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[unknownrival.livejournal.com]

Could someone bring me my homework from school, please? I seem to have injured myself in the process of saving a child's life.

[He sounds tired, but not too upset.]

I can be found in my hotel room, 707 at the Bay View hotel.

Heh. Emiya, is this the first time you've heard of me missing a school day? I can think of no better reason for it. -Ah, that's Emiya Shirou, if it wasn't obvious, I would have switched to your first name long ago but I never really knew if that was too blatant a sign of my feelings. I suppose that's a little silly now that I've thrown myself into danger for you.

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[unknownrival.livejournal.com]

I'm going to assume you met.

[croibhristeoir]

I didn't learn his name until recently, but yes.

[unknownrival.livejournal.com]

I'm also going to assume it went badly.

[croibhristeoir]

He was Saber's Master as well.

[unknownrival.livejournal.com]

That's a strange coincidence. It can't be in the blood, because Shirou was adopted.

[croibhristeoir]

I don't entirely understand it myself. Saber is a special case even among Servants, it seems.

[unknownrival.livejournal.com]

I don't get any of this.

[croibhristeoir]

I apologize, it's admittedly a confusing thing for anyone other than magi.

[unknownrival.livejournal.com]

Is it less important now? Being a Servant.

[croibhristeoir]

...

I...don't have a Master, not to mention I'm human now. So I can't really call myself a Servant at all, anymore.

[unknownrival.livejournal.com]

Then I'm not certain why it matters enough to bring up in the present tense. Saber is Saber and you're you. You're humans both.

[croibhristeoir]

I suppose so. But it is, to answer your question, a significant thing. Even if it isn't as significant.

[unknownrival.livejournal.com]

I suppose it's a frame of mind like many things. I still call myself a monk. A knight without a lord who has the honor and the ideals of a knight remains as much a knight as ever.

[croibhristeoir]

That would be a good way to phrase it, I think.

[unknownrival.livejournal.com]

Occasionally, I do manage to put things the right way. Sometimes it even helps.

[croibhristeoir]

I think it does, thanks.

[unknownrival.livejournal.com]

Any time.