[Kariya listens to this outpouring with something like wonder. All this, because of him? He doesn't understand... He doesn't inspire this kind of reaction in people. Not even Aoi, his best friend and childhood sweetheart, has ever been inspired to this kind of outpouring by him.

He kneels down beside Diarmuid when he's finished talking. He can understand Diarmuid's despair and frustration. He feels it himself. Sometimes he wants to break down and weep. Sometimes he does. It's strange to be in this position, comforting someone else who feels this way, let alone a Servant. Diarmuid is so much more powerful than Kariya is. So much greater. Diarmuid could kill him without even trying.]

I'm a failure. I've never been anything like a knight. I've failed at everything I've ever tried. [He says this quietly, with a trace of self-pity maybe, but he believes it's true.]

You were a great warrior, and you've been written about. I'm just a man who never had a life for himself. I never had a family. I never had anything I wanted, because I was too weak to reach out for it. Because of what I did and didn't do, people were hurt. It's my fault Sakura is where she is. That's why I'm fighting in the War. I've never succeeded at anything, really, but I want to do this one thing right: make her safe. Help me do that.

[If he'd told Aoi how he felt, if he hadn't left home the way he did, if so many other things had or hadn't happened, his life, and Sakura's, would be different now, or that's what he believes.]

No one's ever done so much to make me happy before. [He can empathize. He would do, is doing, the same thing for Sakura. Cutting out all the parts of himself that will get in the way of his winning. Dying for her.] You did what you could for me, I know. So I forgive you.

You said I could do what I wanted with your life, and that's what I want to do.