"Assassin, what was the point of doing all this?"
In a hotel in Kuji City, Kirei Kotomine dried his hair with a towel and asked Sakumura, who was already lying down with his head resting on his arms.
He still did not understand. He truly did not understand.
"Kirei Kotomine, you really are an unbearably boring man."
Sakumura lifted the notebook covering his face, glanced at his Master, and rolled his eyes.
"It concerned me. Seeing it pissed me off, so I did something about it. There was no deeper meaning. If you have to seek meaning in everything you do, then perhaps life itself has no meaning."
"Life..."
Kirei Kotomine casually tossed the towel aside, sat down on the edge of the bed, and said nothing more.
"Kirei Kotomine, you aren't a normal person. I'm sure you know that yourself." Sakumura covered his face with the booklet again and crossed one leg over the other.
Kirei Kotomine did not answer.
"What exactly is your true nature? I think you're a little like the person I once was, yet completely different."
"You restrain yourself, but even as you restrain yourself, you are lost."
"Am I right?"
"You pry into me because you wish to understand something? I don't think my past is worth prying into."
Kirei Kotomine turned around, frowning as he looked at Sakumura Anno.
"Though I'm not exactly pleased about it, you are my Master when all is said and done. We're partners for the duration of this Holy Grail War. Is it strange to want to know a little about my partner's past?"
"After all, my past is written in the history books, while yours is known only to yourself."
"...Get some sleep. We still have to go to Kyoto tomorrow."
After a long silence, Kirei Kotomine