"What did you mean by that, Assassin?"
Driving the sedan steadily, Kirei Kotomine kept his eyes on the road as he questioned his Servant.
"Why do you think you were chosen by the Holy Grail, Master?"
Sakumura Anno merely took out another book—more precisely, a journal he had written himself—and began flipping through it.
"The Holy Grail only chooses those who desperately desire it. You say you do not desire the Holy Grail, yet that in itself is a paradox."
"Even I cannot see what it is you want, Master."
"I only know that there is something you desperately desire. That is all. Do you understand?"
"We're almost there. Eaglefall Cliff."
Without answering Sakumura Anno's question, Kirei Kotomine simply gave him a reminder.
"Eaglefall Cliff? Ah, the place where I died?"
Sakumura seemed to come to a realization before understanding what place Kirei Kotomine meant.
He smiled, though who knew what he was thinking.
So they had named that cliff this.
"Assassin, why did you want to visit the place where you died?"
Kirei Kotomine was somewhat curious about that.
Ordinarily, the cause of one's own death would be something one avoided discussing, perhaps even considered taboo. Yet after his request had been granted, the first place Sakumura Anno wanted to visit was the cliff from which he had leapt.
All in all—it was abnormal.
"To see my sword."
Sakumura did not elaborate. He merely said that, then seemed to recall something and asked another question.
"By the way, do you know someone named Okita Soji?"
"Okita Soji? I remember him. He should have been an old acquaintance of yours, the captain of the Shinsengumi's First Division."
"Him?"
Sakumura Anno blankly turned his head to look at Kirei Kotomine.
"What is it?"
Kirei Kotomine was also somewhat puzzled.
"...Okita was