[Really, he just doesn't want to hear those words from him again. He hasn't done anything worth thanking. He hasn't helped anyone here. All these chance meetings, all these odd adventures... they'd been mostly by accident, hadn't they? He's still convinced he'll wake up from them someday.
He'll wake up, and when he does, Diarmuid will be dead, he will have fallen into the Grail, and Saber will remain forever beyond his reach.
Fingers ghost across the spot where he's been kissed, and he goes on, quietly:]
It would've been such an ugly sound, with Ea tearing through you, and I didn't want to hear it. So I stopped. That was why.
[It would've ruined the image of his beautiful Lancer. To tarnish that beauty would be a terrible crime.]
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Gilgamesh's hand falls away and his eyes drift.]
You were going to cry out.
[Really, he just doesn't want to hear those words from him again. He hasn't done anything worth thanking. He hasn't helped anyone here. All these chance meetings, all these odd adventures... they'd been mostly by accident, hadn't they? He's still convinced he'll wake up from them someday.
He'll wake up, and when he does, Diarmuid will be dead, he will have fallen into the Grail, and Saber will remain forever beyond his reach.
Fingers ghost across the spot where he's been kissed, and he goes on, quietly:]
It would've been such an ugly sound, with Ea tearing through you, and I didn't want to hear it. So I stopped. That was why.
[It would've ruined the image of his beautiful Lancer. To tarnish that beauty would be a terrible crime.]