[someone's angry about last fate/zero episode]

[godsholder]

That man! How could he do something like that to him? I don't care what personality was he wearing as shell at the time. Angra is still Angra! He suffered enough! [Protective of her Servant, isn't she? How could you choke him and break his heart, Emiya Kiritsugu? You said you would accept him, you lying cheat.]

I know that wish result was awful, mundane. [A sigh. Karen and she know him better than anyone.] There were other ways to reject it without harming my Avenger.

[Not to mention her wish was granted without world destroying consequences. What now?]

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[maguskiller]

I see. What would you have done?

[If there's any seriousness in his words, it's only due to Bazett's profession. His question is not rhetorical. Emiya Kiritsugu is genuinely interested in her answer. He has gone through that day thousands of times, and it always comes down to the same choice.]

[godsholder]

You swore you were going to accept him. He awoke because you called for him. Did you ever learn about Angra Mainyu?

[She frowns. She's not chiding him about saving the world, really. She's angry because he had to step on that being's feelings and torture them so unnecessarily.]

He didn't need more violence in his existence. There were ways to solve it without regrets of either side.

[No curse coursing in his veins. No bitterness.

She should know. Wasn't she the one who actually got a wish granted without world-destroying consequences? Didn't Avenger himself let himself go without regrets and a clear smile?]

[maguskiller]

[This is a problem. For all his efforts, Kiritsugu only shares his aspirations with his most trusted. Then again, if Bazett already knows what he was trying to do, then there's no point in trying to hide things.]

I swore I would take all evils of the world upon me... but only if it would save the world.

[An all-too-weak clenching of his fist as he reminds himself that that is exactly what he did.]

Accepting the Grail's offer would have accomplished the opposite. Even if it is as you say, nothing was worth that risk.

[Words he would have rather left to his former self. Kiritsugu would have gladly spent his few remaining years without having this conversation.]

[godsholder]

[Mundane-Character fluid communication. She's still unimpressed by that answer. She tries again.]

You haven't answered what I asked. Do you know what Angra Mainyu is?

[She folds her arms. Too many have been confused about him. About what the Grail did]

Couldn't you have rejected the Grail without subjecting Avenger to that torment? What were you trying to do by making Angra hate you?

[Even in his evil nature, Angra forgave everyone in his own way. However, he cursed Kiritsugu Emiya with boiling hatred. Probably, because he had trusted and believed in him and got his expectations betrayed.]

I had my wish granted. What he show you... never happened.

[A bothersome contradiction after all these years. Why? Nasu can't stick to continuity]

[maguskiller]

You don't understand. I didn't try to make it hate me.

[He's talking about Angra Mainyu... and yet, 'it'. Not 'her', as he remembered the being. Not 'him', as Bazett does.]

I tried to kill it. Simply rejecting it would have been for nothing if someone accepted it in the next War.

[It didn't quite work, sadly. Not even after using explosives to try to bury it forever.]

You're right. I didn't know its true nature. I still don't. But I do know something more important, which is what it could have done.

[godsholder]

You still accomplished that.

Either way, you thought that you could? To kill Angra Mainyu, you need to destroy humanity. That's what it is. [She makes a pause. Not quite All Evils of the World. Not really. The real truth was...] It's the reflection of the nature of humanity.

[It'll always exist, even outside the Grail until human kind perishes. He can't die. He's fixed in a hollow place for eternity.]

It doesn't matter anymore. Angra found some semblance of peace and a purpose. He just needed to learn to be a person again. At least for a while, this will do.

[Because he was a boy too. A boy and the wish and the reflection swirled together in one.]

I was venting my anger because I came to care for him.