamous Thompson Contendor and a few bullets. Fuck. Yeah. Oh my goodness, the things I could do with this gun are exciting to think about, maybe I could use it for Unlimited Lost Works?
I always did appreciate how deadly that NP was in FGO, not too many MC Shirou's use it in fanfics, but that's not their fault, it's the authors for spending more time on events before the war instead of the war itself.
Other than that, I also found a stash of guns and a few textbooks on the fundamentals of magecraft. What a sweet find, this will definitely help me broaden my perspective rather than being a sword guy, badass, but sword guy. I immediately delved straight into learning about self-hypnosis, because if I was going to survive living with the Lesser Grail, I had to be Shirou Emiya. I spent the entirety of Saturday and half of Sunday learning what I could, and experimenting so the hypnosis could be successful.
It was night time on Sunday when I finally reached a breakthrough and figured out what exactly my self-hypnosis should be. I would hypnotize myself to act like Shirou Emiya when my alarm for the morning hits, and would only return to being myself when I activated my magical circuits at night. I of course set an end date for the hypnosis, that being February 1st, 2004, this would be a long hypnosis, but the benfits outway any drawbacks. This would be foolproof, I could keep things the same on the outside while changing everything inside with no one the wiser. I activate the hypnosis and go to sleep.
I come into consciousness at night with my circuits activated and alone in the shed, he he hahahaha, YES!!! IT FUCKING WORKED!! Oh I was ecstatic, with this nothing could get in my way of self improvement and preparation for the HGW. I immediately began to practice structural analysis once more, although I made sure to leave 6 hours until the alarm clock for sleeping time so this body doesn't lag in the morning from fatigue.
I did learn that as my proficiency in Structural Analysis was rising, I was getting more and more detailed information from scanned structures then before. This did help give me an indication of my progress, and made setting expectations for growth a lot easier to do so I would stay motivated.
Two weeks passed by and during that time, I only got better at using Structural Analysis to the point that I subconsciously used it whenever I activated my magical circuits, always giving me information on the structures and tools around me. My magical circuits were greased and so efficient at using Analysis that it took a miniscule amount of mana to perform, meaning I've mastered efficiency for that.
Now it's time to work on reinforcement, and with my mastery in structural analysis, it was childs play to find the holes that could be filled in to improve the tool I picked up. Now I just needed to fill those holes carefully, otherwise I may just set off an explosion and alert the neighbors. I set about doing just that, and with my greased circuits, it was a lot easier than I thought. With that I successfully reinforced the tool in my hand to it's peak form. I just needed to practice that over and over until I become a master at using reinforcement on inanimate objects.
I come into consciousness once more the next night with my circuits activated and ready to start practicing reinforcement again. I realized shortly into the night that tools were super easy to reinforce with knives being even easier. Since it was so easy, I decided to challenge myself and went to the kitchen to prepare a snack for myself. After I was finished preparing the snack, I used Analysis on it and tried looking for any holes I could fill with reinforcement.
Luckily, there were some so I used reinforcement on it and failed. It looks like it was a lot trickier to reinforce food than it was a tool, maybe it had something to do with the organic nature of the food, or the complexity in it's ingredients.
I didn't know, but that doesn't mean I wasn't going to try and find out, so I raided the cupboards for snacks and stayed up all night practicing reinforcement on various food items until the alarm rang and my consciousness slipped into slumber while Shirou Emiya awoke.