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> 俺も泣き顔より笑顔の方が格段にいいと思う。  
>  だから笑わないセイバーには苛々していた。  
>  **なのに、彼女は言っていた。  
>  笑えと言う自分に、笑っている俺を見ている方がいいと。**  
>  それは。  
>  望遠鏡から覗く、届かない星と同じ。

My translation is the sequent:

> I too believe a smiling face is way better than a crying one.  
>  That is why I got angry at Saber who was not smiling.  
>  **Despite that, she said:  
>  For her, looking at me smile was better than telling herself to smile**  
>  That was.  
>  The same as looking through a telescope at an unreachable star.

I am not sure about this sentence.  
I looked up the fantranslation and it goes like this:

> I think a smiling face is much better than a crying one.  
>  That's why I was irritated when Saber wasn't smiling.  
>  **But when I told her to smile.  
>  She said that it was better if she saw me smiling.**  
>  That's…  
>  It's like seeing stars through a telescope that you can never reach.

Which is the correct one and why?  
Can someone explain?
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I would parse it like this:

> なのに彼女は、 [笑えと言う自分(=俺)]に、 「笑っている俺を見ている方がいい」と、 言っていた。  
>  (lit.) However, she was saying, [to me, who told her to smile,] that seeing
> me smiling is better.

「笑っている俺を見ている方がいい」 in this context means "She (=Saber) is more comfortable when
she sees me (=俺) smile **(rather than when she herself smiles)** ".

So the fantranslation seems better to me.
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