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[Video; filtered to Shirou]

Shirou. Could you come to my hotel room?

[Action]

[Unlike his typical daily assessment of the town, Kiritsugu currently allows himself an afternoon of waiting for his son. Things seem to be mellow enough to lend importance to a much more urgent situation, that of Shirou's participation in the Grail War.]

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[fatestayhome.livejournal.com]

...just like what you did to the hotel?

[...yeah. He went there.]

[maguskiller.livejournal.com]

[Lancer. Saber wouldn't know, considering she was never made aware of that particular activity, and though word doesn't have trouble getting around in Prospero, Kiritsugu figures Diarmuid for the type who's at least moderately careful with his identity.]

...I didn't know the Grail was a lost cause by then. It would have saved far more lives than the ones that could have been lost there.

[fatestayhome.livejournal.com]

So you just killed all of them to get the Grail?

[maguskiller.livejournal.com]

[He doesn't feel right about it. Not at all. However, that's simply because the end result turned out to be futile. Kiritsugu does not believe in miracles anymore. He does, on the other hand, believe in choosing the lesser of two evils.]

Yes... I did.

[He has a solemn expression, but his tone of voice remains unflinching. This would be the worst time possible to falter. At the very least, he has to show Shirou how terrible the path he has chosen can be.]

[fatestayhome.livejournal.com]

...

So you sacrificed them, for a Grail you destroyed yourself?

[What is there in Shirou's voice, in fact, was honest curiosity, with a hint of anger mixed inside.]

[maguskiller.livejournal.com]

For one I attempted to destroy. Since you participated in another War, the only conclusion is that I failed.

I know what you're thinking, Shirou, but if its destruction had succeeded... if the fire hadn't come to pass... then maybe my actions would have been justifiable.

[fatestayhome.livejournal.com]

...

[With that, it has been confirmed that Kiritsugu's attempt of destroying the Grail caused the fire.

...Shirou stayed silent for a while.]

[maguskiller.livejournal.com]

...I regret taking part in it. Every day.

I've told you before, Shirou. To know magecraft is to know death. For this reason, I can't let you follow that path.

[fatestayhome.livejournal.com]

...

Sorry, but I'm not going back on my word.

[maguskiller.livejournal.com]

...

[Kiritsugu feels desperate. A feeling countless battles against magi could create is now caused by seeing Shirou follow the same path.]

At the very least, for now, stop being an acquaintance of Uryu Ryuunosuke.

[fatestayhome.livejournal.com]

...why?

[maguskiller.livejournal.com]

Among the Masters of the Fourth War, he's the one who accumulated the most deaths.

[He wants to call him a 'murderer', knowing how Shirou would react to that, but that may not be a great idea, considering his son knows he's one himself.]

...Your Servant never told you that?

[fatestayhome.livejournal.com]

No, she didn't.

[there's a shake of his head.]

All she told me was how you betrayed her.

[maguskiller.livejournal.com]

...I suppose I did. However, you won the War, didn't you, Shirou? You must have seen what the Grail was like.

I won't lie and say that I knew exactly what it was. I still don't. But... I couldn't allow something like it to be brought into this world.

[fatestayhome.livejournal.com]

...only someone like Kotomine would allow such a thing to exist in the world.

[maguskiller.livejournal.com]

[No.]

Kotomine... Kotomine Kirei?

[fatestayhome.livejournal.com]

Yeah, he was the supervisor of the war I was in.

[He looks a bit confused at the bewildered look his father is giving him.]

[maguskiller.livejournal.com]

[Seeing as he's the only person Kiritsugu has always been terrified of, he's surprised Shirou's still alive.]

He was a participant in the Fourth War. I didn't expect him to survive after our fight.

...He tried to summon it, didn't he? Did he succeed?

[Because he trusts you and everything, Shirou, but this is Kotomine.]

[fatestayhome.livejournal.com]

He did.

[...it was a very good thing Ilya survived that...]

...but I stopped him in the end, and destroyed the Grail with her help.

[maguskiller.livejournal.com]

[A relieved nod. Good to see Saber finally came to reason. Not that it helps his opinion of her that much.]

...The Grail required a vessel. Do you know who it was, Shirou?

[His way of saying 'please tell me she didn't become a Master.]

[fatestayhome.livejournal.com]

Ilyasviel von Einzbern, she was the master of Berserker.

[as well as his sister.

But he doesn't know that.]

[maguskiller.livejournal.com]

...

[You can pretty much feel the room's mood drop.]

Did she survive the War?

[fatestayhome.livejournal.com]

...she did, so don't worry about that.

[Should he tell him... how Kirei used her?]

[maguskiller.livejournal.com]

...Hm.

I'm sorry. For never telling you about her.

[fatestayhome.livejournal.com]

...you knew her?

[...this is. odd.]