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[steelminded]

I'm telling you, I need to go back to save her from whatever he plans to do with her!

[Pictured: One ginger-haired teen yelling at the side, his right hand holding the phone which is pointing at himself, his left hand is cut off from the screen, though.

Not pictured and heard: The person he's arguing with.

Got that? Good, because that's exactly what you're seeing right now.]

...

What do you mean I'm in love with her? She's just an ally right now!

[There's a frustrated sigh as he then turned his head to face the camera, left hand dropping down right as he does that.]

Er, sorry about that, a-anyways, uh, they called us here to be heroes, right?

[The teen looked awkward about this.]

I would love to help, but I'm in the middle of something bigger right now, so if you guys can point me back to a plane ticket to Japan, it'd be great-

[And then he raised his left hand, showing a tomato, as he just glared at it.]

I told you, she's not my girlfriend!

[...Uh, before the 'argument' has a chance to continue, the teen is going to just. Cut off the feed because he's pretty sure he's now painting the first impression that he's actually a nutcase.

And before you ask, yes, that earlier person, was in fact, the 'tomato' he was holding just now.]

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[steelminded]

I'm just in front of the MAC right now, if you want to meet there.

[...speaking of meeting up, though-]

Or we could get lunch.

[promised_victory]

[She perks up a bit at the idea of lunch.]

I have a few weeks worth of stipends. I could pay for lunch for both of us.

[He just got here. she's not going to be totally rude and demand he cook for her right away....]

[steelminded]

Is it alright? I mean, I can pay for your share too.

[Because it just doesn't feel right if he's treated by a close acquaintance!!!]

[promised_victory]

I insist. You have cooked for me often enough and I doubt you even have your first payment from your stipend. Please. Allow me to treat you this time.

[steelminded]

...When you put it that way...

[Sigh.]

Alright, but just this once.

And now that I'm back from my trip I'll be able to boomerang! Yaaay!

[promised_victory]

Then let us go.

[Perma-action~!]

[Saber approaches the entrance of the MAC and makes a beeline when she sees Shirou's red hair amongst the crowd.]

AW YEAH

[steelminded]

Saber!

[Going to call her name when he noticed her amidst the crowd.

Good, she's really alright, so maybe this place isn't so bad at all...!]

BOOMERANG: GO!

[promised_victory]

[She practically runs up to him, stops abruptly before him to put her hands on his shoulders and scrutinize him from head to toe.]

You have not changed at all, Shirou.

[steelminded]

Of course I haven't, it'd be weird if I did.

[...it's just strange to assume that, you know.]

[promised_victory]

I apologize, it's been a few weeks from my perspective. This business with time differences gets away from me at times.

timeline wise this is probably after rin talked him out about fighting archer

[steelminded]

...Ah, yeah. Time differences, I completely forgot about that.

[on the wake of knowing Tohsaka is safe and Archer is here, a lot of things are kind of having difficulty staying in his head.

especially with Saber here.]

Sounds about right. What are you okay with Shirou being spoiled on?

[promised_victory]

Where in the Grail War are you from, then?

[She has to check to be sure. It's nice to know Shirou will be okay after the war thanks to Rin, but it's another thing to actually see it.]

anything besides Archer's identity, I suppose-!

[steelminded]

[...And then his face falls, considering that scene was still playing in the back of his mind.]

Archer betrayed Tohsaka.

[yeah.]