I understand, even the version of you that I know strongly preferred to be called by class. A lot of it is....a long story. There was no grail war, but something different.

(as for the circumstances of said issue, it is not as though karna would presume that the bowman would take his word as true. he is still a stranger to archer as he is currently before him. which makes this difficult pertaining to what he can and cannot likely say. regardless, he did get along with the other man in chaldea so that should be enough. it's not as though karna personally minds (far from it) but he muses more to himself that he should do his utmost best.

being good at this or not, that didn't matter. it is a relief that he isn't going to be in the midst of battle during a party. that and his discernment is useful for knowing when such things were true. so far, so good. nothing to worry about on terms of lies going about their conversation. karna himself just has a personality that leans more into preferring truth than that (though he understands lying for good reasons) whenever he can help that.)

I thought for a time that you were the one that I knew, perhaps not in experience. But I can still tell that you aren't completely different to the one I know from Chaldea.

(though maybe, just maybe, karna might eventually do as he's always done with his joy of fighting and ask later if archer would like to spar in the talon together to stay sharp. he can always rely on him for improvements in his form.)