[This time, when Gilgamesh smiles, Masamune will hear it in his tone.]

I always expected that a warrior of Edo would be vicious, cold-hearted. A machine built for battle. That is how most Servants to be, at least. Love and affection are not chief concerns for us. We are meant to hurt and to be hurt in turn, because we come from turbulent times and places of great misfortune.

[And he still strongly feels that any Masamune Date summoned by the Grail would conform to his expectations. And yet... there's at least one reality in which that isn't true. Something he did not foresee. Maybe he was also caught off guard, in the end. At any rate, it would seem he got what he was angling for: acknowledgment and a willingness to move ahead.

He wonders if Hakuno would still consider this sort of strategy self-serving, though.]

How did you turn out so differently? That even when someone strips you of all dignity, still you would say to them, "so long as everyone is happy"?

[He sounds baffled. But pleasantly so.]