[It didn't take much for him to accept the implied offer, hugging Takame like someone desperate for a lifeline.]
[He hadn't been wrong to curse everyone and everything. No, far from it--it wasn't fear of that rage which had Waver so shaken, but revulsion and fury things had ever gone so far and gotten so terrible. And he knew, if he considered it, what Kiritsugu's hand in all this must have been--an offer to withdraw. Except in this world, that offer had been deemed worth taking.]
S...sorry, I--I'm okay, just give me a second.
[He detested them all the same in that moment; the Mage Killer and Lord El-Melloi both. If your only choice was that or death, then you should have just died. Was that reasonable? Probably not. And he didn't care.]
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[He hadn't been wrong to curse everyone and everything. No, far from it--it wasn't fear of that rage which had Waver so shaken, but revulsion and fury things had ever gone so far and gotten so terrible. And he knew, if he considered it, what Kiritsugu's hand in all this must have been--an offer to withdraw. Except in this world, that offer had been deemed worth taking.]
S...sorry, I--I'm okay, just give me a second.
[He detested them all the same in that moment; the Mage Killer and Lord El-Melloi both. If your only choice was that or death, then you should have just died. Was that reasonable? Probably not. And he didn't care.]