ITP: Hero Question

[fatestayhome.livejournal.com]

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[For some reason today, Shirou felt like pouring what's left of his broken existence into someone else besides Issei and Saber.
 
In layman's term, Shirou's feeling talky talky today about his idiocy (Rushing into a Shadow battle to save someone.]
 
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What is a hero to you all?
 
[Still, asking a deep question like this is not Shirou at all.]

Comments

[maguskiller.livejournal.com]

I see...

[Even with the age difference, Kiritsugu knows his son well enough to know the significance behind that single word.]

In that case, I must have told you how a hero works in real life. To be a hero is to choose. To save someone means not to save someone else.

Would you be willing to follow a path like that, Shirou?

[fatestayhome.livejournal.com]

No.

[Stated so blatantly that Kiri might find Shirou's subtlety is like that of a hammer.]

I'm going to continue on this path to save everyone.

[maguskiller.livejournal.com]

...I see.

[Kiritsugu looks outside for a moment, contemplating his son's words.]

It will be tough.

[Truthfully, he had already considered this as out of the question. Kiritsugu discarded saving everyone as a possibility around the time his mentor died. He may consider it naive, but that's not the important thing here. Shirou still has faith. He hasn't turned into his father. If he keeps on this path, then he may come across hardships, but may result better for them. He doesn't have to meet the same fate.]

[Let's hope he never meets Archer.]

[fatestayhome.livejournal.com]

I know.

But I'll see this through to the end.