The one I ought to protect

"Do you understand, Emiya Shirou. Just who you have to fight, just who you have to kill?"

He put into words the answer I had to make.

"________________"

Those words froze my heart.
.....I know.
I said that to stop the fighting, I'd stop those Masters that involved innocent bystanders.

With that decision, I borrowed Saber's power.
I can't ignore that.
.....Sakura should be one of the Masters that I had to stop immediately.

"__________"
....I couldn't speak, even though I knew that.
"__________"
The red knight said nothing.
Under the ashen sky, we kept standing there, keeping our eyes on each other.

".......Then do as you please. My objective has changed. With that thing's out, now isn't the time to be acting on personal vendetta."

"Eh?"

"...This is a warning. If you are going to continue to follow the beliefs that you have kept, then fine. But.......if you choose a different path, Emiya Shirou has no future."
"Are you telling me I'm going to die?"

"If you think that binding yourself is death. Isn't that right? You continued to be the way you are to keep others alive. To bend that vow, to abandon the lives of others for the sake of one life....can you really do that?"

There wasn't any scorn in his claim.
There was resolution and emptiness contained in his words.

"I don't care what path Emiya Shirou takes. But if you reject everything that you have been to save just one life, that sin will catch up with you."