A-Ah, [ He blushes. It's nothing heavy, but even if he didn't answer her, that alone was telling enough about what she meant to him. ] well, she is my Servant, after all. But... I do. Saber means a lot to me.
[ It was easier to say to someone else rather than saying something as brave as that to Saber's face (not without getting flustered, that is.) Shirou cared about her quite a bit. Enough so that if he had it his way, he would have been the one protecting her from everything that came their way. But Shirou also understood that things didn't work that way in the Holy Grail War. Although they fought together...
Saber was strong. Very strong. As long as he could fight alongside her, that's what mattered in the end. He takes a moment's pause from preparing the rest of the dish (all that was left was to get the tall frying pan heated and the salmon packets wrapped up for baking on the stovetop,) his smile lifting a bit more as he listens to Mash talk about her Master in kind. ]
With someone like you by her side, I bet it's worth every second.
[ He liked her. He could tell that she was a good person— more than that, actually. And between how Ritsuka talked about Mash and even from just this brief time spent with her, teaching her something so simple as making a salmon dish, he truly believed in what he said.
That, and there was little that could change his mind once Emiya Shirou was set on something. He was stubborn like that. ]
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[ It was easier to say to someone else rather than saying something as brave as that to Saber's face (not without getting flustered, that is.) Shirou cared about her quite a bit. Enough so that if he had it his way, he would have been the one protecting her from everything that came their way. But Shirou also understood that things didn't work that way in the Holy Grail War. Although they fought together...
Saber was strong. Very strong. As long as he could fight alongside her, that's what mattered in the end. He takes a moment's pause from preparing the rest of the dish (all that was left was to get the tall frying pan heated and the salmon packets wrapped up for baking on the stovetop,) his smile lifting a bit more as he listens to Mash talk about her Master in kind. ]
With someone like you by her side, I bet it's worth every second.
[ He liked her. He could tell that she was a good person— more than that, actually. And between how Ritsuka talked about Mash and even from just this brief time spent with her, teaching her something so simple as making a salmon dish, he truly believed in what he said.
That, and there was little that could change his mind once Emiya Shirou was set on something. He was stubborn like that. ]