[ As she asked, she had known his answer already. Even so, the weight of his silence sits heavy in the air between them; it stretches, second after second, until it nearly drowns out the sounds of skates and laughter resounding from the walls.

In the end, Angelica is the one to break it. ]

Shirou, if you don't eat, all you will accomplish is a mindless rampage. [ Unbidden, she recalls Javert's suggestion to smuggle it into his food herself. Still, though it may prove necessary, she doesn't wish to stoop to such deception just yet. ] Can you not understand that, sometimes, we must make sacrifices to minimize the harm we cause?