Rin is proud, but also very slow. So however will she and Archer manage to explore all of Fuyuki in a single day?
Takes place in the Prologue of Fate Stay Night/Unlimited Blade Works, shortly after Rin has summoned Archer.
"What are you doing?" she snaps, her voice high and slightly strangled.
Archer tilts his head in confusion. There's something familiar in the gesture; Rin wishes she could place it. She knows she's seen it before, maybe in a book somewhere. In any case, it isn't helping her embarrassment any. "I'm carrying you," he says, as if it's the most obvious thing in the world.
"I'm not a baby," she sniffs. "I can walk."
His lip curls the faintest amount. "My Master, the future winner of the Holy Grail War, the most powerful magus in Fuyuki, wishes to spend her time—walking."
Well, when he puts it like that…
No. Rin crosses her arms over her chest. She won't let him make her feel weird about this. She can't. "People walk places, Archer. Even magi."
"Maybe," he acknowledges. "But those with Servants have faster methods. Did you not say you wanted to explore all of Fuyuki in one day? We cannot do so letting the legs of a teenage girl set the pace."
Rin's brow gathers at the words teenage girl. She's not sure how old Archer is, but he doesn't look all that much older than her. Then again, from everything she's read, age doesn't work the same way for Servants. He could be a 500-year-old fox demon, for all she knows; or he could be King Tutankhamen, crowned at 9 and dead at 18. The Grail jumbles it all up and spits out what it wants. "My legs are just fine, thank you very much."
Archer's eyes briefly dip downward, then back again. If he has thoughts on her legs, he doesn't show them. "I am merely attempting to carry out my Master's wishes. As she has commanded me to do," he adds grumpily.
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