EMIYA - Kiritsugu
You, Like a Smiling Flower
Narration: It was just another job.
Narration: To them, it was just another minute Singularity. To me, it was a threat to be eliminated as a Counter Guardian.
Narration: There's no need to go into details. A target emerged, and needed to be taken care of.
Narration: I simply do what I was meant to do: I search for the enemy, engage, and eliminate them.
Narration: The fewer people I engage with, the better. At least, that's a personal choice of mine.
Narration: Heroic Spirits. Heroes. Many of those are mere shadows of mass murderers.
Narration: In my opinion, they are all repulsive. I prefer not to be by their side when fighting.
Narration: But working completely independently is also difficult.
Narration: It must be because of my lack of freedom as a Servant.
Narration: Requiring Master to accompany us for Rayshifts is a pain. But I suppose that has turned out to be a blessing in disguise...
Narration: Fujimaru, or Master, is quick to understand. And so we were progressing smoothly. This time is no different.
Narration: The source of the minute Singularity... It could be a fragment of a Holy Grail, or a remnant of the original abnormality in the timeline.
Narration: But they are all simple to track. A majority of them can be eradicated and handled with a single attack.
Narration: Should it be a life-form, we kill it. If it is an inanimate object, we destroy it.
Narration: We seek it out, and then swiftly...
Emiya: ...This time around, it's quite clear-cut.
Emiya: It must be a remnant of the many things you defeated. It's not as powerful as what we encountered in the final Singularity.
Emiya: It's not alive. It's already dead.
Emiya: But it's taken in a shard of a Holy Grail.
Emiya: Which then it turned into a minute Singularity. What a pain. There are far too many Holy Grails...
Emiya: ...and, of course, shards in this Grand Order.
Fujimaru 1: Sorry to take up your time, Emiya.
Emiya: Likewise. Sorry to rope you into this.
Fujimaru 2: Thanks for finding it so quickly.
Emiya: Finding the problem and dealing with it swiftly is my forte. I should be the one thanking you.
Emiya: Now let's do it. I'm sure IT'S also tired of waiting for us.
Fujimaru 1: Commence battle!
Emiya: Understood, Master.
--BATTLE--:
Emiya: It ends here, you worthless pile of nothing. I'm sure you're sick of living as an empty shell.
Emiya: Mission completed, Master.
Emiya: The minute Singularity has disappeared. We should hurry back to Chaldea.
Fujimaru 1: Good work, Emiya.
Fujimaru 2: We got it done quick thanks to you.
Emiya: It was nothing. I just did my job.
Jaguar Warrior: ...
Irisviel: ......
Jaguar Warrior: .........
Irisviel: ............
Fujimaru 1: Um...
Fujimaru 2: What are you two doing in front of Emiya's room?
Jaguar Warrior: Mrow!?
Jaguar Warrior: Hmmm hmmm hmmm, fweet tweet tweet♪ (Humming and whistling)
Irisviel: Um, it's actually a bit of a long story...
Irisviel: ...
Irisviel: It has nothing to do with the Holy Grail. I am...like a Divided Spirit that poured out of the Holy Grail...
Irisviel: That makes me unique among all the Heroic Spirits. But me standing right here is not related to that whatsoever.
Irisviel: ...We're just taking a peek.
Fujimaru 1: It's exactly how it looks!
Jaguar Warrior: When you're stalking prey, you hide in the darkness! This jaguar is sad to know you forgot the laws of the jungle!
Irisviel: That's not it. We're not out to kill anyone!
Fujimaru 2: Why don't you just talk to him?
Irisviel: Yes...you're right. We know that's the right thing to do...
Irisviel: But that man doesn't want to see us. Even when we speak to him, he just walks away...
Irisviel: Honestly, we've run out of options.
Jaguar Warrior: (Gasp!) Here he comes!
Jaguar Warrior: Deploying Noble Phantasm “Jaguar in the Black”! It'll make this whole place SUPER dark!
Jaguar Warrior: Come on, Miss Iri and Master! This way!
Jaguar Warrior: Be like glue, stick together and become one with the darkness...!
Irisviel: Ah! My shadow...!?
Fujimaru 1: Is that a Noble Phantasm you don't use in battle!?
Fujimaru 2: You sound like a boss.
C：Jaguar Warrior: (Hmmm...like the “Dancer in the Dark.” Perfect. Nobody can see us from the outside!)
C：Jaguar Warrior: (It's a nagual-like Presence Concealment. Behold, it can even hide friends other than Jaguar!)
E：Irisviel: (Wow, how wonderful.)
C：Jaguar Warrior: (Yep, yep. Miss Iri, you really are accepting and wonderful too, meow. You get a Jaguar stamp... Stamp! Once more for good measure.)
E：Irisviel: (Teehee. You flatter me, Jaguar Warrior.)
C：Jaguar Warrior: (By the way, it will only work for Jaguar during battle. Obviously, I can't hide an entire group in the middle of a fight!)
C：Jaguar Warrior: (Our prey is heading towards the Command Room. Come on let's TAIL him!)
E：Irisviel: (Roger that! Come on. Master, you too. Hold your breath and follow us. We're in this together now!)
Fujimaru 1: I guess I'll tag along.
C：Jaguar Warrior: (That's the spirit! Big Sis is glad to have an understanding Master. Here, I'll give you this wonderful dead spider as a reward!)
C：Jaguar Warrior: (Eh? You don't want it? But it's a paw-sitively perfect gift!)
Fujimaru 2: Chaldea has enough stalkers...
C：Jaguar Warrior: (Yeah, Jaguar thinks so too. I'm a teacher, after all. But they say: eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth, and a Blaze for a Bunyan.)
C：Jaguar Warrior: (It's Emiya's fault for being so secretive. Even Big Sis thinks... No, that's not my point.)
C：Jaguar Warrior: (Even I'm concerned for him. What in the world happened to him to make him act like that.)
C：Jaguar Warrior: (What's with the dark, gloomy aura? If we leave him alone, he's definitely gonna die alone.)
E：Irisviel: (...Yes. I can't just sit idly by and watch that happen to him.)
Emiya: ............
F：Emiya: .........
Emiya: ......?
F：Emiya: ...
E：Irisviel: (It appears he was speaking with that Archer.)
C：Jaguar Warrior: (What were they talking about? Let's go ask!)
Jaguar Warrior: Mee-wow, Emiyan! The Emiyan who at least makes us feel kind of comfortable!
F：Emiya: ... (She appeared out of nowhere again...) Hello, jungle spirit. What business do you have with me?
Jaguar Warrior: Ah... You're one of the few people who treats me properly, as a spirit! I paw-sitively love that!
Jaguar Warrior: I'm compelled to send over a nice hawk carcass or something as a gift...but now's not the time. What were you HAWKing about!?
Fujimaru 1: That's...direct.
E：Irisviel: (Yes, that's the kind of bluntness I'd expect from Jaguar Warrior...)
Fujimaru 2: That was a lame pun, but hopefully he didn't notice her true intent.
E：Irisviel: (The Assassin... He left already, so hopefully it's not that obvious. Oh my, wait a minute...)
E：Irisviel: (Does that mean we lost sight of him!?)
F：Emiya: ...
F：Emiya: Oh, well.
F：Emiya: After all, no matter how chaotic and full of ulterior motives your actions are, at least it's all usually done with the best intentions.
Jaguar Warrior: Yep, yep. That's because I'm an animal.
F：Emiya: He asked about my magical energy consumption during battle. I answered as best I could.
Jaguar Warrior: Oh. That's insignifiCAT.
E：Irisviel: (Yes, that's quite ordinary.)
Jaguar Warrior: Whatever! I've GATO-go, first Emiyan! Or actually, maybe you should be second...?
Jaguar Warrior: Anyway, until next time! It'd be nice if you made some good ta-PAWS so that I can have a nice drink soon!
E：Irisviel: (Ah! Jaguar Warrior, wait, wait!)
Altria: Yes, I spoke briefly with him.
Altria: We spoke about what to be mindful when battling in groups. Other than that, nothing else significant...
Diarmuid: Yes. I did just speak with him.
Diarmuid: We talked about battles in the Singularity. It wasn't that long of a conversation.
Diarmuid: I actually had some questions for him of my own...but that should be for another time.
Lord El-Melloi II: We spoke on various topics in magecraft.
Lord El-Melloi II: He asked me a few things about grand magecraft and ritualistic magecraft, mainly about Mystic Codes.
Lord El-Melloi II: And about the magical energy consumed when using things like that...
Lord El-Melloi II: It was quite insignificant. It could have been covered in a few short words, really.
Lord El-Melloi II: He was likely...
Lord El-Melloi II: No, I'd rather not. This isn't something to involve myself in based only on speculation.
Jaguar Warrior: Argh. We lost him! Big Sis is a-paw-led!
Irisviel: ...
Fujimaru 1: Huh? Does Iri look relieved?
Fujimaru 2: She looks happy, actually.
Irisviel: Yes, you're right.
Irisviel: I'm just happy. I was worried that he was all alone in Chaldea...
Irisviel: That's what I've been concerned about this whole time. It's always been on my mind.
Irisviel: But maybe that was just my selfishness talking. No matter which “what if” version of him would appear...
Irisviel: To think that I would be needed...
Irisviel: I am such a greedy woman. I may not look like it, but I'm supposed to be a mature wife...
Jaguar Warrior: Ku...guwah!
Jaguar Warrior: For Master Iri to say words like “mature” and “wife” without hesitation...ahhh, she has so much adultness!
Irisviel: Oh, y-you think so? A-and what exactly is “adultness”?
Jaguar Warrior: This Jaguar is moved. I'm at a loss. But I haven't lost the game! NEVER SURRENDER!
Jaguar Warrior: Remember to always be a tough cookie, and grin and bear it!
Jaguar Warrior: Dammit! We're going to play again...fur real soon!
Fujimaru 1: It's gone...
Fujimaru 2: Um, for now, good work...?
Irisviel: ...
--SECTION BREAK--:
Narration: ...I managed to get away. Ugh, what a pain.
Narration: Divided Spirits like goddesses...two special Servants. Having their attention is nothing but trouble.
Narration: First Servant: Irisviel von Einzbern. Second Servant: Jaguar Warrior.
Narration: Those two seem to want to talk to me excessively, and it's obvious that they don't like me to be isolated in the way I prefer.
Narration: That is why I sought out other Servants to talk to. I am not used to conversing with heroes of the past.
Narration: I'm assuming El-Melloi II must have caught on, but he's not one to talk. He's that kind of man.
Narration: ...Now, are the two Servants satisfied?
Narration: It really is a pain in the ass...
Narration: But this is nothing new. This isn't the first time I felt the burning gaze of two Servants in Chaldea.
Narration: It's none of their business. I suppose their interest stems from knowing another version of me from some other version of history.
Narration: Or something like that. How stupid.
Narration: Whoever they know, he is not me.
Irisviel: ...Yes, you're right. A different person.
Irisviel: But there must be SOME sort of connection between us. Though you may not believe it...
Irisviel: And besides, my dear...
Irisviel: You're watching me...following me with those eyes. At times. Sometimes.
Emiya: How dare you enter someone else's room. You're like an Assassin.
Emiya: And stop reading others' minds. I know that as a Divided Spirit of a Holy Grail...which makes you a part of the powerful wish-granting device...
Emiya: ...reading one's mind may just be second nature to you. But it's annoying to me.
Irisviel: ...I'm sorry.
Irisviel: I never meant to annoy you. Nor do I wish for you to take an interest in the version of me in this world.
Irisviel: But...you know...to see you so alone...
Irisviel: ...is very painful for me.
B：Emiya: ... ...
B：Emiya: That's your problem.
Irisviel: You're right.
Emiya: ...Not getting involved with others is my decision.
Irisviel: Kiritsugu?
Emiya: Don't call me that. So...you do know that name...
Emiya: ...Please get out. A day may come when the two of us speak...
Emiya: But it is not today, Irisviel von Einzbern.
Irisviel: ...Yes.
Irisviel: I'm sorry, Kiri–
Irisviel: ...Assassin.
Emiya: A terminal of the Holy Grail. Transformed from an Einzbern homunculus.
Emiya: She'll be one formidable opponent.
--SECTION BREAK--:
Illya: I-I just saw Caster run out of Assassin's room, crying!
Chloe: You're right. It seems that way.
Illya: Wh-wh-wh-wh-what does that mean!? And why...why is my heart racing so much right now!?
Chloe: ...Who knows? Maybe because you're such a simpleminded brat?