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Fortune Panda now has a new menu of light summer items as well as an outdoor grill area. There are also some seats outside since the weather is getting better.

[This wasn't his original reason to make a post, but he wanted to add something to the post other than his own personal, uh, punishment of sorts for actions these past months. Which is an announcement.]

And starting from... now. You may start addressing me as Emiya instead of Archer. That's my real name. Just that. I will still continue to answer to Archer as well but I won't have any preferences.

[That's it. That's the announcement. He definitely didn't need to post about it in public, but he's doing it because he's been an idiot.]

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...What do you think you're doing?

[What. He was just casually revealing his true name over the network like this?? After all this time??]

You know you can't take this back, don't you?

I'm starting to let go of the past, Caster. I'm moving on and accepting things I haven't been able to.

[It's a healing progress.]

That...sure is a bold way to do advertising.

[So she didn't know this guy, but something about his message struck a chord, and she felt she had to reach out. She'd spoken to him briefly about matters of identity before- but that was when they were both anonymous, and nearly a year ago.]

...Your "real name", huh? What, you been going by an alias or something this whole time?

Hmph... as if you have any right to do such a thing.

[She was still hurting from his betrayal, after all- but something in her expression softened. She'd been able to see her beloved again in Mab's Cavern, and that gave her hope she could find him again in these many worlds...]

A shame. I was hoping to use that name to taunt you some more.

It gets the message across.

[That's the important part, right?]

Yes. I decided to cling onto the alias instead of going back to my old name, even if that option was available to me all this time.

Someone more empathetic would probably say everyone has a right to do such. Even you.

[He's not the type to say such things.]

I'm sure you'll find other ways to taunt me.

[She could start calling him Shirou.]

I mean, yeah, I guess so. That's all an advert has to do.

...How come you let it go? Like, I've seen you around before, you've been here a while right?

[...A small frown crossed her face, fully expecting this guy to tell her exactly where she could shove her questions and to mind her own business.]

...

Uhh... you don't, like, have to answer random Q&A from a stranger if you don't want. But I just thought. Yeah.

Sorry. I'm making this weird, aren't I?

[That didn't make any sense, Mukuro. 0/10 for coherency. Why was she even doing this? What was she hoping to get out of this?]

I wonder about that- us Servants are bound to our pasts more tightly than most. Are you really saying you can let it go so easily?

[And, to elevate the seriousness, a smirk came into her face.]

...I'm going to have fun thinking of other ways to bully you, Emiya~

[She's clearly curious for some reason and it's not like there's any harm in telling anyone, really.]

You could say my girlfriends helped me understand that I'm myself and no one else. I don't need to be ashamed of the name I have or the person I used to be - since I'm not him anymore.

I didn't claim it was easy. [It's not, really.] But think of it this way: here we're both as human as we'll ever be again. We're not heroic spirits anymore. Maybe once all of this is over we can choose if we want to go somewhere we can be whatever we want.

Hiii Narwhal~. [It seems it doesn't matter what Archer, or Emiya, changed his name to, Floyd was still going to keep this his nicknames for everyone. There's no fighting it, it's just how it is.]

You're doing a new seasonal menu? I can't wait to try it!

[There's a name he just had to get used to, he supposes.]

Yeah. The regular menu items will still be there, but I try to add variety every now and then.

I've got a great lemon biscuit recipe in mind that's perfect for summer, too! I'll test it out before adding it to the menu, of course.

[ And then, she takes in a breath. ]

How... does it feel? Letting out your name like that.

[ She knew it wasn't easy... ]

Emiya? I was wondering why you and others were keeping your true names a secret even in this place...

[ In a Holy Grail War it made sense to be sure. But here? Literally nobody in Chaldea cared to hide their true names. Avalon was a similar situation, not worth going through the trouble of hiding your identity. ]

...Is that what you plan to do, once we're through with this place?

[He was right, in a way. However much it pained her to admit it, they were more human here than they'd ever be again, as he'd said. But what did that mean for her...? It had been her wish, after all, to live a new human life at Souichirou-sama's side.]

[It was a small relief that he wasn't judging her.]

That you're yourself and no one else, huh...guess there's only so far you can become someone else, whatever you think of the real you.

I wouldn't mind tasting that either. Lemon works surprisingly well in sweets.

[He's not much of a sweets person, but lemon made them good.]

It's... not as bad as I thought it would be.

It might be just a habit that stuck, but I'm not entirely sure. You'd have to ask the others from the same war. My own reasons are different than most, after all.

[If he didn't have Issues (tm) he might have stopped using Archer a long time ago.]

It's a possiblity. I wouldn't want to make the decision alone, however.

[He had his girlfriends and... Lancer to consider.]

You could possibly also travel back home to save Kuzuki and find a place to be together with him. After all, we've been summoned here through impossible circumstances.

I definitely tried to erase all the traces of who I used to be and made some questionable choices. All it did for me was made my mind even more of a mess.

Truth be told, the 'you' I knew hardly ever introduced himself by name, either. The only reason we knew it was because of the Chaldean records.

[ That many servants in one place, it wasn't feasible for everyone to use class titles, after all. ]

But even so... I'm glad to have been told it, all the same. It's a sign of trust, right?

[Yup, no escaping it! Once Floyd gives someone a nickname it will never change.]

That's a great idea! I wanna do something like that for Golden Silence, but I donno what this place produces yet that's only for the season, you know? I know we're supposed to be competition and all, but I'm totally stopping by to see what you can do with it.

Limited edition stuff is always good for getting people in, they get scared they'll miss it if it's in short supply. [Even if you only fake it being a limited item, like they used to do at the Lounge back at school. Limited items with ingredients they can only get 'for a short time'... or competing against themselves with special cakes that had to be voted on which was the best to keep. It was real easy to do, just a lot of work.]

... What were your reasons, if I may ask?

[ She's not nosy, she's just legitimately curious. She's not super knowledgeable about a lot of modern or even historical things beyond her era, but she's pretty confident Emiya isn't a name anyone would recognize or stuff like that. ]

I have my plans, for when this is all over... and I won't let you spoil my happiness for me again.

[A sharp tone, sure, but perhaps it was a good sign that she felt she could tell him of her plans safely: ]

...I'm going to find my Souichirou-sama, whatever it takes.

You too, huh...

[She'd been talking more to herself, there, but perhaps didn't realise she'd said it out loud.]

Yeah, like, there's only so much you can say that the real you isn't allowed to exist, right? That just leads to a seriously major headache.

...Weren't you nervous about like, announcing it to everyone like that though? That's gotta take some guts!

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