Thirty-Fourth Projection

[wontdieifkilled]

[Audio; Action for Violet City]

[Now that the weather has cleared up, Shirou is outside and laying down on the grass, near the pond on the northern edge of town. After thinking for a while, he decides to muse a bit.]

You know...I've never had a mother figure before. I don't remember my birth mother. I had a father figure and a big sister figure, but that was all I had growing up. I used to try to ignore this day when it came, because there was no point in observing it and there was no point in dwelling on it.

So to finally get one now...it's strange. It just feels different. I'm eighteen years old -- though I guess I'm still seventeen back home -- and now I have someone who I should have had all my life.

Well, better late than never, I guess.

[Video; filtered to Irisviel]

Hey, I sent you a package. Did you get it yet?

[Said package is a brand new umbrella. It's pure white, with silver trim, and it's high-quality.]

Comments

[audio]

[hurtitselfinconfusion]

What's the matter? Are you too scared of me? Heh.

[audio]

[wontdieifkilled]

Why would I be scared of a child?

[audio]

[hurtitselfinconfusion]

I'm stronger than most of the people here.

[...Or so she assumes.]

[audio]

[wontdieifkilled]

I've been here for almost two years. I promise you I'm stronger.

[audio]

[hurtitselfinconfusion]

That doesn't count! It's just your stupid monsters that are stronger.

This place messes with stuff! If I could still activate it, then...

[audio]

[wontdieifkilled]

Oh, that.

[Of course, Shirou is geared toward one thing with his abilities.]

There's more to things than strength.

[So he's going to try this.]

[audio]

[hurtitselfinconfusion]

Yeah, like speed, balance, strategy, and aim... I know all that.

[audio]

[wontdieifkilled]

Other stuff. Like when not to fight.

[audio]

[hurtitselfinconfusion]

Picking your battles?

Don't mock me. Do you think I'm an idiot? I know how to pick my targets.

[audio]

[wontdieifkilled]

That's not what I'm talking about. Sometimes you can solve problems with words instead of blades. You can save a lot of problems with that.

[audio]

[hurtitselfinconfusion]

[Darkly,] ...Liar.

Humans can't understand each other. All we do is kill each other. Words can't solve anything.

[audio]

[wontdieifkilled]

You're wrong. I once got through to a person I was fighting against with my words.

[audio]

[hurtitselfinconfusion]

I bet you just tricked them into it.

[audio]

[wontdieifkilled]

I'm the last person who'd trick someone. Just ask someone else I know and they'll tell you how honest I am.

[audio]

[hurtitselfinconfusion]

I'm not going to trust the word of one of your lackeys that you're honest!

You think a whipped dog admits that it's unhappy?

[audio]

[wontdieifkilled]

...Lackeys. I.

...

...What.

[He does sound pretty genuinely confused. His mun, however, is dying of laughter.]

[audio]

[hurtitselfinconfusion]

Well... you could have those people under your control! They'll agree to anything you say!

[The mun is glad that Chris' fail logic is amusing]

[audio]

[wontdieifkilled]

That's...seriously one of the craziest things I've heard since I got here. You know how badly they'd object to being called "lackeys?"

[audio]

[hurtitselfinconfusion]

How should I know? I've never met them!

[audio]

[wontdieifkilled]

Let me put it this way. If you called most of them lackeys of mine, they'd be more inclined to hit me for it than agree.

[audio]

[hurtitselfinconfusion]

Oh, so you're their lackey. I get it. They trust you because you're a good dog!

[audio]

[wontdieifkilled]

Nope. Wrong again. Just how many assumptions are you going to make?

[audio]

[hurtitselfinconfusion]

I don't see anything proving me wrong!

[audio]

[wontdieifkilled]

The burden of proof is on the accuser, not the accused. Innocent until proven guilty.

[audio]

[hurtitselfinconfusion]

...People actually believe in that?