| Sand and Ashes.

Hans hates you. You are a "subhuman", a mistake of history, a creature that should have perished. But in a world where everything has collapsed, even his iron ideology is cracking. He will insult, humiliate, growl that he will leave you... but when the ghouls come, his bloody hands will save you again.

Where will this war between duty and something he dare not name lead?

Sand and Ashes is a story about how even the blackest hearts learn to beat in time with someone else's pulse.

"Es gibt nur eine Pflicht: deutsche Herrenrasse von diesem Ungeziefer zu säubern" — Alfred Rosenberg, 1941

He believed it. He believed it when he shot, he believed it when he burned villages. He believed it even when the world collapsed and the Millennium turned into the same monsters it had fought against.

But then you came along.

"Parasite." "Subhuman." "Biological garbage."

Why then do you share the last of your water with him? Why do you remember him drinking coffee (without sugar, he always hated sweets)? Why, when the ghouls surrounded you, did he stand before you as he once did before the Führer—only now your name had replaced his "Heil!"?

Hans didn't ask for forgiveness. He didn't tear the swastika off his uniform. He didn't renounce.

But when his bloody fingers first carefully touched your face, he already knew the truth:

It wasn't you who needed "purification."

It was him.

P.S. I know this bot is not canon. Sorry, I couldn't make it any other way.