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I-if anyone has a moment, I'm having a small problem. [This was the understatement of the millennium.]

I'd like to ask how...h-how...er...forgive me, I am having some trouble articulating things today. [Diarmuid adjusted the glasses he wore, seeming hesitant to look directly at the camera at first.]

Imagine one that...has gone through life without anger or hatred. This individual had never felt spite, resentment, or even a shred of those kind of things. He did all he could to put others and their happiness before himself and his own, finding contentment and joy in doing so. But after a certain point, that person...he found someone that did something so deplorable that it left that person filled with rage and spite.

He found someone that he hated. And no matter how he tried, that person could not simply forgive what was done to earn that hatred.

I beg of you, Prospero. Someone please tell me how that person can go back to the way he was. Before he could feel anger and spite, back when he could still grant forgiveness.

[Diarmuid looked away for a moment; he was unsure, even worried.]

Fionn, Grainne-- [Gods, what would they think of him when they knew?] ...there is something I have not yet told you. Forgive me for not doing so until now.

Arturia... [Another pause. She had been there when he had died, she knew the horrible rage he had unleashed that day. Cursing her, Kayneth, Kiritsugu, even the Grail itself. Again he worried that she must secretly detest such a hateful spirit.] When you have the time...I would like to speak with you. Please.

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How'd someone get you to hate them and I didn't?

I don't want to talk about it. Least of all with you.

Come on, talking with you makes me feel better and I've been crying for days.

...hmph. You're not one I wish to talk about my personal problems with.

I'll do mine if you do yours?

You're joking.

No I'm not. I might do mine anyway, it's hard dealing with someone you love disappearing.

Fine. Go ahead and talk.

Caster's gone, I can't call him, he's gone from the city, he just disappeared. I miss him so much. Nobody else understands me like he does, nobody else makes me happy like he does. I feel like a whole part of me just got torn out.

...

[He may not have liked Ryuunosuke, but it was hard for Diarmuid not to feel a measure of empathy at that.]

I don't know what to do.

I...suppose I don't either.

What's going on?

...

[Screw it, he might as well.]

The one I once called my Master is here.

That guy's always bothered you. I mean, I've never met him, but I can tell.

Not all of us are so fortunate as Caster to be summoned by one we cooperate with so well.

I'm sorry. That really sucks.

More so than I think you realize.

You're the kind of guy that it'd be really, really hard to dislike and kind of stupid to even try. Hating anybody that hates you is pretty natural.

I mean, I don't, but I'm weird, so that's not even relevant.

[Sigh. What is he even going to do with you, Ryuunosuke.]

...He's the one that killed me.

Definitely hateable material.

I don't know what to do. The fact that I'm bringing this up to you of all people should illustrate just how lost I am about all of this.

Hey, come on, I'm trying to help here. Don't knock my genuine efforts.

It was an honest statement, nothing more.

You should probably find someone and get a hug.

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