The Grail was corrupted and wanted the means to destroy everything it could. It believed my wish was capable of bringing that destruction but I refused it. Kirei demanded that instead of destroying it, I should have allowed it its wish. Shortly after was the fire.
The reason he took in Shirou is simple. After killing Emiya Kiritsugu, the idea of what he might have thought or done, had he survived, knowing that his enemy would take away one of his only reasons for living, ruin it, corrupt it... the idea of the face Emiya Kiritsugu would make at the sight of the boy he saved holding his own gun, aimed right at his heart...
[and trailing off because that was... really something he's already experienced and the heartbreak from it still felt]
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The Grail was corrupted and wanted the means to destroy everything it could. It believed my wish was capable of bringing that destruction but I refused it. Kirei demanded that instead of destroying it, I should have allowed it its wish. Shortly after was the fire.
The reason he took in Shirou is simple. After killing Emiya Kiritsugu, the idea of what he might have thought or done, had he survived, knowing that his enemy would take away one of his only reasons for living, ruin it, corrupt it... the idea of the face Emiya Kiritsugu would make at the sight of the boy he saved holding his own gun, aimed right at his heart...
[and trailing off because that was... really something he's already experienced and the heartbreak from it still felt]
That is the sort of man Kotomine Kirei is.