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it long enough to make it not an imminent threat and give Shirou

time to train himself to become a magus worthy of matching the
arm to seal it without the Shroud to allow him to live to an old
age.

Rin also shares part of her Magic Crest with him as a Warding
Sign. She is able to transplant a small part of her Crest by
placing her left hand on his body, comprehending it, and sharing
her warding crest. While she was planning on giving him the
capability to use a "switch" for his Magic Circuit, being able to
turn it on and off is too dangerous in his current state. She
instead performs it to suppress the magical energy by placing
needles in his left shoulder, belly button, and throat so that the
arm won't be connected to him unless he wishes for it. It also
grants a resistance to magical energy, so that something that
passively absorbs energy like the Shadow will have less of an
effect on him. Her crest cannot familiarize itself with someone
not from the Tohsaka family, so it is a makeshift that won't even
last a week.

Projection
Shirou is currently observing Archer's magecraft rather than his
own magecraft, so he cannot use Projection in his current state
without invoking the abilities of the arm. Illya states that he will
eventually obtain his own usage of Projection magecraft, but it is
still only a possibility at his current level. His own Projection is
still at the level where it will fail constantly due to his
misunderstandings, but drawing on Archer's knowledge without
invoking the arm can force him to "level up" quickly. He can
loosen the Shroud slightly in order to practice retrieving Archer's
knowledge without breaking the seal and only getting a small
reaction.

With help from Rin's Magic Crest to increase his Magic

Resistance and Illya to protect his consciousness, he can
experience Archer's Projection by interacting with the arm like
opening a Magic Circuit safely. The knowledge is like poison, but
the arm will continuously flow its experience into him. It is similar
to pouring one hundred units of fuel into a container that can
only hold ten, and he will likely only gain from less than a tenth
of the agony he will endure. The knowledge disrupts his
memories and leaves him with a large blank space after
replacing the Shroud.

Projecting directly with Archer's abilities requires the removal of

the Shroud, and although potentially able to recall the activation
spell gained from Archer's knowledge, his body would be
destroyed if he tried using it. It can easily be removed at any
time for instant access to the full extent of Archer's power. It is
not something that lessens his life with each use, but the
activation of a time bomb that will ultimately lead to his death the
second he removes the Shroud. Archer's Magic Circuits will be
activated if he uses the arm even once, and while he may last
while using its abilities, his body will break down due to being
unable to withstand Archer's magic. He will eventually be
consumed, or more correctly "blown away", by the arm after the
first activation.

Once it is removed, Shirou instantly gains access to Archer's

Magic Circuits, battle experience, and techniques, making him
capable of matching and potentially even defeating Servants in
direct combat, but he cannot deploy Unlimited Blade Works
because Archer's inner world is different from his. While claiming
he can only reproduce what he himself has learned and the
Noble Phantasms that he has personally recorded, he is
revealed to be quite capable of using Archer's records to project
weapons he had never personally witnessed before, as he was
able to project Caladbolg II and Rho Aias. He is able to trace
"Nine Lives" to kill Black Berserker nine times with a single
maneuver called "Nine Lives Blade Works" and later defeat
Saber Alter with the Overedge technique of Kanshou and
Bakuya at the cost of his mind during a bad ending. Using these
abilities comes with a heavy penalty as Archer's circuits
overload Shirou's body leading to his mind slowly eroding, the
decay of his memories, and eventual death as his body and soul
break down from being invaded by Archer's Unlimited Blade
Works.

Puppet body
Due to Archer's arm and his overuse of Projection, his Magic
Circuit is broken into pieces, and his death is one that even the
Holy Grail could not reverse. He is resurrected by Illya's
imperfect usage of the Third Magic, reviving his soul and giving
him a body free of wounds by preserving his soul and inserting it
into a container. It would normally be that giving the soul a
container or body would allow it to take perfect form by utilizing
the "genes of the soul" rather than those of the body. His body is
reconstructed from a portion of Illya's body, which she mentions
is a bit cheap as a container, so it is nowhere near his original
form in terms of size. Its shape afterward is not that of a human,
but as he mentions reaching his hands out and grasping onto
Rin's pendant, it is at least vaguely humanoid. He is able to be
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