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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]

Fine. I'd prefer you stay safe either way. Just to be sure, when I'm not around, she's at your side at all times?

[codere]

Of course.

I'll have to start coming with you on these various runs of yours if I can't be with her at work. What a pain, but it is what it is. I can't complain now that I've put a target on my back.

[ She sounds disappointed in herself. ]

[swordboning]

I don't mind carrying you around. I only mind it when you're intentionally being lazy. But should I ask?

[codere]

I don't need to actually be carried.

Believe it or not, I can run really well.

Well, you probably don't trust me when I say things of that nature, but that's all right. I'll prove it someday.

[swordboning]

No matter how well you run, you won't be as fast as me. I'll carry you.

[Whelp, dropping that one topic.]

[codere]

Some things we can't outrun.

You were busy at work today, right?

[swordboning]

Somewhat. Is there something you need to know?

[codere]

No, but there's something you need to know.

Your Master was foolish.

[swordboning]

How so? I'm going to doubt that.

[codere]

There was a strange post made earlier in the evening.

During it, I allowed my ego to inflate and got ahead of myself. Admitted some of what I could do.

[swordboning]

The keyword is some. That much is fine. Just don't show your full capabilities for a while.

[codere]

It's unlikely they will eliminate me due to what I read in another conversation.

Good thing I thought said that instead of verbally said that.

Anyway, I think it'll be okay in the end. I'll be on edge for a long time. I was just starting to let my guard down and that was childish of me.

[swordboning]

Whatever mistakes you think you've made, I'll make up for them. That's my role as a Servant. Saber will also do the same. So don't fret.

[codere]

Thank you, Archer.

It's a good thing I have you here. Sometimes I don't think Saber understands the severity of our situation.

[swordboning]

Saber doesn't know about much of anything but fighting. Take her out of her element and she's like an amphibian out of water who is just realized that it can breathe.

[codere]

She sure enjoys eating every single thing she can get her hands on.

Are you sure fighting is the only thing she knows?

[swordboning]

I'm absolutely sure.

[codere]

Kind of how terrorism is the only thing I know, huh? [ Teasing.

It must be embarrassing to be paired with a Master he most likely would have had to kill in his future. ]

[swordboning]

I would say electronics is a better metaphor.

[codere]

You just want me to appear somehow human when compared to someone like you.

[ She wants to argue she's not, but somehow she was revived. GG Holy Grail. ]

[swordboning]

I'm far from being a human. If I were not a Servant right now, I'd be a Counter-Guardian.

[codere]

I don't believe those exist in the world any more. If they did, where were they when NERO was starting to take over? It shouldn't be up to humans to clean up the mess of other humans when Counter-Guardians were created for that purpose alone.

[ If only she could "HMPH!" in her thoughts. ]

[swordboning]

Counter-Guardians don't just simply appear at our own whim. We're given specific instructions and dropped in specific time periods. As long as humans exist, Counter-Guardians do too.

[codere]

So what you're saying it's possible Counter-Guardians were deployed at a time prior to my own in order to try to change the events? If there were any at all?

That's stupid.

[swordboning]

I'm saying that I have no idea what happened at all.