"Emiya Kiritsugu's former title was [Mage Killer]. Among magi, he was undoubtedly a notorious figure."
Anno did not try to excuse Emiya Kiritsugu. Since Shirou Emiya had chosen to ask, Anno had an obligation to tell him everything that had happened.
This was an obligation Anno had to fulfill—as someone who had experienced the previous Holy Grail War as Emiya Kiritsugu's Servant, as someone who had fought for Emiya Kiritsugu's ideals.
Shirou Emiya did not move. He simply sat there, silently listening to everything Anno told him, silently listening to things about Emiya Kiritsugu that he had never known.
"But the day before the previous Holy Grail War began, that Mage Killer suddenly vanished. At that time, he was taken in as a son-in-law by the Einzbern Family and, through a transaction, became the secret weapon they had prepared for the Fourth Holy Grail War."
"Though Emiya Kiritsugu was a notorious Mage Killer who had always operated at the center of conflict and earned nothing but infamy, I still have to say this: Emiya Kiritsugu's ultimate goal was [justice]."
"From his youth into adulthood, the many tragedies and horrors he witnessed made him desperately seek a world free of contradictions and conflict. But he could not find a way to realize that ideal. In the end, he could only place his hopes in the so-called [omnipotent wish-granting machine]—the Holy Grail."
"The Einzbern Family wished to use the Holy Grail to achieve the Third Magic, but in the first three Holy Grail Wars, both the Masters they sent and the Servants they summoned had proven insufficiently powerful. So, in the Fourth Holy Grail War, they chose to seek outside assistance in hopes of changing things. Thus, both sides, each with their own motives, reached an agreement. That was—"
"Emiya Kiritsugu would