Third person POV
11 a.m. came, while most of Gen' men are clearing the streets of zombies, Shu and Eraño are in one of the headquarters' empty offices. "Hey, Eraño-san…" Shu said slowly; the pain from his chest of being shot by the order-breaking SWAT sniper receded by every couple of minutes.
"Yes?" Eraño responded.
"I felt being a disgrace to the Japanese and Spanish peoples when I murdered Gen for killing my parents…" Shu rasped; his voice was low and remorseful.
Eraño was taken aback. He remembered looking into his bio from Tokyo University, which was registered 2 years before Gen unleashed his zombie virus into Japan. Shu's mother was a Spanish from Valencia, Spain, while his father was a Japanese. His father had been a researcher for Gen before Gen killed him and Shu's mother on the onset of the first wave of the zombie infection (Gen confessed to that, and Ichiro confessed to killing Shu's mother half an hour ago).
Eraño saw the brokenness commonality between Shu, Gen, and Ichiro and felt very, very sympathetic.
"It's okay, Shu-san…" he said warmly, "…you're not a disgrace to the ancestors of your lineages. You're a flawed human being blinded by vengeance and broken by regrets. We are humans, after all."
Shu, having learned of the Protestant view of Total Depravity, then nodded while holding his rosary tight. "Yes…also, I am not a Catholic, at least in the literal sense. I had rejected prayers to Mary and the saints, the power of saints' relics, and now, the authority of the pope. I would say he is a legitimate bishop of Rome, but I am not under his authority. Also, I came to reject the Catholic view of communion. Symbolic is what I preferred on the view of it."
He then glanced at the window of the ruined landscape of Tokyo. "I am more like an Independent Catholic or even Evangelical Anglican Lutheran."
"I see then…" Eraño replied while understanding his theological shift and knowing that Shu's late mother was a Roman Catholic that preferred the Mozarabic Rite.
"Sí," replied Shu with a nod.
He then stood up. "I'll do some research work with Gen-san before lunchtime."
He then left the room as Eraño stared at his work of atonement and innovation in terms of theological shifting.