Other things concerned you in my timeline than providing an answer to the ghost of all you'd cast aside.

[ No, Archer got no answer from the Shirou he met in the Holy Grail War. How could he, a being who bound himself so utterly to his ideals that his very self fossilized within their sediment before shattering again, learn anything from a boy who turned away from that very dream?

(And yet--and yet, he remembers that at the last moment, when he could have stayed on to clean up the mess of the shadow and protect many people, instead he gave himself up to its lunging tendrils in order to save just one. As the Shirou he knew gave it all up to protect Sakura. That means nothing, doesn't it?)

He puts the thought away along with so many others. ]

But you still follow those things to your ruin, and the ruin of so many others.

You cannot be both an ally to Rin and an ally to justice, Shirou Emiya. There will always come a time when you must choose one over the other.