After Moriarity's lead on a possible grail didn't work out, Amakusa decided to focus on enjoying the remaining days of Nerofest with Santa Jeanne Alter Lily and some of the other child Servants. Said child Servants enjoyed watching Servants beat each other up for sport, rose petals and medals far more than was probably good for them, but Amakusa was just happy they were enjoying themselves.

He and Jeanne Lily were walking to meet up with the other kids after buying some snacks when Lily spotted Gudako, pointing behind Amakusa as she said: "Ah, Teacher, Master's there!"
The Ruler turned to greet his Master – only to find himself wondering why a bag of rose petals appeared to have sprouted legs.

It was only when the bag turned in reaction to the shouts that he saw it was actually Gudako carrying the bag, who returned their looks with a smile.

"Hey there! Hope you're having fun watching the fights!"

"Waah, Reindeer-Master, I didn't know you could carry bags that large!"

"Ah, it might look impressive, but since it's all flower petals in the bag it's actually nowhere near as heavy as it looks. Though it is a bit unwieldy to walk around with."

As Gudako said this, a deafening cheer could be heard from the arena where she was coming from, and a strong gust of wind surged through the hall, likely caused by one of the Servants battling inside.
Perhaps she was imbalanced due to shifting her weight to greet them, perhaps the bag was heavier than she'd insinuated, or maybe the gust was even quite a bit stronger than it seemed and Amakusa and Lily just dealt with it due to being Servants, but almost as if in slow-motion Gudako started leaning forward, bag in front of her.
And she fell even further, until eventually the bag hit the ground, she hit the bag, and all of the rose petals she'd so painstakingly farmed burst out of the opening like the bag was a confetti cannon in disguise.

Lily let out a delighted shout at the scene of flower petals flying everywhere, while Amakusa hastily made his way towards the Master who'd let out a dismayed cry upon seeing many of the rose petals she'd painstakingly gathered being carried out into the open air by the draft.


Gudako sighed as she took a seat besides Amakusa in the tribunes.

"Thanks again for helping me out together with everyone else," she said.

"No need, I'm glad we were able to be of help. And I'm sure the kids are overjoyed at you humoring their terms."

Amakusa and Lily had helped gather the scattered petals after Gudako's fall, and they were soon joined and aided by the other child Servants who came to check what was taking so long with the snack-buying.
In exchange for the help with gathering and eventually exchanging the petals, Gudako readily agreed to the child Servants' demand for her to stop the farming there for the day and join the group in enjoying Nerofest.

As the kids were cheering for their comrade in a Jack + supports vs. Medb + minions fight, the two 'adults' of the group chatted a little.

"I have to say, it's kind of weird for me to be spectating Nerofest, as I'm usually taking part in matches in every timeslot to get as much farming done as possible," Gudako admitted before taking a sip from the drink she'd bought for herself.

"I hope that the children's request isn't too much of a problem, then."

"Nah, it's fine: Merlin and the other regulars could use a break for once, and any time I lost can be made up by an extra dose of golden apples on top of the amounts I was already going to eat."

"I see, do try not to push yourself too far in the days still left, then."

Gudako just grinned at him in reply, and as she turned her head to fully face him the Ruler noticed a flower petal stuck in her hair. It must've been one of the rose petals that got blown away earlier, which got entangled in her hair sometime after the fall.

"A moment, Master," he said before leaning closer to remove it.
After a few seconds he had the petal in his hand, and he finally noticed Gudako had gone stiff. Leaning back, he saw that her face was slightly red as well. He finally realized he'd been quite close to her while he was plucking the petal out of her hair, and started worrying that he might have made her somewhat uncomfortable with his actions.

"Master, I-"

"Oh, it's fine," Gudako cut him off with a laugh and a wave, "I was just a bit surprised, that's all."

"I see, I'm glad it's only that, then."

Amakusa handed her the petal so she could use it for the lottery later, and they sat in silence (or at least they were silent: their surroundings cheering for the climax of the match were anything but).
Gudako was looking at the fight, but in her mind she was actually more preoccupied with the presence of the man sitting next to her. It wasn't like he'd done anything scandalous, and it was outright tame compared to the moves other Servants regularly made on her, but precisely because of the rarity Gudako couldn't help but get a little flustered when he got closer to her than usual.
She glanced at Amakusa's hand lying on the bench between them. She was in a losing debate against herself over whether or not to steadily move her hand closer to it.

But before she could make up her mind, he pulled his hand away, standing up. It was only now that Gudako realized the fight was already over, and Jack was returning to their group in triumph. Amakusa was walking over to her together with the others to congratulate the Assassin, and Gudako felt a bit guilty for having forgotten about cheering for her.
Still, she supposed that the only way to make up for that was joining in with the congratulating: she stood up to join the others, and tried to put what happened earlier out of her mind.