Amber ⚔ 1

[onlypath]

[how long has Shirou been here, using the amber every once in a while to talk to a couple of people, but never outright saying anything to the public? almost two months? how much time has passed? granted Shirou isn't much of a 'public speaker' so to speak.

otherwise whenever he finally got a cell phone his contacts list would be rather small. but here was a little different. everyone was just like him, right? they all came from different worlds, those that banded together to take on that snake some time ago (unfortunately he missed the aftermath), and even within his own circle of friends and allies...]

Hopefully everyone I met when that snake came a while ago is doing alright. I don't think there was a lot of time for us to get to know each other with everything going on, but,

[he lightly smiles before blinking into the amber. ...this was working, right? he was fine with technology and he's used it before. but not to talk to...well, everyone]

Ah...well, anyway, for anyone that I haven't met here yet, my name's Shirou Emiya. I'm from Fuyuki City in Japan, for anyone who might know where that is. Nice to meet you all. [what else? this wasn't like introducing himself in school. realizing that, he stops there]

Let's see...

To be honest, I'm not sure what else to say. We're all in the same situation here, but it's only a matter of time until we figure out a way to go back home. I like to think I'm pretty good at fixing things here. [but not just for fixing things] If anyone needs a hand with anything around here, let me know.

[a beat]

Yosh. That shou-

[talking to himself as he taps the amber, he doesn't realize he cut himself off. ah well, it was a start! now what to do for dinner tonight...]

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amber;

[onlypath]

Ah? [oh no] I thought I heard some idiot say something just now... [it's happening] Can't place my finger on it though.

[steelmyself]

Hmm, you can't hear yourself? That is a problem.

[onlypath]

You didn't come here to just berate me, did you? Maybe getting to know more people here will help us figure out more about this place.

[always with the justifications to his reasons]

[steelmyself]

Why not come here just to berate you? Your ideals are irritating and will probably get in the way of us finding an actual way out of here.

[onlypath]

[he wants to say every obvious thing in the book right now]

How's that supposed to get in the way of helping everyone here when that's what I'm trying to do?

["how is that not helping people when i'm trying to help people?" says Emiya Shirou]

[steelmyself]

In following your meaningless ideals, you see only people to be saved. In truth, the way out of this place will be more troublesome and complicated.

And some sacrifices will have to be made to achieve it.

[onlypath]

We don't know what it's going to take yet. Unless you know something about this place that I don't.

[steelmyself]

I can draw some conclusions.

The last attempt to learn more ended in suffering, didn't it?

[onlypath]

[he lightly sighs to that]

We're lucky it wasn't worse... [he can acknowledge what's suffering. seeing it encourages him to want to stop it even more] That's probably because we did something wrong. It wasn't what we thought was the answer, but the more we do things right, the better our chances of getting somewhere.

[steelmyself]

"Somewhere" could be ruin and despair, you realize.

[gandere]

[ Are you two seriously going to do this where everyone can hear?? ]

[onlypath]

[any less would be a disservice to the Emiya line. post-Kiritsugu that is]

[knight_king]

[ They are still boys. ]