[Oh man. Hijikata is no stranger to being bullied by kids, some of them even younger than Rin, but she really doesn't pull her punches! He also is no stranger to (and definitely not above) fighting with said kids, but right now he's so gutted, he doesn't have it in him to meet her level of fierceness.]
My mentee unpetrified me. He was worried about me. Please don't hold it against him.
[Wow, look at this humility... Rin is getting as much of an unusual first impression of him as vice versa. Normally he'd be insulting her intelligence back in the pettiest ways, but this time he simply takes that hit! He does feel like a colossal moron, one who caused his Servant and a bunch of other people a lot of grief with his brash and snap-judging decisions.]
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My mentee unpetrified me. He was worried about me. Please don't hold it against him.
[Wow, look at this humility... Rin is getting as much of an unusual first impression of him as vice versa. Normally he'd be insulting her intelligence back in the pettiest ways, but this time he simply takes that hit! He does feel like a colossal moron, one who caused his Servant and a bunch of other people a lot of grief with his brash and snap-judging decisions.]