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[problemshirou.livejournal.com]

[ The camera turns on to show a tall man, wearing a dark blue long coat over his priest's clothes, a barely-seen cross necklace hanging around his neck, eyeing the screen with a calm, indifferent expression. He speaks with a deep, astringent voice, very noticeable so, but the tone he speaks in is very calm, even a little disinterested, the slightest, barely noticeable trace of a smile heard in it- this contributes to the heavy and tense atmosphere surrounding him, that one could feel even over the cellphone. There is something vaguely threatening and oppressive about him, and the general feel he gives off. Yet, he carries himself in a confident, calm, composed way, without showing the slightest trace of hostility or anger or any other negative emotion. The way he is looking at the screen, even when he's not looking directly at anyone, combined with the qualities of his voice, is able to make one feel tension-- as though one wrong word and wrong move will land you in deep trouble, as though he is looking down on you. For a guy who obviously just arrived, he's pretty chill about this whole thing. Probably because he more or less figured out a few things already by himself. Most of the things, in fact. How? By being Kirei. ]

What a convenient device this is. Given that cell phones these days, as advanced as they are, normally do not function as to communicate with a large group of people by default, then this device is specifically designed for the purpose of communication within that certain group. After all, none of the citizens that are native to this place seem to possess them, and not only that, but it seems that they have mistook me for a newcomer that has recently moved to this town. Hah. They do say ignorance is bliss, do they not? Perhaps it is. If they had known that unknown forces were suddenly transporting people to their perfectly typical and normal little town, living their daily lives normally would have been more difficult. I suppose there is no use explaining that this is not the case at all. Such people rarely listen, after all. They rather remain blind to whatever is going on under the surface and continue living their current lives, already filled with enough problems and troubles and trials.

Of course, this would also mean that my assumption is not incorrect and that I am indeed not alone in a group of others who have been inconveniently taken away from where they previously were. All the way from Japan to the United States, is it? But this is really quite annoying. [ He doesn't sound annoyed, though... at all... there's a trace of sarcasm in that statement, as though it is said ironically, in a tongue-in-cheek way. ] I am a busy man, after all. More than that, you would think they would allow me to complete certain duties I cannot leave unattended first. [ He smiles, suddenly, and while it's not a sneer or anything like that, it's... a bit unpleasant in a way that one can't really put their finger on. It really reinforces the threatening and tense air around him, though. It's like he's smirking mysteriously without actually smirking mysteriously. ] How terribly disappointed he will surely be. I will not be able to apologize either, as if I should ever return, and by the time I will, it will be far too late as well.

It seems self-introductions upon arriving are common courtesy here as well. Then allow me to do so. I am Kotomine Kirei, and I am the priest of Kotomine Church in Fuyuki City. [ And then there's that smile again. ] But there is no need to refer to me as Father Kotomine.

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[windsofdaytime.livejournal.com]

You talk a lot.

[problemshirou.livejournal.com]

There are times when one has many things to say, young lady.

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[stripping.livejournal.com]

Oh, I recognize you. We do seem to have a great deal of people from Fuyuki.

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[problemshirou.livejournal.com]

Is that so? How curious. You would be the young man from Ryuudou Temple, would you not?

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[athngabla.livejournal.com]

[Lancer didn't hold grudges. It was something of a policy for him: life was too short to waste it on concentrating vitriol at others, and if someone's the type you get along with, you might as well do so regardless of their affiliation. For those who don't, just try to refrain from wasting time on them. It was a good policy, he thought, but one he admitted he had problems adhering to fully.]

[The point of the matter was that, as far as Lancer was concerned? Kotomine, despite the multiple grievances Lancer had with him, had paid his dues, his metaphorical pound of flesh, or more literally, with his heart.]

[All that said? The priest was still something utterly anathema to him, the complete opposite of the kind of person he'd get along well with. Possessing a temper as poor and as easy to trigger as Lancer's, the priest was also someone rather hard for him to ignore.]

[Long story short, Kirei gets a viewscreen full of scowling Irishman.]

Hey, what's this? I thought that such an open public statement was against your religion. Did you undergo some kind of conversion or something when I wasn't looking? Doesn't seem to be for the better at all though, what a damn shame.

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[problemshirou.livejournal.com]

[ Oh... well that is not someone he has expected to see again, given that he was dying at the hands of a abomination made out of pure evil last time he remembers. Otherwise known as the same thing that got Gilgamesh, forcing him to retire for good... on the surface. Which, as inconvenient as it was, ultimately had its advantages. But this situation was already rather strange and this made things even stranger. Which is saying a lot given their world... yet not nearly strange enough to faze him, but there wasn't anything like that in the world anyway. So, despite the surprise and unexpected nature of this meeting (for him) there is not the slightest change of expression or any indication of his surprise on his face. ]

Do not say that. I have no religion to change. I believe I already told you. [ No he didn't. Not in the route he's from anyway. Translation: he's just screwing with him as always. ] But I'm surprised, Lancer. You seem to have undergone some changes while I was not looking as well. Otherwise, you would not be here. There may be several explanations as to why you are still here and alive, but none of them explain why you still have your memories.

French for "Malicious Priest".

[fractured-white.livejournal.com]

Ignorance is only bliss when that which you've turned a blind eye to is of a trivial nature. Though perhaps to those simple humans, locked away in their coffins when the truly worthwhile things happen, arrivals from times and dimensions far removed from their own are of no consequence and would merely confuse their rigid conceptions of a fluid reality.

*He smirks, amusement dancing in his purple eyes and indicating that he would probably just find that outcome entertaining.*

But how the supposedly ordinary humans live their lives is of no consequence to me. I certainly hope, however, that you don't expect people to believe your pitiful facade of innocence, Mr. Prêtre Perfide.

[problemshirou.livejournal.com]

Then it certainly is bliss. After all, one of the many things human cannot stand is having these rigid conceptions of reality challenged. The idea of something beyond the norm and ordinary existing in the world they are familiar with is merely far too incomprehensible to them. In its own way it is of no consequence, yet precisely because it is of consequence, it isn't.

[ Kirei would probably feel exactly the same way about that... ]

You are quite quick to assume such a thing. "Prêtre Perfide"? How terribly cruel of you. [ The smirk on his face and his tone of voice, though, indicate that he's being completley sarcastic. ]

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[rocker]

[ what is Christianity.. aka crosses and 'Church' don't really.. make sense to him as much. So instead of that, David here is focusing on another part of the man's message instead. ]

You are right in your assumptions, you are not alone here. There are actually quite some people in this city who have been taken from their original homes, from what I have gathered so far. [ speaking with his usual calm pokerface, even with Kirei's.. special.. atmosphere.. ]

It also seems they do not particularly care about the duties or tasks we have left behind.

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[problemshirou.livejournal.com]

[ What is Christianity indeed you're Jewish, man. ]

So my assumptions are indeed correct. I previously believed it to be the case, but to have a proper confirmation is good as well.

Hmph, is that so? There is nothing to be done about it, yet it is still annoying when they do such things.

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[oneshot-wonder.livejournal.com]

[Don't mind me, just being Kiritsugu's lookalike]

What could keep a man of the church busy?

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[problemshirou.livejournal.com]

[ Yeah he doesn't mind it... at all... of course... on the surface anyway. ]

You assume that there is nothing like that? To believe that we have plenty of free time with nothing to do at all can only be a sign of quite terrible ignorance. [ He never mentioned that he is not just a priest but a mediator for a war between magi and a secret agent. And also a massive troll and above all, manipulative and professional Evil Villain. These are mostly what keep him busy recently. ]

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[croibhristeoir]

[Sup, just being a Lancer in glasses here. And not looking too happy.]

'Kotomine Kirei'?

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[problemshirou.livejournal.com]

[ WOAH MASSIVE BLAST FROM THE PAST HERE though he only remembers you from spying for Tokiomi. But he knows who this guy is and managed to recognize him even with the glasses (wow what's up with that) but of course he doesn't show a sign of any of that. ]

Correct. What is it? Does that name mean anything to you? But I do not believe we have met nor spoken. [ This is, after all, true. Easy to pretend that he has not the slightest idea of who this person even is that way. But if Lancer recognizes him as a previous Master, he will drop the act quickly. For now, though, he will act like they're total strangers. The Fourth War's Lancer shouldn't, logically, know him as a Master, for a variety of reasons including that he was barely notable in any way unless you were one yourself, and even then, only a select few should actually care about this, while the others would probably only remember him as a Master who lost easily. ]

[bodyburning.livejournal.com]

[A PRIEST... (YAY) Even if something almost seems a bit, er, off, Ruler will act courteously as always.]

I see that you have figured much for yourself then. In that case, bonjour, Father Kotomine. Though you say there is no need to refer to you as that, would it be acceptable if I did so by choice?

[problemshirou.livejournal.com]

It is no problem at all. I simply wished to confirm that it would not be an absolute and necessary requirement. But, in that case, I assume that you have a reason to specifically choose to call me that. Would that be correct, miss?

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[babel_hacker]

[The atmosphere from the man is strange and...intimidating. It reminds him of Naoya, his teacher, yet its subtlety is on a different level.]

Seems like you got some of the basics, Mr. Kotomine. Though while they might will themselves to stay ignorant, they might also be influenced by others to ignorance.

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[problemshirou.livejournal.com]

That is logical. Humans are naturally such creatures, after all. They influence each others in more ways than one and often unconsciously.

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[maguskiller.livejournal.com]

[Kiritsugu does not even consider the possibility of responding, just as any other human typically does not consider killing himself. To him, they amount to the same thing.]

[Kiritsugu's concept of death works differently in Prospero. He no longer truly fears anything, seeing as he's able to acquire the methods of an individual the first time he's killed, and subsequently ensure victory in any further attempts.]

[But Kotomine's different. Kiritsugu does not believe in certainty against him. Not with a hundred attempts against his life. If there's one thing he fears in Prospero, above Servants and Shadows, it's the man in the comm.]

[Kiritsugu has long cancelled room service in his hotel room, but his name remains in the register, despite his best attempts at removing it. Perhaps it's a testament to the higher powers the hotel is undoubtedly influenced by, or perhaps it's simply the more rigorous standards of hotel security in the US put at work. In any case, the result is the same. If Kotomine so wished, he would not only find out about his archenemy's existence within Prospero, but also his location.]

[With the first tinges of fear he's felt since the Fourth War, Kiritsugu hopes this isn't the case.]

[action I guess something like that anyway...] 1/2

[problemshirou.livejournal.com]

[ And find out he did. Eventually, Kotomine will go to the hotel with the mysterious force behind it and paying for it; he will make arrangements to move in; he will end up finding the name "Emiya Kiritsugu" written in the register after taking a thorough look to try find out who else is present in this town. He has found quite a few names that intrigue him and that he will make sure to take note of, but there is no name in the world that is capable of fazing him and leaving him standing and staring the way this one does.

—Emiya Kiritsugu. A man he hasn't seen or spoken to in ten years, haven't kept any sort of contact with in ten years. All they did is merely idly ignore the other's existence, as though they were of no consequence to each other at all.

So why shouldn't that continue now? No, he knew Kiritusugu was supposedly dead, but at this point Kirei would have long since find out that such rules don't apply here, so that fact did not matter at all. Supposedly he long since stopped caring since that day, since that moment where he watched Kiritsugu stumble through the flames like a walking corpse. All that drive that the young Kirei felt a moment ago, the desire for a rematch and to teach the man who shot him a lesson-- gone in the face of those empty eyes and Kirei's own disappointment and humiliation in the man who just ignored him and kept on walking as though he just merely passed by. Recalling that—ten years later, there was still no one as capable of making him feel emotions nearly as strongly as this man. And this is just a name, just words on a paper, that originally made him feel what he did. ]

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[problemshirou.livejournal.com]

[ He shouldn't care. He long since stopped caring. What did it matter? The man was long since an empty shell of a man, but on the other hand, unlike ten years ago, even one year ago, Kirei new one thing-- that his search was not meaningless. That he did, eventually, find someone, a single survivor of the fire, and took him in as a son. And to think that he was helping out that very son, running next to him while carrying his real biological daughter in his arms at the same time, helping that son rescue the daughter in question. That supposedly renewed a certain amount of interest in him. The empty vessel of a man who had nothing, and found something to give his life meaning again... Kiritsugu's influence was seen very strongly in the boy named Emiya Shirou. But then, that in itself shouldn't mean anything. The boy was as an empty person as he was; so it is natural that he would fill in the hole inside of him with everything he could find, and thus that Kiritsugu would be the world to him.

A faint curiosity and interest tinged at him. This was a chance, after all. To gain some sort of closure. To find out what happened in those years and what turned out and remained from the man he longed to meet and fought that day. Perhaps to let out his frustration and anger at the opportunity this man denied him, to find an answer to his miserable and meaningless existence. It shouldn't have mattered, given that he received the opportunity for it again... yet after a little bit more of digging later, Kirei Kotomine fond himself standing not close yet not far, but rather within a reasonable distance to the door to Kiritsugu's hotel room in silence— footsteps could be heard to anyone in the rooms nearby, but they stop at one point, seemingly in the middle of walking. And so, within the empty corridor, Kiritsugu does not continue walking, does not say anything, does not to anything but stand and stare and think.

The memories consistently come again. Memories he surely left behind, not caring for them anymore. Maybe it was the strange relationship developed with the man's son, the fact that he surely must have been dead, and everything he knew as a result that lead to some sort of interest, that led to him caring for all this again, that led to the curiosity and the faint drive and motivation to do this— to do what he was supposedly about to do.

So why wasn't he? Because he couldn't help but think, and if he did do this? If he did meet and talk to him? What then? There was no point. There was nothing to gain. Even the closure seemed pointless and meaningless now. He knew that he would be disappointed and dissatisfied. Just like ten years ago. Anger and hatred and frustration began to strongly well up again and he felt like was the man he was ten years ago- no, compared to now, ten years ago, he was more of a lost child seeking for answers. Faith seeking understanding, wasn't it...? Hah, that was exactly what it was, in the most literal sense.

With these feelings rising but kept under the surface and refusing to spill out, Kotomine Kirei simply walked by the room idly and casually as though nothing just happened at all. ]

[best-king.livejournal.com]

[ Oh, hello fake priest. Do you remember this handsome fellow here? If not, you should at least remember that awfully familiar cackling emitting from your cellphone. ]

[problemshirou.livejournal.com]

[ Dat cackle. He can never mistake it. All his dead Servants are coming back today is a good day. ]

You seem to be amused by something, Gilgamesh.

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[ex_cashcow493]

[ Can she just hang up the moment she gets this call or is that too rude even for Saber?? ]

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[problemshirou.livejournal.com]

Saber.

[ oh look who's back to normal... and go ahead he doesn't mind!! ]

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[fatestayhome.livejournal.com]

[...oh. shit.]

...You! What are you doing here!?

['People die when they're killed, dammit!']

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[problemshirou.livejournal.com]

I can ask the same of you, Emiya Shirou. [ And just a moment ago he was running for his life from a blind Berserker beside you...... speaking of which. huh... ] Your arm seems to be doing better.