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Year 852. Wall Maria had finally been taken back for the long-term, and the vast majority of titans within the walls were exterminated.
The sun was shining brightly down on a meadow where two teenage soldiers were sitting up against a tree, a book lying open on their laps.
"We're getting closer to our goal, Mikasa. We just have to slay the Beast Titan and capture the Homelands now," the boy said, his green eyes nostalgic as they leafed through the well-worn pages of their book.
"Mhm," the girl quietly replied, then looked up at the sky. It was full of cumulus puffballs, and they lazily drifted across the horizon.
"And then, we can go outside, to see the lakes of lava, the vast fields of sand, and the ocean," he rambled, not noticing the girl's wandering attention.
"Eren, it might be years before we can get there."
Eren looked up from his book, his hunched posture making it perfect for looking Mikasa in the eye. At age seventeen, he'd finally surpassed Mikasa in height, who had stopped growing at a hundred and seventy centimeters, but now, at one hundred eighty centimeters tall, he had to look distinctly downwards to talk to her.
"Does it matter?" he simply asked. "I mean, as long as you're there with me, I'm sure everything will turn out okay."
Mikasa laughed lightly, then kissed him on the cheek. "What happened to 'I'll kill them all,' hm?"
Eren flipped the book closed and wrapped his arms around Mikasa's waist, resting his cheek on her hair. "Times change. People change. Isn't it just nice to sit and relax for a few minutes?"
She relaxed, then snuggled closer to him, breathing a sigh of content as she did so. "我喜歡你," she whispered in a tongue long forgotten to most.
Eren knew snippets of it though, and this was one of them. "我也喜歡你.*"
*我也喜歡你 (Wŏ yě xīn huān nĭ) means "I like you, too" in Chinese. I am half Asian and I live in an majorly Asian community, where I currently take Chinese 1/2 in school. Please do not give me crap for adding Chinese into the drabble. I know most of you headcanon Mikasa as a Japanese speaker, but I can't speak Japanese, and Google Translate sucks.
Author's Note: Cover art not mine, as the disclaimer. Actually, at the time of this being published no cover art is mine, but if any of y'all know the artist or can source it for me (I get these from tumblr) tell me, and I'll add it into an author's note or something. Well, if you liked this, I guess bookmark it for later since you can't really follow a complete story, or favorite if you really liked it. Reviews are greatly appreciated (they help my fragile ego), aaand have a great day~