"Mpff, mpff, mpff !" A muffled sound echoes throughout the room as a gagged man struggles to move from the post he was tied to.

Ritsuka sighed in dismay as he watched the man's frantic struggle. He had attacked Mash in the same way as his friends did and ended up being the only survivor as a result. During that time he showed significant aggression but all he could see in the man now is utter fear. The same fear he had seen in the faces of some of the Chaldea staff members who were currently receiving therapy from Nightingale.

"Mph, mph– Ahhh!" The man yelped out in pain as Ritsuka ripped the duct tape off his face.

"Who are you and what are you doing inside this ship ?" I asked him.

"Fuck you, I should be asking you that !" the man shouted back.

"Sir please, just cooperate with us !"

"You can't trick me, you filthy monsters !"

"I already told you and your friends that we are not monsters !''

"Like I would believe you ! Ain't no way in hell humans could have ever survived outside our ship without turning into one of them !"

"You guys have been staying inside this ship the entire time the sun changed ?"

"Yeah and we would rather die than believe any of the shit you are saying !"

Alright I give up. This isn't working. I need to find a way to make this guy talk. Wait a minute, what did he mean by ''we'' ?

"We ? So you are saying that you aren't the only one on this ship ?"

The man went silent as soon as I asked that question. I hit the nail dead on the spot. I can work with this and make him open up more.

"How many of you are on this ship ?"

The man doesn't respond.

"Are they going to be hostile towards us ?"

He still doesn't answer.

"If they are going to be a threat to us then I need you to tell them through our radios that we come in peace."

The man still isn't responding. What the hell am I doing wrong ?

"Answer me dammit !"

The silence from the man gave me the answer that he wasn't going to comply with our requests regardless of what we did. I really didn't want to go down this path but it seems this man is giving me no choice.

"Quetz, I want you to go down to the other lower levels of the ship and search for any survivors. Make sure to capture them if possible. I would prefer to avoid further bloodshed."

"Roger that master !"

"Mash, follow Quetz too. I don't want her getting ambushed by any flesh monsters that could possibly still be in this ship."

"Roger that Senpai."

They leave the room as they head towards the lower levels, leaving me alone with the tied up prisoner. I didn't want to do this but if it meant saving more people and keeping us safe then sacrifices are necessary.

I started walking towards him with my goal firmly engraved in my mind. The man looks up at me with contempt filling his eyes as if taunting me about what I am going to do next. A smirk gradually starts to develop on that man's face as he is probably amused at the fact that I am going to ask him questions again and receive no answer. Oh how wrong he was.

The man suddenly fell to the floor bleeding from his nose. I gazed down at him as I waited for him to recover from my strike.

"You piece of sh– !" His insults were cut off as I leveled another strike, this time to his stomach.

The man was coughing, gasping for air as he tried to recover from the blow.

I gave him no time to recover as my leg struck dead on his chest. I continued my strikes to his chest giving him no time to catch his breath.

I stopped after a couple minutes to catch my own breath before an idea suddenly came to my head.

I took a few steps back and made my way towards the back of the post the man was tied to. I knelt down and grabbed the man's fingers.

"Last chance, talk now or I won't hold back." I told him.

"Fuck you !"

CRACK

"AHHHHHHHH! FUCK, FUCK, FUCK, FUCK !" The man screamed in agony as his fingers were bent in an unnatural direction.

SNAP

Another one of his fingers was broken.

"AHHHH! STOP ! STOP ! STOP !"

I ignored his pleas for mercy as I snapped his ring finger. It didn't have to go this way. Why can't people just cooperate with each other ?

"You know I have a friend named Hassan or a couple of friends called Hassan, I know it's confusing but it doesn't matter." I bent his pinky finger out of shape as talked.

"OH MY GOD ! STOP PLEASE ! I BEG YOU !"

"The point is that the Hassans taught me a lot of things. How to fight, how to be stealthy, how to be quick, and how to protect myself against poison." I moved to the man's left hand to continue.

"NO, NO, NO, NO ! PLEASE DON'T !"

"But the one thing that they taught that I always had difficulty with was the art of interrogation." I broke his index finger as he continued to scream in agony.

"FINE I WILL TALK ! JUST PLEASE MAKE IT STOP !"

"Me being a completely normal guy being exposed to the arts of the order of the assassins naturally made me squeamish to the idea of hurting someone to gain information." I broke his middle finger. His begging did put a weight in my heart but I squashed that feeling down completely.

"But you know you tend to lose that squeamishness when you have seen people experience fates far worse than death." I moved towards his ring finger.

"Look at me now. I am a shell of my former self. I was once a person who had seen the good in everyone, even in some of my own enemies. I was someone who had been given the responsibility to save humanity and for a while I was successful in that. But when the Sun changed I realized that all of my efforts have been for nothing." I moved toward his pinky.

"PLEASE I AM SORRY ! JUST STOP ! I CAN'T TAKE ANY MORE !" the man whimpered.

"And now I am torturing a fellow human being despite my mission to save humanity. I am tormenting the very people I wanted to save. Some hero I am. Maybe this is how Emiya feels all the time. He wanted to be a hero and in the end he was culling the very people he wanted to save." I finished his pinky as the man ceased to move.

"That is why I wish for you to make this easier for both of us and just cooperate with my demands. What do you say ? I am giving you another chance."

The man didn't seem to move and didn't respond to my voice. His head was dropped, I grabbed his head to force him to look at me only to realize he was unconscious. Huh, I guess the pain was too much for him and he passed out.

I guess I will just go grab some water to wake him up, I am not letting him rest that easily.

I leave the room to get a bucket of water but instead I stop and change my course of destination. I ran to the washroom as a wave of nausea filled my body.

I threw up in the toilet as soon as I entered. This continued for a few more seconds as my mind finally took in the weight of my actions.

I faced the mirror in the washroom. I was expecting to see a reflection of myself like I usually do but instead I don't see a person I see a monster. It's fitting, what I did to that man was something only a monster would do. Not even the Hassan's would torture civilians and yet here I am doing this in the name of saving humanity. What a joke !

"HA HA HA HA HA !" I start laughing as I ponder upon the absurdity of the situation.

Those laughs are soon accompanied by tears as they turn into crying. I am a pathetic excuse of a human being. What would my family even think of me ? Would they even care if I died here ? That is assuming they are still alive. What would my mom think when the sweet boy they raised has become a monster. A monster that has killed and tortured one of the few remaining survivors of humanity. Would my dad even be proud of the son he has today ? A son that couldn't even accomplish his duty of saving all of humanity. Would my sisters still care about their little brother who disappeared after being recruited by Chaldea ? What would the old man next door think of him now ?

God why did it end up like this ? I wish that I had just ignored the recruitment poster that day, if I had then I would have still been with my family instead of fixing singularities and fighting servants and flesh monsters. I would have preferred to have died with my family because at least then they would have had the satisfaction of knowing that I was by their side at the end. But it's too late now. I can't go back to the way things were before Chaldea.

I guess this is my punishment for failing them.

I sigh as I wash my face for a couple minutes before exiting the washroom. I grabbed a nearby bucket and filled it with water as I headed towards the room of the prisoner.

I opened the door and walked inside. I saw the prisoner still unconscious. As I walked towards him I suddenly found myself on the floor.

I tried to get up but I was being held down by an unknown assailant. Who is this ?! And how the hell did they sneak up on me ? I thought all the survivors were in the lower levels !

"Emiy–!" My pleas for help were cut short as a plastic bag was placed over my head.

I struggled to breathe as my oxygen supply was cut off. I struggled to remove the bag as the assailant was holding me down and actively preventing me from having air to breathe. My right hand went to grasp the plastic bag but it was quickly held down by the assailant.

I could feel the corner of my vision start to darken. I can't die. Not like this ! I can't ! The servants are relying on me to maintain their existence ! If I die here then Chaldea dies !

I can't fail !

I managed to grab my knife from one of my pockets with my left hand as the man was distracted by holding down my right. I push the knife backwards into the side of the man's thigh.

"AHHH!" feeling the pain from my stabs the man shifts his body allowing me to move. I elbow him in the chin and quickly knock him over as I regain control over my body. I ripped off the bag on my head and gasped as I took in the air. I almost died. I can't be careless like that. I should have paid more attention to my surroundings.

I took in the appearance of the man who attacked me. He was a rather tall man who seemed to be a soldier judging by his uniform.

"Emiya ! Help ! There's another hostile survivor on this ship !"

My plea for help was soon followed by a huge tremor that shook the entire ship. I lost my footing as I tried to maintain my balance.

The soldier charged at me, I dodged last second before he could tackle me again. I aimed for his face and connected. A tooth fell out of his mouth as this happened.

His face was full of anger as he charged at me bleeding from the mouth. I blocked a left hook and aimed a cross to his left cheek. The strike connected, sending him staggering to the wall. I leveled a strike to his leg causing him to drop to his knees. I charged at him aiming a kick to his head, but was stopped midway as another tremor shook the ship causing me to lose balance. The man took advantage of my vulnerability as he grabbed my shoulders and threw me to the wall.

My body rattled as I took in the blow. He aimed a punch to my face which I went to block. This turned out to be a mistake as it was a feint and his left fist connected with my stomach. I was brought to my knees by the powerful strike. I blocked a knee to my head and responded in kind with a kick to his stomach. Distance was made between us as I got up ready to fight.

This guy is tough, and for some reason Emiya hasn't arrived yet. I needed to end this quickly. I see the knife that I had stabbed him with earlier on the floor. I see him looking at it too. We both make eye contact with each other. I ran for the knife just as he did. My hands were stretched out ready to grab it when I was cut short by another tremor that knocked both of us down. It was soon followed by a loud moan. The door to the room was opened from the sheer force of the tremor. As we looked out I saw Emiya firing his flaming arrows at something. I squinted to see what he was aiming at only to have my blood run cold.

A large flesh monster emerged from the water and made sounds unfamiliar to the normal ones we encountered before. It kept making clicking noises and groans. It was in a pattern or something. It was almost like a song.

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A realization came to mind as I listened to this monster. The Sun doesn't just affect humans and servants.

The monster lunged at the ship before I could continue my thought process. The world went dark as I lost my balance as the huge size of the monster engulfed the ship and Emiya's yelling continued to echo through my ears.