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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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[fatestayhome.livejournal.com]

...good.

[There's a sigh of relief there.]

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[unknownrival.livejournal.com]

...

[But it still bothers him.]

It's not your fault.

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[fatestayhome.livejournal.com]

...still, I feel bad about this.

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[unknownrival.livejournal.com]

However, you can't do anything about it. I don't want you to pity me.

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[fatestayhome.livejournal.com]

...

[Shirou looked awkward for a moment.]

...Why?

['Did you love me?']

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[unknownrival.livejournal.com]

I must have realized it a few months after we met. You were kind, you were giving. You were the kind of undeniably good person that I wasn't sure existed. And because you had your flaws, I didn't feel that you were out of my reach. I wanted to be there for you - I wanted to be there with you, and protect you from the trouble your nature led you into. I wanted just to have lunch with you and hear you laugh, and really see you happy.

All of those things are still true.

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[fatestayhome.livejournal.com]

...

[Hang on let him take a moment to absorb it.]

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[unknownrival.livejournal.com]

[As many moments as Shirou needs, Issei will give him that.]

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[fatestayhome.livejournal.com]

...I have to tell you something, Issei.

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[unknownrival.livejournal.com]

Yes?

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[fatestayhome.livejournal.com]

...do you know the legend of the Holy Grail?

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[unknownrival.livejournal.com]

Not in great detail.

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[fatestayhome.livejournal.com]

Would you think I'm crazy if I told you that there was a war centered on it that happened in Fuyuki recently?

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[unknownrival.livejournal.com]

Someone who wasn't my best friend of two years told me already.

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[fatestayhome.livejournal.com]

...

There's a reason for me not telling you about that, Issei.

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[unknownrival.livejournal.com]

It had better be one good reason. A good enough reason that it justifies how you could have died and I would never have known why you disappeared! Don't you understand what that would have done to me?!

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[fatestayhome.livejournal.com]

Well, uh.

That woman that stayed in your temple?

She's related to that war.

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[unknownrival.livejournal.com]

She is? Really?

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[fatestayhome.livejournal.com]

...yeah.

She's Caster, apparently.

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[unknownrival.livejournal.com]

What about my brother Kuzuki?

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[fatestayhome.livejournal.com]

...that, I'm not really sure.

[Since he only found out Caster being the Servant in the temple by logical deduction.]

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[unknownrival.livejournal.com]

You still should have told me.

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[fatestayhome.livejournal.com]

If I told you...

[...there's a grave look on his face.]

The outcome would not be pleasant at all.

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[unknownrival.livejournal.com]

Explain more than that.

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[fatestayhome.livejournal.com]

...Everyone that finds out about the war.

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They're killed so as to not spread rumors about it.

[He knows this very well because he had died in that fateful night.]