Quote Originally Posted by Kraco View Post
I fully agree. Shirou has enough faults that he needs all the strong characteristics he can get. All the better if it makes him look cooler in Rin's eyes.

One problem is that Rin already encountered a scene that was similar to this (HS #4, 20:10), if not worse. Her reaction was closer to anger back then, and she just walked to open a window to let Caster's fumes out. Yet now in this episode she was shocked motionless, even though it didn't even look so bad. Dunno. Maybe she was in a bit of a dere mode in Shirou's company and was acting more like a normal girl would without realising it?
They were strangers.
Now schoolmates are aching everywhere. Although she's the ice queen and won't involve with anyone of them, she still cares a lot.
I even think she in fact has to repress any bond that might form with anyone at school out of fear they might someday be harmed because she's a mage. So this was like a worst case scenario and she needed more time to get out of it. The other difference might also be that the spell was a lot stronger this time. I guess she was thrown into her emotions deeper and her intellect was shut down till the moment she threw that jewel bomb.