Emiya Shirou's Kidneys Were Harvested (2nd Update)

Red A was denying himself, but also dissecting himself.

He understood himself better than anyone.

People often said that the hardest person to understand was oneself, but Red A was an exception.

Red A knew himself better than anyone. More than anyone, he understood that his life and his dream had both been borrowed, inherited from someone else, and were false and hypocritical.

At least, that was what Red A himself believed.

That was why he wanted to use his own words to crush his past self, to destroy that past self in both body and mind.

It was cruel, and insane.

Yet in a sense, for Red A, it might also have been a form of salvation.

Yes, perhaps Red A still wanted to save the self whom he considered beyond salvation—the self that still clung to the ideal of becoming an ally of justice.

Otherwise, if he simply wanted to kill him, Red A could have done so long ago. Why would he keep holding back, practically teaching Emiya Shirou everything as he let him grind, level up, and grow stronger?

At that same moment, the image shifted to Emiya Shirou. The boy's mouth hung slightly open. He said nothing, offered no rebuttal; Red A had clearly struck directly at his heart.

At that same moment, Emiya Shirou's inner voice rang out.

"Yes. Back then, I wasn't the only one who was saved."

"In that fire where no one survived, there was a child who should not have been saved, and a man searching for survivors who should not have existed."

"If either side was a miracle, then it was..."

The rest went unspoken, but Red A spoke at that moment. "It's only natural for a child to look up to his parents. But that man left you