Aiki was fidgety, or rather, more than she normally was, if anything about her could be considered normal. It wasn't what she saw downstairs that was making her this way, she could handle that no problem. Whatever it was, Monika noticed that something was off when the game was reloaded.

"Aiki? Is something wrong?"

"Huh? Oh...it's nothing important," Aiki said quietly, looking towards the ground.

"Spit it out," Natsuki said.

"We won't judge you, or anything, Aiki!" Sayori said cheerfully.

"It is better to say things than to hold them in," Yuri offered. "What's bothering you, Aiki?"

Aiki looked at the four girls, lingering slightly longer on Yuri than the others. She sighed, "It's just...well...you all have had time alone with MC, and I was wondering if I could spend some time with him. And after hearing about everything you've done, I just feel a little left out. So...could I have a go at him?" Aiki looked pleadingly towards the girls, hoping they would say yes.

Monika let out a laugh, which was quickly joined by the others. "Of course you can, Aiki. If you wanted him so badly, all you had to do was ask. I'm sure no one here would be opposed to that. Right?"

"That's right!" Sayori said, offering a thumbs up to Aiki. A gesture which Natsuki and Yuri also gave.

"Thanks, girls...you all are great! I'm gonna go grab something quickly. Be right back!" Aiki said, turning to run away, before slipping as she rounded the corner. "I'm okay!" She shouted back.

"Jeez, that girl is weird," Natsuki said, "where did you even meet her, Monika?"

"Like I said, she's a friend of mine. And besides, you're a little weird too, you know."

"Excuse me?"

"Well, you do think manga is literature, afterall. Ahaha~!"

"Oh, no...there they go again," Sayori said quietly to Yuri.

"So it seems. Just like how the literature club used to be," Yuri said, a smile on her face."

"For the last time, Monika...MANGA IS LITERATURE!"

Monika enjoyed playing with Natsuki this way. 'Works every single time,' she thought, grinning at Natsuki, who was red in the face. "Yeah, yeah...whatever you say," she said with a chuckle.

"I'm back!" Aiki shouted, returning to the group.

"Where the heck did you run off to?" Natsuki asked, still angry about the previous conversation with Monika.

"Oh, I was just putting some stuff downstairs. Now I just gotta get him down there somehow."

"I c-can help you move him down, i-if you w-would like," Yuri offered.

Aiki's eyes lit up. The thought of spending even one second alone with Yuri was enough to make her forget how to speak, so she stood there for several seconds before realizing she never responded. "You sure can!" she said, trying to maintain some composure. Yuri and Aiki made their way downstairs, not too concerned with the fact that they were dragging him by the legs, while his head bounced off the stairs as they made their way down. Entering the same room that Yuri had previously used, they set MC in the chair and tied him up so he couldn't move.

"That should d-do it, Aiki."

"Thanks for the help, Yuri! I really appreciate it!

"Oh, it's no problem. I'm happy I could help." Yuri took another look at MC. "Good luck, Aiki. Make us all proud!"

"Will do!" Aiki said as Yuri closed the door behind her. Turning her attention to MC, who was starting to stir in his seat, she crouched down in front of him. "Well, well, well...if it isn't MC, finally returning to the land of the living. I have some questions, and you're gonna answer them for me."

"Uuughhh….where...am I?" a groggy MC said.

"You're still on the boat, don't worry about that though…you have more pressing issues, I think. So, MC, why'd you join the Literature Club?"

"Aiki, what the hell is going on?"

"I'm the one asking questions here. Why'd you join the club?"

"No, I'm not answering anything until I know what the fuck is going on." MC began to struggle against his restraints, to no avail.

"That's no good, MC… I see I'll have to get you talking then." Aiki turned around and walked to a bag sitting atop a table. After rummaging through the bag, she pulled out a pair of pliers. She let out a small chuckle as she held them above her head.

When MC saw the pliers, he let out an audible gulp. 'There's no way she'd do anything, right? I mean, I just met her today, what did I do to her?' Aiki turned her attention from the pliers in her hand to the nervous MC. "Okay! I'll tell you why I joined the club!"

"Oh, good! See, that wasn't too difficult for you, was it?" Aiki placed the pliers in her pocket. "So, MC… why'd you join the club?"

"I...I joined because I wanted to get with one of the girls. What do you want me to say? Me, the only guy in a club full of cute girls? Chances were good that one would end up with me. Most likely Yuri, since she's so awkward. Probably never would get a guy on her own."

"That's enough!"

"What? It's not like I'm lying. She's a weirdo, but at least she has a kickass body. I would have hoped you would have liked me too. You look like you could use a man."

"Excuse me?" Aiki said in disgust.

"Unfortunately, having you around doesn't offer me much seeing how I like the girls, and definitely not you, you psychotic bitch."

Aiki paused for a moment, doing everything in her power not to kill him right then and there and to remain somewhat calm. "So, you joined the Literature Club to get with the girls huh?"

"Yeah, that's right, and they can't control themselves around me."

"You'd be terrified to know the things that they've done," she says with a big smile on her face. But just as quickly as the smile appeared, it vanished. With a neutral face, she leans forward. "The suffering that you are about to go through, will be on a whole new level, though."

"W-what?"

Aiki grabbed MC's right hand by the wrist with her left hand, grabs his thumb with her right and quickly dislocates the finger by pushing the digit towards his arm. MC let out a yelp of pain. "Oh, you can scream all you want, MC… in fact, I encourage you to. I really don't mind. It makes me that much happier when I hear you scream in pain. You can call me whatever you want, just know that nothing you say will stop the pain that I am going to inflict."

"YOU FUCKING WHORE!" MC screamed, spit flying from his lips. "WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?"

"Oh, is that any way to talk to a girl?" Aiki says, acting innocently, putting her finger to her lips.

"You're no girl, you're a fucking demon!" he says through clenched teeth.

Aiki pauses, for just a brief moment. "Close enough, I suppose," she says with a sinister smile. "If you think that was bad, just wait…" she pulls the pliers from her pocket and kneels on the ground besides MC. She proceeds to grab the nail of his index finger with the pliers. She looked into MC's eyes and saw him realize what she intended to do. With a smile she slowly pulled the nail from his finger. MC's screams became more intense the harder she pulled, and Aiki was savoring every second. "You know, I've heard that this is one of the most painful methods of torture… hehehe, what do you think, MC?" She released the nail from his finger.

"You're fucking insane," MC says between gasps of pain.

"I'll take that as a yes." Aiki proceeded to remove all of the fingernails from MC's right hand. When she was finished, she looked at his bloody, shaking fingertips. She gently grabbed one of the fingers, and noticed MC wince in pain. "Oh, do your fingers hurt?" Aiki pressed on the raw, sensitive skin of MC's finger between her thumb and forefinger.

Somewhat satisfied with her handiwork, she stops and stands up. She walks behind MC tracing her fingers that are red with MC's blood up his arms, until she is too far away to touch him anymore, leaving MC alone… a sobbing mess. He begins to frantically look around the room trying to find where she went, but cannot see much behind him due to being tied to the chair. Besides his own breathing and sobs, MC can't hear anything in the room. The silence and alone time making him unsettled, he calls out Aiki's name, only to be met with nothing. That was until the sound of metal being dragged across the floor screeched out from behind him. The sound was getting closer, until Aiki's voice echoed through the room.

"Did you miss me, MC?"

"F-fuck you." Aiki chuckled, making her way in front of MC. He looked down towards her hand and saw that she was dragging a sledgehammer behind her. MC was filled with dread upon seeing the obscenely large hammer in her hands. 'Could she even lift it up?' he thought to himself.

"Let's play a little game, MC… it's called, 'tell me what I want to know or I'll put this to use on you'... it's a fun game for me regardless of whether or not you want to play." Aiki lifted the sledgehammer onto her shoulder. "So tell me MC...which girl do you like the most in the club?"

"Yuri…" MC said softly.

"And why is that?" Aiki asked.

"Because of her… body…"

"You're a shameful person, you know that? Joining a club just to try and get lucky… well, safe to say your luck has run out. Next question: "What do you think of Monika and Natsuki?"

"Why do you fucking care? Monika is a hottie, but she's out of my league. Natsuki is annoying too, but that's only because she's a fucking brat, she's cute though."

Why are you such a terrible friend to Sayori?"

"I'm not!"

"Wrong answer." Aiki twisted her body, swung the hammer around and connected with his left knee, shattering the bones where it struck. The impact was followed immediately with howls of pain from MC. "Try again, MC. Why are you such a terrible friend to Sayori?"

"Because I don't give a shit about her," he shouted. "She's clingy and annoying, and if we weren't friends growing up, we never would be friends today. The only reason I bother with her is because she's at least cute."

Aiki looked at him with a neutral expression on her face. She then swung the sledgehammer into his other knee.

"What the fuck?!" he screamed. "I answered your questions."

"Oh, no… that wasn't for not answering the questions, that was because you're a piece of shit." Aiki sets the sledgehammer down on the ground. Aiki then pulls out the pliers again and begins removing the fingernails from his other hand. In the middle of doing this, she mutters to him. "You are just lines of code in a video game, with a shit personality. You're here, in a literature club, trying to get laid with any of the girls. At the same time, you're being a total piece of shit to the one person who was kind enough to be a friend to you. You are insignificant. You are nothing." After removing the last nail she looked into his tear soaked eyes. "Do you understand that?" she asked, grabbing him by the jaw, forcing his mouth open. "You are nothing."

Placing the pliers into his mouth, she squeezed tightly on a tooth and pulled until it popped out. Blood shot out of his mouth at the same time, landing on Aiki's face, though it didn't affect her. Unfazed, she repeated the process, removing all of his teeth from his bloody mouth. Blood and spit dripped out of MC's swollen mouth. Satisfied with what she'd done, she patted his cheeks, causing him to flinch. She stood up and walked towards the bag that she acquired the pliers from, returned the tool to the bag, and took out a wrench. She brought it down swiftly and fiercely onto MC's hands. Audible cracks from his hands let her know that she was achieving the damage that she desired. Besides Aiki's heavy breathing, the only sounds in the room was the pained gasps of air from MC and the sound of blood and drool falling onto the floor. Aiki tossed the wrench to the side, stood in front of MC and pondered her next move for a moment. Looking at MC in the eyes, she gave him a grin before kicking him in the chest, knocking him and the chair he was sitting in backwards to the ground.

"Well, MC…" Aiki said, bending down to pick up the sledgehammer, "I got what I wanted out of this, so there's only one thing left for me to do now." She walked to the left side of his body, looked into his eyes. "Don't worry, MC… there's still more to come for you. But it's too bad that you won't remember any of this. I'd give anything for you to look at me the way you are right now when we see each other again." Aiki paused for a moment. '"Unfortunately, having you around doesn't offer me much seeing how I like the girls, and definitely not you." She raised the hammer above her head, looked into his panicking eyes one last time, and brought it down as hard as she could.

Monika and Yuri were discussing literature together, occasionally hearing screams coming from below them. Yuri offered to make the girls tea while they waited, but she was the only one really interested in tea. Sayori and Natsuki were off in the pool again, and Monika was drinking a cup of coffee instead. Their discussion turned into whether what they were doing would be considered horror or not, and if it would make an interesting story to write about later. Monika chuckled when Yuri brought it up. She obviously knew about the fact that she was in a fanfiction herself, but the way that Yuri even thought about it made her laugh. 'It would be a fanfiction inside a fanfiction.' Their conversation was ended when Aiki emerged from downstairs.

"Hey! I'm done!" She shouted to nobody in particular. Monika and Yuri greeted her with a glass of water.

"So, how did it go?" Monika asked.

After finishing the glass of water, Aiki responded, "Oh, it went alright."

"You made quite the mess it seems," Yuri said, pointing to Aiki's outfit. "What's this pink stuff?"

"Oh this?" Aiki said, pointing to a spot on her shirt. "That's probably brain matter. It kinda got everywhere down there."

"Natsuki! Sayori! Aiki finished!" Monika shouted. A few minutes later, the two joined the group.

"Hey Aiki!" Sayori said cheerfully.

"Well, now that we're all here, are you all ready to go again?" Monika asked the four girls with a smile on her face.

"Hey, before that, I just wanted to say thanks to all of you for letting me join you. It's been a lot of fun so far!"

"We're glad to have you here!" Sayori said.

"Yeah, what she said," Natsuki said, pointing to Sayori.

"I'm glad we could spend time together," Monika said.

"Yes, I'm glad you could join us. Your presence has been really nice,' Yuri said softly, a blush on her cheeks.

"You all are the best!" Aiki said happily. "Okay… let's do it again!"