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[swordboning]

...you've reached Archer. Leave a message and if it's suitable, I'll get back to you.

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[swordboning]

If I wasn't an Archer, I never would have met the other you. Which means I never would have met you. I don't regret my class, if that's what you're asking.

[codere]

It's not what I'm asking.

I'm asking what's your fascination with swords. Emiya here isn't all that great at them.

[swordboning]

Do you really want to ask that question?

[Because he'll start on a long discussion. Does Rin really want to sit through that?]

[codere]

I'm listening.

[ Surprisingly yes. ]

[swordboning]

Swords are what drove culture in the medieval ages in Europe and during Japan's samurai days. It was an interesting development. During Roman times, the Romans used a strong shield and a very short sword, more often referred to as a gladius. Their common foes, the Gauls and Germans, used large two-handed swords. Despite being victorious over their foes, proving that a shield, short sword, and discipline are superior, why did the world start shifting over to heavier swords and heavier armor?

[codere]

If I had to guess, which you're forcing me to without the use of a library nearby, it's because they started giving more and more people weapons. Armies grew larger and due to this, opposing sides had to develop alternative means to take down their foes.

[swordboning]

You're partially right. The other part is because of the increasing size of the peasantry, swords became too difficult to use. Instead, they began equipping peasant with lances and axes and only knights began using swords. Since the thickness of their armor increased over time, the size of their swords did also.

[codere]

Plus the thicker armor protected them from spears and axes since they don't have nearly enough weight behind them as a sword.

So what? You have a knight complex or something?

[swordboning]

The knight's weapons are fine. Their ideals are useless.

[Shaking his head.]

Even someone like me can recreate Saber's Noble Phantasm, even in a weakened state. But those are the kinds of things I like. How she lives her life, I sincerely dislike.

[codere]

So as long as you look the part, but don't subscribe to the lifestyle, you're content with that?

Playing pretend like that is infuriating.

[swordboning]

I'm absolutely fine with that.

[Says the guy who helps out others here on a frequent basis. But refuses to admit that he's helping.]

If it makes you mad, I don't know what to say.

[codere]

It's perplexing, but I don't have the energy to be sour with you. [ Good thing she's the laziest person here. ]

What about a samurai? That's kind of a knight with a different set of ideals.

[swordboning]

Samurai are hypocrites. I don't want anything to do with them and their false ideals.

[They make him more bitter than knights. Yep.]

[codere]

So what do you do? Live for yourself and what you believe in?

You don't call yourself a knight or a samurai, yet you're all right with something like Archer?

[swordboning]

I'm fine with people referring to me as Archer or 'Rin's boyfriend'. Either one is a perfectly fine association for me.

[codere]

[ AVOIDS EYE CONTACT AT THAT. ] Err, is it because Archer is one of the knight classes of Servants?

[swordboning]

If you skip the other one, it loses its impact.

[codere]

The other one? [ EXPLAIN. ]

[swordboning]

"Rin's boyfriend". That one.

[The one that embarrassed her.]

[codere]

It's better than Rin's Servant.

I was tired of people assuming I was a slave driver.

[swordboning]

...you aren't one?

[Said with a sort of wink.]

[codere]

Is that what turns you on the most, Archer? Being bossed around by a girl half your size?

Because if so, I can do it more.

[swordboning]

[Absolutely silent. AKA washing his dishes that Rin messed up.

He's not admitting to nothing.]

[codere]

You're not answering... that's no fun.

[ Watching him with a bit of a pout. ]

[swordboning]

Does it matter in the long term?