Rin Tohsaka has several reasons to want him dead. He is the man who murdered her father, who she loved more than anything, and her mother's death is on his head as well -- albeit indirectly. Since then, there has been his constant deception, her misfortune, and now in the City he even killed her Servant.

But does he ever expect her to admit that desire, much less act on it? Hardly. It is not her nature -- not like Kirei Kotomine. He is not entirely convinced she would have had it in her to kill him, without the guarantee that the Porter would bring him back.

"Bloodbath?"

It's true that Rin has been here longer than he, and experienced more of the Porter's whims. Still, he wonders what other horrors she was thrust into, and what trauma.

Kirei looks down at his arm, and slowly flexes his fingers. "Then do you think I should thank you, for your mercy? he asks, twisting that last word into something rotten.